Friday, April 5, 2002
The Phoenix 1000 Luxury Submarine
Unlike surface yachts, when the water gets rough, the submarine can submerge into a perfectly smooth and quiet environment, continuing on toward its destination, providing a ride unsurpassed in quality-unequaled by the finest motor coach or the most luxurious executive aircraft.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Fighting the Good Fight
Camera advocates claim that most people like red-light cameras, but citizens across the country are taking to the barricades against them.
The story behind Usability.gov
Usability.gov is a one-stop source for government web designers to learn how to make websites more usable, useful, and accessible.
Information Wants to be Free, but People Still Need to Get Paid
Welcome to what we might call the "front-loaded" economy. That is: an economy in which most of the expenses involved in providing goods and services are front-loaded in the form of research and development - once the product or service has been designed, it can be provided at a marginal cost at or near zero.
Doc Searls has a nice rant to go along with the article...
In a real bazaar, the supply side doesn't set all the conditions by which demand may behave.
Oops, I kind of screwed up my web page. I think I pasted the item template into where the day template should have gone. Stupid...
Just in case any of my dozen or so daily visitors are wondering...
- Yes, I'm playing around with the templates for this site.
- No, I don't have the slightest clue what I'm doing.
I know what sort of look I'm going for - a cascading boxed style that shows the hierarchy of the page. Right now I'm trying to sort out all the tables - I'd like to strip things down to the bare minimum, then build it back up using CSS. Not for any "religious" reasons, but rather because it suits my personality. Or something. Whatever. 
Human cloning project claims progress
A woman taking part in a controversial human cloning programme for infertile couples is now eight weeks pregnant, revealed Dr Severino Antinori, the well known Italian doctor involved in the cloning project banned in his home country and the USA.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Living Below Your Means
Far more important than where you'll be living is with whom you'll be living, and if you've gotten that part right, you'll weather the other stuff just fine.
