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"Parents worry that children are cutting and pasting paragraphs from Web sites rather than writing their own. Adults wonder if instant messaging, with its compressed spelling and syntax, might be stunting writing development."

"But in patches around the country, teachers say that online technology is now becoming a powerful tool for improving, rather than undermining, students' writing skills. E-mail exchanges and public Web pages give students audiences for their work. "

via Dave Winer

Eolas originally filed suit against Microsoft in 1999, alleging that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant infringed on its patents when enabling the Internet Explorer Web browser to use plug-ins and applets.

Patent experts are quick to point out that patent-infringement verdicts are frequently overturned on appeal, and Microsoft is busy preparing for the next--and probably last--legal round at the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Greg Apodaca: On this image I was asked to make her look younger, take out the wrinkles and pores, remove the sneer, put some color back into her face... I also created a more "natural look" by bringing the hair down which was unusually high, probably due to the photogragher using a long lens. This shows an extreme example of how far an image can be taken.

Compare with services like: PacificSFX.

Similar techniques used to alter curves and airbrush blemishes

via Matt

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XML is Not Self-Describing

One specific locus of XML Orthodoxy that I have never professed is the idea that XML is "self-describing," which seems a rather grandiose and overly strong way of saying that one names XML containers. Well, I've read too much Wittgenstein (not to mention too much Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, and Julian of Norwich) to think that a name is necessarily a self-description.

Binary isn't Necessarily Better

W3C Flirts with Binary Standard

Cameron Marlow: Sometime around the beginning of this year, I realized that I was encountering way too many sites to write an individual weblog post about each and every one

I decided to create a separate weblog just for the ephemeral sites that didn't deserve discussion.

via Matt