Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
19dec2006
Red light debut for exotic ‘metamaterial’, Jeff Hecht says: “The race to build an exotic material with a negative refractive index for visible light has been won by a team of researchers in Germany.”
The gift right out, about the paradoxical “deadweight loss of Christmas”.
Ask a Paedophile, by floridasun. “No, the subject is not a catch-line. I really mean it.”
A system is composed of components; a component is something you understand. — Howard Aiken
Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources, an interesting approach.
Leaving empty space behind, have a look at these photos. I was amazed when I saw what they really were.
Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique, by Marc van den Dobbelsteen at A List Apart. “[W]hy don’t we just define layout and appearance for a series of screen-width ranges, then find a way to match these layouts with the user’s viewport size?” Fantastic idea!
Then I’ll stop my dreaming
I don’t do too much scheming these days
These days
These days I sit on corner stores
And count the time in quarter tones to ten
Please don’t confront me with my failures
‘Cause I have not forgotten them
— Jackson Browne, These Days
Making Compact Forms More Accessible, by Mike Brittain at A List Apart. “Tightly designed forms can look great on paper, but they often ignore accessibility issues altogether.”
Rails Rubyisms Advent, 2539 days of
ActiveTrickery. By Chris Wanstrath.
Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API, let SOAP die.
Everybody go pillow fighting, “The first rule of Pillow Fight Club? Tell everyone.”
Baby put your best dress on
You know the one I mean
The one you wore on the beach
The day the sky turned green
— Dan Bern, Dress
A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect, “This tiny ball provides evidence that the universe will expand forever.” Scientific support for transpantheism!
Demonstrating the Consequences of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities, by Nitesh Dhanjani. “BeEF is the browser exploitation framework. Its purposes in life is to provide an easily integratable framework to demonstrate the impact of browser and cross-site scripting (XSS) issues in real-time.” Oy.
The supershape equation is an extension of the both the equation of the sphere and ellipse. Very nice shapes.
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