Why are casino owners in popular media handsome young/middle-aged men? I have a feeling that most casino owners are old and unattractive.
Category: Journal
Cool Video
The scariest part is when the fire goes out, and everything goes silent. Science is cool.
HTML5
I usually get significantly more tech curious on the weekends or when I’m sick (basically any time when I’m spending lots of time at my computer). I’ve been hearing a lot lately about HTML5, the new web standard, especially about the new things that web designers will be able to do with multimedia and interactive elements on web pages without having to use plugins like Silverlight or Flash.
There’s a few cool demonstrations of this new capability here at http://html5demos.com/ Because of the standard, the only web browsers supported are Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
Web Browsers
Lately, my Firefox has been crashing more often than I’d like, and for some reason I can’t find a way to save crashed sessions. Even though I’m a Firefox fan, I’ve decided to give other web browsers a chance. I’ll be using a different browser as my primary web application every week.
Today, I’m starting with the first, Opera.
EDIT: I realized later today that this try-different-browsers thing isn’t actually going to take very long. I was actually going to give Internet Explorer 8 a try, but it appears to be Windows only (which makes sense, but also shows a lack of ambition). I already use/d Firefox, and after Opera, the only real contender out there is Chrome. If somebody specifically recommends a browser in the 5% “other” category, I might try it, but otherwise it’s down to Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
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