Lessons on @font-face from the F2E Summit at NCZOnline: We in the United States are pretty spoiled when it comes to web fonts since our alphabet has only 26 letters and a few punctuation marks. Adam pointed out that Asian character sets are much large, and so font files can be as large as 4-5 […]
Ready for Contact at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo ) Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons at BoingBoing (tagged: astronomy research ) How ‘OK’ took over the world at BBC News (via DF) (tagged: […]
More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare by Rick Ungar at Forbes (tagged: economy politics HCR ) Mark Bouton Appointed to New Robert B. Lawson Professorship in Psychology Congrats to Dr. Bouton–he's a hell of a guy; and so is Dr. Lawson, whom the professorship honors. (tagged: Vermont ) Noodle Soup […]
a wishlist for contenteditable at totes profesh (tagged: wysiwyg todo webdev ) Face Research "Psychology experiments about preferences for faces and voices." ¶ Filed under: Holy WTF? (tagged: psychology research science social fun ) When adaptation doesn’t happen Just as interesting a question as “How did these 5 adapt?” is “Why did these 21 fail […]
The Blast Shack Bruce Sterling writing at Webstock.org: Diplomats are people who speak from nation to nation. They personify nations, and nations are brutal, savage, feral entities. (tagged: politics culture hacking privacy technology essay ) Angry Robot to open the floodgates for one month SFScope (tagged: scifi writing publishing todo ) Axe Cop. That is […]
The Word "Hacker" Why have I never seen this before? Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around […]
TSA Glass Box Mother Over Stored Breast Milk at X-Ray Nation (via DF; emphasis added): My patience wears thin and I start crying. It is hard to see on this video, but real tears wouldn’t stop streaming down my face. About 10 minutes into all this, a Phoenix PD comes to calm me down. I […]
TSA Success Story blog at izs.me—glad to see that someone is having some success resisting (tagged: TSA politics ) Browser CSS hacks by Paul Irish—a comprehensive list of browser-specific CSS hacks: I don't use CSS hacks anymore. Instead I use IE's conditional comments to apply classes to the body tag. ¶ Nonetheless, I wanted to […]
The letter I wrote:
I am writing to urge you to please put an immediate stop to the horrific policies of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Â The recently instituted policies of the TSA have gone beyond reasonable and I feel are a viola…
“Searches are reasonable if they escalate in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening discloses a reason to conduct a more probing search. EPIC argued that the TSA’s body scanner program fails to meet these standards because the TSA subje…