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Insane Ironies 04/09/2004 08:03 PM

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Just Drop By - How Friends became
palatable after the ironies of Seinfeld.
By Caitlin Macy


Just Drop By - How Friends became
palatable after the ironies of Seinfeld.
By Caitlin Macy
05/07/2004 06:23 AM
"Friends": A tribute to dormlife .. Friends Not Forever .. this Slate piece .. piece

slate.msn.com/id/2100021
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Completely Insane!


Completely Insane! 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
I had forgotten how COMPLETELY INSANE my life is on the day before a trip. Wow. Non-stop crazyness. I've got a ton of crap to do tonight when I get home. Luckily, I can skimp on sleep and snooze on...

Apparently, I have gone insane


Apparently, I have gone insane 12/19/2004 03:37 PM
php|architect's fall/winter subscription campaign is in full swing. We have some great offers this years, including free USB memory keys and deep discounts on the Zend Certification Exam. Check it out here.

DFW FanForce - Realm of the Insane


DFW FanForce - Realm of the Insane 07/17/2004 03:13 AM
This Land, a Flash movie starring George W. Bush and John Kerry .. GW and JFK flash farce

dfwfanforce.net/this_land.html
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Insane Phil Remix


Insane Phil Remix 09/24/2004 01:48 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Eric read this post about a answering machine message left by an angry gentleman named Phil and decided to do a Garageband remix based on it. Very funny. (Full of swear words) Link

It's insane, this post's taint!


It's insane, this post's taint! 12/19/2004 03:24 PM
So is David Cross now a resident of Wisconsin? He's taken a keen interest in the Journal Sentinel's online columns. First he takes on the technolo gy columnist then the TV/Radio columnist, an entertainmen t reporter and finally a UW-Ex tension consumer horticulture agent. You'll have to scroll down to find the question from "David Cross of Atlanta, GA". [more inside]

Wow! The Dems Really Don't Know How
Insane They Sound


Wow! The Dems Really Don't Know How
Insane They Sound
01/06/2004 08:05 AM
here's the second MoveOn.org "ad" .. comparing Bush to Hitler .. [CLICK TO VIEW AD] .. second

rnc.org/moveon-h2.mov
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Our Insane War on (Some) Drugs,
Continued


Our Insane War on (Some) Drugs,
Continued
04/25/2004 10:13 PM

  • Reason: Pill Sham. Here's a bit of legal information that may interest Rush Limbaugh: Under Florida law, illegally obtaining more than 28 grams of painkillers containing the narcotic oxycodone—a threshold exceeded by a single 60-pill Percocet prescription—automatically makes you the worst sort of drug trafficker, even if you never sold a single pill. Even if, like Richard Paey, you were using the drugs to relieve severe chronic pain.

  • Why Orrin Hatch's INDUCE Act is insane


    Why Orrin Hatch's INDUCE Act is insane 07/13/2004 10:03 PM
    ZDNet Jul 14 2004 0:28AM GMT

    Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane


    Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane 08/30/2004 07:23 PM
    The Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane .. fundraiser for atrip to the rnc .. Terrorism for Dummies

    insanereagan.com
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    Notes and Tips: Insane Installer


    Notes and Tips: Insane Installer 03/30/2005 11:48 AM
    We've got a workaround and more details about how QuarkXpress corrupts permissions for applications and thousands of files.

    An overseas view of INDUCE act (aka
    INSANE act)


    An overseas view of INDUCE act (aka
    INSANE act)
    06/28/2004 11:35 AM
    Ernest Miller says:
    Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, has a different perspective on the INDUCE Act. Of course, there must be something wrong with his translation, as Dr. Lenz believes the Act is named the "Intentionally Stopping Advances of the Nation's Economy," or INSANE Act. Anyway, he is not nearly as opposed to it as many commentators here in the US:
    First of all, while it might be true that this legislation will help to make America a technological backwater, with iPods and the Internet being illegal under this legislation, depending on your perspective, that is actually a good thing. It helps Europe and Japan in the global competition with America to have strange American laws strangling research and development there, so from an international point of vie w, I can only say "go ahead".
    Lenz notes that the law could use some improvements, and if these improvements were made, then, "it might be better than the Japanese approach of just arresting creators and sort out later if it was actually illegal what they did."
    Link

    Slip sliding away: insane brain games


    Slip sliding away: insane brain games 06/22/2004 07:34 AM
    This should get your goat: Insanely hard sliding block puzzles. (Can't take the heat? Maybe you'd like to try an insanely hard sliding door maze instead?)

    A Non-Loser's Guide to The Insane Clown
    Posse


    A Non-Loser's Guide to The Insane Clown
    Posse
    04/05/2005 11:45 PM
    Friday afternoon, as I was walking into the 7-11 across the street from the Ogden theater on Colfax, I was witness to an odd sight; a huge crowd of "juggalos" (aka: fans of the Insane Clown Posse who like to paint their faces like "wicked clowns" whatever the fuck that means) gathered around Independent Records chanting "When I say dawg, you say 'woof, woof'!" after which they started chanting "Dawg!" "Woof! Woof!" and so on and so forth. After purchasing a pack of Camels and a jalapeno cheese taquito, I shook my head, and walked back to my apartment depressed. I know this is Denver and we're about twenty years behind the trends, but I still wondered "Why is the Insane Clown Posse still considered cool here?"

    " The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
    (~5M of photos)"


    " The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
    (~5M of photos)"
    02/10/2004 02:52 AM

    The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
    (~5M of photos)


    The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
    (~5M of photos)
    02/19/2004 11:25 AM
    My mother is insane .. inside the house .. as fotos .. worse .. !!!

    custurd.b3ta.com/mirror/crazymum
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    "the Catholic church is totally and
    completely insane "


    "the Catholic church is totally and
    completely insane "
    08/22/2004 04:11 AM

    Movable Type 3.0 Pricing borders on
    Insane


    Movable Type 3.0 Pricing borders on
    Insane
    05/13/2004 12:29 PM
    The team at Sixapart may be good programmers but it looks like they should have gotten some advice from a...

    Man Judged Insane Is Called for Jury
    Duty (AP)


    Man Judged Insane Is Called for Jury
    Duty (AP)
    07/02/2004 10:03 AM
    AP - A legally insane Houston man who gouged his girlfriend's eyes with a steak knife has received a jury summons and might be able to serve, but lawyers say it's doubtful he'll be picked for a panel.

    Insane Dell Inspiron coupon deal ($750
    off $1499), take two.


    Insane Dell Inspiron coupon deal ($750
    off $1499), take two.
    04/13/2005 12:05 AM
    Dell's (almost) half price Inspirons are back. If you're in the market for a laptop (and live in the US), tomorrow at 8am CST might be go time!

    iPod Now Has Insane 52 Percent
    Marketshare... Just Like Steve Planned
    It


    iPod Now Has Insane 52 Percent
    Marketshare... Just Like Steve Planned
    It
    06/16/2004 01:02 PM
    By Bill Palmer (via MyAppleMenu)

    the Geneva Accord and the insane
    Likud/Sharon reaction


    the Geneva Accord and the insane
    Likud/Sharon reaction
    11/17/2003 08:09 AM
    Op-Ed Columnist: Wanted: Fanatical Moderates .. drinking .. with

    nytimes.com/2003/11/16/opinion/16FRIE.html
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    "the Geneva Accord and the insane
    Likud/Sharon reaction"


    "the Geneva Accord and the insane
    Likud/Sharon reaction"
    11/18/2003 03:32 AM

    Controlled-Insanity Pc Mods :: Where
    your insane modding dreams, come TRUE!


    Controlled-Insanity Pc Mods :: Where
    your insane modding dreams, come TRUE!
    04/01/2005 06:40 AM
    USBGeek Liquid Optical USB "Ducky" Mouse @ Controlled-Insanity

    controlled-insanity.com/modules.php?op=modload&n ame=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=84
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    Insane sales pitch for the "Rockwell
    Electric retro-incabulator"


    Insane sales pitch for the "Rockwell
    Electric retro-incabulator"
    08/06/2004 08:32 PM
    Matt Maier sez: I thought the Boing Boing readers might get a kick out of this. It's two solid minutes of some of the most impenetrable, acrononym-laden sales-speak ever put to tape. The product in question is a Rockwell Electric retro-incabulator....whatever the hell that is. (I have no doubt that one of your readers will know what it is, or what it does...but I certainly don't.) Check it out. Link

    The Insane Ramblings of Great Sage
    Equalling Heaven - Middle East Si-ide...


    The Insane Ramblings of Great Sage
    Equalling Heaven - Middle East Si-ide...
    04/25/2004 11:01 AM
    Great Sage .. several .. report

    livejournal.com/users/solidkz/46453.html?view=137845
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    Michelle Malkin, Deposed Leader of the
    Coalition of the Insane | Oliver Willis


    Michelle Malkin, Deposed Leader of the
    Coalition of the Insane | Oliver Willis
    08/20/2004 04:45 PM
    Chris Matthews takes Michelle Malkin to task (video) .. the quicktime video .. Oliver Willis

    oliverwillis.com/node/view/329
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    "My Mother Is Insane" - a guided tour of
    her astounding house. [lots and lots of
    hi-res images]


    "My Mother Is Insane" - a guided tour of
    her astounding house. [lots and lots of
    hi-res images]
    02/10/2004 02:50 AM
    Incredible set of photos of the junk filled house of an eBay addicted mother .. who are even pack-rattier than I am .. before

    forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=e9744d33e932f0de0e c1d35d23523a44&threadid=830487&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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    Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
    Most-Improved CEOs' List


    Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
    Most-Improved CEOs' List
    12/02/2003 12:37 AM
    (MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu)

    From Wish List to Check List: Customer
    Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
    2003 Service Pack 1


    From Wish List to Check List: Customer
    Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
    2003 Service Pack 1
    04/20/2004 11:26 PM
    In an academic setting, a score of 90 percent earns an automatic "A". By that measure, the team shaping Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 merits a similar high passing grade. When the innovative application debuted last October, it reflected the pioneering edge of the digital note-taking category. Today, Microsoft honed that edge by announcing the preview release of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 (OneNote SP1). Ninety percent of the features included in the software update are a direct result of customer input and feedback -- with the remaining 10 percent coming from indirect customer feedback.

    RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and
    reviews for over 300 cities worldwide
    including US stores. record store
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    review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
    guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
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    Google to list on Nasdaq: Google Inc.
    plans to list on the Nasdaq National
    Market


    Google to list on Nasdaq: Google Inc.
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    List-Any-0.03 07/09/2004 06:25 AM

    CMS Wish List


    CMS Wish List 06/19/2004 01:28 PM

    Daniel asked me to put together a list of Content Management System (CMS) wishes that I would have for any system. I recently read that CMS will be a $7 billion industry next year. WOW. I guess that makes sense since so much information is created these days.

    So here they are:

    1. Multiuser - allow multiple editors to submit content
    2. Simple - People don't understand web publishing, HTML or file structures. Most tools don't hide this very well. People do associate buttons and links on a page with other pages. Somehow, creating a link or a button on a page should create the target for it automatically
    3. No framework or server required - There are many open source CMSs out there, but most rely on an underlying framework to run. I want to download an installer, install it and go. Not download PHP, secure it properly, then try and get the CMS working. Radio is a great example of this.
    4. File Upload - The browser based upload functionality is garbage. No status, breaks often and you can't cancel an upload. Also, once the file is uploaded, a user needs to know how to create a link to it. I'd prefer a UI which has a file library that I can drag and drop a link from the library to the document I'm in and the link is created.
    5. Full text search - I neeed to find the content I enter. I have google configured to allow users to search my site. Something this simple is great, however, I had to create a button and search form to make it work. Joe & Jane user can't do this.

     

    More later I have to go do some chores :)

     


    A List Apart 179


    A List Apart 179 05/03/2004 12:29 PM
    Cederholm builds boxes and borders that change size and color at your whim. Moss answers the musical question, just what exactly is web accessibility, anyway?

    A List Apart No. 173


    A List Apart No. 173 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
    In a supafresh new issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites: CSS Sprites, Image Slicing's Kiss of Death, by Dave Shea. Say goodbye to old-school slicing and dicing when creating image maps, buttons, and navigation menus. PLUS: Zebra Tables, by David F. Miller. A little CSS and JavaScript magic can make tables better at what they do best.

    A List Apart Again


    A List Apart Again 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

    A List Apart has unveiled the long awaited redesign, and is celebrating it's third manifestation with three brand new articles.

    The redesign is currently being discussed on Webdesign-L, and the general consensus is that it's a bit of a disappointment. I agree; while a perfectly servicable and attractive design to me it gives off the air of a well designed weblog rather than a cutting edge web design and development magazine.

    Of the three new articles, the best by far is Doug Bowman's Sliding Doors of CSS, which describes in great detail how multiple background images applied to nested elements can be used to create a set of elegant, size-expandable tabs. Multiple nested backgrounds are not a new idea, but I haven't seen Doug's technique of creating a narrow image for the left hand side which overlaps a much larger right hand image before. I'm sure we're going to see a lot of interesting variations on this in the next few months.

    Joe Clark's Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement confirms the now widely accepted fact that display: none; hides content from screen readers, rendering the Fahrner Image Replacement technique obsolete. According to the author, the article was completed some time ago and thus does not cover more recent innovations in the field of image replacement, such as the Leahy / Langridge hack.

    The third article, Random Image Rotation, introduces a simple PHP script for randomly serving up an image from a directory. I've always found the server side development material on ALA relatively uninspiring, but I guess this is because the target audience of the site is more designers than developers.

    It's worth mentioning that the site's information architecture has been completely redone, making it far easier to dig through the excellent material in the archives. All in all it's great to see the site back again, and I look forward to reading new material as it arrives.


    Onto the to-do list


    Onto the to-do list 10/29/2003 03:54 PM

    P ostfix Enabler is a quick GUI for turning your mac's local SMTP server on and sending mail from it.


    A List Apart No. 170


    A List Apart No. 170 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
    In the 170th issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites: EXPLORING FOOTERS - by Bobby van der Sluis. With old-school table layout methods, vertical positioning is a piece of cake. With CSS layout, it's a piece of something else. Regain control of footers and other vertically positioned layout elements. JAVASCRIPT IMAGE GALLERY - by Jeremy Keith. Making an online gallery of pictures should be a quick process. The gap between snapping some pictures and publishing them on the web ought to be a short one. Here's a quick and easy way to build a dynamic image gallery. Plus: talk to the W3C.

    List 'em if ya got 'em


    List 'em if ya got 'em 04/23/2004 04:11 PM
    Blender Magazine lists the 50 worst songs of all time. Wait. Before you click the link know the the geniuses over at Blender only post songs 50 (Celline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On") through 41 (Color Me Badd's “I Wanna Sex You Up.” Yeah, I'm going to go buy a copy just for this article, aren't you? Fortunately, MSN spares us the torment of not knowing what the worst song of all time might be. Ready? Starship's "We Built This City." Now recognizing that it's the job of critics to make choices, and this is an impossible one, surely we can do better than that, no? [via danieldrezner.com]

    A List Apart 178


    A List Apart 178 04/23/2004 01:34 PM
    CSS Drop Shadows, Part II: Fuzzy Shadows.

    Get IP List


    Get IP List 04/22/2004 04:00 PM

    What's on your "To Don't" list?


    What's on your "To Don't" list? 09/10/2004 02:53 PM
    Mark Frauenfelder: Management guru Tom Peters has written something called "60 Tom's TIB," (This I Believe) available for download as a PDF. On his Brianstorms Weblog, Brian Dear highlights this interesting excerpt about prioritizing from the Peters document:
    I once watched a highly energetic chief ripped asunder by a senior member of his board. “Richard,” the determined board member almost shouted, “you are smart, energetic, creative to a fault, perhaps even a genius. But much of your 'genius' is dissipated because you apply it to ten different things at a time, albeit with great skill.

    “Let me tell you what you need,” he concluded. “A 'to don't' list.”

    I don't know about “Richard,” but for me that was a profound moment. Fact No. 1: We all have 50 genuine priorities. Fact No. 2: If we get even two Big Things Done in a six-year tenure on the current job, we will have had a...Great Ride. Axiom No. 1: Therefore, what we choose not to do (the sole subject of that “To Don't” list) is at least as important, or more important, as what we choose to do.

    And, finally, effective “To Don't-ing” is far, far more difficult than effective “To Do-ing.”

    Link

    A List Apart No. 169


    A List Apart No. 169 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
    In the 169th issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites: EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WEB DESIGN I LEARNED WATCHING OZ - by Brian Alvey. CSS DESIGN: CUSTOM UNDERLINES - by Stuart Robertson.

    "list of changes"


    "list of changes" 09/23/2004 09:50 PM

    A List Apart No. 172


    A List Apart No. 172 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
    In Issue No. 172 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: CSS Drop Shadows, by Sergio Villarreal. CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners and Borders, Part II, by Soren Madsen.

    A List Apart


    A List Apart 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
    My first article for A List Apart was published this morning. "CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death" is an investigation of a new technique that has been formulating for the last six months or so. The CSS Sprite...

    A List Apart No. 176


    A List Apart No. 176 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
    Power to the People: Relative Font Sizes (Bojan Mihelac). Relative font sizes may make sites more accessible, but they're not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size. Return control to your audience using this simple, drop-in solution. PLUS Web Accessibility and UK Law: Telling It Like It Is (Trenton Moss). There's been widespread speculation about the new legislation being introduced in the UK. How will it affect the way you design in the real world?

    You can always do a list


    You can always do a list 12/02/2003 12:39 AM
    1. Here’s Refer 2.1
    2. Q. How do you spot an extroverted Norwegian?
      A. He’s staring at your shoes.
    3. As of right now, I owe email to 7,512 people.
    4. We got pipes.

    As of 6:40pm last Thursday, after two years trying a hundred combinations of hardware and software, learning far more than I’d ever hoped about satellite VPNs and bridging Windows network devices, throwing good money after bad, we have a broadband internet connection out here in the sticks. It’s about a third the speed of DSL, and it caps out at six downloadable gigabytes per month, but it works.

    For a number of reasons I didn’t buy a Dell after all, the foremost of which is, after writing on this site that I was getting a Dell, a number of helpful and detailed emails came in saying, essentially, you’ll regret it. Then there was another email touting Dell’s pricing strategy as evidence of the genius of the free market in the face of unions and Stalinism. Meh.

    These likeable nebbishim down the road in Ganges were able to come close to Dell’s best offer for a basic setup. I’m far happier driving the box over there to see something fixed than being routed through a support call centre in Bangalore (nothing against the people of India, or the people of Norway for that matter). The guy who owns the place in Ganges actually lives here in Pompignan, not that I would ever consider abusing that proximity by phoning at dinner time to get a bum keyboard replaced like I did the other night.

    So I am now, for the first time ever, a paid-up licensee of the leading-edge web-ready enterprise computing platform Microsoft Windows.

    I always knew Windows was homely, in a worn-down industrial carpeting kind of way, but had no clue just how fucking ugly XP is. It’s like living inside a perpetual Powerpoint presentation, with sham friendliness pelting down everywhere. Someone really ought to repeatedly sky-write the word RESTRAINT over Redmond.

    And for all the talk of XP’s networking smarts, there was nothing plug-and-play about bridging the satellite VPN to a local network. I could get the web to work, but HTTPS would fail; FTP worked, then mail would fail.

    In the end I installed a proxy server, plugged in the Airport, and the whole house was wirelessly online in five minutes. As this could have been done with, say, a 486 running Windows 95, I may now be owner of the world’s most expensive PCI slot, one whose cooling fans sound forever like a 747 taxiing for takeoff.

    But we got pipes.


    "Wish list"


    "Wish list" 12/16/2003 03:14 AM

    A List Apart 197


    A List Apart 197 03/31/2005 07:10 PM
    In a double issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Eric Shepherd streamlines the trusty CSS dropdown, and Kim Siever teaches an unordered list to sit, roll over, and stop stealing cheese off the kitchen counter.

    A List Apart 182


    A List Apart 182 05/21/2004 11:32 AM
    Onion skinned drop shadows! Plus user style sheets for people who don't consider themselves "users."

    Another name on the list


    Another name on the list 06/30/2004 06:29 AM

    Steve Kirks: "Kleenex has become interchangeable with tissue and now RSS has done the same with syndicated content. Now, we can move on to the next step: doing something great with the tools available."

    I had a similar thought this morning as I checked the new posts on the Atom-Syntax list< /a>, and reading the Scripting News archive from one year ago, when the flamefest that launched Atom was still raging. I was reminded of the student strikes we'd do in the late 60s and early 70s. First have an organizing meeting with the steering committee, print up the leaflets, hand them out, march somewhere, sit-in the lobby of the school, maybe get on TV, whatever, and then what? They were great affairs while we were expressing our outrage, but in the end, we had to go back to school, get good grades, get accepted at good colleges, etc etc. We possibly helped end the war sooner, in some way (although the right-wingers said we did the opposite). It certainly was a lot more fun than sitting in a classroom, getting good grades, etc. We used to joke that we didn't do too many strikes in the winter, mostly they were in April and May when the weather was too good to be caught up inside a classroom.

    Anyway, seeing the list of formats that Apple supports, RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, I sighed on behalf of Atom and poor not-respected-by-geeks RSS. Reminds me of what my doctor said when I showed up for an annual checkup five pounds heavier than the year before. I shrugged it off, not too bad I said. She said "But you're going in the wrong direction." Sure, people say that it doesn't matter how many formats there are, but it actually does matter, even for users, as I've said repeatedly, every new format is another brick in the wall of Barrier To Entry, and that means less choice, but it also might make it harder for efforts that build on RSS to get started. I'll give you an example.

    Yesterday, I got a note about a great BitTorrent-with-RSS application. I saw the URL to the feed, and groaned. It's RDF. Now, all the BT+RSS apps have been built around RSS 2.0 because it has the enclosure element, and we'd never, as far as I know, anticipated that the RSS confusion would creep into this space. I looked at the file to see how they did it, and whoa, it's a 2.0 file, even though on the outside it says it's RDF. Once you combine RSS with other things, which definitely should be happening more, you add another dimension with the two other flavors. Instead of having to do something once, you have to do it three times. And that's more than three times the trouble, which makes it less than one-third as likely to happen. Imagine going to the BitTorrent people with that problem. "Call us back when you make your mind up," they might reasonably say.

    Anyway, when it's all said and done, there will be another flavor of RSS, another name on the list, more work to do, not too bad. If my doctor were here she'd say "But you're going in the wrong direction."


    My DVD List


    My DVD List 01/04/2003 11:13 PM
    For having a DVD player for about 1 year I've built up a decent sized library. Farscape Season 1 volumes 1 to 11 Farscape

    A List Apart No. 171


    A List Apart No. 171 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
    In Issue No. 171 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: DESIGNING FOR CONTEXT WITH CSS, by Joshua Porter. Imagine providing unique information exclusively for people who read your site via a web-enabled cell phone -- then crafting a different message for those who are reading a printout instead of the screen. HELPING YOUR VISITORS: A STATE OF MIND, by Nick Usborne. Even the simplest site is harder to figure out than a catalog or magazine. Text that takes visitors' needs into account can guide them through the maze.

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