Chipping the web – extraterrestrial inspiration
December 30th, 2006 3:49:18 pm pst by Sterling Camden
Beginning with the tempest and ending in tragedies : The First Folio, the first published collection of 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, begins with The Tempest and ends with the tragedies.
Just in time for the Geekend, apotheon gives us his resolutions along with some history and pointers on the practice of making them. Plus some link-love for yours truly. Thanks, apotheon!
apotheon also clears up the distinction between round, square, and curly brackets — er, I mean parentheses, brackets, and braces. Another set of delimiters whose misnomer can piss me off are the so-called “angle brackets”. They’re “less than” and “greater than”, people!
Dave Rogers: “We see and believe what we want to see and believe.” That’s exactly what I see and believe — because it appeals to me.
What a brilliant yet simple extension to the idea of markup (thanks, Assaf). It’s not censorship, it’s information about the content, provided by the author. Further thoughts.
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Apropos rel=nsfw, check out the IPv4 Evil bit.
LOL, assaf. I especially like the “application/evil” MIME type. I’ve written a few of those.
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