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A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.

Enjoyment level was comparable with printed books. I find this to be true in my experience:

Users felt that reading the printed book was more relaxing than using electronic devices.

I love technology and reading on the iPhone and Kindle, but I also love printed books. I struggle with which format to buy every time. I should avoid the dilemma and just get a library card.

My career has never been more exciting.

There should be celebrating in the streets, dancing on the ceiling, Ewoks, and the firing pistolas in the air. For years we've had to preach and defend the gospel of web standards to the mouth-breathing masses who have been drawn to twinkle lights and really bad house background tracks. No more will we have to spend precious time debating the merits of presentation layers being divorced from markup, usability, and every day common sense to a communications major who would really rather be producing ads for television.

Divya Manian has some really good use cases for using CSS generated content on Dev.Opera. I think my favorite is rendering icons for file formats and external links using CSS3 substring selectors. It’s a well documented, concise article. It made my bus ride this morning.

I would purchase copies of these for my personal library, were they available.

U is for Uhura and Ultraman on a unicorn underwater.

via Michael Lopp

A huge repository of independent music performances. There is way too much goodness here to do anything else for the rest of the year. Subscribe.

My buddy, Ivan made flickr’s Explore page (refresh until you see Dunnigan Hills) today with his fantastic shot of the Dunnigan Hills. This shot is my favorite to date, mostly due to the fond memories of this commute to the best job I ever had. The place really looks like this in real life, folks.

More tumblr magic. This time from the folks who brought us three frames.

My wife and I skim interior design magazines. This is next level shit.

Michelle Setzer teaches kindergarten at C.E. Dingle Elementary School in Woodland, CA.. She’s a remarkable person. She taught my daughter Ella’s class of 25+ rowdy kids while with child and never showed anything less than 100% enthusiasm to be doing so. She is currently teaching my son. We hope to get Poppy into her class in 2015 ... or would that be 2016?

At any rate, it turns out she is even more remarkable than we may have initially thought. She started blogging about the inner-workings of the American Public School system last month, with the aim of inspiring citizens to push for reform. The best part is that she’s doing this the scientific way—by publishing statistical data and factual information.

If you didn’t already know, the bureaucracy of the American Public School system makes Innotech look like a well oiled machine. If exposing abuse with facts and stats gets you revved up, this is going to be a bottomless pit of inspiration.

Back in July, I linked to an article about Atheist Ireland’s plan to publish a formal blasphemous statement to challenge Ireland’s new blasphemy law, which goes into effect today. The law imposes a €25,000 fine on any person or organiation who utters or publishes a blasphemous statement about any religion in Ireland.

I said that I couldn’t wait to hear the zinger. Well, they decided to publish 25 blasphemous zingers by a whole slew of notable public figures including, Jesus of Nazareth, the Prophet Mohammed, Pope Benedict XVI, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, and many more.

Why you should care: language in this law is being used to pass a similar restriction on the UN for discussing anything negative about Islam. That one is Islam only, though. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. would still be fair game here.