Simon Willison’s Weblog

Giant Global Graph. Tim Berners-Lee points out that the Semantic Web is designed to solve problems such as portable social networks.

# 12:30 am / portablesocialnetworks, openid, tim-berners-lee, semanticweb, socialgraph

WS-dämmerung. Tim Bray collects the latest round of WS-* repenting, which saves me from linking to them individually.

# 9:49 am / web-services, tim-bray, soap, ws-star

Happy 30th Birthday Internet! “Exactly 30 years ago today on November 22, 1977 the first three networks were connected to become the Internet.”

# 3:25 pm / birthday, internet, elliotte-rusty-harold

Why Guiness tastes better in Ireland. Two reasons: it’s more popular so kegs empty faster (and you always get a fresh pint), and Guinness send someone round to every pub to flush the lines once every three weeks.

# 3:41 pm / guiness, ireland, drinking, pubs, jon-udell

Musical hackery. Indescribably clever musical video game creation, where images from classic games spell out their own theme tunes. The smartest thing I’ve seen on YouTube, well, ever.

# 5:03 pm / youtube, games, music, genius, hack

Safari CSS Reference. Official documentation covering the CSS properties supported by Safari, including the -webkit proprietary extensions.

# 11:51 pm / safari, css, documentation, webkit, browsers