MetaFilter

Guns save lives? (I suppose it's the bullets that kill people) The NRA today staged the "400 Man March" to show their support for guns and opposition to last week's Million Mom March. On CSPAN today, I also caught a bit of their convention, where they were openly talking about Bush being "their president". I don't know what scares me more, seeing the speeches from their convention on TV, or someday going to an NRA-themed restaurant ("I'll take the saturday night special please, with armor piercing sauce on the side.").
comment posted at 7:54 PM on May-20-00
comment posted at 7:57 PM on May-20-00

Did anyone see this? Very interesting indeed.
comment posted at 7:59 PM on May-20-00

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Pirated MP3's... Written in true Encyclopedia Brown style @ the Modern Humorist
comment posted at 10:34 AM on May-20-00

MS Cookie Patch Breaks Some Images - We noticed something odd today. Those of us with IE 5.0 who installed the patch to close the cookie security hole can no longer see many of the images on the Washington Post site. People who installed the patch on IE4 still can; and IE5 users without the patch also can. [More inside thread...]
comment posted at 5:48 PM on May-19-00
comment posted at 10:36 AM on May-20-00

Moonies buy UPI; Helen Thomas quits. I've seen some, but not much, coverage of the fact that the Unification Church-owned Washington Times has purchased up the venerable United Press International. Although the UPI's been a cripped orginazation for years, I'm still disturbed to see it disappear into the maw of the crazier-than-you-think Times. Helen Thomas, the senior member of the White House press corps and all-around cool person, bailed immediately.
comment posted at 5:49 PM on May-19-00
comment posted at 5:51 PM on May-19-00
comment posted at 5:55 PM on May-19-00

Spider Robinson on BillCo. A nice little rant from Wednesday's Globe & Mail, bracketed by the obligatory Heinlein quote and a really lame pun.
comment posted at 6:07 PM on May-19-00

Big Business vs. the little guy. After you read the story, go check out the Website of the pig farmer. The only question I have is: Can they find a Judge who doesn't golf?
comment posted at 9:54 AM on May-19-00

Don't Panic! Did anyone else realize that The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy really existed? I don't know that I'd describe that font as "Large, friendly letters", but it is, indubitably, on the front cover.
comment posted at 8:47 AM on May-19-00
comment posted at 9:54 AM on May-19-00

I have a question for Matt. I notice on the Zeldman comment that someone also has the same username as me. I am jay. There is also another jay. I don't think anyone would want to impersonate me, but for some people on this list, this might be a problem. We could all become mathowies, I even created my own mathowie account to see if this really works and it does.
comment posted at 7:17 AM on May-19-00

Under Construction Signs Tell More Than You Might Think. Fun analysis of those goofy "Under Construction" signs.
comment posted at 8:00 PM on May-18-00

Parry & Thrust... Slashdot.Org and Andover.Net have officially responded to the letter from Microsoft, and being Slashdot, have posted it for everyone to see.
comment posted at 2:03 PM on May-18-00
comment posted at 8:08 PM on May-18-00
comment posted at 7:21 AM on May-19-00

Trey Anastasio (Phish) on Napster. I know we're all kind of sick of this now. The interesting thing is that I got an MP3 of "Heavy Things" (which is on their new album) this morning from Napster, listened 3 times and then called my local HMV to see if they had the album in yet. They did, and I'm off to buy it. (Feeling legit? You can get Liquid Audio versions of two cuts from the new album, including the one mentioned.)
comment posted at 1:35 PM on May-18-00

Life-sized Lara Croft Mannequin [from fark]. Question: how do you make a life-sized object of something completely fictional? Don't try to answer, my brain popped when I saw the 3/4 life-size Seven Dwarfs lawn ornaments at K-Mart years back.
comment posted at 1:37 PM on May-18-00

Aw crap. You *know* their Linux initiative is going to take the blame for this, right...?
comment posted at 1:06 PM on May-18-00

Thus sayeth Zeldman: "Lately, well-meaning readers have informed us that the status bar is sacred, and JavaScript text messages are evil ... even when they include the domain name."

I, personally, prefer a brief description of where the link is going, rather than a long URL. Just curious, what do you think? As far as I'm concerned, there is no wrong answer or opinion on this.

comment posted at 10:13 AM on May-18-00
comment posted at 2:14 PM on May-18-00
comment posted at 7:27 AM on May-19-00

6397.com not worth anything after all. If you were happy about the failure of boo.com, this should warm the cockles of your heart. What is it about the failure stories of the internet gold rush that is so strangely pleasant?
comment posted at 10:05 AM on May-18-00

Kid Rock starves to death-- Napster to blame. Now I understand why Metallica is so angry.
comment posted at 8:33 AM on May-18-00

Two great products that needed a warped mind to join them into one.
comment posted at 8:39 AM on May-18-00

Start the "formerly known as formerly known as..." jokes now: I find this tremendously disappointing, but the first person to actually adopt an icon as his name has reversed the decision, a scant 7 years into the adventure.

Prince is, once again, Prince. R.I.P.
comment posted at 9:45 AM on May-18-00

Nupedia is an open source encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to, much in the spirit of DMOZ, the open directory project. It's an attempt to combine the world's experts into one knowledge resource. I guess the question is now...can it work?
comment posted at 2:08 PM on May-16-00

Blame MICRO$OFT for the "I love you" virus, ohh, and it has 40 authors to it
comment posted at 9:48 AM on May-18-00

Outraged web news site republishes naughty pictures so that all their readers can see what the fuss was about. Not just one picture. ALL of them. Except that from where I sit, they're not that naughty: she's fully dressed in some kind of Russian fur thing. Yes! We are outraged! At this one! and ... this one too! and that one there! See how outraged we are!
comment posted at 2:11 PM on May-16-00

We're all doomed. You think the spam level is bad now, just wait.
comment posted at 2:16 PM on May-16-00

[ Damn, it's busy this morning... ]
"Outlook is perfectly safe... perfectly safe; that's why we're fixing it."
comment posted at 2:22 PM on May-16-00

Shiver me timbers... Derek P becomes a Pyrate. That "Meet the Beatles" cover will soon need to be replaced with one from Sly and the Family Web. Or Treasure Island. But good luck, and a very happy birthday for tomorrow... and if anyone even mentions the word beginning with C and rhyming with "babble", terminate with extreme prejudice.
comment posted at 8:18 AM on May-16-00
comment posted at 2:26 PM on May-16-00

Slashdot is taking questions for The Zeldman. If you have any questions for him, better post them, because otherwise you'll never be able to communicate with someone this reclusive.
comment posted at 11:19 AM on May-15-00
comment posted at 4:34 PM on May-15-00
comment posted at 8:22 AM on May-16-00

$50 dollars a year for a Web appliance and unlimited access. After three years, it's free. The only catch I can find is that if you cancel before three years, you have to pay a bazillion dollars. So who's going to make the Virginconnect into a cheap Linux box?
comment posted at 11:13 AM on May-14-00

Is this photo worth a million dollars?
comment posted at 2:14 PM on May-14-00

I'm sorry, Dave; I'm afraid I can't do that.
comment posted at 11:35 AM on May-14-00

IE/Mac team not disbanded.
Just in case you didn't catch my comment in the previous thread about this topic. The same team is also working on IE for OSX and WebTV.
comment posted at 6:18 PM on May-13-00
comment posted at 9:47 PM on May-13-00
comment posted at 11:32 AM on May-14-00

Intel royally fucks over one of its best customers. We don't ordinarily get into hardware here, but what's important about this is that this has a damned good chance of putting ASUS out of business. (And just two weeks after I put an ASUS mobo into my computer, sob. Fortunately, mine is not one of the ones involved.)

If Intel has any honor (or wants to maintain any kind of reputation) they're going to completely cover ASUS's losses on this, which could easily top a billion dollars. I wonder if they will.

Anyone want to lay odds on when the first lawsuit gets filed? (Or who will sue whom?)
comment posted at 4:36 PM on May-13-00
comment posted at 9:49 PM on May-13-00

Money Good, Napster Bad.
James and Lars tell it like it is (requires Flash4).
comment posted at 4:42 PM on May-13-00

interNIC lost my business!!! To take the heat (and any possible lawsuits) off of them, they have now changed thier policy to revoke anyone's domain name at their discretion.

Phil Sbarbaro, NSI's legal counsel, offered a parallel to summarize prevailing law: "You don't own a domain name any more than you own your phone number."

I don't know about you guys, but I am definitely finding another registrar to transfer my domain names to...ASAP!
comment posted at 8:54 AM on May-13-00

Mothers day is on Sunday - support the Million Mom March against gun violence.
comment posted at 8:58 AM on May-13-00

A concerned Vermont parent wrote an interesting letter to the editor regarding the gay rights conflict.
comment posted at 9:00 AM on May-13-00