{"id":1730,"date":"2008-01-28T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2008-01-29T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T01:46:29","slug":"is-that-a-fractal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Is that a fractal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he CBC<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1731' rel='attachment wp-att-1731' title='The cast of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcUntraceable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/un_tra_ced_frac_tal.thumbnail.jpg' alt='The cast of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcUntraceable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122' \/><\/a> has an excellent slideshow (with audio) about the movie industry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/slideshows\/untraceable_audio_slideshow\/\">obsession with evil machines<\/a>. The slideshow uses the new movie &#8216;Untraceable&#8217; (starring Diane Lane) as a reference and the columnist narrates us through other examples of evil machine movies. Excellent stuff this (Earlier: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1697\">Onstad&#8217;s slideshow on 2007 movies<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of things I forgot to mention in an earlier entry: The first thing of note is that IE8 story. I think it started with this (A list apart) article: <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/articles\/beyonddoctype\">&#8220;Beyond DOCTYPE&#8221;<\/a>. Basically, for IE8 to render webpages correctly, web developers are asked to add an extra meta declaration to their webpages. Hundreds <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/comments\/beyonddoctype\/\">of comments later<\/a>, the majority of WaSP members (the so-called Web Standards Project) decided to support the not-so-standard move. Who cares about standards, right? Haakon Lie (CTO Opera software) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/acid2-acid3-and-the\/2010-1013_3-6227171.html\">gave his perspective on the latest IE8 development<\/a> and the most remarkable part of his article is the following jab:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">A third scenario could be to hard-code the Web address of Acid2 into IE 8. This way, the page is given special treatment to make it look like the browser is passing the test.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now it&#8217;s a good time to throw out compatibility for the sake of following standards.\n<\/p>\n<p>The second thing you may have heard about, is that a group of anonymous people who appropriately call themselves &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; have openly declared war on the Church of Scientology (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=&#038;q=Anonymous%2BScientology&#038;btnG=Search+News\">Google News link<\/a>). The group has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Church0fScientology\">produced several videos<\/a> (which currently are hosted on YouTube, so you obviously need Flash). The videos feature an anonymous person speaking in a digitized voice: or rather, it sounds like they&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/enable\/training\/windowsxp\/narratorturnon.aspx\">Windows Narrator to bring across their message<\/a>. (See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zW466xcM0Yk\">XenuTV comments on Anonymous<\/a> [also YouTube])\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/nevali.net\/2008\/01\/a-reasoned-response-to-x-ua-compatible\/\">A reasoned response to X-UA-Compatible<\/a> (via Burningbird)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC has an excellent slideshow (with audio) about the movie industry&#8217;s obsession with evil machines. The slideshow uses the new movie &#8216;Untraceable&#8217; (starring Diane Lane) as a reference and the columnist narrates us through other examples of evil machine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[268,270,269,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}