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 ##Features
 As we mentioned at the start, metro.css is built on the basis of Twitter's Bootstrap. We haven't pulled in a huge amount, just what we need - including the bootstrap grid/layout system.
 
+Metro.css is built on top of [LESS](http://lesscss.org/) and compiled down to css, like Bootstrap, so we had a bit of a learning curve, could define our colours and work with the methods built in to LESS - it was a great experience.
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 ###Fonts
 Fonts are hard. Eventually we settled on three similar fonts to use for various platforms, with roboto being the fallback.
 
@@ -20,17 +22,23 @@ All the colours of the... metro-bow?
 ###Controls
 There is a pivot control as well as a tile layout system with tilt on mouse-press (although only in Webkit browsers for now)
 
-###Whats next?
+##Whats next?
 
 * We will (eventually) migrate code52 to using metro.css - a decent whack of styles came from code52 as it was!
 * There are still a stack of tasks on the [trello board](https://trello.com/board/metro-css/4f2fd841a5146fa91fbff127) before we'd consider this a "done" project - I'd personally love to see the gh-pages template knocked up so more projects can use that (rather than the makeshift template we created that [a few are starting to use](http://signalr.net/))
 
 ##Contributors
-The turn out for metro.css has been - to say the least - disappointing. While it had a modest 36 votes, just three outside of the Code52 team turned up. We've had many declare that we're shooting ourselves in the foot for "restricting" ourselves to .NET or just Windows projects, this was the first project that had no platform restrictions... yet few showed up. While we won't say no to cross platform or an alternative project, it certainly will make us more hesitant!
+The turn out for metro.css has been - to say the least - disappointing. While it had a modest 36 votes, just three outside of the Code52 team turned up. We've had many declare that we're shooting ourselves in the foot for "restricting" ourselves to .NET or just Windows projects, this was the first project that had no platform restrictions... yet few showed up. While we won't say no to cross platform or an alternative project - it has been a bit discouraging, to continue pressing for cross platform projects as a focus.
 
 ##Download
 You can view the documentation and grab all the relevant artifacts over at the [project page](http://code52.org/metro.css/)
 
-
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+
+##Cool Stuff
+As we alluded to earlier, a lot of the metro.css pack was built on top of ideas from work done on the new look [code 52](http://code52.org) web site that @shifty and @aeoth worked hard on while @tobin was on a beach - take a look and give us some feedback!
+
+The development of metro.css so far has also given the opportunity to give a lot of feedback into our previous project [Pretzel](https://github.com/Code52/pretzel) as we used it to generate test sites.
+
+Give both a shot together, check out the pages that get generated, and how the static site generator works, and what was built into metro.css and we hope some of you will like contributing once you see how easy it is!