a crank’s progress

[Mac Users] Fwd: DarwinPorts Binary Packages
_Personally I’m a fan of DarwinPorts over fink because its more BSD like._
Since Virex hosed up my fink installation, I decided to take a look at this. I’m a fan of FreeBSD anyway, so anything the replicates it’s power is good in my book .

News Aggregator for Weblogs At Harvard
This is an experiment. I’ve wanted to try this out for quite some time — it’s a mini-aggregator in a Manila site. A managing editor selects feeds for a news page for his or her community. This means that people can learn about and enjoy a news aggregator without having [...]

Ben Hammersley.com: of Cigars and hypertext
I’m stuck by the meanings of the links themselves. Where they are, what they link to, the words they link with and so on all add an enormous amount of information to the piece. Links can be subtle, ironic, funny, informative, maudlin, depressing, even designed not to be followed at [...]

Nonsensicon - Alphabetical Browse
Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

Surplus Property: UW Surplus Public Store
TYPICAL ITEMS AVAILABLE INCLUDE:
Wood & Metal Desks, Computer Monitors,
Wood & Metal Tables, Printers,
File Cabinets, Televisions, Computers,
Wood & Metal Bookcases, Bicycles,
Chairs, Office Supplies
Lots of computer speakers to be had, and lots of monitors, some as cheap as $20.

XML.com: BrownSauce: An RDF Browser [Feb. 05, 2003]
In an ideal world we would never see a URI in browsers . . . .
This is an interesting article on transforming XML into instantly understandable graphical representations. Disambiguating content and presentation becomes more clear with examples like this.

Foock yuoo tuu Bork Bork Bork [dive into mark]
_As a reply to MSN’s treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the [...]

Netscape DevEdge Redesign: CSS
The Advantages
At the end of the process, we were left with a situation where every HTML document on the server could be styled by a relatively small collection of files.

The Web Standards Project
_The Mozilla organization released Mozilla 1.3 beta for all platforms. It features additional preference panes, and an in-browser editor for virtually every possible configuration option. Type *about:config* in the location bar and start tweaking._
Thanks to Mark Pilgrim. 1,254 options, for your diddling pleasure

[IP] a piece very worth reading till the end SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
_The other means by which long terms of peace - or, more accurately, non-war - have been achieved is the unequivocal domination by a single ruthless power. The best example of this is, of course, the Pax Romana, a “world” peace which lasted [...]