A few weeks ago, as a sort of birthday present to myself, I bought a copy of Neverwinter Nights. I went into it with my eyes open. I knew I was about to mainline the gaming equivalent of heroin and I could just kiss all my spare time goodbye.
As has already been made plain by the advances of the XX century, individuals are gaining a greater ability to do greater damage over a larger area. And a few months ago this trend took a dangerous step forward.
By the way, check out Mark Pilgrim’s Dive into Accessibility to learn various simple methods to make your site accessible. Another screed I posted at Nanodot some months back.
This is another little mini-essay that I’ve culled from my posts at Nanodot.
A week or so ago, I wrote an interesting reply to a post at Nanodot about the persistence of the geek factor throughout human history and prehistory. I liked it so much I’ve decided to reproduce and amplify it here so as to produce some of my own content.
All the sites I’ve built look terrible in WebTV. At least I know it’s WebTV’s fault. If everything I make validates as strict XHTML and CSS, then it’s not my fault. Today is a pretty slow day. Yesterday I just sent out a mail to my friends and co-workers to do a little informal usability [...]
Over the last few weeks I read: About Sonic weapons based on backmastered baby screams. An interesting article critical of the semantic web concept. I, being a markup purist, am a true believer in the semantic web idea. Another interesting article about what open source is and what it means. I come across, speaking of [...]
Or at least the dot-org part of it. Over last 5 or so years, ICANN has allowed, without any struggle, the Domain Name System to be dominated by large corporations who use it to enforce, some would say in a repressive manner, trademark and intellectual property. To counter this trend, two non-profit organizations have proposed [...]
Two of the staples of cyberpunk are gleaming superbuildings and crushing inner-city poverty. I just read an article about information technology in Ghana that just oozed cyberpunk. Amtrak must die? Sure but, let’s start thinking seriously about real high-speed rail in this country. And I don’t mean wasting time on nonsense like maglev. I means [...]
I know I cited his pages a few days ago but, it just keeps getting better. I feel like an idiot. Mr. Pilgrim is writing about the gritty aspects of improving web accessibility much better than I ever could. Please, go an read his essays about web accessibility and improving the accessibility of web logs.