QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession

"More specifically, today I will shout at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development." - PPK

Dynamic Image Resizing or retargeting

Very interesting demo of image resizing and re-imaging.

If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold

atxryan: has checked out of @PoweredInc.

atxryan: has checked out of @PoweredInc.

Brain Imaging Lets Vegetative Patient Communicate

The findings open the possibility that some of these patients may be able to participate in decisions about their medical care, though a number of scientific, ethical, and legal issues will need to be discussed before taking this step. In the recent experiment, for example, scientists did not ask the patient whether he was in pain, instead sticking to factual questions with answers they could later confirm. "Before we tackle important issues such as pain, treatment, end of life, and so on, there are a lot of things we need to discuss among the medical community as whole," says Laureys.

Obama to get deficit commission with or without Republican help, Hoyer says – washingtonpost.com

If Boehner and McConnell refuse to appoint lawmakers, Hoyer said, Obama will select his own set of Republicans -- "perhaps former members [of Congress], perhaps others, that are people that can make a real contribution to how we get to balance over the coming years."

Taking apart the federal budget (washingtonpost.com)

The composition of tax revenue has shifted dramatically over the past 80 years. Individual and payroll taxes contribute about 80 percent of the total while the portion provided by corporate income taxes has fallen.

No, you can’t do that with H.264

Use a codec that doesn’t need a license.

atxryan: I’m hating this weather. It’s depressing. Looking forward to happy hour though.

atxryan: I'm hating this weather. It's depressing. Looking forward to happy hour though.

atxryan: Say it with me “exorbitant, not exorbant”.

atxryan: Say it with me "exorbitant, not exorbant".