Joel Spolsky (the famous Joel writing “on software”) had a lengthy comment today yesterday on the impending war between the supporters of IE 8’s standards mode versus the rest of the world (as he argues it, that means the majority of web developers out there) that will have their websites broken in IE 8. (Mark Pilgrim hosts a translation of the article which pretty much captures the essence of the thing.) While he makes a compelling argument as to why he believes IE 8 will eventually revert to the old way of rendering, I take issue with some of the finer points of the matter. Specifically, I believe, for once, that Microsoft is not the only one to blame for the current state of the web and they should not backtrack because it might be a cause of inconvenience to some people in the short term.

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I can’t read this right now, I’m laughing too hard and it sounds like a mouse on ecstasy screaming after his deaf buddies.

COYOTE v. ACME

And for more old school geeky stuff: the Textfiles Humour section. For those - like me - that like a bit of history, check the entire Textfiles archive.

It’s nice to see the DoD has the same IPs as back when the ARPAnet was a big thing [I was skimming over the March, 1984 edition of 2600 Magazine.] There’s some interesting things surrounding these IPs, too

Exhibit A: Map of the Internet @ xkcd, the 26.0.0.0/8 IP range is owned by DISA

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