Learning Roundup: Server includes

How Do I Include One HTML File in Another
SSI or Server Side Include

How to Include HTML in Many Documents Using JavaScript


iframes
The iframe method is simpler. The iframe element can be used to force a second page to "embed" inside the first page, in much the same way that Flash movies, videos and MP3 players are embedded with the object element. And JavaScript doesn't have to be turned on. But there are disadvantages here too. The iframe element has a fixed width and height, no matter how big the content is. That can mean scrollbars inside your page. And, as of this writing, Google doesn't appear to index the separate page referenced by the iframe so that searchers can find your page.

Attributes here:
HTML iframe tag

Roundup: Lifehacker stuff

Bookmark reminders
NetRocket Catalogs Your Bookmarks and Issues Reminders

For Benard:
Know When to Use Alkaline Versus Rechargeable Batteries

Use Tape to Mark Frequently Moved Cables

Master the "Why Hire Me" Story to Land a Job

Close Open Loops to Relax Guilt Free

Strategically Tweak Your Resume's Dates of Employment If You Job Hop

Push Through a Creative Block with a Diversion

Create a Single, Reusable Packing List

CustomGuide Provides Quick-Reference Sheets for Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe Products

Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required

Apply the "Art of the Small" to Get Tasks Done

How Weekend Projects Can Free Your Inner Rock Star

Fix Scratched CDs with toothpaste

And a bit of humor:

What's the "Best" Spam Email You've Received?

Roundup: DVD player, multirow bookmarks toolbar, up-res images

How do I file a Google Maps bug report? | Ask Metafilter

Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar :: Add-ons for Firefox

Free Universal DVD Player
(AVS DVD Player)

How To Build Firefox Extensions?

Reshade, Increase Your Image Resolution Without Losing Quality

Free DVD Burner [DVD Flick]

Roundup: academic incentives, best places to live

The Difference Between a “B” and a “B”-Plus - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

A Policy Screwup? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Some Italian professors told me about one of the most bizarre incentive systems in the world. The amount of fees that an Italian university can charge to students is linked to the amount of support the university receives from the national government.

Cell phone incentive plan - Freakonomics Blog

Abortion was legalized in Mexico City in April for the first trimester.

America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up - Yahoo! Real Estate

Lyme disease researcher does nothing, more MF questions

mental_floss Blog » Money for (Practically) Nothing: 4 Very Big Paychecks for Very Little Work
Edward McSweegan
While he may not be as high profile or as well-paid as the other names on this list, McSweegan may have found the sweetest deal an average guy could find. In a coup ripped directly from one of George Costanza’s daydreams, McSweegan claimed that he did nothing for seven years while employed as a scientist at the National Institutes of Health. In 2003 McSweegan told the Washington Post that he hadn’t really been given any job responsibilities since 1996. Prior to that, he had been a researcher and program officer on Lyme disease, but he was removed from that position in 1995 for arguing with a sufferers’ support group. Although he had a title as director of the U.S.-Indo Vaccine Action Program and a list of nominal duties associated with that role, McSweegan claimed that he only carried out the tiniest of tasks like ordering coffee. In exchange, he received a salary in the neighborhood of $100,000.

When the NIH vehemently disputed McSweegan’s story that he simply went to work and did nothing all day, he maintained that he never received any assignments. McSweegan would show up, sit in his office, and read to kill time. He took up fiction writing to fill his workdays and published a pair of novels he allegedly wrote while at the office. He told CBS in an interview that he also joined a health club near work “just to sort of break up the day.”

The most amazing part of McSweegan’s story isn’t that he managed to stay employed through this seven-year period, but that he received positive performance reviews from his superiors. He wryly explained to CBS, “I guess I’m good at doing nothing.”


Antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The gospels are not part of the educational system in Muslim society and therefore Muslims are not brought up with the stories of Jewish deicide; on the contrary the notion of deicide is rejected by the Qur'an as a blasphemous absurdity.
- Muhammad did not claim to have been Son of God or Messiah but only a prophet; a claim to which Jews reproached less.

New antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

INRI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- an acronym of the Latin inscription IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Jesus Nazarenus, Rex Judaeorum), which translates to English as "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews."

Affinity fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mental_floss Blog » Why Don’t School Buses Have Seat Belts?

mental_floss Blog » Why Is The Middle Finger Offensive?

Roundup: German board game, dialysis, Askville

Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

Askville - Ask a Question and Find Answers
- hope this has a comment spam filter so that it's better than Yahoo Answers

Films considered the greatest ever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of highest-grossing films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

dialysis: A medical procedure in which this technique of molecular separation is used to remove metabolic waste products or toxic substances from the blood. Dialysis is required for individuals with severe kidney failure.
[Greek dialusis, separating, dissolution, from dialein, to break up, dissolve : dia-, apart; see dia- + lein, to loosen; see leu- in Indo-European roots.]

HAAK: high as a kite
NIMBY: not in my backyard

Roundup: Car necessities, using the emergency brake

Some MetaFilter people talk about how the emergency break should always be used for parking
Do I need to use the emergency brake when parking a car? | Ask Metafilter

Necessities for a car | Ask Metafilter

VMWare can convert a physical windows machine into a virtual machine
VMware vCenter Converter, Convert Physical Machines to Virtual Machines
read about here: Insights to convert a physical computer to a virtual machine | Ask Metafilter

Post about advice for big-city driving
Help a hick drive out of the sticks. | Ask Metafilter

Acronyms of the day

AFAIK: as far as I know

EOE: equal opportunity employer

Roundup: Legal secretary skills

Legal Secretary Careers - Legal Secretary Career Profile
- job duties, skills, etc.

Proud To Be A Legal Secretary
- Must be an expert at time management, juggling many activities and roles at the same time
- Must possess psychological skills, dealing daily with many personalities
- Must possess excellent judgment to make dozens of critical decisions and
- Must have talents as a travel agent, personal shopper, living calendar, telephone directory, and mentor.

Roundup: Solitaire setup, multiplication games

How to Play Solitaire | eHow.com
28 cards are put into 7 stacks, with the first stack only one card, face-up.
Each stack has one more card than the previous.

Gamequarium: Math Games- Multiplication Games

Roundup: Macs are 4th largest PC maker,

Apple is the fourth-largest U.S. PC maker and continues to take market share. It held 9 percent of the U.S. market in the second quarter, according to Gartner.
source: ExtremeTech

They said the Mac's operating system will be an easier nut to crack once hackers start to focus on it. That is because it has a lot more code in it than Windows, leaving room for more vulnerabilities and bugs that hackers can exploit.

Roundup: O'Relliy on Healthcare, MIP penalties

Bill O'Reilly had some smart and insightful things to say about Obama's Healthcare plan. A lot of people ignore or overlook the fact that allowing the government to enter health care means that they have everyone's private medical records.


In Montana, the standard Minor in Possession penalties for the first offense are:
- $290 fine
- MIP program
- 20 hours of community service

If was a judge and the charged teen was only guilty by association, I would cut the fine in half, but still require them to take the MIP program.

Yellowstone National Park is receiving $14 million in stimulus money.

Big Sky Youth Empowerment program is focusing on outdoor programs for young disadvantages girls.

Police Unions Ask Obama for Apology. Obama made a bad decision to condemn a police officer who was performing his duty and happens to be the least likely person to arrest based on racism.

A federal panel recommended today that pregnant women get priority for the swine flu vaccine. They are probably in the pockets of the WHO/CDC, who is in the pockets of the drugs companies, who stand to make millions of dollars if they can convince people to get a vaccine for swine flu. Swine flu happens to be very similar to the regular flu.

An officer from the Boston Police Department was suspended for using the racial slur "jungle monkey" in an email sent to friends in the National Guard.

Roundup: becoming a police officer, light meter value

After going through several menus on KEH.com, I received this quote:
Minolta Flash Meter VI (with case) $278
- without dents or dings

How to become a police officer (eHow)


NSA = no strings attached

It helps to check a person's name on Google if they have a more gender-neutral name.
I almost sent a resume in an email and addressed a man as Ms.


Life Changing Movies (Ask MetaFilter)

Games of Wit and Imagination

Get Better at Scrabble

I need a badass skill

Best dating services to find a real relationship?
I tried the various services, and found that the people on the free ones, like CL, were more normal. There's a lower barrier to entry at a free site, so many more relatively normal people are willing to try it on a whim or a dare. The people on the pay sites were just much less desireable overall, and often deeper in fantasy about what the internet could do for them.

Anglo-American playing card games Category page on Wikipedia

Baccarat (Wikipedia)
- seems like an easy explanation

Compensation: 1099

1099 is the code used by the IRS for wages earned by an independent contractor.


davenport: 1. A large sofa, often convertible into a bed.

Roundup: Canon SD1200 price, VHS history

Noticed that on B&H the Canon Powershot SD1200 went down in price $5 to $180 to match
Amazon's $180 price.

The SD1200 can hold about 374 high-res JPEGs per GB.

Apple has commented previously that Blu-ray was expensive and complicated to license on their equipment and they would wait and see what happened in the market before going any further. This was last year and as Blu-ray has continued to grow, could this mean Apple are set to introduce Blu-ray to certain new machines? via: [blurayfreak]

For the first time, burn a Blu-ray directly within Final Cut Pro 7
Even though Apple has not released any blu-ray drives for their computers, Final Cut Pro 7 can now burn to blu-ray.

This company sells blu-ray drives for mac. TUAW reported their
release of second generation blu-ray drives for mac

Roundup: Creating a Business Name,

How to Create a Great Business Name

Put Your Business Name to the Test

Daily Roundup: Match similar words in google,

Use the tilde symbol (~) in a Google search to include similar words.
example from today, search: how to ~improve router reliability

A lot of the search results included pages that used the word 'increase' instead of improve.

Firmware Updates and Home Theater

DR: Rich Addicks' site, Pirate Bay will be a pay site, hide torrents

Rich Addicks
- A nice LiveBooks site that I don't remember seeing before.

New Pirate Bay Site Wil Become a Pay Site

Hides Torrent Files in PNG images

DR: Card Games, Egyptian Ratscrew

Card Games - wikiHow
How to Play Egyptian Ratscrew - wikiHow

How to Connect a Mac Mini to a TV - TUAW
-- being able to use a keyboard and having a web access is a big advantage over using the Apple TV, assuming you already have a Mac Mini.

Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year (and 60,000 apps)
via MacRumor's news bite also showing a graph of downloads.

New MacBook Pro Models released in June - MacRumors update
* The base model is $1,700 (down from $2,000) and includes:
- 2.53 GHz
- 4 GB of RAM (8 GB max.)
- 250 GB Hard drive

Installing Boxee on an Apple TV - LifeHacker

DR: MetaFilter Podcast, Resume Follow-up

MetaFilter Podcast
These can be hilarious and they don't care about throwing around the F-bomb.

Resume follow-up should be done in about a week according to Yahoo Hotjobs.

DR: Worst Parents Ever, Question Boxes,

Question Boxes
"bring information to people who cannot or do not access the Internet directly. Question Boxes leap over illiteracy, computer illiteracy, lack of networks, and language barriers...."

Worst Parents Ever (Youtube video)

DR: CSS Sprites, Page optimizer

• CSS Sprites (tutorial, background, and example of usage on AOL)
• Web Page Analyzer (gives tips on improving page load times and goes in depth)
  
• Utah Photojournalism blog
• Jay Maisel Interview (when he first went digital with the Nikon D1)

Added the search box to the blog (helps to rediscover forgotten posts).