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Interesting way to search a document: The State of the Union in Words from the New York Times. Saw a link to it in the comments on Tufte’s post about sparklines.

Noticed in a blog post that a student created a system status dashboard widget

When converting print stuff to HTML we know to watch for the usual suspects known as special characters. These include curly quotes and apostrophes, and the families Umlaut and Accent. There are a couple others to watch out for—the ellipsis (should be replaced with plain text …). And “ff” and “fi” sometimes appears as one character and also need to be replaced manually.