Behold the Jaw!

My friend Mike challenged me to make a bust out of clay and this is what I did. I challenge anyone out there who's reading to do the same and send me your pics to post too. Let's sculpt some busts!!!

IE Friendly Non-Compliant Code that Still Validates

I was working on a webpage recently, and as usual, IE was the only browser giving me fits. I used an object tag to embed a video player, and IE wasn't rendering it. So, to get around this problem, I used IE's conditional comments. This is a very common reaction, but most people I've seen online jump through all kinds of hoops to provide an object tag that works in IE and a different one for everyone else. I think it's ridiculous to do so much work for such a crappy browser, so I decided to use an iframe for IE and an object for everyone else. Since the iframe is hidden in the conditional comments, the markup validates, since the only real markup not hidden is the web standards compliant object tag. If IE refuses to get with web standards, why should we try to write compliant code for it? Since the conditionals hide all the non-compliant IE code in the comments, they don't interfere with validation. Here is my code below:

/* This code gives an iframe for all IE. This code is commented out and not read in validation */
<!--[if IE]><iframe src="http://objectlocation.com/location" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><![endif]-->
/* This code is NOT commented out, and is what all browsers that aren't IE will see, and is read in validation. This code should be compliant. */
<!--[if !IE]>--><object data="http://objectlocation.com/location" type="text/html" width="800" height="600"></object><!--<![endif]-->

"This is what the bear might have looked like..."

Unbelievable that this passes for journalism. "Do a story where the bear isn't."

KILL KILL KILL ver. 2

Flash Game I made. Updated to get faster in waves, and end the game if you fail to click a single ant in a wave.

Object-Oriented Conversation

I think you know what I'm talking about.

Oh come on, do you really think she's that stupid.

In fact I do.

We both know what you mean by that.

What do you mean?

I mean what you think I mean.

Now you're just showing off.

But I always have, haven't I?

You don't know what you're talking about.

You can't deny it.

Sure, but who'd want to?

*She* always did. But that's over now.

Thanks to you.

Hell yeah, thanks to me, she wouldn't have even talked to him if it wasn't for me.

But you knew what you were doing.

I knew what she'd do.

No you didn't, but you hoped.

And I was right.

Well, its all moot now.

Isn't it?

Yes, it is.

You would know.

What's that supposed to mean?

It's just that you always say what's expected of you.

I don't think that's true.

Proving my point exactly.

I don't want to talk about this anymore.

Then what should we talk about? You're the one who brought it up.

No, I didn't.

Well, who can remember. The point is -

The point is that I don't like all these insinuations.

Then let's talk about something else.

Fine. Let's.

WuW D.C.

I just got back from almost being trapped in Washington D.C. I was there Thursday through Sunday for two performances from Wake up World we did at the Arlington Draft House. The shows went well, but when we tried to leave Sudnay morning, our driver almost couldnt get out of the city because the Secret Service had shut down all the roads. It was also a bit of a shock to see the title of one of our movie posters on the headline of USA Today the next morning.