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Wednesday Links: Unintended Consequences

Nathaniel Ward — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:12:28 +0000

Ryan Messmore warns that President Obama’s tax proposals might dampen charitable contributions and thereby increase dependence on government.
Whoever would have thought that a billion-dollar bailout program wouldn’t work as expected?
Adam Schroder’s 5 Steps to HTML5 showcases—and explains—some of the new features designers can build into their sites using HTML5 and CSS3.
Smashing Magazine, meanwhile, offers up some tips for using CSS psuedo-elements like :nth-child().
Last but not least, Richard Simmons provides one of the most entertaining in-flight safety videos ever:

Nathaniel Ward — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:25:01 +0000

Rock Solid HTML Emails How to build e-mails that work in every e-mail client.
How Apple Leaks Information “Often Apple has a need to let information out, unofficially. The company has been doing that for years, and it helps preserve Apple’s consistent, official reputation for never talking about unreleased products.”
Todd Zywicki on Proposed New Credit Card Limits. “What would happen if the Merchants Payments Coalition gets its way and politicians squeeze interchange fees? Credit cards are essentially a closed economic system: A reduction in interchange fees will have to be offset by increased revenues elsewhere or a reduction in costs. For example, issuers could try to increase the revenue generated from consumers through higher interest payments, higher penalty fees, or reinstating annual fees.”

Nathaniel Ward — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:42:52 +0000

The Journal on how to fix California’s budget mess Rein in runaway government spending and reform taxes to stop penalizing success.
What happens when you release a terrorist? “An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has returned to terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials.”
Obama Would Centralize All Aspects of Health Care
Fix It Fast: Rapid IE6 CSS Debugging “The following is my cycle of preventing, catching, and fixing bugs in IE6.”