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You probably think HTML5 is like HTML 4 because you’re an idiot dude! HTML 4 is a MARKUP language and document definition stupid, HTML5 is like an API + Markup + Rad! Also HTML5 doesn’t have a stupid space in it.

I’m just messing with you man sorry about that. So part of HTML5 is some new elements that are all like whooo! and yeah!

It’s pretty sweeet!

So anyway you get some new elements that are sooo great. Like the nav element. That one is pretty cool. Instead of just having an id=“nav” thing you can surround a ul with a nav element and that will make some sort of awesome.

Hold on! Hold on! Want to see some crazy shit… hold on! One second. Hold on.

<header>
<h1>Awesome Brand</h1>
</header>
<section id="listing">
<article>
<h1>Article title</h1>
<h2>The beginning of the end</h2>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Article title</h1>
<h2>The beginning of the end</h2>
</article>
</section>

Look at all those h1s! It’s like they took h1 and were like… GUITAR SOLO!

That’s crazy right? I mean you can use h1 because according to the HTML5 spec it’s semantically correct to do this because articles designate a new hierarchy within the hierarchy. It’s like the MATRIX but in HTML form yeah.

Then there’s like video and audio though.

Some people are all up in video’s grill though because there’s this one code, the H-2-6-9 and it’s proprietary but then there’s Ogg which isn’t proprietary but sounds like what the Vikings used to drink on pirate ships. It’s all like “I’m Ogg! I’m coming to eat your babies!” then the other one is all like I’m H-8-6-7-5-3-0-9 and I’m a robot who just wants to love. Then it turns out the audio element shows up at the end with a gun because nobody is talking about him and is all like “You’ve had the attention for too long Ogg & Robot!” and the two video codecs kill audio and learn to love each other and birth video.

So you got all these new elements and your all like “FUUUUUUUCK dude” I can’t use them in IE because it totally blows hooker hippos! But dude check this out, dude check it. You just have to use a little bit of JavaScript. You can find that here.

hahahah made you look, why do you like donkeys so much? No I’m just playin’ man. The script is here.

Yeah but… no, HTML5 isn’t just the markup language and some people forget that, not me but some people do yeah.

So HTML5 is like a whole applications suite, like the Adobe Creative Suite except when large groups of people who make browsers try to implement HTML5 it actually works. NO! I’m just playin’ man I love Adobe, I think it’s great material for building ovens that end up burning people. No ok I’ll stop. Wait one more. I love Adobe because I also confuse the word feature with excellence. NO I’m kidding I’m so sorry I’ll stop. OK, I’ll stop alright.

CSS3 isn’t HTML5 either. So your border-radius showin’ doesn’t make you the future.

So there’s a couple pieces all on display right here.

OH DUDE! Got you again! That was just the same donkey search. Why do you like donkeys so much? Seriously.

No seriously though, everything you need to know about HTML5’s elements are here. You can make some pretty mean tag soup with that brew right there.

But you know that because you’re smarter than I am man. I mean I mean you’re smarter than I am so you know that there’s an entire built-in canvas element which people are saying is totally going to add this whole new animation layer and replace Flash and I’m all like it’s not going to replace Flash so why don’t you go fight a bull instead of spew its shit or something you idiot. Flash is just another means to an end and I’m so tired of hearing it. Also I don’t understand why everyone is talking about Flash again, I mean it’s not like Flash hasn’t been around for 10 years and we all know what it can and can’t do. Does anyone expect Flash to stick around forever? I don’t. I don’t expect windows or OS X or any of that to stick around. I don’t expect me to stick around. Do you ever think about that? Not sticking around? Sometimes I do. People are all concerned about Flash because they use it to watch Glee on Hulu and I’m like come over here and I’ll sing for you but nobody laughs they just don’t laugh. Then I’m all like “argh, Laugh!” and they just don’t. But I don’t think Flash will live long no, but I don’t think it’s satan reincarnate or like Satan 2: Wrath of Satan.

Speaking of bullshit I once saw a bullfighter get totally nailed by a bull by the way. It was crazy! The bull just went straight for the fucker and he flipped in the air and I’m pretty sure you can see some guts.

Your probably all like, awesome man can I find out where people are and I’m all like Yeah! They’re adding this crazy Geolocation JavaScript API thing where you can like find out where people are.

Then you’re all like woah what about that crazy input type=‘search’ and im like WHAT ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR? YOUR DEADBEAT DAD? and your like no, donkeys.

So anyway there’s all these new form elements that do things like password do. Once again Marky Mark has it all down

Then there’s things like the placeholder attribute for form elements where you can put filler text for forms, like “Search” and it works all nice and stuff. It’s all here although I’m not sure if you can translate alien duuude.

So cookies are eventually going to go away too, but not those cookies because I was totally worried for a second when I read that. But yeah, no not those cookies, no. Browsers are going to have built in native storage which is like totally database-esque but some dudes are worried because they’re afraid it’s not secured but it’s working right now in Safari and others. It’s for like cookies and sessions and stuff or reading stuff offline like donkey sites. So that will totally replace cookies which sound AWESOME right now by the way. That’s also a part of HTML5 which is crazy and NOT just markup like the p element. Haha p.

p

p

hahaha awesome!

So anyway that’s pretty much the summary of where we’re at right now. Not everything works everywhere but ayspoi seems lise it will go and see you!

Advance planning that leads to the security of the citizens of the country is always welcomed, more especially if it is something related with the natural catastrophes. These natural disasters are simply unpredictable and dealing with them looks like an insurmountable task.

Though hugely expensive, but it is worth taking over, for the millions of people residing in the realm of such dangers. Best example is regarding the inhabitants of the metropolitan city of Saitama, Japan, who had been facing the water calamities very often.

The technical engineers in Japan had come up with an extra-ordinary storm water management solution in the year 1992, which is the amazing underground system that effectively deals with the flood water and prevents the area from the massive damage to lives and properties.

It is called The Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel, constructed to minimize the damage caused by heavy rainfall or typhoons. Since 1979, the city had faced six major floods, two of which were from typhoons. So this particular underground system has been set up with specific responses to an above ground occurrence. According to experts, this sewer water discharge channel is set to minimize the flood effect by 80%.

The overall design of the system is outstanding, standing tall at 25.4m (83 feet), 78m (255 feet) wide and 177m long (580 feet). The total structure appears to be more of a set erected for English blockbusters, as if taking us into those James Bond movies, etc.

Although it was completed years ago, this amazing system has not been used yet for the said purpose, but is surely an attraction for the tourists.

<Taken from World of Technology Blog>

Recently created by Archivirus Architecture and Design, the Ramp House is a response to the client’s request for a “skateable habitat”.

According to architect Athanasia Psaraki, the Ramp House is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The result of the client’s request is a curved form interior, which “set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion”.

In the space, which is a roof addition to an existing three-storey building, she tries to achieve a balance between old and new. The dominant material was wood, so a wooden pergola and wooden horizontal louvers surround the new structure, connecting the old and new.

The architect wanted the ‘skateboarding’ element to be more than simply putting a mini ramp in the living room. Rather, the ramp, the bowl and all the interpretations of those terms would actually become the building elements for this space. It is intended to be a ‘ramp house’ and not a ‘house with a ramp’. Straight lines are curved and the flat surface becomes a ramp or a bowl. Basic house elements such as the fireplace and storage units are hidden inside the ramp forms.

The street aesthetics of the skate scene are combined with a home atmosphere by combining concrete and wood. Concrete walls mould into the floor and concrete turns into wood to create a ramp partition with the kitchen. In that way, says the architect, somebody can flow from one space to the other, skating or walking.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

Theo Jansen is an artist and kinetic sculptor living and working in Holland. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. In the current BMW commercial Jansen says “The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds”.

From his website:

Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

Check these detailed and intricate robot sculptures made by Jeremy Mayer.

Mayer builds his amazingly detailed sculptural creations entirely from parts found on old typewriters. His human and animal organic forms give new life to the cold metal of these mechanical relics. The Tahoe City, California artist disassembles old typewriters and then reassembles them without glue, solder or welding. His organic, metallic sculptures are a reflection of his fascination with how scientific progress continues to lead us towards the emulation of nature in technology.

Be sure to head on over to Jeremy Mayer’s online portfolio to see many more photos of his elaborate sculptures. Mayer is next expected to exhibit his works at La Jolla’s Device Gallery in the Summer of 2009.

If you’re cruising down an open desert road this weekend in a convertible and you start hearing the theme to “The Lone Ranger,” the hot sun isn’t playing tricks with your mind. You’re grooving on the Civic Musical Road – a quarter-mile stretch of asphalt that’s been altered – rhythmically – to produce “The William Tell Overture” when a car passes over it.

Part of a promotional campaign for the Honda Civic, it’s one of only four in the world – and the only such road in the United States.

“I hear it every day. It’s kind of cool to be part of history,” said David Gilroy, 43, a carpenter who lives near the noteworthy strip of highway.

“The way I look at it, there’s only four in the world, and one in the U.S., and it’s right here by my home.”

Some motorists pass through the stretch three, four or five times to hear the sound effect, made by specially cut grooves in the asphalt that emit different sounds as the tires pass over them. The concept is similar to a record player needle gliding across a vinyl LP. The grooves were configured to create the music at 55 mph, the posted speed limit. The road, about six miles west of downtown Lancaster on Avenue K between 62nd and 70th streets west, has attracted curiosity seekers who have seen YouTube videos of the phenomenon.

Lancaster resident P.J. Walker on Friday snapped a picture of her silver 2002 Honda Civic parked next to the sign marking the start of “The Civic Musical Road.”

“It would be fun if they did it in different places all over with different songs,” Walker said. “Something from the Beatles maybe, like `Yesterday,”‘ she mused as she started humming the first notes of the Lennon and McCartney classic.

But the road has not been music to some residents’ ears. In fact, complaints have been so vociferous that city officials plan to pave it over Tuesday. Detractors say it sounds nothing like the classic symphony by Gioacchino Rossini, but an unrecognizable screech that keeps them awake at night.

“I think it’s terrible because it keeps me awake at night,” said Donna Martin, a 53-year-old retired budget analyst who lives about a quartermile from the road. “It’s all I hear night and day, and it’s not a pretty sound.

“You can kind of tell it’s music, but it’s not any tune or notes. It’s a scratchy sound, a high-pitch drone.”

Brian Robin, who lives about a half-mile away, said it sounds like an orchestra that’s constantly out of tune. “When you hear it late at night, it will wake you up from a sound sleep. It’s awakened my wife three or four times a night,” Robin said.

Llano resident Peggy Hager said it sounded like a “high-pitched whine.” She couldn’t identify the score, but knew it was a tune because it had a beat and rhythm. “I think it’s kind of cool,” Hager said. “When you are driving out on Avenue K, you’re going out to the middle of nowhere. It’s kind of a nice surprise to come across this thing.”

Similar “melody” or “singing” roads have been built in Japan, South Korea and Holland. Honda’s ad agency, Santa Monica-based RPA, decided to incorporate the peculiar music-making method into a Civic commercial that will air nationally in late September.

“Honda is an advanced engineering company, and we thought it would be fun to connect that to the Civic marketing campaign,” RPA Senior Vice President and Executive Producer Gary Paticoff said.

Pauline East, the Antelope Valley Film Office’s liaison, said the location was picked after Honda said it wanted a sense of community and city lights from one angle, and a feeling of openness from the other. The city approved the project as part of its overall effort to encourage more film and television production.

Half-inch-deep, one-inch- wide grooves were notched into the road at specific intervals so that a vehicle traveling over them produces various tones, said Ray Hunt, Lancaster’s capital engineering manager.

“It’s similar to the rumble strips along center medians,” Hunt said. “They did test strips to identify the spacing needed to create the sound they wanted.”

Honda spokesman Chris Martin said the singing road was designed to be heard optimally in a Honda Civic. “It’s engineered for the Civic, for that type of tires and length of vehicle,” Martin said.

The roadwork was completed Sept. 5. Soon after that, people started complaining.

The city had been told at the beginning that only motorists inside their cars would experience the sound, but the noise carried farther than expected, city officials said.

“Was it historic? Yes. Maybe the wrong location? Obviously,” East said. “We thought it was far enough away.”

From LA Daily News

Restaurant Sign In China

OM NOM NOM.

I love their Segfault Chicken. And their Short Stack Overflow is to die for. Ooooh, and their 404 Not Pound Cake.

Seriously, I love this stuff. Obviously they used an online translation service that errored out and gave them this.HA HA – the machines take revenge.

Here the link to the interview aired this weekend on CNN’s iReport

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