Different standards

June 23rd, 2006

I like Niall Kennedy’s examples of standards and interoperability during his BloggerCon discussion: the baseball field, Stevenson gauge railroads, RJ-11 phone jacks and shipping containers.

The New Yorker fallacy

June 23rd, 2006

The New Yorker fallacy: “The belief that absolutely anything, if reported on in exhaustive detail and presented in glossy prose, will fascinate.”

True enough, but it’s still a consistently excellent magazine.

Another reason to use Bart

June 23rd, 2006

Spare the Air Day. Why on earth was anyone rushing on the freeway to be jammed on the Bay Bridge this morning rather than traveling for free?