Monthly Archives: October 2006

We Can’t Believe Our Eyes

October 27, 2006
Two great web pages, one educational and one merely instructional, show what miraculous things can be done to the human face with some Photoshop work and perhaps a little professionally applied makeup. . .
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Learning jQuery

October 15, 2006
Over the past month or so I’ve been having an affair of sorts. No, not THAT kind of affair. I’ve just been splitting my time between English Rules and my new techie blog, Learning jQuery. jQuery is a new JavaScript library that lets programming neophytes like me do cool things on web pages. It’s what has allowed me to dynamically load “noteworthy articles” and my “blogroll” in the Widescreen Bonus section of my web pages. It made my secret, Harry Potteresque, skeleton-key style switcher pretty easy to accomplish. And it helped me slick up the home page of the David LaGrand for State Senate web site with images that fade in and out and big buttons that reveal forms for ordering bumper stickers and yard signs.
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THIN

October 14, 2006
When my former student (and current friend) Nicole Tieri sent out an email message a few days ago describing her concerns about a new documentary airing next month, I thought that her thoughts deserved wider circulation. Here is what she had to say…
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The Book Store Game

October 4, 2006
Here’s a fun new game that I just made up this morning. Go to a book store and find the New Releases section. It should be staring you in the face as soon as you walk through the door. Now, start reading the dust jackets and inside flaps of as many books as you can as fast as you can and don’t stop until you find one that does NOT contain at least one of the following words…
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Amazing Leaping Ability

October 1, 2006
I’m not sure what this says about me, but one of my favorite techie blogs lately has been Popgadget, which is all about “personal tech and innovative lifestyle for women.” Last week they featured one of the coolest gadgets I have seen in a long time — so cool in fact that it makes the Segway look dorky. Well, I suppose the Segway makes the Segway look dorky. Anyway, according to Popgadget, Powerisers jumping stilts let you “leap up to almost 6 feet high and … run up to 20 miles an hour without having to grow wings” …
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