Link archive: August 29th, 2011

Hacking science: the intersection of web geeks and science geeks | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Ariel pens a guest post for Scientific American all about Science Hack Day.

Salter Cane — Anomie - YouTube

We played at the bottom of the art-deco staircase in Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion. Sounds pretty good, if I do say so myself.

Salter Cane -- Anomie

Code Babies | Publishing the ABC’s of the Web for Babies

The first book by this publisher is “HTML For Babies.”

The Technium: Why the Impossible Happens More Often

A wonderful reminder by Kevin Kelly of the amazing interconnected world we live in, thanks to network effects.

Creating responsive images using the noscript tag | Head

Now this is intriguing: putting your default images inside a noscript element, then do your viewport measuring and image-swapping before removing the noscript tags. But when I tried this a while back, I couldn’t get access to the noscript elements with JavaScript (which makes sense, when you think about it).

I wonder if it’s the use of class names or jQuery that allows it to work here?