The other day, a man was killed and two were mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo. The “men” were reportedly teasing the animal and throwing rocks. If so, they deserve to be attacked. I feel sorry for the tiger; it has to live in confinement its whole life, then gets shot dead by police. Most people will blame the zoo, I’m sure, but I’m confident that the victim is to mostly blame.
Strange how people can be so dumb with such obvious things such as large predatory animals. Like just a week before, a man in India died from blood loss after suffering injuries from a Tiger after sticking his arms in the zoo enclosure (to take a picture). Not too smart.
Tigers are cool.
Got an email a while back from an old friend back home in Michigan. Yes, it was one of those goofy lists, but many of them were funny. I’d modified a few of these for the better.
You know you’re from Michigan when…
- You find 32 degrees “a little chilly.”
- You drink pop and bake with soda.
- You know what a “Yooper” is.
- You go to Canada on your 19th birthday.
- You think owning a Toyota is un-American.
- “Vacation” means going up north on I-75. You measure distance in hours.
- You can drive 65 mph through a feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.
- You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
- You know it’s possible to live in “the thumb”.
My family shops at Target, you know, the huge American retail store. I really like that store (especially when there’s a Taco Bell or Starbucks inside). But I think their corporate image, at least for me, is in a serious decline. This is mostly due to a couple of lawsuits going on against the company.
In the world wide web industry, we should all be familiar with the NFB vs. Target lawsuit—the biggest case regarding web accessibility in the United States, thus far. Target is actually fighting to keep its web site away from users with disabilities, and technology limitations. This is like a store closing its doors to anyone with a visual, hearing, or motor impairment. How naive and shameful!
In the second lawsuit, the American tennis great (retired) Andre Agassi is seeking an injunction against Target for using his name without permission. Apparently Target is putting Agassi’s name on sandals without permission when they’ve already been asked to stop. How silly.
I had high expectations when I went to see the new movie Beowulf last weekend, and man, I was not disappointed. It was awesome! I saw it in IMAX 3D which made it even more incredible. Although there were a couple major changes to the original plot of the epic Beowulf poem, I think it was for the better.
Factoids:
- Beowulf is an old English epic poem thought to have been composed sometime in the middle ages. The poem tells the story of Beowulf and his battles against three different adversaries.
- The only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is the work of two, rather than one, scribes who transcribed the poem from another earlier manuscript and it now resides in the British Library.
- The truly epic poem Beowulf has survived through the centuries and is the only surviving example of Anglo Saxon heroic poetry.
- Despite being a mainly Scandinavian story with most of the storyline taking part in Scandinavia rather than England it has risen to become a national English epic.
- The poem consists of no less than 3,183 lines and the events described in the poem take place during the 5th or 6th Century.
I read numerous RSS feeds, mostly related to front-end web development. But there are a few that I read that are not tech-related…
By the way, I use NetVibes, an awesome personalized “home page” which can not only read and organize RSS feeds, but also blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and game widgets!
I performed a web site “tune-up” on my web company’s site, CheckEngine USA. It’s been almost two years since I launched the company and the web site. Because the site already implemented web standards, it took a short amount of time to do the work. What do you think?
Did you ever have an email address that you posted on a web site “stolen” from a damn spamming company, then have tons of spam sent to that address? Doesn’t that suck?!
If you have, then you’ve probably either removed the email link or tried protecting it with some method of tricking these “spambots”.
I just posted an article called Email Spambot Buster. It describes a great way of safely displaying an email address on a web site. It is accessible, uses progressive enhancement, and adds a couple neat bonuses.
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