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Entries from November 2003

Master and Slave Considered Harmful

November 26th, 2003 · 8 Comments

Lets play a little game I like to call Senseless Acts of Political Correctness.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms “master” and “slave” on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive.
Now you try.

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ppk spanks ALA and other picture postcards

November 23rd, 2003 · No Comments

In a scathing article, ppk criticizes both ALA and Christian Heilmann for the ALA article JavaScript Image Replacement.
On a lighter note, in case you haven’t seen it—Amazing 3D sidewalk paintings [via mefi via 37signals].

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the Matrix Unplugged

November 6th, 2003 · 9 Comments

Everything that has a beginning has an end. Well, this ending was deeply disappointing.
I was prepared to see the best of the trilogy. What I saw was filler that didn’t answer my questions, didn’t tie up what I saw as loose ends, and didn’t serve the storyline of the main characters, which were the ones [...]

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QuirksMode

November 5th, 2003 · 1 Comment

We likey the new Quirksmode. Thank you PPK.

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