CTotW: Holy Flaming Peeps, Bat(man?)

Mostly just linkifying today.

First, everyone say “awwww” at our first blurb. It’s kind of nice to see “Cult of the Turtle” so close to “Play This Thing“. I’m just glad she saw the post — I have to wonder, what the protocol for that is. Should I have sent her a link in the first place or not? I’m not going to send Ubisoft a link when I finish my critique of Assassin’s Creed, after all.

Next, Joel Spolsky predicts the next big flamewar. It’s basically the classic argument between the correct and the pragmatic, or to put it another way: those who are right in theory vs those who are right in practice. It details the current debate on how IE 8 should handle pages which say they conform to the strict standard. The spec says that if they say they do, and they don’t you shouldn’t try to fix it. The problem is that they might have conformed to the standard the way it was understood last year (or in 1995), but which is no longer right. Pages that are bug-compatible with IE 6, or (shudder) Netscape 4.71. The problem becomes that when you do the thing that’s right in theory, stuff breaks. Joel points out that Microsoft tried this with MS Vista. And we all know that’s going well for them.

Not that it greatly matters, as we’ll be using Firefox 3. Except at work. Crap.

On another note: I really miss Dr. Fun this time of the year.

And since nothing we do is complete without sex, we offer Susie Bright’s commentary on the classic 70’s porno “Bat Pussy“.

Published March 18, 2008 & Filed in Cool Thing Of The Week

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