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Some links for light reading (29/1/08)

Slightly chilling

I stumbled on this video today. The words would be chilling if it weren’t for the target of their wrath.


The transcript, in part:

Hello, leaders of scientology
We are Anonymous
Over the years we have been watching you your campaigns of misinformation
Your suppression of descent
Your litigious nature
All of these things have caught our eye
The leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation
The extent of your malign over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us

Anonymous has therefore decided that your organisation should therefore be destroyed.

For the good of your followers
For the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment
We shall proceed to expel you from the internet and systematically dismantle the church of Scientology in its present form
We recognise you are serious opponents and do not expect our campaign to be completed in a short time frame
However, you will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic

Your choice of methods
Your hypocrisy and the general lawlessness of your organisation have sounded its death knell
You have nowhere to hide
Because we are everywhere
You will find no recourse in attack because for each of us that falls ten more will take his place

We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us

Is there a moral here?

If you try to suppress information, if you bully people, if you anger people, eventually you will become a target. This may not be a major problem unless everyone who is against you decides to stop what they are doing and focus on taking you down.

More info:

?Definition lists - misused or misunderstood?? - now in French

Definition lists - misused or misunderstood has now been translated into French by Rodrigue Hunel and the developpez.com team - Les listes de définitions : mal utilisées ou mal comprises?

An evening with Molly Holzschlag

An event not to be missed if you are in or around Melbourne.

Event: An evening with Molly Holzchlag
Date: Wednesday 6 February
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start
City: Melbourne
Venue: Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place Melbourne 3000 VIC
Cost: FREE

Description:

Come along and take part in an informal Q&A session with one of the industries leading educators and best-practice advocators.

Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She serves as an invited expert to the W3C Consortium (W3C) focusing on HTML, CSS and related topics. Formerly Group Lead of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly consults for major organizations including Microsoft, AOL, eBay and the BBC. Through these roles, Molly promotes standards and best practices to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global community.

Brought to you by WIPA (Web Industry Professionals Association) and Web Standards Group

IE8 and versioning - very worrying developments

I am not a fan of targeting browser versions. Nor am I a fan of the “opt-out” proposal. I am also unhappy about the idea about going back and adding a new meta element to every site I have done. It seems many others aren’t happy either. I’ve been collecting links for the last couple of days. Here is some articles and comments on the subject

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Observation and accuracy

There are three men on a train, One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don’t know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window if the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train).

An the economist say, “Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.”

And the logician says, “No. There are cows in Scotland of which one at least is brown.”

And the mathematician says, “No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.”

Except from “The curious incident of the dog in the night time

Some links for light reading (2/1/08)

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