Scripting News

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:52:54 GMT

Lance Knobel asks where are the correcting mechanisms? If you add together all the links on this site today it tells a pretty dismal story. We need some real skilled historians around here to kick some butt. From NY Times columnists to anonymous Wikipedians to the editors of the Financial Times, the quality of our information is pretty darned low.

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:47:04 GMT

I've never been able to figure out how WEP security keys actually work. Now I have to figure it out, no choice.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:35:06 GMT

2WW: What comes after the Philadelphia Daily News.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:54:06 GMT

Andrew Wooldrdridge sends a pointer to a feature in Firefox 1.5 that lets you do vector graphics in the browser? That's retro, and old school, and given the way things have turned out, progress. ";->"

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:40:02 GMT

I can't figure out what happened here, can you?

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:45:24 GMT

Kevin Marks: "I don't want to get into an edit war."

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:16:02 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead digs a little deeper. I'm not commenting on this one, it's too hot for me.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:19:47 GMT

According to the AP, the Dead changed their position on web downloads. "Internet Archive, a site that catalogues content on Web sites, reposted recordings of Grateful Dead concerts for download after the surviving members of the band decided to make them available again."

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:24:03 GMT

Hey someone added this New Mexico picture as one of their favorites on Flickr. Time to upload some more pics.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:11:21 GMT

The standard history of podcasting says that I added the enclosure element to RSS but we waited years for an application to support it. Not true. At the same time as the enclosure element came online, Radio's aggregator got the ability to download enclosures according to the Payloads for RSS use-case doc, and the blogging tool in Radio could attach enclosures to blog posts. They also say Adam Curry did the first podcasts, but that also is not true. I guess I'll need to keep saying this every few months as new articles come out and people reprint the mistakes others have made or invent their own mistakes.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:13:54 GMT

Don Park is back. It's been a long time since he's posted one of these clear-thinking cut-to-the-point pieces, and he's right. What if instead of a "party inside MacGyver's shoebox" we were actually doing something new? Or even a rehash of lost art, like LineTo-MoveTo? Firefox is fine, AJAX is fine, but is that all? Come on, there's so much more to do!

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:46:29 GMT

Five years ago: "It's December 1. Where did the year go??"