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a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions such as colour blindness.

See also: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7391

Data is agnostic. Information is amoral. Pointing the narrative-free fire-hose at the digital citizens of the third world does nothing to empower them, and U.S. politics is proof that More News just means More Influence for the person with the craftiest narrative. Once the saturation point is reached, even valuable information is part of the problem: no one has the capacity to sift and filter, and we fall back into the embrace of our trusted interpreters.

Tweeted by Jeff Eaton, re-tweeted by John Albin.

"go is a small shell command for changing directories quickly."

hat tip http://twitter.com/weitzman

introductory book to programming and computer science using assembly language

Why remove theme settings:

At the risk of sounding like your mother, it's for your (and Drupal's) own good. The theme settings often conflicted with modules that wanted to alter the same content – i18n, Advanced Forum, Submitted By, and more. We had ended up with a big list of modules we had to check for before tinkering with the code, and this was causing all themes to need to be repeatedly updated when another module was causing issues.