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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces.

ROBERT L. CAPP COLLECTION/HOOVER INSTITUTION ARCHIVES L'une des dix photos inédites sur Hiroshima.

A Hiroshima, le jour du bombardement, une seule personne a pu prendre des images : le Japonais Yoshito Matsushige, employé d'un quotidien local.

The Address Book is currently demoware: it shows how one can build virally an open distributed social network client that solves the social network data silo problem (video). No need to have an account on every social networking site on which you have friends, and so maintain your data on each one.

reasons why progressive enhancement is a very clever way of developing software and give you some tips and tricks how to develop when it comes to applying it.

Internet Explorer 4 introduced the document.all DOM (document object model) to allow access to the various parts of the web page. Soon after that the standard DOM method getElementById was introduced and is therefore available in all version 5 browsers. This means that the document.all references are only needed to support IE4.

YSlow — a Firefox plugin that measures website performance.

to provide nutritional information in an easy-to-read, clean format. Surprisingly, there are no (X)HTML templates out there for the Nutrition Facts label that that FDA requires on many food items. I decided to develop my own as part of my contribution to the world in general. I hope someone finds it useful.

# [10:43] Hixie: karl of course totally misunderstood what i meant by "doesn't work", as usual

SWD f2f Library of Congress, 2008-05-06

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

aFce à la mutation de l'univers des médias, opérateurs de téléphonie et éditeurs réfléchissent au lancement de journaux électroniques (e-paper). Orange teste depuis le 20 avril un kiosque à journaux mobile, appelé "Read & Go". Il permet d'accéder à plusieurs médias : Le Monde, Le Parisien, Les Echos, L'Equipe et Télérama. Le contenu devrait être rafraîchi toutes les heures grâce au réseau mobile (3G) ou au réseau sans fil (WiFi). Ce livre électronique (e-book), d'une capacité de stockage de 1 Go, soit 200 journaux, permet aussi de lire une trentaine de livres sur écran.

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$299.99 This beautiful wooden briefcase was designed by Japanese Designer Takumi Shimamura.

Typographica’s fourth annual review showcases the best in new typeface design. Twenty-five of the world’s brightest graphic and type designers selected their favorite font releases of the year.

Ahhhh, they are all so relevant for our day to day work

Namespaces. In the world of most Javascript, everything is global or function-scope, there seems to be no use of namespace or module-style development at all. It's possible to simulate namespaces by wrapping entire modules in an object definition, but this is usually too much of a hassle for practicality.

It worked flawlessly and in the three hours I needed to rebuild my server, my iPhone handled 411 unique visitors (there was an access_log running along on my phone)

(I also contemplated porting the HTML 5 parser, wholesale, but that seemed like a herculean effort.)

"Aujourd'hui, on peut procéder à des écoutes ou filmer le domicile d'une personne suspecte. L'idée est de pouvoir faire la même chose pour l'informatique et d'être en capacité de savoir ce qui se passe, à un moment donné, dans un ordinateur", explique un conseiller de MmeAlliot-Marie.