Monthly Archives: February 2008

Better Form Validation Through Clever Javascript

Client-side form validation is a pretty regular thing nowadays.  Every site you visit most likely does things slightly differently from adding a red star to providing a cryptic summary box at the top of the screen to simply sending the … Continue reading

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3,100,000,000,000

See here and also here. NPR’s got a good breakdown of the spending.  Some highlights: $515,000,000,000 is the operating budget for our military $56,000,000,000 is the operating budget for our education system Thankfully, money is being poured into nuclear power … Continue reading

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You Should Watch “God Grew Tired of Us”

Last night my wife and I rented “God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan“. The film tells the tale of three displaced youths who walked hundreds of miles from their homes in Sudan to Kenya … Continue reading

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Frozen Flashmob

This is pretty cool. A group called Improv Everywhere has a new short movie where they stand in place at Grand Central in New York City for five minutes. Passers-by are video-recorded.

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