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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Jul 29th 2011, 17:58 by R.L.G. | NEW YORK SOME readers may be confused about the whereabouts of The Economist 's style guide, which was online until several days ago. We have recently migrated to a new content-management system. This is a very good thing for us, but several things have disappeared in the transition, including the style guide. It will be back soon. In the meantime please take a look around this language blog, Johnson, if you haven't discovered it yet.
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Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels
(and Ems and %) Here's a chart that converts points to pixels (and ems and %). It's an approximation, which will depend on font, browser and OS, but it's a good starting point.RGB-to-Hex Conversion
Answer: The RGB-to-hexadecimal converter algorithm is simple: make sure that your values are in the range 0...255, convert R , G , B to hex strings, and then concatenate the three hex strings together.
Confusing Words
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
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Calculators
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
Online Etymology Dictionary
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