I found this little trick today for tricking legacy IE into using RGBA colors – that is a color defined with transparency. It seems to work fairly well, with some caveats, specifically potential font weirdness. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/how-to-use-rgba-in-ie/
I came across this article via the ever Daring Fireball and it quickly got picked up by the Metafilter. It’s a good discussion of how vodka became popular in the US, largely due to really good advertising. It also validates my opinion that vodka makes lousy martinis. Vodka Nation | The Weekly Standard.
I approve of this sort of thing. Now you’re cooking with comics..
Amazon recently made newspapers and magazines available for a wider array of Kindle apps, including the Kindle app for iPad (but curiously, not for iPhone). They have even included a very Apple-like promotional video which shows off the user interface. Currently there are about 170 periodicals available in this program. I imagine more will follow [...]
My wife’s friend married a Moroccan man. This friend was just visiting Morocco and brought me back a tiny bundle of saffron. It’s the strongest saffron I’ve ever had. Incredible. Instead of packaging in a little jar or a tiny zipper bag, the saffron was wrapped in old office paper. The paper was folded over [...]
Mares eat oats. Does eat oats. Little lambs eat sammiches on oat bread. Ingredients 1.5 oz rolled oats (about 1/2 cup) plus additional handful of oats to coat the loaf 18.5 oz flour (3 full cups, one shy cup) 8oz water (for the oats) 4oz water (for the rest) 1tsp active dry yeast 2tsp salt [...]
I found this in my junk mail. How did they know my secret identity? Uncanny.
I’ve been doing a little work at home with jQuery and jQuery Mobile recently; at the jobby job we use ExtJS widgets and components. Comparing the two has me thinking. Each of these javascript libraries represents a different philosophical approach to developing web applications. jQuery Mobile is an extension of the jQuery library, and similarly [...]
It’s iPhone in a bowl. Use Bowl™’s natural bowl-like curvature to amplify the sound from your iPhone or iPod Touch without batteries or an external power supply. Do you want to listen to the dulcet tones of John Gruber while relaxing in the tub? iPhone in a bowl. Sipping wine on the porch while listening [...]
Editions by AOL is a news “magazine” app for the iPad which attempts to learn your reading habits in order to create an automatically generated, curated, collection of articles from various sources on the web. The collection process happens each day by default and can be configured to alert you with a push notification. The [...]
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