-
Craig Mod ruminates on adapting book design to HTML—something I've spent a lot of time doing in the past year—and introduces a design framework that he's put together for presenting long-form text on tablets.
-
Why is "The Fisher King" not getting a spike in interest right now?
-
I've been trying to start using the HTML5 <audio> tag, but it can be awkward to fall back to non-HTML5 browsers. Here's a simple method of doing just that.
-
He'd made it a federal crime to carry a weapon within a thousand feet of an event attended by a president, a member of congress, cabinet officials, or a federal judge. I wonder how I'd know if I was within a thousand feet of a federal judge? Heck, I live about two thousand feet from a federal judge.
-
Thunderstorms turn out to make anti-matter. A NASA satellite designed to find anti-matter elsewhere wound up detecting it within the satellite itself. NASA's brief video explains in a straightforward fashion how this works.
-
A significant shortcoming of web typography (and it's a crowded field) is the universal lack of hyphenation on web browsers. This is why justified text looks so lousy in your browser. A great stop-gap solution is this hyphenation JavaScript. Implementation is simple, and the results look nice. There's no hyphenation dictionary (it's algorithmic), but it's a far sight better than nothing.
Comments are closed.
Because obviously the next schizophrenic lunatic — or even a perfectly sane assassin — will see that it is UNLAWFUL to carry a weapon in the vicinity of a judge or Congressman, and be foiled in his plans to murder such a person.
This is utterly retarded. Anyone who is willing to commit murder is willing to break what amounts to a temporary zoning rule.
I’d like to see Rep. King commit to funding mental health intervention and treatment programs instead. You can’t legislate ‘crazy’ away. But you can fund treatment. Funding treatment for serious mental health disorders should be like roads and courts. You just do it and budget for it whatever the price tag, because the overall cost to society of doing without it is just too great to sit there arguing about it.
Amusingly, when I go to the Hyphenator page, I am greeted with this modal alert dialog:
“Hyphenator.js says:
An Error ocurred:
Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]”
Needs a lot of work if they’re still using alert() debugging.
Carrying a gun near a congressman law might run afowl of a states rights issues as well. The courts have held that states can regulate most of those matters- types of guns you can own excepted. The feds can make you give guns on their property but not near their property.
It might sound bad but considering how rare this kind of crime is why should it change the laws at all. The only thing that might have made a difference would be the shooter getting care for what seems to be mental illness.
Let’s spend this time educating people in how they can help- even this might not have prevented it since many refuse to get help.
I fear the law can never protect us from those who live on the edge of madness and then decide to step over the line. Look at Ft. Hood- that guy had problems but few thought he would commit such an act of depravity.