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Processing in JavaScript

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I've been wanting to play with Processing for some time, although time has been in short supply for awhile now. Anyway, maybe now that it's been ported to JavaScript I can find a way to play around with it. From Wired:

John Resig, JavaScript Evangelist for Mozilla and creator of the JQuery library, has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript. We cover a lot of language and software developments here at Compiler, but this might be the most impressive thing we've ever seen.

If, like me, you’ve never head of the Processing language until today, here’s a quick overview: Processing is an open source programming language for people who want to work with images, animation, and interactions.

Processing has three components, the language, the drawing API and the implementation (typically through Java). Resig’s port uses regular expressions to convert the Processing language to JavaScript for display in your browser. The second part of his project handles the full 2D Processing API.

The result enables you to take advantage of the Processing language without ever needing to write a line of code in it, which is pretty amazing (and you can pass in Processing commands directly if you want to).


God, Bless America?

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yep

Consider this reality: The omnipresence of "God bless America" as a political slogan is an entirely recent phenomenon. We know because we've run the numbers. Analysis of more than 15,000 public communications by political leaders from Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 — the beginning of the modern presidency — through six years of George W.

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Wow, this would've been pretty awesome Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org
From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included: design documents, email archives, employee phone numbers, sales figures, internal meeting notes, corporate newsletters, and the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made. For obvious reasons, I can't share the whole Infocom Drive. But I have to share some of the best parts. It's just too good. So let's start with the most notorious — Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For the first time, here's the full story: with never-before-seen design documents, internal emails, and two playable prototypes. Sit back, this might take a while.

Testing Photo Galleries

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WP2.5 has a nice gallery feature, let's see if it works. [gallery]

It's a Madhouse.... A MADHOUSE

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In honor of Charlton Heston, I give you his greatest work, trimmed of everyone else's bullshit -- HESTON OF THE APES

The Real Reagan

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Sadly, No! » The Beast is Red, Chapter 12: Show Us Your Twits
...the Reagan around which this conservative circle is jerking is a myth, a fabrication, a fiction. The real Reagan raised taxes (or rather engaged in “revenue enhancements”), presided over a massive recession, cut and ran when faced with bloody terror attacks, talked constantly about a balanced budget and a line-item veto but did nothing about them, and “won” the Cold War by spending nonexistent money that would be handed down to his heirs, never to be paid off, as if this were somehow more fiscally conservative than the tax-and-spend model with which he vilified Democrats. Reagan’s strength as a paragon of conservativism is identical to Christopher Reeve’s strength as Superman, a pleasant fiction propped up with special effects and made believable by the empty shell upon which it was impressed. This is, by no means incidentally, the reason the CPAC crowd loves Romney so much: he is their new Ulrich, their man without qualities, upon whom they can press the rubber mask of Reagan.

Oops.

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Studies Say Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline | Wired Science from Wired.com
When all relevant factors are accounted for, biofuels produce more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels. So conclude two studies published yesterday in Science, adding to a growing body of research suggesting that crop-based fuels, once hailed as a clean answer to oil, are not a magic green bullet.

Kennedy on FISA

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Earlier today on the Senate floor:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retroactive immunity. No immunity, no new FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he is willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies. The President’s insistence on immunity as a precondition for any FISA reform is yet another example of his disrespect for honest dialogue and for the rule of law.
I can't decide who I like less, Bush or the telco companies. At least Bush is term-limited.

The reason indeed

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From here

Awesome

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Creationism never gets old: Sadly, No - Jesus Rode A Dinosaur — In Space