Why are far things small?

Where, but the web, would you find someone like Oliver Steele? This ain’t no metaphor. That name was a link. I’m not talking about Oliver Steele the person, I haven’t met him (though I apparently am 1-degree of separation from him; weird, that). I’m not talking about the sweating, walking, pinchable, space-and-time-and-flesh-bound avatar, I’m talking about his online persona. And either I’ve gotten crazy enough or technology has advanced enough that I’m ready to treat Oliver Steele ) — the link, his blog, words, diagrams, code, and further media — as a person by its own merits.

And, boy, is he an interesting guy:

• My no TV. It is, too, one of my most valuable possessions.
• Functional JS is a sweet, sweet library, with one of the best documentations I’ve ever seen. Stuff like this is what makes the interwebs the best place on earth. And no, I don’t mean that as a metaphor either.
• Addition fractions. Y’know how fractions deal with multiplication? They need not be!
  
• Interactive regular expressions. Live regex! Nothing like interaction to make easy and fun once chores.
• Why are far things small? and other really hard questions from Steele’s kids.
• Visualizing basic algebra.
  
• Fluently: a construction kit for chainable methods. Finally, a word for the programming style I’ve been hinting at: Fluent interfaces!
• Learning about constraint diagrams
  
• A metaphor of computer’s history.
• The true advantages of Macs. I agree.
• The metaphor of the rock.
  
• Aargh!. How to spell it? It’s genius’s mark to have this much fun with such a trivial question.