Tiger Hand beats paper. Like totally beats paper. Always.
(Thanks to Vespremi for this one).
Tag Archives: web
I didn’t ask…
From The Onion:
Scorpio: (Oct. 24Nov. 21)
You claim that you never asked for this crap, but there’s your signature, plain as day, on all the crap-request forms.
Maybe I’m secretly a Scorpio…
web comics examiner
I enjoy reading web comics, so I was pretty psyched to see a site devoted to reviews and commentary. Via MetaFilter.
more than meets the eye
Via Ranjit, an awesome music video of breakdancing Transformers. If I could dance half as well as that computer model…
discouraging spam
I got a piece of spam today that my filter missed:
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:16:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Longly
To: asarwate@mit.edu
Subject: You don’t know it, but you’re incompetent
I think my computer purposely let this one through. They’re all against me, but one day I’ll show them. Then we’ll see who’s incompetent…
nc in the b-sphere
Noam Chomsky now has a blog. No comments though, which can be taken as (a) he doesn’t want to hear your bloody comments, or (b) not worth his time to deal with trolls and spammers. From the trouble Kevin Drum has over at Political Animal, I’m betting more on (b).
tokenizing
I posted a while back about how Cover and Thomas’s book was posted online now, but it turns out that the license for online access uses “tokens.” Once Berkeley has run out of “tokens,” access is denied to the book. This is one of the stupidest decisions I have ever heard of, akin to the music industry’s head-in-the-sand approach to digital music. The way in which online book resources are used is different from print medium, and to force the library to buy more tokens is akin to selling someone a book which they can read only a certain number of times. I’m not saying that they should not charge at all for the book, or that they should charge less than for a library-bound hard copy, but this token system displays a fundamental misunderstanding of how books are used. I wonder if the person who designed this system has ever had to use a book other than “How To Stick Your Head Up Your Ass for Dummies.”
Yes, I’m angry.
I read dead people!
Another juicy link via MetaFilter, this time on famous wills made available by the Public Record Office in the UK. The site is very slow, and you also have to pay to read all of them except for William Shakespeare’s. Who, by the way, had terrible handwriting. I know someone in the Classics department here who has to take a class in reading manuscripts — that’s a skill that would come in handy right about now.
neil gaiman
has a blog too.
more xhml nonsense
I went and validated my new homepage as XHTML 1.1 Strict blah blah blah. The funny thing is that the little image they give you when you validate your CSS is not XHTML compliant, since the <img> tag doesn’t have the proper ending delimiter />. Those W3C people are tricky…
An Ergodic Walk 