I took a little break from work and did some more tweaking for free_culture. It’s a page now that points to various files and mirrors and suchwhatnot.
A friend sent me a link to thispast week’s WSJ Personal Technology column, which talks about the T-Mobile Sidekick, a surprisingly reasonably priced piece of technology. It’s like a Accompli, but priced at $199 instead of $599, and with unlimited (always on w/ GPRS) data usage (web, email, and aim) and 200 anytime / 1000 weekend minutes for $39.99 a month.
That’s pretty damn impressive and has me almost convinced on changing service right now. If the web browser is decent (allowing me to program usable web services) or even if there’s a decent programmable API (it has 4MB of Flash and 16MB of RAM…) and if it had Bluetooth (and a bluetooth headset accessory), I’d switch in a heartbeat. As it is though, I’m just going to lust for a while until I find out more information on its programmability. Hmm, I wonder if work will pay for one of these…
Random thought: imagine one of these puppies with built-in wi-fi and netstumbler. >;)
Hmm, this is interesting… Originally, I thought that Mozilla’s CSS error parsing was at fault, but discussing it with JesseR, extending the test case, and looking at how CSS2 blocks are defined, it appears that because blocks can be nested, Mozilla’s parsing is correct and the W3C CSS Validator is wrong.
If declaration blocks can be nested, then this:
a { foo:bar; }
b { baz:qux;
c { quux:quuux; }
d { quuuux:quuuux; }
should evaluate to:
/* Mozilla's result */
a { foo:bar; }
b { baz:qux; }
and NOT:
/* W3C css validator */
a { foo:bar; }
b { baz:qux; }
d { quuuux:quuuux; }
Looks like Netscape DevEdge redesigned under my nose. It now has this Navigatorish theme going again.
We don’t need no steenkin’ title. Go free_culture go!
One nice thing about all these links rolling in is getting to see all the referers. Some pretty interesting sites/blogs/discussion going on. The only negative is that there are actually quite a few “members only” boards that I can’t look at. For some reason this really annoys me. Anyway, here’s a partial list of somet interesting sites so far:
- Steven’s Weblog
- Aula – hmm, some familiar names of people posting here. sorta pricey though to join
- ARTS & FARCES
- Radio Free Blogistan – hey it’s a salon blog
- d/blog – led to my CSS declaration block musings (see above)
- statonBlog
- Ernie the Attorney – some nice links
- Tribe Magazine Board: Freedom to Create – the last post has an interesting link to an article and subsequent interview of the kid who got suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt to school on “Coke Day.”
- Straight, No Chaser – ooh, pretty HTMLimalism design. glad I have text zoom though.
- Raleighnet.org/Speak gives free_culture a big thumbs up
- Wildfire Communities – discussion on increasing copyright restrictions
- flameproof pony accessories’ livejournal – what can I say? this is just scary.
Organica has it’s own list of crawled blog links.
Some things are so freakish that you can’t help but point and gawk. Pointing and gawking: The HisTory of Michael Jackson’s face
Financial Armaggedon Is Unfolding in South America! (And it’s by design) – is this article accurate? I have no idea. Still, it’d be interesting if the US headed into a cyberpunk style mega-debt meltdown.
Heh, the Lessig talk is #2 on daypop’s top 40 right now.
Ok, I think I’m done tweaking. I’ve enabled mod_gzip for just about everything (turning it off for ns4 users because I’m a nice guy), and I’ve set up some mod_throttle rules that should hopefully keep me out of trouble in the very remote case that I ever get a lot of traffic. It’s too bad that you can’t assign multiple policies to one container. It’d be nice to be able to stack some of these.
Site’s going up and down right now while I tweak mod_throttle and mod_gzip stuff.