The London Perl Mongers
have adopted a, well,
what do you think they'd adopt?Andrew Wooldridge : Infinite Extensibilty with XBL
"The point here though is not so much this new tag we created, but the fact that I could create whole new functionality in the browser without a stitch of C++ code! XUL gives you a lot of power in creating user interfaces for your web applications but only contains a limited set of UI widgets for you to build on. XBL gives you a whole new toolset to build up your own widgets -- with their own specialized behavior -- that can allow you to create interfaces of whatever complexity you desire!"
Apache Today : Perchild - Setting Users and Groups per Virtual Host
"The new MPM is called Perchild, and it is based on the Dexter MPM. This means that a set number of child processes are created and each process has a dynamic number of threads. In this MPM it is possible to specify User and Group IDs for clusters of child process. Then, each virtual host is assigned to run in a specific cluster of child processes. If no cluster of child processes is specified, then the virtual host is run with the default User and Group Ids."
Beth Coleman
"At first, I have to ask, why is this art? But I guess Web art belongs in a unique place. It exists in a space in which you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't." The "filter of art", indeed. see also :
Virtucone (quicktime)
Spider Robinson : Mugging the poor for their own good
"Tobacco's secret, magic gift is solace. Simple solace. Smoking doesn't make you feel good, exactly; there's rarely any real pleasure in it. What it does is make you feel just a little better. Not quite as bad as a moment ago. Reliably, 100 per cent of the time, 20 to 60 times a day, you can light up a cigarette and maybe your problems and sorrows will all remain, but at least you've scratched that one urgent itch for the next few minutes. You've taken action, and bettered your lot, however briefly or illusorily. ... O World Bank and World Health Organization -- ye patricians in grey suits and United Nations politicians in phony white medical coats -- here's a news flash for you: The poor have the greatest need of that kind of solace. They have damn little else. You make your living on their backs: You cannot convince me you honestly believe that raising the cost of that pitiful solace will brighten or lengthen their lives. You cannot convince me 42 million poor people will quit smoking, abandon the only comfort you have left them, if you raise the price by 10 cents a pack. I resent the implication that I look that gullible."
