Bill Lessard on the perception and reality of dot-com perks
Mr. Lessard is part of
NetSlaves gang who, incidentally, awarded their Shut the Fuck Up award to
Jakob Neilson this week. (real audio)
Naomi Klein : When is a moose just a moose?
"There are many other intertextual moose projects
in the works: the Great Canadian Moose Hunt (rules TBA), and mass
moose pie-ings (inspired by the much-maligned tart-slingers in
PEI). And while it's hard to find a moose that still has its
antlers attached, virtual antlers have begun sprouting up around
Toronto in the oddest of places -- for instance, drawn onto the
heads of models in bus-shelter billboards. (If corporate
advertisements are transformed into works of art when painted onto
moose statues, then surely all ads can similarly be transformed
into impromptu moose.)" see also :
Charles Pachter : Moose Factory Gallery
Salon : Of flea markets and file swapping
"The swap meet provided support service like parking, booth space, advertising and clientele. Here, Napster supplies the proprietary software, search engine, servers and means of establishing a connection between users' computers. Without the support services defendant provides, Napster users could not find and download the music they want with the ease of which defendant boasts." see also :
Wired : Only News That's Fit to Link Dan Brickley : XHTML-to-RSS Extractor service [trial-release]
"Specifically, we provide a Web form that you can use to turn certain kinds of HTML document into the proposed RSS 1.0 channel / syndication format. This approach is designed to free content authors from the technical detail of evolving formats such as RSS, WAP/WML, RDF etc. Instead of learning dozens of new acronyms, content creators can produce XHTML documents, and have software tools do the rest."
Perlmonks : Opinions on the best way to inherit class data
Tangentially related,
Damien Conway talks shop : "Whatever software your trying to build, you need people who are inspired by the idea of that software. Even if they aren't virtuoso hackers: you can always teach a person to code better, or tidy their code after it's written; you can never teach a person to love your project. And without that emotional engagement, you'll never get the superhuman effort that's required to produce quality software."
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Ekova
"Music to levitate to" (real evil g2)