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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
Trains, Laces and silly Web tricks
In the US, passenger rail has for too long been neglected as medium haul mass transit. What is the optimal way to tie shoes? It’s not as simple as you might think. Dean Allen, co-founder of the WaSP, has written … Continue reading
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I create a stir on Nanodot
Wow, I guess someone is taking me seriously over there. I should take the time to give them some good concrete suggestions.
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Where to find the science news
It’s sort of weird, watching all the stuff I read about back in 1988, come true. Hey, here is a useful science news collector. Bottom Quark was pretty slow there for a while.
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User defined CSS and accessibility, why IE 6 still sucks
Argh! Why can’t IE 6 support this? table, tr, th, td, thead, tbody, tfoot { display: block !important; } * { position: static !important; float: none !important; left: 0em !important; right: 0em !important; top: 0em !important; bottom: 0em !important; } … Continue reading
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Using search engines to enforce accessible markup
I just had a good idea. Why not put a few modules of code in Google (Or name your favorite engine.) that parse the spidered pages and checks them for DTD and CSS validity? Then people could compile search results … Continue reading
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Accessible data tables
If, like me, you are in the vanguard of the Semantic Web revolution, if, like me, you believe in web accessibility, then layout tables are anathema. On the other hand, using table markup for what it was originally meant to … Continue reading
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Signal to Noise, Better Power Sources and Optical Traps
The workings of ICANN grow steadily less open and less democratic. It’s just a tool for industry now. With the possible exception of Ian Stewart’s Mathematical Recreations column, Scientific American has really gone downhill in the last 10 years. Science … Continue reading
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Acts of god are essentially engineering problems
Proponents of creationism and vitalism have the hardest time wrapping their heads round the idea that life might have emerged from natural chemical processes or that mind can emerge from mindless computation. But with each passing day, in these modern … Continue reading
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Wireless security, GUI cruft, Web accessibility and the law
A good primer on making your wireless LAN secure against wardriving. They’ve managed to make microsopic batteries powered by nuclear decay. The limitations of computer hardware in the past had forced the makers of graphical user interfaces to do things … Continue reading
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Yet another Ring, changes to the Internet DNS servers and optical illusions
Now that mid-term elections have given the Republicans the majority of governorships and control of both houses of Congress to go along with their control of the Executive, there really isn’t a heck of a lot they can’t do if … Continue reading
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