Yostivanich

“You’ve got to trust your com­mu­nity to do the right thing – but also make it easy to clean up after peo­ple if they mis­be­have.” Short sum­mary of the Jeff Attwood and Clay Shirky talk at EclipseCon.

Hope­fully this lost sales myth just dies.

Obama’s top tax rate is not at all high espe­cially com­pared to other cur­rent cap­i­tal­is­tic soci­eties or US his­tory or what Bush wanted it to be at in 2011.

Line of sight, they can know what you are typ­ing, even through glass.

Get those emails running.

So Google will now fund and buy your company.

“The first is whether or not the con­tent is cov­ered by copy­right — and, for most mes­sages the answer would prob­a­bly be yes (there would need to be some sort of cre­ative ele­ment to the mes­sages to make that hap­pen, so a sim­ple “hi” or “thanks” or what­ever might not cut it). But, the more impor­tant ques­tion then would be whether or not ESPN could quote the Twit­ter mes­sage. And, there, the answer is almost cer­tainly, yes, they could, just as they could quote some­thing you wrote in a blog post.”

“Does an Amer­i­can have the right to post polit­i­cal opin­ion online anony­mously? May a gov­ern­ment offi­cial breach that anonymity absent a com­pelling state inter­est?” Yes and no for my opinion.

Bunch of links for jQuery, MooTools and Prototype.

“Alka­line tests your web­site designs across 17 dif­fer­ent Win­dows browsers right from your Mac desk­top in sec­onds.” Pretty freak­ing cool.

Aid will only be given if cer­tain con­di­tions are met.

“A new find from lime­stone deposits in south­ern China is help­ing to clar­ify the sit­u­a­tion. In a paper in Nature, Min Zhu and col­leagues at the Insti­tute of Ver­te­brate Pale­on­tol­ogy and Pale­oan­thro­pol­ogy of the Chi­nese Acad­emy of Sci­ences describe a well-preserved and prac­ti­cally com­plete fish fos­sil that is 418 mil­lion years old.” Pretty cool.

“We employ and rely upon these three prin­ci­ples in most aspects of our lives, with both phys­i­cally tan­gi­ble and con­cep­tual com­po­nents of our expe­ri­ence. In fact we would lit­er­ally be lost with­out doing so. Though we all pos­sess an intu­itive per­cep­tion and reliance on them, it is good for a designer to have a gran­u­lar and work­ing under­stand­ing of all three of these principles”

What are the dif­fer­ent ways to embed fonts in your web design?

“Is there a for­mal fem­i­nist move­ment any­more? Does there need to be?” Not really and not really again.

“The Omn­i­Grid com­po­nent is inspired by two sim­i­lar com­po­nents: Flex­Grid jQuery and phatfusion:sortableTable and partly uses their source code. It was devel­oped due to a lack of pow­er­ful Data­Grid for Mootools 1.2 library. The author is Marko Šantić from Omnis­data company.”

IBM and their crazy patents.

“Nearly 70 per­cent of the Pentagon’s 96 largest weapons pro­grams were over bud­get last year, for a com­bined total of $296 bil­lion more than the orig­i­nal esti­mates, a Con­gres­sional audit­ing agency reported Mon­day.” Wow cut those pro­grams and there is some money saved in the budget.

“China says it is reopen­ing Tibet to for­eign tourists in early April.” Hello Tibet.

“Google is offer­ing free down­loads of licensed music tracks in China.” That’s pretty cool.

Bahh.

“Two US reporters held in North Korea ear­lier this month will be tried for ille­gal entry and “hos­tile acts”, the country’s state-run news agency says.” Not good news.

“The US has fin­ished con­struct­ing a huge physics exper­i­ment aimed at recre­at­ing con­di­tions at the heart of our Sun.” Science!!

No mat­ter what GM will be a very dif­fer­ent com­pany when all this is said and done.

Drop in those drop caps.

I so need an iPhone if just for this app.

Yet another exam­ple that rethink­ing things about the envi­ron­ment means everything.

I guess that makes some sense, makes peo­ple feel bet­ter about buy­ing a GM car.

” The US jus­tice depart­ment has agreed to trans­fer a Yemeni inmate from America’s con­tro­ver­sial Guan­tanamo Bay prison. But it declined to pro­vide details of where Ayman Saeed Batarfi would go.” So what’s up with that?

Well it’s about time.

What hap­pens when Clay Shirkey and Jeff Atwood combine?

“Microsoft has announced that it is dis­con­tin­u­ing its Encarta line of prod­ucts. The soft­ware prod­ucts will be gone by June 2009 and the web­site will go down Octo­ber 31, 2009.” I’m pretty sure I won’t miss Encarta Online.

This is pretty stu­pid. I under­stand not want­ing kids to hit each other, but ban­ning all forms of phys­i­cal con­tact isn’t just exces­sive, it’s stupid.