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February 2004

283 bookmarks saved in February 2004

feelies.org

http://www.feelies.org
"Feelies have been a long-standing tradition in the days of text adventures, but sadly, there haven't been many games with toys and trinkets to impress your friends with in the years since Infocom's decline."
#gaming #ifiction
archive.org #1903

Ninja Golf!

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/ninjagolf
"But no game, and I mean no game could possibly compete with the allure of a title such as Ninja Golf."
#gaming
archive.org #1892

Researchers Successfully Force Evolutionary Leap

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040223075250.htm
"Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan have forced an unprecedented evolutionary leap in E. coli bacteria, and findings from their study could have ramifications on protein production for the biotechn
#biotech #science
archive.org #1873

Angel axed to make way for repeats

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/news/news.php?archive=&id=1077657349&start_from=&subaction=showfull&ucat=
'Levin continued to go further into explaining why the show about the soulful vampire was not renewed for a sixth season. He said, "We need to create timeslots where we can repeat shows."'
#angel #whedon
archive.org #1862

Next Mac OS X to be Metadata-driven?

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=6101
"All this is not a surprise for us, as the people who were behind the same realization on BeOS --Dominic Giampaolo and Pavel Cisler-- today work at key positions at Apple Computer in the file system and Finder areas respectively."
#apple #beos #osx
archive.org #1856

Neil Gaiman

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2001_12_09_archive.asp#7937828
'"...And he made me promise to say that, if Neil keeps up, Todd’s going to go public with all the dirt on Neil he can find, and Neil’s fans won’t like him any more.”'
#comics
archive.org #1853

Neil Gaiman

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004_02_22_archive.asp#107766958467371937
"You know, if I were Todd McFarlane, I would simply have apologised a long time ago."
#comics #law
archive.org #1852

ICv2 News - Gaiman Sweep!

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/1883.html
"... the jury came back with a verdict in Phase I of Gaiman vs. McFarlane, awarding a complete victory to writer Neil Gaiman in his court battle with toy and comic magnate Todd McFarlane."
#comics #law
archive.org #1851

Bad counsel?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_02_15.html#002584
"For at least a year, and probably more like eighteen months, GOP staffers accessed the Democrats confidential files. And they snatched approximately 5,000 of them, give or take."
#politics
archive.org #1831

Flowers for Al and Don

http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/flowers
"I'm using a PayPal account to collect money, with which I'll buy bouquets in bulk for the couples in line [to be married in San Francisco]."
archive.org #1825

Reeves Defends Constantine

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-02/19/12.00.film=
"Keanu Reeves, who plays the title character in the upcoming supernatural thriller film Constantine, told SCI FI Wire that the movie is faithful to the spirit of the DC/Vertigo comic series Hellblazer, on which it is based." Yeah, right.
#comics #movies
archive.org #1823

dready

http://dready.org/blog_item/8
"While digging through some old archives, I found a piece of MS Word macro I wrote almost 3 years ago as a proof-of-concept, dubbed viWord."
archive.org #1815

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html
"Leonard Nimoy. After seeing this, no star trek actor ever has the right to complain about being typecast ever again. You know you love it."
#osx
archive.org #1813

document.getElementsByWhatever

http://slayeroffice.com/code/getElementsByWhatever.html
"This method will return a collection of objects who's tag name, attribute names, attribute values or (optionally) text nodes match the "whatever" argument."
#javascript
archive.org #1810

Only transform

http://www.looselycoupled.com/blog/lc00aa00014.html
"f those Atom people were really smart, they'd publish a whole catalogue of stylesheets: Atom-to-RSS0.92, Atom-to-RSS1.0, Atom-to-RSS2.0, Atom-to-WordprocessingML ... and probably offer a free transformation utility too."
#atom #syndication
archive.org #1801

Disenchanted: Clear as mud

http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/humanity/body-language
"This is the last transmission of Alan Gerrard, the first diplomat of Earth to speak to a strange alien race in the only language they understand."
#cogsci #scifi
archive.org #1800

View from the Alpha Geek

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_stenger021304.asp
"Q&A: O'Reilly programmer and technology maven Rael Dornfest looks beyond Web services and social networking."
archive.org #1798

Monkeybagel.com: Pumas on Hoverbikes

http://www.monkeybagel.com/pumas.html
"This is because managers are usually people who proved that they were handy with a chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs cut off and their weapons handed to some punk college hire."
#management
archive.org #1794

VoteLinks - Technorati Developers Site

http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/VoteLinks
"Indexing and tracking applications treat all links as endorsements, or expressions of support. This is a problem, as we need to link to those we disagree with as well, to discuss why."
archive.org #1785

Tag URI

http://www.taguri.org
"The tag algorithm lets people mint — create — identifiers that no one else using the same algorithm could ever mint."
archive.org #1784

phil ringnalda dot com: FUD 101

http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/02/fud_101.php
"Is there a name for the FUD technique where you ascribe everything to malice on the part of the largest possible organization or the person at the head of that organization?"
#fud
archive.org #1783

Irate Scotsman - Worrying

http://iratescotsman.com/index.php/tech/worrying.html
" Was at the supermarket tonight, and went to the ATMs outside to get some cash; imagine my amusement when I saw this on the Nationwide machine's screen."
#MSFT
archive.org #1781

Rands In Repose: In Defense of N.A.D.D.

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/02/15/in_defense_of_nadd.html
"The folks who get N.A.D.D. know that when they summon their own bizarre set of desktop rituals, they are able to construct a healthy mental space where they can successfully surf waves of information that would baffle your average multitasker."
#cogsci #nadd
archive.org #1775

XML Résumé Library

http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net
"The XML Résumé Library is an XML and XSL based system for marking up, adding metadata to, and formatting résumés and curricula vitae."
#xml
archive.org #1767

Lurking and Social Networks

http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001183.html
"Lurking, although the word seems to imply a negative connotation, has usefull aspects nonetheless. It is a way of determining rules of behaviour for new comers to a group."
archive.org #1760

RSS, Atom, Feh.

http://markbernstein.org/Feb0401.html#note_35353
"Have you noticed how little new syndication software is showing up lately?" Actually, I'm noticing an uptick in activity lately!
#atom #syndication
archive.org #1756

Watching the Jobs Go By

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/opinion/11KRIS.html
"In 1957, the Soviet launching of Sputnik frightened America into substantially improving math and science education. I'm hoping that the loss of jobs in medicine and computers to India and elsewhere will again jolt us into bolstering our own teaching of
#economy #education
archive.org #1750

Nano-origami

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id=2950
"Scripps Research Institute scientists have designed, constructed, and imaged a single strand of DNA that spontaneously folds into a highly rigid, nanoscale octahedron."
#nano
archive.org #1748

Tuttle SVC

http://tuttlesvc.teacherhosting.com/blog/blosxom.cgi/labor/education/blogging/FudBlast.html
Supporting Atom is not catastrophic, or even all that much effort.
#atom #syndication
archive.org #1747

File Sharing’s New Face

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/circuits/12shar.html?ei=5062&en=0abdc236252b8a71&ex=1077166800&partner=GOOGLE
"If Napster started the first generation of file-sharing, and services like Kazaa represented the second, then the system developed by Mr. Cohen, known as BitTorrent, may well be leading the third."
#p2p
archive.org #1741

disenchanted.com: 2+2

http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/technology/strange-attractor.html?id=nAtuG78b
"A little boy throws stones into a pond and discovers a principle that may explain how the whole universe comes to exist."
archive.org #1737

WikiNotePad

http://gizmolabs.org/~andrew/andrewweb/project.php?pid=4&tab=0
"It's kind of like VoodooPad, but without all of the features, registration fees, and closed source."
#osx #tools #wiki
archive.org #1734

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-02-11#1831
"...imagine if you will a seven dimensional penis which can project beyond time, and even through solid matter. This metadong can be everywhere and nowhere at once, its exact physical state is constantly in flux."
#funny
archive.org #1732

ExpressionEngine | Overview

http://www.pmachine.com/expressionengine
"ExpressionEngine is the world's most creative and powerful web publishing software.  In fact, it will redefine the entire genre." Huh. Okay. I guess we'll be hearing soon how true this claim is...
#metablogging
archive.org #1729

Colloquy: IRC Client

http://www.javelin.cc/colloquy/index.html
"By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application." Not only that, but AppleScript support, and XSLT-based look&feel plugins for text display using WebKit.
#apple #irc #osx
archive.org #1716

MagnetLink.org

http://www.magnetlink.org
"Magnet links allow users to directly download large media files saving website creators and bloggers money on bandwidth costs and effectively propagating files on p2p networks that attract millions of users per day."
#p2p
archive.org #1714

Exploring Footers: A List Apart

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers
"If you want to center content vertically or stick a footer to the bottom of the browser window...[use a table]... With web standards, you can’t do this anymore."
#css
archive.org #1713

NanoBlogger

http://home.columbus.rr.com/n1xt3r/nanoblogger
"NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash, that uses common unix tools, such as cat, grep and sed." Looks like Blosxom has some competition in the Unix-philosophy-of-blogging category
#gnu #metablogging #opensource
archive.org #1712

John Robb's Weblog

http://jrobb.mindplex.org/2004/02/09.html#a4279
"The real long-term solution to the American jobs crisis is to find a way to make it less risky for people to join a start-up."
#economy #jobs
archive.org #1711

Allegiance - Home

http://research.microsoft.com/research/allegiance
"We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn’t really died."
#MSFT #gaming
archive.org #1709

Neil Gaiman

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004_02_01_archive.asp#107586011016853901
"I'm not sure what getting into a creative writing program has to do with being a writer."
archive.org #1683

Can nanopulses heal?

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id=2910
"Exposing cells noninvasively to an extremely powerful electric field for nanoseconds might one day be used to treat cancer, speed up healing or tackle obesity."
#medicine #nano
archive.org #1679

Oh Mikey!

http://www.jlist.com/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?function=product.display&id=12617712
"Welcome back to the world of the Fuccon Family, aka Oh Mikey!, a bizarre and amazing 'mannequin drama' that has taken Japan by storm."
#japan #mobile
archive.org #1669

How to avoid a web site

http://www.scribbling.net/how_to_avoid_a_web_site
"Ever not been able to keep your little clicking mouse from obsessively browsing to that bad, dark place on the web?"
archive.org #1659

gotoAndPlay();: MTgotoAndComment : Et voilà!

http://www.gotoandplay.ca/archives/2004/01/28/mtgotoandcomment_et_voila.html
I can't read French, but apparently, this is a comment form implemented in Flash so as to throw a monkey wrench into spamming. Interesting, but misguided. Maybe even goes further toward allowing spammers to automate.
#flash #spam
archive.org #1651

Into the cuckoo's nest

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1134105,00.html
"Thirty years ago psychiatry was rocked by the revelation that nine sane volunteers had faked hearing voices and fooled thier way on to locked wards. Has diagnosis improved since?"
#psychology
archive.org #1650

JMS: More B5 coming?

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.html?2003-12/02/10.45.tv=
"Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans on amessage board that he's working on a follow-up to the popular SF series..."
#scifi
archive.org #1645

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-02-02
"We finally got four cubes together in one place, and if there is a word to describe the experience of sixteen player Mario Kart, I don't know it."
#gaming
archive.org #1637

CueCat Resources

http://www.beau.lib.la.us/~jmorris/linux/cuecat
"...once you strip away the unique serial number and the lame attempt to obfuscate the output it is a fairly good general purpose barcode scanner."
#cuecat
archive.org #1629