Dinner and a movie

Tonight we ate dinner outside, and while we were eating we saw some geese giving their kids their first flying lesson! They jumped off of our waterfall and hit their butts on the way down. It was really cute.

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22:29 (utc-4)

 

An evolutionary haiku

Given enough time
with evolution (silly)
People come from slime!

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20:30 (utc-4)

 

Life on other planets a near certainty?

Adam Wendt: "How long before the rest of the world comes to this obvious conclusion?"

It's really not that obvious. In reality, it depends on your underlying assumptions about the world. If you believe in macro-evolution and that given enough time, people come from slime, then maybe. However, if you don't, then it's not an obvious conclusion at all.

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20:17 (utc-4)

 

CSS promise vs. reality

Via dive into mark, Mark Newhouse: Cascading Style Sheets, Promise vs. Reality, and a Look to the Future.

Good article, and he's not really wrong, but parts of the CSS spec are and continue to be broken. As written, CSS can't totally eliminate the need for tables.

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20:10 (utc-4)

 

Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

Here's a guy who says a bunch of what I've believed but haven't been able to articulate.

Keep in mind that what he's saying is not racism, it's a cultural criticism.

Here's an article going more in depth into the book.

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19:59 (utc-4)

 

Interviews with Zope people

This page contains all the pre-interviews related to EuroPython2002. We hope these will slake your thirst, or stir up your appetite for EuroPython 2002.

More interviews like the one with Paul F. DuBois at http://europython.zope.nl/interviews/.

There's an interview with Itamar Shtull-Trauring, an interview with Paul Everitt, and an interview with Steve Alexander & Stephan Richter.

From the interview with Steve and Stephan, some cool stuff on Zope 3:

EuroPython: What is Zope 3?

StephanR: In short, a total rewrite of Zope based on the lessons learned from Zope 2. But I think Zope 3 is more. It is an opportunity for the community to give their input and and to build a system that opens Zope to a totally new audience.

One of my goals for Zope 3 is to make it a Web OS (to steal Mark Pratt's words). I imagine Zope 3.0 will ship with several servers by default (IMAP, SMTP, POP3, SOAP, XML-RPC, HTTP and FTP).

SteveA: What is Zope 3? "The most beautiful piece of large software I've had the privilege to work on :-)". It has a very elegant architecture, a very high level of quality, in part due to the pervasive unit tests. In a way, Zope 3 is like any other object oriented system; it provides a way of representing what people find important about the world.

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Mozilla 1.0

It's old news by now, but Mozilla 1.0 has been released. Mozilla is awesome. No security holes (yet) and it has never crashed on me in any recent build. The Mozilla release candidates have been my main browser since each of them came out. This is great news. I wonder what JWZ thinks?

See discussion on Slashdot, the announcement on MozillaZine, the article on MozillaZine, and check out the guide to Mozilla 1.0.

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17:18 (utc-4)

 

The Internet bubble as pyramid scheme

Via Scripting News, Bob Hiler: Pyramid Scheme Dot Com.

When the bubble burst, research analysts like me got a lot of heat for playing such a central role in the Internet Bubble. I didn't mind the heat--but for a long time, I didn't understand how the bubble had worked... and that really bothered me.

Where did all the money come from? I struggled with this question for a long time... And then it hit me: the Internet Bubble was a pyramid scheme.

Excellent article.

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