In no particular order, and attributed to no particular person:

Interactive is only really fast batch.

Does that make RESTful just very fast messsages?

The Heraclitean nightmare of never stepping into the same runtime environment twice.

[The] glory of standards is between you and your Maker.

The only reason for a corporation to participate in standards work is that it doesn't already control the market.

Even if out of date. So, IEML (Information Economy Meta Language):

The rate of exchange. Sure, the Euro.

TinyTiM released as beta.

Try XQuery vs. XSLT.

Or topic maps vs. RDF.

How does Google do it?

XML on the Web: An Open Discussion

Balisage is pleased to host a meeting of W3Quebec as a Nocturne at Balisage 2008. The Nocturne/W3Quebec meeting will be held in the Mont Blanc room of the Hotel Europa on August 12, from 19:00 to 20:30. The meeting will be an open discussion on the use of XML in web development, covering both some mistakes of the past and good applications which have approached the original W3C vision of the web.

I just had to write that headline. Sorry.

Norm Walsh:

Quebec's equivalent, at least chronologically, of the New York School, and harbingers of the Quiet Revolution. Exhibit at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

... this. And Montreal is a big graffiti town.