Thank you. I would love an article about accessibility for people who must use voice commands or those who cannot use a pointing device. Dragon is fine with spoken keyboard commands, but much of the JavaScript out there borks site navigation by keyboard and control of normal browser functionality by keyboard.

Because mathematicians, physicists, and engineers use i through n for integers in their mathematical formulas, and Fortran was their FORmula TRANslator into computerese. (Additional fun fact: They begin their matrix row and column counts with 1, which is why Fortran array indices start at 1.)

Would Perl's Unicode::Normalize module fit your bill? I believe Unicode::Collate uses it so that a single codepoint accented 'e', for example, sorts the same as 'e' with a combining accent.

That's similar. What I'd really like to see is a string API that doesn't let you separate the letter and the combining accent at all, whether it has a precomposed normalization or not (unless you dig all the way down to asking which codepoints a grapheme is composed from).

I'm sure you're not alone. My beau gets motion sickness at the sight of some GUIs, and I get seizures from same. Hence, I will not be taking a look at Google's new homepage, and I'm going to warn him about this change.

... and away from people with accessibility issues.

IIRC, Ruby lets you set taintedness Safe Levels with the -T command-line option or setting $SAFE per thread.

You want XSLT. ;-)

XPath is far too concise. It needs an XML encoding. Something like PMML, where math looks like

  <DefineFunction name="frob" optype="continuous"> 
    <ParameterField name="x" optype="continuous"/> 
    <Apply function="+">
      <FieldRef field="x"/>
      <Constant>42</Constant>
    </Apply>
  </DefineFunction>

I wish I were joking.

Content MathML to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML#Content_MathML

that comment was gold

Nevertheless, I've gotten so bored by the sight of movie CGI. There's just too much texture or not enough light or something. Please, someone, make a physical model, shine some lights on it, and do some stop motion.

May I suggest http://www.artima.com/, although not just anyone can post news there?

I sing in a couple opera companies in New York City.