Yostivanich

“One inter­pre­ta­tion, then, is that the Blue Dogs are basi­cally fol­low­ing in Mr. Tauzin’s foot­steps: if their posi­tion is inco­her­ent, it’s because they’re noth­ing but cor­po­rate tools, defend­ing spe­cial inter­ests. And as the Cen­ter for Respon­sive Pol­i­tics pointed out in a recent report, drug and insur­ance com­pa­nies have lately been pour­ing money into Blue Dog coffers.”

“This is the com­bined regex:
/^#([0-9a-fA-F]{3}$)|([0-9a-fA-F]{6}$)/
Note the alter­nate metachar­ac­ter, | for the three or six hexa­dec­i­mal dig­its. Also note the paren­the­ses that sep­a­rate the alter­nate groups.” In case you ever need t com­bine a regexes.

“A 15-year-old boy who was born to an unknown father using a donor sperm has suc­ceeded in track­ing down his father, using just the DNA test, genealog­i­cal records and some inge­nious Inter­net searches.”

“Google announced an inter­est­ing new fea­ture yes­ter­day allow­ing Gmail users to eas­ily unsub­scribe from email newslet­ters through a new but­ton in the Gmail inter­face. As I men­tioned ear­lier, this is cer­tainly a step in the right direc­tion from Google, and we’ll be imple­ment­ing the required change to the header of every email sent through Cam­paign Mon­i­tor.” GMail allows you to auto-unsubscribe from mail­ing lists and Cam­paign Mon­i­tor will sup­port it.

“To help pro­tect your expe­ri­ence when using exten­sions, we recently enabled auto-update for exten­sions on the dev chan­nel release. Like Chrome’s auto-update mech­a­nism, exten­sions will be updated using the Omaha pro­to­col, giv­ing devel­op­ers the abil­ity to push out bug fixes and new fea­tures rapidly to users of their exten­sions. This is an impor­tant step towards a v1 release of exten­sions for all users, so we’re pretty excited. In addi­tion, when we turn the exten­sion sys­tem on, we plan to offer a gallery with rat­ings and com­ments that you can use to judge whether you want to install a par­tic­u­lar exten­sion. We will also have processes in place that, com­bined with reports from users, should help limit the num­ber of mali­cious exten­sions that get uploaded and dis­trib­uted to users.”

“A jQuery plu­gin that adds a dynam­i­cally cre­ated con­fig­urable gra­di­ent to the back­ground of an ele­ment with­out the use of images.” Awesome.

“EA has a new way to annoy its own mod­els: give out prizes for Comic Con atten­dees who com­mit acts of lust with their booth babes. Also, if you win, you get to take the lady out to din­ner! This is going to end well for every­one involved.” EA is a bunch of morons.

“Sweden’s Eric­s­son has won an auc­tion for the wire­less assets of bank­rupt Cana­dian tele­coms firm Nor­tel Net­works. Eric­s­son is pay­ing $1.13bn (£688m) for the busi­nesses, which ana­lysts say will enable it to sub­stan­tially increase its North Amer­i­can presence.”

The Ensem­ble takes the lead, in the final day of the Net­flix Prize.

“Let me repeat that one more time: the British Home­o­pathic Asso­ci­a­tion and Fac­ulty of Home­opa­thy? Let’s see what Ms. Pen­rose is sup­posed to be doing for the Lym­phoma Asso­ci­a­tion:” That’s smart let’s put some­one who denies mod­ern med­i­cine in charge of the Lym­phoma Association.

“The United States has called for Syria’s “full co-operation” in try­ing to achieve a com­pre­hen­sive Mid­dle East peace set­tle­ment. Speak­ing after talks in Dam­as­cus, Barack Obama’s envoy George Mitchell said dis­cus­sions with Syria’s pres­i­dent had been “can­did and positive”.”

“So before we mock those who are doc­u­ment­ing their mem­o­ries through the crazy new tech­nolo­gies, let’s also rec­og­nize that this is just one in a long line of record­ing and shar­ing tools. And, I would argue, not the most annoy­ing one yet.” I agree new tech­nol­ogy is just new tech­nol­ogy most of what peo­ple have done with tech­nol­ogy has been done before.