Actually, the non-block. David Carson’s post Android uses WebKit, reveals one reason why Safari 3 appears so much faster than the previous version: they simply don’t block rendering while waiting for resources that traditionally block other browsers. Current browser implementations normally block rendering while waiting to download stylesheets and external javascript as evidenced in the recommendations made by Steve Souders in his book High Performance Websites.
Animated events especially highlight new efficiencies in their Javascript implementation. Slide effects or animation on the page are butter-smooth compared to other browsers. They feel almost client-like. Safari 3 is such a marked improvement, I use it as my daily browser in OSX, supplanting Opera, which is a real shame since I’m one of only a handful of people who actually use Opera at the day job. Installing Adsubtract and GreaseKit help to round out some missing features due to the move.
Question: I need 100 ways to say “I love you” to my girlfriend. We made a bet last night that I couldn’t come up with 100 and I can’t lose! Help me pa-pa-pa-pa-please non-expert. —Rod
Answer: Here’s the way to say “I love you”: rarely. To say it a hundred ways is to cheapen a pure sentiment; to place a bet with your girlfriend on your ability to do just that is to participate in a culture that has commoditized affection and thrown it into the remainder bin; and to ask someone else to come up with your hundred ways represents love at its nadir—pure romantic sloth. Why not deep-fry a bag of candy hearts and toss them on the rug for her to eat?
“It gets even better and more poetic from there”:http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/the_nonexpert/how_to_say_i_love_you.php. A terrific essay by Paul Ford.
From the “excerpt”:http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/gilbert/excerpts.html :
What would you do right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes? Would you race upstairs and light that Marlboro you’ve been hiding in your sock drawer since the Ford administration? Would you waltz into your boss’s office and present him with a detailed description of his personal defects? Would you drive out to that steakhouse near the new mall and order a T-bone, medium rare, with an extra side of the really bad cholesterol? Hard to say, of course, but of all the things you might do in your final ten minutes, it’s a pretty safe bet that few of them are things you actually did today.
Definitely not a self-help book and more cognitive psychology (thankfully). I’m fairly late to the party, but I like what I’ve read so far.
“Redditors comment on the Netflix recruiting page”:http://reddit.com/info/5yhx5/comments/.
Favorite comment of the bunch:
“Translation: You will do the work of two people with very little guidance among a bunch of other cut-throat type-A personalities. Where do I sign up!”
Hilarious, almost true, but in a completely positive way (I’m a UI Engineer for them during the day).
I’ve decided to give twitter another chance, thanks to “Adam Engst’s humble pie eating article”:http://db.tidbits.com/article/9228 on why he changed his mind about the service. My personal theory goes like this: just as the service itself through word of mouth, buzz and the network effect created a tipping point that catapulted it in popularity, each individual user has a tipping point, usually manifested through the network effect when enough of their family, friends or colleagues are using the service and tweeting interesting enough information that makes it worth their while to listen or chime in.
At the moment when I tweet, I feel as though I am sticking my head out of the window of a highrise apartment and yelling at the top of my lungs ‘I’m going to the bathroom now!’, so I’ve yet to summit that epiphanic moment that millions of other people have apparently already reached.
By the way, Adam Engst was one of the oldest names I remember from my first experiences with the Internet, way back in ‘93-’94 when I used to subscribe to TidBITS via email using my Mac Performa 400. After finishing the article, it was nice to recall his name after all these years.
This “rotating figure of a woman”:http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html is a fantastic optical illusion that has been making the rounds recently. The trick to changing the direction of rotation (at least for me), is to focus on the pivot foot (the one that stays still relative to the middle). The point at which the foot is hidden behind the leg is when you can attempt the mental switch to rotate in either clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
I am somewhat dubious to the idea that any particular brain hemisphere is responsible for the rotational attitude however. The description, or lack thereof, sounds plausible enough, but seems just too pat.
