Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84. Cat’s Cradle was the first book (the first book book) I opened and started reading of my own volition. I was 14. The person I am, right now, sprang from those pages.
Category: Links
30 Rock gets renewed for the 2007–08 television season. I’m incredibly relieved that for once a show I love dearly is not cut down in its prime.
Junior! The Wendy’s Guy. During my freshman year at UT, I went to this Wendy’s far more often than the Surgeon General would have recommended. Junior is one of my strongest memories of living on the UT campus.
Talking with Microsoft about IE.next. The things he asked for (mostly JS‐related) were determined (by vote) to be the most critical things for IE to catch up on. I’m optimistic.
Alex Russell unveils dojo.query, the latest gauntlet tossed down in the fetching‐elements‐by-CSS-selector wars. I’m working on a similar overhaul for Prototype which I’ll talk more about when the time is right.
Why you should be using disambiguated URLs. Between this and all the OpenID stuff, Simon has been on fire these last few months.
Core team member Scott Raymond shows you What’s new in Prototype 1.5.
I had no idea that The “Super Bowl Shuffle” was nominated for a grammy. I fear I am unable to cope with a world where this sort of thing is possible.
At long last: Prototype has an actual web site. With documentation. There’s plenty more to say, and I’ll save it for a longer post, but Justin Palmer is owed some major kudos for working so hard on the site. And so do Chris, Tobie, and Mislav — the three newest members of Prototype Core — who poured their hearts and souls into documentation.
Digg scares me. Yeah, me too. Digg added moderation to comments a while back, but as far as I can tell it hasn’t raised the level of discussion. The community seems to reward the same qualities in comments as it does in stories.