The SOPA/PIPA protests are in full swing. Wikipedia is dark. Flickr is pulling a shade down over some images. What about the pirate sites, the ones that will benefit the most? They're all well lighted, just like a used car lot on the edge of town. Talk about irony.

For grins, I monkeyed around with the Kindle tool to build a Kindle version of Free for All .

If you're curious about whether your browser supports some of the current tools for checking your location, click below. (And note that this just triggers an event at the javascript level. The browser will ask you again if you really want to approve this.

If you're curious about whether your browser supports some of the current data objects, this table is a way to experiment with how they behave on your browser. Type in these slots and watch the validity get reported. . It's a companion to my article at InfoWorld about the new standards.

If you're curious about whether your browser supports some of the current data objects, this table reports the results of testing them. It's a companion to my article at InfoWorld about the new standards.

Here's a piece of embedded SVG. If your browser can see this, you see SVG just mixed in with HTML. If you can see colored things, pure embedding is working. After the break comes an iFrame with the same SVG code. It tends to be more reliable in many browsers.

< rect fill="green" stroke="black" x="15" y="15" width="120" height="20" / >
< rect fill="green" stroke="black" x="15" y="65" width="120" height="20" rx="12" ry="18" / >
<circle fill="yellow" stroke="blue" cx="42" cy="110" r="10"/>
<ellipse fill="blue" stroke="red" cx="62" cy="155" rx="50" ry="10"/>

Here's a little Canvas tag tester I built to test whether browsers implement the Canvas tag. Note the floating orange links are active. If you click on them, you'll be taken to that part of InfoWorld. To build this, I used Graham Breach's jQuery TagCloud plugin.

Here's a set of four video tags that I created to test how well video tags work in browsers for an InfoWorld story. If you can see a flying logo, you know the video format works in your browser.

The new Apple iPhone v. 4 looks impressive. The noise cancellation feature reminded me of the I posted almost ten years ago.

After much consideration I am opting out of the Google Book Settlement. While I still hope that Google's entry into selling content will make it more aware of the needs of content creators everywhere, I think the current structure is short-sighted and destructive. The information ecology will be hurt more than it will be helped.