Scripting News

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:07:24 GMT

Chris Lydon interviews Steve Kinzer of the NY Times. "It is not far-fetched," he concludes, "to draw a line from Operation Ajaz through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York."

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:22:32 GMT

Matthew Thomas: How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks.

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:25:47 GMT

Manila beta feature, see a whole month of posts in the archive, or if you're really brave, a whole year.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:13:25 GMT

Newsweek: "Senator Hatch hasn't yet codified his Dr. Strangelovean no-due-process piracy antidote into upcoming legislation."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:08:00 GMT

Paul Stacey: "Its been quite a while since a technology 'blew me away' but last Friday I had one of those Eureka moments while riding the bus from downtown Vancouver to White Rock where I live -- all because of RSS feeds & blogs."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:40:34 GMT

EFF: How Not To Get Sued By The RIAA For File-Sharing.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:15:33 GMT

Chris Lydon interviews Elaine Scarry.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:29:03 GMT

Heads-up, I'm working on the long-delayed unified spec for the MetaWeblog API. It's been documented in layers across several pages on the XML-RPC site. The goal is to have a spec-on-one-page that explains its design, how it works, and links to prior art.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:58:01 GMT

Shhh. Don't tell anyone. Today is Doc's birthday.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:13:56 GMT

Hmm. "Raised as a Norwegian girl for the first ten years of his life." ";->"

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:06:57 GMT

Clay Shirky: "It doesn't matter if the Wifi backchannel is a bad idea; it's not going away."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:50:18 GMT

Nelson Minar: "Gnomedex was great. I enjoyed having WiFi access during the conference despite my discomfort with people paying more attention to computers than people at meetings."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:37:32 GMT

BBC: "A week without e-mail is more traumatic than moving house or getting divorced, say techies."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:32:40 GMT

Smack in the middle of summer and the heat wave has broken. It's lovely, in the 70s, relatively low humidity, light breeze, finally the weather is a joy in Boston.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:40:08 GMT

Joe Firmage: "What we are trying to build here is the PBS of the Web."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:43:29 GMT

Last year on this day: "If you've never smoked you have no idea how weird it is."

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:54:16 GMT

Caveat. In the piece pointed to above, the target of the link has redirected it so it points back at the Scripting News archive. It's horribly confusing, and not good practice (and what's the point anyway). But there's nothing I can do about it. Onward.

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:50:47 GMT

Two years ago: "If you want a clue Mr. Moose.."