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The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet (technologyreview.com)
51 points by linhir on Dec 13, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


This is a random aside, but did anyone else notice that every single occurrence of "fi" on that page was doubled?

Do a find in page for "fifi" and you'll see it everywhere. I'm assuming this was some kind of misbehaving filter, but I wonder why?


Perhaps the page was incorrectly post-processed to replace "fi" with the proper ligature glyph?


Ahh, that would make sense.

I was thinking perhaps it was a misguided filter because they had sh style "IF/FI" blocks in their template code, but your suggestion is much more likely.


They didn't mention the Encyclopedia of Life, seems like a pretty big omission:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life




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