{"id":236,"date":"2004-05-18T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T13:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/now_with_advanced_html_technology"},"modified":"2004-05-18T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T13:21:38","slug":"now_with_advanced_html_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2004\/05\/now_with_advanced_html_technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Now With Advanced HTML Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always has seemed kind of silly to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Markup\/\">markup<\/a> so often, and not allow people to use inline links in their comments, for crying out loud. So I&#8217;ve opened up a small subset of HTML elements. The new system allows links and a number of inline elements such as <code>&lt;em&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;code&gt;<\/code>. I would have liked to open up elements such as <code>&lt;pre&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;blockquote&gt;<\/code>, but&#8230; eh. It&#8217;s a long story.  Anyway, the upshot is that instead of saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Evan, your &#8220;commentary&#8221; on &lt;marquee&gt; and &lt;blink&gt; (https:\/\/www.goer.org\/HTML\/examples\/htmlhorror1.html) was in *wretched* taste.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>you can now say,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Evan, your &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/HTML\/examples\/htmlhorror1.html\">commentary<\/a>&#8221; on <code>&lt;marquee&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;blink&gt;<\/code> was in <em>wretched<\/em> taste.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How exciting! I almost opened up the <code>style<\/code> attribute, so that you all could chew me out in large, red Comic Sans MS.  But bold will have to do.<\/p>\n<p>Aaaanyway. Since this entry is so short, here are a few amusing physics links I&#8217;ve collected over the last few days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/chad\/\">Chad Orzel<\/a>: <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/principles\/2004_05_16_principlearchive.php#108475646024179525\">Scattered Thoughts on Physics Pedagogy<\/a><\/cite>. Chad, Chad, you&#8217;re teaching <em>engineers<\/em>.  Why are you tangling yourself in knots?  Just teach V=IR by rote, hand out A&#8217;s like candy, keep a low profile, collect tenure, everybody&#8217;s happy.  Sheesh, I really should have stuck with academia.  It ain&#8217;t exactly brain surgery. [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/\">J. Bradford DeLong<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentralstation\/\">TechCentralStation<\/a>, the same magazine that brings us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentralstation.com\/012804A.html\">Instapundit&#8217;s ruminations<\/a> on how Luddites are holding back &#8220;molecular manufacturing&#8221;, we find this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentralstation.com\/032803E.html\">article on global warming<\/a>. It&#8217;s replete with gems such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Take, for instance, the &#8220;average global temperature,&#8221; which is the primary statistic offered as evidence of global warming. The problem with this statistic is that it has no physical meaning. Temperature is not a thermodynamic variable that lends itself to statistical analysis, nor does it measure a physical quantity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, dear.  Bear in mind that I <em>have<\/em> met hardcore Ayn Rand libertarians who <em>do<\/em> understand thermodynamics, some of whom have even gone on to earn doctorates in physics.  So I think it&#8217;s just TechCentralStation.  [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/\">J. Bradford DeLong<\/a>. For an economics professor, he&#8217;s quite the clearinghouse for physics links. Maybe he should read up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.porkpie.demon.co.uk\/quantum.htm\">Quantum Finance<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/users.vnet.net\/matjohns\/humor\/understanding-research.html\">Understanding Research Papers<\/a>.<\/cite> For the record, &#8220;correct within an order of magnitude&#8221; is a perfectly acceptable answer in astrophysics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting! I almost opened up the <code>style<\/code> attribute, so that you all could chew me out in large, red Comic Sans MS.  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