Weekend over. - 25 November 2007
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silveradeptBack to work tomorrow, but it was a fun extended weekend, that’s for sure. Of course, can’t have the permanent weekend, or suddenly there’s no money. Plus, I still like my job enough to get up and go to it every day. And December (named for the tenth month, despite now being the twelfth. It’s like they ran out of steam after Juno, and just decided to be practical) is quickly approaching. Hrm. Means that I should make a VEWPRF correspondence post or something.
Led by their field general, The Michigan Man, the minions of Doctor Football faced an entrenched foe as Philadelphia's finest attempted to siege Doctor Football's fortress and win a war of attrition against them tonight. Both sides took heavy losses in their fight, but The Michigan Man and his troops emerged victorious against Eagle Squadron. Is there anyone who can stop Doctor Football’s campaign across the Padded Rugby World? The Doctor has set his sights on Raven Squadron near one of our informants’ nested positions, and so we will find out next week. (Does this sound like a radio serial yet? It should.) North of Doctor Football’s current conquest, the Rough Riders ran roughshod over the Blue Bombers to capture the Grey Cup and stand as the kings of the hill in Canada. Would be fun to play a best of three between the NFL and CFL champions, wouldn’t it?
Whether you find it a matter of the industry not being smart enough to think ahead, or dragging of feet to extort from consumers, Nemertes research in Information Week say that the current Internet infrastructure might not be able to handle demand in 2010. The core might do well, but all the paths to the core might bog down with the additional requests. This is conjecture, though, because carriers are less than forthcoming with details about their networks.
Internationally, Gary Kasparov and other opposition members were arrested for holding an unauthorized protest. Apparently, a rally for the opposition was permitted, but when it turned into an impromptu march toward the election commission building, that was just too much for the authorities, and there were arrests. Looks like the government is willing to have a “Free Speech Zone”, but any action is intolerable. Sounds a lot like the situation here. Excepting in Russia, the opposition might actually be able to make change in their government. The person linking to this article suggested Kasparov and Putin in a chessboxing match to determine who will lead the country.
OVO blog demonizes the National Organization of Women for not having front-page coverage on the story of the Saudi woman raped, then sentenced to lashes, and then sentenced to more lashes on appeal. And are annoyed that there didn’t seem to be any coverage at all from them, instead having issues about media messages. It’s tough being everywhere at once, I’d say. Plus, unless the United States government decides to put some pressure on, there’s probably not much more that NOW or anyone else can do except complain about it, and hope to shame the government into not lashing her.
Could someone please explain the Siebel Edmonds thing in layperson’s language? I was trying to make sense of a Kossack linking Edmonds to what looks to be a gigantic worldwide conspiracy, involving government cover-ups here, in Israel, elsewhere, suppressed investigations, active or otherwise suppressing any sort of media coverage, and all sorts of other stuff. It sounds almost like what Edmonds supposedly knows is like pulling on a thread that causes the whole sweater to unravel. Some sort of potential government-destroying stuff or something. It’s probably gotten so tinfoiled that separating reality from conspiracy is tough, even if anyone took her up on the supposed offer to tell all to anyone who would listen.
In the Guardian, Brian Aldiss says we're living in a Science Fiction world, but it’s not the rocketships and lasers sci-fi, but the climate-shifted world sci-fi. I don’t know if it’s harder to write futuristic sci-fi now than it was before, with as much that has gone from science fiction to science fact.
Following up on yesterday’s “content providers can make money if they want to find a distribution channel that works for everyone and will get people to buy”, Justin Sevakis on Anime News Network shows that the American anime industry (and to some degree, the global industry) needs to adapt to the reality of quick distribution or it will die. He sees fansubs as the way that consumers are showing the industry how they want their content - quick and available, with DVDs for those that like the show enough to purchase it, or for those who want to possibly wait for a dub. Even so, licensers might capitalize extraordinarily well on releasing sub+extras DVDs, before a dub, or even not offering a dub alternative on shows that aren’t worth the expense. (And Saban might do well releasing the original Super Sentai DVDs, too, since the Power Rangers storylines generally are very little like the shows they’re borrowing from. Plus, other toku shows might get a decent relaese, too.)
Even more encouragement to see and read Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. The Catholic League and the AFA want you to boycott it. The story itself is decent, but tightly interwoven with the parts that both of those groups would find objectionable, the scathing treatment of institutional religion that pervades the books and drives said plot. Now that we’re in a Potterlull, perhaps now Pullman’s getting the attention he wanted.
If you’d like your anger in a more classic form, perhaps you can show your local reactionary a pictoral history of the Black Mass (bewbs warning). Softcore pronography and Satanism. It’s a combination that can’t miss. Where’s the Faux noisecrew? Surely something like this would be too tasty to miss.
Our only entrant, and thus target, for quiche-tossing, has us standing behind The Slacktivist as he shreds newly punditized Rick Santorum's suggestion to axe government assistance programs and make up for it by offering additional tax incentives for charitable giving to private organizations. Despite most of those organizations throwing up gigantic red flags about not being able to handle the influx of people that would generate to those private charities, plus the likelihood that if it was all private organizations, the places that could afford the most would be the places that needed the least assistance in their populace. So Santorum’s debut pundit column falls horribly, horribly flat. If this is what we can expect from him, we’ll see him shuffled off somewhere, composing things that nobody listens to. Of course, this could mean that in ten or twenty years, he becomes a force powerful enough to sway voters with his endorsement, stepping into the void left by another founding evanglelist’s death.
Showing just how much on the web is still away from best practices, the thirty most popular websites, and how many tables they use. Some of them are clean, some have lots of tables on the front page or inside. For tabular data, tables are good. As design elements, they’re bad. For examples of places that don’t use tables as design elements, the thirty most popular web sites that do not use tables. Of course, bringing things up to a table-less standard would be expensive for a lot of those popular websites. So we’ll see it happen, perhaps when there some money in it?
Anyway, have spent far too much time awake, and have work tomorrow, so Instacrash.
Led by their field general, The Michigan Man, the minions of Doctor Football faced an entrenched foe as Philadelphia's finest attempted to siege Doctor Football's fortress and win a war of attrition against them tonight. Both sides took heavy losses in their fight, but The Michigan Man and his troops emerged victorious against Eagle Squadron. Is there anyone who can stop Doctor Football’s campaign across the Padded Rugby World? The Doctor has set his sights on Raven Squadron near one of our informants’ nested positions, and so we will find out next week. (Does this sound like a radio serial yet? It should.) North of Doctor Football’s current conquest, the Rough Riders ran roughshod over the Blue Bombers to capture the Grey Cup and stand as the kings of the hill in Canada. Would be fun to play a best of three between the NFL and CFL champions, wouldn’t it?
Whether you find it a matter of the industry not being smart enough to think ahead, or dragging of feet to extort from consumers, Nemertes research in Information Week say that the current Internet infrastructure might not be able to handle demand in 2010. The core might do well, but all the paths to the core might bog down with the additional requests. This is conjecture, though, because carriers are less than forthcoming with details about their networks.
Internationally, Gary Kasparov and other opposition members were arrested for holding an unauthorized protest. Apparently, a rally for the opposition was permitted, but when it turned into an impromptu march toward the election commission building, that was just too much for the authorities, and there were arrests. Looks like the government is willing to have a “Free Speech Zone”, but any action is intolerable. Sounds a lot like the situation here. Excepting in Russia, the opposition might actually be able to make change in their government. The person linking to this article suggested Kasparov and Putin in a chessboxing match to determine who will lead the country.
OVO blog demonizes the National Organization of Women for not having front-page coverage on the story of the Saudi woman raped, then sentenced to lashes, and then sentenced to more lashes on appeal. And are annoyed that there didn’t seem to be any coverage at all from them, instead having issues about media messages. It’s tough being everywhere at once, I’d say. Plus, unless the United States government decides to put some pressure on, there’s probably not much more that NOW or anyone else can do except complain about it, and hope to shame the government into not lashing her.
Could someone please explain the Siebel Edmonds thing in layperson’s language? I was trying to make sense of a Kossack linking Edmonds to what looks to be a gigantic worldwide conspiracy, involving government cover-ups here, in Israel, elsewhere, suppressed investigations, active or otherwise suppressing any sort of media coverage, and all sorts of other stuff. It sounds almost like what Edmonds supposedly knows is like pulling on a thread that causes the whole sweater to unravel. Some sort of potential government-destroying stuff or something. It’s probably gotten so tinfoiled that separating reality from conspiracy is tough, even if anyone took her up on the supposed offer to tell all to anyone who would listen.
In the Guardian, Brian Aldiss says we're living in a Science Fiction world, but it’s not the rocketships and lasers sci-fi, but the climate-shifted world sci-fi. I don’t know if it’s harder to write futuristic sci-fi now than it was before, with as much that has gone from science fiction to science fact.
Following up on yesterday’s “content providers can make money if they want to find a distribution channel that works for everyone and will get people to buy”, Justin Sevakis on Anime News Network shows that the American anime industry (and to some degree, the global industry) needs to adapt to the reality of quick distribution or it will die. He sees fansubs as the way that consumers are showing the industry how they want their content - quick and available, with DVDs for those that like the show enough to purchase it, or for those who want to possibly wait for a dub. Even so, licensers might capitalize extraordinarily well on releasing sub+extras DVDs, before a dub, or even not offering a dub alternative on shows that aren’t worth the expense. (And Saban might do well releasing the original Super Sentai DVDs, too, since the Power Rangers storylines generally are very little like the shows they’re borrowing from. Plus, other toku shows might get a decent relaese, too.)
Even more encouragement to see and read Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. The Catholic League and the AFA want you to boycott it. The story itself is decent, but tightly interwoven with the parts that both of those groups would find objectionable, the scathing treatment of institutional religion that pervades the books and drives said plot. Now that we’re in a Potterlull, perhaps now Pullman’s getting the attention he wanted.
If you’d like your anger in a more classic form, perhaps you can show your local reactionary a pictoral history of the Black Mass (bewbs warning). Softcore pronography and Satanism. It’s a combination that can’t miss. Where’s the Faux noisecrew? Surely something like this would be too tasty to miss.
Our only entrant, and thus target, for quiche-tossing, has us standing behind The Slacktivist as he shreds newly punditized Rick Santorum's suggestion to axe government assistance programs and make up for it by offering additional tax incentives for charitable giving to private organizations. Despite most of those organizations throwing up gigantic red flags about not being able to handle the influx of people that would generate to those private charities, plus the likelihood that if it was all private organizations, the places that could afford the most would be the places that needed the least assistance in their populace. So Santorum’s debut pundit column falls horribly, horribly flat. If this is what we can expect from him, we’ll see him shuffled off somewhere, composing things that nobody listens to. Of course, this could mean that in ten or twenty years, he becomes a force powerful enough to sway voters with his endorsement, stepping into the void left by another founding evanglelist’s death.
Showing just how much on the web is still away from best practices, the thirty most popular websites, and how many tables they use. Some of them are clean, some have lots of tables on the front page or inside. For tabular data, tables are good. As design elements, they’re bad. For examples of places that don’t use tables as design elements, the thirty most popular web sites that do not use tables. Of course, bringing things up to a table-less standard would be expensive for a lot of those popular websites. So we’ll see it happen, perhaps when there some money in it?
Anyway, have spent far too much time awake, and have work tomorrow, so Instacrash.
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Date: 2007-11-26 09:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-26 02:34 pm (UTC)Anyway. My suggestion is to play around with the things on W3 and then ask someone to check it and tweak it. Or even to just play around, the W3 stuff is nifty because they give you a split column and the one side shows you the CSS and the other side shows you what your output would be. Oh, and I'm also a fan of "borrowing" someone else's CSS when you see things you like ;) I will say though that trying to figure out the CSS gave me a big honkin headache....and still does. But the end result is nice, even if things are still a bit messy.
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Date: 2007-11-26 05:51 pm (UTC)There are some offerings, from Yahoo, I think, that offer template CSS files for a few standard configurations and instructions on their use, which is good if that's what you want. Yahoo! Grids, I think they're called. They're offered without charge, last I used them, so there might be someone who's done most of the legwork for you out here on the Intarwebs.