Humanity loses again: HTML 5 chosen over XHTML 2.0

The W3C let the XHTML 2.0 charter expire on 31 Dec 2009.

This is bad, because XHTML 2 is better organized than HTML 5.  Everything neat that HTML 5 can do could also be done in XHTML 2... on the other hand, HTML 5 includes some big gaffes like reserved style sheet class names (like .copyright, in contrast with the special pseudo-classes like :first), and HTML 5 keeps bad tags around like font and italics, even though these are better represented as style sheets - either inline or separated.

Xhtml.doc nicely summarizes some pros/cons.

Perry v. Schwarzenegger

I'm not homosexual but I do believe that any two or more adults living together should get the same tax benefits or penalties as do married couples. I believe that marriage should be controlled by churches, not governments. I also believe that since church membership is optional, churches should be free to discriminate against anyone; governments should not. When our government upholds laws that enforce the values of a specific religious sect over non-members it is toppling a pillar of our country's foundation. I'm very interested in watching this trial to see the case against the separation of church and state, because like other modern Americans I love to be disgusted. So I signed the petition to televise the trial.