Rad Geek People's Daily 2009-10-16

Friday Lazy Linking (posted 16 October 2009, 2pm)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 15 years ago, in 2009, on the World Wide Web.

10/GUI. ignorethecode.net (2009-10-14). Technological civilization is awesome (cont’d). (Linked Wednesday 2009-10-14.)
Extend the ACORN Standard! jwalker@reason.com (Jesse Walker), Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-09-17). Sam Smith writes: The Senate has defunded ACORN due to the misbehavior of a few of its staff. If the Senate had applied the same principle to Wall Street, there never would have been a bailout. (Linked Friday 2009-10-16.)
View Source Tutorial. Sam Ruby (2009-10-07). Brad Neuberg: View Source Tutorial: Fancy Web Page Using HTML5, CSS, and SVG [via Tim Strehle] Not only is it a thing of beauty (both visually and from a view source perspective), it also nearly validates… and furthermore the validation errors are useful. This is hopefully an indicator of the… (Linked Friday 2009-10-16.)
Amazon Introduces Same-Day Delivery. Daring Fireball (2009-10-16). Technological civilization is awesome. (Cont’d.) (Linked Friday 2009-10-16.)
A Matter of Justice. Will Wilkinson, Will Wilkinson (2009-09-29). Typically excellent stuff from Tim Lee: I think a far more effective approach [than cost-benefit analysis] is to use what is probably the most powerful weapon in American politics: our now deeply-rooted and emotional commitment to the principle of equality before the law. Over the last 50 years, American society… (Linked Friday 2009-10-16.)