4. April, 2003 - gray friday
- The City of Minneapolis City Council passed a resolution today Defending the Bill of Rights. The original PDF document is online, too. I think this is a pretty darned good thing the council did, and I’m happy to see it. I don’t know how much effect it will have even within Minneapolis, but it’s at least a little sand in the gears of the totalitarianism that’s embodied in the USA-PATRIOT act, the Homeland Security Act, and recent executive orders.
- I drove up to Mom’s yesterday to help her out with a few things, and it was one of the most hellish drives I’ve ever been on. There were about fifty miles of driving in freezing rain, with 35mph crosswinds. More than once I was driving down the road, and suddenly found my car a foot or so farther left than it had been a moment before. There were a dozen cars and trucks in the ditch, and all the rest of us were moving along about 50mph instead of the usual 80mph. White-knuckle driving at its finest. At least mom seems to be doing a bit better. Ice causes problems in northern Minnesota, Icy Roads Blamed for Fatal Crash in Central MN, and Freezing rain causes dozens of accidents are the news stories about the messy roads yesterday.
- Skot at Izzle pfaff! is on a roll lately. Go read Creature Discomforts. You’ll think your shitty roommate (you know, the one who drinks all your beer and eats your last slice of pizza, even though you live alone) is pretty easy to get along with. And then maybe read the one that precedes it. That ought to brighten up a fairly dreary Friday.
- Quatloos!: Brad Christensen Gallery:
Over the years, Brad Christensen has been deluged with every type of URGENT
offer imaginable from Nigerian scam artists. Finally, he decided to fight back by conning the con men. With humor and imagination as his weapons, Christensen preyed on the scammers' abundant supply of greed and ignorance, taking our 419 friends for quite a ride, and always at their own expense. What follows are some of Christensen’s more creative exchanges…
Wait until you have some time, and then go read the whole thing. Or just waste your Friday on it. [boing boing]
- Remember how I mentioned yesterday that Microsoft was planning to take aim at google? Well, if you ask google what the worst search engine is (that’s a cached image just in case it changes), you can see what they think of Microsoft as competition.
- There’s a fairly long article on Making An RSS Feed that might’ve been more useful for me if I’d found it a few weeks ago. But frankly, I found it easier to just go look at the simplest version of the spec and some commentary about it, look at what some other folks were spewing, hack together some code, and see if it worked in NetNewsWire, and then eventually run it through the validator. [zeldman]
- Hey, there’s a handy-dandy online Regular Expression Tester out there. Useful when you’re lost in a sea of punctuation. [holy schmoly]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:11:19.
