It’s a guilty pleasure to watch James Lileks devote his awesome talent to shooting fish in a barrel.
“a disgrace to american science”
Philip Stott on l’affaire Lomborg.
(Link from Andy Kashdan, from John Cole.)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Necessity is a dangerous plea for the privilege of power; especially when the sole judge of it is the power pretending it.
Samuel Johnson 1768 (by way of the Future of Freedom Foundation)
They make a rout about universal liberty without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty. Political liberty is good only so far as it produces private liberty.
Typecaster seeks apprentice. (From GirlHacker, who picked Rebecca’s pocket.)
I have a friend who used to cast his own bullets; dunno whether he still does. Sometimes he used wheel-balancing weights discarded (why??) by car mechanics, and sometimes he used an alloy called “Linotype metal”. Since he also runs a press (offset) for his organization’s leaflets and newsletters, I imagine he took delight in the symbolic junction of two key freedoms.
Oh by the way, a tip for leadfounders: it stinks up the room a lot less if you put a layer of cat-litter on top of the metal.
Couples go to the Magnetic Pole to conceive. (Bottom of the story.) It’s a funny old world.
legibility is in the eye of the reader!
Here is a paragraph from HTML: The Definitive Guide, by Musciano & Kennedy, second edition published by O’Reilly in 1997:
Yield to the browser. Let it format your document in whatever way it deems best. Recognize that the browser’s job is to present your documents to the user in a consistent, usable way. Your job, in turn, is to use HTML effectively to mark up your documents so that the browser can do its job effectively. Spend less time trying to achieve format-oriented goals. Instead, focus your efforts on creating the actual document content and adding the HTML tags to structure that content effectively.
Who now remembers such quaint old notions?
Not the folks at Extropy, that’s for sure – whom I expected to show more concern for content over form. As for me, Extropy will have to wait until either I get Mozilla (or NS6) configured properly or Max sees fit to allow me to read it in a typeface bigger than 7 pixels.