This clip is from The Changeling - definitely one of the scariest movies ever.

People in Fairfield County, Conn., still talk about Jerry-Jer. Even though his reign of terror on Bridgeport public access is about 10 years in the past, "the Senator" is a hard guy to forget. Connecticut is more known for white picket fences and Martha Stewart than "die lists" or extreme facial piercings. "Warning, the following program is offensive to everyone in the known universe, therefore put your parents to sleep before you pump the volume," the screen warns before Jerry-Jer comes on. Some of the good folk in the Constitution State are still hiding from their TVs as a result.

 What is it?

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy.

Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

For more examples take a look at charting plugin: gRaphaël

 How to use it?

Download and include raphael.js into your HTML page, then use it as simple as:

// Creates canvas 320 × 200 at 10, 50
var paper = Raphael(10, 50, 320, 200);
// Creates circle at x = 50, y = 40, with radius 10
var circle = paper.circle(50, 40, 10);
// Sets the fill attribute of the circle to red (#f00)
circle.attr("fill", "#f00");
// Sets the stroke attribute of the circle to white (#fff)
circle.attr("stroke", "#fff");

 Demos

• Raphaël Playground
• Reflection
• Image rotation
• Text rotation
• GitHub-a-like impact chart
• GitHub-a-like punch chart
• GitHub-a-like languages chart
• Raphaël Analytics chart
• Polar Clock
• Dynamic Spinner
• Australian Map
• Dancing Helvetica
• Multichart
• Animation
• Dragon
• Hand
• Interactive Chart
• Diagram
• Custom Fonts
• Animation Easing
• Gradients Example

Seriously cool Vector Javascript library. Will give this a go soon.

The trailer is here! The most expensive movie in the whole hospital. The movie that goes BING!

If you’re a PayPal customer, you may be in for a surprise the next time you look at your account.

Personal accounts are now charged a 2.9% fee + 30 cents to receive payments for “Goods” or “Services”, something that was previously free. No formal announcement about the change was made.

“We didn’t want to make a huge formal communication out of this pricing change, because we weren’t really adding any fees, and we were hoping it would be a more useful experience for people.” — Charlotte Hill, PayPal PR Manager

Read that again. They chose not to announce it because it would be a more useful experience. PayPal’s director of product marketing, Heinz Waelchli was also less than forthcoming on the PayPal blog while trying to spin the story.

This double-dipping — charging both sellers and receivers for transactions — will result in a major increase in fee revenue for eBay Inc. which owns PayPal.

Want to get around this blatant money grab? Get a Premium or Business Account with PayPal. Or just ditch PayPal altogether, and sign up for Google Checkout.

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Anyone else sick of getting burned by big companies?

Excellent article on using Sprites with the clip: CSS property.

Awesome design ideas. Great inspiration

A decent collection of Mac software for $50 bucks, the best being WriteRoom and REALbasic.

An excellent service attacked. People can be so low. Have faith in the company, there isn't much on the net thats 100% secure - if any at all.

Very cool idea and execution. A little pricey though. $30 for a small ledge. Still, I may get one.

One dying company helping another. Does that make a healthy company?