Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy

Bizarre spelling

I notice the current version of the SVG Tiny spec lists one of the authors as Benoît Bézaire, Corel Corporation. Normally I’d assume this is a corruption in my browser of “Benoît Bézaire” caused by ignoring standard HTML entities. But wait! This is the W3 we’re talking about.
Checking the code shows: Benoît Bézaire.
It may be nonsense, but at least it’s [...]


Scorched-Email Policy

Salon currently has an article (in its premium section) in which Jakob (I have stopped using e-mail and hired staff to do it for me) Nielson proposes his dump-SMTP solution to spam and viruses:
It would really mean to stop accepting e-mail according to all the existing protocols. I think that the only way to do that is if [...]