"The CSS used for this layout is 100% valid and hack free. To overcome Internet Explorer's broken box model, no horizontal padding or margins are used. Instead, this design uses percentage widths and clever relative positioning."
"A new report, has after analysing the data, come up with a figure for the public health benefit offered by cycling. The study, Cycling: Getting Australia Moving, funded by the Australian government and prepared by Melbourne University and the Cycling Promotion Fund concluded that thanks to the increased health of cyclists, public health services are spared an estimated $227.2m AUD annually."
"In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”"
"this fifteen-minute Web 2.0 talk by Clay Shirky—about gin, television, the “cognitive surplus,” and the true answer to the annoying question in the title of this post—grabbed me and wouldn’t let go."
"Continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life"
"Picsviewr provides a wide variety of slideshows (currently 7) for viewing your Flickr photos with more flexibility.
"Today EA's Spore Creature Creator is available for download. It's a utility that lets users design their own creatures for the forthcoming "massively single-player" online game (release date right now for the full game is September 7 of this year). The Creature Creator is available as a $10 download for PC and Mac or as a free demo that includes roughly 25 percent of the options included in the full version. Check out PCMag.com for a slideshow of the Creature Creator in action; our Editor-in-Chief, Lance Ulanoff, has been playing with it for a while, so these are his very own creatures."
"Modbury was the first town in England to become a plastic-bag free zone and now Kew, a picturesque village in London, is joining the club. As a result of a local, high-profile campaign by the likes of Zac Goldsmith (founder of Ecologist magazine and local Conservative candidate), 50 local shops, including the Royal Botanical Gardens, have agreed to give up giving out plastic carrier bags as of July 1. Instead a cornstarch, biodegradable bag that is fully compostable will be made available for a small charge. Nice cotton shopping bags will also be available."
"My name is Matthew Wegner, and this site is dedicated to physics games."
