The Green Mile
By Michael Swaine
Ursula Andress ... Linda Evans ... Bo Derek.
Obviously. Old news, right? That's why John Derek married all three of them. At different times, of course. But consider:
Angie Dickinson ... Ellen Barkin ... Cameron Diaz.
Yes? Am I right? I believe I'm the first to notice this.
These cloning experiments have been going on for a long time, and without any proper governmental oversight. It's a disgrace.
On a topic closer to the heart of Web development (if you haven't already left), I'm sure we all wish Stephen King a speedy recovery. I know I do.
But doggone it, as a Macintosh user King ought to have known better than to hook up with a bunch of PC-heads like Simon & Schuster when he decided to publish Riding the Bullet online. The world's most popular author endorses e-publishing by releasing a book (well, a novelette) strictly online, and the bonehead publishers don't realize that they can't use platform-specific technology to do it. Then when their error is brought to their attention, they think it's just a Macintosh thing. Linux? BeOS? What are those?
The Web brings with it a sense of entitlement. We don't care to read "Best viewed with (some browser)" when we're surfing the Web, and we certainly don't want to see "Windows 98 only" on Web content. Leave that platform bigotry in the computer stores and the advertisements in computer magazines. The Web should be platform-independent.
So should books, of course.
We've all bought in to the idea that the Web is the future intellectual home of mankind, as Ted Nelson described his vision of a hypertext world, even if we haven't read anything by Nelson, because it's so obvious.
