Money Idol Exchanger - never has a web page so perfectly captured the essence of my favorite obscure Neo-Geo game.
11/29/2000 10:34:11 PM | +
O'Reilly Network: What's on Freenet?
Which somehow makes perfect sense.
11/29/2000 03:33:57 PM | +
I'm back home for Thanksgiving. I came in last night so I could spend today cooking with my family.
I snatched the little piece of paper my father had scribbled out the family recipe for hoska on and furiously typed it into organizine. I should do that for all the important recipes so they won't ever be lost forever in some forgotten recipe box some day. Although the recipes usually only tell a small, small part about how to actually make it properly. I need to really learn the recipes and annotate them.
Also, I finally got to see Sailor Moon today after months of forced withdrawl. Yay.
11/22/2000 09:24:35 PM | +
Salon.- It's your party and you can cry if you want to
11/22/2000 09:12:14 PM | +
Dave Winer has an interesting white paper up,
Bootstrapping the Two-Way-Web, which discusses the current popularity of browser based content management systems -
...and discusses their largest problem right now, the absymal quality of text editors within browsers:
I think Dave is dead on, and it's something I've ranted on about before.
However, Dave's proposed solution involves making XML-RPC and SOAP interfaces to these web applications that will allow a new breed of external text editors to be "wired to the web" rather than the local filesystem. Dave of course suggests products his company Userland makes as proof of concept "bootstrapping" technologies, Manila, the web based content management server-side software, and Radio Userland, as the external editor.
While I think this is an interesting idea technologically, I don't think it's the path I'll be taking on my little web-based content management system. (Which should be launching at the end of December, while I'm on winter break, for anyone who's still interested.)
While I may try and implement some sort of XML-RPC interface to organizine down the road, it seems to me a much more practical and useful short-term "bootstrapping" technique to get people using the two-way web is to
Now, neither of these solution will use W3 standards and both will end up using non-standard browser extensions, which is disheartening. They won't create a rich editor for everyone, but it will improve the editing for probably more than 99% of the users of a web application.
11/20/2000 12:59:28 PM | +
11/17/2000 12:34:15 PM | +
Auctor opus suum confecit quamquam id odit.
11/16/2000 11:09:04 PM | +
Adam's Quick Guide to Netscape 6
11/15/2000 12:21:49 AM | +
Just when you thought that texty texts were finally dead, no, I bring it back on, even worse than before.
Did you know you can get super fun email alerts when I add new texty texts? It's true, thanks to the magic that is notify list. If I weren't such a lazy, lazy bastard I'd have an easy to fill out subscription form somewhere on these pages. But I am, so I don't.
11/13/2000 02:05:20 AM | +
Sega Shows Off Upcoming Lineup -
Teaches kids how to type, and gives them Zombie-filled nightmares too!
I'm sure this one will be a big hit.
11/11/2000 10:51:34 PM | +
Another brief conversation between Yuping He, everyone's favorite grey-shirt wearing undeclared computer science major, and myself: "So what do we have to do? The ADDI instruction?" "Yes, that would be the add immediate instruction for those of us unfamiliar with MIPS R2000 Assembly Language." "If I had multiple middle fingers, I'd point them all at you." That Yuping is one angry guy. 11/11/2000 09:00:10 PM | +
In-depth Post Election Coverage at Über.
11/9/2000 03:40:06 AM | +
Gore, Bush, Florida, whatever.
Republican senator loses to dead rival in Missouri
11/8/2000 01:03:26 AM | +
This is not a post.
11/7/2000 10:28:40 PM | +
I can't wait.
11/6/2000 12:43:41 AM | +
Midterms.
Bad.
11/5/2000 01:03:59 AM | +
Today's pointers, in order from least to most important...
I'm going to WEB2000 to see Bryan's
panel on web apps.
Filler Friday: Martial Law today at Über.nu. And next week will be different. I guarantee it.
Finally, and most importantly, this.
11/3/2000 01:44:54 AM | +
When I suggested that Pressman "move on" from his deep attachment to red, white, and black in his redesign, I didn't mean move on to "vomit-inducing yellow". [Actually, I think I said throw-up orange, but whatever.] I feel guilty for inflicting such a disgusting color on the world.
Mostly, I just like the redesign because it features fishboy in the bottom left. I love fishboy.
And, of course, because Andy is a pioneering user of that thing thing that hasn't launched yet. But, umm, will. Umm, soon. Stupid midterms.
11/2/2000 11:25:06 AM | +
I like Natalie even though sometimes she's grouchy.
11/1/2000 02:50:54 PM | +
Napster to Charge Fee for Music Rights (Note lack of trademark baseball hat in the photo.)
Not surprising. I always knew those Napster guys were poser sellout assholes.
11/1/2000 12:09:07 AM | +
"But if we were to indulge ourselves and construct a demographic of the average Freenet user from Freenet content, he'd be a crypto-anarchist Perl hacker with a taste for the classics of literature, political screeds, 1980s pop music, Adobe software, and lots of porn."
"Now that the Republicans have emulated the Democrats and handed back their party's reins from the activist fringe to the corporate center, this year's presidential election will matter slightly less, in the world-historical scheme of things, than the battle between Coke and Pepsi. At least people actually like Coke and Pepsi; this has been more like Dr. Pepper vs. Mr. Pibb."
"All the growth is happening around a single key idea -- editing the Web in a browser makes it easy."
"Microsoft's Web browser, which dominates the market, is not an excellent text editor. It's missing many features like Find and Replace that writers have come to depend on."
"Of course, Samba seems downright conventional when compared to The Typing of the Dead, an "action" game that requires players to use the Dreamcast keyboard to type words and phrases in order to "shoot" hordes of zombies. The game is best described as Mavis Beacon Typing meets The Terminator. Sporting a variety of typing modes, The Typing of the Dead is a blast to play and can seriously improve a gamer's words-per-minute."
"This time around, we're making a flat-out, no-socially-redeeming-value, made-or-broken-by-the-opening-weekend comedy. There will be no lesbians (unless they're played strictly for laughs) and even less talk about the Lord, Jesus Christ (unless He weighs in on the SAG strike); just hijinks and antics the like of which you haven't seen since Mallrats (which was barely seen, so all our rehashing of the same material may actually wind up seeming fresh)."
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