links for 2008-04-24

• baetle - Google Code
  "stands for Bug And Enhancement Tracking LanguagE. It is an ontology that describes the information kept in BugDatabases such as Bugzilla, Jira and others do [...] format for bug databases to exchange their bug data"
  (tags: dev google)
• Steven Poole: Fugitive pieces
  "possibly, the book as we know it might well turn out to have been a contingent historical phenomenon [...] that lasted only half a millennium [...] Conversations between bloggers last hours or days, but conversations between books can last for centuries"
  (tags: blogs books)
• High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
  (tags: ships container law via:alexlaurie)
• LRB · T.J. Clark: The Special Motion of a Hand
  (tags: art toread via:preoccupations)
• Nabokov on Lolita: Rewinding the Videotape | Open Culture
  (tags: books nabokov toread via:preoccupations)
• Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: When Government branding goes wrong...
  New OGC brand hints at a lot of, erm, "hand-waving".
  (tags: design publicsector)