found drama

• HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
  at rentzsch.tumblr.com, via DF
  (tagged: webdev web programming UTF-8 )
• Chrome and Safari extension to rehabilitate disruptive footnotes.
  at Ideon Open Ideas — a great idea but sadly doesn’t work on blog.founddrama.net yet; it appears to be looking for footnotes with fn embedded in the href… so perhaps the plugin I’m using can be patched to fit the extension? or perhaps the extension can be patched to broaden the cases where it works? — UPDATED: it’s not working here because of my absolute URLs… I think we can fix that.
  (tagged: javascript reference browser footnote Chrome Safari extensions )
• Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans
  by Stanislaw Lem
  (tagged: essay science literature scifi history todo )
• DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels
  at The Atlantic
  (tagged: photography war interesting research )
• Classic 12" Remixes From Underworld, Weatherall, A Certain Ratio to Be Released on ‘Hard to Find’ Comp
  at XLR8R — I want this album.
  (tagged: music wishlist )
• Understanding JavaScript Function Invocation and “this”
  By Yehuda Katz, writing at Katz Got Your Tongue?

  I would say: “That’s one way of looking at it…” Not wrong, but not how I tend to think about it. (Though maybe I’m thinking “not that way” because of how he’s using the “this” in the example code’s log statement… But let’s not split hairs on that.)

  (tagged: javascript )

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