That’s the lesson I take from Kyle Neath’s critique of OpenID (HT: Ma.tt), from his first point, the one that I think has the most traction. OpenID servers should allow users to associate their account with several OpenID providers, if they want, and/or an email address.
I’ve been experimenting with getting regular expression patterns to match over multiple lines using sed. For example, one might want to change
<p>previous text</p>
<h2>
<a href="http://some-link.com">A title here</a>
</h2>
<p>following text</p>
to
<p>previous text</p>
No title here
<p>following text</p>
sed cycles through each line of input one line at a time, so the most obvious way to match a pattern that extends [...]
This is McDonald’s idea of making their Happy Meals educational. (That I took this photograph may also be proof of bad parenting on our part, but let’s overlook that.)
I think what they mean is that you can jump six times as high on the Moon.
In case you were wondering, that’s because the [...]
Or whatever certain circles think is the controversial-book-we-need-to-protect-people-from du jour.
There are earnest people who recommend realistic reading for everyone because, they say, it prepares us for real life, and who would, if they could, forbid fairy-tales for children and romances for adults because they ‘give a false picture of life’—in other words, deceive their readers.
I [...]
Several years ago, PPK of Quirksmode sponsored a contest to come up with a new version of the trusty JavaScript addEvent function. The original addEvent was created by Scott Andrew LePera in 2001 as a way to merge Internet Explorer’s attachEvent with the W3C’s addEventListener. Both addEventListener and attachEvent allow you to attach [...]