catherine brewster not only got front row seats, but she took some great photos of u2 @ astoria.

wasp’s new browser upgrade campaign has a laudable goal. they don’t mention mozilla (not the same as ns6) or lynx (html 4.0 compatible), which is a huge disservice. the former because ns6 sucks, and the second because disregarding lynx rendering means disregarding accessibility. if it renders in lynx, it means it should display in html2/3 browsers, and it’ll work for disabled (blind, etc) people.

but you know, this is the kinda thing content/display separation and server-side template generation was supposed to solve.

if knownow makes it big, i can just see it bringing down apache 1.x servers to their knees (so many child processes, the horror, the horror). um 2.x would do better. and aolserver would do better too. actually, i’m sure that that’s the least of knownow’s worries once you take the riaa, the mpaa, and gov’t goons into account.

apologies for anyone who reads this blog for insight on internet trends and commentary: i believe i am out of the loop now. i don’t go through my daily net reading list regularly anymore (no time), and i’m not going to any of those swanky events (no money). not like the good old days ;P

u2log has a link to a neat david holmes remix of beautiful day. it’s a very stripped down garage band mix, all dissonant guitar fuzz and bass line. sooper cool. sounds almost like a demo tape.

man, tech report’s comments on hardware prices is dead on hilarious. of course, none of this applies to apple people. ;P

that ms vs open source /. article is up to 1150 comments. still around the same number of 3+ posts though (some really good ones, say: #506, #39, #40, #49, #68, #193, #203, #530, #735, #262), heh. reminds me of all those comp.os.advocacy flamefests. man, reading those things wasted a ton of time.

gateway’s selling a system w/ a 41.3ghz processor at a song.

in case you missed it, mozilla 0.8 is out. oh, be sure to take a look at this bug. i think it’s interesting to note that recently, builds have been shrinking. daily builds of win32 mozilla got as big as 14-15mb for a while, but now (along w/ 0.8) are hovering around the 10mb size.

looks good, is pretty stable, still has the bookmark sidebar rightclick bug (won’t be fixed until 0.9, but i was hoping…) … context menus are good. if you could use a context menu to switch image blocking (off and on), animated gif, popup, and js options, life would be sweet.

on a totally different note, there’s a thread on sijun’s digital art forums that points to older threads of advice. sorta one band aid way of dealing with management of data… big concern of mine for the past while. of course, i’ve been really lagging in my implementation of my junk organizer tool. i should really create a project plan for that… hmm. i’ve said this before.

nothing like ms vs open source to draw the /. crowd outta the woodwork. most messages i’ve seen in a looong time. haven’t seen overload mode in a while either…

man i love the quote from jim allchin (microsoft windoze honcho):

I’m an American, I believe in the American Way,I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don’t think we’ve done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.

time for some hearings to drive out the pinkos! lol.

that’s a good question. why does the razorfish redesign resemble the marchfirst design so much? (well, we probably already know the answer to that, don’t we?) the mefi thread turns into funny bitchslap commentary about half-way through. reads like the vault. 😉

even a year later, sapient’s site is still one of the best web/creative consulting firm websites i’ve seen. love 37signals’ site still as well.