Blocking DOM, individual node matching, and XPath-based dispatching

Open source geographic information system (GIS) software proved its maturity with an excellent conference last week. MapServer and other technologies served as a focal point for a broad community of GIS analysts, web developers and others.

And what are they doing? plus gays, blackmail, Arabic, IRIs

Sun's new JDIC looks like a good step forward

The keypad flips open to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. I wish I had thought of that.

Committee Draft of ISO Schematron available. Yippee. Plus new Topologi products to support "Markup in the large". Via pleasure-loving venus and eel pie.

Pretty cool link on how to shoot 3D (stereo) video.

Adding basic XML 1.1 support was surprisingly straightforward, but premature. However the 'XML stack' should not mandate XML 1.1.

The police need to be more active.

This article cites a really weird attack on the authorship of Linux... I remember that Linux was based on the Minux stuff early on, but Minix was designed as a learning OS in the Tennenbaum books... They make this absurd argument that Linux couldn't have been written by Torvalds because it would be impossible to write that fast - even though it was. In 1991 I had a class on operating systems at UCLA and they expected all the CS students to rewrite parts of the Minix code... it will be incredible if this sort of nonsense wins in court.