Insane Ironies
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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 PMI 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 PMphp|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 AMThis 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 AMhere'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 PMReason: 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 PMZDNet Jul 14 2004 0:28AM GMT
Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane
Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane
08/30/2004 07:23 PMThe 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 AMWe'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."
LinkSlip 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 PMFriday 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 AMThe Awful Forums - My mother is insane
(~5M of photos)
The Awful Forums - My mother is insane
(~5M of photos)
02/19/2004 11:25 AMMy 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 AMMovable Type 3.0 Pricing borders on
Insane
Movable Type 3.0 Pricing borders on
Insane
05/13/2004 12:29 PMThe 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 AMAP - 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 AMDell'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 AMOp-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 AMControlled-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 AMUSBGeek 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 PMMatt 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.
LinkThe 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 AMGreat 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 PMChris 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 AMIncredible 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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Grok Description matches for Insane Ironies
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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 PMIn 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
directory list stores list reviews
review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
york london tokyo
RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and
reviews for over 300 cities worldwide
including US stores. record store
directory list stores list reviews
review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
york london tokyo
11/11/2003 03:40 AMRecordStoreReview.com : Listings and reviews for over 300 cities
worldwide including US stores. record store directory list stores list
reviews review US, UK, Japan, Canada records guide usa us u.s.a.
stores shops new york london tokyo
recordstorereview.com
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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.
plans to list on the Nasdaq National
Market
07/13/2004 12:19 AMNDTV Jul 13 2004 4:45AM GMT
Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies.
Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies.
07/13/2004 03:44 AMTOTAL Marketing One, an industry leader in the contact center services
world announced the creation of a new business unit catering to the
needs of all companies in all industries with respect to their
marketing list and sales lead needs. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]
List-Any-0.03
List-Any-0.03
07/09/2004 06:25 AMCMS Wish List
CMS Wish List
06/19/2004 01:28 PMDaniel 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:
- Multiuser - allow multiple editors to submit
content
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 PMCederholm 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 AMIn 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 AMA 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 PMP
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 AMIn 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 PMCSS Drop Shadows, Part II: Fuzzy Shadows.
Get IP List
Get IP List
04/22/2004 04:00 PMWhat'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 AMIn 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 PMA List Apart No. 172
A List Apart No. 172
03/06/2004 01:51 AMIn 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 PMPower 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
- Here’s Refer
2.1
- Q. How do you spot an extroverted Norwegian?
A. He’s staring at your shoes.
- As of right now, I owe email to 7,512 people.
- 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 AMA List Apart 197
A List Apart 197
03/31/2005 07:10 PMIn 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 AMOnion 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 PMFor 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 AMIn 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.
Insane Ironies