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Bomb at India Independence Parade Kills
15 (AP)

Bomb at India Independence Parade Kills
15 (AP) 08/15/2004 04:01 AM
AP - A bomb exploded during an Independence Day parade in India's remote northeast on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, just an hour after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to fight terrorism. The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom was suspected of being behind the attack in Assam state and a second one later in the area, said Assam Inspector General of Police Khagen Sharma.

World War II Veterans Parade Through
D.C. (AP)

World War II Veterans Parade Through
D.C. (AP) 05/31/2004 11:43 AM
AP - A smattering of America's World War II veterans showed their spunk again Monday, marching in a Memorial Day parade with high school and military bands, floats and veterans of other conflicts who came to honor them.

Battening down Disney World for Charley

Battening down Disney World for Charley 08/22/2004 07:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: Caines sez, "A guest at Walt Disney World on 8/13 and 8/14 snapped these shots of the MAgic Kingdom being prepared for Hurricane Charley. Signs being secured and kiosks being tethered. He was staying at the All-Star Sports Resort and his pics of some of the characters that were sent, guests swimming, and shots of the rain/wind from his hotel window. The last of the shots are trees and signs blown away." Link (Thanks, Caines!)

Walt Disney World podcast

Walt Disney World podcast 04/14/2005 12:48 PM
Cory Doctorow: Inside the Magic is a gossipy webcast about Disney World created by a Disney trufan who lives around the corner from the park and provides good insider dirt on the park and its undertakings. This week's most interesting news tidbit: no more asbestos in the It's a Small World ride! Link (Thanks, Richard! )

Taking the kids to Disney World

Taking the kids to Disney World 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

Tomorrow morning I'm catching a plane and taking my family to Disney World. My laptop is coming with me, but I suspect it won't be used all that much :)

I'll be back on Saturday (Feb 26), and I'll catch up with email and forum posts shortly after I return.

See you next week!

PhotoshopWorld attendees get Disney
World discount

PhotoshopWorld attendees get Disney
World discount 07/13/2004 12:17 PM
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), a sponsor of the upcoming PhotoshopWorld Conference & Expo, has arranged for significant savings off the price of Walt Disney World theme park tickets for conference attendees...

WiFi hotspots at Walt Disney World

WiFi hotspots at Walt Disney World 08/09/2004 11:46 AM
The number of WiFi hotspots in Disney World has mushroomed. I can't wait for my next trip there!

Disney's BoardWalk Resort: Convention Center Hallways/Common Areas, Resort Lobby, Main Swimming Pool Area, Concierge Lounges, Bellevue Lounge

Disney's Contemporary Resort: Front desk sitting area, 14th Floor Concierge - sitting area, Outer Rim Bar (near Concourse Steakhouse), 1st Floor Convention Center Lobby, 2nd Floor Convention Center Lobby, Feature Pool.

Disney's Coronado Springs Resort: Main Hotel Lobby, Convention Center Lobby area, Feature Pool, Francisco's Lounge.

Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa: 1st Floor Lobby area including Tea Room, Convention Center Lobby area, 4th Floor Concierge area - sitting area.

Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resorts: Main Lobby area (both resorts), Concierge sitting area (both resorts), Convention Center Lobby area, Stormalong Bay Pool.

Link (via The Disney Blog)

Unhappy Disney World visitors gallery

Unhappy Disney World visitors gallery 04/13/2005 11:51 AM
Cory Doctorow: This Flickr set is a collection of black-and-white photos of unhappy people at Disneyland Walt Disney World -- there's something practically eerie about this. Link (via The Disney Blog)

Disney World "pirate style" trousers on
eBay

Disney World "pirate style" trousers on
eBay 07/13/2004 04:58 AM
An eBay seller is getting rid of ten pairs of Disney World Animal Kingdom "pirate style" trousers -- 32" waists. I don't rightly remember there being pirates at the Animal Kingdom, but they are swell renfaire-esque pantaloons. Link

Microsoft Kills Wi-Fi Product Line (PC
World)

Microsoft Kills Wi-Fi Product Line (PC
World) 05/11/2004 10:52 AM
PC World - No reason given for decision to stop producing wireless networking gear.

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran
earthquake kills thousands

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran
earthquake kills thousands 12/27/2003 06:39 AM
Potentially more than 15000 people dead .. south-east of Iran .. Iran

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3348613.stm
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Disney descendant quits the Disney Board
of Directors, and tells Eisner why

Disney descendant quits the Disney Board
of Directors, and tells Eisner why 12/02/2003 04:13 AM
Roy Disney's letter of resignation to Eisner .. email

craphound.com/roytoeisner.txt
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Disney Dream Desk PC - Disney glues Blue
Ears on PCs

Disney Dream Desk PC - Disney glues Blue
Ears on PCs 08/06/2004 04:29 AM
I4U Aug 6 2004 8:30AM GMT

"Disney descendant quits the Disney
Board of Directors, and te..."

"Disney descendant quits the Disney
Board of Directors, and te..." 12/02/2003 09:59 AM

Roy Disney resigns from Disney, slams
Eisner

Roy Disney resigns from Disney, slams
Eisner 12/02/2003 01:43 AM
Roy Disney has resigned from the Disney Board of Directors, and has sent a scathing email to Michael Eisner explaining, in exorciating detail, exactly why he's leaving the company his uncle founded.

1. The failure to bring back ABC Prime Time from the ratings abyss it has been in for years and your inability to program successfully the ABC Family Channel. Both of these failures have had, and I believe will continue to have, significant adverse impact on shareholder value.

2. Your consistent micro-management of everyone around you with the resulting loss of morale throughout the Company.

3. The timidity of your investments in our theme park business. At Disney's California Adventure, Paris and now in Hong Kong, you have tried to build parks "on the cheap" and they show it and the attendance figures reflect it.

Link (Thanks, Robynne!)

Suicide Bomber Kills Three, Israel Kills
Militant

Suicide Bomber Kills Three, Israel Kills
Militant 12/25/2003 05:33 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 3:33PM ET

Float Bed

Float Bed 06/22/2004 09:26 AM

Suspended by four stainless steel cords, the Float bed by German mathematician Max Longin tries not to "inhibit or obstruct the movements of lying or loving" (the movement of lying about loving is usually a tuck and roll) and instead attempts to "balance them and carry them to rest." It's an interesting concept, but you'll probably want to try one out in person before you drop 3,960 euros on the it. The bed even breaks down and packs within itself to form an easily-transported case.
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FC Now: Icons on Parade

FC Now: Icons on Parade 09/20/2004 02:49 PM
OK, I admit, I was secretly hoping that the New York advertising community would pull off some outrageous stunt -- maybe bringing back the giant...

idiots on parade

idiots on parade 12/30/2003 06:36 PM
I've stayed away from editorializing in the last few months, but I suspect a lot of "off the table" topics are going to come up in the new year -- there's just too much going on in the world that's pissing me off. Let's start today with this jackass story pile of crap in the New York Pos

Veterans in D-Day parade

Veterans in D-Day parade 06/05/2004 07:37 AM
World War II veterans take part in a parade in County Down to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

Parade Kid is Back!

Parade Kid is Back! 07/16/2004 10:12 AM
Parade Kid is Back! It's been a number of years since Parade Kid has had a web presence. But with renewed interest from media outlets who have taken kindly to his unique... um, talents, Parade Kid has turned into his own celebrity-steamrolling machine. With the obligatory Parade Kid music video and t-shirt shop, you have to assume that the Parade Kid sponsors are wearing their elf ears with pride.

Robot Parade

Robot Parade 11/05/2003 11:37 PM
Yay! Rambling fangirl post! Ye have been warned.

one less idiot on parade

one less idiot on parade 01/16/2004 11:31 AM
Last month, I wrote about The awesome generosity of Penny Arcade readers, and the lack of media coverage of that story. Well, today there is a fantastic follow-up to that story. The author of the story that prompted the guys at PA to launch Child's Play celebrated, and apologized to Penny Arcade and its readers.

Bulls on Parade

Bulls on Parade 07/19/2004 04:45 PM
Everything's going skyward! Or is it?

Retailers On Parade

Retailers On Parade 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
This week will bring some notable retailers up to the earnings podium.

PlusNet to float on AIM

PlusNet to float on AIM 06/07/2004 05:40 AM
Plans to acquire other ISPs

Test-Float-0.10

Test-Float-0.10 12/26/2004 06:24 PM

Float Nightmares

Float Nightmares 02/01/2005 08:38 PM

Sometimes trying to support the standards can be a real pain.

While trying to improve our CSS2 compliance, I recently did a big cleanup of our block layout code, including the code for handling floats. I made what I believed to be a fairly innocuous correction to follow the CSS2 specification. Here's the scenario.

Lets say you have a div that is set to 300 pixels in CSS. You then put a 250 pixel wide float inside that div. Immediately after that you have a 100 pixel wide overflow:hidden div. All sizes have been specified in CSS.

Now here's the pop quiz. What do you think the layout should be? Should the overflow div:
(a) Be on the same line with the float and spill out of the enclosing 300 pixel div
(b) Be placed underneath the float, automatically clearing it because there is insufficient space for
the overflow div next to the float

Before I give an answer, lets see what the CSS specification has to say on this issue. Section 9.5 on floats, fifth paragraph.

"The margin box of a table or an element in the normal flow that establishes a new block formatting context (such as an element with 'overflow' other than 'visible') must not overlap any floats in the same block formatting context as the element itself. If necessary, implementations should clear the said element by placing it below any preceding floats, but may place it adjacent to such floats if there is sufficient space."

My interpretation of this language is that there must be sufficient space for the table or overflow:hidden element to fit within the containing block. If not, you should clear. That's what I implemented. So in my opinion the correct answer to the question above is (b).

I decided to see what other browsers did. I started with Gecko. Gecko chose (a). Gecko always does (a). It is at least consistent if - in my humble opinion - incorrect. Gecko chooses (a) regardless of whether you pick strict, almost strict or quirks mode.

Next I tried WinIE, and this is the part that blew my mind. Depending on whether the float was an image or a table, the float was left or right aligned, the table specified that it floated via the align attribute or the float CSS property, and on whether or not the normal flow element was declared as a sibling or not of the float, I could get completely different results! The level of inconsistency was astonishing.

I was able to watch WinIE do clipping in one case, to wrap in a second case, to not wrap in a third case, to overwrite content in a fourth case, all by just tweaking the parameters outlined above. It's no wonder Web designers have no idea how to code a page to standards when they have to deal with a layout engine that is so horribly inconsistent and buggy.

Naively I opted to implement (b) and to hope for the best. Unfortunately the bugs immediately started pouring in. finance.yahoo.com was broken for example because it used an old-style align table and relied on it not wrapping underneath the float. Undaunted, I simply added a strict mode/quirks mode check and opted to do (a) in quirks mode and (b) in strict mode.

The bugs kept coming in though. Next was versiontracker.com, a page that is actually in strict mode and relies on an overflow:hidden div to spill out of a containing block rather than wrapping.

So now I really have no choice. This is an example of where the CSS2 standard simply can't be followed because buggy layout engines have set a bad precedent that the rest of us have no choice but to follow.

It's a shame that Gecko does not do the right thing in strict mode at least, but I suppose they had no choice in the matter either.

Stormtroopers on July 4 parade

Stormtroopers on July 4 parade 08/03/2004 09:21 PM
Inkeeper2097 sez, "My family and I went to a parade on the 4th of July. One of the participants was the Ohio Garrison of Storm Troopers. As they were coming down the street I told my 5 yr old to go stand in the road so I could take his picture with them. As you can see from the photo, a couple of Storm Troopers got out of formation to pose for the picture. My 2 year old was scared to death and ran to Mom. I kept telling my 5 year old not to be scared and to stand still. The look on my boys face, priceless. Fun was had by all." 129K JPEG Link (Thanks, innkeeper2097!)

Hospital violence follows parade

Hospital violence follows parade 06/19/2004 07:18 AM
Patients are locked in wards during disturbances at a north Belfast hospital after an Orange Order parade.

Trouble flares after parade

Trouble flares after parade 07/12/2004 03:39 PM
Nationalist youths attack security forces in north Belfast after a contentious Orange parade passes by.

Parade ruling overturned

Parade ruling overturned 06/25/2004 02:04 PM
The Parades Commission reverses its decision to ban a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast.

VHS Memories Parade Into Your DVD Vault

VHS Memories Parade Into Your DVD Vault 11/13/2003 03:09 AM
New York Times Nov 13 2003 1:50AM ET

Revised ruling on parade

Revised ruling on parade 08/13/2004 07:02 AM
Loyal order members involved in a contentious parade can be bussed past a flashpoint area, the parades body says.

Parade passes without incident

Parade passes without incident 08/14/2004 04:43 AM
A controversial parade passes peacefully in north Belfast ahead of the main Apprentice Boys demonstration.

Appeal for calm at parade

Appeal for calm at parade 06/26/2004 04:36 AM
A senior police officer appeals for calm ahead of a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast.

Olympians get London parade

Olympians get London parade 09/13/2004 08:48 AM
Great Britain's Olympic medal winners will be honoured with a parade through London.

Arsenal parade trophy

Arsenal parade trophy 05/16/2004 06:32 AM
Arsenal's Premiership-winning squad go on an open-top bus tour to celebrate their title.

Commission restricts parade

Commission restricts parade 07/06/2004 01:24 AM
The Parades Commission decides to restrict the return route of a loyalist parade in north Belfast.
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