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	<title>Beautiful Interfaces</title>
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		<title>Programming While Female: 13 Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This topic seems to get into the air about once a year, and I normally avoid it like the plague.  Most of the time it seems to result in pointless hand-wringing and, if anything, harms us tech women by calling us out.  But stubornella&#8217;s excellent blog post stirred up my thoughts, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/programming-while-female-13-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>The Boundaries of Accessibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sites and apps
During discussions about accessibility, I always wonder whether accessibility goals should be different for different types of web projects.  Are there cases where accessibility is less important?  And if so, what are the relevant differences that make it that way?  
 &#8220;The web should be accessible&#8221; is an easy blanket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/the-boundaries-of-accessibility/</link>
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		<title>The Browser Breakdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The growth of the mobile web and touch screens has created more browser diversity than ever before.  I think it&#8217;s useful to categorize browsers into four major categories, along the axes of screen size and input type.

Probably the most growth is going to come in the large-screen touch category (mainly because it&#8217;s starting from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/the-browser-breakdown/</link>
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		<title>3 Reasons to Care About Server-Side Javascript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why?
Server-side javascript has been a hot topic for awhile now, especially since node.js was announced.  But after reading about it here and there, a big part that I felt I was missing was the &#8220;why&#8221;.  
I mean, for those of us who really enjoy javascript (which I do), enough said.  Javascript on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/3-reasons-to-care-about-server-side-javascript/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m solar-powered.</title>
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It&#8217;s true, I really am.
Also, I love this time of year, and I&#8217;m back.
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		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/im-solar-powered/</link>
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		<title>Usability and Credit-Card Readers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get annoyed by credit-card readers.  You know, the kind used at gas pumps and ATMs.  I always have to look at it and try to figure out which way I&#8217;m supposed to put my card in, because it differs from one to another.  In order to do that, I have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/usability-and-credit-card-readers/</link>
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		<title>Snowflakerator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another canvas-based toy, in honor of all the snow we&#8217;ve been having around here lately: The Snowflakerator.
Lets you draw in 6-way radial symmetry.  I got the idea from those folded paper snowflakes that everyone used to make as a kid.
I&#8217;m liking canvas, it&#8217;s easy to do some fun stuff with.  And I really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/snowflakerator/</link>
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		<title>Canvas + the Digits of PI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, my former colleague Mike @ Meja Design released this cool visualization of the digits of PI mapped to colored dots:

This got me thinking about other transformations you could do over the same set of numbers.  At the same time, I&#8217;ve been wanting to start playing with canvas, for possible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/canvas-the-digits-of-pi/</link>
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		<title>Open-Source Design?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it even possible to successfully apply the principles of open-source software to design?  Or does really great design require a certain level of Steve Jobs-like tyranny, a sense that one vision is masterminding everything, or at least a single point of responsibility?
(By &#8220;design&#8221;, I&#8217;m referring to visual/experience/industrial/graphic/architectural/service/fashion design &#8212; all of the fields [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/open-source-design/</link>
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		<title>Design Brainstorm: A Game to Maximize Charitable Giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating thing I&#8217;ve been noticing lately (and even more since the tragic earthquake in Haiti) is the use of social gaming to encourage people to donate.  Mainly I&#8217;m thinking of Zynga, which raised $1 million for the World Food Programme in only 2 days, by allowing people to purchase special virtual goods in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bri-lance.net/2010/design-brainstorm-a-game-to-maximize-charitable-giving/</link>
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