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[Ajaxian » Front Page] Ajaxian » The Future of CSS and the end of 3.0: CSS and DOM need to figure out that web authors building apps *will* inject layout elements into their documents and not simply try to punish them for doing so, but specify ways to enable this to happen which are also semantic. Shadow DOMs are being delivered by every Ajax toolkit worth their salt because we simply can’t wait around any longer for the the W3C and the browser vendors to get off their asses and make HTML+CSS pluggable in a meaningful way.

[CNET News.com - Business Tech] Intel leaves the OLPC after dispute | Apple - CNET News: Intel and OLPC were working on an Intel-based version of the XO laptop, according to Agnes Kwan, an Intel spokeswoman, but the OLPC insisted that Intel end its production of the Classmate PC. Even more surprising, Intel is saying that the OLPC actually asked the chipmaker to stop working with any company that produces low-cost laptops, such as Asus' Eee PC.

[Comments for Climate Audit] Another Brick in the Wall « Climate Audit: The focus of the SO&P project is the climate of the last 1000 years, and data that have been collected for use in the project or that have been produced by SO&P are accessible from here. I know it's not in their (skeptic) make up, but the sooner they get their hands dirty with the sorts of analyses we/you've done for this and many other papers the better.

[Docstoc feed for: Technology] Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on DoD Energy ...: F: ACRONYMS AND GLOSSARY OF TERMS D DAB DARPA DAWG DCIP DCS DDR&E DEPSECDEF DESC DFSP DHS DIA DIB DLA D-MAD DOC DoD DoDI DOE DOE (EERE) DOE (OE) DOI DOTMLPF Defense Acquisition Board Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Deputy's Advisory .

[JoNova] Attempting to Intimidate a Skeptic? « JoNova: If on the other hand, you tell me that your ”˜Sceptics Handbook’ is genuinely intended as an educational ”˜guide’ to understanding the so-called climate change ”˜debate’, I will have the enormous pleasure of ridiculing the ”˜Sceptics Handbook’ in front of an international audience (in your own country) as one of the most egregious pieces of junk science disinformation that I have ever had the misfortune to come across. If this is indeed the case, I will also endeavour to encourage the media to follow up by asking how an author who holds such a distorted misunderstanding of how basic science actually produces knowledge, can also pass themselves off as a science ”˜educator’ and ”˜communicator’ in any genuine sense of the word to children nonetheless?

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy - Public Environmental Concern in Decline:: One experience with this is all I need to understand that it is not inextricably linked to "Greenhouse Gases." I walked out the door of my office about 2:30 in the afternnon, one fine Summer Day at Shedgum 4 in Saudi (1978), glanced at the Bulb Thermometer hanging 4 feet off the ground, in the shade, open to the breeze (Ambient). I cached the reading in ready memory, took about two steps, and, thought, "That can't be right," backed up and took another look: 147 degree fahrenheit.

[Econbrowser] Econbrowser: What the Administration Considered Too Dangerous to ...: During the past thirteen years the United States, through the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), has made the world's largest scientific investment in the areas of climate change and global change research -- a total investment of almost $20 billion.

[I, Cringely] I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Cringely suffers from gray cell ...: Not only will SSD change the i* world, it will much more materially change general business computing, which has recently been on an xml bender. The SSD database machine will be the game changer;

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Europe | The Spike and the Peak: In the three research specializations that I've participated (computer graphics, discrete-event simulation, and grid computing) many-to-most presenters at conferences acknowledged that their research wouldn't be possible without DoD funding. (Not so much in CG, but very much so in DES and GC.)

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For July 15, 2009: I have also joined a CSA group (community sponsored agriculture) and what cash I do manage to spend goes towards making my house and by extension, my lifestyle, as self sufficient and sustainable as possible but I’m under no illusions what so ever that I can go “off the grid”. It’s an apealing fantasy but nothing beyond that.

[Modern Mechanix] What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?: Interesting, although many have predicted that we would become a more secular society, my observation is that the recrudescence of religious beliefs has increased full force in the past 10 years. Also, the article, though I confess I did not read it in its full length, appears to be an outgrowth of the Cold War era, which promised technological advances for society (and as we’ve seen without concomitant social development.) In lieu of flying cars, I would hope by the year 2030 that we’ve learned to accept individual/group differences more, put an end to foreign wars that buttress technological development, and by then hopefully we would witness a narrowing gap between the tailends of the economic distribution in terms of ‘quality of life.’

[Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Is Office the new Netscape?: When we started working on and focusing the world's attention on the importance of the alternative XML-based file format (ODF), the way to obstruct Microsoft's leverage into the new Internet was to create a file format that would enable the alternative office suite application, OpenOffice.org, to move in seamlessly and interfere directly with the MS Office cash cow. Sadly, Sun elected for a small share of the office suite market and a $2 billion interop deal with Microsoft instead of doing the right thing to create many new opportunities in many markets while Microsoft was in existencial crisis, if not free fall.

[Steve Vinoski's Blog] The ESB Question :: Steve Vinoski's Blog: Large enterprises believe they can save themselves a lot of money and trouble if they can just get the whole enterprise to agree on a single integration architecture. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much impossible because of autonomous divisions independently building/buying and deploying different solutions, because of acquisitions and mergers that bring in different technologies and tools, and because of legacy systems that never seem to go away.

[Latest RSS Content for All Communities | Second Life] Embracing the Inevitable - Features - Second Life Blogs: Linden Labs, those of us here are disapointed and angry, recently, you have silenced our suggestions, doing only what YOU want, and by doing this, you have taken one almighty dump on all of us residents who wish to have fun and make the most from our second lives. In respects to this, it would be ideal to disable unverified accounts, as this is the method by which most people are copybotting, stealing not only AN equipment, but avatars, clothing and equipment that were made by such companies as Luskwood, FIRM, and the renowned Anisa.

[firetree.net] firetree.net » More about Flood Maps: One begins to feel like Noah/Teocipactli, being doubted by those who later demand help and shelter.In any event I am seeking to preserve as much usefull knowledge as possible in the hope that should there be a worse case scenario such as we are disscusing, or even a nuclear winter scenario, some of our knowledge and achievments might survive to be of use in the future.I prefer written records to computer ones for this on account of possible magnetic disturbance destruction. It only takes ten years to forget a hundred years of learning, and how many school leavers today know even a fraction of their own cultures history even now?Ultimately I don’t feel one can be too alarmist, only too complacent.There is a real need for this matter to be taken much more seriously by our world leaders - let them panic;

[Jonathan Schwartz's Blog (Comments)] Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The Rise of JAVA - The Retirement of SUNW: This must be from the same marketing geniuses that recommended PwC change their name to Monday Consulting (I'm told the same one came up with Orange for the mobile carrier) Thankfully for us Monday was swallowed by IBM soon after and that was the last we heard of it (I hear the PwC partner that led this change of brand name was looking for a job soon after the change was announced and everybody started throwing up in the hallways) Way back in the mid-90s Oracle considering changing just their logo and after many thousands of $$s were spent they punted (good on them.) You've to build your company on your past, you ignoring the past by stomping on the SUNW will not enhance the value of the stock. Sorry this isn't the late 90's when adding a .

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