What happens when nobody will take responsibility for a standard that the web relies on?
I’m so impressed with Radiohead. I was a fan back in the days of The Bends (y’know: before they literally, if not metaphorically, sold out), and have more affection for Pablohoney than most. But in an era when it’s trivial to get whatever music you want for free off your mate who happened to buy it, they accepted that fact and gave alternative distribution a whirl. And maybe it worked and maybe it didn’t: it depends on who you’re talking to.
One of my resolutions this year is to try to cut down on the carbon I spend on music. Notwithstanding my purchase of the In Rainbows discbox, I’ve amassed an awful number of discs of metallized plastic in barely-recyclable containers. (I say “barely” because K. got me a pencil for Christmas made out of old CD boxes, and a pen from dead car parts. But there’s only so many pencils the world can use.)
As promised, I'm releasing the Straight Edge theme used on this blog under GPL2.
There's a brief README.txt in the zipped archive linked above, but the theme's main features are:
A Python3-compatible version of BeautifulSoup is now bundled with the Python2 BeautifulSoup tarball. It's actually been available since 27 December, but the most recent version 3.1.0.1 addresses a bug in attribute handling.
It's a bit fiddly to get it working---you need patch, and both python3 and 2to3 on the command line (and 2to3 to be called 2to3-3.0---but when it does so, that ol' BS magic is pretty clear.