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Critters

OH HAI I CAN HAS RABIES?

Perfect celebration for cat friday. Via Metafilter–be sure to check out comments. Even better: squid with human teeth for squid friday.

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Fight is on for fair arbitration

The fight has started for fair arbitration. TortDeform has an extensive write-up on the second day of hearings associated with the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007. I’m familiar with all of the cases mentioned in the testimony, and they just barely demonstrate how far reaching the problems of binding mandatory arbitration agreements are. I noticed that the National Arbitration […]

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Semantics

Visual Feedback

From the Semantic Web mailing list: Every time I work on logos, I learn something new! The main lesson so far from the Semantic Web logos: Get more feedback on usage policy before deploying. Thank you all for your comments. Most of them related to the usage policy, so you will find a proposal for a […]

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Political

Riots in the valley

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rumors have been flying that riots and violence unimaginable have been happening in the fire-stricken disaster areas around Los Angeles and San Diego. Firefighters are now refusing to enter and render assistance to victims in communities such as Rancho Bernardo and Del Mar. “We’ve heard of gangs of white people […]

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SVG

Dash it all

‘ve moved on from SVG to the Canvas element, and am still suffering whiplash at the downward steepness of the step. Leaving aside that one can defeat canvas easily just by turning off script, about the best documentation I found on the element is Mozilla’s implementation. The specification is buried within the HTML5 work, which […]