Simon Willison’s Weblog

Conflict Minerals and Blood Tech. Capacitors are made from tantalum. Tantalum is extracted from coltan ore. 20% of the world’s supply of coltan is conflict metal from the Congo, and funds the world’s most vicious conflict.

# 12:57 pm / recovered, capacitors, coltan, conflictmetal, congo, tantalum

jQuery.queueFn. “Execute any jQuery method or arbitrary function in the animation queue”. I’m surprised this isn’t baked in to jQuery itself—the plugin is only a few lines of code.

# 12:59 pm / ben-alman, javascript, jquery, recovered

Repolygonizing Fonts (via) Part of Scribd’s fascinating series of posts explaining how their document conversion technology works.

# 1:04 pm / fonts, scribd, recovered