Technology explorations

Check out this thing. It's called the "em chart" and it allows the quick application of the formula that you use to calculate relative "em"'s ... a measure of space in HTML. Web designers who use this sort of technique are making web page that scale properly when the user changes the size of the page. The other web designers ... we'll, they're designing shit.

Do you do Twitter API? If so, check out the Twitter API explorer. here.

One plus one equals two. Unless you are a JavaScript programmer. Go here to make fun of the JavaScript

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