Archive for July 20th, 2005

RSS without the RSS

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

It’s about time. The Denver Post offers a news reader that doesn’t mention the term RSS, it just shows you the news. Remember when NPR announcers used to spell out “H-T-T-P-colon-forward-slash-forward-slash … ?” Nowadays CmdrTaco’s wordplay “Slashdot” is mostly lost on people. So must it be with those RSS and XML buttons.

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Slide show of the new periodic table

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Slate slide show: Elemental

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Because everyone loves unhappy rich people

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Daniel Gross explains how The Cost of Living Extremely Well has gone up more than the cost of just getting by.

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Still a few bugs in the system

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

So I finally went and posted something at length here, and it got mangled in a way such that I couldn’t fix it or delete it. Now I remember why I stopped blogging. Back to the paying stuff… [UPDATE: Switching from Safari to Firefox worked around it]

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