19. July, 2003 - Here’s your syndication!

• Flutterby! now has real syndication using a protocol that was developed years ago for delivering large quantities of news. Excellent. [flutterby]
• Finding Avie talks about some of the user-hostile decisions Avie Tevanian has made over the years while being the VP of software at Apple. Bertrand Serlet, who’s taken his position (though I’m still not sure how the actual chain of command has changed) is another NeXTie who has proven to be fairly Mac-hostile as well. On the other hand, reports about Panther seem good so far, so I guess we’ll wait and see.
• Says here PDF is Unfit for Human Consumption. I mostly agree, but PDF does have a place, and that place is replacing EPS.
• Are you a ‘Bright’? What is it about the Brights that is causing such fits? To identify oneself as a ‘Bright’ simply means that one subscribes to a naturalistic worldview—i.e., absent belief in the supernatural. It appears to be an attempt to tie together disparate groups that include agnostics, skeptics, materialists, atheists, rationalists, naturalists and other science-minded people under a new term. It’s not without controversy, however, as some charge that it is elitist to co-opt a positive word as homosexuals did with ‘gay’. There are some fascinating reactions. [reed]
• I could use A Miracle In The Temple around here. My toilet’s been less-than-fully-functional for about four years, and one of these days I’ll probably end up completely breaking it just so I can get a replacement. [izzlepfaff!]

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