Wow, John Hicks’ new css Zen Garden design is quite striking. Well, I’m not with the whole overflow bit, but still, a great design.

• TV’s Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning – speech given by Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, at the Royal Television Society on Oct 6
  

  And finally, the last trend — sharing. Broadband, which is growing exponentially in the UK (up 200 percent year on year to around 2.5 million subscribers now) will make downloading of decent video quality worthwhile, easy and cheap via the net. Downloading and sharing this video is the final piece of the jigsaw and will create a killer combination that I believe could undermine the existing models of pay-TV.

• Solving the problem of DV’s 4:1:1 sampling
• The Art of the Crack
• Foo Camp Wiki (more @ zawodny’s blog)
• HL2 leak config
• Link Markers: CSS Generated Content
• What’s new in Mozilla Firebird 0.7
• aaronsw: Shades of Gray, Followup to “Shades of Gray
• Effing C.C. – ba zing!
  

  Like I said, I don’t think cursing is necesarily bad. But, I do feel that our increasing comfort with it signifies a deeper cultural ill — that we are becoming a ruder, more careless, less civil and more thoughtless people.

  To put in terms you may understand better: we’re turning into a bunch of fucking assholes.

• First They Came For the Rich…. – Grover Norquist is a Nazi (or something along those lines)

Linux vs Solaris flaming on /.

Treo 600 software:

• telnet/ssh for Treo 300?
  • Top Gun ssh for PalmOS – SSHv1
  • Mocha Telnet for Palm OS – VT100/VT220 Telnet, SSHv2 (3DES)
• Verichat – Yahoo!, ICQ, MSN, AIM
• SnapperMail

Turned Away at Border

The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills.

They were “global nomads.” He was a diplomat’s son. She the daughter of missionaries. They lived in Asia, attended school together, fell in
love and want to get married in June.

But when Hughes’ fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed–even stripped of her diamond engagement ring.

Then, after 20 hours without food, she was put on a plane and shipped back to Stuttgart.

“This
isn’t the America I fought for,” said Hughes, who served in the Navy
and U.S. diplomatic corps. “You don’t expect that from a great country
like ours.”

What happened in Beate’s own words:

All my belongings were taken, including all my jewelry and I was handcuffed and marched out with the other “detainees” to the van. It was reiterated on several accounts that “these were just proceedings, I was not a criminal…” Somehow they seemed to think this would make it more acceptable to me.

More at Land of the Free?

• Turning The Valve Off: Effects Of The Half-Life 2 Source Theft>
• U.S. Bureau of Engra
  ving and Printing – hmm, their site is @ moneyfactory.com

AICN on Lucas being a wanker

Growing increasingly disturbed

• Online Journalists are ISPs? – FBI demanding retention of records by reporter Declan McCullagh under laws which apply to ISPs (not reporters)
• Aug 8:
  

  The synopsis of Austin’s crime is linking to sites that contain information on building bombs.
  Federal proscecutors argued that his political beliefs were the violent
  overthrow of the government, or a revolution combined with information
  on how to acheive it. Austin’s account and rebuttal of the case
  (lots of comments) can be found on RaiseTheFist.com’s website.
  Extrapolated within reason, this case lays the foundation requiring
  political journalists to navigate a political minefield when reporting
  terrorism acts and U.S. policies. For example, any site that has
  information on weapons (e.g. – CNN’s article on the risks of building dirty bombs and the difficulty in acquiring material), combined with an acerbic or dissenting viewpoint of the government’s policies (e.g. – a CNN article on the U.S. helping Saddam in the 80s) could be grounds for proscecution.

• Terror Law Nabs Common Criminals
  

  “Within six months of passing the Patriot Act, the Justice Department was conducting seminars on how to stretch the new wiretapping provisions to extend them beyond terror cases,” said Dan Dodson, a spokesman for the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. “They say they want the Patriot Act to fight terrorism, then, within six months, they are teaching their people how to use it on ordinary citizens.”

  Prosecutors aren’t apologizing.

• Sep 24: Hackers are ‘Terrorists’ Under Ashcroft’s New Act
• 9/27: U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling
• 6/3: For Jailed Immigrants, a Presumption of Guilt

Am I out of line in saying that America has been betrayed by her stewards, or does that make me a terrorist?

(yeah, I’m feeling much safer now)

Not only does the University of Bristol have The List on TTW WYSIWYG Editors, but they also have a nice list of Portals & Portal Frameworks

Ooh, maybe Sprint’s $15/mo isn’t so bad after all…