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So you know who CERN is, right? Go ahead and go to the site. Read about it.

Now that you know CERN is full of some of the world’s most intelligent people, right? Or we can assume so, since it’s near Sweden, and we make those assumptions.

But this both makes me laugh and scares the crap out of me at the same time.

The Swedes are trying to kill us.

Somebody call Superman - because we’re about to get sucked into a parallel universe, open up the Ninth Gate or something crazy.

Artists - make a living in the 21st century.

This sounds oh so familar.

I’m a firm believer that the new age of the internets will destroy record  companies as we know them, prove that movies need theatres,
and people will start making their living online. It’s possible, it’s happening, and it’s going to get bigger and better as time goes on.

So some people think Microsoft came to this conclusion themselves.

I think that IE making IE8 operate in standards mode without any additional coding - unlike their initial announcement that IE8 would run like IE7 without the tags.

They very clearly state:

Our initial thinking for IE8 involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” mode, and requiring developers to ask for IE8’s actual “Standards” mode separately. We made this decision, informed by discussions with some leading web experts, with compatibility at the top of mind.

I applaud the MS team for listening to the web community and, firstly, stating their initial plans, and following up and listening to the dubdubdub’s response and even more so - fixing the problem before it’s even in a public beta!

Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”

Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”