BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. On this anniversary of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, Jules Crittenden provides a comprehensive summary of the battle, as well as a book and other references, and photos. The photos are especially compelling, as they lack of romanticism of so many WWII photos in books and in other […]
Battered into a fetal ball by waves of bad economic news, only surfacing to watch an occasional crash and bash flick, such as Iron Man, I discovered my own personal bailout via Naomi Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”. Oddly enough, it wasn’t something that Klein wrote (though she has many interesting points […]
With the growing support for CSS3 in most of the major browsers, including Firefox, Safari, Opera, and now Chrome, I decided to incorporate the use of CSS3 properties into my own site designs. In addition, I also used an SVG graphic whenever I wanted a background that sized with the page. The CSS3 properties I’m […]
Virginia DeBolt has posted another in her series on Women in Technology, this one about Maria Webster from .51. It’s a terrific interview, and appreciations to Virginia in her effort to promote more awareness of women in tech. Maria is an Über geek, with interests that cross the lines from computers to electrical engineering, ham radio, to physics, […]
Now this is damn clever: using Google searches to trend flu outbreaks. Google is aggregating flu-related searches into trending where flu outbreaks might be occurring, or about to occur. So far, knock on wood, the flu trend graph shows low activity for Missouri.