If you think this is a PICTURE of Homer Simpson, you’re wrong!
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Tras mi diseño del logotipo de SigT en CSS hace casi dos años, me quedé con la idea en mente de que dibujos más complejos se podrían hacer usando la fuente Verdana y posicionamiento absoluto en CSS, generando de esta forma dibujos vectoriales directamente embebidos en el código html.
He optado por Homer Simpson dado que es lo suficientemente popular y reconocible:
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The Bank of England has imposed a permanent news blackout on its £50bn-plus plan to ease the credit crunch.
Ferocious and unprecedented secrecy means taxpayers will never know the names of the banks that have been supported through the special liquidity scheme, which was unveiled by Bank Governor Mervyn King last week.
Requests under the Freedom of Information Act are to be denied. Details will be kept secret even after 30 years - the period after which all but the most sensitive state documents are released.
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It would not normally be considered acceptable for big companies to arrange billions of pounds of financial support without telling their shareholders.
Your tax pounds at work…
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The Oklahoma State Legislature is playing doctor again. Last year they dictated how specialists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center may care for pregnant women who have medical complications. This week, despite intense lobbying efforts and the Governor’s veto, the legislature passed Senate Bill 1878, which mandates invasive and unnecessary medical testing for women.
Under the guise of obtaining informed patient consent, this new law requires doctors to withhold pregnancy termination until an ultrasound is performed. The law states that either an abdominal or vaginal ultrasound, whichever gives the best image of the fetus, must be done. Neither the patient nor the doctor can decide which type of ultrasound to use, and the patient cannot opt out of the ultrasound and still have the procedure. In effect, then, the legislature has mandated that a woman have an instrument placed in her vagina for no medical benefit. The law makes no exception for victims of rape and incest.
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De politie heeft afgelopen zondag tijdens een controle op de A28 bij Staphorst een motorrijder geflitst die al glijdend met een snelheid van 137 kilometer per uur de radarpost passeerde. Dat heeft het Korps landelijke politiediensten dinsdag bekendgemaakt.
De 50-jarige motorrijder uit Amstelveen kneep bij het zien van de radarcontrole vol in zijn voorrem en kwam daarbij ten val en gleed langs de camera. De man hield aan zijn schuiver slechts een gebroken pols en een beschadigde hand over.
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How far will Vice President Cheney go to shield himself and his office from public scrutiny?
Last spring, Cheney asserted that he wasn’t subject to executive-branch rules about classified information because he wasn’t actually part of the executive branch.
Now his office argues that he and his staff are completely immune from congressional oversight. That’s right: Completely immune.
Cheney’s latest claim came in a response to a House Judiciary Committee request for vice presidential chief of staff David S. Addington to testify about his central role in developing the administration’s torture policies.
Cheney lawyer Kathryn L. Wheelbarger wrote back: “Congress lacks the constitutional power to regulate by a law what a Vice President communicates in the performance of the Vice President’s official duties, or what a Vice President recommends that a President communicate in the President’s performance of official duties, and therefore those matters are not within the Committee’s power of inquiry.”
As it happens, that was only one of three startling responses in Wheelbarger’s letter.
I wonder how much the Republicans will like it once Vice President Clinton claims the same…
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Marvel has sent us a cease and desist letter demanding that we cancel the Iron Man event tomorrow at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. We are not canceling the event yet - stay tuned as our lawyers work this out.
Just to be clear, we paid the full ticket price for every seat and are fully authorized to do this. This is unbelievable and stupid in so many ways, and goes right to the top of the list of moronic legal moves against us. And he even ends the note with a “please don’t print” message.
I’d say that if it is this clear that Marvel doesn’t want anybody to see this movie, we should give them exactly what they want. Nobody should go see it. Let it tank at the box office.
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An international peace-crimes tribunal commenced legal proceedings against former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for alleged crimes against inhumanity Monday.
“Jimmy Carter’s political career includes a laundry list of anti-war-making offenses,” said chief prosecutor Charles B. Simmons. “Carter’s record of benevolence, diplomacy, and respect for human life is unrivaled in recent geopolitical history. For millions, the very sight of his face evokes memories of his administration’s reign of tolerance.”
The former president, whom Simmons described as “relentless in his naked pursuit of everlasting global peace,” has been sought by peace-crimes officers in the international war-making community for decades. Police apprehended Carter on July 25 in South Florida, where he was building low-income housing as a part of a Habitat For Humanity project. Shortly thereafter, he was extradited to Geneva, where he will be prosecuted for “grossly humane acts against all nations.”