I can die happy now. I've been noticed by the blogeur.
categories: memewatch metablog
11:07:19 PM 
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A new build of Apple's beta browser, Safari, is out. (Dive into) Mark has the scoop:
Safari build 60 is out. Many things are fixed. Some things are not yet fixed. I have re-tested all of my Safari CSS hacks and found no differences between build 51 and build 60; specifically, the Safari Spacer Hack still works. (44 words) [dive into mark]The selfish good news from my point of view is that RFB is now rendering legibly, so I don't have to muck around with my planned redesign any time soon, at least not to appeal to Safari users.
categories: fireweaver
3:11:12 PM say what []
OK, so wait a minute, is Michael Lerner (of Tikkun) "deeply silly" or not?
categories: x-syndicate
2:19:55 PM say what []
Every warblogger's favorite idiotarian rag, The Guardian, has a little article today on voting-machine paranoia:
One is Georgia, where all the votes in 2002 were cast on Diebold screens. The sitting Democratic senator and (to general astonishment) governor were both defeated in the election. Nine of Diebold's 12 directors are listed as Republican donors. The other case is Nebraska, where more than 80% of the votes last November were counted on machines produced by the leader in the field: ES & S. Nebraska handily re-elected its Republican senator, Chuck Hagel, who just happens to be the company's former chief executive and remains a major shareholder. I do not remotely suggest either election was rigged, though Charlie Matulka, Hagel's beaten Democratic opponent, has protested in a manner somewhat unusual for a candidate who only got 15%. This is probably all just paranoia, but the Paranoid party has as much right to participate in elections as anyone else—and to know how and why they have lost.
categories: x-syndicate
2:19:51 PM say what []
Meanwhile, the invaluable Mark Kleiman tries to sort out the layers of meaning betwen what maybe-Osama, maybe-Powell, and maybe-Reynolds have said.
categories: x-syndicate
12:18:28 PM say what []
Ken Layne is concerned that airlines may be dropping the ID check at the gate. He calls it "one of the only sane security checks—is the guy with the boarding pass the same guy who cleared the first security gate?"
John Gilmore sees it the opposite way. He points out that "People in the US have a right to travel and associate without being monitored or stopped by their government, unless they are actually suspected or convicted of a crime, and unless that suspicion is reasonable." He also thinks the ID checks yield a false sense of security, which he thinks in dangerous.
They both make good points. Who is right?
categories: x-syndicate
10:17:34 AM say what []
How do they do it? The Morning News is the kind of web publication I've always wanted to produce. They publish new stories every day, their design is succinct and tasty, they drive it all with Movable Type, I don't see any typos, and I don't imagine anyone's getting paid. I could hate them but I don't. I love them.
But I also forget to go there and read the newer stuff for long stretches at a time. I may be blinded by envy. Months ago I asked the founders if I could interview them about the probably-sort-of-boring details of how they use MT to produce their publication, but I keep forgetting or other stuff keeps getting pushed up higher on my to-do list. And it's not like email interviews are time-consuming or hard to do. I'll get around to it eventually. They deserve all the attention and respect they can get, even though I don't have that much to offer them myself, probably only a tiny blip in whatever their readership traffic is today.
Today, I read Starfucker, by Sarah Hepola, an Austin writer. As usual, it's good. I'm noticing that a lot of their contributors are professional writers, but they get a chance to write outside of the constraints of the paying media. Hepola's article is indirectly about how magazines work, how celebrity works, how interviews are brokered, the currency of fame, the role of journalists as gatekeepers and brokers, the process of selling out, and wanting to be liked. I recommend it.
categories: x-syndicate
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