I was hoping to let it go without comment, but the “latest insinuation that Intelligent Design has merit”:http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1089733,00.html astounds me. Not that it comes from the President, but rather that it caused me to agree with a “Charles Krauthammer opinion piece”:http://www.time.com/time/columnist/krauthammer/article/0,9565,1088869,00.html. I’m shocked.
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bag end it ain’t
It had to happen eventually… the world’s first “Hobbit motel”:http://www.woodlynpark.co.nz/thehobbitmotel.html has opened in New Zealand. They got the turf roof and round windows right, but somehow I don’t think Bilbo would like the interior so… white.
‘no good reason’ is apparently enough
So, how does our favorite administration top the quagmire in Iraq? Start another quagmire in Iran, of course. And make sure there’s a handy terrorism trigger to justify it in the American collective mind.
this just in: rights still inalienable
The House of Representatives, after deliberation and careful consideration, has decided that “civil liberties just aren’t that important anymore”:http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-21T165437Z_01_N21540320_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-USA-CONGRESS-PATRIOT-DC.XML . Sigh.
consider XML namespaces deprecated
The adage goes: “XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.” “Parand Darugar”:http://www.parand.com/say/index.php/2005/07/21/abolish-xml-namespaces/ has challenged that idea (or validated the sarcasm) with a compelling case for “abolishing XML namespaces”:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-abolns.html.
I never did warm to namespaces, personally. The idea looks good on paper: provide infinitely-extensible support for any number of document formats within a single document. In practice, supporting namespaces always seemed to require ten times more work than the problems they purport to solve, so I’ve avoided inflicting them on others. Now I’ll treat that as a rule, and encourage others to do so as well.