Daily Links
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so funny.
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great discussion on the future of the web, xml, and more.
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Douglas Crockford is my hero of JavaScript
Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins, 1944-2007
Molly was the kind of cantankerous thinker I really like. She will be missed. As a memorial, go read one of her articles. Take part in your democracy. I never met her.
Anyone who can make me laugh AND make me think while I’m thinking about politics is okay in my book. P.J. O’Rourke and Harry Shearer and John Stewart and precious few others do this for me.
Another Day, Another Root Canal
The big one was done today. Taking antibiotics and Tylenol #3 (hah! I love that there’s a wikipedia article about that).
It occurs to me that Tylenol #3 is to Tylenol as ActionScript is to ECMAScript.
Yes, even drugged, I am a bit odd.
I’ll probably lie down for a while.
Human Blunders
Wealth Without Work
Pleasure Without Conscience
Knowledge Without Character
Commerce Without Morality
Science Without Humanity
Worship Without Sacrifice
Politics Without Principles
Rights Without Responsibilities
…from the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Daily Links
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Universities moving to not provide credit to high school students used only Intelligent Design textbooks.
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“The clay, like the fire, water and wood is a gift I have no right to waste.”
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funny story
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I just enabled this, following Leah’s lead
New Feed: FeedBurner
I have no idea how many people read me. I don’t follow stats closely. I do have a sitemeter account and I read the numbers, but I’ve no idea what that really means in the scheme of things. In the end I’m not driven to blog differently based on traffic.
One of the things Leah did did recently was implement FeedBurner. I’m following her lead because the stats available via FeedBurner are appealing to me.
Update: I have 34 subscribers to my feed, it looks like. Leah has two hundred and something. Fascinating!
Procrustes
Bizarre term I came across at the latest Viridian Note:
Procrustes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), was a bandit from Attica. He had his stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; if the victim was found too short, he was then stretched out on the rack until he fit. Nobody would ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar. Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, who “fitted” Procrustes to his own bed and cut off his head and feet (since Theseus was a stout fellow, the bed had been set on the short position). Killing Procrustes was the last adventure of Theseus on his journey from Troezen to Athens.
