Jon Stewart had Marc Thiessen on The Daily Show the other day, who was promoting his book Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack.
When Marc was coming out I was all set to think he was just another right-wing extremist who’s gonna get ripped apart by Jon. And then they started talking, and arguing, and it turned out that he’s a pretty intelligent guy. I still disagree with his opinions but I can appreciate his point, and I understand his logic. This is the kind of thing that is missing from many news networks these days, and Fox in particular. To think that they are (Fox) one of the most, if not the most watched news network in US is just horrifying. More than that, as much as I love The Daily Show, it’s scary to think that it provides the most honest view of what’s going on in the news. Is it any wonder that we rely on Daily Show and Colbert Report for our news more than CNN or Fox.
I only wish they could have found a way to show the entire interview on the air, because I’m sure only a small portion of the viewers actually went to comedycentral.com or thecomedynetwork.ca to see the rest of the interview (that continued after the show ended), and that’s the better half actually.
Placeholder is a very useful attribute of the <input> tag that is specified in the HTML5 spec. It provides a text that goes into the field, by default, and is used as a kind of a quick tip for the user about what they should type into the field, such as “type to search”, or …
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If you’ve been following apple related news you’ve heard that they recently started coming really hard after any applications that could be considered “sexy” or “suggestive” – whether its by virtue of having girls in bikinis in their screenshots, or suggestive text in the description – and removing them from the app store. You can …
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Well, those folks on webkit dev team sure are moving fast. WebGL (OpenGL for web, i.e. fancy 3d graphics in your browser) spec hasn’t even been finished yet, as far as I know, and they already have the stuff working in the latest webkit builds. The good news about this is of course that as …
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Dell is about to reveal the skinny on its newest laptop, Adamo XPS, next Thursday, Oct. 22. Adamo is Dell’s top of the line, trying to compete with Apple, sexy line of laptops. Well actually, so far it’s been only one laptop, but now it’s gonna be a line. Apparently the XPS version is going …
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If you haven’t noticed, multi-touch is all the rage these days. From iPhone’s slick interface and gestures, to all the laptops and netbooks that are trying to get in on the game, not to mention Microsoft’s “subtle” approach to the issue with their Surface idea. Then there’s also multi-touch for desktops, and as always the …
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The never-tiring folks at Mozilla are already hard at work on implementing multitouch events in Firefox. Felipe Gomes has posted a short demonstration of very cool multitouch capabilities via a few simple use cases. Here is the clip and a few words from the man himself.
Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe on Vimeo.
We’re working on exposing …
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