the art of writing is discovering what you believe
[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 to install and run one on their own. When they want to control their own subscriptions, then they can advance to the next level. The display of the aggregator here is still quite crude. But there will be new stories at the top of the hour. I have to provide a way to see what we’re subscribed to and a prefs page to add or remove feeds, and to determine how many are displayed on this page. In other words the development is far from finished. But it works. DW
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 all. The browser status bar can be a major source of semantic meaning, without even following a link through.
sometimes link is just a link. to mangle a metaphor . . . . sometimes you can get the joke by seeing where a link would take you. Other times, you need to follow the gesture . . . . depends on how curious you are, how much time you have, how well your host has prepared you . . . . .
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 language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!_
Follow the thread to the end . . . .
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 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 from about 27 BCE until 180 AD. I grant that the Romans were not the most benign of rulers. They crucified dissidents for decoration, fed lesser humans to their pets, and generally scared the bejesus out of everyone, including Jesus Himself. But war, of the sort that racked the Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, and indeed, just about everyone prior to Julius Caesar, did not occur. The Romans had decided it was bad for business. They were in a military position to make that opinion stick._
Interesting people get interesting mail: browsing the archives will have to suffice for me. Read this all the way through. It *will* be on the exam.