BurningbirdI had a Netflix account until Blockbuster came out with their, “Turn in a movie, get a movie” plan. It was a novelty to go into the local Blockbuster, turn in an envelope and get a movie. It was especially nice because online DVD rental places aren’t always good about sending that next video. Recently […]
Jeremy Zwadony believes JavaScript and widgets are harmful, and points to situations such as Techcrunch and their recent slowdown. Of course, he hasn’t seen the supreme widget. I get irritated at the sites that have dozens of things in their sidebar, all of which slow page loads. Luckily, most of these sites provide full content in their […]
Assaf: Everytime you meta-program, God kills a for loop. *snork* (Link thanks to Sterling.)
The next president of Harvard is going to be Drew Gilpin Faust, respected Historian and currently Dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. She’ll be participating in a growing change in today’s universities, becoming one of the 23% of college presidents who are women. Considering that women make up over 50% of college attendance, I […]
While I don’t share Tim O’Reilly’s enthusiastic belief that Yahoo!’s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet, it is an interesting modern day implementation of an old and reliable Unix construct. The premise is that web services produce syndication feeds, which can then be modified as queries for other web services. Considering the openness […]