The addition to Web pages in the name of advertising that annoys me most these days is aggressive mouseover behavior attached to links. It seems like I’m visiting more and more Web sites that force me to make sure that I haven’t mistakenly left my mouse pointer over the browser while I’m reading.
Football Outsiders, one [...]
Adobe evangelist Andrew Shebanow puts forth an argument:
So if you are looking to build a cross-platform application without making those kinds of investments, what are your choices? Basically, you can use HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and/or use the Flash/Flex environment. With Apollo, Adobe is trying to bring those two worlds closer together and bring those technologies [...]
Quote of the day, courtesy of Tyler Cowen:
The cost of this insurance, in terms of induced inefficiencies, will be high but a secure health care situation is one of the things in life that alone can make a difference between happiness and misery.
One of my second tier resolutions going forward is to use the word “interesting” less frequently. I find myself using it a lot, especially on the link blog. If I see fit to link to something, then it’s interesting, at least to me. No need to redundantly refer to it as interesting on top [...]
Dan Froomkin explains why I don’t put any stock in any of the mea culpas issued by President Bush lately:
Bush has never said: I made a wrong decision in this case, here’s why, and here’s what I learned from it, which is why you can have greater faith in me this time.
By the [...]
I’ve read a number of blog posts lately that have me wondering what music collection is these days. Before the age of online radio and MP3, it was simple. Your music collection consisted of your library of CDs, or tapes, or records. Now it’s something more ephemeral. I had thought of my [...]
Michael Froomkin takes a stab at explaining the status of the consulate where the US arrested some Iranians in Kurdistan this week.
Anyone have any light to shed on the US arrest of Iranian “diplomats” in the Kurdish area of Iraq on Wednesday? Reports are that the US showed up at the “consulate” in the middle of the night with tanks and helicopter gunships, and arrested the six Iranians, who are purported to be diplomats. (Maybe [...]
From John Markoff’s iPhone article today:
“We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These [...]
In his speech tonight, President Bush said that US troops in Baghdad will be operating under new rules of engagement. I can’t help but wonder what that means. It seems to me that the following groups of people are killing innocent Iraqi civilians:
Sunni insurgents. Foreign fighters. al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists. Pro-Iran Shiite death squads. The Mahdi Army (also known as [...]