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I don't have a DVD player, and even if I did I'm not sure I would buy this, but I'm glad to see someone is putting the technology to use. And I'm not too surprised it's the Beastie Boys who are doing it. "...This 2-DVD piece will lend sound credence to the rumors that Adam Yauch is a certifiable home theatre geek...."
It's even worse than I thought. Wired's WebMonkey has done some in depth testing to see if web designers really need to stick with the cannonical 216 "web safe colors" palette. Turns out that 216 is a little too many if you really want to ensure that the colors will display properly (especially important if you are trying to hide an image by making it - or it's background - the same color as the page background.) Here's the very sad "really safe colors" palette. As they said in the article, "hope you like green." For more info, here's the conclusions, and here's the start of the article.
If your the sort of person who remembers ruefully the period when Wired eclipsed Mondo 2000 as the technocultures magazine of choice, R.U. Sirius has a little look back. I guess this is what internet time is all about: the web is still in its infancy, and already there is nostalgia for the good old days.
They are crunching numbers over in the FoRK archives. If you're trying to figure where we'll be (bandwidth,storage,cpu cycle cost/byte) in a few years this thread is a pretty good read. Also, if you're thinking about distributed apps (and I know some of you are) this is a mailing list to keep up with.
I've mentioned the Arthur C. Clarke inspired space elevator a number of times. Here's a very informative one page summary of where we stand. And how cool is that first picture? (Nasa's conclusion: "In 50 years or so, we'll be there. Then, if the need is there, we'll be able to do this. That's the gist of the report.")
IP address index. Network numbers, network names, and identitites. (via cam) [as of 02/15/01 this page seems to have been taken down. :-( I'd appreciate it if anybody could point me toward a similar resource. Just post below.]
Rebeccablood has posted a history of weblogging. (via genehack)
Very intriguing report on MacOSRumors today about a possible Apple hand-held device. Airport equiped, palm V sized, color hand-held unit reportedly net booting OS X in a master/slave configuration? This is in rumor stage for sure, but: WOW. That would be the coolest thing ever. Of course, you'd have to be pretty close to an airport equipped computer that could function as a master, but since I plan on always having my powerbook with me (as soon as they make the powerbook I'm waiting for) this would be perfect. Keep your notebook in your backpack, and access your minute to minute data through the hand-held. Maybe even stream MP3's out of your laptop to this unit? Too cool.
Here's the archives to a new mailing list offering daily tips concerning the transition from html to xhtml. I haven't been working too hard on our compliance, but we'll get around to it eventually. If any of the widely used browsers supported the standards I'd be more likely to care. Still, we don't want to fall too far behind.
Is this going too far? Frankly, I'd rather have an 802.11 wireless laptop, but I'll give credit for the recycling of old machine angle. (from genehack)
