tim responds publically to dave’s public rhetoric yesterday.
dave wonders why he doesn’t get to see oreilly’s strategic investment strategy. others speculate as to why dave would reinforce a stereotype.
phew. finally some relatively good news for lefthanders:
“The most focused study of the issue can be found in the December, 1994, issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The authors examined all first-class cricketers born before 1961 whose bowling hand was specified — 1,132 left-bankers, and 5,041 of the adroit. They concluded that “left-handedness is not, in general, associated with an increase in mortality.”
“Nevertheless, a troubling finding in the BMJ study showed that left-handedness was associated with an increased likelihood of deaths of a certain kind — those from unnatural causes. There was a 37% greater risk for such deaths among left-handers.”
i’m not sure about the whole “unatural causes” clause, though. in any case, any news is good news considering the spate of bad news related to my being unfortunate enough to be born both premature and lefthanded.
[via genehack]
“K-Meleon is the Windows answer to Galeon. Thus, K-Meleon is a lite Web browser based on gecko (the
mozilla rendering engine). It’s fast, it has a light interface, and it is fully standards-compliant. To make it
simple, K-Meleon could be considered as the unbloated Mozilla version for Windows.”
snarky comments aside, kmeleon is interesting considering i was going to originally use this space to pass on a bit on why we might want to stop beating the lizard:
“There’s more to the Lizard then meets the eye, but you have to take a look beyond the box — or should I say browser?
Because much of the Mozilla effort’s project management has been in the open, we can learn from this effort, and even apply many of the management techniques to our own efforts.
As just one example, if you work for a large shop, consider using internal newsgroups as a way for your own architecture teams to communicate with other developers — this approach does work.
If nothing else, you can download and use Bugzilla, a sophisticated, free, bug tracking and reporting system.
As for the Mozilla platform: Take a moment to appreciate that the Mozilla development team has only been following the programming practices we’ve all been pushing for the last decade, and that the reusable component-based architecture is one we can all benefit from.
It’s a better use of your time than beating the Lizard.”
note to self. remember to read the latest alertbox on mailing list usability. you briefly glanced at it and have been thinking about how spam delivered to your one regular visitor could surely convince him or her that he or she should never have bothered with your two-bit site anyway.
almost forgot to throw the tivo article into the annotated bookmark bin. just pretend you didn’t see it when it first made the web rounds and you actually stop by here to get interesting stuff you can’t find anywhere else:
“The TiVo and Replay boxes represent the greatest leap of all. They accumulate, in atomic detail, a record of who watched what and when they watched it. Put the box in all 102 million American homes, and you get a pointillist portrait of the entire American television audience. And that raises the second and more disturbing question to which the TV industry must respond: what do you do when you actually know who is watching and why? Already, TiVo and Replay know what each of their users does every second, though both companies make a point of saying that they don’t actually dig into the data to find out who did what, that they only use it in the aggregate. Whatever. They know. ”