Quibbling Dot Net

• The Anti-Wedding - washingtonpost.com
  "Clearly, the only difference between 40 people visiting a site for 15 minutes and 40 people visiting a site for a 15-minute wedding is the weight of the word "wedding"; it carries assumptions of crystal chandeliers and heart-shaped carriages drawn by swans. All weddings are tarred by Modern Bride's brush, inseparable from all the stuff presumed to go along with them, and therefore confined to places where they can be controlled."
  (tags: wedding awesome)

I was trying to figure out why the search box is doubled (that is, there’s the pretty styled searchbox and then the other one smack on top of it), when I opened this page in IE7, and noticed that the search box there goes AAAAAAAAAALL the way across the top of the screen. Apparently size=15 means different things to IE7 and sanely developed browsers. 

Eek.

UPDATE: Aha! I fixed it. Yay!

• Making Light: Slime, and several answers to slime
  Let me get this straight. Republicans (formerly the party of small government) want to argue that it's private charity rather than government that is best at helping people, but then ON NATIONAL TELEVISION they ridicule a candidate for his *private* charity work. (Yes they, meaning the thunderous applause at Sarah Palin's remark about community organizers.) Not the way to win my vote, guys. I'm appalled, in fact. I suppose, though, that mocking a person's decision to work in private charity is ALMOST as honest as saying, "We admit it. We just don't care about poor people."
  (tags: politics sarahpalin barackobama morons GOP)

• WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
  And then came Opera, and said surely we can let users decide which browser to impersonate…
  (tags: web webdesign webdev useragent funny humor software mozilla chrome safari IE browsers)
• Diamond Insider: A Mervis Blog
  It's probably a little lame to bookmark an interview with your husband about your relationship. But it's cute, and that's reason enough. Nyah.
  (tags: bridge tomandtiff)
• Subterranean Press » Blog Archive » A Brand New Short Story by John Scalzi
  Interview with a staffing agent for superheroes
  (tags: fiction funny superhero staffing recruiting)

• The complicated business of judging Sarah Palin. - By Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
  Probably the only sane article I've seen on Sarah Palin so far.
  (tags: politics feminism gender family Slate sarahpalin)

I think it’s time to unite the country under a banner we can all believe in.