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Thursday, 20th August 2009

Eulogy to _why. The pseudonymous hacker/artist _why has deleted his online presence, apparently moving on to other things. John Resig explains why _why has been such an inspiration.

# 9:57 am / john-resig, whytheluckystiff

you seem to think i'm random, but i'm only psuedorandom. you would be exactly this way, were you seeded at the very same time and place.

_why

# 10:26 am / whytheluckystiff

Dive Into HTML 5. Mark Pilgrim’s free online book on HTML 5—currently just one chapter on canvas (which neatly illustrates the coordinate system using a diagram rendered using canvas itself) but certain to become an invaluable resource for anyone looking to take advantage of HTML 5.

# 2:40 pm / mark-pilgrim, html5, web-standards, books, canvas

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