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Thursday 16 May 2002
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Even Paul Allen hits investing headwinds. The billionaire technocrat wants to build companies that promote his vision of a "wired world," but the sour economy has pulled the plug on many of his investments. [By way of CNET News.com]
Parapraxis—when I first read this item I heard “weird world” in my head. And in fact, I’ve always wanted to try designing a GUI that would respond in a completely alien way to inputs. Inconsistent, or perhaps based on a state machine.
1:39:14 PM 
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Via Haughey, a great quote from Pascal inventor Niklaus Wirth: "People seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication." Tatoo that on your forehead, post-it on your monitor, send it to the editors of XML.Com, and to the leaders of the W3C.  [By way of Scripting News]
1:44:58 AM
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2002
Richard Allan Baruz.
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11/17/02; 2:38:52 AM.
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