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Specs Web

Google’s Ta Da moments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Henri Bergius wrote a piece on Google’s seeming desire to replace all web components, except HTML. Among the “new” technologies: SPDY to replace HTTP schema.org and Microdata to replace a decade’s worth of semantic work with RDF and microformats WebP, a new image format WebM, a new video format And now […]

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HTML5 Specs SVG

This page isn’t valid…and who cares

I covered my recent experiments in using SVG in HTML in SVG in HTML. I linked two different example pages with SVG inline in HTML: one dependent on HTML5 parsing (Firefox nightly), the other using the library, SVGWeb. There’s another difference between the two examples other than just their implementation. The first example, dependent on a browser parsing […]

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Critters

Rabbit Ridge: Same Old Bad Tricks

Updated It’s been some time since we checked into our first Kennel Campaign kennel, Rabbit Ridge. Too long, it seems. An August 4th inspection in the USDA APHIS database provides the following rather alarming information (complete inspection report): There is a hutch style enclosure on the east side of the facility that did not have […]

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Critters

And the Missouri Smoke and Mirrors Continue

Attorney General Koster has come out with a look how much we care about the doggies site, which is basically a load of bilge water. Two breeders have been closed down. Two. And both breeders were allowed to hold on to their dogs until resolution of their cases, and one is even allowed to breed dogs […]

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Critters

Putting Lies into Context: Debe Bell and the Six Bell’s Rabbitry

updated Several Tea Party pundits have jumped on the media bandwagon for Debe Bell and the Six Bells Rabbits. “There was no warrant”, they claim, based solely on what they were told by Bell (never bothering to fact check). “The rabbits were in great shape!”, they shouted, again based on what they were told by […]