Things I Find Interesting

This week in HTML5...in verse.

So <time> is saved
though it may be changed,
and <data> is on the horizon.

<hgroup> is going,
you can hear it moaning,
as HTML5 continues to wizen.

Updated: May 23, 2011

A popular post here at Burningbird is the one titled No, HTML5 is NOT at Last Call. I wrote it in 2009, when the HTML5 editor, Ian Hickson, made a unilateral call for Last Call because of the status of the document in WHATWG.

However, times change. HTML5 is now heading into W3C Last Call status, beginning with a poll of members about publishing HTML5 and several other documents:

Missouri's Governor Nixon asked the Missouri Attorney General to file suit in court to block the Army Corps of Engineers from blowing up the Birds Point Levee.

Blowing the levee will flood farmland and about 100 homes in Missouri, but not blowing the levee could very well endanger the entire town of Cairo, Illinois. A few years back, I wrote about Cairo, Illinois the town that pulls you in, as it pushes you away.

The bill we fought so hard for, Proposition B, was killed today. It was killed by the state legislature, and it was killed by Governor Nixon. It had the honor of dying in a bi-partisan fashion, killed by Democrat and Republican alike.

I have found there is one thing that can bring both parties together: the vote of the people. All we have to do is enact direct democracy at the national level, and politicos from both parties will bond tightly, in a mutual shared horror of "we the people".

Just a short note.

I listened to all of the debate on SB 113, which guts Proposition B. The debate was pretty bad, and I'm incredibly disappointed that none of the pro Prop B senators took a stronger stance. More disappointed that the bill was perfected, as is.

However, this is just the first vote to formalize the language. There's still a final vote.

What bothered me the most is that I knew how much Prop B and SB 113 were misrepresented, and I couldn't do a thing about it. I doubt I'll be able to listen to the House debate, not after this.

This is cowardly, but I wish I had never read the breeder inspection reports. I know what the dogs' lives will be like if Proposition B is repealed, and this knowledge is just tearing me up.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss—especially in Missouri where small minded men seek to keep this state hidden in shadows, facing backwards rather to the future, and buried in dog crap.