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kristin believes in karma - if you mess with the bull you'll get the horns and end up as a frog in your next life. free for may be good, but it corrupts the soul#
i really want to goto the International Lisp Conference 2003 - it's only 200 dollars for a student... plus a lot more per night, but it would be worth it. too bad i have school :(#
new screenshots of final fantasy crystal chronicles - neeeaat#
don park reveals that XHTML is just a technical standard for it's own sake. it encourages browsers to be "Judges" rather than "Tools" - he says, ''So, I consider XHTML to be the centerfold geeks are masturbating to. I am a geek too and find XHTML to be sexy enough to ogle. But I don't expect it to cook my dinner nor raise my children. It's just an insert.'' - so great.#
don park finds an example of the idea that markup languages should be very basic at the core and then grow up, or "emerge", from the document they are marking up. need a "<vegetable>" tag? just add it as you go. links to Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Manuals - interesting#
don wonders about who owns an XML namespace and if they can be owned - you can kind of think as an XML namespace as an "open"/"adhoc" standard which are always difficult to assert control and compatibility over. i don't see how XML namespaces are much different - keep yours close to the source (so people will be able to read yours) or become the new source (by being better and more useful)#
everything can be addicting. especially the pursuit of enlightenment. don writes about "Zen Addicts" and some problems he sees people getting into: ''Frequently, I run into people are obsessed with Zen. Some of them become monks. Shaving one's head, aside from the symbolism and marketing side of it, is just a way to focus. Avoiding meat reduces the chance of being swept away in a flood of emotions triggered or aided by certain chemical. Still, I don't see the point of bleeching all the colors out of your life. Being addicted to tranquility and illusion of clarity is a real danger for Zen practioners.'' - the way i see it, swapping your addiction from materialism to enlightenmentism is not really much a change - either way you are putting your focus in the product not the process.#
jeffrey zeldman is interviewed at ultrashock - pretty interesting.#
moxie - ''Oh my god, is this a transient jerking off?''#
tony pierce pays homage to those who deserves it and gets good marks in Friendship. he's very lucky #
open source zeroconf from "Swampwolf" (via ted leung#
wisdom via ted leung - ''A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. He is the teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received. -Lao Tzu, 6th Century B.C. '' - and respect is earned, not given.#
an article on kuro5hin about a "Distributed Protest" - the idea is that if you soak a city in protest then it's more effective the swarming a single place. the author writes it's the ''political manifestations of flash mobs and the physical expression of the force of universal publishing that the Internet has given us. They represent the ability of the common man to present media using the same level of sophistication and organization previously available only to those in power. Regardless of what political agenda you stand for, they have the potential to be a new tool in the arsenal of the concerned citizen.'' - imagine seeing one person on every city block, all day, for a whole week, displaying a sign about some issue - you're more likely to ask a single person then try to deal with a large mob.#
a kuro5hin article about a user volunteering to assassinate users that no one likes. very funny. good quote in the "FAQ" section: ''*Q: I think a lot of people dislike me. How can I be safe?* A: You can't be safe from democracy in action. If the people have spoken through their pocketbooks, you are forfeit. If you are concerned about this, perhaps it is time to examine your behavior to determine why you are disliked so much, by so many. ''#
kim bly has an idea about making "a tool for creating websites based on faceted classification" - it's a pretty neat idea, something that ted leung has been wanting for a while - but when, and if, she implements it better not have crufy URIs instead it should have beautiful ones#
tom coates doesn't think there should be an OS-wide global-undo facility - instead, your browser (and all other apps) should just "remember" what you were looking at the last time you ran them - just like your browser remembers your old mails and netnewswire remembers your subscriptions. i would like it.#
a new post on joel on software links the Foreward joel wrote for In Search of Stupidity - it's very interesting, like all joel is, and is about the need of successful company leadership to understand both technology AND business.#