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I learned way more about Pat Robertson’s marriage today than I think I ever wanted to know.
Great, now Twitter has “Justin Beiber gets n retweets when he…” memes to compete with Facebook’s “If I get a million Likes…” memes.
#great Wait, which CSS module got 'vertical-align' for inline content? The only one I can find is the 2002 module that has my name on it.
One site, three people, three very different web font results.
So the future is right on schedule.
Of course, people from outside Europe are welcome to come bathe in all the
#CSS-tastic goodness. I know I will!
cssday.nl Hey, Europe! If you haven’t signed up for CSS Day, including workshops with me and
@stopsatgreen, get on that now!
cssday.nl Pretty sure I just saw two cicada killer wasps (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_…) fighting in the front yard. Which I am now setting on fire.
It’s been almost two years we’ve had the new kitchen and I still occasionally go to where things used to be.
Incidentally, did you know that animated GIFs animate in the tab thumbnails in Firefox? There’s gotta be an art project in there somewhere.
Filling out a life insurance questionnaire; it asks about “Ricky Avocations”. Super tempted to answer “Parenting”.
Go home weather radar you are drunk
pic.twitter.com/L7MoAEZxuT “Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?”
gu.com/p/3fpmv/tw @stop I love the irony: border-radius doesn't need vendor prefixes anymore, then falls out of vogue.
I shouldn’t be, and yet still am, amazed at how wildly inconsistent the user experience varies from one arm of American Express to another.
These machine learning jokes write themselves. Eventually.
Delicious dinner in Tremont with Kat and
@jmspool was delicious. And now it is time to collapse.
@meyerweb You assume the line work was random…
At the exact moment the internet access is sporadic (due to line work), the comment spammers strike hard. How do they know?
Fired off a quick email that normally I would’ve let sit a few days while I looked for just the right tone and message.
Baby steps.
These are patterns at work far beyond Britain’s borders, and just as troubling wherever they occur.
potlatch.typepad.com/weblog/2013/04… Washington, in sum, right now: Eric Holder, while being questioned about AP/leak investigation, announced that FBI investigating IRS
That thing where you finally watch the amazing inspirational life-changing video all your friends have been linking, and are underwhelmed.
Hey
@twitter, what’s with your Facebook integration chopping off the ends of retweets? That’s usually where the URLs are kept.
Upgraded from DSL to AT&T U-Verse (data only) today. So far, so good—quadruple the speed for twice the price, which ain’t a bad deal.
Obama admin hit for the cycle today, confirming both the left (AP/DOJ) and right's (IRS/Tea Party) worst nightmares about government.
"Pre-contact Europeans wore clothing made of natural materials such as animal skin & plant + animal-based textiles."
2.dashes.com/19dPbMo I just streamed
youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9d… to a pocketable computer while cooking dinner with magnetic induction.
#technovertigo BREAKING: NOPD says 12 hurt at New Orleans Mother's Day second-line parade shooting:
apne.ws/13rgTWe -RJJ
It takes a child to raze a village.
Hailing for the third time today. Or maybe it’s a hard sleet. Frankly, I can’t be arsed to go outside and make a solid determination.
Never too early to start the day.
pic.twitter.com/wSYN4LotGM A fascinating story about math, community, and uncertain genius. “The Paradox of the Proof”:
projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of… A prediction: self-driving cars will massively disrupt the roadside motel business.
"I fear not the person who has coded 10,000 websites once, but the one who has coded one website 10,000 times" – Bruce Lee
Reading Facebook makes me feel like we should just go ahead and have the Second Civil War so many people obviously want.
Wait, so the kelp became sentient life? And in 18,000 years, humans have only managed to partially colonize the Jovian system?
#wtfclarke “If the name of the dish is basically also the recipe, the Othello Rule applies: a minute to learn, a lifetime to master.” —
@porter I wish I knew why GMail refuses to accept my outbound mail, but when I go to the Drafts folder via gmail․google․com I can send it just fine.
Neither of my IMAP accounts can send mail (though receiving seems fine), but my trusty old POP account can send without a hitch.
#oldskool All of a sudden I’m not able to send GMail: ”4.7.0 Temporary System Problem. Try again later (SF).” No attachments, just plain-text mail.
All I’m saying is, anyone who asks me to “do them a solid” had better be either a gastroenterologist or into some serious kink.
Hospital Prices, Revealed! (Sort Of): Hospital prices just got a lot more transparent. But if you have private...
n.pr/13zZaeD Resurrected Landmarks
wp.me/p2jgYa-zQ This has the potential to drive massive changes, if people do something with the data:
cms.gov/Research-Stati… (cf.
huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hos…)
It’s the kind of afternoon that makes me really want to fire up a game of Atom Zombie Smasher (and sad that Flotilla was never Mac-ported).
Wincing that “Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web and ‘How to spread this thing’” is returning a 403:
home.web.cern.ch/cern-people/op… 
Sometimes Twitter does the darndest things, and then just leaves them there.
#cleanupinaislefive pic.twitter.com/0ng5Ora1Fy Just remembered that I came up with a pretty good question for “What If?” (
what-if.xkcd.com), but I can no longer recall it.