Apr 29 2009

Glowing Dogs

Glowing Puppy
It turns out that scientists in South Korea have somehow inserted fluorescent genes into a dog egg, and implanted the eggs into some mix breed dog. What was born was puppies with somehow glowing faces and bellies.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-skorea-cloned-dogs,0,4002700.story

Doesn’t this cause some sort of problem for the dogs to sleep properly? I wonder if this is the case, or if the dog isn’t able to detect the light it emits.




Apr 24 2009

Rounded Corners

One of the most popular Web 2.0 practices is rounded corners. How do you get them without uploading images, and nesting DIV’s, and worrying about other complications that can break your precious rounded corners?

Answer! jQuery Corners

jQuery Corners is compatible with Firefox, Internet Explorer 6+, Safari (including iPhone), Google Chrome, and Opera 9.0. All it takes is a simple jQuery style selector call such as the following:

<script>
$(document).ready( function(){
$('.rounded').corners();
});
</script>

<div style=”background-color:#acc; padding:5px” class=”rounded”>
Simple Example
</div>

You can also experiment further with documented options to change the radius (amount of curve) for the rounded corners, and will even show properly if there is a background image specified inside of the object with rounded corners.

Available for download at http://plugins.jquery.com/project/corners

Documentation provided at http://www.atblabs.com/jquery.corners.html




Apr 10 2009

Brownies

brownies

Mmmmm…. Brownies!!!