Japan airport security is basically pre-2001 (sans theater)
* keep shoes & jacket on
* metal detector
Unlike:
American airport security
* remove hoodie, jacket, etc.
* slower and more radiative millimeter/backscatter
I went through both Tokyo/Haneda and Chitose airport security this week. Haneda's security was also ok with using a single tray for liquids, devices, laptop, coins etc. for their x-ray machines, in contrast to U.S. airport security requiring separate trays for each laptop, and any liquids or anything else.
I can only conclude that the TSA's extra procedures and expensive radar devices are a waste of time & resources, no more than a perpetuation of a culture of fear since 2001.
I remain hopeful that the TSA will eventually adopt measures similar to Japanese airports and return to just using metal detectors.
likes benwerd’s note (@)
Social Web session @W3C #TPAC2015 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
We built a Portable Planetarium <$500 and won #ScienceHackDay Best Hardware!
We transformed @Github's Oval Office last night into a Planetarium for 20+ science hackers laying on the floor, piloted by yours truly dressed in a white lab coat for the part, naturally.
Today the Science Hack Day judges awarded us (@ekai, @Bryn_Wolf, me) Best Hardware (out of 32 projects).
Parts:
$250 100 lumen #picoprojector
$200 iPod 5 Touch
$40 fisheye lens, repurposed
$3 opensource Stellarium iOS app
$1 duct tape
$0 scrap cardboard
Turning any livingroom or classroom into a spaceship to explore the universe:
Priceless.
going to IndieWebCamp SF 2015-12-03.
You should too!
indie event https://kylewm.com/2015/12/indiewebcamp-sf-2015
silo fb.com/events/175203116150206
going to IndieWebCamp MIT 2015-11-07…08 Cambridge MA!
indie event aaronparecki.com/events/2015/11/07/1/indiewebcamp
silo fb.com/events/193135737685881
Did #NPSF #tracktuesday yesterday morning:
* 400 800 1200 800 1200 800 400
Previously, a week ago 2015-279:
Workout: 1200 1200 600 600 600 4x300
I did: 800 1200 600 600 400 4x300
Two weeks ago 2015-272:
Did #NPSF #tracktuesday:
* warmup lap, 2x (5 4 3 2 1 min intervals with 1 min rest between)
Three weeks ago 2015-265:
Workout: warmup, 2x1200 2x800 2x400
Was late so did: warmup 2x800 2x400
And previously before that:
* tantek.com/2015/244/t1/did-entire-npsf-trackattack
@benwerd after this Saturday, may you see & expect a future much better than “an apocalyptic wasteland.” #tomorrowland
Well done @devjul!
“MTV begins at 1996-05-12”
http://web.archive.org/web/19960512183908/http://www.mtv.com/
5 months older than archive of Yahoo. #longevity
Web #longevity question:
What’s the oldest page in archive-org?
Can you beat 1996-10-17 Yahoo? http://web.archive.org/web/19960415000000*/http://yahoo.com
2 weeks ago #NFECS #ECSUT Marathon Relay leg 1 in 1:15:34 ~10km trail race PR by almost 2 min!
Wonderful time racing (7000-8600') with tommysteam (AKA #Saulin16) in Park City, Utah for the #NPSUMMIT. It was a beautiful day, and I’m grateful for such awesome #NPSF teammates.
going to Homebrew Website Club 17:30 @MozSF 2015-10-21!
indie event kylewm.com/2015/10/sf-homebrew-website-club-1
silo fb.com/events/671166853018457
@tommorris don’t know anyone supporting #OpenIDConnect login.
Some sites have #IndieAuth login https://indiewebcamp.com/IndieAuth#Supporting_Sites
@chrismessina we can make #AMP smaller:
* script: ban JSONLD
* meta: ban "property" attr, schema-org
make optional (not required)
* link rel=canonical
* meta name=viewport
* script ampproject
* style body opacity
* anything "amp-*"
allow but make loading expected to be optional by default:
* picture, source
* img - by default works like a span with its alt text
* perhaps allow per domain user opt-in, starting with same-origin
* any @font-face
re: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-html-format.md#required-markup
Remember when I declared js;dr?
#AMP: “not include author-written JavaScript, nor 3rd-party scripts”
https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/#not%20include%20any%20author-written%20JavaScript,%20nor%20any%20third-party%20scripts
Background: tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
However, View Source on ampproject.org/how-it-works, and they’ve still got some work to do, e.g. their misuse of <blockquote> for second level headings, e.g.:
<blockquote>AMP HTML is pretty fast.</blockquote>
Remember in the 1990s when presentational web authors would use "blockquote" to mean, "indent this"? @Zeldman remembers.
HTML has a high performance element for second level headings.
Curiously enough it’s called <h2>, e.g. that AMP Project page should be using:
<h2>AMP HTML is pretty fast.</h2>
But this is any easy fix. I’m sure it was a minor oversight.
Because why would someone worried about size & performance use 20 characters of open close tag names, when 4 would do?
Consider this an open challenge, what else can you cut from AMP?
@KevinMarks already has some suggestions: http://www.kevinmarks.com/ampreaction.html
going to Homebrew Website Club 17:30 @MozSF 2015-10-07!
indie event kylewm.com/2015/10/sf-homebrew-website-club
silo fb.com/events/1018383818191914
Code reviewed @glennjones #microformatshiv #Javascript @microformats parser+tests. Great work! http://microformatshiv.com/
Ran ~2.7km @ ~7000' +200'^ in Park City. Saturday’s #ECSUT Marathon Relay race leg will be ~10.5km @ ~7000' +1600'^.
♫ youtu.be/oFRbZJXjWIA
“Think that jammin’ was a thing of the past?
We’re jammin’,
Hope this jam is gonna last.”
@ThisIsMyJam goes read-only in 3 days, I hope this jam is gonna last.
Previously:
* tantek.com/2015/260/t2/orbital-halcyon-extended
going to Science Hack Day SF 2015!
Now open for sign-up: sciencehackday2015.eventbrite.com
Are you a designer dreamer builder optimist? Especially for and about the future?
Social Web WG first to adopt* new @W3C Software & Document license†!
* http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter#licensing
The more liberal CC0+OWFa (Mozilla’s preferred standards licensing‡) is still better, however, the new W3C license is more permissive than the previous W3C Document license.
The new W3C license more explicitly allows experimental improvements on W3C specifications, in particular outside W3C, including publishing publicly (with attribution), with the potential for reincorporation into W3C specs.
It’s a big step forward, and hopefully experience with this more permissive license will help build confidence in the use of more permissive licenses in general, towards the goal of increasing use of CC0+OWFa for open standards.
† http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software
‡ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards/license
Related:
• tantek.com/2015/150/t1/running-for-w3cab-again
Previously:
• tantek.com/2011/168/b1/practices-good-open-web-standards-development
Aside:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_%28typography%29#Modern_usage
going to Homebrew Website Club 17:30 @MozSF 2015-09-23!
indie event kylewm.com/2015/09/sf-homebrew-website-club-1
silo fb.com/events/142187966129436
Last week’s purge, ~71 pounds of stuff:
* 35 cds
* 6 books
* 12.8 lbs housewares
* 40.4 lbs clothing including:
* 16 tshirts
* 8 pairs socks
* 5 pairs of shoes
* 5 pants
* 4 long sleeve shirts
* 2 sweaters
* 2 sweatpants
* 1 belt
* 1 hoodie
Previously: tantek.com/2015/256/t1/purge-stuff-not-building-positive-future
@ibogost the open web is now for optimists building & living it. You use WordPress, try adding https://indiewebcamp.com/Getting_Started_on_WordPress
@benward re: https://www.facebook.com/tantek.celik/posts/10101883746673363?comment_id=10101883803689103
donated the books to Goodwill, they’ll figure it out. 10y+ RSS/Atom namespaces n/a to STEM. Wanted to avoid burdening public library too.
♫ youtu.be/xNPZ_XFst0c
This is Orbital’s original “Halcyon (Extended Version)”, in contrast to the “Halcyon On and On” version on the Hackers soundtrack. The accompanying video adds a poignant, surreal, frantic, and sometimes peacefully beautiful backdrop, to the hypnotically looped vocals.
Previously:
* tantek.com/2015/253/t6/chance-happy-clap-along-you-feel-wanna
OH @TheAmericanSF: To me flying is teleportation. We are living in an era where we can go anywhere in the world in 24h
@kevinmarks will be dead? #Branch funded by @ev @obviousvc *is* dead. My post won, as predicted tantek.com/2015/159/t1/branch-replied-my-site-last-longer
@kevinmarks The idea won’t be to publish on js;dr sites. That is dead to history. The #indieweb, HTML optionally enhanced with JS, is what matters: searchable & discoverable, indexed & archived long after unarchived t.co links have died, like the one in your tweet:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://t.co/JhLo9aUamB
“Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt.”
Previously: tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
Today’s the 20th anniversary of the release of Hackers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29
Who’s up for a viewing tonight?
Happy #8bitday — 256th day of the year (almost missed it!)
This year: go #microsoft.com, try #KonamiCode!
Prev: http://tantek.com/2014/256/b1/happy-8-bit-day-8bitday
Next: I’ve been thinking about how to make 8-bit origami, or perhaps just pixel art origami. Web searches haven’t found much, e.g. making pixel art from a single sheet of paper, without cutting it.
decided to purge stuff not part of building positive futures, donated
5 lbs clothes
20 CDs
10 lbs 10y+ old technology books
A good start.
Going to set aside a few things to donate every day, clustering them into canvas bags. When a bag is full (or nothing more to donate of that type of item), take it to Goodwill. Repeat until everything left is useful for a positive future, or a part of my identity I want to keep and reinforce.
Repair things and only buy things as consumables, replacements/upgrades of current useful things, or to grow new areas of creativity & optimism.
Missing both #xoxo #xoxofest (for the 1st time) and #dConstruct.
Good reason: going to celebrate Ariel & Matt tonight.
♫ vimeo.com/80193433
Because if you have a chance to be happy,
“Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.”
Previously:
* tantek.com/2015/253/t4/chance-happy-mutually-take-it
* tantek.com/2015/244/t2/saving-jam-shoot-it-up-there
@kevinmarks definitely that film too.
@poulpita have you seen Sneakers?
tantek.com/i/a/B00008OE4W
If you have a chance to be happy, especially mutually so with another, take it make it. Life’s short, don’t hold back.
Sometimes I sense a question from a friend, want to give timely advice, can’t in-person, so I hope they see a post.
Thanks @KevinMarks HWC SF notes! kevinmarks.com/hwc2015-09-09.html
My #indieweb update: I added photo posts to my site: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2015-09-01#t1441130307365 http://indiewebcamp.com/photo#Tantek e.g. http://tantek.com/2015/253/t1/wakeupthesun-gasworkspark-np-sea
🌆 #wakeupthesun yesterday at #GasWorksPark before @nov_project_sea #NP_SEA
Noted to @poulpita that as @W3C Web Security Interest Group co-chair, she needs to see Hackers: tantek.com/i/a/6305047456
Proposed to @W3CAB that all @W3C specs should have a #Security & #Privacy section, like the @W3CTAG’s: https://w3ctag.github.io/security-questionnaire/
from the perspective that I’ve done so myself (i.e. dogfooded) in the most recent @CSS3UI Candidate Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/css-ui-3/#security-privacy-considerations
Related:
* tantek.com/2015/189/b1/css-basic-user-interface-level-3
not going to tonight’s Homebrew Website Club in SF/PDX (I’m @W3CAB in Redmond) but you should! https://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-09-09-homebrew-website-club
Talking #WoT @W3CAB. I say any #IoT #security “expert” must at a minimum post their home IP adr & list of appliances.
In 1st @W3CAB in-person meeting of my 2nd elected term. Continuing to push & document #OpenAB: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB
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