An excellent Googlebomb

Sat, 2011-12-10 00:57 — Konstantin

Try searching Google for партия жуликов и воров (the party of swindlers and thieves). The top result is the official site of Единая Россия (United Russia), the political party of Putin and Medvedev.

This wonderfully descriptive slogan was recently coined by the political opposition in Russia, in the context of the country's latest fraudulent national elections.

Tear-off polls in Somerville

Sun, 2011-08-07 18:01 — Konstantin

Today, on at least two lampposts along Beacon Street in Somerville, I saw tear-off flyers that, instead of the typical offers of computer repairs or nanny services, presented polls.

The two questions I saw were "Would you raise a kid here?" and "Do you talk to your neighbors?" Below the questions, there were tear-off tabs, half "Yes" and half "No". (I didn't have a camera with me, unfortunately.)

This seems to be an ingenious (though totally unreliable) way to conduct a local poll. Does anyone have any idea as to who posted these and why?

UPDATE: (2011-08-14) Google reveals that these were done by a Somerville artist named Tim Devin. Here is his description of the surveys.

jquery-ajaxprogress

Downloads

Source

View and fork the full source on GitHub: https://github.com/kpozin/jquery-ajaxprogress

What is it?

This jQuery plugin provides access to the onprogress event of the XMLHttpRequest object available in modern browsers.

This allows you to get the information needed to visually show download progress when your web application is making a large AJAX request.

The code has been tested in recent versions of Chrome/Chromium and in Firefox 4.

Ikea Noir

Mon, 2011-06-20 22:56 — Konstantin

50mm, f/1.8, 1/100s, ISO 200

First attempts with the Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens.

Ikea Noir

Deep thoughts

Sun, 2011-06-19 22:26 — Konstantin

41 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO 400

Deep thoughts

Patience and Determination

Sun, 2011-06-19 22:10 — Konstantin

55mm, f/5.6, 1/250s, ISO 400

Patience and Determination

Busy at Lunchtime

Sat, 2011-05-28 11:55 — Konstantin

View full size.

Nikon D5000, 1/125s, f/8 at 55mm. Cropped.

Busy at Lunchtime

IE9 and string equality

Thu, 2011-05-05 21:41 — Konstantin

Dear IE9 team,

Do you know something about pointer comparisons that the rest of us are unaware of?

IE9 string comparison performance

Too much data

Thu, 2011-03-03 20:15 — Konstantin

I kind of wish the shuttle system's new GPS transmitters didn't include accelerometers.

128 Business Council shuttle tracker

(Screenshot from http://128bc.blirpit.com.)

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