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In defense of 'In Defense of Food'
I’m currently engrossed with In Defense of Food, a book by Michael Pollan where he defends real, honest-to-God food against decades worth of marketing by nutritionists, the food industry and the Government — and this is just one great line of many … more
posted around 1am ∞Falling asleep during the middle 30 minutes of 'The International' has made the last 30 minutes down right confusing.
tweeted around 12am ∞Wed, Jul. 1
Video for Everybody - http://bit.ly/BlxiB - if the browser supports it this uses <video>, otherwise Flash. Hello HTML5.
tweeted around 8pm ∞Looks like gdgt.com already has 20k+ users. Like Stack Overflow, it obviously pays to have a following. 1. Blog, 2. Launch site, 3. Profit?
tweeted around 8pm ∞Today's virtual town hall on health care was a big reminder of why I was so excited to have Barack Obama in office. Good job, Mr. President.
tweeted around 2pm ∞Meeting Ticker is my co-pilot http://bit.ly/CYTLg
tweeted around 2pm ∞Got emailed that my Amazon affiliate account's been deleted thanks to NC's new tax scheme. Dangerous precedent. Writing representative now.
tweeted around 9am ∞Tue, Jun. 30
Huh, Redbox started in '02 as a division of McDonald's, was bought by Coinstar this year & every kiosk is cash-flow positive in 4-6 months.
tweeted around 9pm ∞jPlayer
CSS styleable jQuery mp3 player plugin that uses <audio>. You just know people are chomping at the bit to put their CSS/HTML/JS knowledge to use with audio and video.
bookmarked around 3pm ∞For some reason, SelfControl's started blocking all sites, not just its blacklist. I don't need quite THAT much self control.
tweeted around 9am ∞Mon, Jun. 29
iPhone View Switching Tutorial
Very in-depth tutorial for iPhone view switching.
bookmarked around 3pm ∞Go here in IE - http://bit.ly/wCyST - then view source (uses <header>, <section>, etc). Using this to show HTML5 in IE: http://bit.ly/BGiQZ
tweeted around 9am ∞How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2
By including an "HTML5 enabling script" you can get IE to render several HTML5 elements (with the exception, I assume, of stuff like video and audio).
bookmarked around 9am ∞