Posts tagged “culture & society” 

Most sites have exhaustive Privacy Policies detailing what information they collect and what they may do with it, which is why I find it bizarre that many of these same sites have chosen to hand over their users’ browsing habits to third parties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google without considering the implications.

What might progressive enhancement suggest in the world of culture and politics? It’s a subject I have been mulling over in my head for years and I thank Ben Hoh for finally coaxing it out of me.

For all intents and purposes, “HTML5” has become a meaningless catch-all marketing phrase defining a platform rather than a specification. It’s “DHTML” all over again.

Apologies for not posting links last week…between the holiday on Monday and spending all of Tuesday without power, I got a little behind.

Last week, Steve Jobs resigned and Twitter launched a resource for quickly building prototypes and apps. Also: solar power keeps getting cheaper and airports are going to the bees.

In this week’s link round-up, we bring you the reasoning behind Typekit’s font-loading strategy, two new CSS grid systems, a fantastic mashuip of Peanuts with Jaws, and the story of a woman ejected from a Houston bar for tweeting something the General Manager didn’t like. Happy reading!

From rethinking grid layouts to an HIV test that fits in your wallet and costs less than $1, we discovered a lot of great links last week.

Last week the U.S. teetered on the brink of economic collapse, but there were lots of goodies to think about and share too.

From losing 7 years of your digital life to squeezing the entire world into Texas, we found some amazing links last week. Enjoy.