- It’s Not a League of Their Own: Boston Dirt Dogs has an excerpt from the 2008 Red Sox Annual in which the authors size up the Sox’ competition in the American League. On the whole, it’s pretty interesting I guess, but the best part is that the section on the Orioles is just one long reference to The Wire. And if you read a little further down there’s another Wire reference that’s masquerading as a pithy statement about the economics behind your brand new Tampa Bay
DevilRays:
My economics are rusty, but when you have an inferior product in a saturated, inelastic market, one strategy is to re-brand the product. Therefore, exit the Devil, and their aqua uniforms, to be replaced by the San Diego Padres kits with blue replacing sand brown.
Stringer Bell is alive and well in the sports pages, folks.
- WebKit gets 100% on Acid3: “Yesterday’s news” you say? Nope. The news today is about Webkit/GTK. Awesome news for us LXers. Also, definitely take a look at this account of the main Webkit team’s road to 100/100. It’s got some fun insights for spectators of the race between Webkit and Opera for full Acid3 compliance. And for some (probably much-needed) perspective, here’s one Mozilla-er’s take on the Acid3 arms race.
- JavaScript Talk at Northeastern: It’s a video of John Resig’s recent talk at Northeastern on Javascript and jQuery. What are you still doing here?