There are serious scientific studies that refute the whole Vaccines cause Autism myth, so slate asks: Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy? – By Arthur Allen – Slate Magazine For some reason, Oprah and the rest of the entertainment world treat McCarthy as if she were Mother Theresa kissing lepers or Nelson […]
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Development Enviroment for Drupal is an article I wish I’d found a year ago when it was originaly posted. Its an extensive description of how to use svn and other tools to maintain various Drupal environments synchronized. I’m pleased that it confirms my own decisions about how to use subversion to manage core and site-specific
You don’t need to convince me that babies are more aware/intelligent than we give them credit for. They have to synthesize and absorb a lot of information to make sense of their world. And then, one morning, they surprise you by spontaneously saying “water” when you’re refilling the dog’s dish. Inside the baby mind –
Soccer fans roar for new stadium Within hours of his request, e-mails began to flood Annapolis from around the world. Team officials say legislators received more than 28,000 missives that were sent through D.C. United’s site, and lawmakers said servers crashed because of the volume.
The default Drupal "Authored On" date field is not very usable, as it expects users to enter dates in a specific, and not very easy format. Drupal does have better options for date input entry, from both the Date and jQuery UI modules. The Date module provides a very convenient function for using date popup
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I’d think that everyone who’s fighting some problem, like malaria in this case, would want to have the best available data to track their progress and effectiveness. In this case, it seems the Gates Foundation and WHO would rather cherry pick the evidence. Why do some, more than we’d like to admit, organizations resist collecting
Patty, Staci, and I have played World of Goo on the Wii and were quickly addicted to it. It’s awesome to see that the developers have ported it to Linux, alongside Mac and Windows versions. If you’re looking for a good puzzle game thats easy to play in short chunks of time, I highly recommend
Do we really need to explain why this is a bad idea? Todd Zywicki Says a Mortgage Modification Law Could Create a Bankruptcy Crisis – WSJ.co Mortgage modification would indeed provide a windfall for some troubled homeowners — but its costs will be borne by aspiring future homeowners, and by any American who uses credit
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Looks like my favorite PHP wiki has some really cool plugins for it. Old and New DokuWiki Plugins [splitbrain.org] During the last few weeks I wrote a few new DokuWiki plugins and updated some old ones.
Just read this in an RFP, what do you think it means? "The site should be 99% accurate in IE7, Firefox 2 and 3, Safari for Mac and PC, and Chrome" How do you go about measuring 99% accuracy of a web page. Does this mean pixel perfect rendering to your designer’s PDF file, non-websafe