Dear Everyone Who's Ever Longed to See an Elephant Eat a Christmas Tree (4)
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You're welcome. National Geographic reports: "Elephants around [Germany] will enjoy a delicious lunch today consisting of about five Christmas trees each," Ragnar Kuehne of Zoo Berlin told the Reuters news service.
A List Apart: Articles: Semantics in HTML 5 (34)
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A List Apart (393)
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The BBC's dropping of hCalendar because of accessibility and usability concerns demonstrates that we have pushed the semantic capability of HTML far beyond what it can handle. The need to clearly and unambiguously add rich, meaningful semantics to markup is a driving goal of the HTML 5 project. Yet HTML 5 has two problems: it is not backward compatible because its semantic elements will not work in 75% of our browsers; and it is not ...
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ALA 275 is out: "The BBC recently announced that they would drop the hCalendar microformat from their program listings, due to accessibility and usability concerns with the abbr design pattern. This demonstrates that we have, beyond any doubt, pushed the semantic capability of HTML far past what was ever intended, and indeed, what is reasonably possible with the language. We have simply run out of HTML elements and attributes with which to mark up more richly semantic documents. If we continue to be clever with the existing constructs of HTML, more problems such as this will arise. But HTML suffers from a fundamental defect as a semantic markup language—its semantics are fixed, not extensible."
How Steve Jobs Turned CNBC Into Apple Touts (2)
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First clip: A CNBC reporter dishes outsidery snark about Apple's supposedly botched iPhone launch. Second clip: CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau chief guzzles the Apple Kool-Aid. Is this the same network? CNBC's change of tune is a classic cautionary tale. Reporters trade favorable coverage for access to products and executives all the time. But Jim Goldman, the network's tech reporter, has turned access journalism into a cringe-inducing parody of itself. When the iPhone launched in the ...
Did the Wall Street Jorunal Fire their Fact-Checkers? (9)
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FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right (441)
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The Wall Street Journal is bar none one of the best newspapers in the country -- except when its Editorial Board is having a bad day. And today the Board is having a very bad day, having published an editorial that declares Al Franken's provisional win in Minnesota, which the state just certified moments ago, to be illegitimate, while accusing Minnesota's Canvassing Board of being inconsistent and biased in favor of Franken.There is nothing intrinsically ...
Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested by Amtrak Police in NYC's Penn Station (12)
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Amtrak photo contestant arrested by Amtrak police in NYC’s Penn StationMore absurdity from the anti-photography brigade via Carlos Miller. This time reportedly photographer Duane Kerzic was shooting in Penn Station and ended up getting arrested by Amtrak Police, handcuffed in a holding cell and accused of criminal trespassing... in a public train station?Apparently Kerzic was trying to take photos specifically to win Amtrak's annual photo contest this week:"“The only reason they arrested me was because ...
