終於把 Red Mars 讀完了。還有兩本，紅火星只是火星三部曲的第一本而已呢(倒)。
火星三部曲真的是鋪陳很精細的小說；它是真科幻(在不遠的未來帶有真實性的科幻)，每個章節以第三人稱描述一位角色的觀點、所見所聞與內心想法。雖然英文版裡面細緻描述的部份對我來說還算吃力，但我還是 enjoy 它所描述的世界。
以下劇情洩漏。
Red Mars. I finally finished reading it. Although I had difficulties understanding some of the detail descriptions Robinson used on landscapes and people’s feeling, I still quite enjoy it as the first novel I choose to read the original instead of translated version.
Spoiler Follows.
favicon.ico is a file to put on the root of an website, Internet Explorer and Firefox will show it on the address bar and favorite/bookmark. Mine are down there, a piece of Tiramisu:
.ico is an Windows Icon file, however it can be seen on Firefox across platforms. It was, originally, proposed and developed by Microsoft, then become the de facto standard with support from Mozilla.
Mozilla proposal for website icon that require <link rel=”icon” /> on header of every html file is still limited on Mozilla products.
The funny thing is Microsoft never put a favicon.ico on their website. Even if they did put one later God-knows-when, they put an icon of white sheet.
I guess they are planing registering the folded sheet as trademark. Oh please don’t.
favicon.ico 是放在網站根目錄的一個圖示，放了之後 IE 和 Firefox 等瀏覽器(KKman 或是 PCMan 不行)就會把它 show 在位址列或是我的最愛/書籤上面。下面是我的圖示，一小片提拉米蘇：
雖然說 .ico 是 Windows 的圖示檔格式，但是其他作業系統的 Firefox 也會順利 show 出來；這個做法原本是 Microsoft 提議的，後來被 Mozilla 支援而變成非正式標準。
原本 Mozilla 提議的作法是在每個 HTML 檔的 header 用 <link rel=”icon” /> 指定它的圖示；這個作法到現在還沒有被其他瀏覽器支援所以比較少人用了。
不過好笑的是，Microsoft 自己從來沒有在它們的網站上放 favicon.ico。就算他們好不容易終於放了，他們竟然放了一個 … 空白文件的圖示？
他們打算把「折一角的A4紙」這個標誌拿去登記商標嗎？拜託。
Vote.
Vote.
Inform yourself and vote.If you don’t vote,
…shut up.
「不投票，就閉嘴。」是Tu Rock es Votar(To Rock is To Vote)對墨西哥年輕人的訴求，要年輕人用選票發表自己對社會的意見。算是墨西哥版本的 Rock the Vote(美國)。墨西哥總統大選星期天投票。他們的宣傳還包含由MTV Maxico製作，訪問每位候選人的談話節目，年輕人可以用e-mail或是街頭訪談上發問。
(我在Washington Post Video上面看到的；網站上有那部影片，裡面的西班牙文版廣告有打英文字幕。)
不知道台灣的搖滾歌手們有沒有這樣的影響力；改變大家現在對政治、政策的無力感，讓大家知道自己所握有的(合法的)力量。像墨西哥一樣，不投票的我們是可以成為左右結果的關鍵少數意見的——畢竟上次總統選舉的當選人得票率是50.21%(炸)。
Tu Rock es Votar(Your Rock is To Vote), inspired by Rock the Vote, is a campaign for young voters to speak their opinions to the society and to vote for the president of Mexico. The election will be held on Sunday.
(Via Washington Post Video. Go to their website to see TV ads with English subtitle.)
I wonder what kind of campaign can be organised to get young people in Taiwan to believe their votes could change our society. The next election for Taiwanese president is in March 2008.