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September 2004

247 bookmarks saved in September 2004

detroitblog

http://detroitblog.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_detroitblog_archive.html#109579998092805642
I hate this city, but this blog helps.
#detroit
archive.org #3426

What the Bubble Got Right

http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html
"...doing good work will matter more than dressing up-- or advertising, which is the same thing for companies."
archive.org #3413

Boycott Gillette

http://www.boycottgillette.com/spychips.html
"Whenever a shopper picks up a packet of razor blades from a spy shelf, SNAP! A hidden camera secretly takes a closeup photo of the shopper's face." Tin-foil hattish, but I'm wondering...
#rfid
archive.org #3402

The Daintiest Dynamos

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep04/0904nuc.html
"By harvesting energy from radioactive specks, nuclear microbatteries could power tomorrow's microelectromechanical marvels—and maybe your cellphone, too"
#future #gadgets
archive.org #3395

Proximity Cards

http://cryolite.ath.cx/perl/skin/prox
"The software can currently read a card, store a single id, transmit that id over the air to a reader, blink out that id on the LEDs, and accept a new id on the tact switches."
#gadgets #hacks
archive.org #3385

Carlo's Firefox Extension(s) - McSearchPreview

http://docs.g-blog.net/code/mozilla_extensions
"An extension for Firefox which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, AllTheWeb and del.icio.us bookmarks by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images as well as "Open in New Window" and "Site Info"
#nifty #web
archive.org #3363

Growl and Apple Mail

http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/2004/09/20#GrowlMail
"Growl comes with a bundle for Apple Mail that notifies you when new mail shows up. Unfortunately, that's not too selective, and you end up getting a lot of notifications you don't care about"
#osx
archive.org #3355

SCGI

http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi
"The SCGI protocol is a replacement for the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) protocol. It is a standard for applications to interface with HTTP servers. It is similar to FastCGI but is designed to be easier to implement."
#webdev
archive.org #3331

Star Wars vs Star Trek in Five Minutes

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/FiveMinutes.html
"In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it." It's a pretty stark comparison :)
#scifi
archive.org #3328

Rising Hegemon: The Bogus Assault

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/09/bogus-assault-father-freeper-of-year.html
"Serial Republican Victim complains for the THIRD straight presidential election of being assaulted and has his family assist" Either way, this sucks.
#politics
archive.org #3325

90% Crud: My friend Flickr

http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/my_friend_flickr.php
"There's something obsessively great about it and when he wears a bow tie it's like winning the lottery."
archive.org #3305

api.creativecommons.org

http://api.creativecommons.org
"Creative Commons is currently testing web service APIs which can be used to integrate the Creative Commons licensing engine into third party applications."
archive.org #3299

MSNBC - What's up with Dick Cheney?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5990614#040914b
"...the idea that if Russia had only supported us in Iraq, had only sent troops there, they wouldn't have gotten hit.  That is insane." Someone needs to up the mind control lasers on Dick to keep him on message.
#politics
archive.org #3297

newLISP - Home

http://www.newlisp.org
"newLISP is a general purpose scripting language for developing Web applications and programs in general and in the domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and statistics."
#programming
archive.org #3296

Voice recognition for dashboard

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2004-September/msg00015.html
"It would be very cool if dashboard could create cluepackets from the speechrecognition software and dig up info on what whatever you are talking about." Wow, that would be kinda eerie if it worked well :)
#gadgets #nifty #programming
archive.org #3284

TagSoup home page

http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup
"This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short."
#html #java #xml
archive.org #3278

Whiteout for Mac OS X 10.3

http://www.suicidegirls.com/apps/whiteout
"Tired of metal EVERYWHERE? ... Whiteout replaces a system resource file with a modified version. The metal texture is changed to the original Aqua pinstripe texture." Yes. Thank you. I HATE BRUSHED METAL GUIs.
#osx
archive.org #3266

EmacsWiki: SpeedBar Without a Separate Frame

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SpeedBar
"The default behavior of speedbar is to create a second emacs frame, separate from the main editing frame. As with all things emacs, this default behavior can be modified so that no separate frame is created, and the speedbar becomes just another buffer w
#emacs #programming
archive.org #3263

Daleks invade Blackpool

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/daleks_invade_blackpool
"Daleks are more volatile than a mothership full of Russell Crowes, and have been known to deal summarily with persistent autograph hunters."
#scifi
archive.org #3254

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-09-10#2208
One of the perpetrators of this fine daily cause of coffee-through-nose has spawned. Congratulations!
#comics #funny
archive.org #3252

NPR : Civilization is a Warm, Furry Pet

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?sourceCode=RSS&wfId=3908772
"Commentator Andrei Codrescu's girlfriend wants to play with small animals to relieve stress. They find a place to do so. He encourages more such places, as a way to keep us civilized." Mmm, pets.
#pets
archive.org #3244

Short Circuit WAVs

http://www.wavsite.com/sounds.asp?ID=70
"Military robot Number 5, a well-armed killing machine, is zapped by lightning during a test and emerges with a consciousness, curiosity, a wacky sense of humor, and a new peace-loving philosophy."
#movies #sounds
archive.org #3241

43 Folders: Your Amazon wishlist when you really need it

http://merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/your_amazon_wis.html#more
'At the right resizing in Safari, then trimmed and folded, the “Title,” “Author,” and “Price” columns fit exactly into the back folder pocket of a mini-Moleskine' Ooh. My moleskine is quickly becoming my PDA, so this rocks
archive.org #3228

Tentacles of Rage

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Republican-Propaganda1sep04.htm
"The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history" The conservatives are having tentacle sex with our minds.
#politics
archive.org #3221

Pentagon Strike

http://pages.infinit.net/noc/pentagon.swf
I've always wondered just *what* happened there. It *never* looked like something as big as a 757 hit the Pentagon. If it were a fighter or a missile strike... that's a bit scary.
#war
archive.org #3213

The Words Speakers Use

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/09/02/politics/campaign/nat_02WORDS.gif
So.. Bush is about Freedom, War, and Kerry; and Kerry is about Health Care, Hope, Jobs, Strength, and War
#politics
archive.org #3205

Just a Bump in the Beltway: Widgets in the War Machine

http://www.node707.com/archives/001890.shtml
'The problem arose from an oversight in the Army’s war planning, which failed to anticipate the large number of wounded soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Col. Douglas Eliason, chief medical officer with the Oregon Guard." I'm s
#war
archive.org #3204

dr fun: The future of advertising

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200409/df20040903.jpg
"Nanotechnology, genetically-modified food, and unscrupulous marketers create a proliferation of disgusting 'poop-out' ads." I absolutely love Dr. Fun. This seems like Dr. Fun dipped into Transmetropolitan for a bit, though
#advertising #comics #funny
archive.org #3201

jwz - I want one

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/377647.html
I just can't stop thinking that this is a photoshopped machine
archive.org #3196

PAX | The Penny Arcade Exposition

http://www.penny-arcade.com/pax/contest.htm
"In order to win the OMEGA COLLECTION you must first win the OMEGATHON!" Whomever wins this contest will instantly expire in an epileptic fit of gaming overload.
#gaming
archive.org #3195

Movable Type 3.1 Still a Developer Edition?

http://www.dkeithrobinson.com/asterisk/archive/2004/09/mt-31-impressions#more
'And, yeah, it’s not all bad (MT 3.0 is way better than 2.6x) but if you’ve already got 3.0 you might want to hold off on 3.1 until Six Apart can come up with a true “for the public” release.'
#metablogging
archive.org #3192

x+=x++;

http://weblogs.asp.net/lucabol/archive/2004/08/31/223580.aspx
"YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WRITE THAT CODE" Uhh. Who would write such a thing and why?
#programming
archive.org #3183

HTMLoverlays

http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/20040830/HTMLoverlays.html
"People, have you ever dreamed of a simple, nice, powerful, cross-browser mechanism to drastically reduce the size of your web pages, something that could allow you to simplify your web pages, preserving only the real content in your pages and externalizi
#webdev
archive.org #3181