WebMonkey is Dying

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"A Dying Craft, or a Dying Business?"

"A Dying Craft, or a Dying Business?" 04/02/2005 11:08 AM

R.I.P., webmonkey

R.I.P., webmonkey 02/12/2004 04:44 PM
i hadn't checked in on the site in years, but i'm sorry to see it go

Webmonkey closes down

Webmonkey closes down 02/17/2004 11:47 AM
This may be the year of the monkey, but sadly it is not the year of the Webmonkey. I'm gonna miss it. I learned some of my very first lessons about building websites from that website, and I still have various sections bookmarked for handy reference. BoingBoing reader Philip says:

Webmonkey is closing down! They finally pulled the plug. "Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos (also the parent company of Wired News). Judging by blog posts and e-mails, the site's fans aren't surprised. Still, they're sad to see the end of an era."

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Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004

Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004 03/06/2004 01:53 AM

RI P, Webmonkey (thanks to Jeff Wilkinson for the link).

Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead?

Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead? 06/21/2004 10:53 AM

Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 & ndash; 2004

Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 & ndash; 2004 02/17/2004 05:53 AM
Webmonkey, the pioneering Web development site known as much for its informal tone as its tutorials on how to write code, is shutting after an eight-year run. Fans are disappointed, but not surprised. By Paul Boutin.

Wired News: Webmonkey, RIP: 1996
– 2004

Wired News: Webmonkey, RIP: 1996
– 2004 02/17/2004 02:23 PM
Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 & ndash; 2004 .. pull the plug .. bericht

wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62300,00.html
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For when you're dying to know...

For when you're dying to know... 04/18/2004 08:23 PM
Cinemorgue - Proof that some people have way too much time on their hands.

Why the Windows API is Dying

Why the Windows API is Dying 06/17/2004 06:45 AM

How Microsoft Lost the API War: This is an incredibly long, but very interesting, article from Joel Spolsky in which he explains why the venerable Windows API is dying. He spends 6,252 fasinating words and a couple of dozen tangents getting to this point at the end:

[...] Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows. [...]

I'm actually a little bit sad about this, myself. To me the Web is great but Web-based applications with their sucky, high-latency, inconsistent user interfaces are a huge step backwards in daily usability. I love my rich client applications and would go nuts if I had to use web versions of the applications I use daily [...]

None of this bodes well for Microsoft and the profits it enjoyed thanks to its API power. The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.

He also says this about .Net, which will make my friend Matt feel happy and vindicated because I razz him all the time about being a Microsoft whore:

Much as I hate to say it, a huge chunk of developers have long since moved to the web and refuse to move back. Most .NET developers are ASP.NET developers, developing for Microsoft's web server. ASP.NET is brilliant; I've been working with web development for ten years and it's really just a generation ahead of everything out there.

There you go Matt, now leave me alone.

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A Long Dying Done...

A Long Dying Done... 04/24/2004 12:42 AM
Spalding Gray, as my friend Mountain Girl said, had a very long dying. Part of him died colliding with a mad cow veterinarian in Ireland during the summer of 2001. A lot of him died in cranial surgery on the Upper East Side in September of that year. He literally died in New York Harbor in January. For many, he conclusively died only when his mortal shell surfaced near Greenpoint last month. For myself, I laid him to rest, as much as I ever will, a week ago in the Vivian Beaumont Theater. I have surpassed the usual lifetime quota of memorial services by some long measure but I don't know that I have ever attended one that felt more appropriate to the essence of its focal missing person. Spalding Gray was as present as anyone so absent could possibly be. He was present in the monsoon deluge that soaked me on the way to Lincoln Center. It was a rain where you could drown by looking up, as turkeys are said to sometimes do, and it leaked in streams through the aging 60's roof of the Vivian Beaumont, pooling in several areas of the stage but missing the lonely oak table and its empty chair. He was present in elegant clarity of those who rose to remember him. He was present in their humor and their melancholy, their heartful candor, their diversity. And it was a motley crew it was, ranging from fellow monologuist Eric Bigosian to musician Laurie Anderson to actor Eric Stolz to poet Bob Holman to composer Philip Glass playing a musical sigh for piano and clarinet, to Judy Collins leading us all in "Amazing Grace." There were some perfect moments, like when essayist Roger Rosenblatt, perfectly manicured and patrician, recalled Spalding's prodigious farts. Or when his very close friend Robby Stein talked about Spalding, the weirdly great dad, and you could see his results so clearly in the shy, impish smile that his son Theo wore when he mounted the stage. He provided some of those moments himself, though various video clips from his monologues, his stage performances, and a wonderful out-take from a Barbara Kopple documentary which, though shot after his accident, made it clear that the old Spalding was still with us until his second surgery in September of 2001. In it, there were dogs howling in the background, and his visible appreciation of them reminded me of the time that he convinced me and another friend to bay like wolves with him in a fancy Tribeca restaurant. And a whole table full of Wall Street swells howled back. He will have another memorial service for family and close friends in Sag Harbor on May 15, and I expect that the virtual monument you are building here with your comments will continue to grow. But I'm am going to get back to blogging about other things now. I'm very glad that I was able to provide a place for this to happen, but I feel like it's time for me to move on. In closing this chapter, here are the brief remarks I read at the Vivian Beaumont, condensed in part from things I've said here. I've said my piece and I will let Spuddy rest in his....

kuro5hin is dying

kuro5hin is dying 04/27/2004 03:47 PM
Where is Rusty? An abandoned community cries out for its creator to return.

I feel like I'm dying

I feel like I'm dying 06/03/2004 09:19 AM
I've been married for 14 years to a woman who is clinically depressed. Will the pain ever end?

Is Google Dying?

Is Google Dying? 09/01/2004 01:16 PM
WebProNews Sep 1 2004 5:27PM GMT

Are the TV networks dying?

Are the TV networks dying? 04/11/2005 08:14 AM

"A dying church"

"A dying church" 05/15/2004 02:22 PM

When it's set to Busy, you'd better be
either dying or on fire

When it's set to Busy, you'd better be
either dying or on fire 12/22/2004 01:53 AM
Tom has a good post on the weird context shifts caused by IM on hiptops. On both sides there are social problems that emerge because the behaviour of the interfaces is confused with the behaviour of the people at either...

Pay Phones: A Dying Breed?

Pay Phones: A Dying Breed? 04/11/2005 03:50 AM
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Now The Cassette Tape Is Dying?

Now The Cassette Tape Is Dying? 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
Earlier this week, we thought the VHS tape was dying, but that turned out to be a slight exaggeration. However, the VHS's older brother, the audio cassette tape may actually be on its last legs. The article notes, of course, that when the recordable cassette tape first came out, the recording industry freaked out and claimed that it would be the death of music (sound familiar?). Instead, it helped grow the music business, in part because of the ability for people to create mix tapes and give them to others to help introduce them to new music.

The Dying Art of Bullet Making

The Dying Art of Bullet Making 06/24/2005 07:07 PM

Who knew that bullet making was quickly becoming an old fashioned activity? I you want a low tech how-to, this one’s for you: “Like darning socks, making bullets is a dying art. Used to be just about everyone with a need for ammo poured their own, using iron or even wooden molds. These days only a few diehard hobbyists still do it, and they use aluminum molds. But even fewer people still make silver bullets….

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US TV to show dying Diana

US TV to show dying Diana 04/21/2004 05:15 PM
The US television network CBS will show images of Diana moments after the car crash which led to her death.

NSC Statistics - What are the Odds of
Dying

NSC Statistics - What are the Odds of
Dying 11/02/2003 06:30 AM
The wonderful, wonderful odds of dying by hot tap water, melting nightwear, or contact with lizards .. released a report calculating your odds of dying .. 3. pick your poison

nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
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email dying - rss alternatives

email dying - rss alternatives 01/07/2004 06:56 PM
Steve Outing [via sn< /a>]: "Any e-mail publisher with a survival instinct should be publishing RSS feeds of the content that it currently e-mails." Nomention of my essay, so here's the link again.

mod_perl presence dying at OSCON

mod_perl presence dying at OSCON 06/08/2004 01:03 AM
stas writes "It appears that in the last few years we have had fewer and fewer mod_perl talks and tutorials at the big (non-YAPC) conferences. And that's a bad trend. It certainly affects the number of mod_perl job offers, since those who decide which ...

Dying Languages, Fading Formats

Dying Languages, Fading Formats 03/20/2003 03:13 PM

Smoking PC, Spam is Dying, EMC & VMWare

Smoking PC, Spam is Dying, EMC & VMWare 12/22/2003 06:42 AM
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Rings stolen from dying pensioner

Rings stolen from dying pensioner 04/05/2005 07:05 AM
A 98-year-old woman had rings stolen from her fingers as she lay dying in a Manchester hospital, police say.

CDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music
Downloading Stores

CDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music
Downloading Stores 01/26/2004 03:29 AM
I doubt this is all that surprising to most people, but Forrester is predicting a shift from the CD to buying downloadable music, while at the same time predicting that about half of the current music download stores will go out of business by the end of the year. I think they're being a bit optimistic on both predictions. I'm still not convinced the CD is going to go away that quickly. While I also agree that many of the music download stores aren't long for this world, I'd be surprised if most of the current ones didn't at least make it through a year - but perhaps not much longer than that.

Stunning new photos of dying star

Stunning new photos of dying star 09/10/2004 11:27 AM

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“Dying stars, called planetary nebulae, very often have rings such as those seen in this image, astronomers have found. This photo depicts the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one such dying star. It’s 3,000 light years away. The rings, found in at least one third of all planetary nebulae, may be the key to explaining the final “gasp” of the central star as it bursts apart. Scientists describe these rings as a “nested Russian doll” structure, but…

Netcraft Confirms It: Comdex is Dying

Netcraft Confirms It: Comdex is Dying 06/23/2004 03:55 PM

Gah! This fucknut canceled Comdex. "We feel that while we could run Comdex profitably this year, it really wouldn't serve the interests of the broader IT industry," says Eric Faurot. Really, though, I don't blame him. Comdex might be able to be run at a profit, but it's been bleeding visitors and interesting products for a while now. There haven't been any booth babes for years, for instance. Still, it's Comdex!

Wait, Comdex isn't a comics convention? Oh, good riddance, then.
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"A Good Forest for Dying" by Patrick
Beach

"A Good Forest for Dying" by Patrick
Beach 07/14/2004 08:20 AM
Since Earth First activist David Chain was crushed by a falling tree in the Headwaters standoff of 1998, he has been memorialized in song by Bonnie Raitt and been made the subject of a book and a play. But the corporate lumber giants he opposed are still standing tall.

FDA: Give dying cancer victims Ecstasy

FDA: Give dying cancer victims Ecstasy 12/28/2004 06:55 AM
Cory Doctorow: The FDA has approved research into whether Ecstasy should be used in palliative care of terminal cancer patients to ease their final days.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally-ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said.

The small four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Centre in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a non-profit group that plans to raise 250,000 (-184,816) to fund it.

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Dying star leaves heavenly body

Dying star leaves heavenly body 06/12/2004 12:05 AM
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Email is dying, or Your resume has been
marked as SPAM

Email is dying, or Your resume has been
marked as SPAM 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Today I ran across an entry on Dave Sifry's weblog that noted that Technorati was hiring. I went to Technorati's job page and found a job that looks like it was made for me, as good as the dream job that got away from me a year ago. Excitedly, I sat down and wrote up a cover letter, pointing out all the ways in which I would be a perfect fit for the job (and thinking about how much fun it would be). At the end, I debated how to include my resume. If Dave is processing applicants through a recruiter, they probably want resumes in Microsoft Word, which seems to be the only format that most recruiters can deal with, for reasons unknown to me. On the other hand, Dave is a longtime Linux geek. I remember that I've exchanged emails with him in the past. I check my email archive -- aha, my last email from him was written using Ximian Evolution 1.4. Better include my resume inline as ASCII as well, with a link to the online version of my resume, I think. So I send off my resume and cover letter and happily turn to other tasks. Half an hour later I check email, and do my usual quick scan through my junkmail folder. What do I spot but the cc'd copy of my cover letter and resume. I just started testing a new version of the Spamnix spam filter that added Bayesian filtering. Spamnix is a Eudora plug-in based on Spam Assassin. It decided that the email and resume that I sent to Dave was SPAM: SPAM: ------------------------ Spamnix Spam Report ------------------------- SPAM: Spamnix identified this message as spam. This report shows which SPAM: rules matched the message and how many points each rule contributed. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (5.4 hits, 5.0 required) SPAM: 5.4 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% Apparently words like Standards, Marketing, System, Proven, Global, Experience, President, Technologies, Product, Project, Manager, Director, Startups, and Software, which appear in my resume, are also common in the spam I receive. To some degree this makes sense -- resumes and cover letters, like spam, are a form of self-promotion. This is probably one of the reasons that I find job hunting painful, since I was trained to be modest about my accomplishments, and am shy by nature. But it creates...

Statmarket Survey: Random Surfing A
Dying Sport

Statmarket Survey: Random Surfing A
Dying Sport 02/10/2003 03:00 AM
"...over 64 percent of Internet users arrived at sites by direct navigation."

Local10.com - News - Woman's Dying Wish:
Bush Defeated

Local10.com - News - Woman's Dying Wish:
Bush Defeated 07/31/2004 03:37 PM
Woman's Dying Wish: Bush Defeated .. Class act

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On death and dying: reconciling yourself
to hard drive failure

On death and dying: reconciling yourself
to hard drive failure 03/14/2005 04:52 PM

Hard drive errors are never welcome. They are even less welcome when you haven't been doing regular backups. No matter how the problem manifests itself — random freezes, strange behavior, clicks, or grinds — the warning signs are there, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. The key is how you react once your precious hard drive starts going south.

The computer reaches the grey screen with an Apple and a spinning wheel and sits there. After a few minutes, I look up from my darjeeling and bread with marmalade (I am not actually British) and the book I am reading, Robert Alter's new translation of the Pentateuch, in which I have just started Exodus (really). I see my computer not booting.

Uh oh, this is bad. Very bad.

This is the tale of one man's encounter with a dying hard drive, and his progression through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance. In the best case scenario, the acceptance stage will be followed by restoring your backup onto your new hard drive. In the worst case... let's not talk about that.

Read on for a lesson in reconciling yourself to hard drive failure.

A trickle of reports coming out of North
Korea paint a picture of a regime in its
dying days

A trickle of reports coming out of North
Korea paint a picture of a regime in its
dying days 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
Portrait of a family at war: Kim Jong Il purges relatives after alleged coup bid .. Let's not forget

news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=596607
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A Home Away From Home for Dying Children

A Home Away From Home for Dying Children 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
The George Mark Children's House will become the only independent site in the country to provide medical child care and end-of-life management for children.
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