Category Archives: Science and Engineering

I doubt Microsoft will bend

So the WaSP has issued another manifesto now that Microsoft has declared that it will no longer build standalone, free browsers for Windows and Apple machines. Now I say this as a long time supporter of the WaSP, but I … Continue reading

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I know it's bloody pointless

So I have just spidered my site and, oh man, I have a lot of dead links. One of the drawbacks to using your web log as a hot link list is that a lot of stuff dies or gets … Continue reading

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Genetic and Molecular Engineering

Genetic engineering, at least in the States and in the developing world (Where they are forced to buy from whoever is cheapest, namely the States.), has conquered agriculture. Now it seems ready to invade that small specialization of agriculture, the … Continue reading

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The Man in the White Suit

So bright sparks in Dallas, Texas and Dublin, Ireland have figured out how to cheaply make and weave nanotube fibers of arbitrary length. The science fiction fans in my audience will recognize the implications of this in a shot: Sinclair … Continue reading

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Nothing you do really matters

Ten to the tenth to the one-hundred and eighteenth power meters away, there is in exact duplicate of you doing exactly the same thing as you are now. Assuming that a level one multiverse exists outside our hubble volume, this … Continue reading

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Probing the Geosphere in a Blob of Molten Iron

By way of Slash and the Beeb, someone over at CalTech has imagined to explore deeply into the Earth’s crust and mantel by embedding a robot probe in jacket of several million tonnes of molten iron. This iron would then … Continue reading

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The REAL reason support for print media CSS is so poor

Imagine if people didn’t have to use Acrobat or Word to print out legible, neatly organized documents? Well, they almost can. They almost could if there was good support of CSS rules and attributes related to print media. Mozilla does … Continue reading

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How the semantic Web influenced my writing style

Other folks have probably written essays on how hypertext has influenced writing style in other media. Here I’d like to briefly discuss how working with and correcting document markup to make it conform to the semantic intent of the W3C … Continue reading

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Accessible data table attributes

Even though many screen readers and Web browsers don’t support them yet, I put accessibility attributes in all the data tables I put on sites. (Don’t know how to build an accessible data table? Use the accessible table builder.) The … Continue reading

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Another Big Company adopts Web standards

By way of Evolt, I just learned that Cingular Wireless redesigned their site to validate as strict XHTML 1. Progress is being made comrades! They will eventually come to understand the vanguard of the revolution!

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