Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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  • tags: news

  • How old do you have to be to stump Michele Bachmann?

    Apparently you just have to be eight.

    At a South Carolina book signing, an eight-year old boy named Elijah showed up and nervously went up to Bachmann to defend his mother.

    He told Bachmann, “My mom’s gay, but she doesn’t need any fixing.”

    Bachmann, who initially brought the boy right up to her face because he was speaking too quietly, pulled back and said nothing.

    tags: news

  • Medical advances. (i.imgur.com)submitted 9 hours ago by nomdeweb to funny1240 commentssharesavehidereport

    tags: humor

  • It all started with Responsive Web Design, an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Web sites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop Web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen.

    tags: programming

  • In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers? When this happened, did the authors mind?

    McAllister had just published his first story, “The Faces Outside,” in both IF magazine and Simon and Schuster’s 1964 roundup of the best science fiction of the year. Confident, if not downright cocky, he thought the surveys could settle a conflict with his English teacher by proving that symbols weren’t lying beneath the texts they read like buried treasure awaiting discovery.

    tags: culture

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