BurningbirdI was asked for links to SVG resources, and my immediate thought was to look for a Planet SVG. Though I found a planetsvg.com, there’s no entry at the site, and I couldn’t find any elsewhere. I then decided to create a new Planet SVG, using Sam Ruby’s Venus adaption of the Planet software. Of course, […]
Speaking of SVG, Lachlan Hardy pointed out the Raphaël JavaScript library to me, and I wanted to pass it along. This library provides cross-browser dynamic vector graphics that generates VML for IE, and SVG for the rest of the world. Among the graphical elements you can create are paths, eclipses, rectangles, circles, and text, and be able to apply […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Stop the Cap! is a web site and weblog dedicated to the fight against broadband caps. From the Mission Statement: We feel the current usage caps being considered by broadband providers are unreasonable, some moreso than others. Those below 10GB per month are outrageous. Others which may run above 100GB […]
The downside of the recent flurry of activity regarding JavaScript/ECMAScript is that I’m in the middle of tech editing Learning JavaScript, second edition, and not sure what to include. On the one hand, it’s extremely important to me that the book be accurate, so my inclination is not to including anything that isn’t implemented in […]
Exposing science fiction writers to science David Levine writes about Launch Pad, NASA’s program to expose science to science fiction writers. Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets lists great ocean weblogs. Photojojo covers strange photo projects. The squished people don’t do anything for me, but I do like the little people, big world photos. You’ve all watched the Large […]