Dave Hyatt says “widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing.” The interesting thing in this post, however, is the mention further down the post about Flash and Quicktime.

Atlanta Time Machine (via Kottke) “The Atlanta Time Machine website is dedicated to examining the history of Atlanta, Georgia  by comparing vintage photographs of Atlanta with much more contemporary images shot, more or less, from the same perspective of the original photographer.” This is really neat stuff, these are perspectives that I drive or see on a daily basis. The sheer number of them is incredible.

Apple Previews Mac OS X Server ‘Tiger’: “Weblog Server is fully compatible with Safari RSS in Mac OS X Tiger and makes publishing a weblog as simple as checking a box in Server Admin preferences. Weblog Server is based on the popular open source project ‘Blojsom’” You can find out more about Blojsom here.

Andy has some insightful comments about the design of the RSS Aggregator that Apple built into Safari 2.0. There is also an eWeek story on the subject, which explains that both Atom and RSS will be supported by Safari.

I went to the supermarket tonight, I have a friend visiting from California this weekend, and I wanted to make sure I had Diet Coke, the beverage of choice, in the fridge. Oddly, when I got to the supermarket, they were completely out of Diet Coke. However, they had tons and tons of Coke’s new C2 mid-carb beverage. It made me wonder if they were trying to boost sales of C2 by making it the only choice available to people who would normally drink Diet Coke.

Bacardi buys Grey Goose. I find this stuff fascinating. I also find a Grey Goose and Tonic with lime quite delicious. Since I stopped smoking, I have been drinking less too.

Same drill as every other time.

Steven Berlin Johnson: When Is A Golf Course Unfair? This is the best analysis of the myth of course unfairness at this year’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills that I have read. If you watched the tournament on Sunday, you should definitely read this post. Oh yeah, that’s where I have been, working the U.S. Open for our site, and attempting to recover from that working. It’s another busy week this week too, so updates are bound to be somewhat scarce.

Rafe is enamored with the GMail interface. “It’s worth pointing out that the one gig limit in Gmail is a nice marketing device, but it’s the user interface that sets Gmail apart from other webmail packages.” His post left me wondering if he has tried out Oddpost.

I’m thinking about having a community contest to design a new logo/identity for bump. Despite my best efforts and intentions, I am not a designer, and the sheer amount of effort and practice to make myself better at graphic design is just not something that I can invest in right now. I have a 2nd generation, 20Gb iPod that I am not using anymore, and haven’t sold yet. Do you folks think that it would be enough of a prize to inspire good entries? Is the “iPod as a contest prize” thing being done so much right now that people don’t even care anymore? What would be a better, but reasonable prize for such a contest? Am I better off just hiring qualified folks to do it for me? I mean this is a personal site, and I do already spend my hard earned money for the priviledge of having it.

Introducing Brady – The Macromedia IDE for Flex Looks, based on the screenshots, like it is based on the Dreamweaver codebase. I tried switching to Dreamweaver for my ColdFusion development on my Mac OS X machines, but it just gets in my way. I love the lean fast feeling of a text editor like BBEdit or Homesite. I continue to maintain that Macromedia would be well served to continue to develop Homesite. It’s a shame that, aside from Eclipse and the forthcoming E3, that there isn’t a lean text editor on the Mac OS X platform that supports syntax highlighting for ColdFusion. I looked into creating said syntax coloring for BBEdit, and was turned off by the now ancient method of creating said modules.

More gmail invites. Blah Blah Blah. Ask and ye shall receive, but beware, for ye may be then cursed with the task of giving out gmail invites thyself and a heavy burden it may become on thee.

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Five more invites, one already spoken for, so four to give away. Ask in the comments, make sure to give me your name and an email address. Thanks.

Despite being a lifelong Lakers fan, I enjoyed watching them get beat by a better, healthier Pistons team that played as a team. No bones about it, if they had played the series to 99 games, the Pistons would have won. Lots of commentary on the Web in the usual places today, and in some places one wouldn’t normally expect.(It is possible that Jason is not an objective analyst:-)

As far as I'm concerned, the most insightful post, by far, is Mark Cuban's. For those of you who don't know, Mark owns the Dallas Mavericks, the Dallas NBA franchise. Amusingly, his team is constructed with the almost exact opposite philosophy to the one that the Detroit Pistons management, specifically Joe Dumars, used in building their team concept.

Just a reminder for those who don’t know, I have a linkblog named kungfumaster. It has an RSS feed too.

The three largest GSM carriers in the USA are being sued for locking handsets so that you cannot move handsets between carriers. This may seem like a really good thing, but I worry that this will mean, in the end, an end for the low prices we pay for phones “with new service activation.”

Wired News: Gmail Invitation Prices Crash. Well, it is quite clear we are getting close to launch, and that Google has started handing out a lot more invites. It’s a natural progression of the market for gmail accounts based on the supply, which I find funny. I mean a Gig is a lot of storage and Gmail sports a pretty nice Web based front end, but it’s no Oddpost or anything. People, in the end, just want what they can’t have, even if what they can’t have isn’t heads and shoulders better than other similar products on the market.

I have yet another 5 Gmail invitations to give away. Same drill, first five get them.

FOXNews reviews Fahrenheit 911. Here’s an example quote from the review. “It turns out to be a really brilliant piece of work, and a film that members of all political parties should see without fail.”

This review is interesting to me, kudos to FoxNews for being unbiased enough to give the film a good review despite all the partisan rhetoric that they are normally accused of spreading. For the last few weeks, but especially in the last few days, I have heard a litany of people either praising or trashing Michael Moore. They have had very strong opinions, one person even called him, in a room full of people at a party, a "piece of shit." Others have said things like, "I'm proud of him for standing up to the administration." The interesting thing about these people, and the difference between them and Fox, is that Roger Friedman actually saw the film before having an opinion about it. Everyone else seems to have purchased a "Jump to Conclusions" mat.

I have not seen the film. I may go see it in the theater, I will probably at least make an attempt to go see it. For all I know, I might walk out not so happy with Moore. However, one thing you will not read on bump.net tonight or any night until I see the film will be a review of a movie based on a guess.

To me, the troubling thing about this is that it is not an isolated incident in a sea of healthy politics. Things have gotten downright vitriolic in political discourse in this country right now. People from both the left and the right seem hellbent on winning this year, and, at times, they seem like they wish to do it at all costs. The victim of this type of attitude is debate. Disagreement and discussion are healthy, they allow people to see both sides of an issue, to rethink their position and to come to a stronger, more informed position. I just don't see this today. It may be that the people I am surrounded by happen to be a particular type of person, with their minds already made up about November, but I doubt it. I see the same sorts of things, the kind of burnt turf mentality, on the various Internet discussion forums that I read regularly.

The times in my life when I have had this "win at all costs" approach to an argument or issue, I may have won the argument more times than not. In every single one of these cases, without exception, I have paid the price for that approach. I could enumerate these mistakes here, but there is no point in exposing a litany of personal failures to make my point. We need to get to a healthier discourse. I would be interested in hearing others opinions about this, be they from the left, right, or moderates like myself.