this is the type of thing that sunshine laws in the u.s. should provide. i want everything the president says to anyone public knowledge now, unless it is directly related to national security, and that should be vetted by appointees by a senate committee.

Since the EU Council decided in May 2001 to provid …. Since the EU Council decided in May 2001 to provide open access to its non-classified meeting papers, the public has been taking advantage of the opportunity. “The number of requests for access to EU Council of Ministers documents has doubled to 2,394 since the entry into force of the legislation and 80 per cent of these demands have resulted in full disclosure.” Some member states, like Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, and some press organizations, like Reuters, think the EU policy should go further to open up the process of its decision-making and educate the public about its deliberations. (Thanks to QuickLinks.) [FOS News]

New RFC Adds “Evil Bit” [Slashdot]

this is clearly a necessary addition to any networking protocol, though it needs to be supplemented with the competency bit, because there is nothing so wrong as the incompetent, evil packet….

CSS Examples and Commentary.

Tantek Celik has recently released some useful CSS examples (with accompanying commentary) under a Creative Commons attribution license.

Check out Tantek's reasoning for the move.

[Creative Commons: weblog]

you know i see all this work on css, and i do so little with it. I really have to check out css, as it is clear that my life without it is incomplete., not to mention that recently I've been demonstrating less than fab web design sense… as is evidenced by the design of this blog, or lack of it, well honestly, this design is a weak hack and that is about it, nothing new there.