Publish an RSS or Atom feed of your comic. It should show your actual comic images, not just links to each comic.
This way, you let readers subscribe to the comic -- it will come to them, showing up in the feed reader of their choice. They will not have to go to your site all the time to check for updates.
...When Targ and Sicher wrote the paper that made her famous, they let the reader assume that all along their study had been designed to measure the 23 AIDS-related illnesses - even though they're careful never to say so. They never mentioned that this was the last in a long list of endpoints they looked at, or that it was data collected after an unblinding.
If we hoped to rob it [Fort Knox], we'd have our work cut out for us. On the other hand, if it had been designed by an open forum, then the architecture and security practices within would be public knowledge, and it would be comparitively easier to launch a robbery attack on it.
While not everything about Fort Knox is public, the US Mint has made quite a bit of information about it available to the public. This includes information on the architecture and on some of the the security practices,.
Excerpts:
Within the building is a two level steel and concrete vault that is divided into compartments. The vault door weighs more than 20 tons. No one person is entrusted with the combination. Various members of the Depository staff must dial separate combinations known only to them. The vault casing is constructed of steel plates, steel I-beams and steel cylinders laced with hoop bands and encased in concrete. The vault roof is of similar construction and is independent of the Depository roof. Between the corridor encircling the vault and the outer wall of the building is space used for offices and storerooms. [...]
At each corner of the structure on the outside, but connected with it, are four guard boxes. Sentry boxes, similar to the guard boxes at the corners of the Depository, are located at the entrance gate. A driveway encircles the building and a steel fence marks the boundaries of the site.
The book Slack: Getting past burnout, busywork and the myth of total efficiency was reviewed on/. just last month.
A blurb from the book quoted in the review:
To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth. But what if your 'efficient' company - the one with the reduced headcount and the 'stretch' goals -- is actually slowing down and losing money? What if your employees are burning out doing the work of two or more people, leaving them no time for planning, prioritizing, or even lunch? What if your super-efficient company is suddenly falling behind?
Even after showing name and password fields, the name of the last user who logged in is displayed by default in the username field.
This tool from Apple allows you to turn this behavior off.
"(And for those interested in writing Perl applications for this new platform [OS X], watch for
Programming Cocoa Applications with Perl, also coming soon from O'Reilly.)"
Note: I don't see anything about this on O'Reilly's new and upcoming book list, so it's possibly quite a few months off.
API for Biz Partners ($$$) Only ???
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Google to Offer API
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· Score: 3, Informative
First, here's a link to a current XML API for accessing Google:
Dave Winer made an inquiry to Google about accessing this XML API.
Their initial response was not very helpful, asking for the link to be removed, and saying that the link is "obviously reserved for Google partners."
Eventually, Google let Dave access the API. Now, he sounds like he's under NDA about this.
Slashdot Mirror
Sine it does not seem to be posted above, here is a link to the Mind Hacks analysis of the IQ study.
Publish an RSS or Atom feed of your comic. It should show your actual comic images, not just links to each comic. This way, you let readers subscribe to the comic -- it will come to them, showing up in the feed reader of their choice. They will not have to go to your site all the time to check for updates.
The piece mentioning Barry Diller, Howard Schmidt, and Linus can be found online here. It's the intorduction to their letters to the editior section.
While not everything about Fort Knox is public, the US Mint has made quite a bit of information about it available to the public. This includes information on the architecture and on some of the the security practices,.
Excerpts:
Amusing items in this year's issue:
- Apple Reschedules WWDC Yet Again
- Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X
- Catching Up with the Voice of Macintosh: Fred
And, for today, Crazy Apple Rumors Site is Painfully Serious Dell Rumors Site.The K5 piece has a number of useful responses.
... just do it online, with this Flash app.
A blurb from the book quoted in the review:
Read the review for more info.
Unfortunately, it looks like a recent accident will delay the Airtrain project.
I haven't tried either. Reviews for each (calSync, iCal FTP) on VersionTracker are mixed.
This is a permanent link to the APoD highlighting the Voynich Manuscript, for those reading the story after the rollover.
You can use POD for multi-line comments.
I think you mean Control-click.
Using Bill Gates to parody one of the new Apple ads has been done before, as he's a very obvious target.
Even after showing name and password fields, the name of the last user who logged in is displayed by default in the username field. This tool from Apple allows you to turn this behavior off.
http://www.google.com/xml?q=slashdot
You'll (probably) get an error page.
I read about this on Scripting News in February:
Dave Winer made an inquiry to Google about accessing this XML API.
Their initial response was not very helpful, asking for the link to be removed, and saying that the link is "obviously reserved for Google partners." Eventually, Google let Dave access the API. Now, he sounds like he's under NDA about this.