Care at all about what’s going on with our planet? I just watched an interesting, if not completely and thoroughly depressing, Charlie Rose interview with Bill McKibben, author of many, many books about the environment, including Eaarth. Bill had much … Continue reading
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Conan’s Found a Home
Well, I must say I’m disappointed to see him arrive at TBS, but glad to see he’s found a home! Conan O’Brien is set to debut on TBS, bumping George Lopez to midnight (supposedly with no ill-feeling from Mr. Lopez… … Continue reading
Browser Wars, The Sequel (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HTML)
Imagine if you will… The meeting is over, you have your new design that needs to be built, and now you sit at your whiteboard to plan your strategy. First, we need an HTML version for the Web. That’s easy. … Continue reading
Cross-browser “compatibility” vs. Cross-browser “consistency”
So, this is a old topic, right? Every developer knows that every single page has to looks exactly the same in every single browser known to mankind, right? Or does it? This is something I’ve been finding more and more … Continue reading
HP Slate: A NOT-so-Subtle Swipe at Apple’s iPad
A new Wired article about the upcoming HP Slate is going to try to give Apple‘s iPad a run for their money. It looks like a great device, but I find the heavy Flash-push a little annoying… Maybe they should … Continue reading
One of the Best Bands I Have Seen in a While
Last night had I the opportunity to see The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (TSOOL) at Irving Plaza. Holy. Crap. They are bad ass. If you ever have a chance to see them live, GO! And in that vein, here are … Continue reading
Stop WordPress from Stripping HTML5 from Posts
This blog is, proudly, HTML5-based. It’s not much, really, I use the HTML5 DOCTYPE, I use <header>, <section>, <article>, and <footer> in my templates, but I also occasionally want to use things like <aside>, <time>, and perhaps others in my … Continue reading
Bringing Readability to the Web… One of the Best Things I’ve Ever Seen…
Mr. Zeldman writes about Readability, a bookmarklet that scrapes “what you’re actually trying to read” from a webpage, actually making it an enjoyable reading experience. You know, what a reading experience should be?? Jeffrey’s example, a Roger Ebert movie review, … Continue reading
Google Wants to Build a Fiber Network for You. Interested?
So, I think the question here is: Is Google a really nice company that is just trying to make the world a better place for all of us, or are they an power-mongering corporation that wants every aspect of our … Continue reading
Google to Walk Out of China?
In a major change of heart, Google plans to stop filtering their search results in China, and may stop supporting the world’s most populous country altogether!! What a huge move for Google, both morally and financially! How will this affect … Continue reading