Blogs

Very cool Shockwave stuff from Flying Puppet. I love the connection to paint. [via Xeni at BoingBoing] Link

Rational Explications: Why they hate Bush - interesting. I think a bigger issue may be that other countries don’t feel like Bush is listening to them either. Someday when there’s a different president Americans will get over this before other countries will….

Excellent article in eWeek by Peter Galli. If you want to understand the core problem with SCO’s position, then read this. Interesting to see that their desire to benefit from open source via GPL is the most obvious thing that keeps them from attacking others who do. Link

WorldChanging - worth a look. Link

Good note on energy policy at en Banc citing a NY Times editorial. We need to keep the energy infrastructure moving with the support of the government. Link

Core of Dave Winer’s new system: Here’s how my blogging taxonomy works. I use the RSS 2.0 category element to specify the category, and a popup hierarchic menu to select categories, and an outliner to edit my taxonomy. Paul Boutin, at last night’s dinner asked me to write it up whitepaper-style, and I wll do that very soon, probably next week. [Scripting News]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We had a nice holiday with family and friends in NY. Warm rain here before the first real cold wave hits!!!!

Good for President Bush - Here, here to Unlearned Hand and the folks at en Banc. I am generally a supporter of the President, and appreciate it when someone can take off their political glasses and appreciate that he did a good thing Thursday.

Jon Udell on data modelling and how ubiquitous XML well be. Link

Interesting interview in the WSJ today with Lord Browne of BP. I’ve been impressed in the last few years with my interactions with BP folks. They’e playing an interesting mix of oil and future energy. The thing that’s impressed me is how deep the environmental awareness goes in the organization.