Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Really nice writeup on the conflict between Microformats use of abbr with hCalendar and accessibility: The datetime-design-pattern is a way to show a readable date (such as “March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time”) to humans and a machine-readable date (such as the ISO 8601 formatted “20070312T1700-06”) to the Microformat […]
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Bees 2.0
Here’s a great rumor to start: too much cellphone use makes one think and act like Tiny Tim: Tiptoe through the window By the window, that is where I’ll be Come tiptoe through the tulips with me. Oh, tiptoe from the garden By the garden of the willow tree And tiptoe through the tulips with […]
I went to the Mingo National Reserve this week–the last bit of bottomland left in the delta region of Missouri’s boot heel. It’s full of cypress swamps, marshes, a river and a lake, and is an important breeding ground for migratory birds. If the sounds I heard were any indication, the number of species that […]
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Missouri Review on writing current events
From the weblog of the Missouri Review on why most submissions related to current events are seldom accepted by the publication. The entire post is excellent, but one point in particular stood out: Most writers can’t realize their ambitions because they are writing out of something like reflex, and according to a mistaken assumption that they understand […]
From the weblog of the Missouri Review on why most submissions related to current events are seldom accepted by the publication. The entire post is excellent, but one point in particular stood out: Most writers can’t realize their ambitions because they are writing out of something like reflex, and according to a mistaken assumption that they understand […]