h5bp/html5-boilerplate — pull request #1262 by saadshams (2012-11-23 02:26:52+00:00)
Title: Update js/plugins.js

had serious issues on IE 8, it gave me hard time even on if(window.console), try catch resolved it
it's the same issue described in here http://benwong.me/javascript-console-log-and-internet-explorer/