The Early Years alt=”A thumbnail map of Udra. It leads to a larger image with city names and most geological features.” src=”images/photos/out.jpg”/> I started playing Dungeons and Dragons back in the summer of 1978 (After having been introduced to the concept in late 1977 by my friends Greg and David.) after getting the garishly illustrated [...]
China is getting into superconductors in a big way. Next month they intend to conduct an experiment in controlled fusion and soon they plan to build a maglev train line in Dalian. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have estimated the bandwidth of human retina, 10 million bits per second. That’s roughly equal to an [...]
Like I said, I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, apparently some folks out there are designing some bad interactivity because, there’s been a tonne of articles over the last seven months on how to make AJAX accessible: International Business Machines gives us an AJAX Accessibility Overview. And here are forty more [...]
So I’ve been out of the loop for a while and, during that time, there have been a few good articles about web accessibility that I figured I’d link to for posterity. If you’re web designer, you’ve probably run into several reasons why your clients don’t care about web accessibility. Even the better informed clients [...]
So in this world of hype about AJAX, how do you design client-side scripts so they actually enhance accessibility and degrade gracefully when scripting is turned off for accessibility reasons? Let’s think about how to make AJAX work with screen readers. You need to think about why you should separate client-side script behaviors from content. [...]
So there’s been a lot of extensive, yet subtle change over the last few weeks here at the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries: After a period of stasis for 7 months, I moved all of my site’s legacy content into Movable Type. MT now manages nearly every aspect of my site. I’ve spent the last 7 [...]
So I’m quoted, or rather my alter-ego is quoted, talking about drugs that boost certain limited aspects of intelligence. This, in all things, in Spin Magazine–tsk, tsk. Ah me, famous at last. DARPA researchers develop a method to accelerate our ability to sift through visual data. If you’re caught on video, they will find you [...]
A week ago I read a short story by Tad Williams about the spontaneous emergence of sapience from the Internet. It wasn’t really that good. Arthur Clarke did it many decades earlier and did it much better. Anyway, uninformed amateur scientist that I am, I’m skeptical that consciousness will emerge from our computer networks as [...]
Spent all of last night and early morning making revisions to my test installation of MT3.2. Made good progress. Going to see Superman Returns later today, which sort of suggested this entry’s title. This entry is really a test to see if my comment forms work properly. I’ll delete the test comments later but keep [...]