You’re In Control (Urine Control) is the latest in the list of “how on earth did they get that funded” projects.
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Monthly Archive for April, 2003
You’re In Control (Urine Control) is the latest in the list of “how on earth did they get that funded” projects.
The You
Creative Commons Licenses have some issues, the most serious one of which is that by using one, you warrant that fact-checking and copyright are OK. That means you should check that your quoting of someone else’s content is OK with them and that you’re not infringing trademarks. The warrant piece means that someone can sue you if you haven’t. At least in the US. So be careful out there.
You’re In Control (Urine Control) is the latest in the list of “how on earth did they get that funded” projects.
The You
Some more open-source CMS sites (I’ve blogged some before, but here’s a better list).
And here are some reasons not to use them!
Jakob asks whether plain-text ads continue to rule? His answer: not really outside search engines and classifieds. Why? Because we’re going to look for something when visiting those sites, and the text ads just make sense. When we visit a newspaper page, we may just ignore text ads if they are not directly relevant.
The global patent system is bust. It will cost anyone around $250k to register a patent across the globe. This means that the system massively discriminates against small inventors who won’t have this kind of financial muscle. Let’s go for harmonisation ASAP.
Firstgov.gov, the rather unattractively named US government gateway is finally to get a CMS. I hate to think how many people they needed to update it without a CMS. That said, it is a pure portal with very little internal content. That’s not so hard to update.
Ben runs a story that Denise Lewis has hired one of the creators of a massive athletic doping programme as her coach. This is a little bit worrying: a) it doesn’t sound like sensible risk management (what if DL part fails a drugs test?) and b) surely the guy shouldn’t be able to practise any more? In some ways it makes sense: the guy is obviously pushing limits the whole time. That’s the way sport is: you have to be continually striving to be better than anyone else has ever been in order to win.
There’s a gargoyle (or grotesque) of Darth Vader on Washington National Cathedral. I love this! More churches should update themselves in this manner, not hark back to some non-existent gothic vision. It’s just like Roman statues – they should be exhibited in the colours that they would have been painted in, as well as in the pristine white marble form we know them in now.