November 2009
18 posts
A lot of people from my generation (I’m almost at the big 3-0, at the time of this writing) learned to build web sites using tables for layout, and font tags to deal with typography. It can be intimidating to re-learn how to do something when what you’re doing still “works” (still looks fine in most web browsers). - Web standards – beautiful dream, but what’s the reality?
Does any one...
ANECDOTE ON THE STUPIDITY OF AUSTRALIANS
indiescribe:
niki:
There’s been some fuss lately about the price of books in Australia. In order to “stimulate” the publishing industry, multiple socialist laws have been put in place that add huge taxes to imported books, and books published in Australia must have a significant percentage manufactured in Australia.
Sounds nice, yes, but these huge extra costs mean that books are often many...
“Anti-Semitism is always a means rather than an end; it is a measure of the...”
– Vassily Grossman, Life and Fate. Chapter 31, p468
“The upshot is, I think we proved a point. I look at the music industry and I...”
– Jamie Hewlett (via bowfolk) (via ringlunatic) (via indiescribe)
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Twistory Lesson Vol.1: The Causes Of World War I
tomewing:
I asked Twitter, this is what Twitter told me.
“network of badly written treaties stretched to breaking by terrorism in wrong place at wrong time”
“it was all Frank Ferguson’s fault wasn’t it?”
“Imperialism. Militarism. Nationalism. Assassination. Stubborness. Treaties. Train Timetables. Idiocy.”
“Europe gone ham, yeah baloney meat.”
“Militarized alliances react to each other...
“Sometimes I live in the country,
sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a...”
– Leadbelly (via idiopolis) (via tobia)
Yes, scientists do much good. But a country run by...
The trouble with a ‘scientific’ argument, of course, is that it is not made in the real world, but in a laboratory by an unimaginative academic relying solely on empirical facts.
- Is the Daily Mail throwing rocks at the moon again? I just can’t accept this is real, it has to be a spoof. Doesn’t it?
