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Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web Nice tips for well polished web typography

Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead. – That Emil Emil Björklund explains why progressive enhancement is still important

NewNet-Soft – CSS Typography cheat sheet Some advanced techniques for web fonts

Grounds Zero: A Starbucks-Free Italy parislemon: A few days ago, upon noticing something while traveling, I posed a question on Twitter: Are there really no Starbucks in Italy? Several folks responded that there are indeed no Starbucks in Italy — which still blows my mind. And a few sent the link above full of interesting […]

What It’s Like to Get a National-Security Letter : The New Yorker An interview with Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, one of a handful of people who have received a National Security Letter and had the accompanying gag order lifted.

Ben Alman » Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE) A detailed explanation of JavaScript functions as expressions

JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth Walk-through of the JavaScript module pattern and some advanced uses

Persuading David Simon Fantastic essay by Maciej Ceg?owski looking at the technological and political effects of massive, secretive government surveillance.

This is already old, but… There be a dragon in it. So there. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Five myths about privacy – The Washington Post We don’t have to choose between preserving privacy and preventing terrorism. We do have to decide how much oversight and accountability there should be when the government conducts surveillance of its citizens.

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone. When the government starts monitoring the […]

shortformblog: The difference between Google and Bing.