The 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients data is quite inaccurate (after the internet era). Every year, many Ph.D. students are persuaded over email to not share their real information in these surveys.
Marginal Revolution — The comments to this article are what’s really interesting.
Failed Attempt at Vendor Relationship Management
What follows is a description and transcript (with annotations) of a recent, fairly lengthy email exchange with the founder of a company providing web-based services to the PR industry. It’s a long post and probably of only marginal interest to most regular readers - but I needed the cathartic release of posting it.
Michael O'Connor Clarke, Uninstalled — I like Michael, and I used to work with him… I pity ‘Derek’… This has the potential of real fun :-) Sorry, sorry, that’s not really in-line with the spirit of the post…
How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide
The layout model of tables differ from that of block level elements in that they will normally expand beyond their specified width to make their contents fit. At first that may sound like a good thing – and it often is – but it makes it possible for oversized content to make text unreadable or completely break a site’s layout, especially in Internet Explorer.
456 Berea Street — Arrrg! This is a problem that was on my todo list, and this article is going to save me a lot of time. Too bad the outcome isn’t better.
Design beautiful, innovative and fast-loading web sites… with a beautiful, innovative and fast app. CSSEdit’s intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful previewing features will make you deliver awesome standards-based sites in no time!
MacRabbit — That’s the marketing blurb, this is the important part: The brand new X-ray Inspector shows you what styles apply to the web page — and that deals with the primary difficulty I had with CSSEdit as I described in this article
The problem is (a) that the Drupal website is very badly organized, and (b) searches for Drupal help are generally futile, and (c) help that is located is often obsolete or wrong
In other words, the solution is out of our hands. We do not control, and cannot change, the Drupal website. And therefore we cannot fix the documentation problem.
Half an Hour — This is discouraging.
Before you do anything else when coding a website, you should reset the styling.
Crucial Web Hosting — And in case you think that might be easy… read this and the comments.
Here’s the latest version of my “baseline” style sheet, with some changes based on feedback from readers on the original post.
Eric's Archived Thoughts — Eric Meyer’s version
June 6, 2007 6:30pm to 8:30pm Upstairs at TheAlbion 49 Norfolk St
BarCamp — Your support is requested. Excellent! (I’m told the Albion is a pub)
XP Day TorontoHave a look, I think I’ll go.
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Get Fuzzy via Bruce Schneier — LOL!
Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep
Does the President think terrorists are puppy dogs? He keeps saying that terrorists will “follow us home” like lost dogs. This will only happen, however, he says, if we “lose” in Iraq.
NY Daily News via Bruce Schneier
British military sanctions Afghan poppy cultivation
After a series of stormy meetings, Nato announced this week that it was dropping the ads. “We’ve recognised this was a mistake and we addressed it as soon as possible,” said spokesman Nicholas Lunt. British officials issued an official apology to their Afghan counterparts.
But Nato refuses to get involved in eradication, arguing that the sight of western soldiers slashing through poppy fields could drive hundreds of farmers into the arms of the Taliban. Western soldiers say their main job is to provide security so the Afghan government can eliminate the poppy trade.
Guardian Unlimited — This is insane. I don’t care if is called a ‘war on drugs’, it isn’t and the military should NOT be worried about this stuff.
Living Under the Guillotine's Blade
Imagine you see a man on his knees, arms outstretched, with his head resting on a wooden block. Ten feet above his head, the sharp edge of a guillotine blade hangs suspended. The blade is held back by a rope that is visibly frayed and weak. It appears the rope might snap at any moment, and the blade will descend to plunge through the man’s neck. … Once Upon a Time…/ Living Under the Guillotine’s Blade
Once Upon a Time... — My American friends, you should start thinking about that is going on around you. Please.
You should tremble for the future. We have unleashed Hell on earth, and we show no inclination whatsoever to stop it anytime soon. It will seek us out. Someday, it will find us.
Once Upon a Time...
Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News
“This is a wake-up call that the level of hate and anger, among a small population, is vibrant,” he added.
Levesque said he was bothered not only that the parody took aim at a sensitive issue in Lewiston, but also that Fox and others reported the information as fact without checking. The national media, Levesque said, sees information posted online and “uses it as gospel.”
Think Progress — This is sick.
Scammers Buying Adwords Could Scare People Away From Clicking Google Ads
Some scammers are apparently purchasing Google Adwords ads on high traffic keywords, but pointing those ads to a malware site that installs a trojan keylogger. Victims may never even know they went to a scam site, as the scammers simply pass the visitor through to a real advertising page after stopping long enough at an interim page to have the keylogger kick in.
Techdirt — Cool! Just what I always wanted.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, floats during a zero-gravity flight; an apple, a tribute to Isaac Newton, drifts along with him.
via boing boing — It is a photo, look at it!
A bag full of sand prompted an evacuation of Lawson Hall Wednesday after an instructor reported it as suspicious to police.
More than 100 students and faculty exited classrooms before police blocked off the building and investigated what they initially called a “suspicious package.”
Police said a student dropped off a red gym bag behind a trashcan in a Lawson Hall classroom at about 11 a.m. and walked away. Some students reported the incident to administration of justice instructor Ralph Jones, who was teaching a class at the time.
I worry for America. What is happening to you!??!
