September 2010
108 posts
“I’m someone who is blind and who goes regularly to the cinema. I take the...”
– Bug 10642 – No alternative text description for video key frame (poster)
“I don’t even know how to answer this question. Other than segregating me...”
– GAH!
Bug 10642 – No alternative text description for video key frame (poster)
“I’m confused. Why would you (a blind user) want to know what the poster...”
– This is why we have so much trouble getting the next version of HTML to be more inclusive. The editor of HTML5 has no understanding or appreciation for what it might be like to have a disability such as blindness.
Now, I’ve hardly got it all nailed when it comes to accessibility. But I try....
“Plants don’t blog. They don’t post stupid comments. They don’t have follower...”
– Derek Powazek - They Don’t Complain and They Die Quietly
“My dad was not like other dads because he watched kids just like his die for a...”
– Derek Powazek - They Don’t Complain and They Die Quietly
“Whenever the Dungeon Master kills another Valentine, Marco runs off and cries to...”
– Sam Lipsyte: “The Dungeon Master” : The New Yorker
“The Web for me is still URLs and HTML. I don’t want a Web which can only be...”
– A quote from Simon Willison, on Twitter (via vanderwal)
““As a small boy growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, Douglas...”
– The Wild Surmise: From gunny sacks to mattress vine: notes on Douglas Engelbart, Tim O’Reilly, and the natural world (via vanderwal)
“Important: As of jQuery 1.4, if the JSON file contains a syntax error, the...”
– jQuery.getJSON() – jQuery API (via kouky)
This led to many many arguments about ‘strict JSON’.
There is no strict JSON. Either it conforms to the spec or it isn’t JSON.
This is one scenario where I absolutely believe in being strict in what you accept.
WatchGAYNGS - Eye in the Sky (by GAYNGS)
“I need you to build me a robot that captures the essence of ocean waves crashing...”
– Why you don’t like changes to your design - The Oatmeal
“I am overwhelmed. I don’t know how to deal with the problems of a 20something...”
– Is your personal brand compromised when you attend a relevant alternative event with your partner? | HIPSTER RUNOFF
WatchMore of this, please, Internet.
News Desk: Jason Schwartzman Introduces The New Yorker iPad App : The New Yorker
“Someone re-writes it in an afternoon in Python but it only works and scales if...”
– The entire post is superb
A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it? « Rev Dan Catt’s Blog
WatchTash is awesome. Webstockians are awesome. This video is awesome.
Webstock ♥ Tash (by Keith Bolland)
“Rachel P. Maines has observed that such cases were quite profitable for...”
– Female hysteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“On the subject of his own childlessness, Franzen will say only that...”
– The Guardian
“Lots of people seem to be excited about building replacement’s for their Rails...”
– Right on.
Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid | Paul’s Journal
“In a five-day period, 266 people referenced the chief executive of the United...”
– Gene Weingarten - Gene Weingarten: I hate Facebook sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much…
“As Tyler Durden once said: You are not your programming language. You are not...”
– Leaving .net
“The cyber worm, called Stuxnet, has been the object of intense study since its...”
– Stuxnet malware is ‘weapon’ out to destroy … Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant? - Yahoo! News
“Since reverse engineering chunks of Stuxnet’s massive code, senior US...”
– Stuxnet malware is ‘weapon’ out to destroy … Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant? - Yahoo! News
“The site or app speaks in the first person plural “we”. (In general, “I” takes...”
– Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Super Unsuck It! Bye-Bye, My.
“earlier this year I tried an experiment at Black Pixel and made our support page...”
– ignore the code: Chris Clark (via brianoberkirch)
“In effect, what Darwin, Hooker and the Royal Navy achieved was the world’s...”
– BBC News - Charles Darwin’s ecological experiment on Ascension isle
“While he was waiting to record an album, Nick Cave was reading a book on urban...”
– Godfather of Gangsta | Music | The Guardian
The glorious version of Stagger Lee from the...
“Much attention was given to optimizing performance in the DOM. For example,...”
– The Twitter Engineering Blog: The Tech Behind the New Twitter.com
“n our country, you are free to do yoga, or not. If you see Yoga as corrosive to...”
– Not content to fret Ethics, Sydney Anglicans worry about Yoga - StateReligionVIC
