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Horse slaughter in Missouri

Not only is Missouri home to the largest number of puppy mills in the country, but there’s effort underway to open the nation’s first horse slaughterhouse here. The infamous Sue Wallis, who has been a leading advocate for bringing horse slaughter back to this country, first introduced the idea of converting a vacant warehouse into […]

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HTML5

If it had remained the irrelevant attribute

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The latest round of discussions related to longdesc (yes, still) was triggered by a revert request from Laura Carlson: As you know the editor made changes to the hidden section [1]. This biases an open issue [2] as it directly implements a material change from a change proposal [3]. The […]

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Books Technology

Node’s the thing

I just finished my fourth chapter for my newest book for O’Reilly. I never feel a book is solid and real until the fourth chapter. By the fourth chapter, you have a book, not just an idea or outline. My newest work is titled “Learning Node”, about Node, or Node.js for the purists among you. It’s […]

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Critters

Debe Bell update: Guilty

Just a quick update, to finish out earlier stories on Debe Bell and the Six Bells Rabbitry. Debe Bell was found guilty of 35 counts of animal abuse. Surprisingly, some of the rabbits were hearty enough to survive, and once they were nursed back to health, they were readied for adoption through the Foothills Animal Shelter. […]

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O’Reilly Media’s Stop SOPA page, describing what this is all about.