Links for 2006-02-27
Posted February 27, 2006 12:17 AM.
- Quantum computer works best switched off And I quote: "A non-running computer produces fewer errors," says Hosten. Nice. Really really nice. Also funny.
- Clooney hits out at 'traitor' tag I saw Good Night and Good Luck the other day. The film was reasonable, but the sentiments of the people depicted it in were much more impressive - particularly since we think of the 50s as so constrained. In some ways things are worse today.
- Kottke reports on the year since he appealed to open up his site to micropatrons It's an interesting reaction from him, but the conclusion is a bit disappointing - that he hasn't found it personally sustainable and isn't going to continue with the model. Shame.
- Google Maps meets World of Warcraft Cal showed this to me and it rocks. Tiny captures of the minimap in WoW joined together to create a huge browsable, explorable map. Just wish it was more easily annotatable.
- Jakob Neilson's recommendations on URL in 1999 were pretty good even though he forecast that they would disappear within five years... As it happens, I think URLs are becoming more important if anything - as people start to understand how fundamental they are to giving your site or service all the benefits of being truly native to the web...
- Mike Schinkel's piece last year on well-Designed URLs This was one of the pieces that I've used as a source recently, although I'm not sure I agree with the idea of recommending alternative short URLs for print. Otherwise, pretty great stuff...
- For Many AJAX is Not Degrading, But it Must Thomas Vander Wal writes about the perils of Ajax not degrading and breaking sites and services in anything but the most common - and often non-standard - browsers...
- "World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things" argues that the game encourages people to believe that hard work trumps ability and that people are more productive when they work together... I'm at a loss to see why this is wrong, to be honest. I agree with bits of the article - certainly 'being alone together' is a core part of the experience - but i can't help thinking that those of us who play mostly alone feel the costs are reasonable
- EU & US World of Warcraft and how to play on both The thing I probably dislike most about World of Warcraft is that I can't play with friends in the US, specifically Cal. I'm not sure I'm really up for maintaining two World of Warcraft accounts but I'm certainly interested...
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I'm curious. Clooney always tells the story about a magazine calling him a traitor when speaking with the press about his films, but I can't find the name of the magazine. Google provides numerous links to articles where he tells story, but neither Google nor Lexis can provide the magazine article or an article with the magazine name during the relevant time period. I did find references to three conservative websites labelling Clooney a traitor. None of those are magazines, so does anyone out there follow Hollywood enough to remember which magazine it was?
→ Posted by: Phinnias at February 27, 2006 1:46 AM
Jakob didn't say the URL was going to die, but that "Domain Names May Die."
He was talking about
this-bit.com/not-that-bit.html
→ Posted by: ripper at February 27, 2006 2:35 PM
Well that's semi true. He did also say, "New addressing schemes are likely to be introduced with better support for ambiguity and the ability to find things without knowing the exact spelling. Search engines and directories are an early attempt, but we can surely do better." If that isn't a statement about the whole URL interface, I don't know what is...
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at February 27, 2006 5:51 PM
First my eye was attracted by the word Clooney, and then I saw Good Night, And Good Luck. last night. Having just started studying journalism, I found it a fitting piece of work. I ejoyed getting a taste of a news room!
→ Posted by: Tracy at March 2, 2006 6:30 AM
I kept reading the Quantum computer story few times
it sound so Good and Crazy - but i didn't get how can it BE?
→ Posted by: moon at March 5, 2006 12:03 AM