ET thumbs-up from Vatican; CSS hackery; economics and opportunity cost …

• 1 – Vatican: It’s OK to Believe in Aliens
  “The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.” Might as well not limit your potential audience of cranks, eh?
  (tags: faith life extraterrestrial alien SETI Vatican religion)
• 2 – CSS Tutorial: Cleaning Up Footer Code
  “The moral of the story? Chain pseudo classes together to get what you want.” Cheers again, JT.
  (tags: webdev class pseudo footer CSS)
• 3 – Make fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique
  “It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don’t have to create an image for each button.” Uh-huh.
  (tags: slidingdoors tutorial styling button menu webdev CSS)
• 4 – Redirecting to a Splash Page ( …but only once! ) with Cookies
  Does what it says on the tin … cheers, Jeremy!
  (tags: redirect page splash javascript cookies jquery webdev)
• 5 – Utilities and Auctions: There Is No Free [Power] Lunch
  “An economy-wide cap on climate warming emissions – our preferred climate policy – has one enormous sticking point: once the cap is in place, who gets the right to pollute?”
  (tags: economics consumer utilities pollution cap emissions climate enegy power)
• 6 – The real meaning of there’s ain’t no such thing as a free lunch
  “In the purely monetary economy, there are plenty of free lunches. But include such non-monetary factors as time, attention and the value of the other things that you might have done with your time and attention, and eventually you’ll pay, one way or anot
  (tags: value cost opportunity FreeLunch economics)
• 7 – Arthur C Clarke awards: a universe away from the Booker
  “But on the whole, I’m on the side of the SF writers and readers; unlike the readers of “literary” fiction they at least understand that the fact that there is a spaceship in a book does not prevent it from being well written.” Go, McKie, go!
  (tags: elitism fandom reading books TACCA literature fiction science)