Archive: September 17, 2004

Friday, September 17, 2004

1. My friend on his new custom-designed shoes from Nike: "It's like the future on my feet!"

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2. It gets frustrating walking (well, people surf or browse, spiders crawl... I can walk) around the web and seeing many people's weblogs use numeric anchors in their permalinks. It's a violation of the HTML standard (which states that anchors can't start with a number), but it's particularly bad because it's not something that you can fix later because it's part of the external interface of your site.

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3. Kevin looks at some of Bush's past statements dismissing the media in light of Rathergate.

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4. Silflay Hraka: Why John Kerry Is Doomed: An Exercise in Metaphor. Hahaha. Via Kevin.

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5. How To write Efficient CSS

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6. "Kingdom of Loathing" resources: del.icio.us/Vanlal, del.icio.us/tag/KoL

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7. Yost.com - Apache patch for case sensitive domain name. Isn't this a violation of HTTP, or URI or something?

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8. PHOTO: When Nerds Protest The RNC. Heh.

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9. Books that will induce a mindfuck (idea)@Everything2.com. I'd like to add probably the most influential book I've read, Van Til's Apologetic, Readings & Analysis, by Greg Bahnsen. R.C. Sproul's Not by Chance had a big impact on me earlier.

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10. Books by Vincent Cheung

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11. Albino Blacksheep / Flash / Squares 2. Fairly fun flash game. Pretty good for how simple it is. I've played it for a few minutes, my record is 5429 points and 75 squares. Ooh, now 8070 and 95 squares. Now 8390 and 96.

    Next day: 12271 and 113. Whew.

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12. Slashdot | George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes. From the article:

    AP: Why not release both the originals and special editions on DVD?
    
    Lucas: The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be. I'm the one who has to take responsibility for it. I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.
    
    AP: Do you pay much attention to fan reactions to your choices?
    
    Lucas: Not really. The movies are what the movies are. ... The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.

    Screw you George Lucas. This comment is appropriate.

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13. Numbered Tabs for Firefox, via Paul.

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14. Oooh: MacCentral: Bose debuts SoundDock for iPod. Via HtP.

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15. Oniguruma "is a regular expressions library. The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding for every regular expression object can be specified." I'd be interested to see some kind of benchmark/comparison between this and PCRE. Hmm... it seems this is the native regular expressions library in Ruby?

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16. ASPN : Python Cookbook : Reverse engineer MS Access/Jet databases, via Keith.

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17. Here's a funny post on Bush vs. Kerry, in photos, via Anders.

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