Let’s take a little test:
It is 2006, and you’re an online dictionary. Your definition for X is ‘X: see Y’.
Question:
’see Y’ should be:
(a) a clickable link to Y
(b) an automatic redirect to Y
(c) plain text which does not allow you to click or otherwise redirect to Y
If you answered (c), you failed the test, and [...]
While I’m at it:
I’ve been listening to Magnatunes Radio a lot, particularly their classical stream. They’ve got a lot of really quite good classical. I expect I’ll go their first next time I feel the need to buy music. (Magnatunes is Not Evil- very cool of them.) I hear Jamendo has some good stuff too, [...]
The first two ads on google when you search for ‘mp3 store’ or ‘buy mp3s’ are pretty interesting- they link to stores where you can download DRM-less mp3s, each of which has a collection of over 2 million tracks. Pretty exciting, all this new-fangled technology! It’s a shame one of those companies hasn’t partnered with [...]
So… I tried to see if Krissa’s box could be upgraded from dapper to edgy purely from the GUI. This is ubuntu, it’s supposed to be all shiny and GUI and user-friendly, right? I poked, I prodded, I found nothing. Surely, I’m stupid; there must be some way to do this.
So I googled, and I [...]
My old boss, Jonathan Zittrain (the only person I know with a two-letter domain: jz.org) spoke today at Columbia. So I’m live-blogging-ish the talk.
starts off with the hourglass diagram- everything going through Internet Protocol- don’t need to know a whole lot about the top if you’re good at the bottom, or vice-versa: any task on [...]
Some time ago I talked about trusting open source companies, with the bottom line being ‘trust them as far as their licenses and their profit motives let you, and not a bit further.’ IBM has generally been very good about supporting open source, and as steven says, they’ve been very up front about their motivations- [...]
I’m on a mailing list where we discuss the use of wikis as a substitute for political reporting. Somehow the discussion turned to abortion, with Ken Mehlman and Randall Terry cc’d. [What a pair of winners there.] I tried to cut it off, with a simple:
Can we *please* not waste everyone’s time with an abortion [...]
Got to fulfill one of my New York TODOs today by going to the daily show. Not only did we get to watch a double-length interview with John Ashcroft, we got to see a taping of what I presume will be next week’s This Week In God. Multiple doses of awesome. Jon was in good [...]
A EULA database. Priceless. We have a day on EULAs in my contracts class next week; I’m really looking forward to it.
Class was good, details between classes better:
I am going to see Daily Show taped on Wednesday. Found out today the guest will be:
That’s right, John Ashcroft. Should be fun, unless they prohibit us from hissing.
Also, in class, Prof. Dorf offhandly and without my prompting made my favorite analogy: that our legal code is a lot [...]
