"This project shall provide a free and open source shopping cart system for users of the PayPal Online Store solution for small web-based businesses."
[ via aaronland ]
i know it's not good science to base conclusions on anectodes, but i think any dog owner could have told saved the researchers behind the "Dogs are smarter than people think" study a load of time and money:
" Scientists are convinced that dogs can count and researchers at the University of California, Davis, say they try to convey different messages through the pitch and pace of their barks. "
our malamute is superb at figuring out if he's getting one less treat than our german pointer. although it often sounds like a cross between a wolf and chewbacca, malamutes also have an amazing ability to convey nuanced meaning when they "talk".
ugh.
harper's epilepsy
is slowly and steadily getting worse. while he used to go 60 days
without seizures on one medicine, he's now maxed out on two
medicines and having clusters of seizures over several days - every
week or two.
unfortunately, he's also started getting lethargic and refusing
food, which is a bad sign. today, he had a grand mal while standing
at the top of basement stairs and tumbled, seizing the entire
distance, down the steps. luckily, he doesn't appear to have any
broken bones, but it looks like we're going to have to make some
tough decisions soon.
while it's amusing to see all the domain names that have expired recently, from buyclamsonline.com to DogPsychologyCenter.com, i'll point out that snowdeal.com is still passing from one speculator's hands to another.
i can't remember why i didn't buy it on that fateful day nearly three years ago, when i picked up snowdeal.org. bastages.
my wife suspects that soon, i may be infected with a similar desire that drove [ ahem ] casey west to create HighWLAN: A Driving Wireless Network :
"I was on a mission. Create the first documented case of 802.11b networking at 85, scratch that, 65 mph. The most important goal of this project was to create a usable, local network between multiple vehicles. This network had to support some form of communication between computers. I had four nuts, Meng, Schwern, David, and me. I just needed a good way to bolt them together."
"With the release of Mozilla 1.0, the world now has a browser that supports SOAP natively. No longer do the tasks of assembling, executing, and handling SOAP operations fall solely on the server side. A Web application running in Mozilla (or in a client using the same scripting engine, such as Netscape 7.0) can now make SOAP calls directly from the client without requiring a browser refresh or additional calls to the server. The data returned from a SOAP operation can be accessed via the same DOM Level 2 methods used to traverse any XML document."
david hyatt isn't shy about giving his two cents with regards to the source of some of mozilla's woes:
"With all of this precious talent spread so thin, teams end up getting filled out with mediocre engineers and talentless hacks, and every application is doomed before you even write the first line of code. With so many modules and projects, each of which require strong leadership and direction, it's inevitable that many of those modules end up helmed by people who had no business being in charge of that area of code in the first place.
This problem also applies in the open source community, where the level of contributors varies widely. Mozilla has non-Netscape contributors that have been given checkin access to the tree that have no business being let anywhere near a computer. The argument for access was always, "But this idiot from Netscape is allowed to checkin, and I can't?" and so the lowered bar at Netscape resulted in a lowered bar for the rest of the world.
The only way Mozilla is going to become a strong product IMO is if many fewer people are allowed to check in."
cory's back! and it's a good thing, because he points me to a new bugzilla release for os x, which is bound to come in mighty handy.
interesting. thanks to a tip from peter saint andre dreamhost now offers jabber IM support . when i switched to cornerhost recently, i tried to pursuade michal to let me run a jabber and he pleasantly declined [ or more correctly, said he would consider it, if i was willing to pay more money ]. hmmmm.
wow. i'm a sucker for counter-intuitive analysis of current events to get the mental juuices flowing and "the talent myth" fits the bill nicely:
"The management of Enron, in other words, did exactly what the consultants at McKinsey said that companies ought to do in order to succeed in the modern economy. It hired and rewarded the very best and the very brightest--and it is now in bankruptcy. The reasons for its collapse are complex, needless to say. But what if Enron failed not in spite of its talent mind-set but because of it? What if smart people are overrated?"
from the dubious-reporting-of-shaky-research-department comes the news that Positive thinking 'extends life' :
"A team of American psychologists found that people who were positive about ageing lived an average of 7.5 years longer than those who regretted the passing years."
hear that noice? that's the sound of a cottage industry being born.
ever wonder what would happen if somebody decided to produce a "behind the music" for fonts? well, now you know.
who knew that cooper black had such a long and sordid history?
[ via dean allen ]
by popular demand, i've gotten off my lazy butt and added a link in the navigation bar to the accidental marathonists blog , in which i document the trials and tribulations of training for the chicago marathon.
"Easytopicmaps was set up by PeterVanDijck in December 2001 to be a place to learn about topic maps. Most of the documentation on TopicMaps is very technical. I don't think it has to be that way."
[ via morelikethis ]
sometimes, such as when you're getting your hair cut, there's a world of difference between a quarter and an eight of an inch.
just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!
“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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