OK, so apparently there area a bunch of folks getting together and heading out to a funeral for IE. Of course, the very concept completely cracked me up… and at first I thought it was a joke.
Some of the replies on the official funeral site is hilarious.
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One of my favorite poems from the book Tao of Creativity.
The Tao of Creativity
Nature does not insist,
That things last forever.
High winds may last
For part of a morning,
Heavy rain for half a day.
If nature does not …
I used to be a very active blogger — at least updating my personal blog 3 or 4 times a week. However, the last few years have been pretty chaotic for me in terms of time. Most of which is my fault. I started thinking about this blog a few weeks ago, and thought about the time I do waste on sites like myspace. While it’s not a lot of time — it’s time I could be spending on my personal blog.
Got an IBM PCjr laying around? Why not turn it into a twitter browsing machine ? [Alex Grant] did this for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Creativity and Innovation festival. You can enter search terms into the Twittjr and it will display the top 3 results from twitter. Leave it …
[Zach] sent us a link to his keyboard pants . Frankly, we were astonished, not only by his craftsmanship, but by the fact that we were working on a pair ourselves. Admittedly his are much better looking and ours will probably never be finished. The inspiration for both his and ours, was this sloppy version . [Zach's]…
It’s true . If you missed out on Blizzcon ’08 or hawked your beta code because you (wisely) anticipated that Blizzard might pull something like this, now’s your chance to register for StarCraft II’s upcoming beta test. “The StarCraft II beta-test period is coming in the months ahead! If you’d …
And now, a letter from the future, courtesy of older Nathan Grayson’s toaster/time machine combo: “URGENT WARNING: SEND THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. IF YOU RUN OUT OF PEOPLE, GET MARRIED AND MAKE MORE. Hello there… oh, hold one second…. Right then, where were we? Oh, …
JavaScript Code Snippets by Code-Sucks.com
Basic JavaScript Countdown
Advance JavaScript Calendar
Basic JavaScript Calendar
Table Row Highlight
Tempature Calculator
Switch Statement
Calculator
Email Validation
Auto Rotating Slide Show
Image Slide Show
Changing Images based on Time
Redirects with a Drop Down Menu
Redirect with a Timer
Changing Font Sizes
Enabling/Disabling …
Uh, yeah. This is happening . PETA has decided – in a nutshell – to grief a bunch of WoW players because they’ve taken to bonking adorable-ish piles of pixels with equally imaginary weapons. Can we do Mac users next? “That’s right, gamers, get ready: This Saturday, World of Warcraft (WoW) players will …
Photo by Paraflyer . Signup forms have long irked the casual visitor. During the process of discovery, nobody wants to stop and fill out details before they can “unlock” the rest of the site’s potential. As web users become more and more fickle , signup forms are becoming an increasingly large barrier that repels many…
Google Web Toolkit is a monumental project for Java developers. Java is a language that isn’t usually associated with web development. PHP, Ruby, Python and others are typically seen as the languages of choice when building web applications. At least until recently. Google’s steady development and improvement of the GWT is…
Photo by xyber matthew . With Thanksgiving only a couple days away, it’s appropriate to look back on the things that we appreciate best about our jobs. Let’s face it: Web Developers have the best jobs around, right? We’re incredibly lucky to have the professions we do. Here…
Photo by YanivG . Widgets are excellent for adding unique functionality to a web site. However, as the we becomes more “widgetized”, it’s starting to add strain on the web browsing experience for our users. The more widgets we add to our web pages, the worse it makes the web. Widget…