Michael Stillwell

Advertising a new store via Facebook: photos of products are uploaded, and if you are the first to tag, you own it--but the tagged photos appears in your feed, for friends to see. - Michael Stillwell

Voicemail instructions. - Michael Stillwell

How much it costs to call various 07xx, 08xx numbers on O2. - Michael Stillwell

More detail and quotes from the leaked emails, as well as some discussion about the quality of the climate-modelling software. - Michael Stillwell

"XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents. As described in Chapter 1, “Data Model”, the XSLT processor is concerned with three XPath data model trees: the source tree, the stylesheet tree, and the result tree." - Michael Stillwell

To launch in January 2010: supposedly monitors your sleep cycles and wakes you when you'll feel least groggy. (Wristband hardware + bluetooth alarm via a smartphone.) - Michael Stillwell

Sometimes, especially when trying to access it with IMAP clients, you need to verify your account on the website using this form. - Michael Stillwell

Wraps text around images. Almost certainly going to lead to problems, but might need to find this sometime... - Michael Stillwell

On H1N1, and the curiously different responses of governments: "Each of these countries has produced different medical explanations for its actions, and each medical explanation is widely perceived to be a cover for political machinations, at least by the opponents of the relevant government." Oh WHO: "And hardly anyone knows what to make of the WHO or its Web site. Is the word "pandemic" just medical bureaucratese for a cough and a sore throat? Or does it mean that everyone who isn't vaccinated will die?" - Michael Stillwell

On Merkel's successes: "But Merkel provokes no jealousy or competitiveness among the alpha males who run large countries, and she inspires no fear among the citizens of smaller ones." - Michael Stillwell

"There are no individuals on Overheard in New York. Everyone gets a generic label: Guy, Kid, Hipster, Hobo, Queer. (Sometimes these are cruel: Anorexic, Fat Guy, Meathead.) As they're depersonalized—stripped of context, body language, tone of voice—the dirty, neurotic, local characters of the city start to seem archetypal; their comments take on universal resonance." - Michael Stillwell

"The only variant behavior has to do with the XHR when there is no Expires or a future Expires. IE 7&8 do not re-request the XHR when there is no Expires or a future Expires, even if control-F5 is hit. Opera 10 does not re-request the XHR when there is no Expires." "Developers should either set a past or future expiration date on their XHRs, and avoid the ambiguity and variant behavior when no expiration is specified." - Michael Stillwell

Comprehensive series of browser tests to see what your XHR implementation does in different situations. (If conditional request, etc.) - Michael Stillwell

"Unfortunately for I.A.A.F. officials, they are faced with a question that no one has ever been able to answer: what is the ultimate difference between a man and a woman? “This is not a solvable problem,” Alice Dreger said. “People always press me: ‘Isn’t there one marker we can use?’ No. We couldn’t then and we can’t now, and science is making it more difficult and not less, because it ends up showing us how much blending there is and how many nuances, and it becomes impossible to point to one thing, or even a set of things, and say that’s what it means to be male." - Michael Stillwell

"Offsets, he argues, are distracting people from making more significant behavioral changes, like flying less." - Michael Stillwell