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Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved. The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.

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Getting tired of screen font Verdana, blog designers tend to switch to typeface Tahoma which is essentially Verdana condensed horizontally. Verdana’s great readability at text sizes is partly due to the space within the characters, but this gives it a long line length. You can fit more text in the same space with Tahoma, which is helpful for dialog boxes.

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Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Thomas Rickner, then at Monotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group. The name "Verdana" is based on a portmanteau of verdant (something green), and Ana (the name of Howlett's eldest daughter).[1]

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Verdana is much criticised, but with the proper precautions it can be used without jeopardising readability for those without it — the problem is not Verdana itself, but its careless use. In general, specifying only a single font — usually through the ancient font element but occasionally through CSS — may cause problems for visitors lacking that font, as their browsers will use their default fonts, which are usually traditional serif fonts such as Times.

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All web users benefit from clear, readable text on web pages. People with visual impairments are particularly helped.

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Fonts that look good in print don't always look good on a computer screen. Reading information from a screen is easier if you use a font that has been specially designed for on-screen reading. Two such fonts deserve special mention: Georgia and Verdana.

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Common wisdom developed over centuries is that serifs, the little horizontal lines at the tops and bottoms of characters, make text easier to read. That is why nearly all books, magazines, and newspapers use a serif font such as Times New Roman or Bookman. The fallacy, however, is the assumption that serif fonts are easier to read in any medium. In fact, the computer screen is a much different medium than the printed page. The resolution is much less, about 72 dots per inch (dpi) for the computer screen vs. 180 dpi or 300 dpi or even higher for printed matter.

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Use online scissors to cut the paper and make your own snowflake.

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After avoiding the 7 deadly sins of résumé design, you may be asking, “If I can’t use crazy colors, clip art, and other types of decoration, how do I make my résumé stand out from the crowd?” Like many things, the answer lies in the details. Even if you can’t hire a fancy designer and are stuck with Microsoft Word, a few tweaks can turn your blasé résumé into an elegant and functional showpiece.

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Initially it is more difficult to create a good layout with a big font size, but that difficulty will help you design a simpler, clearer site. Cramming a site with information isn’t difficult, but making it simple and easy-to-use is. At first, you’ll be shocked how big the default text is. But after a day, you won’t want to see anything smaller than 100% font-size for the main text. It looks big at first, but once you use it you quickly realize why all browser makers chose this as the default text size.

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"AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design. It represents the quality of work being created, as well as shifting aesthetics and sensibilities of the designers of the day. Included in this resource are more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present. In addition, it features special collections of major American design firms and practitioners whose design accomplishments might otherwise not be preserved online or made available to the public. These now include the work of Chermayeff & Geismar (1960-2006), Vignelli Associates (1962-2008), and Push Pin Graphic (1960-2005). The collection is expected to grow by approximately 300 selections a year. A number of the physical artifacts in the collections are available for research and study at the AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University's Butler Library in New York."

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QASHQAI rugs and runners usually have geometric patterns, including geometric animal and bird drawings used both as part of the repeat patterns and as filler ornaments. The borders of QASHQAI rugs and carpets in particular include many highly developed floral designs. As with other nomad rugs, multiple borders are a sign of later weavings.

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"For fashion design students, it may be hard to determine which online resources will be the most useful as they prepare for a career in the field. The librarians at Kent State University's fashion library have created a tremendous resource for those individuals, and the results of their hard work can be found here. Here visitors will find a topical list of annotated resources organized into a dozen areas, including "Careers, "Dictionaries & Glossaries", and "New York". Next to each area, visitors can learn when the section was updated, and they can also use a search engine to look for specific topics. After taking advantage of these resources, visitors may also wish to learn a bit more about the fashion library and their various projects." Description: Internet Scout

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The table contains 10 variables, and each variable offers multiple options, that practitioners need to consider before designing and developing their own podcast application.

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"Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Web users, with their diminishing attention spans, are inexorably drawn to these shiny, brightly coloured messages with small, relevant, clearly-displayed nuggets of information. They’re straight to the point, usually factually interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean."

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The following list of Moodle site examples was created by the NHDOE Office of Educational Technology (www.nheon.org/oet) as a resource for schools considering the use of Moodle. All of these sites came from the main Moodle directory of sites at http://www.moodle.org/sites/. This list is not meant to be all-inclusive, nor was it compiled in any systematic or scientific manner. It is simply a list with notes about site features as they were viewed online during the month of July 2006.

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"The Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology (CTLT) is a resource for assisting faculty in the design, creation, and development of innovative teaching techniques; CTLT strives to improve the educational experience of students by developing and incorporating student centered learning techniques. Throughout the year, CTLT hosts events focusing on faculty development. Information about these events is posted on the bottom of this page and on our calendar page. We are available to all members (faculty, staff, and students) of the Pace community for assistance in teaching and learning."

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"Summary: This course, Visual Design for Distance Education Content, covers many tips to help you successfully create the navigation, layout, colors and design of your course content."

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"According to Learner Centered Methodology (LCM), all courses are learner-focused. They are designed to enable learners to achieve their learning outcomes and increase ROI of stakeholders. This methodology is based on proven research in human factors engineering, which has techniques, processes, and procedures to design user-centered products. This methodology has been successfully put to practice in many live projects."

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