I just spent [[80 DKK]] on buying April March‘s Chick Habit album, although I could have purchased the songs one by one, and only having had to pay [[56 DKK]], because I already have the Chick Habit song.
But then, the real stupid in this is obviously me, because I didn’t look properly into this. But still. (It’s a great album, though.)
Decent, although very basic, guide on how to set your website up respecting common typographic guidelines by Antonio Carusone.
Thoughtful — and very long, as is his style — essay from Steve Yegge on the subject of legalising marihuana.
Steve makes a very good argument for his cause — ‘it’s hard’ — but I find it a little odd, and he seems to say there’s something unique about marihuana in this sense; which is obviously ridiculous. Making any kind of law is hard, and saying it only applies to marihuana is a little weird.
But it might be useful in the future for people who believe it’s be possible to legalise (or indeed, prohibit), and be over with it. That’s just not how it works.
While the execution is very great, I really think it’s too close to being a scam along the lines of those fake virus protection things. I can’t endorse it, because it just doesn’t feel right. Imitating browser ui seems bad karma, no matter how or why you do it.
(Via For a Beautiful Web.)
This looks very interesting, although there by now are quite a lot of browser testing tools.
(Via Matt Haughey.)
Extensive research by Peter-Paul Koch on the complications with HTML5’s draft spec for the time element on the subject of historical dates.
Of course, HTML5 actually has a solution for this: don’t. They are very specific about time not being available for pre-Gregorian dates, but ppk’s proposal is interesting nonetheless, and I believe it is well worth considering adding the calendar attribute to time, and being somewhat flexible about the input. The problem with flexible input is of course that people misuse it.
Can you imagine a Westerner today disregarding a writing because of its Trotskyite views not being convincing?
(Via Brent Simmons.)
Grim and very cold-blooded analysis of why an economy in which you can become wealthy not by doing anything that adds value to the world, but by betting on others’ doing or not doing so, is not an economy worth holding on to.
Great insight from Ben Ehrenreich in the LA Times. World War II created this unfortunate situation, where Jews — because of all the woes they had experienced — were regarded as a protected race, one that shouldn’t be held accountable for its actions.
While many Jews obviously didn’t act on this situation, Zionists used the platform to launch an outrageous assault on Palestinians, whose only crimes were living in the area that was now artificially being re-labelled Israel. (Jews’ debatable right to the land notwithstanding.)
I see a theme coming. Oh well, I’d really like a large print out of this one.
(Via Mike Davidson.)
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Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.
