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Blekko launches the biased search engine

Tired of generic search results? Blekko’s engine and philosophy really is different. Originally posted at Rafe’s Radar

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jQuery, ASP.NET, .NET and LINQ articles Link List – October 2010

Here’s a quick wrap up of the articles published on DevCurry.com in the month of October.jQueryStart and Stop an Animation in jQuery – Starting and Stopping a jQuery Animation is as simple as using the animate() and stop() functionsRetrieve DIV value… Continue reading

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Happy Halloween

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript got invited to a halloween party. They decided they would all dress up as each other!

HTML went as JavaScript:

<div id=”pumpkin” onclick=”alert(‘Boo!’);”></div>

JavaScript went as CSS:

var jackolantern = document.getElementById(‘pumpkin’);
jackolantern.style.color = “orange”;
jackolantern.style.backgroundColor = “black”;

CSS went as HTML:

#pumpkin:before {
content: “Happy Halloween!”;
}

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Rotating Molecules with 3D Transforms

Click-and-drag to rotate these complex objects through a pseudo three dimensional space. It’s a familiar design pattern, but one that is particularly difficult to pull off. No Flash, not even canvas. Just some fancy JavaScript and CSS (WebKit 3D … Continue reading

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Display Default Image when No Image Found

Here’s a solution to display a Default Image in the Image control, when the original image is not available. The same solution can be applied to both ASP.NET Image Controls as well as HTML image controlsASP.NET Image Control<asp:Image ID=”imgProd”… Continue reading

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Thank Copyright Infringers For Still Being Able To Hear Great Moments In World Series History

If you’re a baseball fan, you know that the World Series is going on right now, between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers (with the Giants looking damn good so far). On the night they won the League Championship Series to advance to the W… Continue reading

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Turns Out The Evil Halloween Candy Poisoners Was Just FUD That Got You To Buy Prepackaged Candy

When I moved into my current home a few years back, I discovered (a few weeks later) on Halloween that one of my neighbors is a professional choclatier, when a pair of insanely delicious home-made caramel candy apples were delivered to my house as a “r… Continue reading

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Reminder: Despite What You May Have Heard, Happy Birthday Should Be In The Public Domain

A little over two years ago, we had an interesting discussion about the copyright status of the song “Happy Birthday.” Now, you may have heard that the song is covered by copyright, by the estate of Patty and Mildred Hill (or, to quote a really old Aa… Continue reading

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Facebook holding mobile event next week

Despite shooting down rumors that the company was working on a mobile handset earlier this year, Facebook is holding a mobile-focused event at its headquarters next week. Originally posted at Web Crawler

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Free Speech vs. Anonymity Gone Wild: Women Suing Joe Francis Fight To Remain Anonymous

A lawsuit over the legality of a “Girls Gone Wild” video has turned into something of a free speech battle. Apparently four women who appeared in one of the famous videos as teenagers, are suing Joe Francis, the guy behind the whole GGW franchise. Th… Continue reading

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