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Monthly Archives: April 2007

The real reason we love dogs. - By Jon Katz - Slate Magazine

The real reason we love dogs. - By Jon Katz - Slate Magazine: “It appears that dogs have evolved specialized skills for reading human social and communicative behavior”
…My belated response to a discussion of dog intelligence.


Segway | Concept Centaur

Segway | Concept Centaur
fun as hell looking concept vehicle. video is lots of fun if you can get it to play (i had to pull the url out of the source http://video.segway.com/video/conceptcentaur.wmv )


Cat House (EFBC/FCC) Home Page

Cat House (EFBC/FCC) Home Page
How cool is this, if you shop at Ralphs you can have them donate 4% of your purchases to The Exotic Feline Breeding Compound’s Feline Conservation Center. Presuming you can find your card (I filed mine away when I realized you can just plug in your phone number), all you have […]


McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel?

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel?
Dude, 3 out of 5 of those really are zen parables. Forgot how ridiculous that zen stuff can get.


YouTube - foosball

YouTube - foosball. yeah, we’ve got a lot to learn about this game.


Particletree » Prototype And The This Keyword

Still playing with events in prototype, now I’m wrangling The This Keyword.


Passing Arguments To Modern Event Listeners And Firing Onchange Events For Fields That The User Doesn’t Change

I’ve been learning more about prototype.js, and have today solved two long outstanding JavaScript challenges. I’m sure many others have already solved these problems, but I hadn’t yet, so here they are.

Up to this point I’ve not used modern event handling to any great degree. I’ve got a fair understanding of the right way to […]


Limited Edition Paul Chen Katsumushi Katana by Reliks.com

The sword I want has gotten so much buzz they gave it it’s own website: katsumushi.com. Maybe I’d better get on the pre-order list.


IE getElementById Bug

If there are two elements in a page with the same name, say for example a hidden field and a meta tag, Internet Explorer won’t let you get one of them by ID. Why? Because IE is stupid.

The solution: for form elements at least, you can fall back on old school antics such as document.FORMNAME.elements[”fieldName”], […]


Collection: Design Patterns

Design Patterns Collection on Flickr. Damn, I forgot where I found this already.