The Woodwork

“Lieberman’s ultimate problem isn’t fanatical bloggers, any more than Lyndon Johnson’s was crazy, antiwar Democrats. His problem is that Bush, and the war that both he and Bush have championed, is speeding the ongoing realignment of the Northeast. His problem, dear colleagues, is Connecticut.”
—Harold Meyerson, “Lieberman’s Real Problem”
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Mark Frauenfelder inadvertantly shows his egotism and stupidity.
I clicked on the linked article expecting to learn something. What a mistake! This is the sort of methodology anyone who has completed the simplest puzzle has stumbled upon. This strategy doesn’t even solve any puzzle that is halfway interesting…assuming you find sudoku halfway interesting, which I don’t [...]

In CSS, sub attributes within a master attribute have a “-” as a word separator. For instance, it is background-color and background-image which can be shorted into background.
Today I was trying to recall the white-space attribute for CSS. Why the hell is this white-space and not whitespace? It makes me think there is a shortcut [...]

I read three DPReview announcements of the new Samsung N-series cameras.
The one that interests me is the Samsung NV7 OPS.

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I was just thinking about how microbrews and other drinks try to come up with clever brand names. How come nobody has called theirs whupass beer? The beauty is instead of bottling it, it’d be most popular in can form.
Think about it: “Pass me a can of whupass.” “Don’t make me open this can of [...]

More evidence that Nikon is at full tilt. It basically says that their Thailand superfactory (which I alluded to earlier) is going at full tilt.
One interesting thing to note is that IDC is placing Nikon at about half the sales of Canon in the global digital SLR market. I find this hard to believe. [...]

Extending something I wrote about in passing, is this discussion which beats that old Canon horse: “Canon L lenses use white because they absorb less heat from sunlight—a purely functional, not cosmetic consideration.”
Is this true?
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