BurningbirdBattered 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, […]
I’m doing a curriculum outline for a suggested SVG class for the WaSP Education Task Force. If you were looking for a class on SVG, what would you like it to include? What would you hope to be able to do with SVG, once you came away from the class? Would you be more interested […]
I borrowed Jeff Schiller’s SVG election map, and added the appropriate “rep” class to Montana, and “dem” class to North Carolina, to preserve Missouri’s pristine undecided-to-the end status. Sure is simple to modify an SVG map. Stuart Langridge’s purple map using the same basic map from Wikipedia, but shading the states based on the closeness of the […]