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  • How to Make the World’s Rarest Pasta – via kottke
  • The requirement that homes be built at least 21 meters apart in parts of the UK dates back to a 1902 regulation drafted by two men who determined this was closest they could be to each other before they could see the other’s nipples through their shirts. – via Kent Hendricks
  • The Lions–Vikings regular season finale had three times as many viewers as the Golden Globes. – via TMQ
  • Bartosz Ciechanowski occasionally publishes incredibly detailed articles on fascinating topics. Last month he tackled the moon and – hoo boy! – this is a deep dive on our nearest celestial neighbor. – via The Curious About Everything Newsletter
  • I would probably finally switch completely from Firefox to Chrome if it wasn’t for Chrome’s egregious, unforgivable, inexcusable insistence on stealing focus from other apps on launch. – via bluesky
  • “I can’t believe the billionaires are unanimously siding with the fascists! This has only happened every possible time throughout history so I am truly stunned!” – via @fousheezy
  • “I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be.” – via @anildash
  • Animals as Chemical Factories: Horses are bled for antivenom, crabs are drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms are boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives, but we need to find ways to scale them.

#browsers #dailydavid #firefox #kottke #legal #minnesota vikings #moon #nfl #software #solar system #television #united kingdom

WordPress Wednesday: Closing Slash Hack

WordPress Wednesday: Closing Slash Hack

How to get rid of annoying closing slashes that prevent HTML from validating.

#browsers #code #html #internet explorer #php #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

Opening New Firefox Tabs

Open tabs in Firefox the old way

#browsers #firefox #software #tips

Firefox Scrolling Tabs

Firefox Scrolling Tabs

From the Department of Nifty: If you have multiple tabs opened in Firefox and hover the mouse over one of the tabs, the mouse scroll wheel will allow you to scroll through the open tabs. This is cool. I have a folder bookmarked with all my daily blog reads, and I use the “Open all

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#browsers #firefox

A Better Browser

A Better Browser

Well I finally did it. I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks and I decided to make the switch. I’ve instructed my laptop to use FireFox as my default browser. It is just a damn hell ass better browser than Internet Explorer. I like the tabs. (No, I love the tabs.) I like

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#browsers #firefox #internet explorer #software

Relative Widths and CSS

“I’d love a proportional-width relative-positioning design for my weblog, but I’m too afraid of cross-browser compatability issues. I don’t want to spend more than a weekend figuring out how to get two columns to work in three browsers.” – Dan Sanderson I have to agree with Dan’s sentiment here. It’s a bear to get relative

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#browsers #css #html #web design

Toolbar

Toolbar

The Sacramento Bee Story Toolbar “With browser and internet technologies advancing, Web sites are becoming more like applications. Taking this into account, sacbee.com has developed the Story Toolbar. The idea was to combine several different functions into one compact area that is unobtrusive and easy for users to access.” (Comments: Take a look at this

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#browsers #search #search engine optimization

FavIcon

The Dastardly “favicon.ico not found” Error There have been two burning questions among developers recently: “What is that favicon.ico not found error that is filling my Error_log?” and “How do I get a custom icon next to my bookmark link in Internet Explorer?” These may sound like unrelated questions, yet both can be answered at

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#browsers #web design

CSS Questions Remain

So I think I’ve finally gotten all my css problems solved. Everything’s all nice and neat in IE6 on Win2K. I’ll check with IE5.5 on Win98 later tonight. I don’t have access to a Netscape and / or Mac … So tell me: How does this page look to you? Fonts ok? No crazy spacing

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#browsers #css #web design

Barcodes

I hope people who read my resume don’t think of this when they see that I’ve done a tremendous amount of work implementing bar codes, scanners, and keyless data entry systems. I am seriously getting sick of Microsoft jerking me around about my browser. I guess I’m the only farking fool in the world who

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#blogging #browsers #microsoft #rants #software #technology #thebrad

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