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Book Meme

By way of Matthew Helmke's blog I found out about Jono's Book Meme idea. I usually try to avoid meme's but this one is interesting and not silly, so here we go:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

In my case the nearest book was in German, so here is the nearest English book:

"Pixels pose an entirely different set of issues. A pixel is one point on a screen that can be on or off, displaying any color that is needed. If you set your monitor's display to a resolution of 800 pixels by 600 pixels, a pixel corresponds to 1/600 of the screen height. On a 15-inch display, the height is about 10.5 inches and the width is a little more than 13 inches. A 12-pixel font display on that monitor would turn out to be about 1/50 of the 10.5-inch height of the display, or just a little more than one-fifth of an inch." From: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, by Rachel Andrew & Dan Shafer