…they somehow manage to be at least a little bit evil. For example: Microsoft has put the Richard Feynman Messenger Series of lectures online. Which is definitely a good thing. Unfortunately, Silverlight is required to access the content of this page. Which wouldn’t be so bad, but this page doesn’t work with Moonlight. Apparently, we … Continue reading “Even when Microsoft tries to do good…”
Category: WWW
Flash Intro?
(via email) Should your website have a flash intro?
You Twit Face
In the year 3000, Youtube,Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting website called YouTwitFace. — Conan O’Brien Someone has already registered: youtwitface.com youtwitface.net youtwitface.org Damn…
Classmates.com sucks!
Classmates.com sucks: $39/year to see content one can get for free on Facebook or MySpace Classmates.com periodically sends email informing one of new content that cannot be seen unless one is a paying customer Classmates.com has so many adds it puts MySpace to shame
Movable Type is going open source
MovableType: 3 Years Too Late? I made the switch from Movable Type to WordPress a little over two years ago largely because WordPress is open source and MovableType was not at the time. If Movable Type had been open source from the beginning, it’s possible I’d still be using it.
Google Bombs Away
Remembering the First Google Bomb Earlier today, Matt Cutts and the Google software engineering team posted an update citing the progress they’ve been making fighting Google bombs. Back in the old days, these pranks were common practice, but they’ve become less prevalent thanks to Google’s diligence. That’s OK — link bombs are so 2001. In … Continue reading “Google Bombs Away”
Experiment or Blog-Whoring?
(via Pharyngula) Short Version: Link to this post in the name of science. Ask others to do the same. Results to be announced during the "Meet the Bloggers" panel at MLA 2006. OK, I’ll play: http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/11/measuring_the_s.html
bbPress
A few months ago, I set up a bulletin board type system to go along with my Drum and Bugle Corps web site. I originally used phpBB, but I found a bit too difficult to customize and a bit too bloated for the kind of community driven web site I’m trying to create. I recently … Continue reading “bbPress”
Did anyone really miss it?
MySpace returns after power outage The popular social-networking site, which recently topped Yahoo Mail as the most-visited Web site in the United States, was disabled entirely as of 6:40 p.m. Pacific time Sunday. The home page was replaced by a placeholder with a message from MySpace founder Tom Anderson, who said that the site was … Continue reading “Did anyone really miss it?”
Ruby dooby doooo….
I’ve recently started learning Ruby. One could ask “why learn yet another scripting language, especially since Perl has served so well these past several years?” The only reason is the object oriented features of Perl seem tacked on as an afterthought, while Ruby is a is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL (object … Continue reading “Ruby dooby doooo….”