BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. This state has gone nuts since the release of the Megan Meier story. If you hadn’t heard of it, Megan was a young girl, 13 going on 14, who killed herself after receiving cruel taunts on her MySpace account. It later came out that the ‘person’ who participated in sending the […]
I thought I would go into some detail on some of the experiments I’ve been trying out on the site, starting with the SVG clock in the sidebar. A major advantage of SVG is that you can actually see how something is created. Try that with a Flash file. The SVG clock in the sidebar […]
I’ve written about this previously, but worth repeating. CSS can be dynamically created using a PHP application, as long as the content type is set to CSS: <?php // declare the output of the file as CSS header(‘Content-type: text/css’); ?> The style sheet can then be used directly or imported into another: @import “photographs.php”; I use […]
A VC wrote: My view, for those who haven’t been reading this blog for a long time, is that all of this privacy stuff is way over the top. You need to disclose what you are doing and Facebook has done that. You need to give users a way to opt out and I believe […]
I watched with some interest the fooflah about Facebook’s Beacon. On the one hand, I think the application serves a useful purpose–it provides a dose of reality for those who have been extolling the virtues of the ‘social graph’ in all dewey eyed innocence. It’s hard to ignore that purchase of Depends showing up for all your […]