Corante seems to be a pretty nice tech blog, weighed heavily towards topical link collection. Their article on Google loves Blogs is a good summary on weblog effects on Google searches. Hmm, the article is part of Corante’s Microcontent News, but it’s not linked from the front page, there doesn’t seem to be an index of all the topics anywhere…

todo: Corante uses WebCrimson; take a look later

AICN advertises the Scratch showing at the Nuart. I was going to catch this tonight before The City of Lost Children midnight screening… I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty crowded tonight. (Appearance with the filmmakers by Z-Trip tonight, and Beat Junkies tomorrow)

Nice, KCRW is now streaming w/ a 128k MP3 stream.

[The Congress shall have power…]

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

— U.S. CONST., art. I, § 8, cl. 8

• When Rights Collide: Principles to Guide the Intellectual Property Debate
• National Information Infrastructure, Pt I Law, Purpose of Copyright
• The Purpose of Copyright, by Lydia Pallas Loren
• Control & Creativity by Lawrence Lessig

This little flash piece is amusing.

/. on good web design. Oh Lordy.

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

—RAH

Glad to see I’m not the only one who’s noticed all the DOM and XML and stuff @ WebRef. I was just musing about it (and doing some reading) this weekend. Although to be fair, DocJS has been covering NS6 since mid-2000 and the DOM even earlier.

I’ve been adding some widgetry. A little show-source JS widget in the left, and also, since I noticed that Paul‘s been using the abbr tag for the nifty dotted underline and help pointer, I decided to adopt that visual convention and automagically style all my titled elements so people can easily spot my snarky comments.

I don’t think I’ve seen it around much yet, but it makes a lot of sense. Of course, browsers that don’t support CSS2 selectors won’t see anything at all:

*[title] {

  border-bottom:1px dotted silver;

  cursor:help;

}

If you add this to your user style sheet, you can see on all the secret stuff on all those sites that you’ve been missing out on ;).

Steven Garrity asks Why should I redesign my site with Cascading Style Sheets? There are a number of replies here.

The curmudgeonly part of me want to say “You shouldn’t, don’t bother.” Actually, to be non-flippant, as a fellow in-the-trencher, Steve has a firm grasp of the issues surrounding the decision to goCSS. Obviously CSS isn’t ready for production work, and at the current rated of browser adoption, it may never be. Also, CSS2 is just has so many weakpoints it really is agonizing. Actually, I’d be more than happy to play within the spec if all my time wasn’t being spent working around implementation bugs anyway.

Hmm: KM entry should have scoped run-time and pre-definable/loadable transclusions…