hmm, a $99 tivo even makes up for divx and a broadvision powered pos site.
my friend writes much better than i do
as a tangential aside (aren’t they all), i have thus far avoided reading house atreides, after seeing some of the reviews when it first came out. i have a feeling that i’ll break down sooner or later and read it anyway, but at least keeping in mind that it’s it’s not canon, but rather just bad fanfic.
heheh, Who would have thought an operating system whose mascot is a cute, smiling penguin could engender such fear?
finally got to reading this michael dell interview. pretty interesting commentary on /.
DVD/DeCSS: MPAA Wins In New York. hmm, illegal to link to code…
ya know peter, admittedly the ted baker online store is slick, but that still doesn’t change the fact that i can’t bookmark any items i want in my browser. actually, i believe that svg will finally allow a site that’s as dynamic as the ted baker store and that integrates w/ the browser ui (ie5 allows dynamic loading of xml nodes, and rewriting the url properly is trivially easy once you can traverse the dom easily (which svg will allow). oh yeah, that’s not even counting the amount of integration you can get with mozilla.
from inside: Policy wonks’ aesthetic sense has become so ossified by political debate that most of them actually think that show biz exists to convey a message or promote a particular kind of behavior. It never occurs to them that a song or movie may be trying to make people dance or laugh, that entertainment experiences are impressionistic and emotional. Here’s a clue — listening to the blues doesn’t make most people sad.
fun salon lotr article. Advance hysteria for “The Lord of the Rings” has reached pandemic proportions among Tolkien readers and the Internet’s Ain’t It Cool News movie fan-boy set. (There is considerable crossover between those two groups.)
hahaha… the funny thing is that mainsoft needs the windows source code to port office because of all the proprietary hooks…