my friend Joey has a fun-to-read rant cum response ("rantsponse"?) to the NARAS's most recent yaddayadda about file sharing. by the way, did anyone notice that the NARAS/GRAMMY(TM) site is hosted by AOL? that wouldn't be the AOL that's a unit of AOL Time Warner, sister company to the Warner Bros. record label and TV and movie studios, would it?
AOL's corporate parent is a part-owner of the MusicNet joint venture, a label-owned competitor to Napster and other digital music distribution services. AOL's corporate siblings are some of MusicNet's most critical content providers, and that AOL is one of MusicNet's key licensees. that makes NARAS look kind of like a shill, doesn't it?
anyway, that's not what i'm writing about. at the end of his piece, i get thrown into Joey's recommended reading list, which is nice. then Joey asks (in a "Memo to George") that i capitalize the starts of my sentences because, as he says, " The e.e. cummings / archy-and-mehithabel (sic) thing is pretty old."
memo to Joey: suck it.
however, it did give rise to an interesting thought, though: can CSS and/or JavaScript be employed to give readers the site they want, right down to capitalized sentences? i won't be capitalizing anything except proper nouns any time soon, but i don't want to keep on confusing Joey. help me help him. (via AccordionGuy)
