Apple - Hardware - Ads - 20 Years of Macintosh 1984-2004
This should be interesting. 8o)
For those of you who like to customize your blog's style sheet, you might check out this site (Web Safe Colors) for a list of web safe colors.
It will give you the hexidecimal number to put after such properties as color, background, or border.
BuyMagazine (by buy.com) recently did aninterview with Jim Carrey. God (or at least Jim's concept of God) comes up more than once.
For those of you who enjoyed Sarah Merkle's recital on Friday night, Jim Carrey seems to be a quintessential Gen-Xer.
3D Border Demo 2 by Chris Hester
For those of you interested in CSS, feel free to figure out how they did this. 8o)
If you haven't been to "A Glimpse...That Place" yet, you need to go and see the blog storm that's been going on over there for the past few days. They're new to blogging, but not new to writing. 8o)
It seems Apple is taking on a somewhat more agressive front.
Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser
If your browser has a funny little flag in the top right corner, you need to read this and follow the instructions at the bottom.
Take Flash, XML, and Java.
Put them in a bag.
Shake vigorously.
And presto!
Cool GUI apps for the web.
(and they look pretty simple to build too; but not for $999 per CPU at least not now)
Accidently found this on my daily web wandering. I have a feeling we may find this useful in days to come.
Meetup: Organizing local interest groups.
Find out which Chronicles of Narnia book you are.
So, now you know. 8o)
You remember that rumor we all heard a couple years ago about the European style money we'd all be using in 10 years? Well, it's here. October 9th the new pink-to-blue shaded $20 will be in circulation. According to the Fed it's the hardest bill to break yet.
Fast Company has some nice shots of the new not-so-green-back for those who are interested.
A side note: Fast Company uses Moveable Type to manage their "Fast Company Now" section. In fact, they even have TrackBack turned on! 10 points for both FastCompany and MoveableType/SixApart.
On a search to find the kanji for the name 'kisho,' I came across some interesting "Christian" sites. Below are the links in stream of consciousness order.
I'll comment on these more later (when I'm not supposed to be working. 8o)
Well folks, it seems the WaSP is bit miffed by the Microsoft announcement not to release any more free browsers. A couple weeks back Microsoft announced that they would no longer distribute free, downloadable upgrades to Internet Explorer. From now on any new release will be integrated into each new version of Windows or MSN on the Mac.
This little article from the WaSP touches on some points of contention in the "standards" supporting IE.
End of Free IE Not the End of Web Standards
As stated in the article, there is still hope for web technology standardization. It just probably won't come from Microsoft (surprised?).
I find it interested to review the perceptions the World has of the Church. Often I find that some seem either very close to the truth in their criticism, or else much more interested than even they realize.
I just stumbled across a truck load of comments on a blog entry called, Rapture Insurance. You can guess the topic.
I had heard of a place called "L'Abri" (French for shelter) in one of my counseling classes while in at the University. I've forever since wanted to find out more about it. Today, I stumbled across their site (thanks to my friend Brannon). Seems there a national orginization. Their aims, goals, and philosophy seem to be Biblically focused.
As with everything, I have heard various thoughts on their work and its quality. I plan to research it more soon.
For those who are interested in learning more about what they believe you can visit their History of L'Abri Fellowship page at their web site.
Microsoft's browser play is changing rules again. I'm willing to form a local militia and make a fundamental shift in the fabric of the web. If your interested, please sign below.
Just so everyone knows their subject to editorial scrutiny: the "I'm blogging this." t-shirt from ThinkGeek.com.
I've mentioned the Semantic Web on here before. One of the most user-enjoyable uses of the Semantic Web would be to create an uber-shoebox (for photos not shoes). 8o)
This shoebox would let you do far more than just store your files. The owner of hackdiary has recently had a paper accepted for XML Europe entitled: A Semantic Web shoebox - annotating photos with RSS and RDF.
I'm looking forward to reading what he writes. I wouldn't mind building a shoebox app myself in the not so distant future.
It would seem that Microsoft's UK group (MSN UK) has decided that the loo web console was really an April Fool's Day joke (pay no attention to the May 2nd date on the press release).
iLoo makes Microsoft gag | CNET News.com
I compiled a list recently of web design helps for a friend of mine who's interested in getting into the web design business. I thought I may as well share it with the rest of the world. 8o)
Here are a list of good sites to learn from:
- zvon.org - many different references and tutorials
- w3schools.com - good beginning tutorials
- htmlhelp.com - a little old, but still a good reference
- HappyCog's CSS lectures - excellent CSS article; contains links to other resources
- A List Apart - an ezine by the happycog guys; many good articles for tips and tricks with CSS
Some books worth looking into:
- Learning Web Design - the text book we use here in the web design class
- Design with Web Standards - never read it, but he's the guy form happycog and alistapart
Microsoft's "Longhorn" OS promises to have a file system based on queries not on heirarchical folders. This would allow users to organize their files in many different ways at the same time.
It seems that Peter Coffee of eweek has picked up on the same idea. He takes the thought a bit farther, and I think comes a lot closer to what will actually happen.
I'll have to post my thoughts on the "next big thing," but for now, here's the article.
I'll let the article explain.
This site contains some information about terms Christian's generally use and their relation with the Jews. There is some very interesting information about words to avoid using and why. Definitely worth looking at if you ever plan to share information about the Messiah with someone with strong Jewish heritage.
Messianic terminology and definitions: A dictionary for communicating with Jews
I've always been a big fan of super heros, and I've always wanted them to exist somewhere besides comic books and movies. It would seem that someone else wanted this to happen too.
CNN.com - Caped crusader saves the day in English town - May. 4, 2003
I hope he keeps it up.
PETA, an international animal rights organization, has decided to try its hand at metropolitan conquest. Their current attempt: renaming the city of Hamburg, Germany to "Veggieburg." Too absurd? Check out the CNN Money article (Hamburg to Veggieburg for $15,000) to get the whole scoop.
How to celebrate a Jewish holiday (or at least how they are celebrated)? Shaddai.com has quite a bit of information about the subject. I thought it might be of interest to some of you. It caught my attention. 8o)
Shaddai.com - To the Jew first
Brannon McAllister sent me this article over e-mail. I think it's a must read for anyone interested in the Church's work throughout the globe.
WORLD April 26, 2003: Flashtraffic: On the Radar
Feel free to comment after you read it.
It would seem from this article that the W3C is having a bit of trouble "evangelizing" the Semantic Web.
They're having some big meeting soon:
"the W3C has scheduled several evangelical events. These include the "W3C Semantic Tour" of Europe in June and a seminar called "Semantic Web is Here--Are You Ready?" in early May at the W3C's office in Helsinki, Finland. Both events are free of charge and open to the public."
Anyone want to go with me? 8o) It would only cost us the price of the ticket, lodging, food, transportation while we're there...
It's a nice thought any way. 8o)
Here's a collection of links that I've found today. They are somewhat in order of how I found them.
Enjoy. 8o)
- Gervase Markham's site
- Enfield Evangelical Free Church
- Scottish Christian - home
- Matthias Media group from Australia
Of course it's always good to have a dictionary handy. 8o)
Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server
I Love this language! 8o)
This is one of the best reference sites that I've found. It's very well built (although you may have trouble with it in IE 6). They have information, reviews, and test for the three Japanese alphabets.
I expect you all to be fluent in two years. 8oD
The Kanji SITE - A guide for students of Japanese Kanji
If you're one for learning from outlines, there is an enjoyable (if your interested in the future of technology) presentation by TBL.
I stumbled across a document of User Interface ideas concepted by Tim Berners-Lee (the guy who created the web). There's some good stuff in there. 8o)
Some day I'll write my own... ...some day. 8oD
The Business in Japan at LearnAboutCultures.com has a great "crash course" in Japanese business culture. The touch on some of the social aspects of the culture as well.
Here's an excerpt that I enjoyed:
"Politeness precedes efficiency. Harmony precedes details. Obligations are more important than achieving individual goals."
I was reading an article on Boxes and Arrows (as is my want) and came accross the phrase "Flyspeck 3". So, in typical web citizen fashion, I searched for "Flyspeck 3" on Google. The first page returned was a page containing just the definition I was looking for at Internet Jargon.
The site seems to be pretty extensive. It's not finished according to some text on the front page of the site. You may find it useful. I did. 8o)
Most of you know that I have a growing interest in Japan.
Currently I'm research business related topics for my International Business class. We have a country research paper coming due soon. I chose Japan. 8o)
The best link I've found to date is: ExecutivePlanet.com's Japanese Business Etiquette articles. There's quite a range of topics covered. Thankfully most of them are the ones required for my paper.
I also found a book I wouldn't mind getting called Living in Japan. It's put out by The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.