July 2010
6 posts
Anne Rice quits Christianity →
but stays devoted to Christ:
I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life.
Via The Huffington Post.
How to transform URLs in arbitrary text into HTML →
In JavaScript. Based on @gruber’s update to his URL extracting regular expression.
“A man must either resolve to put out nothing new or become a slave to defend it.”
– Isaac Newton (via Paul Graham).
Why does IE7 when clearing a float result in a... →
Was banging my head against my desk for two days. This didn’t help me, nor this, and I was running out of relevant Google results.
IE7 (and IE8 in IE7 mode) adds some extra just-for-fun margin sometimes beneath a float with margin-bottom set and a sibling that clears it.
“We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.”
– An Apple executive in response to an AT&T executive’s suggestion that Jobs wear a suit to meet with the AT&T board of directors.
From Wired.
ACLU: America is riddled with politically... →
Cory Doctorow:
A new ACLU report, “Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity,” documents recent cases of politically motivated surveillance across America — cases in which people were put under surveillance “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”
Via The Electronic...