This post is in protest of SOPA and PIPA. If one of these bills were to pass, the Web would become a black hole of nothingness.
Want to help in the fight against SOPA / PIPA? First, go learn about the bills.
After that, please contact your elected officials.
And, from The Oatmeal, where I co-opted this silly graphic: Please pirate it away.
This is a free opportunity for Web designers and developers interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the core technologies which we use for the Open Web. The event is open to twenty (20) people. Potential attendees, please read this post and respond as requested in comments.
Working Web designers and developers, students and educators with at least 1 year experience building Web sites using markup and CSS. All prospective attendees will be required to provide a link to a portfolio, code sample, app or other project on which they have worked.
The event will be held the 10-12 of February, 2012 in Tucson, Arizona USA.
The schedule is as follows:
The Friday evening event will be held at a private residence, address to be provided to attendees upon acceptance. Saturday and Sunday workshops will be held at Tucson’s very own Spoke6 – a downtown co-working space.
Because the event is free, attendees are asked to cover their own lodging and transportation to Tucson. While we have a wide range of accommodation types in Tucson from hostels to high-end spas, February is a very busy month with the annual Gem show and Rodeo Days. If you’re interested, you may want to reserve a room now. We will also do our very best to find reasonable accommodations for you if you’re having trouble. Once in Tucson, we will set up car-pools for travel as necessary.
Respond here in comments to be considered. Write a bit about yourself, share a link or two to what you’re working on and add a sentence or two on why you believe an event like this will be beneficial to you.
We look forward to a weekend of great fun and learning!
Many of us will agree that 2011 was a really, truly, horribly fucked up year.
This little bit of whimsy from Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who most will agree are really, truly, wonderfully adorable humans, represents the sweetness upon which I hope and pray 2012 will be built.
I love you all, and hope for peace, prosperity, well-being and joy for all the days of your lives.
A short wrap of the year in CSS. Note: I wrote this in U.S. English, but bless my English editors, it all ends up in English.
“Known for drama, the CSS Working Group left those days behind in 2011. Armed with revisions to the group’s charter, strengthening of leadership, expansion of the group’s active members, a more open public face and the wise application of modularisation, 2011 may have been the most productive year in CSS yet.”
Continue reading: The Most Productive Year in CSS?
Enjoy! Or argue (don’t beat me up, just the ideas, I’m sensitive!) – comments here or after you leave me.
CATS HAZ DISCOVERED teh transporter. Cats have not only discovered how transporters work, but now lay their sleepy laws down u-paw-n all humanz.
Don’t know what transpired between now and then, but I do await with bait breath for any breaking mews.
The Thymus Gland is located by the breastbone in the nook between our throat and shoulders. A small gland, at risk as our sensitive neck and spine adjust to the ever-shifting weight of our skulls.
The Thymus, throughout history, has been a bit mysterious. It is believed to be a part of human/primate immunity and behavioral posturing.
Imagine male Gorillas pounding their chests. It’s thought that gorillas don’t only posture, but stimulate a specific biological response – to excite or to calm – by pounding upon their prominent Thymus glands.
I’ve been beating my chest since I was a child. Hard. As in I punch myself above the breast bone, and as an adult above my breasts but below my trachea, much as a Gorilla would. Almost daily.
This action doesn’t hurt me at all, feels really good and seems to have nothing but positive influence on my motivation and clarity. The action clears my lungs and sinuses as well.
Should I be so fortunate to enjoy a respectful and skilled massage therapist (non-sexual massage, specialist in high quality care-giving), if he or she massages along my breastbone and spends time on trigger points, I become significantly calmer in the process and far more alert and positive after.
I had no idea why as a very young child the influence of the Thymus gland had such an affect on me. Only about a decade ago did I begin to postulate that the Thymus plays a role in our immunity via chest-beating.
But now I’ve stumbled upon the idea of the Hyperthymic Temperament. I immediately saw traits in myself that made more sense than in my entire 48+ year quest for understanding and identity.
Consider yourself, and me (I = ~ 98.5%) in this description. Do you recognize yourself? Others whom you know?
Then please share what resounds with you, what you don’t relate to at all, what might relate to people you know – or any other thoughts on this you’d like to express in comments.
Ready? Here we go!
Hyperthymic temperament or hyperthymia (from the Ancient Greek θυμός for “spiritedness”) is characterized by a personality style or set of personality traits that include:
Not exactly boring, is it?
I only have two issues when comparing this list to my life. I’d tell you, but I’d rather you’d guess. Or tell me yours!
Go on then, comments are open.
Frustrated with the misunderstandings about the Web, and how it came to be, and what it really means I’ve come up with a plan, and I hope you will join me in this undertaking.
On January 1st I will prepare a copy of “Weaving the Web” by Tim Berners-Lee (Web inventor) for a year-long journey to as many people who will participate in the project. The process is simple, and old-skool for a reason – it’s a hands-on experience!
Someone with some geolocation savvy can help me and anyone else put up a tracking site so we can track the book as it travels around the world, have photos of people who are involved, and track thoughts, etc. Interested in helping with that, just let me know in comments.
The goals: To deepen our awareness of what the Web was meant to be by the man who invented it. To unify us in spite of our different perspectives. To remind us of the nobility of our profession, and how we should all be very proud to be part of such an ideal.
If you are interested in the project, please share your thoughts and contact info below, and I will begin building the list and basic tracking site.
Opera 11.60 is out now, and so is Bruce Lawson as in “out of his mind.”
Here’s Bruce from Opera’s developer relations team singing about the release in a holiday spirit.
Pretty cool with the HTML parser there, Opera. Nice work my friends.
Designers have long needed a GUI environment that synchs up with their skill sets in balance with the requirements of good Web design practices. Many individual software developers as well as large companies have worked hard to create such a sophisticated tool. And while many have been helpful along the way, we still appear to lack the ultimate designer software for streamlined, contemporary, standards-based Web design.
Project meteor is a campaign that is asking designers and software developers to vote and participate in the ongoing encouragement of high-quality graphical development environments built expressly with Web designers in mind.