Other hoo-ha

• Lots of good stuff recently @ Many-to-Many
• Designweenie has a quite nice design
• Meyer: Containing Floats

Lots of discussion recently on structural HTML:

• jko: Standards don’t necessarily have anything to do with being semantically correct
• Bowman: On Standards and Semantics
• mezzoblue: Semantics and Bad Code
• Pseudo Design: Semantic Markup
• SimpleBits: This Validates!
• Simon: HTML: More structural than semantic
• SimpleBits: SimpleQuiz > Part I: Headings

Hmm… Popdex Citations seems to be missing most of these; Google has clustering for news, but not blogs (yet, I’m assuming).

Next time @ In-N-Out: yeah, I’d like to order a 20×20.

apparently redirects to goatse.cx now

Anonymous Spammer says:

As a professional sender of UCE, I just want to tell you slashdotters to keep on playing with your spam filters. As long as you use spam filters on your e-mail, I can continue to reach my real intended targets, those non-slashdotters who do not know better and will buy my products or click through to my client’s websites. Your filters really help cut down on the complaints to the Internet service providers I do business with, and as long as not too many complaints come in their marketing people assure me we can do business. Of course, I still waste your bandwidth and mailbox capacity, but you no longer complain to uce@ftc.gov, my access providers, or anyone else who might cause me problems. My yahoo and hotmail and other accounts for replies are lasting much longer before getting shut down because someone complained to these service providers. And my clients are even reporting that they can start mailing out 800 numbers like 1-800-901-3719 again and they will not have you damn geeks set up your modems to keep autodialing them, since you spend your own time and effort to filter the e-mail and only clueless users who might actually call will see the numbers.

The Mendacity Index: Which president told the biggest whoppers? – The last 4 presidents get rated on their biggest lies. Guess who wins out?

Related: an excerpt [8KiB TXT] from Al Franken’s new book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.”

Interesting, jz and Doug Bowman will be doing some consulting on Apple’s website.

Although promised otherwise, USC still seems to still be offering NS 4.76 for download (as well as NS 6.0.2, a release so horrendously buggy that it doesn’t exist in Netscape’s product archive).

Was on Sony.com today; the front page design isn’t horrible, but notice anything going on with the text? That’s right, the tabs are JPEGs, not GIF/PNG. Quite icky. Of course, I probably shouldn’t be one to talk…

I signed away the rights of my first film in class today. One can’t take the class without doing so.

Joyce Park: Towards Semi-Permeable Blogging (w/ mod_pubsub) – very good summary of the problem-space (-1 for use of term ‘Blogistan’)

Turning off auto-email checks would probably make me a lot more productive. Juha Haataja writes:

Jeremy Zawodny
writes: “E-mail is not real-time. It never has been. Why do you assume
that your messages and received and read within 20 seconds? Some people
actually work.” — This is a good point. You don’t need to be
available immediately! There is a recent report
(in PDF) about the cost of e-mail interruption: “The time it takes the
average employee to recover from an email interrupt and to return to
their work at the same work rate at which they left it, is on average
64 seconds.” Thus, if you receive 50 e-mails in a day, you might lose
almost on hour of productive time. Thus, setting in your mail program
the interval between e-mail checks to one hour is a good tactic, as is
disabling all notifications of received e-mail.