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Tuesday, August 06 2002

Jonathan Jones : "The world the bomb created is one where a certain image of catastrophe is universally shared

diffused, reproduced - a constant of our visual world, where, in 1995, the US Post Office planned to issue a commemorative stamp with an image of a mushroom cloud, where an image of mass death is recycled without cease." Today is the 57th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. I wonder if the bit about Warhol is why the Google-folk Warhol-ized their logo. Probably not...

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Bowie J. Poag : MicroBlogger

"as the name implies, is a small, simple, flexible, reliable weblog engine written entirely in bash script. ... Just look at Captain Kirk up there... He decided he was going to use PHP4, MySQL, CGI, Perl, and JavaScript to make his "Captain's Log".....Poor guy, he tried to overdo it with PHP-Nuke, and all he got in return was angry and constipated! As the picture illustrates, you shouldn't have to strain to make a log. There really is no need for any other foo-foo gingerbread features like SQL servers and exotic Apache mods.. Its just freakin' HTML for petes sake. Its not supposed to be complicated. So, just look at that picture, and think back to all the time and hassle you spent learning a skill thats obsolete in 6 months. If all you want is a simple, full-featured weblog, you've come to the right place."

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Props to Elliotte Rusty Harold for outling the changes in XHTML 2.0

in bullet-form. I will reprint them here, for the curious, since Elliotte doesn't have permalinks.
  • The applet tag is repleaced with the object tag.
  • The img tag is repleaced with the object tag.
  • Forms are replaced by XForms
  • Events are replaced by XML Events
  • Frames are replaced by the as-yet unreleased XFrames
  • All deprecated tags from HTML 4 are removed.
  • The href attribute can be attached to most elements so that any element can be a link.
I wish the W3C would do this.

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On a related note, with all the fuss that everyone makes about the editing of weblog posts

how come no one has ever mentioned the <del> and <ins> tags which are part of the 4.01 spec?

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fempulation

Female population.
ex. The majority of the fempulation of the world have once uttered the phrase "men are pigs."

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : bagatelle

Bagatelle \Bag`a*telle"\, n. [F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See {Bag}, n.] 1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. --Prior. 2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player. web1913
bagatelle n 1: a light piece of music for piano 2: something of little value or significance [syn: {fluff}, {frippery}, {frivolity}] 3: (British) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over [syn: {bar billiards}] wn

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