this evening i watched my least favourite football team, ever, lose to the team who beat my favourite football team, ever. eli manning played a brilliant game, and the new jersey giants beat the boston patriots in the superbowl, and it saved the season for me. cheaters never win. winners never cheat. tom brady: go […]
fantastic news made clear by John Resig regarding the HTML5 DOCTYPE
What’s nice about this new DOCTYPE, especially, is that all current browsers (IE, FF, Opera, Safari) will look at it and switch the content into standards mode – even though they don’t implement HTML5. This means that you could start writing your web pages using HTML5 today and have them last for a very, very, […]
please support barack obama
Obama stands against bad governing not only in his support of specific practices like open data standards and basic network neutrality, but in his work against corruption from day one. He’s sponsored legislation to restrict gifts to Congress by industry representatives (which also carried a whole slew of anti-corruption measures that were a breath of […]
robot train
today, after we went to the children’s museum, we were not quite ready to go right home and have dinner yet (J1 made sushi! yay!) so we rode the robot train. i had never ridden the robot train, and i must say i was impressed. it has a nice warm waiting area with nice seating […]
the official tom cruise home page
it has been to long since i mentioned that a couple years ago i made: The Official Tom Cruise Homepage: REAL ULTIMATE POWER Technorati Tags: crazy, ninja, realultimatepower, religion, scientology, tom, tomcruise
CSS to make text wrap
/* Browser specific (not valid) styles to make preformatted text wrap */ code { white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */ white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */ white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */ white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */ word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */ }/* Browser specific (not valid) styles to make preformatted text […]
in other words, *he’s seven*
[Bush] is completely convinced he knows what things are, so he shuts down all avenues of inquiry about them and disregards the information that is offered to him. “The Illustrated President†by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
iTunes Stuff
picked up at purple fiction Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be. Total Song: 9,252 How many hours or days of music: 31.7 days Most recently played: “Agony of Laffitte” — Spoon, A Series of Snakes Most played: “Global Hypnosis” — Kelly Howell, Insomnia […]
Headline stirs complaints, but real problems don’t | IndyStar.com
today, i see in the local paper that my wife has been sending letters to the editor: wonder how many people crying about the “racist headline†on Jan. 18 (“I ain’t kill them kidsâ€) assumed the speaker was black without reading beyond the bold print? Many assume that uneducated blacks are responsible for heinous crimes […]
attention john crane: turns out your grandpa was right O_O
i have a group of friends that i, like everyone else who knows them, refer to as “The Crane Boys.†one of these guys is john, and he runs a blog called The Daily Detour, which focuses on american culture, and has a decidedly conservative evangelical stance. i’m rather fond of john and all three […]
life update
i know i still have some readers, despite the fact that i almost never actually write anything anymore. here is an attempt to play catch up: my son started basketball recently, and i have to say, seven year old boys trying to dribble is adorable i am knee-deep in a personal project that i hope […]
Links for 1/23/08 [my NetNewsWire tabs]
Pledge of Allegiance Eye of the Goof: Doin’ the Space Girl Dance LaCie LaCinema | Uncrate The Frontal Cortex : Killing Chickens on Television Monograph (Monoscope) Hoosier Beer Geek: A picture is worth a thousand beers… Dark House Quarter – Conversation Today @ PC World MacBook Air Amiss: Time to License Mac OS X? xkcd […]
fairness is in our genes
there has been a lot said about the article i am going to quote later in this post, but none of it that i’ve seen calls out the glaringly obvious point that i’m seeing in this: Consider one more experimental example to prove the point: the ultimatum game. You are given $100 to split between […]
Links for 1/17/08
Dub custom wheels – Pimpstar – Custom Wheels and Performance Tires at Customwheel.com TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) Hoosier Beer Geek: The Hopslam Who-What wear palettes The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support. The octopus who loves his Mr Potato […]