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Arrrgh. Somehow I managed to lose all of my RSS subscriptions. D'oh. I didn't realize how dependent I had become. I mean I knew, but now that I have to think about recreating that huge list I really know.
Proposal for the W3C HTML Working Group to adopt the WHAT Working Group's HTML5 as the starting point for further HTML development. This would be a good thing. HTML development has been stalled for too long. Looks like IP won't be an issue either: "If the group is agreeable to these proposals, Apple, Mozilla and Opera will agree to arrange a non-exclusive copyright assignment to the W3 Consortium for HTML5 specifications."
Daring Fireball attempts to correct the story with some facts about the AAC audio format. I recently drove a thread over at Tom's a bit off topic with similar concerns, although I didn't have all the numbers that John Gruber has put together.
How to write a spelling corrector:
I figured that in less than a plane flight, and in less than a page of code, I could write a spelling corrector that achieves 80 or 90% accuracy at a rate of at least 10 words per second. And in fact, here, in 20 lines of Python 2.5 code, is the complete spelling corrector....(via HTP)
Scraped enough together for a new hard drive. Man, prices are insane. 400 GB Seagates (no enclosure) just hit $100! This is a 500 w/ USB 2.0 enclosure for $150. 750 GB drives still command a premium though.
Blogs turn 10 years old (sort of, by some people's reckoning.) CNet looks at who is the father? The article has the expected Winer vs. Barger angle, which is pretty boring, but at least gets the unix .plan file backstory pretty much right. Or, in other words, this is an evolving world and it's been going on for a long long time - much longer than those who want to take credit for it.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants master key to DNS. OMG it's the end of the worldz!!!1!1!! Getting back to reality, I'll quote Wes Felter on this one: "This would be dangerous if anyone was planning to actually use DNSSec."
There are lots of things to be worried about, but this isn't one of them.
Man-Computer Symbiosis, J. C. R. Licklider, IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960.
Helio Ocean set to make waves. I like the idea of an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator - this is a company that acts like a telecom, but doesn't actually own any transit, instead buying it in bulk from someone like Cingular. Along with Helio, Amp Mobile and Virgin are other examples.) The big entrenched players are so slow and risk averse, the hope is that a smaller, hungry MVNO might be able to actually make a product someone wants. The danger is that they are still reliant on whoever they are buying transit from, so you could imagine the plug getting pulled if any of them got *too* popular.
In any case, Helio has always seemed cool (this is an Earthlink founder Sky Davidson venture,) but the Ocean is their first handset that is making me take notice. The double slider design is nice.