Asides

I remember waiting in line for the Haunted Mansion one time in the mid-1990s…

https://web.archive.org/web/20161202105211/http://maynardhomepage.net/

I remember waiting in line for the Haunted Mansion one time in the mid-1990s with Shawn and maybe a few other friends, and there was this one guy who took the fun/creepy vibe seriously and really went beyond the “Yeah, yeah, dead center of the room” take. His name was Maynard, and he really set the right tone for the ride. Stumbled on a picture of him at Flickr – he’s still at Disneyland – then did some searching and discovered he’s got a following!

Non-Standard = Ambiguous

So, have you got some specs for exactly the way IE and Gecko handle every single case of non-standard code? Including cases where it’s clear the code is broken, but it’s not clear what the author meant, and multiple interpretations are equally valid?

No? There’s no specification? They’ll have to reverse-engineer it by visiting every page on the internet with IE and Firefox and seeing what those browsers do with them? Gee, that sounds workable!

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Pegg as Scotty

comment on the post “Trekkies Petition To Remove Pegg as Scotty”:

Scotty, misanthrope with a core of rage? I don’t think so.

Now, on first viewing, I’ll admit, Scotty in the film seemed a bit off from what I remembered. Oddly enough, though I rewatched an episode of the original series a few days later (I forget which one), and I was struck by how similar James Doohan’s performance was to Simon Pegg’s (or, rather, the other way around).

They don’t look particularly alike, but the acting matched, down to facial expressions. Especially if you take into account that in TOS, you see Scotty after he’s been the respected chief engineer for however-many years, and in the new movie, you see him as a young officer who’s spent the last 6 months in an isolated station with only one person for company, with whom he doesn’t get along.

What uses does it have?

* Running commentary on an event.
* Random thoughts.
* Announcements (news sites, software updates, blogs, etc.)
* Sharing interesting links
* Conversations
* Fiction told one line at a time.
* Tips of the Day

I’m sure if you think about it instead of dismiss it you can come up with other uses.

All of it tied into a single feed that can be access via the web, via a multitude of desktop applications, via smartphone apps, or even via SMS on mobile phones, making it ubiquitous.

Sure, many of these things can be done via email, or RSS, or instant messaging, but Twitter — or rather, a system like it — provides a simple way to combine them all into one easily-accessed stream.

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