Bill Humphries : Using a Glossary to Unwind Comments from Links
"Automating WebLogs that are more than a list of links presents a challenge when representing them in XML. One way to solve the problem is to unentangle links from narrative in the XML representation."
NY Times : Is Cyberspace a Public Accomodation
"The hitch, of course, is that AOL's services are not provided in a physical structure like a store. Does that make a difference? Lawyer who are experts in disability law tend to disagree on the answers. And so far no court has decided this exact question as it relates to the Internet."
It's sort of comforting
in a funny way, to know that the people who work for Canada's intelligence agency
give hockey a higher priority that national security.CNN :The tale of the gratuitous GUI
"Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X Server Test, the moment of truth. I bypassed the creation of yet another boot diskette, clicked exit, and watched the screen go weird as the install shut down. The screen always did that at the end of the graphical install with the Banshee, too, as if the install program had seized the video card in a Vulcan death grip in order to have its way with it, and then released it suddenly, letting it slump unconscious to the floor as it let go." If Apple can actually pull off building an OS that is easy to set up *and* is truly robust, then maybe they really will change the world.
I saw Being John Malkovitch this evening
and thought it curious that, despite the multiple levels of head-tripping already going on, the film makers still relied on an eye-shaped mask as a device to let you know one character was "inside" the head of another. I'd also like to know how many film theory mid-terms have been written about The Lazy Boom.