BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Stop the Cap! is a web site and weblog dedicated to the fight against broadband caps. From the Mission Statement: We feel the current usage caps being considered by broadband providers are unreasonable, some moreso than others. Those below 10GB per month are outrageous. Others which may run above 100GB […]
The downside of the recent flurry of activity regarding JavaScript/ECMAScript is that I’m in the middle of tech editing Learning JavaScript, second edition, and not sure what to include. On the one hand, it’s extremely important to me that the book be accurate, so my inclination is not to including anything that isn’t implemented in […]
Exposing science fiction writers to science David Levine writes about Launch Pad, NASA’s program to expose science to science fiction writers. Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets lists great ocean weblogs. Photojojo covers strange photo projects. The squished people don’t do anything for me, but I do like the little people, big world photos. You’ve all watched the Large […]
Lots out of Australia about squid this week: From ABC: New Zealand’s mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests. At least it’s not a costume filled with possum road kill. To answer last week’s question, as to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You can tell when the gas prices are lower: the stations are filled with big SUVs and trucks. And today we find out that Missouri has the lowest gas prices in the country. For now, that is. I used some of the lower gas prices to fuel a trip to […]