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Friday, May 23, 2003
Two Things 1. Steve Verdon has a new site and the Movable Type look is more suited to his brand in my humble opinion. 2. This one will only be useful to web developers and designers: There is a tool called DHTML Menu Builder, written by one Xavier Flix, that for under $100, will give you the ability to create a wide array of completely customizable (font, background images, borders, etc) hierarchical menus that will work in almost any browser. This is a significant value. What makes this software even more incredible is the support that the author provides. I have never waited more than 24 hours to hear directly from the author on implementation questions — in fact, there have been occasions where he has posted a new build of the software containing new functionality that I had asked about on the previous day. Did I mention free upgrades? I don't often promote products, but this guy deserves all the business he can handle. posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 11:17 PM · Saturday, May 17, 2003
The Banal Terrorists In my humble opinion, these folks are terrorists. They are targeting Huntingdon Life Sciences for their use of animal testing, and the methods they employ are quite abhorrent. Here’s a particularly nasty specimen: Activists paid a Mother's Day visit to the homes of Chiron employees late Sunday night to serve as a warning of things to come if they do not sever al times to Huntingdon Life Sciences immediately. The company's chairman of the board (address removed) was awoken by a personal alarm screaming in the night and a putrid stench rising up from the floor of his home.This is not a cosmetics firm; they develop diagnostics for HIV among other things. In fact, if you are interested in a sober evaluation of the situation, check out their pages concerning ethical issues. On the other hand, if its hand waving and bluster in which you’re interested, check out SHAC’s vitriol. The intellectual bankruptcy of SHAC’s rhetoric should be immediately obvious. posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 7:09 PM · Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Intemperate Temperance This sort of thing is complete crap. ”Temperate temperance is best. Intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance, while temperate temperance helps it in its fight against intemperate intemperance. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.”People should be allowed to hurt themselves. While I was studying voice in college, it was explained to me by one Dr. John Jost that one cannot sing without damaging one's vocal apparatus — in fact, singing may be one of the worst things you can do to it. Hearing this was a bit of an epiphany for me, as it seems to extrapolate well to the general proposition that every activity has a cost, no matter how innocuous the activity may seem. If this proposition is valid, one could argue that the compulsion to “protect” the ostensibly feckless masses from risk would have no end. posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 11:46 PM · Friday, May 09, 2003
It's a Small Blogosphere I've only really been conscious of the blogging phenomenon for about about six months, so I'm still amazed at it's success. I was astonished, for example, to find that I'd been blogrolled by Michael over at Discount Blogger. Thanks Michael. posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 3:21 PM · Missing the Trash Because the Trash Talk forums have been down, I haven't been able to ask the assembled brains therein about this thing. How's that for a short post, Skye? posted by Malaclypse the Tertiary at 1:53 AM · |
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