interesting, the full text of structure and interpretation of computer programs is online at its web site.

the bad astronomy site is getting lots of linkage (/. and… nasa!) for it’s fox show debunking, but it has lots of other neat stuff too. the misconceptions page includes stuff like why the sky’s blue, the causes of seasons, and tons of other stuff.

here’s another site that goes in depth on rebutting the moon hoax.

so, i haven’t been keeping up with pokey the penguin, mostly nonsensical, but there’s some really good stuff in there.

metroid as fps? blasphemy, but… um, how could metroid ever suck? samus aran rocks.

some interesting stuff from the /. discussion on browsers:

• #605 – running mozilla on old systems
• #598 – why js sucks in practice
• #407 – adhering to standards vs user agent enforcement
• #16 – more platforms w/o browsers
• #235 – some common sense
• #42 – cute
• #319 – interesting, if inflammatory and simplistic ;P
• #84 – rudeness of redirects
• #130 – web design in the real world
• #183 – another reason to leave js off?

i just wanted to mention that my columnar css-only design preceded the browser upgrade campaign by about 3 months. waaay ahead of the zeitgeist. (but, as you will notice, with my friday night post, i am also without a life). for those just starting on css design, the css.nu pointers page is a good start.

the ala article has some neat workarounds for non-compliant browsers (the @import and css2 selectors are nice hacks – wait, didn’t they say they were gonna stop doing that?), but those looking for a better explanation of using floats to create columns, there’s a webreference tutorial on it.

while on the issue, i guess i’ve sorta figured out my apprehension at the whole upgrade campaign dealio. yes it’s a good thing, but the javascript forewarding is moronic. 1) 20%+ people have javascript disabled, 2)many of the people you’re targeting won’t have javascript anyway. the top of the page css-hidden warning is much better. i use a server-side one. oh, and for people who get stupid user-agent redirects, try proxomitron, a great tool.

um yeah, summarizing:
   separating presentation from content == good
   javascript auto-forwarding == really really moronic.

proving once again that nsi is slime, they’re selling prepackaged whois data to marketers. so if you’ve ever registered a domain name, prepare to receive even more spam. grr.

rambus gets busted. again. someone put em outta their misery.

colorvision monitor spyder for $224. looks like a neat tool for easy color calibration.

noticed that the latest issue of the la weekly has a cover story on the ca power problem (that took a bit a searching to find the permanent location… grr, bad design). it’s a better look than cnn’s rather superficial “in-depth special” (this took a while to find too. i saw it before but it didn’t show up in the searches…)

the online version of the la weekly is much less messy on the fingers (smudgy newsprint and all that).