15:48 UTC Declaration of Independence – The Declaration is obviously a remarkable document, part philosophy, part legal document, part performative, part a moral accounting, part beautiful rhetoric. It's good reading, although I do tend to skip the long middle that lists the particular complaints and justifications. Here are some resources:TextWikipedia US Archives Facsimile With annotations of ...
2008-07-03
20:29 UTC Tim Bray on ISO’s ladidah-ing OOXML challenges – Tim Bray blogs about the head of ISO pooh-poohing the concerns about the way that Microsoft's OOXML document format was strong-armed through his organization.[Tags: standards odf ooxml tim_bray microsoft ]
14:34 UTC The fallacy of examples – Nicholas Kristof has a terrific column today about how the donation of a goat to a family in Uganda ultimately led to one of the children, Beatrice, earning a degree from Connecticut College, and beginning a path of service for her community. It's a wonderful story, the point of which ...
17:42 UTC Kindle is fun but sucks for scholars – I'm enjoying my Amazon Kindle ebook reader, albeit while accidentally pressing the "next page" button as often as everyone else (did they beta test this thing all on the thumbless?), and whining about the rest of the annoyances about which you should not even get me started. Nevertheless, it works ...
2008-07-01
22:57 UTC A day without the Web – Zachary McCune, who is at the Berkman Center, became an "ambassador" for One Web Day. To rev up for it, he did an anthropological study on himself by going without the Net for one day. He's blogged his odyssey. As an example, here's what Zack wrote at 12:22:I decide it's ...
22:43 UTC Wanted: One monkey, carpal tunnel-free – From gigbert (via Paul English (email)):looking for a monkey who can bang on my keyboard to try to find the one random sequence of characters that is not yet taken as a domain name The gig offers $100.[Tags: humor monkey dns ]
12:15 UTC Global Voices Summit roundups – A thoughtful overview of the Global Voices Summit from Evgeny Morozov. Also, see Joi Ito.[Tags: global_voices ]
2008-06-30
15:11 UTC Favorite Microsoft instructions of the day – My Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installation is now telling me that my license will expire in 14 hours. This is confusing since the Control Panel tells me that Vista is activated and gives me a product number.
I tried to use the Windows support chat, but when I entered the n-digit ...