While there are wonderful efforts afoot to improve the efficiency of RSS, I’ve seen a lot of discussion lately about how the polling model RSS is based on is doomed to collapse under its own weight. Increasingly, I run across predictions that the pull model of syndication will inevitably be replaced by a more […]
Yearly Archives: 2004
Lost Century
October 23, 2004 – 12:00 am
A sad time for St. Louis, as a historic landmark has fallen prey to the wrecking ball of profit.
Real-world AdSense
October 21, 2004 – 12:00 am
So, if you can get paid to carry a backpack billboard around, it can’t be long before we can rent out space on our e-ink shirts and offset fuel costs with hubcap ads. How about satellite-updated bumper-mounted displays, that pay out based on the time you spend in traffic?
Let there be light
October 18, 2004 – 12:00 am
How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?
None. There?s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn?t work anymore, supported us […]
Is he against life, or against liberty
October 15, 2004 – 12:00 am
I’ve been amazed to learn how many people intend to vote for Bush? only because he’s against abortion?.
How did this become an executive branch issue? It is a fundamental problem that we don’t have a legal definition of “life.”
We’ve had this sort of problem in the past, with defining who is a citizen, […]