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…if you call yourself a “web developer” you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing JavaScript. And if you don’t know JavaScript, you have absolutely no right to call yourself a “web developer”. [sic]James Bennett
I came across a post from James Bennett written last year that is absolutely brilliant. His points are right on the [...]

I spent this afternoon implementing a new abstract overview of this site’s contents at the root. It’s an effort to break away from the essentially time-only perspective previously forced on the reader and instead to provide different perspectives for exploring content from all different times.
It may be worth noting that I haven’t tested it in [...]

There’s a specific elation that comes from gripping a sturdy wheel in one hand, throwing crisp shifts with the other and feeling the force of acceleration in your abdomen as your right foot plunges forward.
Being in complete control of a powerful machine and with the flick of your wrist shifting the g forces against the [...]

I’ve written previously [1, 2, 3] on clean URLs and URL design, but recently I stumbled across the Well Designed URLs Initiative.
I’ve joined the cause and am discussing the finer points of URL design on their mailing list. The founder, Mike Schinkel, has a good introduction/overview on his blog.

Apparently my post about global warming or, rather, the lack thereof has new evidence behind it.
The Times Online of the UK published a headline recently: An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change. The findings of Henrik Svensmark seem to be on target with one of the authors I quoted in my previous [...]

A slight (hah!) redesign has taken place here. It’s simple and unobtrusive. I still have plenty of cleanup and fine touches to do. Enjoy.

Almost every adult in a Christian community is more or less diseased nervously as a result of the taboo on sex knowledge when he or she was young. And the sense of sin which is thus artificially implanted is one of the cases of cruelty, timidity, and stupidity in later life. There is no rational [...]

America has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were [...]