Clint Ecker, a freelance journalist, spotted an ad four days after the iPhone’s release. The ad claimed that they were starting a company where women will chat with customers on a pay-as-you-go basis. The women will talk to the clients and “perform various acts as desired by clients.” In exchange, the women get a free iPhone 4 and increased pay as the business grows.
Said photo by Aurich
One that quickly went viral - designed in a lark by Aurich Lawson, creative director of the technology news website Ars Technica - is labeled the “proper technique for exiting aircraft” and shows a generic figure descending an inflatable slide with two beers in hand.
“Watching people root for him … is half the fun,” Lawson said in an e-mail. “The reaction makes the event larger than life, kind of catapulting it into myth status overnight.”
This is a set of files that a front-end developer can use to get started on a website, with following included:
There will be two releases: a documented release, which is exactly what you see here, and a production release, with most of the descriptive comments stripped out.
- Cross-browser compatible (IE6, yeah we got that.)
- HTML5 ready. Use the new tags with certainty.
- Optimal caching and compression rules for grade-A performance
- Best practice site configuration defaults
- Think there’s too much? The HTML5 Boilerplate is delete-key friendly. :)
- Mobile browser optimizations
- Progressive enhancement graceful degredation …….. yeah yeah we got that
- IE specific classes for maximum cross-browser control
- Want to write unit tests but lazy? A full, hooked up test suite is waiting for you.
- Javascript profiling.. in IE6 and IE7? Sure, no problem.
- Console.log nerfing so you won’t break anyone by mistake.
- Never go wrong with your doctype or markup!
- An optimal print stylesheet, performance optimized
- iOS, Android, Opera Mobile-adaptable markup and CSS skeleton.
- IE6 pngfix baked in.
- jQuery, waiting for you
Abstract This specification defines an API to navigate file system hierarchies, and defines a means by which a user agent may expose sandboxed sections of a user’s local filesystem to web applications. It builds on [FILE-WRITER], which in turn built on [FILE-API], each adding a different kind of functionality.
It’s even better than it sounds:
Slater demanded an apology from the passenger, the official said, but the passenger refused. The two argued before the passenger told Slater to “f— off”, the official said. The official said that Slater then got on the plane’s PA system and directed that same obscenity at all the passengers and added that he especially meant it for the man who refused to apologize.
Slater is alleged to have then activated the plane’s inflatable emergency slide, grabbed two beers from the galley, then slid down the chute, the official said.
Because editors are often seen as unnecessary, we at IBM conducted a study to demonstrate their value for some of our marketing pages. We took a sample of unedited pages with high traffic from across our various business units and ran them through Dave Harlan, the editing lead for the group that creates a lot of our marketing content. We then ran an A/B test, where we served the unedited versions to a random sample of users and the edited versions to the rest of the users. We then measured engagement (defined as clicks to desired links on the page) on those pages over the course of a month.
Cautiously happy, but not surprised at this result. This will end up at the Supreme Court for sure, but I find myself wondering if they’ll hear it. If they do, I’m hopeful that they will make a long lasting precedent that affirms American’s personal rights to create equal unions—in the eyes of the law—between whomever we choose.
A federal judge overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage, or Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment passed by 52 percent of the state’s voters in 2008, Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a Twitter message….
Theodore Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general, argued on behalf of the gay couples seeking marriage rights. He said the U.S. Supreme Court has determined in 14 cases going back to 1888 that marriage is tied to rights of privacy, liberty and freedom. He said Proposition 8 proponents can’t show that California has any rational basis or compelling interest to take away that right.
So one of my Krim tomatoes finally got ripe enough to pluck, so I did, and I ate it. It was really tasty!
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This discovery comes from a study of the iconic dinosaur triceratops and its close relative torosaurus. Their skulls are markedly different but are actually from the very same species, argue John Scannella and Jack Horner at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.
They rapin’ errbody out here… AUTOTUNED.
