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Canon 5D over on DPReview

Phil Askey recently published his extraoridinarily in-depth review of the Canon 5D. I’d love to own on these guys, but at the current price point of $3200, it’s out of my reach. I’m pretty happy with the photos that
come out of my Canon 10D, though I’d love the high ISO performance and full-frame goodness of the 5D. Maybe prices will drop after Christmas…

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Odd margin on li in Firefox

I found a little oddity on how <li> elements are rendered on Firefox 1.0. To share what I learned, I put up a short primer on the problem and how to overcome it.

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Updated HttpCompress for .NET 2

I just pushed out an updated version of
HttpCompress
that replaces #ziplib with the built-in compression classes provided by
the .NET 2 class library. If you’re running on 2.0, give it a go and
see how it performs.

I’ve done only minor smoke testing at this point, so I have no idea
if this will perform better or worse than #ziplib. The framework
classes do not appear to allow you to set the compression level, so
I’ll probably release any version sometime soon that allows you to
choose what underlying compression engine you’d like to use.

Also, if anyone has any outstanding bug fixes for the compression module, send them along and I’ll get them worked into the source. Thanks!

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Tin foil hats

I’m not an ardent tin-foil hat wearer, but for those that are, the folks over at MIT recently did a study that seems to debunk the usefullness of tin foil hats. However, there’s a response to the debunking over at ZPi, so I’m not really sure who to believe…

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the bloglines font

Would anyone happen to know what font they use for the logo over at Bloglines? Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!

Update: It was ITC Officina Serif.