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Anne Rice quits Christianity

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:35:35 -0700

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

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:09:45 -0700

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."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:15:13 -0700

“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 margin bug?

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:02:00 -0700

Why does IE7 when clearing a float result in a margin bug?:

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."

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:46:43 -0700

“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 motivated surveillance

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:01:07 -0700

ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance:

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 Frontier Foundation

What it's Like to Own an Apple Product

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:47:20 -0700

What it's Like to Own an Apple Product

"[T]he more a writer attributes the actions of Apple, an enormous corporation with thousands of..."

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:57:15 -0700

“[T]he more a writer attributes the actions of Apple, an enormous corporation with thousands of talented employees, to Steve Jobs, who is just one man and neither an engineer nor a designer, the more likely the writer is an idiot, a hack, or both.”

- From John Gruber’s excellent article, Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk Shill Who Rails Against Anything ‘Anti-Apple’ Simply for the Sake of Defending Apple, and if I Love Apple So Much Why Don’t I Just Marry Them?.

Excellent artistry and excellent lecture. Via Freakonomics.

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:32:16 -0700

Excellent artistry and excellent lecture. Via Freakonomics.

iPhone Webapps 101: Getting Safari out of the way

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:04:53 -0700

iPhone Webapps 101: Getting Safari out of the way:

rakaz has some awesome info on little details tho make iPhone web apps look more native. -webkit-tap-highlight-color was a huge pain for me.

NO TIPS FOR ALLIANCE SCUM! One panel of today’s...

Wed, 19 May 2010 12:39:50 -0700

NO TIPS FOR ALLIANCE SCUM!

One panel of today’s Questionable Content. Right on Jeph, right on.

It ain't just a river in Egypt

Tue, 18 May 2010 13:16:00 -0700

It ain't just a river in Egypt:

[John Paczkowski, of All Things D]: What do you have to say about complaints that write-once-run-anywhere software results in subpar apps?

[Chuck Geschke, co-founder of Adobe]: Well, people don’t say that about Photoshop. They certainly don’t say it about Acrobat.

*falls over*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*deep breath*

Ok, glad I got that out. Apparently these sites are just high-quality hoaxes. Or run by malevolent aliens.

Update: @hypomodern pointed out that I missed this gem.

"This is the first strip drawn entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS 5! It crashed five times in the process..."

Tue, 04 May 2010 13:47:20 -0700

“This is the first strip drawn entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS 5! It crashed five times in the process of drawing this comic! GOOD JOB ADOBE”

- Jeff Jacques

"Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on..."

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:47:42 -0700

“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”

- Steve Jobs

project111: made — pixel the robot Crochet this little robot...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:07:07 -0700

project111:

made — pixel the robot

Crochet this little robot as a Valentine’s Day present for Ryan — he turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

Swayed from the pattern just a tad with the accessories; used up things I could find around the house instead of buying stuff. I super glued two large nuts together for his legs, used screws for the eyes and an eyelet screw for his antenna. Sewed a cute felt heart on his front side instead of having him hold a large screw or bolt since it was a valentine’s day present.

Free pattern here: mechanobot

This thing is frickin’ sweet! It lives on my desk.

The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid Is Your Liberal Arts Degree

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:00:42 -0700

The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid Is Your Liberal Arts Degree:

Michael Lacher:

You think you’re some kind of invincible God just because you have cursory understandings of Buddhism, classical literature, and introductory linguistics. Well listen up, cowboy. You make one false move up there, be it a clumsy thesis statement, poorly reasoned argument, or glib analysis, and your team is dead, along with this whole sorry planet.

Choosing a viewport for iPad sites

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:10:16 -0700

Choosing a viewport for iPad sites:

Referred to me by a fellow commenter on PPK’s pixel-size article, this reference is fantastic.

CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:06:13 -0700

CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer:

Wish I had found this page, oh, five years ago.

"I am indebted to the British welfare state; … When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net … was..."

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:13:00 -0700

“I am indebted to the British welfare state; … When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net … was there to break the fall. … [Paying taxes] is my notion of patriotism.”

- J.K. Rowling via Brian and Joe.My.God.

Happy tax day!

Today’s Married to the Sea.

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:17:15 -0700

Today’s Married to the Sea.