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A major breakdown in Southern California’s air traffic control system last week was partly due to a “design anomaly” in the way Microsoft Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Story at TechWorld.

This article by noted graphic artist Mark Simonson, who specializes in lettering, typography and identity design, explains why Arial font-face is everywhere and why that’s not a good thing. The history of the use of fonts in digital media is important study for all, not just designers. (We even get an early view into [...]

PublicRadioFan.com combined with streamripper gives you Tivo for NPR.

As an aside (which is what these unheadlined smaller comments and links are called), PhotoMatt’s asides have been added and are working!

Leonard Cohen turns 70 Tuesday and Guardian has a fun list.

understanding on MD5 hashes and digests.

Michael Chu’s very well done (sorry) foodsite, Cooking For Engineers has many good ideas. Love the recipe format! (My science leaning is showing..). Also answers the freezer burn question. [ Via ]

This site has some truly amazing Flash work and besides being fun, it is inspiring for those empty-headed moments.

Spending on Linux servers grew in double digits for the eighth straight quarter in Q2, according to International Data Corp.’s worldwide quarterly server tracker. Lots of details here.

O’Reilly’s OSdir.com has a nice review of Mozilla’s latest stand-alone application, Sunbird. This is only a 0.2 version app, so it’s not integrated yet into Firefox or Thunderbird, but it does use webDAV to share calendars with others. It saves files to Apple’s open iCal standard. A promissing start. [get it at : The Sunbird [...]

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This is a hoot.
Steve Ballmer selling you Windows 1.0