on the Pledge of Allegiance case originally brought by Michael Newdow. The assertion he was making was that adding the words “one nation under god” was tantamount to establishment. The Court didn’t actually rule on the issue, however, saying only that Newdow didn’t have standing to represent his daughter, of whom he only has partial custody.
Archives for June 2004
Macworld:
Where Does Apple Go Next? by Jason Snell. Everyone seems to be missing the obvious as they contemplate streaming audio from an iPod directly to Airport Express – the iPod interface doesn’t have to only control its own hard drive. A WiFi enabled iPod could just as easily have a “choose source” preference to allow you to use it as your remote.
But really where Apple goes next is it allows you to use Airport Express to send your photos from iPhoto to your TV. In this world, the stereo and the TV aren’t separate anyhow, so to make the connection would likely be trivial.
New from Caterina Fake:
Bizwerk. To quote her: “I’ve been reading and gathering a lot of information about technology, marketing, PR, bizdev and general business. Bizwerk is a repository for what I’ve found…”
Kate at Montreal City Weblog
pointed to this article tonight: Millions mismanaged in Laval metro project: auditor general. And in a few weeks, people will be wondering why voter turnout rates are so low. Well, this is why. In Canada, in 2004 (and for years this has been true, but it’s getting worse, not better), all levels of politics and the senior bureaucracy, in all departments, are completely and utterly compromised by incompetence. The current administration in the mayor’s office of Montreal is clearly incompetent, changing with the wind, shedding members along the way. Both this and the previous provincial governments are rotten through with disinterested politicians who don’t even know the beginning elements of what “governing” entails. As far as I can tell the entire bureaucracy in Quebec is made up of patronage-hired, public-service-union-coddled people who aren’t adequately trained to do their jobs, but anyhow aren’t particularly interested in doing them. Even worse are the “arms-length” crown corporations, or whatever they call them provincially. And we all know how corrupt the ruling Liberal party is on the federal scene. Does anyone believe for a second that the Conservatives or even the NDP would be any better?
Joe Clark and Craig Saila
did a survey of the accessibility of Canadian political websites related to the ongoing election here and released their findings a few days ago: Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test. Note (as readers here will likely know already) that it is Joe Clark the accessibility expert and gadfly, not Joe Clark the former Prime Minister, who did this work, as they humourously note several times.
As always, it’s tempting to give them a pass on this, but it’s well past time that we cease to do so. It’s 2004 and the use of the web for political and basic informational needs is hardly new – it is incumbent on people who are trying to communicate to give some thought to the quality of their work. A politician would never release a TV ad that was full of video artifacts or anything – they demand a basic level of quality from the craftspeople who produce such material. Likewise, the state of the art in Canadian politics should be a great deal better than it is right now.
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