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Alright, now I've got my tickets, I feel safer telling you this: Philip Glass and the Glass Ensemble are performing a live accompaniment to a showing of Koyaanisqatsi in San Francisco next month. I'm a bit too excited.
Those who now hate me will be relieved to know that the DVD of the film is already out.
Woah. WiFi hotspots have been rolled out in Japan by ... McDonald's and Denny's? According to Trends In Japan, they are:
Wireless LANs Appearing in Schools and Homes
When wireless LANs first made their appearance, they could be found only in a few hotels or coffee shops, but this year many businesses have been installing wireless LANs for the convenience of their customers. One after another, such chains as McDonald's, MOS Burger, Mister Donut, Starbucks Coffee, and Denny's have been creating hot spots in certain model outlets. In addition, rail companies like the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) have been creating hot spots inside of stations, and some districts and cities are now working to make their entire area a hot spot.
Infinite Matrix is a great online sf zine. It's having a fundraiser. Ursula K. Le Guin has donated a "lunch bag" for auction, embroidered by her own hand. '"You can only have lunch once," she says helpfully, "because it isn't washable."'.
If I was a zombie who developed my prose style by eating brains, I would eat Le Guin's brain first. You can read her latest short story, set in the Earthsea universe, for $0.91 here. (I know it looks like I'm being paid off by FictionWise, but I just want to applaud their promotion of uncrippled e-texts. For the record, I don't touch their "secure" editions).
After Ursula, I would move on to John McPhee's lobes.
Top W3C HTML honcho Steven Pemberton spoke on XHTML2 at BAYCHI yesterday, and included this great quote (from, it looks like, the linux-elitists mailing list).
"Google is, for all intents, a blind user. A billionaire blind user with tens of millions of friends, all of whom hang on his every word. I suspect Google will have a stronger impact than [laws] in building accessible websites."
"In a world where Google likely has a valuation several orders of magnitude higher than any chrome such as flash, graphics, audio, interactivity, or "personalization", I see a heady revision."
Karsten M. Self
Steven this HTML page as his presentation, transforming it into powerpoint-esque viewpoints (outline view, slide-per-page view) with a bunch of stylesheets.