The Web is the Ultimate Copy Protection – basically about how web applications gain copy protection because they’re never installed on end-user machines. that’s good for the asp, of course the user’s up a creek if the asp goes out of business, or discontinues the product, or even worse stores your data and goes out of business. I’m not sure if there’s really any way around this. I suppose that one would have to make sure that the eula a user agrees to with the asp covers such eventualities.

new mozilla roadmap. did i mention that mozilla is still useless for me to develop on because of some bigtime js/dom bugs?

all your bases are belong to us – wisdom of the ages, beamed straight to yuor home. 😉

i ordered a copy of all the pretty horses from amazon.com the other week because it appeared they were still selling the pre-movie edition. so, yesterday the book finally arrives, and lo and behold it’s the movie-edition, gawdawful cover and all. i shouldn’t be so peeved, but i am, i really am.

yah sure it looks cool (i’m impressed), but i don’t know if this c.o.m. site is really gonna help it’s e-business sales. the interface when all is said and done is pretty unintuitive (yes i know i don’t read german, but the holes are unlabeled and it’s a bad combination of clicking and dragging imo). umm, oh yeah, and even if you use the pulldown menu, you’re still left with all these “windows” that you have to close to clear the screen.

u2log.com has a realvideo copy of the stuck in a moment video (new single in the rest of the world). the video itself is pretty cool, and interestingly shot. in the us, it appears that walk on is the next single (my favorite song of the album), and in fact, i heard it playing in the lobby of the mandalay bay this morning while i was in vegas. of course, according to what i heard, like with the beautiful day single, interscope won’t be releasing an actual cd single in north america (wtf?).

oh my, as if popups weren’t bad enough… interstitials and superstitials look to be regular fare soon on the web. i remember a time when the web didn’t have ads. ah, the good old days…

man, the new time magazine cover is great.

Shuji Nakamura kicks ass. this guy totally defied everything and ended up inventing commercially viable blue and green led’s.

ps6’s liquify commands can do some neat stuff. (dhtml explanations only works in ie)