Thus endeth an era
Since the comments had finally completely devolved to irrelevant childish bullshit , I turned off comments this morning on the "Why do you hate America so much?" post. Read the last few comments and tell me it was a bad idea.
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April 25, 2003
April 21, 2003
TMW Redux
I probably won't get a year's worth of stoopit comments out of this one, but the new This Modern World is once again right on the mark. "What? You have some sort of problem with basic American values?"
April 15, 2003
Terribly terribly wrong
By running his op-ed piece on Friday without comment, it appears that they condone it.
This is the wrong statement on which the whole rest of the argument, and the calls for integrity and disclaimers, is based. Jordan's piece appears in Op/Ed - Opinions and Editorials - and I believe there is a implicit disclaimer. You'll notice that the other pubs mentioned are criticising only CNN for Jordan's behavior, not the Times for running the piece. My understanding has always been that, aside from unsigned editorials, pieces on the Op/Ed page in pretty much any paper do not carry the paper's endorsement of their contents. This appears to be an attempt to create an "issue" about professional journalists where none really exists.
You're right. It's not about oil...
Jesus, this is brilliant. Via emptybottle.org via nofear.
The spammer is an english major
This am while idly deleting some spam out of my inbox, I noticed this one message:
13 N + Apr 15 Isabelle Archer ( 0) My husband is such a p*ssy... I need so much more.
How unconventional.
April 8, 2003
Or bigger travel budgets at least
Workbench: Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Many journalists have an exaggerated sense of self-importance that dovetails nicely with the perils of war. Case in point: Embedded journalist Ron Martz thanking God for putting two U.S. soldiers at his side in Iraq so they could be shot instead of him!
Yes, unlike most bloggers. Pot, meet kettle.
More like locked out
The standards processes enormously favor large companies, because they have the resources to send people to meetings around the globe, and the patience to wait the years it takes for them to get baked, and they don't really care about what Schwartz writes so passionately about -- user choice. In fact, they prefer if they can lock users in and still conform to the standards. That's why the standards tend to get so convoluted, to allow lock-in while providing the appearance of conformance.
Ask UserLand sometime how many competing UserTalk implementations there are. Also ask them where the documentation for the Frontier "object databases" are, so that you could write programs in a different language that access the root file. Then ask them where the "open formats" that aren't wire protocols, which, the last time I looked, were all pretty accessible and residing in various W3C recommendations and RFCs. So no advantage for UserLand there.
Oh, you could also ask Manila users how much choice they've got.
Update: it's been brought to my attention by Rogers Cadenhead that UserLand has indeed published an API for the object database. I stand corrected. My bad.
April 7, 2003
The everyday is what is human
A human face on Iraqi civilians. Says something about the human spirit, I'd think. Well worth a look.
A geek mother protests the war
CNN.com - After protest arrest, soldier's mother says, 'I'm fighting a war.' - Apr. 6, 2003
Admirable woman, geek, historical reconstructor. War protester.
April 4, 2003
Serving suggestion only
Oh dear.
Seen on the ebikes list.
April 3, 2003
Never learns
Weblogs At Harvard Law: Bookmark list for ABCD weblogs meeting
Such a generous guy. Every single item save one is somehow UserLand related. This is the same man who complains about not being included on other's lists and histories. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
April 1, 2003
Dream Jobs Part II
hi ,
i am looking for a web designer who is professional and who is well versed in PHP,MYSQL,ASP,JAVASCRIPT,PERL,APACHE SERVER. i know this stuff but my company wants me to be a project leader, so if employed you will be working under me.
pay is $15/hr to start with. Even students can apply.
You make it sound so appealing.
What I am reading
I don't know if people keep track of the "Reading:" block down there, but I am currently reading Phoebe Gloeckner's "Diary of a Teenage Girl," and it's really good. She draws beautifully (it's a novel with integrated comics), and writes well, and it's a disturbing, thoughtful, beautiful book, blurring the lines between autobiography and fiction - a photo of Gloeckner herself as a teenager appears on the front cover, identified inside as the "real Minnie Goetz," the protagonist of the book. I was really affected by this work. Highly recommended.
Cooking for the Web Set
ThinkGeek :: George Foreman USB iGrill
Running late at work? Need to get dinner on the table? It is easy to warm up the iGrill from any internet connection. With a little advance planning, your meal can be ready when you get home!
Hm. I smell a spate of hacked GF USB iGrills starting fires all over the place. Or you could make someone come home to very dry hamburgers. Does this thing have a firewall? XML-RPC interface?