Tom Morris

The most irresistible headline, ever?

Tim Bray on drugs.

As for doping in sport? Meh. Whatever. Why not have the Organic Tour de France where nobody is allowed to take anything beyond bread and water, and the Super-Doped-Up Tour de France where you can have anything you like. Screen them concurrently on two different TV channels and see which one people prefer. Drugs in sports is not a “moral” issue, and I find it absurd that possible presidential nominees debate this stuff in the U.S. Congress.

I mean, why is it okay for the government to poke their nose in to Major League Baseball, but only laughter would ensue if they decided to combat doping in the Tiddlywinks League. If doping is a problem, then spectators can choose to stop paying to see sport. Technology is used for every other part of sport - from the design of equipment and clothing fabrics through to computer-monitored training and exercise regimes.

Comic Sans, the Flickr group. I have posted a recent example of Comic Sans ugliness to it. Of course, there’s more typographic horrors out there - Times New Roman. This is, of course, the design equivalent of photographing phone boxes running Windows showing a gnarly Blue Screen of Death and other similar errors.

Keith Alexander thinks that microformats need to work hard to be part of the Semantic Web. I’d say that microformats are compatible with the vision of the Semantic Web broadly, and that details can be worked out as we go forward.