{"id":148,"date":"2004-09-01T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/09\/2004_09_01_1339.php"},"modified":"2004-09-01T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T05:39:22","slug":"web-news-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/01\/web-news-6","title":{"rendered":"Web News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another round of web news!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Woman Chows 38 Lobsters in Eating Contest<\/li>\n<li>Jibjab &#8220;This Land Is Your Land&#8221; parody wins legal battle<\/li>\n<li>sIFR &#8211; dynamic browser text replacement<\/li>\n<li>MovableType 3.1 released<\/li>\n<li>The Giants of Anime are coming<\/li>\n<li>Tarantino&#8217;s weblog is a fake<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia proves its worth<\/li>\n<li>We may not be alone after all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--more-->\n<p>&#8220;View Article&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View Article&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View Article&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View Article&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;View site&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Can you imagine a woman who can <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20040822\/D84K9R380.html\">chow down 38 Lobsters<\/a> and not be an obese?<\/p>\n<p>I bet every woman hates her &#8211; a metabolism that allows her to consume 9lbs worth of lobsters (or more of other things) in a single sitting, yet <em>still<\/em> maintains 105lbs on the average hehehehe.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Jibjab has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/001840.php\">won the legal battle<\/a> for the right to use the Guthrie song <em>&#8220;This Land Is Your Land.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seems that the song was public domain after all. But even if it wasn&#8217;t. The composer would distribute program flyers which this written:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin\u0092 it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don\u0092t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that\u0092s all we wanted to do.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though it hardly has any legal merit, it just goes to show that the Ludlow (the copyright holders) weren&#8217;t acting in Guthrie&#8217;s (the composer) best interests. I mean the composer obviously doesn&#8217;t care, so why would any other profit-oriented organization care? There&#8217;s your answer right there. It&#8217;s just funny that it went on for this long.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/08\/sifr\">Some cool geeky webstuff<\/a> going on which I plan to incorporate in my own site when I have the time (which probably translates to <em>NEVER<\/em>). There was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/dynatext\/\">another apporach,<\/a> but was more complicated, though I think lent itself more to browsers and web-standards.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the time I try this out, is the time I change my temporary layout &#8211; yes what you see is <em>not<\/em> final since I wanted my blog, gallery, board, etc. up before I even <em>thought<\/em> of a design. This is just to make site more pleasing to the eyes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>MovableType 3.1 has <em>finally<\/em> been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/get_movable_type_personal.shtml\">released!<\/a> What you see now is an upgraded blog. No changes physically, oh but the engine under the hood is sublime. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/\">MTBlackList<\/a> finally works!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.09\/anime.html?pg=1&amp;topic=anime&amp;topic_set=\">anime movies<\/a> are coming out. But the value of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.09\/anime.html?pg=1&amp;topic=anime&amp;topic_set=\">article<\/a> isn&#8217;t in the announcing of such news. If you have time to read it, you&#8217;ll find it very interesting as it discusses how Japanese Anime has evolved from the &#8220;kiddy-kiddy&#8221; misconception the clueless have &#8211; to something that can hold its own even against American live-action blockbuster films.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I stand corrected. Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Reservoir+blogs:+Tarantino+fake+pens+online+diary\/2100-1026_3-5325241.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5325241&amp;subj=news.1026.5\">the Quentin Tarantino weblog is a fake<\/a>. You gotta admit the guy was pretty darn good. Hell even Tarantino&#8217;s publicist praised the guy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alex.halavais.net\/news\/index.php?p=794\">Wikipedia proves its worth<\/a> in an experiment where details of entries were purposely edited\/replaced with incorrect data. This was to prove that though Wiki data are generally contributed by the public, it is in no way <em>less<\/em> correct than any other encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p>This has got to be one of the <em>few<\/em> instances where you see the human race&#8217;s promising capabilities shine through.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,64795,00.html\">recent study<\/a>, there may be other Earths (inhabitable planets). According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/space\/08\/05\/space.planets.reut\/index.html\">another study<\/a> we may be alone even in the <em>whole<\/em> universe. Why don&#8217;t these scientists come together, drink some coffee and make up their fucking minds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another round of web news! 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