{"id":218,"date":"2003-11-12T08:43:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/linkdump_ethics_and_other_obsolete_things"},"modified":"2003-11-12T08:43:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T13:43:42","slug":"linkdump_ethics_and_other_obsolete_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2003\/11\/linkdump_ethics_and_other_obsolete_things.html","title":{"rendered":"Linkdump: Ethics and Other Obsolete Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s linkdump is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/simon.incutio.com\/archive\/2003\/11\/12\/silly\" title=\"Let's see you out-meta THAT.\">Simon Willison<\/a>.  Simon, now my list of links links to your list of lists of links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/7196098.htm\" title=\"Coach reports student ethics violation; team forfeits most of its wins\">Wilcox High School sacrifices its football season on principle<\/a>.  &#8220;He said, flat out, a rule was broken and even though it&#8217;s not our fault we&#8217;d have to pay the consequences,&#8221; senior captain Anthony Reyes said of [Coach] Freitas&#8217; address to the team. &#8220;It broke my heart. I&#8217;ve been waiting for this for four years. We were on top of everything, and it all got swept away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agree, it truly is heartbreaking.  But at the end of the day, this is a time to be more proud of our alma mater than ever.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Framemaker\" title=\"Part I !\">History of FrameMaker<\/a>.  I had no idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/\" title=\"my ex-employer\">Sun Microsystems<\/a> had such a significant role in FrameMaker&#8217;s early history. Incidentally, reliable sources report that Sun has dropped internal support for FrameMaker on Solaris and is forcing its tech writers to move to <a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.sun.com\/software\/star\/staroffice\/\" title=\"At least it's cheap\">StarOffice<\/a>. Speaking for all my fellow tech writers, I think this is a <em>fabulous<\/em> idea. Now Sun will need twice the number of writers to accomplish the same amount of work. Ladies and gentlemen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/corp_emp\/search.cgi?funcs=&amp;loc=&amp;keyword=technical+writer&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" title=\"Eight positions open, woo hoo!\">send in those resumes<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stommel.tamu.edu\/~baum\/ethel\/atrios-dictionary.html\" title=\"Or possibly the Weevil Debate Dictionary\">The Wingnut Debate Dictionary<\/a>.  Cute, but I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eod.com\/devil\/archive\/\" title=\"Perfect for fisking anti-idiotarians\">Devil&#8217;s Dictionary 2.0<\/a> a bit better.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedmagic.com\/selectavision.html\" title=\"They have Quicktime movies of the RCA intro!  Cool!\">The RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc Web Site<\/a>.  My family rarely makes good technology choices.  Case in point: the RCA VideoDisc player.  Back in the day, you had two choices for watching movies at home: videotapes, and videodiscs (not to be confused with another dead technology, laser discs).  Videodiscs had a number of disadvantages.  They were far bulkier than tapes. You couldn&#8217;t record on them.  They held less than an hour of material per side, which meant that halfway through the movie, you&#8217;d have to get up and flip the disk.<sup>[<a href=\"#12-1\">1<\/a>]<\/sup>(This was back before the days of the remote control, so we didn&#8217;t mind so much.) The VideoDisc player&#8217;s main advantage was that it cost about a third of what a video tape player did.  Unfortunately that cost advantage evaporated in a few short years, and with it, the VideoDisk player market. I should note that my family <em>did<\/em> clean up when all the video stores started dumping their discs for $1-2 a piece. My folks still have the player, and for all I know it still works.  Maybe it wasn&#8217;t such a bad investment after all.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedmagic.com\/featured\/voyager\/voyager-record.html\">Analysis of the Voyager Record<\/a> (hat tip:  my second cousin Andrew).  How do you convince an alien race that they&#8217;re holding an artifact produced by another intelligent species? That Carl Sagan was one smart cookie.  Plus he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsagan.com\/\" title=\"I bet he had billions and billions of them\">looked sharp in a turtleneck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small><a name=\"12-1\"><\/a>1. I remember that when I watched the <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0072824\/\" title=\"1975 TV version with Richard Chamberlain\">Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/cite>, I accidentally started the movie on side 2 of disc 1.  I spent most of the movie wondering, &#8220;Who is this mysterious Count of Monte Cristo?  And why is he so pissed off?&#8221;  I had completely skipped the whole Chateau D&#8217;If \/ Edmund Dantes part. Come to think of it, this might be the <em>preferred<\/em> way to see the Count of Monte Cristo.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s linkdump is brought to you by Simon Willison. 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