Louis CK, on Fresh Air discussing his latest endeavor, live at the Beacon

On a more optimistic day, I would tell you that the students involved in this fiasco are able to identify the not-so-subtle-manipulation at work, and that if a party isn’t in the school budget, then why not let SuperTarget or Walmart or Nike throw a bash; or that free duds from a company desperate for market share is a fair trade for a poor students’ time. On a more realistic day, I would tell you that this cohort is the same one that American sociologists are pointing to as the empty-headed Icarus generation now beginning to fly.

State Rep. Bob Nicholas, R-Cheyenne, faces a felony charge of abusing a disabled adult in Florida following a Nov. 23 arrest.

Nicholas, 54, was arrested in Boca Grande, Fla., while on vacation after allegedly punching and kicking his 19-year-old mentally disabled son, according to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.

Did the Packers untying Ndamukong Suh’s shoes set him off?

“This guy is going to get killed. I got to take his mind off it, give him something else to do.” So he says, “Ok, every time you’re in a pile, I want you to focus on something. I want you to untie his shoes.”

What if the Indian Point nuclear-power plant, 25 miles north of NYC, was to suffer a meltdown?

After the Fukushima meltdown, the NRC told Americans living there to clear out of a 50-mile zone. Subsequently, the Japanese government declared huge swathes of land uninhabitable for decades. The local 50-mile equivalent is a circle defined by Kingston to the north; Bridgeport, Connecticut, to the east; the Delaware Water Gap to the west; and the southern tip of Staten Island to the south. It includes all of the 8.2 million people living in New York City.

The Evolution of the Web

Make Awesom Web – A depot of all sorts of JS,CSS, HTML tools and resources you’ve bookmarked before. Now in one spot, organized all pretty like.

Google acquires Zagat

Well, suffer no more! v1.5 of the Delicious Chrome Extension automatically closes the popup after you’ve saved your bookmark; and it’s available right now!

Another well-received feature is it’s customizable keyboard shortcut. Some people like commnd-D, others like control-D or maybe you like something entirely random to save your bookmarks; It’s totally up to you.

Screenshots of v1.5 of the Delicious Chrome Extension:

The ‘Save to Delicious’ popup adds selected text to the notes field.

Customizable keyboard shortcut key.

Quick links to invoke the Save to Delicious popup, your Delicious bookmarks and your Delicious Inbox.

The extension source now lives on GitHub. Please, fork it, make it better, and send me a pull request. I’m certain there are several ways this extension can be made better. Or contribute by reporting any issues or feature requests.

Damn, at nearly $6 – This piece of junk is the BEST calendar app for Android? Poor, poor Android users.

IRENE, FLOYD, KATRINA, 9/11

My kids will learn HTML. Hell, we all should.

Replace your loading images. Now.

http://itsalmo.st/ – Countdown to anything and everything.

Full list of CSS2.1 properties, including their inheritance. My spine is tingling.

Subtle Patterns is a collection of 67 high quality design patterns for you to use freely. New patterns added weekly.

jQuery Anti-Patterns for Performance & Compression – Pretty in depth jQuery optimization from Paul Irish. Certainly there’s something in here for every level of Front End Developer.