Scraps

“No one’s going to say he’s the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he’s not corrupt,” attorney Sam Adam Jr. said, as reported by the Chicago Tribune. “Think about who he was trying to extort. The president of the United States? Give me a break!”

“As much as I like him, and as much as he’s loved around the world, this is a man who considered appointing Oprah Winfrey,” he added.

Lawyer: Blago’s not ‘sharpest knife’ - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com

Blago’s lawyer is playing the “my client is stupid” card.

“In a ruling on [Arizona’s immigration enforcement law] that has rocked politics coast to coast and thrown a spotlight on a border state’s fierce debate over immigration, Judge Susan Bolton of Federal District Court here said that some aspects of the law can go into effect as scheduled on Thursday.

But Judge Bolton took aim at the parts of the law that have generated the most controversy, issuing a preliminary injunction against sections that called for police officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws and that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times.

Judge Blocks Parts of Arizona’s Immigration Law - NYTimes.com

Welcome to WDIM161 Week 3

wdim161:

Today we’re learning about Tumblr themes. Here’s some Latin.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit…

I’m giving a lecture to a slew of Intro to CSS students on Wednesday night on the joys of Tumblr theming. Hopefully I can boil everything down clearly and make the code fun; it would make me sad if anything was too confusing and/or overwhelming. 

On a related note, I graduate from college in 52 days. Weird.

“So why not build a desktop app for web design around WebKit? I’m not talking about an in-browser AJAX toolkit for dragging elements around and changing fonts, but an actual desktop application built with WebKit as the core to its display. It could have accurate rendering and previews for the way page elements would look, but with some of the WYSIWYG tools desktop design apps have. We wouldn’t just approximate pixels in a flat comp, our CSS would be baked in to the layouts we draw and create on the page. And as Webkit grows, so to could this new app, always taking advantage of the latest and greatest functionality. Just like a browser, it could pull assets from remote servers; and just like a desktop app, it could make use of local processing power and OS level functionality. This would allow it to effectively combine some of the best of both worlds, with a foot firmly planted in the web.

A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria

This would be magical.
obamarama: “Forget this party! Let’s go for a romantic jog around the residence…” (That was the caption I wrote. Then I looked up what was actually happening. This is on the Fourth of July. The First Couple are pretending to march to marching band music. Oh, man. Adorable. Truth usually wins.)

obamarama:

“Forget this party! Let’s go for a romantic jog around the residence…”

(That was the caption I wrote. Then I looked up what was actually happening. This is on the Fourth of July. The First Couple are pretending to march to marching band music. Oh, man. Adorable. Truth usually wins.)

Pure CSS collapsible tree menu

decodering:

The classic tree view, we all know it, it’s used everywhere and it definitely can be useful in the right context. I’ve seen various examples about doing it with CSS and they’ve all required JavaScript. Not content with any of those solutions I investigated doing it with pure CSS […]

Awesome!