I find myself too irritated by the redundant Flash and heavily image based structure of the The Cyborg Manifesto to actually read the damn thing, which is a pity, because I’m really interested in stuff like this. Note to world: Sites which require a lot of copy must make the delivery of that copy the first priority of the site. Information must be delivered.
I don’t know whether or not to be delighted by the train of coincidences linking me with this person or not. He’s gradually stumbled over most of the sites that I have maintained over my time over the net, and only subsequently mentally attached them to one another. But the length of the coincidence doesn’t end there, I suspect, as his most recent post sounds startlingly like it’s about Sapient.
Congratulations to Noah Wyle, early 20s crush of mine, who has finally won a bloody award: “Best Supporting Actor of the Year in a Drama Series award at the 3rd annual TV Guide Awards”.
More news on Sapient: Sapient Corp. To Miss 1Q Rev, Net Views. This includes the information that they are cutting their workforce by 20% (720 people).
Comparing TheStandard.com: Quick and Easy and TheCounter.com: Global Statistics Jan 2001:
On the issue of color depth, TheStandard.com’s figures describe nearly 10% of users as using 256 colors or less, 50% using 16-bit color depths and just over 30% using 24-bit or above. 10% were unknown. TheCounter.com describes 6% of users as using 256 colors or less, 55% as using 16-bit depths and a further 36% using 24-bit or above.
On the issue of screen resolutions, TheStandard.com’s figures describe 9% of users as using 640×480 resolution, as opposed to TheCounter.com’s 7%. TheStandard.com describes the proportion of people using 800×600 resolutions as 50% with those using known higher resolutions coming in at 27%. TheCounter.com’s figures for these are 55% and 35% respectively.
In both sets of figures, TheCounter.com has a lower figure for ‘Unknown’ than TheStandard, which may explain variance. Alternatively divergence could be described by differences in the times of sampling or by a distorted sampling from one of the parties.
Pow! Wham! Permission Denied! – “Surrounded by his ‘nuclear Bat-family,’ the ‘dark, deviant’ vigilante of the early 1940s was transformed into a genial, problem-solving father figure. In support of his argument, York provides a detailed interpretation of four panels that appeared in various Batman comics in the 1950s.” [via linkmachinego]
I haven’t exactly been offered a job at Sapient, but it looks like my decision on whether or not I want to walk their particular dark path has rather greater than normal inpact on whether or not they are prepared to offer it to me. There seems to be a much greater degree of discussion involved than is perhaps warranted. On my side particularly it seems that my decision is inevitably going to be based upon faith (or the lack of it), and hence inevitably bound up with reservations and doubt. There doesn’t seem to be a way around that.
Anyway, I was talking to Matt Haughey about all this via AIM, and he pointed me in the direction of a post he made just over a year ago: A Whole Lotta Nothing: ‘On being rejected by Sapient’. I’m making no comment, because I’m reserving my judgement until after the weekend, but let’s just say, I’m trying hard to work out if I’m living in Working Girl or Wall Street.
God only knows why we’re doing this: plasticbag.org | cam.
READ THIS: This news affects a substantial portion of the creative sites on the web and should be read and digested thoroughly. News from ICANN [via Slashdot]: “There are apparently plans to reinstate the old limits on .org domains – if you aren’t a non-profit corporation, you won’t be permitted to register or keep a .org domain.” This will affect (amongst other creative sites, kottke.org, slashdot.org, haddock.org, fray.org, glassdog.org, interconnected.org and many many more. My personal response to the issue: .org domains prime home for creative sites. More from Metafilter.com.