... Flash design examples. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Around the same time as the introduction of Flash to the scene ofweb design (late 1990’s – early 2000’s), the popularization of DHTMLtechniques, which consisted of several web technologies such asJavaScript and sometimes server-side scripting, for creatinginteractive/animated page elements were also the rage. During this time, with ...

Need Twilight Fan help with a school paper!

Hi guys, I have come to ask for your help with a school paper I am writing. I am in a college nonfiction writing class and need to write a trend story on the popularization and sexualization of vampires in modern media. I figured there was nowhere better to go for help than to the Twilight fans themselves ;). What I need are quotes from real fans, perhaps explaining why the books/movies are so ...

Two reviews

.... Russell's ideas are not foreign to me: I've encountered his work via a class on mathematical analysis (hardest class I ever took: it totally kicked my butt), and via Hofstadter's popularization of Gödel's seminal refutation of Russell's central hypothesis . However, I knew nothing of the man himself, and Doxiadis & Papadimitriou do an admirable job of showing the drive and internal ...

Everyone I know, goes away, in the end.

...around noon. This Saturday, he didn't show up at all. In the tree years since I moved there, that had only happened once. I had no phone number to reach him, and this was still years before the popularization of E-mail... So I ended up just telling myself it was a fluke... Each week after that for two months, I would bound out to my street, and I would pace up and down it... simply waiting for him...

... arrival of new immigrants, the crisis of public trust in the objectivity of news media, cinema, the jazz age, Fordism, the discovery of the anthropological notion of “culture,” and the popularization of Freudianism. Our main object is to understand the origins, purposes, and effects of the wild spirit of experimentalism that suffused their works. For representative poetry, we will consider the ...

Flu and Book post

...this short story, and I was quite surprised by the thought put behind it. It has layers, and I loved when I realized that it’s basically id vs. ego written literally. I don’t however understand the popularization of Mr. Hyde as this enormous behemoth of a monster. In the book yes he is hideous, he is monstrous like, but he is actually SMALLER than Dr. Jekyll. Every time Hyde is seen, they know him...

Heinlein invented the waterbed?

Well, not really, but apparently his popularization of the concept prevented the inventor of the modern waterbed from getting a patent! Le Wik : A form of waterbed was invented in the early 1800s by the Scottish physician Neil Arnott...Dr. William Hooper of Portsmouth, England, patented a waterbed in 1883. He devised it to relieve bed sore pains in his patients. Unable to contain the water and ...

Transparent conductive film glass: Solar cell revolution

... solar cells to market, it will greatly speed up the building-integrated photovoltaic roof grid photovoltaic power plants and other power generation systems, as well as the promotion and popularization.   Amorphous silicon thin-film building-integrated photovoltaic solar cells is an important application, which combines solar power and function of the external walls of buildings, both power ...

Spinning the Semantic Web

... use it' or join "meet ups", etc.  Or questions about how I get "people to take more interest in the semantic web".  People will get interested when we show them it's useful, let's worry more about that and less about methods of popularization reminiscent of an evangelical church. Anyway, I think the SW will catch on and is catching on, but we need to worry about making it useful and workable.

there's a nerd in my basement!

... human beings. He writes at length condemning the idea of eugenics, in the decade before Nazi Germany took their version of it to the extreme. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the popularization of Mendellian genetics made the idea of selective breeding of human beings a popular subject all over the Western world. I dig it that Boas saw the dangers of eugenic thinking and devoted a whole ...