via mamamusings is the awesome song, the day the blogging died - witty.#

a defense of rdf, or rather one programmers explanation of why he feels rdf is useful and why he stuck with it - ''RDF is, you know, for computers'' and ''Don't take HTML as a precedent: HTML has been an exception to so many rules, and its continuing existence in random tag-soup mode is down to the immense effort put in to engineering web browsers. When you consider the restricted number of things a web browser actually does for you, that's a scary, scary thing. The tag soup is only possible because the end consumer is a human, not a machine. Our eyes and brains are forgiving in what they can process.'' - shows that he's not in the "we need users to support technologies and they will support technologies that support them" camp but never the less, an interesting take.#

from the daily flight is a neat way of presenting multi-page forms on the web. - ''It would be nice if playing around with CSS layouts, scanning our latest vacation photos, or catching up on the news was the only thing we had to do all day. Unfortunately that's not the case, and we're forced to deal with challenges of a more practical nature. A fifty question survey form, for example.''#

this sounds pretty neat - ''When we went to London a few years ago, one of the things we saw in London's theatre district were a couple shows by The Reduced Shakespeare Company, namely their "Complete Works Of Shakespeare (Abridged)" and "Complete History of America (Abridged)". They were, as you might expect, totally totally hysterical.''#

the death of anomalies, the acceleration of the impending heat death.#

via joi ito is a very interesting article about the "connectedness" of the human social network, an email experiment to verify some old results - ''More than 60,000 people from 166 different countries took part in the experiment. Participants were assigned one of 18 target people. They were asked to contact that person by sending email to people they already knew and considered potentially "closer" to the target. The targets were chosen at random and included a professor from America, an Australian policeman and a veterinarian from Norway. The researchers found that it in most cases it took between five and seven emails to contact the target. ''#

man, why haven't i read this before? - ''There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again.''#

at kottke.org is Google and the Fabulous Googlettes - ''Google is building a little Skunkworks to generate business ideas and leaders internally instead of relying so heavily on outside hires and ideas. Which is a fine idea.'' - read for what jason thinks they might want to ALSO do.#

from richard and sam is the "Top Eight Clues You May Be A Geek" - ''3. You still don't understand why anyone would name a pharmacy after a version control system.'' - hah#

naming is the hardest part about programming.#

lawrence lessig writes about "loophole executives", the great politicians who rise and fall because of stupid technicalities. - referring to California now, and Bush in 2000 - ''I can't understand why the Democrats, or at least why the Davis supporters, don't make this point clear. And more importantly, I can't understand why Governor Davis doesn't at least nominate a protest candidate — a candidate who says (1) this election is wrong, and (2) whether you like Davis or not, you should vote not to recall him on the basis of a constitutional mistake, and (3) after you vote not to recall him, you should vote for the protest candidate. That candidate would promise not to run for reelection — or for any office in California, since no one should benefit politically from a constitutional mistake — but would hold the governorship "in trust" until we have another election where the candidate with the most votes wins.''#

sam ruby on the two types of aggregators and weblogs and how Atom is good for both. - ''Back to the "two types of weblogs", let me explore this by looking at two specific blog tools, namely, Radio UserLand and Movable Type. Radio UserLand was my first blog tool. While you can do many things with it, let me focus on two: posting to your weblog, and creating a story. Posts tend to be short. Stories tend to be longer. Posts are included in your RSS feed. Stories are not. To get a story to appear in your RSS feed, you merely link to it in a Post.''#

charles miller has the flava#

you should always create a new CMS at every chance you get because there's never enough.#

keith reflects on rss, generated code, and newsreaders - ''I don't really care much how RSS works, and whether or not it's human readable. I guess that would be preferable, but really, I just want to know that it works and that I can syndicate my site to folks with newsreaders. The rest I'll leave to people smarter than I to sort out / fight over.'' (not something dave would agree with, you can't trust the technologists) - keith wonders about how people view his blog and if they use newsreaders... i primarily use my news reader (NetNewsWire) to alert me when pages are updated and then i double click the header and read the entry on the site#

from mark is Richard Treadgill's advice for programmers who would like to interact with managers - ''the cardinal rule: Silence is bad. Management cannot differentiate between someone who's gone off the deep end and is over their head, someone who is malingering, someone who's trying to solve an intractable problem, and someone who is making progress on a hard design issue. You'll note that almost all of those options are bad. If you don't tell your manager what you're doing in a way that they can easily communicate to their peers, you're creating a lot of new work for your manager in two ways: first, by creating a need for them to defend you to their peers, and secondly by making it actually difficult for them to do so. Good managers will review and evaluate their own focus and resource allocation continually. Making it easy for them do to so is good for both of you.''#

this is astounding, sega is actually profitable this quarter. wow.#

don park considers a career change - he'd like to be a ''Idea [Investor providing] ideas to companies in return for equity and/or percentage of revenue generated from the idea.'' - it's a neat idea, just sit around patenting and coming up with awesome ideas.#

an explanation of the purpose and benefits of permalinks, along with some caveats to using them - from shelley at "Weblogs for Poets"#

old books are pretty neat. i want to have a classic library with ladders, wooden shelves, and what not in my house when i have one. i think it would be great, cute, you know?#

epiphany#

russell beattie advocates the great centerfold of the internet - ''The days of spacer.gif's, tables and embedded design are gone. '' - ''The pages will look good on any device, are accessible and the dev time is cut considerably since I'm not screwing around with table design, but instead am worrying about functionality. The fantastic thing is how flexible CSS design is - the Zen Garden really shows how completely maleable standard markup is.''#

moxie explains who she will vote for in the california re-election - ''While Ah-nold's AKA "the Governator's" stance on key issues is still largely unknown, what I do know about the California Terminator -- his philanthropy, fiscal conservatism, moderate social views, etc -- I like very much.'' - :)#

i love how pejman's blogroll is set up.#

i enjoy it when tony gives advice to us about romances and what life we be like when we're older - ''if youre a man under the age of 100, any ass will do, but once you get older than that dont be suprised if you get impatient when perfect ass stops being perfect or when easy ass becomes dull. even at 109 years old i have never been bored by easy ass, however ive grown tired of jump-through-the-ring-of-fire normal ass.''#

i'm very proud of tony, he wrote a coloumn for fox sports. awesome, i think it's the first thing about sports i've read on the internet. #

poisonous soda pop in india from kuro5hin. it's amazing that stuff like this goes one, how long do people think they can get away with things?#

from kuro5hin is an explanation of the song "Brimful of Asha", a song that i presumed was just pop dustbin barrel stuff when i first heard it - apparently it has lots of meaning about Indian culture - ''Why do I find this song so remarkable? Most people, when talking of Indian culture, tend to make statements which fall in two categories. The first consists of glorifications of classical Indian culture, philosophy, tradition, and so forth. The second consists of lamentations about the corruption, poverty, dirt, and how the whole country is going to the dogs. It is relatively unusual for someone to touch on the spirit of the ornery hard-bitten yet cheerful street-corner Indian, the one who always has to worry about the expenses for next month but yet decides on an impulse to splurge on hot samosas. Cornershop manages to celebrate and showcase this joie de vivre, and to do so with skill and sensitivity, and for this, they deserve to be congratulated.''#

tom coates wonders if the fact that it can be reasonably predicted that passwords are often of a certain length means that it would be easier to crack them. not really, say i would normally search for passwords that are only alphanumerical characters and i will search from 1 characters to 10 characters. there would be ( exp(( 26 + 10 + 1 ),9) + ( 26 + 10 ) ) combinations. ( 26 = the alphabet, 10 = the numbers, 1 = no character here ) but let's say i would search from 6 characters to 10 characters, that's ( exp(37,4) + exp(36,6) ) - so we decreased our search space by 00.00167% - big deal!#

read this - some intense quoting from a movie set.#

my neutral milk hotel cd is very scratched and i can't listen to it any more.#

john gruber in a fight with his accessories with crappy drivers. - ''"USBATCF.kext"? That's so obvious! How did I miss it?''#

carly likes all the same movies that i do. and i used to be a gilmore girls' fan when i used to get home from work and watch tv, now i write on the blog so there's no tv. hmmph.#