Month: June 2001

Intellectual Property vs. the US Constitution

Intellectual Property vs. the US Constitution

TUPPERLAN! the brief recount of a geek tuperware party attended by yours truely.

TUPPERLAN! the brief recount of a geek tuperware party attended by yours truely.

Bring the Family home on DVD

It was announced this week that the complete Godfather trilogy is set for DVD release this fall. The 5-disc set includes all three movies with full audio commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola, and a huge suite of extras.

An offer I can’t refuse.

Bring the Family home on DVD

It was announced this week that the complete Godfather trilogy is set for DVD release this fall. The 5-disc set includes all three movies with full audio commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola, and a huge suite of extras.

An offer I can’t refuse.

Microsoft-Free Fridays?

What if every Friday were a Microsoft-free day for the Web? You can use MSIE any day but Friday. To give something back to the Web, if you want to read my site you would have to use Mozilla, Opera, OmniWeb, Lynx — anything but Microsoft’s browser. One day a week.

Bravo!!! Also a prefect rebuttle to Zeldman’s upgrade to a 5.X or better browser to veiw this site.

Further, this morning we learned that there is no way for a webmaster to opt-out. A user can smart-tag all sites, rendering any (expensive) effort to opt-out of the defacement pointless.

Yet another reason to put the smack down on Microsoft.

Microsoft-Free Fridays?

What if every Friday were a Microsoft-free day for the Web? You can use MSIE any day but Friday. To give something back to the Web, if you want to read my site you would have to use Mozilla, Opera, OmniWeb, Lynx — anything but Microsoft’s browser. One day a week.

Bravo!!! Also a prefect rebuttle to Zeldman’s upgrade to a 5.X or better browser to veiw this site.

Further, this morning we learned that there is no way for a webmaster to opt-out. A user can smart-tag all sites, rendering any (expensive) effort to opt-out of the defacement pointless.

Yet another reason to put the smack down on Microsoft.

If Microsoft wants to really contribute something useful in the spirte of SmartTags why not go with the Annotea project? It is a developing annotation standard by the W3C. Some tweak of this idea should be able to provide the same functionality in a way that site creators can opt in on and others participate in without having to bow to the wills of the evil empire.

Then again maybe I’m just too much a leftist commie for a world like that.

If Microsoft wants to really contribute something useful in the spirte of SmartTags why not go with the Annotea project? It is a developing annotation standard by the W3C. Some tweak of this idea should be able to provide the same functionality in a way that site creators can opt in on and others participate in without having to bow to the wills of the evil empire.

Then again maybe I’m just too much a leftist commie for a world like that.