Journal: News & Comment

Links of interest (2005-06-02):

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Three days without a journal entry? Why not just round up a bunch of other people's, then?

• A directory of browser-based WYSIWYG editors. (Xinha looks good.)
  
  
• Xyle scope lets you dissect the CSS-based designs of any web page you visit.
  
  
• Throughout May, Brent Simmons of Ranchero Software elegantly teased apart inconsistencies in Macintosh user interface design.
  
  
• Origins of the Mac startup sound.
  
  
• IBM, Sun Microsystems, and others develop royalty-free standard for office applications document format
  
  
• "I'm really working on never again blaming a bit of technology on anything unless it's really the reason why something can't be done and I've got no hope of trying another technology or getting around it in some way."
  
  
• Why smart people defend bad ideas.
  
  
• "The U.S. economy is no longer the single dominant economy."
  
  
• FlickIt is a cool Dashboard widget for Mac OS X.
  
  
• One hundred years of uncertainty—100 years since Einstein's miracle year of 1905.
  
  
• What Bill Nye the Science Guy is up to now.
  
  
• Synergy Classic is a menu bar controller for iTunes.
  
  
• Does popular culture make us dumber, smarter, or both dumber and smarter in different ways?
  
  
• A recap: Elizabeth Kolbert's complete three-part series, "The Climate of Man"—"How the earth is changing" (the first and best of the series), "The curse of Akkad," and "What can be done?" There's also an interview with her.
  
  
• Wikipedia entries on Canada's Gomery inquiry, Prime Minister Paul Martin, his predecessor Jean Chrétien, Opposition leader Stephen Harper, and MPs Belinda Stronach, Chuck Cadman, Ujjal Dosanjh, and Gurmant Grewal paint a picture of the current federal government scandals in my country.

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