Omar has been slamming Alaska Airlines over on his blog, joined by Dvorak. I have been guilty of slamming particular airlines on this blog, and will spend lots of money to avoid flying United or Northwest, so I think he has every right to do this. But I want to counter his criticism of Alaska […]
You’ve probably heard by now that IE7 will ship with ability to read RSS feeds. Sean Lyndersay just posted the details about which feed formats it will support: RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0. This support is exposed as an API as well, so developers can count on a consistent […]
Three years ago, I wrote “if a plot-segment has to jump out and grab the audience by the throat and scream “Look at me! I’m a moral dilemma!”, it is probably not much of one.”
“I Heart Huckabees” begins by introducing a man gripped by existential crisis. He seeks the services of an existential detective, and […]
I’ve blogged a few times about the London cabbies, and the potential to help people grow hippocampal neurons through use of simulated landmark navigation problems. The natural question for someone seeking to develop a therapeutic video game would be, “just what sort of map layout is best for neuronal activation?” This summary of recent research […]
Dare weighs in on the hubub about Apple’s buggy RSS parser. I have a strong feeling that the people who developed the parser were convinced that they were doing the right thing (i.e. “be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send”). Butthis ispretty bad. Behavior like this poisons the wells, and […]