Author: theazureshadow

If anyone doesn't have photoshop or the Gimp, or doesn't want to bother opening them up (because they take up so much system resources), and doesn't use IE…. I programmed some JavaScript color selectors. One based on the Red-Green-Blue channel model, which will help you understand how web colors work if you play around with…

Okay, those of you who have read the Scarlet Letter need to, without looking it up, tell me which of these spellings is correct. Don't look at other people's answers, just say what seems right to you. I'm curious. Roger Chillingsworth Roger Chillingworth I spelled it incorrectly throughout the entirety of my essay that I…

Stereotypically, it\’s the guy who doesn\’t remember when he first saw the girl; it\’s the guy who misplaces somewhere that golden feeling he had: she separates from the crowd, time lingers upon the moment, that first glance, and somehow she is special, he will remember her. Instead, it\’s Sarah who can\’t recall me from that…

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Has it been too long since my last truly-insightful personal entry? Yes it has. Am I about to make one now? Yes I am. Frabjous day. (Isn't it interesting that I know how to spell nearly all words that I've encountered, including absolutely nonsensical ones? No, not really: I just remember them as sequences of…

Well, this is a day late (because the internet was absolutely not working last night), but that\’s okay. Happy birthday, dear sister. I hope you had a lovely day. And now you\’re old! Heh heh heh. Here\’s your birthday present:

This is a touching discovery of a pair of 3000-4000 year old skeletons eternally locked in a tender embrace. Ann writes well of it, so I\’ll pass you along to her. [ read Ann\’s post ] [ read the article ]

It looks like the Bush administration has finally admitted that global warming might actually be a real problem: In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human activity is the main…

If you make one, it is likely that someone else has made the same mistake, in a more important setting. Take, for example, a common search and replace in an html page. If you have a bunch of <div> tags, and you want to replace them with more semantically correct <p> tags, you might do…

A few nights ago I had a dream. It was the most internally-consistent and plot-driven dream I have ever had, as far as I can remember. An excerpt: A few friends and I were standing in a dark forest. Above us, silhouetted against a twilit cliff face was a large puma. It turned towards us…