The slashdot effect in action...

A couple of days ago, popular geek news site slashdot mentioned the Distributed Proofreaders project, a means of spreading the proofreading workload of Project Gutenberg across many people.

The effect of this publicity can be seen quite clearly in the graphs shown on the Distributed Proofreaders front page - after quietly ticking along at about 1,000 pages a day, the total leaps to 15,000 one day, and over 10,000 the next, getting most of the way to November's monthly target in two days flat.

Kudos to DP for having a website that can survive The Slashdot Effect

[link: Slashdot; Reminder: sbisson]

demoroniser

While this page is primarily touting a script to fix the problem, it also explains in considerable detail why the HTML produced by Microsoft tools is so frequently incompatible with non-Microsoft products.

In short, MS can't even be bothered sticking to ISO-standard fonts, but have to "Embrace and Extend" them too. Blech.

[the same author's "top ten reasons Eternal Damnation is better than Windows Software Development" is also quite amusing for any Microsoft-phobics out there]