Internet colleague Mr. IW notified me that Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad is conducting a little survey on his Web site, in a scientific attempt to understand the nature of sanity. Nay! He hopes to capture and re-purpose (for political reasons) the very essence of the naked mind.
Finding no better way to achieve this goal, he decided to conduct a survey of his reader(s).
At the time of writing this post, Mr. Floating Foam is tied for the most least sane with Dennis Rodman, a connection that scores free throws in my heart.
However, I must protest one thing. Mr. Floating Foam is my father. Call me F.
This clip from the Daily Show supports the claims of many that it is the premier news program on television, comedy or not. It simply provides more clearly conveyed context and insight in a few minutes than any other news program.
I mentioned in this earlier post that I write web code in an environment that must adhere to Section 508 standards, which means that accessibility is something always in the back of my mind.
In an effort to be trendy and slick, I’ve been toying around with ways to make my applications seem like they use AJAX, a method of using Javascript to bring data into a page without reloading it.
It was at the cross between accessibility and kickass that Crapjax was born.
Simply put, Crapjax only seems dynamic and is 100% accessible. Sure, to the seasoned web-geek, it doesn’t even seem dynamic. Fortunately for Crapjax, 99% of internet users don’t even know what AJAX is.
Anyway, I’ve created a few more examples of Crapjax in action. The first example is the same one from the last post. The second and third examples detail how to make fields appear disabled in a form.
This weekend I helped out with the first production of Inside Woodland TV, a new series of video interviews and segments by the guy who created popular local web site insidewoodland.com.
I won’t say any of it is very good, but, hopefully, it does fall just barely on this side of “watchable.”
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