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How to measure stuff - in many different ways.

I don't know about you, but I hate those moments when I have a 300 px graphic and a cell in a Word table that I need to resize to fit it adequately, and then, like, I find out that Word will only allow me to specify cell dimensions in like, cm or %. Bummer. But then I found this great site that lets me convert. Changed my life, it did. I use the typography converter. Yum. Yes, I did say yum.

www.unitconversion.org

Great mysteries of the Universe...

Ever wondered where that Latin-sounding gobbledygook used by desktop publishers and graphic designers to represent text came from? Here's your answer...

www.lipsum.com

A gweat wesource for the word-obsessed

worldwidewords.org

I get an email in my inbox every Saturday from this chap. It's a weekly highlight. 10 minutes of heavenly validation that my love of lexicon is shared by others. And to get your fix of fonetics, to sup on syntax, to intrepidly explore etymology and all that other alliterative stuff, the site is a great place to ramble around in.

Jazz links:

See the Jazz page!

Cyanotypes:

Fun at home with cyanotypes >