September 2001 Forty-two posts

• 20-Sep-2001
  Amazing … Amazing — from the Microsoft Frontpage 2002 User Agreement: You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products of services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal, or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography. source:...

  microsoftvia-blogger
• 20-Sep-2001
  If the intelligence services of the USA were so surprised… If the intelligence services of the USA were so surprised by the events of 11 September, how can they so quickly draw conclusions about who is responsible? Is this a rush to judgement? No doubt Bin Laden is a bad fellow, but what if we destroy him and his network and are still left with...

  Benjamin Zycherintelligence servicesPacific Research Institute for Public PolicyUnited StatesUsama Bin Ladenvia-blogger
• 20-Sep-2001
  Any worthwhile thought I’ve had about web applications… Any worthwhile thought I’ve had about web applications came from exposure to Philip Greenspun. Read this, and then check out his new textbook in progress, and visit his home page.

  Philip Greenspunvia-bloggerweb applications
• 18-Sep-2001
  Another quote from DC2000 Another quote from DC2000: “The user is the content. There is is a total transformation of the user by the interface.“

  digitalcoast2000via-blogger
• 18-Sep-2001
  Quote from Mark Cuban @ DC2000 Quote from Mark Cuban @ DC2000: The minute you think you’re smart — you’re toast.

  digitalcoast2000Mark Cubanvia-blogger
• 18-Sep-2001
  Quote from a Digital Coast 2000 panel on Venture Funding Quote from a Digital Coast 2000 panel on Venture Funding: “Have more than a powerpoint and some people — have an executive summary and a business plan”

  Digital Coastdigitalcoast2000via-blogger
• 18-Sep-2001
  Blade Runner Re: Blade Runner – one possible for title was Dangerous Days – this I got from the presentation at Comic-Con 2000 given by Paul M. Sammon (author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner.

  Blade RunnerPaul M. Sammonvia-blogger
• 18-Sep-2001
  An effort to standardize the methods for comics grading: ComicGrader… An effort to standardize the methods for comics grading: ComicGrader.com Fun Fact: existing comics grading standards (Mint, Near Mint, etc) are derived from the coin collecting market. After all, you don’t mint a comic book, you print it. Coins are minted.

  via-blogger
• 18-Sep-2001
  Quote from another panel from Comic-Con 2000 Quote from another panel from Comic-Con 2000: “Are you making a high tech comic book, or a low-tech cartoon?”

  high tech comic bookvia-blogger
• 18-Sep-2001
  Kyle Baker’s “Letitia Lerner, Superman’s Babysitter” At at Comic-Con 2000 panel entitled “Online Comics,” Kyle Baker’s “Letitia Lerner, Superman’s Babysitter” was mentioned as a great online comic. Truth of it was, it was simply a comic that DC would not publish, but that leaked onto the net. It has subsequently been published in a collection called Bizarro Comics. You can also...

  Kyle BakerLetitia Lerneronline comicOnline Comicsvia-blogger