Alec Hanley Bemis :
"Whenever I begin to get wrapped up in records these days, however, I'm reminded that records are just objects. My nostalgia for these commodities is awkward and unwelcome in this, an era of frictionlessness, weightlessness, wirelessness and Web technology, and of frictionless, weightless talk about Web technology. Records are merely an amalgam of printed paper and flat plastic: garbage. They have become less real than digits floating through the ether."
Wen Stephenson :
"We should have known, however, that sooner or later the people who brought us Willie Horton and Harry & Louise would figure out how to combine TV's ability to reach (and frighten and outrage) a mass audience and the Web's ability to provide mountains of information, factual and otherwise. If anything has changed in our cynical political culture, it may be that we now have new reasons to hate the media."
Ronal Bourret : XML Namespaces FAQ
"The need for XML namespaces and the basic idea that a two-part naming system (or something similar) is needed is not controversial. However, the design of XML namespaces -- that is, the way XML namespaces are declared and used in an XML document, as well the
confusion discussed in "Namespace Myths Exploded" -- has, at times, been very controversial. (If you want to see just how controversial, go to the archives of the XML-DEV mailing list and search on the word "namespace".) Although XML namespaces still have some very vocal
detractors, most people have accepted and are using them. Furthermore, most new XML tools and technologies use them, a state of affairs
that is only likely to increase."
Perlmonks : "I need to write a program to compare two HTML documents
to determine if they are similar enough to be considered 'the same'."