Let's face it. With each passing year, the Space Shuttle grows more and more pathetic. Bold promises for human spaceflight continue to ring hollow. Robots will always be cheaper and do more science. SpaceShipOne is just a joyride–and no, that's not just sour grapes over the ticket price–four or five minutes in freefall is simply [...]
The B-Movie Comic was recommended to me by the folks of the In Sect. B-Movie is pretty funny! Imagine archeologists, the British Raj, dodering professors, plucky Chinese orphans, goths, a doomed family of Egyptians, jocks and ancient priestly mummies wearing t-shirts all suffering at the hands of bad continuity and low budgets in a cheap [...]
Well, everyone else is talking about it and, me being a webmaster, I really should say something but, I really don't have much because I'm not a MSDN subscriber so, I can't get a legal copy. Today, I've been reading reviews on sites of designers and developers whom I respect and the consensus is that [...]
In reviewing my site, you’ll see that I have a lot of rants about transhumanism. This is a subject that has been percolating among the big thinkers for many decades (Depending on how you define it, it’s actually been speculated about for millenia–at least since the beginning of recorded history.) but in this new century [...]
One of the dilemmas I had to face in migrating to my new blog script is that all my old blog entries were no searchable except by the old blog script. This bothered me until I found an article that showed me how to bring all my site pages under the management of my new [...]
Well–the "Yes, we know the Web is not print but it should be," crowd finally achieved their grail: A means of injecting uncommon fonts into in pages without sacrificing accessibility, losing semantics or confusing search engines. sIFR does it all. Except it's proprietary, it's not fully supported yet in Opera and it's occasionally buggy. I [...]
Over the past few months I’ve collected several articles about privacy and security: Automated Lockdown for XP: Still useful for Service Pack 2. VOA Releases Secure Tunneling Tool for Chinese Internet Users How to Run with Least Privilege in XP: It’s a damn shame Microsoft didn’t tell the masses how to do this after the [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been collecting many articles about JavaScript coding practices: JavaScript Optimization Strategies Unobtrusive JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM leaks like a sieve Ten good practices for writing JavaScript A Lint for JavaScript Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed Efficient JavaScript Code (With a focus towards Opera.) Using JavaScript to (Sigh.) Fix [...]
I got some mail from a fellow named Don who has a site of his own that he thought I’d be interested in. It looks like it’s just starting out so, I don’t know where it will go but, so far it seems to be a slightly squeemish take on transhumanism. I think Don’s a [...]
The popularity of Tuvan overtone-singing has been growing for nearly two decades. You’ve probably heard it in movies and adverts. I’ve always liked it. I’ve seen Huun Huur Tuu in concert and, I have a compilation of traditional and recent stuff but, I wonder if things are going too far. It seems like Yat-kha is [...]