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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
Build your own laptop
This is some news to me (Which only shows the limits of my expertise.) but you can actually build your own laptop. Things aren’t quite as modular as desktops. You don’t have the freedom to use one motherboard with another … Continue reading
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The Web equivalent of Reno, Nevada
So a friend of mine sent me an e-mail from an Internet connection near some sunny beach overseas telling me he has a MySpace page. This drove me into paroxysms of pointless, defensive snootiness where I told him that he … Continue reading
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Makin' the Big Bucks Now!
So I just recently learned that my domain name is worth $10, 400 but my actual site is only worth $564.54. I also learned that I can reasonably demand $30 for each and every text ad that appears on my … Continue reading
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Education Stinks
Why is it that education seems so resistent to technological improvement?
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Yes, more stuff about accessibility
By way of Amor Mundi, I found a link to this really interesting site called, the Open Prothesthics Project. This is nifty to me on several levels. It ties into accessibility and assistive technology. It ties into open source engineering. … Continue reading
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Science link roundup
China is getting into superconductors in a big way. Next month they intend to conduct an experiment in controlled fusion and soon they plan to build a maglev train line in Dalian. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have estimated … Continue reading
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AJAX and other web accessibility stuff
Like I said, I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, apparently some folks out there are designing some bad interactivity because, there’s been a tonne of articles over the last seven months on how to make AJAX … Continue reading
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While we are on the subject of accessibility–
So I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, during that time, there have been a few good articles about web accessibility that I figured I’d link to for posterity. If you’re web designer, you’ve probably run into … Continue reading
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Tips on how to create accessable javascript
So in this world of hype about AJAX, how do you design client-side scripts so they actually enhance accessibility and degrade gracefully when scripting is turned off for accessibility reasons? Let’s think about how to make AJAX work with screen … Continue reading
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Movable Type 3.31 and Ubuntu 6.06
So there’s been a lot of extensive, yet subtle change over the last few weeks here at the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries: After a period of stasis for 7 months, I moved all of my site’s legacy content into Movable … Continue reading
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