Extra Future

Day: February 25, 2010

  • SWEATSHOP: SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Eliza][el] has got [some shirts for sale on CafePress][link]: >In the internet broadcasting system, art-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In the SWEATSHOP, the dedicated artists who perpetuate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT. [link]: http://www.cafepress.com/sweatshopSVU “SWEATSHOP: SWEATY VICTIMS UNIT” [el]: http://toxoplasm.org/gibberings/ “Eliza Gauger’s blog”

  • W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee Rejects Adobe’s HTML5 Procedural Arguements

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    Phil Nelson
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    In other words, “[Sorry Adobe, but we’re going to keep making new things you don’t like.][link]” [link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0871.html “HTML+RDFa, Microdata, and Canvas in HTML WG from Tim Berners-Lee on 2010-02-25 (public-html@w3.org from February 2010)”

  • Brooklyn Soda Works on Kickstarter

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    Phil Nelson
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    [All you have to do is get me to hand you some money is use the words “artisanal” and “sodas” in the same sentence][link]. If you expand it to read: >artisanal, handmade sodas made with fresh ingredients Then my support can only be described as *total*. [link]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1427166211/brooklyn-soda-works-artisanal-handmade-sodas-ma “Brooklyn Soda Works – artisanal, handmade sodas…

  • CitiBank Blocks Company Bank Account, Without Telling Them, For “Objectionable Content” On Company Blog

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Seems like we’re going to find out about some real homophobes at CitiBank][link]. [I echo Gruber’s sentiment][gruber], and repeat: What the fuck business is it of CitiBank’s what a company blogs about? I found nothing “objectionable” on their blog. If anything, it’s significantly less objectionable than this one. [link]: http://blog.fabulis.com/post/409789428/citibank-is-so-not-fabulis “citibank is so not fabulis…