Scripting News

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:16:40 GMT

A vision for the next generation of blogging tools?

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:11:33 GMT

The hot story today is the President's call to amend the US Constitution to prevent gay marriage. You heard it here first: It won't pass. It can't. Homosexuality is becoming fairly accepted in the US. This amendment won't pass anywhere outside the Deep South. This is a political tactic. It's funny that the press won't let the Nader candidacy exist for one second before they question its viability. This idea is impossible.

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:46:22 GMT

BTW, I would endorse a constitutional ban on Donald Trump.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:26:36 GMT

Elizabeth Drew: "This is no way to pick a possible president."

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:58:04 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "Maybe I should accept one of those Orkut invitations before I run completely out of friends."

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:36:19 GMT

Wired News interviews the author of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:42:40 GMT

It's time to dump Sprint for Verizon. What phone should I get?

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:17:39 GMT

Rebecca MacKinnon: North Koreans cite John Kerry in positive light.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:17:20 GMT

The opening act for Ralph Nader on Sunday's Meet the Press was California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was his first appearance on Sunday morning political TV. He was unusually frank for a politician, for example he favored a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be President (he wasn't born in the US, which disqualifies him). He was there to promote two California propositions related to the state's finanical crisis. He said over and over that the two propositions must pass. But he never said what they would do, and the interviewer never asked. So much talk about two propositions, and what they were about never came up. They did show a clip of Sylvester Stallone reacting to a hypothetical Schwarzenegger presidency. Life imitating movies. Reminds of the bit in Sleeper where Woody Allen asks how civilization was destroyed.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:57:24 GMT

The Tubes have a feed. White punks on RSS.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:50:18 GMT

A Russian article called RSS For Dummies.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:32:34 GMT

Olav Junker Kjaer is building a table of Unicode support in XML-RPC libraries. Thanks for doing this. It's good that someone is bothering to get the data instead of just making speeches.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:51:07 GMT

A new feature on the Share Your OPML site, an Andrew-Dave collaboration, it lists people whose subscription lists are most like yours. Think of it as your personal echo chamber. It's an interesting way to discover new feeds you aren't subscribed to.