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1000px Grid for Responsive Web Design

To figure out your grid width percentages for a fluid design, you start with a fixed design and divide the column widths by the container width. Elliot Jay Stocks calls for us to stop the self-torture and use 1000px for the container, so the math is super easy.

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The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy… They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism

Larry Lessig has an excellent article over at The Nation, that puts the events of January 18th into perspective. He talks about the Supreme Court’s Golan ruling, which rejects the idea that copyright is really limited in any way under the Constitution… Continue reading

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Can Reddit Write Legislation, Too? Proposes The ‘Free Internet Act’

I have to admit that one of the more fun aspects of watching what has happened over the past few months with the SOPA/PIPA debate is watching the Reddit community jump on this issue… and evolve with it. The thing with the Reddit community isn’t just… Continue reading

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Megaupload Users Plan To Sue… As Their Files & Data Are About To Be Destroyed

Soon after Megaupload was shut down, we heard from some lawyers for (legitimate) users of the service who were exploring whether or not they could sue the US government for taking away their access to the data. There was some uncertainty as to whether… Continue reading

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Apparently Veoh Isn’t Dead Enough For Universal Music; Asks For Rehearing Of Its Bogus Copyright Lawsuit

One of the key examples of what happens when you have bad, overly draconian copyright laws that burden companies falsely accused of infringement is Veoh. We’ve talked about them a bunch in the past, but Dmitry Shapiro, who had been CEO of the company,… Continue reading

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Entertainment Industy Back To Demanding That Search Engines Censor The Web… Through ‘Voluntary’ Measures

We’ve pointed out before that the short-term troubles of some legacy media players appears to have more to do with their own mistakes, rather than piracy. But they just keep on lobbying for more laws (none of which have actually worked). We’ve also p… Continue reading

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NBC News Doesn’t Understand Fair Use; Demands Mitt Romney Remove Ads That Use TV News Clips

Here we go again. Four years ago, during the presidential campaign, we had CBS News threaten the McCain campaign for using some news footage clips in a campaign ad. And here we are, four years later, with NBC Universal demanding that the Romney campa… Continue reading

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JavaFX 2 Presents the Quadratic Formula

I recently needed to check some homework answers related to use of the quadratic formula. After realizing that it was getting tedious to do these by hand, I thought of using my calculator to solve them. However, I realized that I could write a simple a… Continue reading

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The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… Not Shrinking

Announcing the release of our new research report, The Sky Is Rising

Today, in Cannes, at the Midem conference, I did a presentation that was something of a follow up to the presentation I did here three years ago, about how Trent Reznor’s experimen… Continue reading

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Using Wikileaks To Figure Out What The Government ‘Redacts’

We’ve talked in the past about the ridiculousness of the US government pretending that the State Department cables that were leaked via Wikileaks are still confidential. The reasoning, obviously, is that they’re afraid that declaring anything that’s b… Continue reading

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