On-the-fly CSS Editing
Using Mozilla you can do some cool things. Simon Willison has a plethora of very cool bookmarklets to manipulate CSS dynamically written by Jesse Ruderman.
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Soccer Robots Take Over the World
Salon writes abouts RocoCup Soccer, a robotics competition who’s aim is to field a team of robots that can beat the world cup champions. The bar is pretty high and I’m sure that’s going to spur progress tremendously. However, I don’t think the world’s elite players would ever set foot on a field against robots …
Ballmer on the Linux Threat
"IBM’s endorsement of Linux has added credibility and an illusion of support and accountability," Ballmer said. OK, so its caught up to windows which has had that illusion of support and accountability since circa 1990. Linux’s weakness, however, was the lack of a central body investing in its development in areas such as engineering, manageability, …
One Year ago today: USA 3 – Portugal 2
Who else was awake with us at 2am one year ago today to witness this? Once the US won this game, we knew it was going to be a special world cup. US Soccer has a retrospective.
Acrobat 6: Not exactly a glowing review
Sounds like there’s no reason to upgrade Adobe PDF viewer. The insults start at the download: They changed the name to Adobe Reader. Haha, a very clever exercise in corporate branding. WTF did they think. Acrobat almost is a household name these days. Nobody cares for Adobe or their managerial egos. Next is a 20 …
More Firebird resources
Adot’s notblog has a very useful summary of blog postings regarding the growing buzz surrounding Mozilla’s Firebird browser
TiVo is going to give Nielsen a run for their money.
TiVo collects a lot of information on user’s viewing habits. You can opt-in fully and opt-out fully by calling their customer service line. The company, rightly so, is very paranoid about keeping this information anonymous and secure. First, because it’s a very valuable asset that competitors would love to have. Second, it would be a …
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Getting a modern browser
Slashdot found that MS IE6 SP1 will be the last standalone version that Microsoft makes available. Joel on Software writes that he is making Mozilla Firebird his default browser After downloading virtually every Mozilla release over the last three years, this is the first browser I’m actually going to make my default web browser. All …
How will normal, non-emacs-using people write the semantic web?
Jon Udell’s slides of his OSCOM keynote are available. Lots of insight for people building their own CMSs.
If you really cared would you need this service?
Kudos to this site for finding a market niche and exploiting it. I can’t say that I think its a sign of a healthy relationship when a guy resorts to using this service. "I think that this is probably one of the best ideas I’ve seen out there to help keep the romance going in …
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