waffle

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a sucker for football - or soccer, as you might call it if your idea of ‘football’ is a game where you actually mostly carry the ball. Therefore it’s not very surprising that I’m having a great time watching the World Cup. However, I’ve decided to divert my opinions about the games to the comments section of the venerable Casa de Colin, featuring Colin’s own far more in-depth, balanced analysis. I drown you readers in enough spontaneous dreck as it is, so consider this a freebie.

From one canadian to another - unusually insightful World Cup thoughts from Tim Bray, the father of XML and now also “an adjusting newborn“. (Congratulations!)

What’s in the top screenshot on this page (of Google’s new Firefox extension Google Browser Sync)? Why, it’s the del.icio.us extension. And who owns del.icio.us? Never mind the fact that Google’s own bookmarking feature is IE-only.

(Also: PageRank in the menu bar? Oy.)

Welcome to the struggle. You have very low odds of getting to a place where things can get done in the polarized winner-takes-all political landscape in the US. The boundaries are harder to penetrate and people seem more set than ever to go with one of the two big parties. (The Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) already nets about one or two percent and even double that in some territories, and you need 4% to get into the parliament.)

Nevertheless, welcome. I hope you get something done.