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Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:02:27 GMT

Bruce Schneier points out that keypad wear is a form of "information leakage": "There are 10,000 possible four-digit codes, but you only have to try 24 on these keypads. The first is most likely 1986 or 1968. The second is almost certainly 1234." Information Leakage from Keypads...

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djBC's Muppet mashups

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:48:22 GMT

djBC, consistently my favorite mashup producer/creator (he's the guy behind the Beasties/Beatles remix "The Beastles"), has released an entire album of remixes of Muppet music! He sez, "In honor of my daughter's first birthday- and one month late- I'm rolling out 'Muppet Mashup.' Ten mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. With the legendary McSleazy (of MTV Mash and GYBO), Dunproofin, ATOM, Martinn, Uncanny Valley and yours truly, dj BC. I'm particularly proud of my 'I'm Happy' track, which is built on Edwinn Starr loops, Muppet Show samples, and a fun, funky playground acapella from some little girls on Sesame Street." I've just listened to this straight through, with the baby, and we were both captivated. Bravo! Mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. Coral Cache mirror of the entire album Previously:djBC's album of legit mashups: Strictly Mixed and Mashed - Boing Boing Santastic II: Xmas mashups from djBC and friends - Boing Boing Boing Boing: New album of Beatles/Beasties mashups - drop-dead ... Boing Boing: Best mashups of 2005 Mashup Xmas album - Boing Boing...

HOWTO build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:42:28 GMT

This first-hand account of the construction of a clandestine shortwave radio by British POWs in a Japanese camp in Singapore really reminds me of James Clavell's magnificent novel King Rat, my all-time favorite war-novel, which revolves grippingly around the construction, discovery and consequences of a hidden shortwave in the Changi camp (both Clavell and Ronald "St Trinian's" Searle were interned in this camp). BJ: Can I just ask you - the components for the low voltage battery cells that you produced, where did you get all the components from? RGW: Well, zinc wasn't hard, there was some sheet zinc lying on the aerodrome and we pinched quite a bit of that because that would be eaten away during the use of the cells for the low voltage. I don't know what would have happened if that ran out. I think someone produced two lantern cells which did for a while, but it was mainly on this home-made cell system, which wasn't efficient but nowhere near as inefficient as the rectifier was. We must have been consuming... Ah Ping said he had to turn up a lot of power to keep the lights what they wanted. We were dispersing such an amount of power in this four test tube rectifier for the high tension. A variable capacitor was another component we had to bring in. We couldn't make a variable capacitor, it was impossible. We had to take two plates off the one we had to get a high enough frequency. Yes, I can't remember why we didn't go up a bit in inductance; it was largely a trial and error business really. Except that in a regenerative receiver you had some idea when you were near a station because the receiver was so sensitive as all regenerative receivers are. It had a piece of meat skewer type wood which I had a hole drilled in by a pen-knife, and we glued this in with some of our glue or something, into the capacitor shaft so that we could tune it by holding a little stick across it, fixing it at about six inches because one couldn't get one's hands any closer to the set because it was in a state of very near oscillation where the maximum sensitivity is, just before it bursts into oscillation. With a fairly clear HF band, it wasn't long before we knew roughly, by putting a couple of marks on the stick, where it was. We knew that the Voice of America was due for a transmission and I don't think we ever knew the frequencies because the BBC didn't announce frequencies, they just came on the air and broadcast. Construction of Radio Equipment in a Japanese POW Camp (via Make)...

Landmark buildings of the world as acrylic rings

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:25:58 GMT

Etsy seller Plastique's got laser-cut acrylic rings boasting pointy world monuments. As knuckledusters, they create the possibility of growling, "Right, mate, you're geography," before you bust your opponent in the chops. world landmarks acrylic ring set (white) (via Neatorama)...

If woowoos ran the emergency room

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:23:29 GMT

"Homeopathic A&E," a sketch from the British comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look invites us to imagine an emergency room (A&E is British for Accidents and Emergencies, the UK equivalent of ER), as run by newage woo woos. That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E (via White Coat Underground)...

Compuserve shuts down

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:20:02 GMT

After 30 years, Compuserve is finally, totally, mostly dead (the email addresses still work). I was always a local BBS and GEnie guy, but there's no doubting the power and influence of Compuserve in introducing the idea of networked communications to a generation, and proving the business-case for commercial online activity: The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service boasted about having over half a million users simultaneously on line. Many innovations we now take for granted, from online travel (Eaasy Sabre), online shopping, online stock quotations, and global weather forecasts, just to name a few, were standard fare on CompuServe in the 1980s. CompuServe users will be able to use their existing CompuServe Classic (as the service was renamed) addresses at no charge via a new e-mail system, but the software that the service was built on, along with all the features supported by that software, from forums for virtually every topic and profession known to man to members' Ourworld Web pages, has been shut down. Indeed, the current version of the service's client software, CompuServe for Windows NT 4.0.2, dates back to 1999. CompuServe Requiem (via Beyond the Beyond)...

Massive bank fraud in massively multiplayer game EVE

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:15:39 GMT

The chairman of the virtual bank in EVE Online, a space-trading/piracy game, absconded with billions of virtual credits, swapping them for $5,000 in cash to make a house payment. The embezzlement caused a run on the bank and has rocked the economy of EVE. The run on the bank has come to about 600 billion ISK, which has been withdrawn. However, we have a very big group of excellent supporters, who have deposited about 105 billion ISK sitting in Sweep to keep us liquid. We are extremely grateful for this. Currently the run seems to be mostly over with only a slightly higher withdrawal rate still, than deposit rate. That's to be expected, and in-line with EBANK's strategy to shrink to a more managable level. EBANK has always been extremely sound, due to our massive reserves. Our checks and balances have proven themselves to work as a mitigation device and by having the reserves spread out over several directors, the embezzlement was kept to a minimum. However, the run on the bank had the potential to do great damage to EBANK as people frantically made withdrawals to ensure they would not be caught if the bank ran short. We have also had several offers from very large entities, regarding big loans, should we need to cover any insolvency. Frankly, this has yet to be needed. But we are grateful for the support. Billions stolen in online robbery New perspective on EVE Online's latest bank embezzlement (via /.) Previously:Why the EVE Online industrial espionage econopocalypse is "fun ... EVE Online's economist speaks -- economics as an experimental ... Should online-game Ponzi scammer go to prison? - Boing Boing Massively Multiplayer economics -- good discussion thread - Boing ... Charlie Stross's Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG ... In-game Ponzi scheme - Boing Boing In-game cash marketplaces and Napster -- the arbitrage of time ......

Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:24:11 GMT

This week, Cory posted a Talking Heads video and I followed up with a Laurie Anderson clip. For the trifecta of posts related to NYC's downtown scene in the 1980s, here is a video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer at a Commodore press event in 1985. Previously:Andy Warhol and the Commodore Amiga 1000 - Boing Boing Debbie Harry in the New York Times - Boing Boing Interview with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol - Boing Boing Warhol, Spielberg, Bianca Jagger on a hotel bed... - Boing Boing Andy Warhol perfume - Boing Boing...

Record sleeve table and syringe chandelier

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:43:51 GMT

While BB Gadgets' Rob is fond of Bughouse's Album Side Table made from old LP jackets, I prefer the Hypolux Chandelier, constructed from plexiglass plates, commercial syringes, and a ballchain suspension....

Cool projects on Make: Online

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:14:43 GMT

Make: Online has published a number of cool projects recently. Sew a cute Morse code key leg strap Diana Eng's frilly and fashion-forward Morse code key. Diana Eng (best known from Project Runway and her book Fashion Geek) is our current guest author. Besides being a geek-chic fashion maven, Diana is also a ham operator and on a mission to introduce a new generation of hobbyists (especially women) to ham radio. In this project, she makes a sexy garter strap to hold her new Morse key. Shrinky Dink gaming minis Sean Ragan shows you how to make some sweet home-baked gaming components using Shrinky Dink plastic and binder clips. More on making Light Bricks As a follow-up piece to Alden Hart's LED Light Brick project in MAKE, Volume 18, the atuhor shares more ideas for molding and casting the acrylic bricks to house your LED board, including using machinable wax to create a life-mask face to house your array. Disco face, baby!...

New images of the lunar surface

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:49:39 GMT

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back its first photos of the moon. The photo above was taken near the moon's Mare Nubium region. The man in the moon is just outside the frame. From NASA: Older craters have softened edges, while younger craters appear crisp. (The image) shows a region 1,400 meters (0.87 miles) wide, and features as small as 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide can be discerned. The bottom (faces) lunar north. LRO's First Moon Images Previously:Lunar junk - Boing Boing Secret museum on the moon's surface - Boing Boing Lunar home designer - Boing Boing Alan Shepard's lunar golf - Boing Boing Lunar vehicles that didn't make the cut - Boing Boing Lunar "ark" proposed - Boing Boing...

World's oldest basketball shoes

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:39:42 GMT

These may be one of the oldest pairs of basketball sneakers in the world. The shoes were manufactured by the Colchester Rubber Company which shut down in 1893. Vintage clothing dealer Gary Pifer paid 50 cents for them at an estate sale in Vista, California. From CafeTerra: "In a instant, I knew this discovery would be re-writing basketball and sneaker history, as these sneakers are 25 years older than the 1917 Converse All-Stars", added Pifer. The Colchester Rubber Co. was located in Colchester, Connecticut and was in business from 1888 to 1893. "World's first basketball sneakers 116 years old found at an estate sale" Previously:Space-sneakers like a Japanese toe-sock - Boing Boing Chocolate sneakers - Boing Boing Robert Williams line of Vans sneakers - Boing Boing...

Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:19:13 GMT

Roy Christopher has assembled his annual summer reading list, which includes book recommendations from several of our friends and former guest bloggers. Gareth Branwyn: A trend I?m noticing in books recently is that there are an increasing number that trade in danger ? anti-Nanny State books. No, not those Dangerous Book for Boys and Girls. Those are rubbish. I?m talking about books like Theo Gray?s tremendously awesome Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home ? But Probably Shouldn?t (Black Dog & Leventhal) and Bill Gurstelle?s Absinthe and Flamethrowers (Chicago Review Press). Gray?s book has a bunch of enticing experiments that are so well-documented and gorgeously photographed, you don?t have to do them yourself, but if you decide you want to, Gray tells you the real dangers involved and what you have to find out on your own to do them safely and successfully. Treating us like adults. What a concept. My friend Bill Gurstelle?s book first looks at reasons for living dangerously, mapping what he calls the Golden Third, those people who take risks, who aren?t afraid to live a certain degree of risk,? but not too much risk. Be too risk-taking and you might not survive, not reproduce, don?t take any risks, and you won?t move the culture, innovation, etc. forward. All the action is in that Golden Third. After these ruminations on the why of living dangerously, he gets into some projects and activities, the ?art? of living dangerously, from ?thrill eating? (stuff like fugu that can theoretically kill you) to Bill?s main bailiwick, teaching you how to spectacularly blow shit up (hence ?flamethrower? in the title). Richard Metzger: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Random House, 2009): Ever get the feeling that you?re trapped on a hamster wheel of predatory ?Corporatism?? An unwitting participant in a system that you didn?t sign up for in the first place? What happens when the operating system of the corporate Moloch runs amok. Never Trust a Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson (Duck Editions, UK, 2001): Great macabre short story collection from the silent member of The League of Gentlemen. ?Never trust a rabbit. They may look like a child?s toy, but they will eat your crops.? Hungarian proverb. Summer Reading List by Roy Christopher...

The Choppers (1961)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:09:08 GMT

"The choppers call him 'Torch.'" Many thanks to the The Isotope Guerrilla Cult Theatre for uploading this 1961 movie about a gang of kids who steal and strip down cars to turn into hotrods. If you cool cats like classic hotrod cars, bad boys from the other side of the tracks, sexy blondes in tight shirts, insipidly catchy songs, goofy teen idol good looks, and the world's biggest cell phone... this one is for you! Hot rods, hot rock, and hot hair are the jewels in the juvenile delinquency crown of THE CHOPPERS. This classic drive-in exploitation flick features the debut of sixteen year-old Arch Hall Jr. as Cruiser, the spoiled rich kid with a taste for crime and his band of troubled teens who call themselves cool names like Torch, Flip and Snoop, and specialize in stripping cars in record time. This is the movie that made you mom weak in the knees and your daddy worried about the crowd you run with. Featuring the some exceptional less-than-hit songs from the awesome Arch Hall Jr, including non-classics like "Konga Joe" and "Monkey In A Hatband". (Thanks, Brian!)...

Ript: the dude equivalent of a padded bra

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:05:39 GMT

Behold, gentlemen! Ript, "the revolutionary torso-enhancing undershirt." The designer of this undergarment is described as "the creative force behind P. Diddy's Sean John clothing line, where she mastered her understanding of what appeals to the most sophisticated and discriminating men." Ah, so we can blame Diddy. "Ript" is so technologically advanced, it comes with a HOWTO, bitches: Ript, via Book of Joe....

@BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:54:46 GMT

(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.) Sean Bonner: The Crazy Frog Brothers doing Axel F. For great justice. Link Andrea James: Ryan (an animation on an animator) Link Xeni Jardin: From the guy who brought you cult film classic THE ROOM, Tommy Wiseau's "The Neighbors." Link (via @bonniegrrl) Richard Metzger: Pink Slip - I won't describe it, but if you dare, it's NSFWish Link RT @toschie Sean Bonner: Today's Grindcore history lesson: Napalm Death Link Xeni Jardin: Hidden MacBookPro feature: it Transformersifies itself into robo-ship + flies away. OK, not rly but watch. Link Sean Bonner: Santa gets blown up by girls in skimpy outfits with big guns. WIN/FAIL you be the judge. Link Jesse Thorn: First episode of Andrew WK's new show Destroy, Build, Destroy! is currently free in iTunes: Link Andrea James: The most fortuitous engineering disaster in history: The Salton Sea Link Sean Bonner: Can I have my own Japanese coffee making robot too? Link Susannah Breslin: Screw the environment. Gay Talese cares about the cut of his cuff. Link Xeni Jardin: Every Zach Galafianakis clip from Tim + Eric, evar: Link (via @ericwareheim, but blocked outside USA) Jesse Thorn: The hilarious Tig Notaro performs a signature bit, "No Moleste": Link Susannah Breslin: Inside the Erotic House [NSFW]: Link Andrea James: Hypnotic time lapse of balloon festival (worth sitting through the :30 ad) Link Richard Metzger: All-female rock group Fanny on Sonny and Cher circa 1971 Link Susannah Breslin: SuperObama has SuperBig ears: Link More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com...

Ghost Town: The Bumpy Road To Bodie

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:09:51 GMT

Stephen Worth says: When I was very small, I had one of those horses on springs. I would jump on it and bounce around furiously while my Dad would urge me on, calling out to me to "Ride that horse down the bumpy road to Bodie!" Before I was born, my family had taken a trip to the High Sierras and my Dad and Mom never forgot the potholes they had to navigate their 56 Chevy station wagon over. It was a memory they spoke of often. When I got a little older, I got a chance to visit Bodie with them, navigating a slightly more modern Chevy station wagon over those same potholes. Bodie became a lasting part of my consciousness as well. On my personal blog, Late Night Coffee Shops, I just posted a documentary on Bodie (and its nine inhabitants) from the mid-1950s. If you love the otherworldly feeling of stillness in places like this as much as I do, this video will make your day and fill your dreams with the beautiful sound of wind blowing through sun bleached boards. Ghost Town: The Bumpy Road To Bodie...

Machsend: P2P file sharing via Browser Plus

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:52:52 GMT

Alex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser. It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality. I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :)

The Don Martin Dictionary

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:52:46 GMT

Richard Metzger pointed me to the Don Martin Dictionary. Martin was one of my favorite Mad cartoonists. His sophisticated absurdism was the opposite of Dave Berg's middlebrow sitcom humor (but I liked him, too). The Don Martin Dictionary...

Music video of stochasticity for Radiolab science podcast

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:23:36 GMT

Higher Mammals made a song and video to accompany Radiolab's recent show about stochasticity. If you don't already know about Radiolab, it's a terrific science podcast produced for WYNC public radio. Radiolab Stochasticity Bonus Video!...

It?s Friday. Play some drums?. HTML5 style

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:11:53 GMT

Brian Arnold created a fun sample drum machine simulator using HTML5 <audio>. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function playBeat() { if (isPlaying) { var nextBeat = 60000 / curTempo / 4; // Turn off all lights on the tracker's row [...]

GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:02:33 GMT

As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]

Modernizr: HTML5 and CSS3 detection

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:29:40 GMT

Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them: Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]

GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:44:30 GMT

John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts. John told us: Canvas-rendering corrects GChart’s most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice). Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]

More than you ever want to see about encoding

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:03:19 GMT

Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings. Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way…. as he talked about en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]

A whole lot of testing for JavaScript implementations

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:42:14 GMT

A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day. First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests.... 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5. All of the tests are released under New BSD. Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]

Firefox 3.5: The fastest fox has landed

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:35:07 GMT

It is great to feel the good vibes at Mozilla HQ today as we launch Firefox 3.5! It is always an interesting ride to see a browser develop, and realize how complex and large the work is. Congrats to the browser developers out there who are working hard to make the Web better. With final [...]

LABjs: Simple abstraction for loading dependencies correctly

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:16:24 GMT

Kyle Simpson has developed LABjs, a library that lets you define your JavaScript file dependencies, and then loads them as efficiently as possible. Kyle told us: This project is a simple little tool (1.6k compressed!) for being able to load javascript files dynamically. It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the [...]

New Sessions at The Ajax Experience 2009

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:09 GMT

Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here’s one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA. It’s only been?two weeks?since we announced open registration for The Ajax Experience with [...]

MySpace open sources advanced browser performance tool for IE

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:21:18 GMT

Developers tend to tease MySpace for its look, but the insiders are incredibly impressed by some of the engineering behind the scenes (e.g. their internal monitoring tools are said to be second to none). They have surprised us again with their new tool MSFast which is “a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code [...]

Scripty2 has landed

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:51 GMT

Thomas Fuchs has been working in the open on scripty2 for a bit, and now the website has launched. It even comes with nice documentation and fun demos: What’s new in scripty2? It is a complete rewrite, and comes packaged in three parts: scripty2 core contains the main namespace and an area for extensions to be added. It [...]

Fun with text-shadow

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:26:24 GMT

Zach Johnson is at it again, this time giving us a fun Friday treat with CSS text shadow, all via: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: document.getElementById('text-shadow-box').onmousemove = function(e) { var xm = e.clientX - 300; var ym = e.clientY - 175; var d = Math.sqrt(xm*xm + ym*ym); text.style.textShadow = -xm + 'px ' + -ym + [...]

First beta of YUI 3.0 released

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:52:47 GMT

Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3: We?ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 ? YUI, Node, and Event ? to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and we?ve refined our module/submodule structure. In [...]

JavaScript sandbox using Web Workers

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:17:45 GMT

We have been sandboxing JavaScript in iframes for a long time. The Web Worker API has the nice property that it doesn't have access to objects like document and the like, and just runs code that you can pass over to it. With this, Elijah Grey has created an experimental jsandbox API that gives you an [...]

iPhone 3GS runs faster than claims, if you go by SunSpider

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:03:36 GMT

Rana Sobhany of Medialets has posted on Sun Spider benchmarks of the iPhone 3GS as well as other devices which shows off the performance angle of 3GS: The WebKit Open Source Project provides a JavaScript test Suite dubbed SunSpider. According to the description on the SunSpider home page, ?this benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, [...]

MooTools: Saving the dollars, replacing document.write

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:28:13 GMT

The religion behind a simple $ has been fierce in the Web world. MooTools has decided to make the Dollar Safe Mode which is similar to cousins such as jQuery.noConflict (in MooTools case it just looks for the $ function). Now you can just use document.id if you want to play in the wild, or [...]

Sprite Me! Helping you sprite up, but maybe you shouldn?t?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:01:00 GMT

There have been many tools to help make image spriting easier, by packaging up your images into one large image and splitting it up again via CSS. Steve Souders just showed off a new little tool he created, Sprite Me at the Velocity conference that kicked off today. He has made it easier to work with [...]

ProtoFish: advanced hover menu

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:05:01 GMT

ProtoFish is an advanced hover menu based on Prototype, written by Peter Slagter. You can easily add a delay to your menu (on mouseout) and choose your own hover class. All ProtoFish menu's will respond to users who use the TAB-key to navigate through your page. It is trivial to use. Once you load up [...]

HTML 5 and the Wizard of Oz

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:05:47 GMT

Kyle Weems, the CSS Squirrel and author of the occasional and bizarre comic of the same name, targets his latest rendering at Ian Hickson: Click-through to see the full comic. The related blog entry fleshes out the basic complaint some more: Why is it that the person who is the center of this process is allowed to [...]