Mid-week links

[yendi]

Been offline most of today with work, so here are some links:

1. For those who deal with web design or any related field (and that certainly includes LMSs) this list is a clear, concise guide to web accessibility.

2. For the KOL players, Crimbo season has started!

3. For those of you who are indecisive about their breakfast cereal, here's a helpful chart (via allah_sulu.

4. A classic Ben Stiller Show bit: B Minus Time Traveler. Damned straight I showed it to the kid last night.

5. Dave Winer offers some advice for bittorrent sites using RSS.

6. Apparently, Russell Brand might be part of the reason Oasis broke up. Which leads me to hate Brand a little less right now (although an obvious follow-up question here is, "Oasis was still around?"

7. I'm shocked to hear about bad climate science from the WSJ. Actually, I really would be shocked to hear about bad science reporting from them, but this, of course, the editorial page there, where science comes in a distant second to bullshit.

8. Via BoingBoing, here's ASCII art from 1934.

9. The dangers of a Twitter backchannel at a conference (the one I was at yesterday had a minimal backchannel, and the speakers were superb, so there was little to gripe about).

10. "Unlimited access to ketchup is a privilege," Skinner continued, "not a right." I love the Onion.

Comments

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

re: typewritten ASCII art: We did something like that as a typing exercise in the class I took in 7th grade. For the life of me I can't remember how it was set up so that the final picture was a surprise (it might have said something like "17 space, 5 X, 3 W, TOT"? That's the only way I can think of for it to work), but I definitely remember typing an Easter basket where each egg was done with a different letter to give a shading effect.

That boat is beautiful...

[yendi]

I remember some magazine puzzles like the one you describe. I wonder if there were published typewriter art pattern books back in the day.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

Love the cereal thing. I remember eating C3P0's and the Nintendo cereal, but I never had the French Toast Crunch.

And I would like to say that I actually like the Malt O Meal cereals. They taste more like the "real" ones used to taste.

[yendi]

I like some of them, but their prices have gone up so much recently, it's hard to view them as a huge bargain anymore.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Crimbo reminder!