its much more than a dress, its a grace kelly movie.
halley comments on the wonder new white house email system and crappy user interfaces in general. if you're trying to take my money, shouldn't you make it easy for me to give it to you? this was brought about by doc searls testing out the new system. very entertaining. i like how you have to specify if your email is praising bush or is going in the recycling bin, i mean not praising bush.#
rms' speech about lisp is interesting because he's a technically smart guy who will live in the past of the MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) AI(Artificial Intelligence) Lab forever.#
don't use xml, use S-expressions #
brian rice has a slide set about slate #
richard tallent responds to tim bray's get off of IE post. he talks about some more ways to help mozilla adoption: support standards in general by getting people to use the latest ie; don't write browser specific code, this ranges from sites to extensions; and, implement auto-upgrade in mozilla -- good idears, it will bring bg to tears#
charles miller points out how wonderful www.snopes.com is, this of course brought about by the awesome van halen brown out story#
cedric explains optimistic concurrency. rather than be perfect all the time but take a small hit alot, be messy most of the time and take a bit hit less frequently.#
safari just crashed because of the textile web demo i hate at it. i have to through my rss aggregator and figure out what open pages died. i am upset.#
this may be a nice new coloumn in the future.#
cool new shrook feature: distributed checking via boing boing -- neat! i think i may try to use this at some point.#
this article at kuro5hin is really perfect. it's called ''The Adequacy Style Troll (AST): A Brief Refresher'' and one of the funniest parts is the explanation of the title. read it up. an "article in the AST style" by the same author reads: ''I once read a treatment of risk analysis which pointed out that you may think your life is worth a million dollars, but it's only really worth a million dollars if you have a million dollars to pay for it. (The article then went on to explain why it's not always a bad thing to leave known defects in consumer products if correcting the defects will drive the price up too much, a sensibly modern attitude.)'' -- interesting attitude?#
nat on dashboard. the 10th brings us a cool word-stemming vector-based indexer. i like these things, i want to write one or find a good use for one because they are neats. with a readme posted on the 14th -- it would be neat to have a dashboard in NOT .net/#c/mono#