Banner Ads We'd Like To See parts
1,2,3 & 4
The folks at Valley of
the Geeks have a popular series on humorous
banner ads we'd like to see. The slogans from some
of the funnier ones are below- Internal Revenue
Service: You Make It, We Take It
- Microsoft: Keeping the
World Safe from Competition
- Oracle: Where Quality
and Service are Often Mentioned
- Microsoft Windows: Where
Quality is Job 1.1
- Bea: Software So
Complicated Even We Don't Understand
It
- Sun Microsystems - Java:
It's More Than A Technology. It's a Lawsuit
Too.
- Apple: Products so cool,
we don't need customers.
- Global Crossing: Who
Knew $1 Could Buy So Many Shares?
You can catch them all first hand at
Banner Ads We'd Like To See,
More Banner Ads,
Even More Banner Ads and
Still More Banner Ads#Penn
and Teller: Bullshit
Penn and Teller have a show where they
debunk tackle urban myths like
Talking
to the Dead & Alien Abductions. I don't
have Showtime or I'd be watching this religiously.
I wonder if they accept viewer suggestions because
I'd love to see a show that compared the stupidity
of
Fighting Terror with Duct Tape and Plastic Wrap
with the
Duck and
Cover malarky from the Cold War era.
#Blogs and
Journalism
Every now and again I read posts in various blogs
about how
people who post their brain farts
on the InterWeb bloggers will replace
journalists. I have been mentally composing a
lengthy rant about this but Shelley Powers beat me
to it and said it more eloquently than I ever could
in here post
Google is not God, Webloggers are not Capital-J
Journalists, the only thing emerging is my fear of
war, and a headache
Now I don't question the value of speaking directly
to domain experts via blogs instead of having to
get your information filtered, misquoted and
soundbite-ized by the modern media. It's more
likely that what what you get on
Don's blog is Microsoft's view on XML Web
Services than some sensationalized piece in one of
the technology rags. However, does this mean I'll
stop reading technology news sites for information
about Microsoft's XML Web Services strategy and
only get my news from Don and Tim's blogs?
Nope.
A recent sterling example of why blogs as
journalism doesn't entice me is the recent "news"
of the
supposed "hole" in Windows XP that began on
Brian
Livingstone's blog. This sterling example of
underinformed pontification circulated around the
Web until it eventually was picked up by
conventional journalists. Eventually the
ludicrous nature of the original claims was
exposed
on SecurityFocus but not after many had been
misinformed by what was most likely an innocent
slip up.
If you want to replace conventional journalists
with your blog you need to give me the [minimal]
fact checking, domain expertise and editorial
review that I get from them.
#Regex-able XML
Joe Gregorio wants a
Regex-able
subset of XML. When I read that I can't help
remembering the XML-DEV meme of the
Desperate Perl Hacker who can write aplications
that use regexes to parse arbitrary XML in a single
sitting. These meme started spreading before the
Namespaces
in XML recommendation but even then there are
lots of things in XML 1.0 that don't make it
amenable to regular expressions. Joe points out a
few of them with CDATA sections and DTDs (I assume
he means attribute defaulting behavior and
entities) but leaves out others like
character
references. Some may also complain that the
fact that XML 1.0 is unicode would also prevent
using certain tools to process arbitrary XML with
regular expressions.
Looking at Joe's example he seems to want to throw
the baby out with the bath water. Most of the
features of XML he complains about disappear when
processed with in an infoset based data model such
as the
XPath
data model. In fact, none of what he complains
about in his examples isn't already mitigated with
existing XML technologies and APIs like those in
the .NET Framework.
However even with a data model like that used by
XPath/XSLT which makes CDATA sections, character
references and entities transparent he still does
need a decent function library that lets him
actually perform his beloved regular expressions.
Hopefully my EXSLT implementation will be found
useful by people like him.
#Political
Humor
Found these online and they cracked me up so I
decided to share
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