Unbundling the newspapers; language and First Contact; assorted web-dev stuff …

• 1 – Unbundling The Newspaper Could Be A Good Thing
  “Newspapers are declining not because there’s no market for good content, but because the 20th-century newspaper probably isn’t the best model for organizing the enterprise of news gathering.”
  (tags: aggregation RSS web unbundling media news)
• 2 – First Contact Scenarios: How to Reply
  “Communication between two people of the same species can be profoundly mysterious and often filled with misconceptions. How, then, would we ever communicate with an extraterrestrial culture?”
  (tags: philosophy language firstcontact communication SETI space)
• 3 – How information escapes from a black hole
  “If a black hole eats a book, what happens to the information? The latest work from a team of physicists says that in the distant future, the black hole eventually spits out the book’s full contents. Even a black hole can’t destroy information.”
  (tags: information blackhole singularity relativity quantum physics astronomy)
• 4 – Blog – Using jQuery to Produce Rich User Interfaces
  Could come in handy some day … cheers, JT.
  (tags: tutorial interface gallery animation design jquery webdev)
• 5 – IE PNG Fix
  “… you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code. This script will add near-native PNG support with full alpha opacity, with only one line in your CSS file …”
  (tags: images fix CSS javascript hack transparency PNG IE webdev)
• 6 – Feed Wrangler [WP Plugin]
  “Feed Wrangler is a simple plugin that allows one to create custom feeds for their WordPress blog. You can customize the structure of that feed by creating a corresponding file in your blog theme …”
  (tags: webdev RSS feed custom plugin wordpress)
• 7 – How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog
  “The idea here is to place all of your common, customized design elements—like an author bio or a sales widget for your sidebar, for instance—within functions that reside in a separate, non-theme file.”
  (tags: plugins tutorial tricks webdev theme hacks functions customise wordpress)