A friend is up for a little contest that ends in a few hours and he needs your votes.

The Contest: Best name for a new neighborhood in NYC

The Entry: RAMBO

Description: Ever been to Dumbo? Nice, isn’t it, with all of the fancy restaurants, the waterfront views, the arts scene … if you cross north over the Manhattan Bridge, however, you’re still in the same zip code (11201), and people (realtors) still refer to the neighborhood as Dumbo, but it’s, well, a little different from the high-priced condo haven. For starters, Fresh Direct won’t deliver to “our part” of the zip code. Two, our closest 24-hour store is the McDonalds on Tillary Street. Three, we’ve got the projects. The neighborhood is nice and green and hell, my rent is great compared to what I’d be paying for space on the South side of the bridge, considering that I’m literally a three-minute walk from it, but I think it deserves a moniker which appropriately reflects its grittiness. We are still industrial, you know.

So go vote your heart out!

UPDATE: We have a winner, and the winner is RAMBO

From Eric Meyer comes this wonderfully simple solution for dealing with Internet Explorer’s lack of support for the CSS child selector.

#main * {background: #FFF;}

#main * * {background: transparent;}

Yup. That’s it. Makes a ton of sense, easy to read, and gotchas are relatively small. So into my toolbox it goes right next to * { margin:0; padding:0 } to set up a page.

Been kind of quiet this week as I’ve been fighting a bad internet connection for a few days. Things I’ve missed, but wanted to mention include the transfer of ownership of BrowseHappy to the WordPress team, iCab and Konqueror both passing the Acid2 test, new infrastructure for Apple’s WebKit, PHP’s 10th Anniversary and possible progress in the NHL labor talks.

—- placenamehere.com ping statistics —-

21 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 90% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max = 596.414/825.062/1053.71 ms

—- placenamehere.com ping statistics —-

288 packets transmitted, 207 packets received, 28% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max = 78.105/101.944/1151.47 ms

Yikes!

In the middle of a local political battle comes Why Photoshop hack jobs and the internet don’t mix – reason #392729.

From Politics NJ comes this little episode of an old campaign trail photo taken from the Howard Dean Presidential campaign and carefully (sort of) caressed into an image for the Bret Schundler for Governor of NJ website.

Yeah yeah, anyone looking at that 2nd image can see its been faked (at least the superimposition of Schundler into the front of the crowd) but wouldn’t it be smart to not have grabbed the source crowd from something that could fairly easily be traced back to a recent campaign from the opposing party?

Also covered in this NorthJersey.com story.