Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Baghdad ER Dialogue
Excellent show. Dialogue snippet: Doctor: He shot you right there?Wounded soldier: Yeah, and there was a kid two feet away from me.Doctor (tending to wounds): You didn’t shoot him back?Wounded soldier (wincing): No. I was busy. I was laying on the ground, crying like a bitch.
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Little People and Their Tools
It’s been a great week for Science in the NYT. My favorite science writer, John Noble Wilford, and his colleagues have been filing tons of reports. Today was a look at the debate over the little people of the Indonesian island of Flores, who may or may not be a different species than home sapiens.…
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Male Fear and Monkey Cuckolding: “Two Splits Between Human and Chimp Lines Suggested” (NYT)
There’s an amazing story in the NYT this morning about new evidence in molecular biology supporting the idea that there was a hybrid species that rose after the split between chimp and human lineages. The idea is that females of this hybrid species (which eventually led to humans) mated with males from the chimp world…
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How I Use: NYT Anonymity Project
UPDATE, January 16, 2009: This post is good for finding out *why* I’m doing the NYT Anonymity Project, but it has the wrong methodology. See the NYT Anonymity Feed post for current method and NYT Anonymity Feed Yahoo! Pipe (archive.org link) for current relevant excerpts from and links to articles that have information from an…
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Fox for Vertical CSS Rollover Navigation (IE Adds Too Much Space)
ProblemUsing CSS for rollover navigation. Looks fine in Firefox, but has way too much space between characters on IE. FixGet rid of the hard returns between the <li>s. In other words, string all of the code in one line. Bad HTML, good user experience in IE. Screenshots PC IE 6 before the fix IE 6…