facebook is on the block

BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has turned down an offer for $750 million and is looking for 2 billion dollars.

That's a lot of cake for "just a little student web site".

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

// Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
// by William Shakespeare
// ported to ActionScript 2.0 by Satori Canton
//
// Original poem can be viewed at:
// plagiarist.com

var summer:Object = {};
var thee:Object = {};

summer.name = "Summer Day";
thee.name = "Thee";

summer.lovelyness = 9;
thee.lovelyness = 10;

summer.temperature = 98;
thee.temperature = 98.6;

summer.lease = new Date(2006, 7, 31).getTime() - new Date(2006, 5, 1).getTime();
thee.lease = new Date(2042, 6, 12).getTime() - new Date(1970, 8, 25).getTime();

summer.complexion = 0xFFCC33;
thee.complexion = 0xFFCCCC;

30 second AJAX Tutorial

Well, I took about 3 minutes to read it, not 30 seconds, but the Rasmus' 30 second AJAX Tutorial is as good a description of what's going on with AJAX as I've seen yet.