The front page of CNN currently reads: “Bush: Kerry owes troops an apology”. At first glance, I read it as: “Kerry: Bush owes troops an apology.”
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This mod re-write strategy seems to fall into the ‘duh why didn’t I think of that’ category of really simple but perfect solutions. People use mod rewrites to trick google into indexing stuff create pretty urls. Rails and a bunch of other frameworks force a grammar for links based upon actions and data when really most of the time there is no distinction made, there are just name/value pairs passed to the url. e.g. color=red is no different from colorit=red. The strategy below loops through name/value pairs as url query string parameters and actually spits out the name and the value in the url: site.com/name1/value1/name2/value2. There are some potential problems with null values and ordering, but I like the idea. Create Dynamic URLs With Mod_Rewrite and PHP Functions by www.Shadow-Fox.net
The greening of The Valley, why sustainable companies matter. Evan williams and Biz Stone have taken back Odeo from its backers to form part of a company focused on innovation through multiple products, rather than exit. It’s like a tech. startup version of the recent trend for private equity takeovers of public companies. But it could point to a better model for Internet startups – the model of normal companies like corner stores. Here’s why. [update: The sustainable model is not new, it is the way that almost all companies outside of the bubble-prone technology world work, however, sometimes the bleeding obvious is worth pointing out. Venture backing should be for the exception – for the exceptionally rapidly growing.] The Exit Model Every venture funded tech company is predicated on the idea of ‘exit’, the point where the company is sold to a bigger one or has an IPO, so…
The Richard Dawkins foundation is accepting donations. If you are a tolerant, reasonable person that opposes religious persecution, perhaps you might accept that: 1. Faith, the opposite of reason – is unreasonable. 2. Tolerating the intolerance which exists in all major religions – is intolerant. 3. Allowing a child to be automatically given its parents’ religion (often irreversably reducing the capacity for freedom of thought, religious or otherwise, as an adult) – is religious persecution. In which case I recommend you give this ‘reason based initiative’ lots of tax deductable money. You will be contributing to truly reasonable and tolerant cause, making a stand against religious persecution – in a way that only atheists can. (At last RDF means something useful!) RichardDawkins.net – The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
Iraqi blogs make for depressing reading these days. The war appears to be all but lost. Zeyad says: “Another close friend of mine has been killed in Baghdad. We had lunch together in Baghdad just days before I left. I can’t concentrate on anything any more. I should not be here in New York running around a stupid neighbourhood, asking people about their ‘issues’. I now officially regret supporting this war back in 2003. The guilt is too much for me to handle.” Healing Iraq And nothing short of a revolt has happened over some pretty weird comments by the increasingly deranged ‘Iraq the Model’. Iraqi Konfused Kollege Kid: Iraqi Bloggers Discuss Lancet Study, Iraq The Model
If the most stupid thing ever said about the Internet was Ted Stevens’ infamous “the Internet is a series of Tubes” speech, Andy Kessler’s pieces about the Internet as a series of pipes must rank amongst the most intelligent. If you can create a ‘virtual pipe’ between the service and the customer, where the the customer cannot exit, and you can hold on to it, and broaden your base – you win. But there are all sorts of pipes, and nothing special about the material the pipe is made of, what matters is where is links to and from, in the multi dimensional phase space that defines a market. Unlike the days of mainframe and frame relay, there is nothing special about the technology of the pipe itself – there are lots of pipes, a road network rather than a railroad system, and you can try building them anywhere. In…
The latest Wists shopping blog, Popgloss launches today. Popgloss covers womens clothing and accessories, an eclectic mix of quirky and fun or innovative design – fashion without the attitude. It has a similar feel to Cribcandy, lots of pictures few words, updated dozens of times a day and with the ability to save pictures and links to anything you like with one click.
After luring in the Bush Administration with two tame prequels, the world’s most famous journalist delivers a devastating blow. The Age summarizes the Woodward stance. Imagine for one second, while reading it, that there is no God, or that, less contraversially, there is no God that matches the sect within a sect within a sect that is Mr. Bush’s god. With that single supposition, you leave the United States as the worlds most powerful vessel, rudderless, drifting aimlessly, its captain asleep at the wheel. A giant aircraft-carrier Mary Celeste bristling with nuclear materiel. Woodward’s conclusion is a serious as it gets – the United States is leaderless. “Mr Bush emerges as a man who not only lacks intellectual curiosity but is untroubled by self-doubt, a man who constantly tells his aides that as commander-in-chief his job is to exude confidence in his decisions. He is, according to Woodward, a man…
I’m currently looking at a project based on self replicating content. Closest thing out there is Jeremy Rushton’s awesome TiddlyWiki, however it seems that PHP can self-write with no problems. [PHP] Self-overwriting Scripts – GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
Make the electrodes in an ion trap cold and you can stop qubit decoherence. science, engineering & technology news
New Yorker article on Lee Smolin’s visceral attack on string theory. ‘The paradoxical situation of string theory
This thing written by Brian Donovan a couple of years ago, is very interesting. Its basically like tinyurl, except that the links are to any point in a web page, regardless of whether there are any (named anchor) links created by the author. I remember talking about this with Evan a while back. Brian Donovan’s Ahoy