With the advent of yet another internet tracking and censorship bill, Zach Weiner writes a great comic showing the insanity surrounding how the Internet is treated completely differently than other things in life:
Zach calls it again…
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Alaskan Sunlight
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Latest watercolour project: zigzagriver
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It’s about time we got an apology for this travesty….
Berners-Lee ‘sorry’ for slashes
Tim Berners-Lee, AP
Tim Berners-Lee started the web to help scientists communicate
The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the man behind them has apologised for using them.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary”.
He told the Times newspaper that he could easily have designed URLs not to have the forward slashes.
“There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time,” he said.
He admitted that when he devised the web, almost 20 years ago, he had no idea that the forward slashes in every web address would cause “so much hassle”.
His light-hearted apology even had a green angle as he accepted that having to add // to every address had wasted time, printing and paper.
Sir Tim is currently director of the World Wide Web Consortium and he is also working with the UK government to help open up access to government data.
via BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee ‘sorry’ for slashes.
Reclaiming Yourself
Over at Tiny Buddha, they tweeted about an article to reclaim Valentine’s day. It was a bit disappointing in that the first half seemed to just be a rant about how they were forced into it.
How to date a writer
Writer Heather O’Neill gives the low-down on what it’s all about when you date a writer. Hilarious list.
Don’t interrupt them at their work. If you find them in the kitchen dressed in underwear leafing through the a book of photographs while butting out a cigarette in a bowl of ice cream, you must treat this scene with the utmost respect. As if you had just walked in on a surgeon in the middle of open heart surgery.
a superb owl
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Flying People In New York City
(not really) — Some folks created model airplanes that look like people and flew them around — pretty cool looking:
The Gorgeous Helix Nebula
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Wonderful shot on today’s Astro Picture of Day:
Helix Nebula - click for full size
cutecute: Otter Pup
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