How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time I admit it. When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors, sanctioned by the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, I laughed. I mean seriously, $50k to the winner of a game that requires no skill whatsoever? Absurd. Rock-paper-scissors isn't just a silly game kids play or a way to decide who has to be the designated driver at parties. Males have a tendency to throw rock on their first try, inexperienced RPS players will subconsciously deliver the item that won previously, and paper is thrown least often, so use it as a surprise. December 17 | Email Etiquette for the Super-Busy In a recent blog post, venture capitalist Fred Wilson talked about his ongoing struggle with email management and the various solutions he’s tried, concluding: “Every time I make a productivity gain, the volume eventually overwhelms me.” It’s a familiar problem. We’re all extremely busy, and we all get too much email. So what to do? It’s time for a more mindful approach, one that fully embraces a “less is more” strategy. 1. Do you like getting long emails? 2. It’s standard practice to begin an email by summarizing what happened at a meeting or during a phone conversation, then following on with any “action steps” that emerged. 3. This is Email 101. A good rule of thumb is to strive to keep emails to one line or less. 4. Emails that offer nothing but a “What do you think about X…?” 5. Some people think that handing out deadlines can seem dictatorial. 6. Some emails need to be shared to keep everyone in the loop. 7. 8. 9. 10. What’s Your Approach? How do you keep email manageable?
The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples Advertisement With CSS animation now supported in both Firefox and Webkit browsers, there is no better time to give it a try. Regardless of its technical form, whether traditional, computer-generated 3-D, Flash or CSS, animation always follows the same basic principles. In this article, we will take our first steps with CSS animation and consider the main guidelines for creating animation with CSS. CSS Animation Properties Before diving into the details, let’s set up the basic CSS: Animation is a new CSS property that allows for animation of most HTML elements (such as div, h1 and span) without JavaScript or Flash. Because the technology is still relatively new, prefixes for the browser vendors are required. All you need to get some CSS animation happening is to attach an animation to an element in the CSS: First, we have the animation code itself. When assigning the animation to your element, you can also use the shorthand: We can cut this down further by not entering all of the values.
27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If there's anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it's the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what's going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we, as citizens are affected. Some show those who are responsible. Visual Guides to the Financial Crisis Let's start things off with some comprehensive guides to the financial crisis. 2008 Financial Crisis by Carolyn Aler and Sam Conway A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis by Jess Bachman Jess from WallStats put this together for the Mint blog. The Global Finanical Crisis by Cypher 13 Where Did All the Money Go? From Feliciano Rahardjo Looks like the beginning of a comic book. A Closer Look at the Global Financial Crisis by Liam Johnstone Economic Meltdown of 2008-2009 by Pei San Ng The Global Money Mess by Karen Ong Crisis of Credit Visualized by Jonathan Jarvis Stimulus vs Bailout Plans Right.org
Unions aren't to blame for Wisconsin's budget Posted at 9:36 AM ET, 02/18/2011 By Ezra Klein Let's be clear: Whatever fiscal problems Wisconsin is -- or is not -- facing at the moment, they're not caused by labor unions. That's also true for New Jersey, for Ohio and for the other states. There was no sharp rise in collective bargaining in 2006 and 2007, no major reforms of the country's labor laws, no dramatic change in how unions organize. Blame the banks. Of course, the fact that public-employee pensions didn't cause a meltdown at Lehman Brothers doesn't mean they're not stressing state budgets, and that the pensions they've been promised don't exceed what state budgets seem able to bear. In fact, it particularly doesn't work for what Walker is attempting in Wisconsin. More than half of the lower estimate ($117.2 million) is due to the impact of Special Session Senate Bill 2 (health savings accounts), Assembly Bill 3 (tax deductions/credits for relocated businesses), and Assembly Bill 7 (tax exclusion for new employees).
Infographic of the Day: How Color Affects Purchases | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork CSS Transitions, CSS Transforms and CSS Animation - all one one page Introduction This website is designed to help you build modern sites that are able to make use of some of the newer, exciting parts of CSS. The site is currently focussed on CSS Transitions, Transforms and Animation, though I will be adding other topics as they become available on any major platform. Though of course your browser must support the technologies to use them, most things degrade nicely in older browser, meaning that you can use much of this today, even without a fallback. None of the actual animation uses javascript, though I am using jQuery to add and remove classes to add interactivity. If you are using a touch enabled device, replace hover with touch and hold wherever appropriate.
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