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Shame on you IOC for broadcast restrictions

The following is a copy of an email I sent to: xuanchuan@beijing2008.cn, mishubu@beijing2008.cn, legal@beijing2008.cn, mediaoperations@beijing2008.cn

The Olympics are the world’s most unifying event where nations small and great meet in the arena as equals. Yet rather than promoting unity through open and equal access to all, you’ve chosen to restrict access to the event by imposing [...]

“Vision for the space elevator”

I just saw a video on MSNBC.com entitled “Vision for the space elevator” (embedded below), and I’ve got to say, it’s inspiring. If they can get the technology working, we’d actually be able to get into space without burning a billion dead dinosaurs on each trip.
Now if we could just focus our efforts on healing, [...]

Ara’s Axiom

The more costly the software, the more likely it is to be a piece of junk.

Come Work With Me!

Are you a front-end code ninja? Do you eat HTML, CSS and JavaScript for breakfast? Are you a fanatic for best practices? Are the terms Unobtrusive JavaScript, Web Standards and graceful degradability common in your vocabulary? If so, you might be the person I’m looking for.
Nurun is on the hunt for a Senior front-end [...]

“THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES”.toLowerCase()

In JavaScript, when you want to know what a given element’s node name is, you use its nodeName property. Now as far as I can tell, it always returns the node’s name in uppercase, so an anchor’s node name returns as A and a table’s TABLE. I have yet to see a browser return a [...]

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