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I have submitted two of my Arduino projects to a Radioshack contest.  My twitter-controlled switch and my bank monitor.

The switch is currently running my Christmas tree.

Radioshack has started selling Arduinos in most of its stores.  They even sell the Ethernet shield.  Hopefully they will be able to find someone producing a WiFi shield and start selling that.  Async Labs had a great one, but they are out of business.

Wbr is a proprietary (non-standard) tag that has been around for years.  It is a rarely used tag, like marquee (which still works in IE9 by the way).

The purpose of this tag is to hint to the browser that it can insert a line break at its discretion.  For example, if you have long words in a table, you could put this tag in the middle of the word. If the browser needs the space, it will break the word, otherwise it just leaves the word together.

Since it is non-standard, it was dropped in IE8 but there is nothing similar provided to replace it.

There have been several hacks proposed to get it working.  The best I have seen is to simply take advantage that all inline-block elements will break optionally.  So add this to your stylesheet:

wbr { display: inline-block; }

My son turns two years old today.  We dumped a dozen ballons in his crib when we got him up in the morning and he had fun playing with them.

We got him a large Curious George monkey doll which he loves.

I built him a chair modeled after one that Amanda's grandpa built for all his grandchildren.