if you have an ajaxy library that can edit divs in-place:

<div id="story.1234">
    <div id="story.1234:title">the title</div>
</div>
<div id="story.1235">

A JavaScript Module Pattern is a fantastic example of how to use closures.

Javascript Closures has more detailed information.

Douglas Crockford brought the style over to JS, and his site has a lot of important articles about Javascript hacking (as a functional language).

Mike Watt, punk pioneer, of the Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Madonnabees, Banyan, and a bunch of things I didn't catch, has a really good podcast show called The Watt From Pedro Sh

El Sonidito

It's all about the German music.

I was toying with some SEO ideas, and wanted a CSS-based layout that puts the content at the top.

Computerists are aware of the Open Source, and Free Software engineering and political tendencies.

Attached are two scripts that contain code for two styles of iterator. One is the traditional Iterator, and the other is what I'll call an IterObj.

This is a video of Google's slick new instant-message-publishing-email platform, Wave.

Technically, they do a really nice job. Everything we'd probably link has become an embed. By getting away from the store-and-forward system of email, and moving toward a centralized, server-based system, the cost of sending attachments drops. The trade off is that you need full-time connectivity to be able to get to your messages.

A few years back, there was a trend in the PHP community to make alternative templating languages that ran inside PHP.

The right wing blowhards are saying she's a liberal, a racist (of all things), and all other horrible things.

This is the best riceball video I've ever seen. The recipe is at the end of the video.

They also have an awesome oden video. I don't really like oden, but theirs looks so amazing that I want to eat it all up.

Credit card late payment fees suck. They suck out $25 to $35 from your wallet every time you forget to mail in the payment. Here's how to avoid the fees. Also, if you're in debt, this will help you get out of debt and start saving!

"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." - David St. Hubbins

Jeff Wall, Mimic, 1982

Miley Cyrus, Joke, 2009

Margaret Cho's comment on the second photo.

Here are some Excel macros that help to clean up data. Once cleaned, it's easier to remove duplicates. (I used these to de-dupe a list exported from Outlook.)

This is a script to resize your youtube (or other video site) embed code. It looks at the code, and does a search-and-replace to create the new code. The video is scaled correctly. It should work with other video sites like Revver, Vimeo, LiveLeak, and even non-video embed codes. Read source to get to the script.