Extra Future

Day: December 9, 2014

  • Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Full-text searchable version of the CIA torture report][link]. The monsters that put this into place and the monsters that carried it out should not have a place in any society. The Bush administration put these “techniques” into place, and the Obama administration made the people who did it immune to prosecution. I am disgusted and…

  • Playing With My Son

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    Phil Nelson
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    [“What happens when a 21st-century kid plays through video game history in chronological order?”][link] An experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting by Andy Baio. [link]: https://medium.com/message/playing-with-my-son-e5226ff0a7c3 “Playing With My Son — The Message — Medium”

  • No CSS

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    Phil Nelson
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    I’m turning off my stylesheets for the rest of 2014. And probably some of 2015. It’s an experiment. Plus it will force me to do a full redesign when the time comes. We used to do this kind of stuff all the time before the internet got all serious and everyone started pretending to know…

  • Big, Beautiful Dropcaps with CSS initial-letter

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Nice post from Dudley Storey on the new CSS proposal for initial-letter][link]. CSS typography has come a long way in the previous 5 years but we’re still in the woods with a lot of the things that print media take for granted. [link]: http://demosthenes.info/blog/961/Big-Beautiful-DropCaps-with-CSS-initial-letter “demosthenes.info – Big, Beautiful Dropcaps with CSS initial-letter”