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Feeding a squirrel while wearing a tank top is a good move. Draws attention away from the fact that you're trying to draw attention to your buff physique while at the same time emp…

I'd like to see an example of a creative use that a CSS frameworks has been put to in the design of a real site. Does anyone know of any sites that were designed using a CSS framew…

Can't wait to try this with my JFK commemorative keyboard.

A boycott would only work if there were a concerted effort behind to spread the word as far as possible. The recent Whole Foods boycott was a good example of how to do it - organiz…

Electric car company

In some studies, self-regulation skills have been shown to predict academic achievement more reliably than I.Q. tests. Observing an individual's ability to self-regulate works as a…

The target demographic is not exactly rolling in cash but an interesting, socially conscious idea nevertheless.

Good article. Paypal, Amazon Payments and Google Checkout should all be in a good position to dominate the mobile money market in the US, I would think.

StackOverflow does this for free. If you post a code sample and don't properly indent it, someone with high rep will correct it in within minutes. Such nice people.

Interesting psychological side effect I just noticed: I wasn't previously aware of my tendency to scan a long thread for comments that stand out because of their high comment score…

Is it in fact the longest post you've ever written or just similar to the longest post you've ever written which also happens to be on this same topic?

I haven't even learned one tenth of the features in CS3 yet. And yet, surprise, surprise, I seem to do just fine. More feature bloat as far as I'm concerned.

I considered it for a moment but immediately erased the thought from my mind.

It's like when your boss let's you "resign" so you don't have to tell a future employer you were fired. EY was fired.

So I take it you don't believe any of these languages are going to achieve much traction in the business world. That's generally my take too. But there's still a lingering doubt: w…

Given that our lives are not infinite and that, as much as it is always a good idea to learn as many different problem-solving approaches that various programming languages can ope…