Author: Jon
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Interesting Web Platform Bugs
This is mainly for my own purposes, so I don’t have to hunt through Bugzilla and Peter Beverloo’s blog to find the one I’m looking for. Feature Webkit Rev. landed Firefox Rev. landed Notes Line Grid 76197 105176 N/A N/A Kyoto Proposal New Flexbox 62048 N/A 666041 N/A Grid Layout 60731 N/A 616605 N/A […]
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Recipe for a British TV Science Documentary
Time-lapse footage of the natural world: the sun rising, ice melting, trees moving in the wind. Ponderous voice-over introduction with vague description of the topic at hand. Footage of people walking around the streets of a city. Scientist in the street, staring silently into the camera. Scientist in the street, posing awkwardly and staring into […]
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Race For The South Pole by Roland Huntford
I recently finished reading Race For The South Pole by Roland Huntford. Prior to reading the book I knew little of polar exploration, and was only vaguely aware of the Captain Scott legend via its permeation of British popular culture. I knew roughly that Scott had lead a failed antarctic expedition of some sort, and in particular […]