Things added in July, 2006
Mr. Haiku.
"Gee, what a beautiful sunset! If only I had an inspiring Zen poem to make this moment last forever." Mr Haiku (from the engaging Duke of Uke)
Tubes or pipe?
Without trying to defend the clueless Senator Ted Stevens, I still have to ask: Why was it stupid for him to say the Internet is a "series of tubes" but it's ...
Blast to the Past.
Here's a story I wrote a couple months ago that I really had fun with. The working title was "the palimpsest in the synchrotron," which I loved, just because I got to ...
IEBlog : Table Rendering
After pulling my hair out for a few hours, I learn that Internet Explorer doesn't render table widths exactly as you specify them in the "WIDTH" properites, unless you add "table-width: fixed" ...
The Zidane mystery.
I can't find a decent explanation anywhere of why the #1 soccer player in France would headbutt another player in the final moments of the big game. This is as good as ...
one red paperclip
Kyle MacDonald started with a single red paperclip, and, through a series of trades, managed to exchange it for a whole house: one red paperclip
Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?
Leaving aside the tiresome journalists vs bloggers debate for a moment, here's a chewy piece by Tom Stites about the failings of newspapers over the past 10-20 years to address the ...
15 Minutes of Madness.
Excellent guiding principle: "Concrete is much easier to work with before it is poured." Todd Lappin - 15 Minutes of Madness