Archive for June 9th, 2006

Sidenotes via JavaScript

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I like the ability to create sidenotes. What are sidenotes? You can go here to find some JavaScript code that implements them. Neat.

I’m not especially fond of the existing CSS. I think boxing text that can be word-wrapped is very ugly. I might take some of the ideas embedded in this and adapt it to something closer to what I imagine.

Addendum: What do people think about the ubiquity of JavaScript? Is it hopelessly wrong to require it to view your weblog? It’s not like I am going to any special effort to make my blog particularly nice to read with small screen devices like cell phones. Should I?

Record meteorite hit Norway

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Early reports are that a record explosion (measuring in the kiloton range) may have happened in Norway as a meteor crashed into it. More news when I get it.

[tags]Meteorite,Norway[/tags]

Addendum: If my timezone math is correct, Oslo is +2 hours to GMT. The ARCES array maintained by NORSAR (an organization apparently tasked with seismic monitoring as part of trying to ensure compliance with nuclear test ban treaties) has a nice webpage. According to the article, they registered a seismic event at 2:13am local time, and you can actually see it as a blip in the first line (occuring at 12:13 GMT of their seismic data as archived on their website.

Seismograph Data from the ARCES array