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.)

Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering’s analysis of what makes Amazon’s ‘Was this review helpful to you?’ so brilliant.

What really makes it brilliant for me is its simplicity. No complicated ratings of five or more stars — you simply need to check with yourself if it was helpful or not.

A directory I’ve had lying around for far too long.

Of particular joy for me is the Mighty Morfin Power Rangers Theme (MP3).

TechCrunch’s is one of the most widely[ ]heard voices in technology reporting. This should be considered an embarrassment to our industry.

I stopped reading TechCrunch shortly after I started; I found that the signal to noise ratio was incredibly low. I hear it has not got any better.

I’ve actually only seen four of these (‘2001’, ‘Memento’, ‘Mullholland Dr.’, and ‘Donnie Darko’). I’d argue that Fight Club would merit a place on this list, as I find it is — in the respects relevant to this list — similar to Memento.

(Via Daring Fireball.)