Note to self: Add “douchebag” to OS X’s dictionary so that it doesn’t get flagged by the spellchecker.
Month: September 2006
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil‐minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well‐meaning but without understanding.
Louis Brandeis
Viewport Dimensions in JavaScript
Adapted from the functions posted on QuirksMode.
var Client = {
viewportWidth: function() {
return self.innerWidth || (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth);
},
viewportHeight: function() {
return self.innerHeight || (document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight);
},
viewportSize: function() {
return { width: this.viewportWidth(), height: this.viewportHeight() };
}
};Ze Frank at TED 2004
Ze Frank talks at TED 2004. He spends about 4 minutes talking about creating online spaces. The rest of the time he spends being silly.
Prototype 1.5.0 has a new release candidate. New stuff since my last post: awesome DOM navigation via Element.(up|down|next|previous), Array.uniq, and a few bug fixes. There’s some more cool stuff in the pipeline.
Dear God — Idiocracy was hilarious. It’s not a great movie, to be sure, but it’s a brilliant movie. It lags at times, and the narration is a crutch, but it’s the first movie in a long time that has been so ambitious in creating a world and actually making it believable. (Well, not believable, but you know what I mean.) It’s probably not playing near you, but if it is, please go see it — if only to send the message that no studio executive gets to fuck with Mike Judge.
Sorting through my photos of San Francisco, I was reminded how much I love DoubleTake, panorama software designed for human beings. It lets you stitch a series of photos together in an unintimidating manner — something hugin can’t seem to do.
Warrick, the website reconstruction tool. Pulls from search engine caches and the Internet Archive. I’m using it to pull down the Mephisto documentation, which seems to be down at the moment.