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There ya go. https://neocities.org/

55. Never Index Your Own Book

I showed this index entry to the Mintons, asking them if they didn't think it was an enchanting biography in itself, a biography of a reluctant goddess of love. I got an unexpectedly expert answer, as one does in life sometimes. It appeared that Claire Minton, in her time, had been a professional indexer. I had never heard of such a profession before.

She told me that she had put her husband through college years before with her earnings as an indexer, that the earnings had been good, and that few people could index well.

She said that indexing was a thing that only the most amateurish author undertook to do for his own book. I asked her what she thought of Philip Castle's job.

"Flattering to the author, insulting to the reader," she said. "In a hyphenated word," she observed, with the shrewd amiability of an expert, " 'self-indulgent.' I'm always embarrassed when I see an index an author has made of his own work."

"Embarrassed?"

"It's a revealing thing, an author's index of his own work," she informed me. "It's a shameless exhibitionâ"to the trained eye."

"She can read character from an index," said her husband.

"Oh?" I said. "What can you tell about Philip Castle?"

She smiled faintly. "Things I'd better not tell strangers."

"Sorry."

"He's obviously in love with this Mona Aamons Monzano," she said.

"That's true of every man in San Lorenzo I gather."

"He has mixed feelings about his father," she said.

"That's true of every man on earth." I egged her on gently.

"He's insecure."

"What mortal isn't?" I demanded. I didn't know it then, but that was a very Bokononist thing to demand.

"He'll never marry her."

"Why not?"

"I've said all I'm going to say," she said.

"I'm gratified to meet an indexer who respects the privacy of others."

"Never index your own book," she stated.

And what do we find here, as perceived by an expert, trained AI:

Altogether there are 148 documents, including a letter from GCHQ, a handwritten draft BBC radio program about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and offers to lecture from some of America's most famous universities, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Whoever wrote this found it necessary to gloss AI and MIT, but unnecessary to gloss GCHQ.

Hmmm.

This person will never marry.

That's all I'm going to say.
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You know, Contact is swimming along just fine, and then you meet the bug-eyed Pak Protractor in space. That's how I feel about Cat's Cradle. There were moments it went from good to great, but couldn't quite sustain the epic bits.

Ellie and S R Hadden

One thing about Hadden is that he's really fond of the Ken Burns effect in his private Vidipedia recaps.

That's all I'm going to say.

Why do think there was such an effort to mirror geocities? There was a lot of interesting things there long forgotten by many and their original owners in amongst the chaff. Not sure we want to say goodby to that history.

Amen, Neocities allows HTML5 to thrive! Examples include SVG filters on a text header (and allowing SVG code alongside HTML code), web fonts, RDFa Lite attributes for SEO, IndexedDB for client-side searching, CSS variables for storing data URIs of images, populating autocomplete datalists from data-* attributes and the dataset API, async and defer attributes for scripts, Web Workers and Promises, CSS transitions and animation, media queries for adaptive menu sizing, the source tag allowing the browser to pick which version of audio it can play natively, the rel attribute for specifying a CC license and for preventing the browser from sending a referer header when clicking links, discretionary font ligatures, and ARIA attributes for accessibility

Now that postion:sticky has come out from hiding behind a pref in Firefox 32, it's a "nice to have" CSS feature on webpages that scroll a lot so you can still see the heading of what you're looking at. Safari supports it behind a -webkit- prefix but for some reason Chrome and Opera have no support for it in Blink yet.

So this is where Slashdot ends up: the only comment to mention CSS variables is a spam comment.

If you're wondering what CSS variables are good for, see data: URIs of the book cover thumbnail images for pages without serverside scripting.

It's clear that the FCC no longer cares about true net neutrality. At this point, the most effective way to send them a message is to throttle their connection to as many sites as possible. Maybe then, they'd actually understand what 'fast lane' means for the rest of us.

Neocities throttles fcc
FCC script

Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:55AM (#44463567)
"1000lb gorilla (do we really need to say who) competitor"
Are they making fun of Thinkgeek's monkey mascot?
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:2)
by Jah-Wren Ryel (80510) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 03, 2013 @06:58AM (#44463857)
Is thinkgeek able to lose millions of dollars without much care?
No. They are talking about Amazon.
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:32PM (#44465607)
Or maybe eBay?
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:36PM (#44465625)
When Thinkgeek owned /., they lost millions of dollars without much care. Now Dice are the people losing that money.
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Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:55AM (#44463567)
"1000lb gorilla (do we really need to say who) competitor"
Are they making fun of Thinkgeek's monkey mascot?
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:2)
by Jah-Wren Ryel (80510) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 03, 2013 @06:58AM (#44463857)
Is thinkgeek able to lose millions of dollars without much care?
No. They are talking about Amazon.
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:32PM (#44465607)
Or maybe eBay?
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:36PM (#44465625)
When Thinkgeek owned /., they lost millions of dollars without much care. Now Dice are the people losing that money.
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Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:55AM (#44463567)
"1000lb gorilla (do we really need to say who) competitor"
Are they making fun of Thinkgeek's monkey mascot?
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:2)
by Jah-Wren Ryel (80510) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 03, 2013 @06:58AM (#44463857)
Is thinkgeek able to lose millions of dollars without much care?
No. They are talking about Amazon.
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:32PM (#44465607)
Or maybe eBay?
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Re:Ha-ha (Score:1)
by Slashdot Humor (2996799) on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:36PM (#44465625)
When Thinkgeek owned /., they lost millions of dollars without much care. Now Dice are the people losing that money.
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I'm going to go ahead and assume that hothardware.com is a poorly-written linkbait site with a target audience of those who find Wired too high-brow. Given that, why has slashdot linked to it? Why did the submitter (apparently) copypaste the (crap) intro to the (probably crap) article as the summary? Why does slashdot still exist?

PS - Skyfall sucked because Daniel Craig is a po-faced douchebag and the moral of the story (something about how we all need to shut up and take direction from our security services) would only have been understandable as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11

PPS - Know what I saw on hackernews today? http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ and http://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again to name a couple.

Since when isn't it far simper to store some sort of ID in a cookie, and use that to index a database server-side where you store all of the data you need?

When the free website provider doesn't give you access to server-side scripting

An attacker could retrieve this data or manipulate the data, which would then get used again later by the application and may be uploaded back to the server to attack others, as well.

I use indexedDB to attack Scientology by spreading entheta to every browser that visits.