Burningbird

This week in HTML5...in verse.

So <time> is saved
though it may be changed,
and <data> is on the horizon.

<hgroup> is going,
you can hear it moaning,
as HTML5 continues to wizen.

Over at Technology at Burningbird:

Google has become all that is arrogant conceit. It believes it can do anything better than anyone else. It has dropped any pretense of seemingly wanting to work with others, and pretends its work is open, as long as it "gives" it all away when it's finished.

Google has created a replacement for HTTP (SPDY), RDF and semantics (schema.org and Microdata), a video format (WebM), WebP a new image format, and is now about to release its replacement for JavaScript: Dart.

And then there's the continuing saga of HTML5.

Two posts today over at Puppies at Burningbird.

The first has to do with the Debe Bell rabbit seizure. The Tea Party pundits had a field day with the "illegal" seizure and rants about property rights...until the Sheriff's office released photos taken of the Bell rabbits when they were seized. Unlike an O'Keefe video, these photos weren't "artistically edited", and demonstrate the horrid conditions under which these rabbits lived.

The second has to do with Attorney General Koster's new Anti-cruelty site, which is anything but anti-cruelty. I don't know what's happening in the administration of Jay Nixon. I don't know if Jon Hagler, Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, and Koster have had a falling out.

If you've been reading my weblogs in their various incarnations since the painful beginning, you've read me talking about my car, Golden Girl.

Golden Girl isn't a fancy car. It's a 4 door 2002 Ford Focus with a Zetec engine and painted in metallic gold. It is my very first car.

No, I'm not so young. I'm just one of those who didn't decide to drive until I was...well, older than most people when they learn to drive. I started to learn to drive in Boston, practiced cross country, and received my first driver's license in San Francisco. I bought Golden Girl a few months later via the internet, at a time when this was still a very new idea. I test drove a Focus, but didn't meet Golden Girl until I picked her up.

Puppies...bunnies.... No animal should be treated cruelly in mills, roadside zoos, or the other places where greedy people prosper from animal suffering. I've extended the scope of this site to cover other types of animals, as well as other types of places that the USDA monitors, such as the deplorable roadside zoos found in too many states. My primary interest is still in closing down puppy mills in Missouri, but all these critters need all the champions they can get.

More at Puppies at Burningbird.

Another bunny mill story, but this time in Colorado. One angora pulled from a cage in the 85+ degree building was so covered in matted fur that you could barely see its face. As the sheriff stated, not only were the rabbits thirsty, they were "aggressively thirsty".