I try to summarize the most relevant news from the world of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) every month. Here's the digest for May-June 2006. Read the rest of this entry ...
Via McCracken, here is some audio of a guy trying to cancel his AOL account. I'm sure if this gets enough coverage that AOL will send a Cease-and-Desist letter, but for now you can enjoy the rage you feel when listening... (Warning: one cuss word is used).
Looking at all the comments it's amazing how many people have experienced the same thing. Big businesses like this need to be sent a message...
Via Linux-Watch, this is the unbelievable Software Wars map now maintained by Steven Hilton.
I've emailed Mr. Hilton to suggest adding Adobe and the W3C as players as well as Microsoft's competitive technologies on those fronts. He states that the map is created using Inkscape, but apparently it's only published in raster form. I'd like to see the map in SVG form so that it could be scalable, have links for each technology to authoritative pages, and eventually it could be searchable when clients catch up.
Anyway, awesome/hilarious/interesting stuff in there!
Last night in an online chat with the Home Theater Forum, Warners Home Video announced they have finally settled their legal issues with Hearst Entertainment and King Features Syndicate and are planning to release all the Popeye starting in 2007. Here's the press release. The cartoons will be given the royal treatment, just like the Looney Tunes