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A few weeks ago, I blogged a funny video created by a Canadian high-school student titled "Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101." One of the many people who commented on that post was an anonymous commenter who wrote:
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The aim of Orgy, circa 1967, is to see how far you can pour "your favorite libation" into someone's mouth using the "beautiful hand-blown Porron." (i am bored via @fordradio)... More.
TechCrunch agrees with Cory's (and Jason Calacanis') predictions from last week: Murdoch is about to sign an exclusivity deal with an also-ran search engine. (There was more at the Graun.) Mike Arrington, however, suggests this will succeed in hurting Google. ... More.
I've just sat in on a presentation at the Canadian Reading Summit by one of the editors of OnFiction, an online scientific journal devoted to understanding the psychology of fiction reading. It was an incredibly exciting look into the neurology of fiction as an "embodied simulation." The journal lo... More.
Wired on what's in the FOIA'd fed wiretapping docs EFF released yesterday: "The George W. Bush administration expressed concern future administrations might not use the legal amnesty it wanted to give the nation's telecommunication companies that were being sued for assisting the president's warrant... More.
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Gosh, that's such a terrible idea. You know it'll just encourage people to not speak English like every real person does.
We do need a <SARCASM> markup tag though.
As long as I'm able to see my son's college photos on Flickr I'm a happy camper
The article gets an important detail wrong: Mosaic was owned by the NCSA; when Andreessen and gang started Netscape, they didn't have the rights to that code, which they wrote for grad student "wages" (meaning less than a janitor gets), so they built a new one from scratch. They initially wanted to keep the name "Mosaic", but they were not allowed to, so they chose the name Netscape.
Grad student wages are pretty dang good if you consider the tuition waiver most get.
I could not agree more, a tag would be a great addition.
People use images on the web? Gosh, maybe it's time I stop using Lynx to browse.
@ Clifton
I agree. It will also encourage phishing.
The <img src=""> tag. When HTML really came alive and separated port 80 traffic from being just another gopher...
Yep, there was a lot of freaking out over it, but then it enabled what we have now...
It forced the John Dvorak rule, "at the heart of most technological communications innovation lies the demand for pornography"...
Thanks Joe. I think I've fixed all the Mosaic/Netscape lineage bits. Sorry for the confusion.
I fear that the new features they are creating become the ad hoc standards that will prove difficult to undo. One tag that struck me as not wanted/needed was the EMBED tag as it seems to be just an IMG tag with no inline content type specified.
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