Friday, February 15, 2002
CSS and Universal Design
Notseparate-but-accessibledesign, but universal design. One page accomodates everyone: people with desktop PCs with modern web browsers, people on older PCs with older web browsers, people using WebTV, people using text-only browsers, people printing your web page, people with Braille readers, people with speech synthesizers.
DMVs Pushing for Standard License
State motor vehicle agencies want Congress to standardize the license, share more driver data between states and mandate techniques such as biometrics touniquely identifyeach of America's 228 million drivers.
U.S. troops move to guerrilla stronghold
There has been much debate in the Philippines about the exact role and capacity the U.S. forces will take in the war games, designed to assist Filipino soldiers in its long-running campaign against the Abu Sayyaf -- a group that has been linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.
Canadian skaters get gold; judge suspended
The International Olympic Committee Friday afternoon awarded a gold medal to the Canadian figure-skating pair who initially won the silver in a hotly contested performance ruling Monday night.
And Justice For All
When [Pelletier was] asked if he thought they would get to keep the silver medal,We hope to get the bronze, too, so we can get the entire collection.
Cockroaches after nuclear war
That bit about cockroaches was certainly a memorable quote from this article. However, my eyes were drawn to something different.
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.
What is the difference between Carbon and Cocoa and should I even care?
Both Cocoa and Carbon call into the same parts of "Mac OS X". Cocoa applications are no more or less native than Carbon applications.
Brent Simmons
I've often wondered about the kind of mind that can't like two things, that has always to proclaim one is great and the other evil.
Heh, I have no problem liking and disliking the same thing.
The Death of Digital Rights Management?
What's going on? More than just a side effect of last year's dot-com implosion, the digital-rights slump is in part a result of technological shortcomings. Content protection software is simply too obtrusive and confining to meet users' needs, say observers.
Losing the war on patents
Attempts to fix the intellectual property system from below are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds?
Discussion at Slashdot.
Digital screens sparse for Star Wars release
A couple of years ago, hopes were high that up to 2,000 screens could be converted to digital projection in time for George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones. No more.
Discussion at Slashdot.
DMCA Protection at U.S. Border
I guess when you've got the big hammer of the DMCA, everything starts looking like a nail.
That's What I Want
But some items on user wishlists are incompatible with current DRM technologies, and traditional industry infrastructure. Industry execs have been preoccupied. Protecting intellectual property has overshadowed user's needs, and DRM has become an obstacle to customer service.
The Philippine Wars
Nicholas Kristof
Will giving Philippine troops 30,000 more machine guns really help them win popular support?
Also be sure to read A Safe Place for a War.
