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A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral or growth spiral is a special kind of spiral curve which often appears in nature. The logarithmic spiral was first described by Descartes and later extensively investigated by Jakob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, “the marvelous spiral.”

I have been experimenting with the new HTML5 canvas element and trying to get up to speed on the syntax.

Our latest project, launched November 12, was the Charter For Compassion. The “Collective,” the Flash component I built, is a growing list of compassionate acts done by people all over the globe.

By default (or at least in the default configuration provided under the LG TinyMCE extension for ExpressionEngine), TinyMCE will remove the alt attribute if it is empty. Obviously, for accessibility and validation reasons, this is highly undesirable and needs correcting.

I have had some ideas recently about creating an underwater type environment with actionscript. Not a fish tank thing. Ideally I would like deep sea primitive life forms, lots of environment noise from caustics, particles of plankton, light scattering, etc.

This decision by the W3C to not renew the charter for the XHTML2 Working Group has, rather unfortunately, brought out the worst in the Web standards community. Personally, I have mixed feelings about the decision.

After a stupid mistake that led to catastrophic data loss, Easy! Reader is back, has moved to a new platform, and will soon be graced by a few new voices.

As some of you have read (or heard), WaSP organized a Round Table discussion on IE8’s standards mode and its default behavior of opting-out any sites that don’t engage in version targeting.

In reaction to my latest article for A List Apart, on FigureHandler, many folks have boldly claimed that this sort of thing should be done server-side. Here are my thoughts on the matter.