Am putting together a list of events in my life as a series of visual bookmarks – and also to get a better understanding on what features one might need to be able to do this properly.link » tags: [dgblog] posted via Wists: permamark
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Looking at the picture on the left, its clear that even mega stars still have to dress like lawyers when in court, even if they aren't the defendant. Bono is sporting a sharkskin-like rock star suit and for someone who has not been seen without sunglasses since 1982 he tones down the effect, with a pair that actually cover a minority of his face and are somewhat translucent. An outfit that conveys the idea to the judge: 'you know all the leather and stuff is just a costume, I normally relax in a 2-piece, I'm really one of you. I may be a rebel, but I respect the law'. Conveys to everyone else: 'I'm not a square, you know, look at my suit, its shiny, I look a bit like Robert Palmer, I'll wear what I want, like when I modified my school uniform and my Mum grounded me.' What's…
One of the problems that I have with the current Supreme Court ruling over file sharing is the assumption that this stuff can be legislated absolutely. As media is reduced to an atomic state of bits, it starts to show quantum-like uncertainty, is it a thing like an LP or a transmission like a song on the radio, a particle or a wave? Hidden within the Supreme Court ruling is the other side of the coin: Just as people have created software that allows people to share things they don’t own, with copy protected digital media nobody owns anything. Everything you buy is actually rented. Why is it legal to develop software which necessarily prevents ownership of something you buy? At the moment I buy albums in flea markets for 10c a song, read books that I bought in the UK in the US and can read all the books…
Partygaming, a site where the majority of its revenues could potentially be found illegal, and whose affiliates are known to many bloggers as comment spammers went public in the UK – for $9 billion. Does nobody in the UK remember 1999?link » tags: [gambling] posted via Wists: permamark
A democratically elected un-democratic leader. Oh no. Iran's saving grace could be the fact that with the youngest average of any country, at some point, things might change.link » tags: [politics] posted via Wists: permamark
… OK not quite, but this news below does seem like a parody from the Onion: Microsoft confirms RSS plans: “As previously reported, Microsoft is also proposing extensions to the RSS specification that will add support for ordered lists. That would enable, for example, e-commerce sites to more easily publish things such as a constantly updated feed of best-selling products.” Do they mean extensions to the RSS spec, or an RSS module? Since what is being described can be done with a module, it would be crazy to change the spec. And if all Microsoft is doing is writing an RSS module, then Jeez, their PR machine needs to understand that this is not a big deal. You can already publish things such as a constantly updated feed of best selling products in RSS, the problem is not with the standard but the aggregators – no aggregator will display metadata…
This ad for a V8 engined Volvo which does less than 20 miles per gallon featured alongside a Reuters story with the headline "Oil touches $60, U.S. demand steams ahead – in V8 Volvos perhaps. Volvo's moronic advertising goes one step further, the strapline is 'it's the best V8 for the planet', a bit like a low tar cigarette describing itself as the best for your lungs. At Moreover, someone once sent in a screenshot of a tourist website for Northern Ireland with a robot fed news headline saying 'Iron bar gang beats up overseas visitors'. Thinking of collecting examples of this kind of advertising juxtaposition which occurs on the web because content and ads are matched without human approval. link » tags: [environment] posted via Wists: permamark
A weblog written in Esperanto.link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
The guy pictured was outside my door this morning with a bizarre looking Rube Goldberg (Heath Robinson) contraption. Apparently the machine is designed for 'sewer fishing'. According to its owner "these covers lead to drains that go way down, there's stuff from the 17th century down there". Eeeew.link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
If oil hits $3 a gallon, people will demand that the government focus on domestic problems and the economy. It will be a sublime irony if Bush's popularity slumps because of oil prices and not because of the Iraq war, since the Iraq war was an attempt to keep cheap oil flowing if the Saudi supply was in danger. But because other reasons were used to galvanize supprt for the Iraq war the government is now in a curious position of having to continue to fudge the WMD issue and not reap the benefits of the emerging reality. link » tags: [peakoil] posted via Wists: permamark
Ed Sim writes: "One of the ways we like to invest is by talking with the buyers in the market, the CIOs and CSOs, and understanding what their pain points are, what solutions they are evaluating, and how open they are to working with early stage companies." I'd like to see an enterprise knowledge network where CIO's spelled out their problems to invited software providers. A forum where high level problems are thrown out there as individual problems rather than lengthy RFPs. The obvious problems of confidentiality are mitigated if there is no immediate agenda and the posts are initially anonymous. I.e. both sides are invite only and problems are posted anonymously. The identity of the poster is revealed to people offering suggestions/solutions if the poster wants them to follow up. Too much of the enterprise arena is still hamstrung by a lack of transparency and reliance on anachronistic ways…
Adam Michela is cooking up a new project which will take some of the UI developments from Ajax, the goodness of Rails, 43things style serendipitous networking and weblog style publishing to create a new way to look at travel. Knowing Adam, it will surely rock.link » tags: [tools] permamark in: Wists