I’ve always enjoyed a nice graphical diff, like WinDiff, WinMerge, or KDiff3 — something that shows how a document has changed since some previous incarnation. Ben Fry, father of Processing, has taken this idea to an extreme with Darwin’s Origin of Species by showing how Darwin’s book changed with each revision, graphically depicting the variations in the document by chapter with each revision. » Read more: the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
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- Wordnik Word of the DayBowbell
One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
Example usage: We should have shown provincials our intense contempt of their of the English tongue, and in the honour of Bowbell have rhymed tobacco with Long Acre, as the days of old.