Category: Science
Daring Fireball – The Daily Wait
Even more on how long The Daily takes to load and why it’s such an awful user experience.
Four Star Store – The Daily
Sounds like winning software people.
Union of Concerned Scientists – FoxNews.com Article Uncritically Passes on Climate Misinformation
Nice take down UCS.
Fontspring – The New Bulletproof @Font-Face Syntax
In short yes there is a better way.
Starts With A Bang – Can You Get Something For Nothing?
Physics does actually let you get something from nothing, another reason why you don’t learn your science from non-scientists.
The Broadcast Tower – Your code should be as boring as possible
Shockingly enough makes a far amount of sense.
Speckyboy Design Magazine – Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats
Microformats are one of those cool ideas that never seem to really take off, no matter how useful they would be.
Alexander Limi – Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3
Interesting stuff, though admittedly this is inside baseball stuff even for me.
Cosmic Variance – Scientists Aren’t Always Complete Idiots
Something that I notice that non-scientists seem to make as an assumption about scientists is that it’s this static idea, ideas are rarely challenged and the big shots are always right and never assumed to be wrong.