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The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page – Formstack (tags: design usability webdesign)

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (tags: history)

War Tard: The Ivory Coast: Are the ghosts of Rwanda about to strike back? It's another classic  war in Africa  that nobody will give a shit about. Except maybe  when  Hershey Bars cost ten cents more. (tags: war history politics africa)

The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical | Serious Eats So while the ducks are technically force-fed, there is a level of built-in anatomical control so that the ducks can't take in any more food than they can physically handle. That's more respect than most fast food chains show for their human…

Competing Against Non-Consumption | Business Innovation Factory Clay Christensen talks about the importance for established companies to compete against non-consumption and reliably plug these growth gaps before they surprise the market.   (tags: non-consumption toread business)

The Defeat of the English Armada: A More Detailed Look at the Spanish Armada and its Aftermath Punctured Myths and Surprising Facts (tags: war england spain history)

Notes on the Tongeren Lead Bar Es ist falsch die Varusschlacht als historischen Wendepunkt aufzufassen, wie dies geschichtswissenschaftlich Unkundige gerade in diesen Tagen wiederholt propagieren, (tags: rome history)

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – ColorZilla.com A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla (tags: css) Composition with jQuery Templates: Why and How – Encosia (tags: jquery)

The Career of Pertinax It is not a terribly shocking improvement of our knowledge of the past, but it is interesting that all this can be deduced from one, exceptionally damaged inscription. (tags: history rome)

A Full and Proper Kit : An introduction to the gear of astro-photography This paper is a discussion of hardware, software, methods and actions that a newcomer might finduseful. It is not meant to be an in-depth discussion of all forms of astro-photography; that would takemany books and more knowledge than I have available. But…

Yoshinori Matsunobu's blog: Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server (tags: performance database scalability scaling) FutureTimeline.net | Future | Timeline | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Far Future | Technology The 21st century began…

HTML5 Rocks – Quick hits with the Flexible Box Model I'd bet that you've done your fair share of styling elements to be arranged horizontally or vertically on a page. As of yet, though, CSS has lacked a suitable mechanism for this task. Enter the CSS3 Flexible Box Module, or Flexbox for short. (tags: css3…

Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010: Editors' Picks (tags: animation photos)

Chef Eric Bertoia's Recipe for Cherry Kriek Beer Ice Cream on StarChefs (tags: beer dessert ice recipe) Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures.  I believe that this is a major new area…

David Lanham • Somatic Icons (tags: design illustration icons) a sea of lead, a sky of slate: Abandoned on Everest An area along the northeast route to the summit has earned the unassuming nickname of "Rainbow Valley", simply because of the multicolored down jackets of the numerous corpses littering the hillside. (tags: article death blog)…