We know that Hurricane Ike is going to be the worst when the National Weather Service issues warnings about getting out or face certain death. The winds are a problem, but the real issue is storm surge, and it looks to be unstoppable. We, in Missouri, are now under a flood watch, because we’ll be finishing […]
Day: September 12, 2008
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The political story this week
As of September 12: New heights of stupidity: Glenn Greenwalk maps out the route a ridiculous accusation takes, from propaganda to major media. Election will impact Supreme Court: Buffalo News Op-Ed on choosing the next member of the Supreme Court, and the impact this will have on the land. Canadian Elections 101: A nice introduction […]
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Thank goodness for giant squid
Because otherwise, I would go mad. New blockbuster video: Don’t go boating if you owe money to a giant squid. The movie of two friends in a boat on the Brisbane River, one of whom owes money to a giant squid. Guess where the giant squid lives? Soon to be a new feature length film. “It’s […]
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The hotness that is SVG
There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the social networking requirements for a […]
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Death to extensibility
In an interview at Tech Republic, HTML5 Editor Ian Hickson stated: The second big controversy in recent history was over extensibility. There have been some requests to allow people to extend HTML without speaking to the committees working on HTML. We’ve provided a number of mechanisms for this (the class and rel attributes, the data-* attributes, […]