Michael Bates: November 2009 Archives

OSCN Found Document:ELIAS v. CITY OF TULSA

Jamil's was almost zoned out of business in the mid '60s, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court declared the original 1955 law creating metropolitan area planning commissions unconstitutional because of population requirements designed to limit the law's application to Tulsa County.

iowahawk: Headline Roundup

The mainstream media comes up with all sorts of ways to ignore the elephant in the room at Fort Hood.

Irony mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The irony mark or irony point (ØŸ) (French: point d'ironie; also called a snark or zing) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is illustrated by a small, elevated, backward-facing question mark. The irony mark has never been used widely. It appears occasionally in obscure artistic or literary publications.

"[In his book Plumons l'Oiseau (1966), Hervé Bazin] proposes several other innovative punctuation marks, such as the doubt point (), certitude point (), acclamation point (), authority point (), indignation point (), and love point ()."

SPDY Protocol (Chromium Developer Documentation)

Google is testing a new protocol to speed up communications between web servers and web browsers. It won't change the languages web pages are written in, like HTML. Instead it will optimize the way your browser will ask for those web pages and the way the web site's server responds.