Category Archives: Science and Engineering

Fashion modeling and athletics are doomed

We pay some people very good money because their bodies have certain talents in running around in a field chasing a ball or jumping through hoops or some such nonsense. We pay others very good money simply because certain aspects … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer 7, First Beta

Well, everyone else is talking about it and, me being a webmaster, I really should say something but, I really don’t have much because I’m not a MSDN subscriber so, I can’t get a legal copy. Today, I’ve been reading … Continue reading

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The agony of the posthuman condition

In reviewing my site, you’ll see that I have a lot of rants about transhumanism. This is a subject that has been percolating among the big thinkers for many decades (Depending on how you define it, it’s actually been speculated … Continue reading

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Expanding the mission of my blog script

One of the dilemmas I had to face in migrating to my new blog script is that all my old blog entries were no searchable except by the old blog script. This bothered me until I found an article that … Continue reading

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sIFR and Web Typography

Well–the “Yes, we know the Web is not print but it should be,” crowd finally achieved their grail: A means of injecting uncommon fonts into in pages without sacrificing accessibility, losing semantics or confusing search engines. sIFR does it all. … Continue reading

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Let's write better JavaScript!

Over the past few months I’ve been collecting many articles about JavaScript coding practices: JavaScript Optimization Strategies Unobtrusive JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM leaks like a sieve Ten good practices for writing JavaScript A Lint for JavaScript Optimizing JavaScript for … Continue reading

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What divisions and spans are meant for

Argh! I have a too many things to link to! I’ve decided to declare a moratorium on opening my feed reader or adding more bookmarks until I’ve cleared out some of these old, unclassified links out. Perhaps I’ll turn some … Continue reading

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The Continuum Between the Living and Nonliving

In the course of a rambling chat session with my old, old friend, who is currently in Southeast Asia now, the subjects of some of my past entries here and some recent mail I sent to him came up, namely … Continue reading

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The Other Chuck D has a Posse!

You’ve probably seen them around. Those stickers that proclaim how Andre deeply represents. Well, that art meme, that graffiti, has mutated. Turns out that Darwin has deep representation too! I wonder what Darwin would think about current theories on cultural … Continue reading

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Final blog mergings and source-ordered markup

Source-ordered markup with content first is better for accessibility.
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