Chipping the web: November 12th

November 13th, 2008 6:01:32 am pst by Sterling Camden

• Roman history comes to life in Google Earth
  Planned for 2009: Microsoft Visigoths(tm).
  Thanks, John.
  Tags: google earth geography rome education googleearth maps
• Concerns of Dyslexic Evangelicals
  Don’t forget about “leading others to slavation”
  Tags: graphs graphjam religion dyslexia humor
• Google search terms can predict flu outbreaks; what next?
  Yet another unintended benefit of gathering and analyzing so much data. As Paul seems to imply, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
  Tags: google search information
• Give Up and Use Tables
  <table><tr><td>Thanks, Assaf.</td></tr></table>
  Tags: css tables layout webdesign humor webdev HTML
• Microsoft Security Patch Was Seven Years in the Making
  “These things must be done delicately… or you hurt the spell.”
  Tags: microsoft security patches

Tags: css, del.icio.us, dyslexia, earth, education, geography, google, googleearth, graphjam, graphs, html, humor, information, layout, maps, microsoft, patches, religion, rome, search, security, tables, webdesign, webdev

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2 Responses to “Chipping the web: November 12th”

1. Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. says:

   November 13, 2008 at 3:39 pm

   No more tables? Pish!

   7 1/2 years? Good golly miss molly. That’s ridiculous.

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     November 13, 2008 at 4:52 pm

     Various browsers have gradually added support for table-like display qualifiers to their CSS implementations, but it’s been a long time coming and it isn’t uniform.

     Yeah, Microsoft really dropped the ball on that one.

     Reply