It’s been a quiet week in New York City, my hometown. Let’s do the round-up.

Ask for Help

• Ian Z. asked, “Given a <select> input element, how do I select an option by its name and not its value using jQuery?”

  The answer? You can’t. Or you couldn’t. But the very act of observation changes the phenomenon which is observed), and by lunch, you could. Pat’s just crazy like that.

  $.fn.choose is available in chewable Gist form.

And that’s it. I’ll see you back here next week.