An article from about running convention games from Places to Go, People to Be. Cool quote (yes, it’s quote day here on my blog):
two armies face each other across the plains. One is flesh and blood, the other robotic, unfeeling and deadly. A heroic sacrifice is about to be made. Then some f**kwit has the bright idea to raise the mood by having a clown prat fall around in the foreground. Thank you very much, Mr. Lucas.
Don’t do that. Just don’t.
Woman Gets Life for Skinning Boyfriend A court was told former abattoir worker Katherine Knight stabbed her partner John Price at least 37 times with a butcher’s knife, skinned his body, cooked his head and served him up in dishes with nameplates for each of his children. I really didn’t want to blog this, because it’s such a horrific story, but it’s just too gruesome to ignore.
Sheep aren’t so dumb: Apparently, they have a very good memory for faces, researchers discovered.
Kendrick suspects sheep got their dim-witted reputation because they live in large groups and do not appear to have much individuality and they are scared of just about everything.
“Any animal, including humans, once they are scared, they don’t tend to show signs of intelligent behaviour,” he explained.
Articles on DHTML development on Apple’s site Most of them were written, I think, by Danny Goodman, although his credit is hidden. If it works in the Mac browsers, it’ll hopefully work in the Windows browsers (and Linux browsers – well, some of them…):
The nicest thing about them is the copyright notice / License:
// Copyright © 2000 by Apple Computer, Inc., All Rights Reserved. // // You may incorporate this Apple sample code into your own code // without restriction. This Apple sample code has been provided "AS IS" // and the responsibility for its operation is yours. You may redistribute // this code, but you are not permitted to redistribute it as // "Apple sample code" after having made changes.
Sjoerd Visscher has a bleeding-edge website that never seems to work perfectly in whatever browser I’m using. However, he has two interesting articles about high-level programming in Javascript and callbacks/event handlers, centered on the flexibility of Javascript Function objects.