Scientists Calculate the Speed of Death In Cells And It's 30 Micrometers Per ... Aug 14@10:30pm: An anonymous reader quotes a report from Live Science: Scientists found that death travels in unremitting waves through a cell, moving at a rate of 30 micrometers (one-thousandth of an inch) every minute, they report in a new study published Aug. ...
[from Slashdot]
Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg Aug 14@9:05pm: In a statement Tuesday, Verizon announced deals making Apple and Google its first video providers for a 5G wireless service its planning to launch in four cities later this year. From the report: The home broadband service will debut in Los Angele...
[from Slashdot]
5 Strategies for Collecting, Creating and Circulating Customer Testimonials Aug 14@2:03pm: Most of us understand how overwhelming it can be moving to a new city. Surrounded by a host of options for dining, shopping, daycare, leisure time, auto mechanics and everything else under the sun, making an educated decision on where to go involv...
[from E-Commerce Times]
Def Con Voting Machine Hacks Ruffle Feathers Aug 14@9:33am: Hackers cracked into a wide array of voting equipment Def Con's Voting Village, an event held Friday at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year, conference goers hacked five machines and an e-poll book of registered voters. This year, in a...
[from E-Commerce Times]
SEO Tip for Apache + WordPress: Use Lowercase Domain Names Jan 7@3:24pm: A few days ago, I was surprised to see that, according to Google Webmaster Tools, a lot of the pages on several of my sites were marked as "Not Selected" for indexing. Usually, that would indicate duplicate content, or that there are multiple URLs...
[from SEO ? Alpha Gecko]
How to Embed One XML Format in Another Jul 25@2:33pm: I've got an idea I'd like to suggest, but don't feel inclined to champion right now. So I post it here and either come back to it later, or let someone else run with it. First, a little background. While working on the Atom feed format, one issue ...
[from Atom/RSS ? Alpha Gecko]
How Very Ironic of You, SpamArrest… Dec 2@1:30pm: I got another of those emails from SpamArrest today asking me to verify that one of the emails to my mailing list wasn't spam. This time, something on SpamArrest's website struck me as ironic, if not downright hypocritical. SpamArrest is a whiteli...
[from Email ? Alpha Gecko]
GMail Marks Own Message As SPAM! Aug 5@9:47am: Okay, this is funny. When I configured my GMail account to send mail as my email address at my domain, it sent a confirmation email to the address I'd specified. That email address forwards everything to my GMail account. After several minutes, th...
[from Email ? Alpha Gecko]
Tweeting From My RSS Feed Reader May 21@9:27pm: I just sent an updated version of Lobster - my RSS feed reader to all CaRP users. This revision adds Twitter support -- tweet directly from your feed reader. Lobster automatically generates tweet text from the title and link from each RSS item. Ed...
[from Atom/RSS ? Alpha Gecko]
Browser & Screen Resolution Trends Jul 7@7:31pm: I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise! Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost ex...
[from Web Design ? Alpha Gecko]
LinContEx.com was going to be “BlogRush done right”… May 26@4:07pm: A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought "oh, c**p," (that word isn't "CaRP" :-) "one of the big boys beat me to my idea." At the time, I'd begun working on a site that was going to be similar,...
[from SEO ? Alpha Gecko]
CSS Trappist Monastery gets more designs, tons of traffic Feb 14@10:26am: The CSS Trappist Monastery got a few more design submissions yesterday, along with a boat load (think Titanic, but hold the iceberg!) of traffic after it got blogged over at MetaFilter. To those who questioned the seriousness of the site in the co...
[from CSS ? Alpha Gecko]
Move the mouse over the scroller to pause scrolling.
The complete source to this example is included in the Tetra package.
This example uses CaRP to aggregate the contents of nine RSS feeds and display them in the scroller.