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ClickToPlugin HTML5 replacements.

Speed is good and HTML5 is very good, especially on OS X. As to what makes something speedier than another thing? Architecture. The more modern, the more it takes advantage of the new ways of thinking what apps do and what is required to produce results other apps can leverage, the better.

Firefighters balk at new digital radios, as failures risk lives | McClatchy.

Standards matter. And the lure of the “digital” is really pretty dangerous, if it is thought of as more or less the same way any product from the Jetson’s would be: with excited awe that the future is finally here.

The issue is of course also one of cronyism and profiteering. We see this in developing regions, which are (or were?) colonized by this or that new and seemingly heroic technology that is, in fact, quite wrong for the market, the environment, the milieu. It only wrecks the good and makes it that much harder to become better, and does little to solve the problem of the bad.