Thursday, February 14, 2002
Hi Tina, Happy Valentine's Day!
To make your own heart, check out the ACME Heart Maker.
Blog This
We're in a lull between waves of commercialization in digital media, and bloggers are seizing the moment, potentially increasing cultural diversity and lowering barriers to cultural participation.
Powers of 10
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
Dave Winer
This evening I'm reviewing the Weblogs.Com code, line by line, and the error messages are cracking me up. Try this one out, remember this software talking.Thanks for the ping. But the name of your weblog looks (to us only, no criticism intended) like a URL. However foolishly, we think of this as an error.
Sometimes, when I'm on a posting spree, this error message from weblogs.com shows up in my events log...
Thanks for the ping, however we can only accept one ping every five minutes. It's cool that you're updating so often, however, if I may be so bold as to offer some advice -- take a break, you'll enjoy life more.
David Brin on Privacy
David Brin is interviewed and provides some strong words on modern conceptions of privacy and why they're off-base. Brin asserts - and argues well - that a land with little privacy is a freer land.
Frustration: A New Demonstration Sport
The more technologically advanced the Olympics become, the more cutting-edge the equipment, the more precise the scoring (when it doesn't involve figure skating), the more frustrating it is to know that the potential of the Internet remains almost totally untapped.
FCC gives cautious nod to ultra-wideband
The Federal Communications Commission approved limited deployment of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology on Feb. 14 but said it will consider wider deployment over the next year if the current concerns about interference prove unwarranted.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Move Over, BT: He Invented Links
But Bemer, who describes himself as acomputer software consultant, futurist and raconteur, doesn't intend to trump BT's claims in order to establish his own — he just wants to point out the perils of the patent system.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Kathleen Fent Read this Story
Enough rambling. Will you marry me? Update 15 minutes 30 seconds later: Subj: "Yes", message body: "Dork. You made me cry. :)" Hazah! I'm getting married! :)
CmdrTaco is getting married!
Notes on yesterday's CSS discussion
Dave Winer
Net-net, I don't pray in the same church as many other people do. More power to you, let's try to work together anyway. We will provide a CSS-based theme for Radio and Manila, so our users have choice. We will also start a mail list for designers working in our software, so they can give us advice and we can help them be successful, and vice versa.
My dislike of tables is philosophical, but not religious. I don't know enough about the ins and outs of CSS to judge whether or not it's the answer
, but I appreciate the goal of separating content and form in a way that recognizes the diversity of output devices. Of course, the last part of that sentence implies that tables will need to be around for a while longer.
One of the great things about the Radio CMS is that it already separates content and form. Again, I'm no expert, but it seems to me that Radio + CSS (or any formatting standard) would be a natural fit.
