Scripting News

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:04:24 GMT

Survey: "Is Osama bin Laden alive?"

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 22:59:09 GMT

Jon Udell reviews Delta's new passenger info system.

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:40:11 GMT

Ken Bereskin: "Big news on the Sherlock 3 front."

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:19:53 GMT

AP: "Felipe Alou was hired Wednesday to manage the National League champion San Francisco Giants, returning to the team he played for in the 1950s and '60s."

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:54:28 GMT

Meg: "Now I know two secret entrances to the Louvre!"

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:34:29 GMT

On this day four years ago, a little-known second-fiddle dipshit website in NYC went public, starting a boom whose echoes created mega-billionaires and ruined the economy and culture of the Bay Area.

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:26:32 GMT

Ted Leonsis is back in the saddle at AOL.

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:26:52 GMT

Deborah Branscum is back in the saddle too. "This cranky broad needs a name, a face, and some meaningful information about the individuals in a company before she exposes her computer to the potential hazards of new software. Pretty words about passion and expression just don't do the trick."

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:14:03 GMT

Lawrence Lessig reports that NY's Metropolitan Opera is shutting down fan sites, much as the NY Mets were shutting down their fan sites earlier this year.

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:01:31 GMT

Mark Pilgrim reports that the optimizations that UserLand and other aggregator developers deployed in the last few weeks have saved him substantially on bandwidth. "On a normal day when I updated repeatedly throughout the day, your support for conditional GET reduced my aggregator-related traffic by almost 40%." His stats page tracks the savings.