links for 2009-06-20

Don't deliberately break stuff in front of your wife.

"I was playing around the other day and had a bright spark. Is it possible to do the “lightbox” effect without JavaScript? The answer is yes! Thanks to the :target pseudo class. Without further ado I introduce Futurebox." Pretty awesome tool.

"A change in Bozmean's city hiring policy — two days and one worldwide reaction after we broke the story, Bozeman will no longer ask applicants for social networking user names and passwords." Thank goodness this was just stupid of the city.

"We just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it." Google now has some expanded abilities on crawling Flash files.

"Scientists obtained images in three colours which clearly demonstrate the superiority of Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever flown." I can't wait to see what this telescope will produce.

Facebook responds with : "To be incompliance with US law, we need to prohibit commercial activities from embargoed countries. As events in Iran have demonstrated, we have allowed, and plan to continue to allow, users to set up accounts from those countries and communicate, as long as they are not engaging in commercial activities on the site.

This section you are referring to was addressed in our response to user comments on the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. They are very common terms, though they are worded differently by different companies…Our terms have caused some confusion so we may also propose revising this section in the future to be more clear."

Wil Wheaton explains.

"AT&T used its Facebook page to squash the rumors and left no doubt that the claims were untrue." Good to hear, though what it will finally be is something else.

"A key rally against Iran's presidential elections will go ahead on Saturday – in defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – opposition sources say." This is going to get ugly.

Taking Microsoft's marketing promo and how it should actually look.

Don't let your vegetables eat you.