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![]() The MCU: Jim's Web Accessibility Weblog : Accessible Web Design Articles and Guides This may be easier: a link to the page listing all the articles I've been reading and blogging. 5:32:55 PM ![]() The MCU: Jim's Web Accessibility Weblog : Are disabled students set to lose out in the digital revolution? A good analysis of the problems facing disabled students. One of these days, I need to get permission to put the white paper I wrote about accessible online learning on the web... 5:32:06 PM ![]() The MCU: Jim's Web Accessibility Weblog : Benefits and Challenges of Web Accessibility. More good stuff... 5:30:51 PM ![]() The MCU: Jim's Web Accessibility Weblog : Table Manners This is a fantastic article about making tables accessible on websites. I have been doing a lot of CSS work lately and even have a redesign of my raggedcastle.com webcrumbs site using CSS in the loop (it's not quite done yet). But I still use tables when necessary and it is still sometimes necessary. This article is a good read if you care about this issue (and I think all web designers should). 5:29:48 PM ![]() ![]() ![]() 30 Billion Earths? New Estimate of Exoplanets in Our Galaxy: "When Jupiter developed, it simply bullied other objects into position or out of existence. Then the mighty gas giant became Earth's protector. " 4:57:59 PM ![]() Context Magazine has a fascinating interview with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and David Brin. The introduction states "Two modern practitioners of the craft[~]David Brin and Bruce Sterling[~]say science fiction can help penetrate the murk of the future partly because writers follow technological possibilities to their dramatic extremes, taking them further than most people are constitutionally capable of doing.".
I've always described science fiction as modern philosophy. Examining our essential humanity through the lens of new powers, new abilities, or putting people in settings which act much like philosophical petrie dishes to see how they may behave has always been the province of science fiction. Few other genres are capable of examining humanity from such angles. 8:10:11 AM
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