“These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.†– Rob Sayre, “Release The Krakenâ…
Dubie, Shumlin Square Off in First Debate: At Blurt (The Seven Days Staff Blog)—not waving a banner for either of these guys (yet?) but Shumlin is starting to seem to me to be the stronger choice.
the eye that sees itself
My experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
“At the bookstore later in the day, my son stood in front of the Sci Fi section and said, in a very loud voice: “Mom, this is my new gender.†I bit back “genre,†which is something I also try to do when I am alone.†– Bhanu Kapil, Reading f…
Among other recommendations, A Fire Upon the Deep appeared on io9’s “Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life” post and after Newton’s Wake 1, I thought it would be a chance for that list to redeem itself a little. Though far from life-changing, this story is strong and plays with a number of […]
DirectDraw Hack via /. — my hat is off to this guy (all for the love of the greatest "combat space flight sim" of all time) (tagged: graphics hacking windows DirectDraw WingCommander ) Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star at Bad Astronomy (Discover Magazine) (tagged: astronomy space science weird ) Zombie Pandemic Tracker (tagged: […]
My favorite photo from our Moss Glen hike today: