Month: February 2007

The answer is that “Web Services” aren’t the web. They’re a heavyweight architecture for distributed object access, like COM and CORBA. This architecture is associated with the web, because HTTP is a trendy protocol, and flexible enough that you can imple

Fate is a free RPG that focuses on telling stories and balancing characters based on story significance, rather than points and cool powers. It’s the system of choice for GMs who are looking for rules that get out of the way of the story, but still provid

My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

This script uses Ajax (DHTML interacting with the server) to let you dynamically include the contents of an external page onto the current document. It’s similar in function to our Iframe SSI script, though uses no frames, obviously. 🙂

If the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system?

Living In Paper is a detailed, up-to-date source of information about using waste paper for affordable, sustainable housing. In the United States,

This script uses Ajax (DHTML interacting with the server) to let you dynamically include the contents of an external page onto the current document. It’s similar in function to our Iframe SSI script, though uses no frames, obviously. 🙂

If the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system?

Living In Paper is a detailed, up-to-date source of information about using waste paper for affordable, sustainable housing. In the United States,

An SMTP service extension for Yadis discovery is proposed, inspired by Byrne Reese’s suggestion to allow use of email addresses as OpenID identifiers. However, the extension described herein may be used indiscriminately by any Yadis-compliant protocol.

An SMTP service extension for Yadis discovery is proposed, inspired by Byrne Reese’s suggestion to allow use of email addresses as OpenID identifiers. However, the extension described herein may be used indiscriminately by any Yadis-compliant protocol.

Priced out of the housing market? Obsessed with design? This glass-walled mobile is low-budget high living for the modern nomad.

How a Small, Persistent Team Created a Revolutionary File System

Web Performance Monitor is an easy to use web-based performance monitoring application. It allows you to monitor performance counters from your local or remote computer, in real time.