July, 2009

Links for July 30th

Ajaxian » The Doctor subscribes HTML 5 Audio cross browser support

This article shows how to use JavaScript to detect and serve the proper HTML5 markup for audio to the browsers that support it, including the proper codec. If the browser does not support HTML5 at all, it reverts to Flash.

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flash

audio

javascript

html5

Links for July 29th

Text Rotation with CSS

A great CSS technique for rotating text.

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typography

design

css

html

Links for July 26th

the Jesus Manifesto » All in “The Family” (an interview with Jeff Sharlet)

Strange interview about "The Family" and its power in Washington.

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culture

politics

People’s History of Christianity

July 25th, 2009

There is a great program for bloggers through The Ooze called TheOOZE Viral Bloggers, through which bloggers can review books.

Links for July 24th

{ speaking in styles } » Will 2010 Be The Year of Web Typography?

Let's hope so. I'm not holding my breath, but the potential for a robust web typography continues to look better than it has in the last ten years.

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technology

design

typography

Links for July 23rd

YouTube – Anonymity Project: The PostSecret Effect

This video is fantastic. I have mentioned it several times, but I think I have neglected to post it here. It has amazing things to say about what is going on in culture, and has much to us. I'm hoping many within Emergent will see this.

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culture

video

Links for July 22nd

John Resig – Computing with JavaScript Web Workers

"Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest version of web browsers. Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript in parallel on a web page, without blocking the user interface."

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javascript

programming

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I'm really thinking maybe I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much

Fake Steve Jobs examines the exploited labor that pays for our stuff. While he is sarcastic and brutal on the surface, as he should be, there is a genuine care here that is incredibly uncommon in a site as highly trafficked as his, and especially from a person that everyone knows writes for Newsweek.

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economics

human-rights

fake-steve-jobs

Cohorts of Emergence: Moving Beyond Recovery « Baptimergent

Many of us within Emergent Village have seen our cohorts in the same position mentioned in this post. Here, there are some great ideas for how Emergent Cohorts can move forward, beyond what we have thus far done with them into a new identity, with a great potential for practice and action in the things we talk about.

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ministry

emerging

church

emergent

What's a Christian to Think about Healthcare Reform? – The New Christians

Tony writes a good post here, asking what we should think about healthcare. Besides his own thoughts, there are a few (thus far) really insightful, compassionate, and forward-thinking (for the sake of the church, entrepreneurs, etc.) comments that are well worth a read.

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politics

healthcare

tony-jones

Jimmy Carter leaves the SBC

July 22nd, 2009

I want to bring specific attention here to the recent letter that Jimmy Carter wrote, concerning his departure from the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades, due to its doctrines concerning women.

Surgery update

July 20th, 2009

Recently, I wrote some things about Kiera's surgery, which at the time was upcoming and happened today.

Links for July 20th

Daring Fireball: Charging for Access to News Sites

Wise thoughts on the news media charging for online content. This has insights on why it is that the older news organizations have not learned how to function online, and the kind of news model can work.

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business

journalism

media

news