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My argument against Proposition 8 - Chris Messina
"I don’t believe that laws should codify discrimination. Our history as a nation has been blighted by both gender and racial discrimination, and now we’re facing discrimination against the makeup of certain families — specifically those of same-sex couples. Good law should strive to be non-ideological; discrimination is nearly always ideologically driven.
Second, if marriage as an institution stems from a religious foundation, but is represented in law, by the principle of the separation of church and state and presuming the importance of tolerance to culture, we should cleft out the religious underpinnings of marriage from law and return it to the domain of the church, especially if the church mandates that the definition of marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. The state should therefore only be in the business of recognizing in law civil unions, or the lawful coming together of two people in union."
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, canvas, and VML
"Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site."
Ubiquity Update: 0.1.2
I love the auto updates in general and now the team added the ability to stream the core commands themselves. Bye bye big releases, come come micro kernels!
Guido: Why explicit self has to stay
Guido talks about why he thinks that Bruce Eckel can't get rid of 'self' as the 1st method parameter, as much as many people would rejoice.
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