A Different View / Addendum

IE Placeholder

A no-dependancy quick and dirty method of adding basic placeholder functionality to Internet Explorer 5.5+.

Hopefully this helps others dealing with “The World’s More Infamous Browser” ™.

“ Painting is an art of inclusion, meaning that something only gets into the painting if the painter paints it that way. You can always tell a sloppy painter who’s done watercolors from a photo because of all the needless junk. If you see telephone poles, crooked horizons and cars stopped in the middle of the street, it’s obvious a painting was made from a snapshot. Photography is an art of exclusion, meaning that everything gets into your photo unless you go out of your way to exclude it. You must always watch for distractions. This takes experience, since by human nature we don’t see these distractions until we get our pictures back.

— How to Use Ultra-Wide Lenses

“ No, I’ll fix it, I’m good at fixing rot. Call me the Rotmeister. No, I’m the Doctor, don’t call me the Rotmeister.

— The Doctor

Explosives Technician Blows Away Official WTC Conspiracy Theory

“What I saw was a classic implosion,” he notes, “People on the ground reported exactly what I would have expected: waves of explosions going off, not one massive big boom.”

Richard Scarry Google Doodle (via Google)

Radical Face - Welcome Home (Reprise)

This song has become one of my all time favorites. The piano part is simply amazing!

(Source: youtube.com)

Was TextMate 2 Released Today?

The sad truth for all Mac developers…

I just found out that the Target brand “Market Pantry” Wild-caught Alaskan Keta salmon is actually processed in China!

I don’t know about you, but I find that marketing very deceptive. Even if the salmon is “caught” in Alaska, it’s still shipped and processed in China, where we all know they have such high health standards.

Ugh.

Static Map
A super simple PHP class for the Google Static Maps API. Released under the MIT license.

Now go, build some maps!

Welcome to the Aftermath.

A Different View Addendum