Quote of the day: My Luftwaffe is invincible. And now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? –Hermann Goering, June, 1940
The Battle of Britain began on July 10th, 1940 and continued through October 31st, although the issue was more or less decided on September 15th. You can find day-by-day information at BattleOfBritain.net and RAF.mod.uk.
R.J. Anderson talks about the joy of the fanfix. I appreciate fandoms like Trek where the source is rife with gaffes to be fixed. For me it’s all about the fix—Stargate doesn’t have nearly enough problems for proper fixing…but I love it anyway.
Charlie Stross reports that the otherwise-promising LitterMaid “sounds like a tank landing craft with lubrication difficulties making its way through a railway stockyard.”
Caveat emptor…
I’ve been playing around with UTF-8 entities, since I always want one I can’t find. Here are some links I found:
I generated my own entity page with PHP as well. As soon as I decide where to put it up, I’ll link it.
This is your final reminder about the Stargate SG-1 Fan Awards 2004. The polls close tomorrow. I shouldn’t talk, since I haven’t had time to read or vote…
My brief review of “Walk in Silence” by Catherine Asaro was linked as a dissenting positive opinion in Nicholas Whyte’s roundup of the 2004 Hugo Nominees. I’d tell you to vote early, vote often, but it’s too late to register to vote now.
[Update: It was too late for nominations a while back. I’m not sure about voting.]
Tiger (otherwise known as Mac OS 10.4) won’t be out until next year, but some forthcoming features were revealed at the developers conference. Dashboard looks scrumptious. It also looks like Konfabulator, a resemblance which has caused many snide remarks like the one up on their homepage, but John Gruber explains that the concepts behind Dashboard go way, way back.
He’s right about Konfabulator being an unbearable resource hog, yet it’s the web-page basis of Dashboard that’s its biggest appeal. I made my own Konfabulator widgets, but it sounds far more pleasant to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to make a Dashboard gadget. Look for a color wheel gadget once I get my hands on Tiger.
I have a couple of Safari links outstanding. I was looking for a WordPress spellchecking plug-in, but in my searching I discovered that you can spellcheck in Safari just by checking Edit | Spelling | Check Spelling As You Type. Now as I type this blog entry, it’s getting spellchecked.
Todd Dominey linked a preview movie of an RSS reader being built into Safari for OS 10.4.
If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish until they were cured. If they ever get into that state (it would not seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish…
–JRR Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories” in Tree and Leaf
Now I want to write a story about fantasy perishing.
Jerie pointed out a rec of one of my SG stories. The person who claims to have sent feedback really did send feedback. As for the rest of you…