October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 at Ars Technica — possibly the worst, most mis-leading graph of all time but if those numbers are accurate, at least the conclusions are great news (tagged: IE Firefox stats ) Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way’s Center? at Scientific […]
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation short version: I would support this if we did not ONLY emphasize traditional academics; when we're talk about lengthening the school day, let's keep in perspective that kids need to be kids, too—more hours and more days is only part of the answer, we also need to make […]
Hands on with the Opera 10 Web browser beta at Macworld (via DF) — posting waaay after the fact but: I love what they've done with the tab bar. (tagged: opera browsers ui todo ) The Big Idea: Seth Shostak at Whatever (tagged: science space astronomy culture society exobiology research todo ) China Mieville on […]
Doug Rushkoff on DIY currencies at B² (tagged: currency money economy research ) NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer via DF: worth a link, for sure. worth a few minutes for a smile and a chuckle. (tagged: design visualization graphics humor math ) iPhone Wrestling Smackdown: WWE vs. TNA via The Apple Blog: tempting… if only […]
AirPort Extreme "Simultaneous dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi base station" — win win win win win win! (tagged: AirPort WiFi network wishlist todo ) The NewerTech Voyager Q review Hivelogic (via DF): This is pretty much exactly the solution I think I need. (tagged: Mac tech backup todo wishlist ) Structural Naming Convention in CSS (tagged: webdev […]
These are my links for February 7th from 07:19 to 07:19
These are my links for February 4th through February 6th:
Downloaded and installed Firefox 3 this morning 1; here are some first impressions from throughout my first day of use: Content rendering seems improved. Not sure if it actually is improved or not. Just feels that way 2. Noted that it seems to use the default OS X buttons for otherwise unstyled form buttons now. […]
As Firefox, Camino, and Mozilla basically use the same HTML rendering engine, that means IE is only 6% more of the audience. PNGs stay.
Firefox updated to Universal Binary but still basically sucks. (Seriously. Stick with Camino.) Gruber points out the obvious again. This time about Google’s calendar app. This time making sure to insert the jab about spelling and grammar. Ben points out that Mainers are legally permitted to be more verbose. No wonder I want to move […]