Recently, I've seen several blogs, most recently this one, claim that the forgery of CBS's memos will cost Kerry the election. I tend to think that's premature. Even if a Democrat forged the memos and intentionally sent them to CBS, I think Kerry can get out of it. Bush has managed to completely avoid any fallout from the Swift Boat attack ads ( Read more... )

To all you English teachers out there. "Every person I've talked to while writing this essay seems to have felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting." -The Age ( Read more... )

I haven't really been thinking about OSS licenses any more lately, but my thoughts seem to have gelled recently, as much as I think they ever will.

I think wasted energy is wrong, probably in a moral sense. If anyone puts an effort toward doing something that could have been accomplished more easily, something is wrong with the world. ( Caveats. )

I just received an email from an aunt asking that I sign this petition. It asks the United Nations to adopt an "Anti-Semitism Resolution" that basically says, "We've already adopted all these resolutions prohibiting intolerance based on religion. They apply extra specially to Jews." Sounds pretty redundant to me. Possibly counter-productive: why ( Read more... )

That's "Digital Restrictions/Rights Management" for the uncultured among you. Cory Doctorow of the EFF gave this presentation to Microsoft, of all companies. It's the best argument against DRM that I've seen. And it's public domain, so go ahead and copy it or pieces into your own rants.

The CSS Zen Garden is an illustration of how much can be done with just CSS. The HTML on the site is identical for all of the designs; only the CSS changes. Some of the designs are surprisingly pretty, so go visit even if you're not a web designer.

I even hear that mnemonic looks different in IE and Mozilla/Opera/Safari.

To all you recent graduates: Jon Stewart's commencement address

The New Yorker has an article on how and why the abuses at Abu Ghraib happened. The chain of responsibility leads all the way to Rumsfeld. http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040524fa_fact I'm not hopeful that these particular abuses are an impeachable ( Read more... )

What are you supposed to do with all those credit card offers you receive in the mail? "Tear them in half and throw them away," you say? No! Why should you go to the trouble (and use the trash can space) to throw away this paper that you didn't want in the first place? Let the credit card company throw it away instead:

1. Tear off the actual ( Read more... )

Nice, pretty display of my courses. I'll be doing research on something, and I plan to go to the lab and get stuff done in that 9-2 block on TTh.

Click on the Home link to enter your own courses. Dan intends the interface to be intuitive and self-documenting, so there's no documentation. If you have troubles, reply here or email his Feedback link