We proudly present the latest in our continuing series of gratuitous “of the day” sidebar elements—the Picture of the Day! (Scroll down a bit—you’ll spot it eventually!) These pictures are pulled from Wikipedia’s featured pictures section, which “highlights images and charts that [they] find beautiful, striking, shocking, impressive, titillating, fascinating, incredible, or in short just brilliant.” Hopefully, you’ll spot something …
Have It Your Way
If you’re a repeat visitor, and you’re not still using a crappy browser, you’ll notice some little widgets in the corners of the sidebar headers. Thanks to some amazing DOM scripting courtesy of brothercake, you can now rearrange and show/hide the sidebar boxes to see what you want to see. Crazy. Give it a try: clicking the widget in the corner …
War of the Worlds
Perhaps in anticipation of Spielberg’s coming adaptation (or perhaps not—who’s to say? It’s probably more of a tie-in to their own Scarlet Traces series…), the good folks at Dark Horse Comics have begun publishing an a serial eComic adaptation of H.G. Wells’s classic, The War of the Worlds. The first installment is online, and more pages will be added each …