24. October, 2003 - lights in the sky
- Boulder researchers forecast a sizable geomagnetic storm which could mean some extraordinary Aurorae this evening. It might be worth trying to get outside the city lights this evening.
- A List Apart has relaunched, so you can get the news on the latest web-design techniques again. Hopefully they’ll get the archives moved across sometime soon. [zeldman]
- X10 files for Chapter 11. The protocol’s kinda cool (at least in theory–it’s a bit sucky in practice), but the company won’t be missed at all. Sadly, chapter 11 means they’re reorganizing, probably to come up with a more annoying way to advertise so they can pay off the patent fees for the pop-under “technology” they owe money for. [101-280]
- I guess I need to clarify. It wasn’t just the mailman yesterday who’s busy hating. There have been plenty of other episodes lately that have caught my attention. I got verbally slapped around at the bar a couple weeks ago because I’m one o’ them gun nuts (I wasn’t especially looking to talk politics that night, which may have thrown people). Even Dave Winer is saying it’s your obligation to hate Condoleezza Rice because she’s
every bit as nasty as Rumsfeld.
That’s not the Mr. Touchy-Feely California Guy image Dave usually projects at all. I think the main point I’m trying to make is that when people on the left start making folks like Bill O’Reilly look sympathetic, there’s something up, and I don't particularly like it. While that kind of behavior is to be expected from the more “nasty” Republican or right-wing commentators, but when the soft’n’fuzzy, bunny-hugging liberals start doing it (that last is probably the best link of the bunch), it makes me wonder.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:29:03.