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Great tutorial on how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. Does so through the process of building a Tetris game.

A collection of amazing fonts which are suitable and perfect for web design projects as well print based projects.

It was once the “land of a thousand cities” and home to some of the world’s most renowned scientists, poets, and philosophers. Today it is seen mostly as a harsh backwater. To imagine Central Asia’s future, we must journey into its remarkable past.

If the eventual choice is one between the implosion of the church in the west and a dilution of the blind obedience he sees as an anchor of papal authority, Pope Benedict is ready to stand in the ruins.

There are many shifts coming, but three big ones are an increase in direct participation; an increase in the leverage of the professionals working alongside the amateurs; and a second great age of patronage.

News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible.

The very efficiency of the VAT means that it throws off huge amounts of revenue that politicians eagerly spend. The VAT thus becomes an engine of even greater public spending.

When news sites, after years of hanging back, embraced the idea of allowing readers to post comments, the near-universal assumption was that anyone could weigh in and remain anonymous. But now, that idea is under attack from several directions, and journalists, more than ever, are questioning whether anonymity should be a given on news sites.

Just because the thing you eventually want to sell isn’t ready, it doesn’t mean what you do have, right now, isn’t marketable.

Exploration of the question of how much weight we should ascribe to originality when there is obvious benefit in sharing, reintroduction, and remixing of ideas.