Archive for October, 2009

Dive Into HTML5 – What Does It All Mean?

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

“This chapter will take an HTML page that has absolutely nothing wrong with it, and improve it. Parts of it will become shorter. Parts will become longer. All of it will become more semantic. It’ll be awesome.” In a year or so, I will forget that all of my HTML5 moves come from this well written [...]

Republicans Sought to Split California Votes

Friday, October 30th, 2009

An old story covering the Rethuglican attempt in 2007 to create a ballot initiative in California for electoral college vote-splitting. “The mere idea that they would stoop so low as to use children’s cancer as the bait to get people to sign a petition, says everything. It’s outrageous, absolutely outrageous,” said Jacobs.

Bananabread-tellem

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Free Philip Glass Album on Amazon

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Wonderful. (via Lifehacker)

Why Maine Splits Its Electoral Votes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

According to NARA: The term “Electoral College” does not appear in the U.S. Constitution. Article II and the 12th Amendment refer to “electors,” but not to the “Electoral College.” In the Federalist Papers (No. 68), Alexander Hamilton refers to the process of selecting the executive, and refers to “the people of each State [who] shall [...]

Blurry Photo of Adam Hilton’s Band

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009