Cocoa Bindings for Redland
http://kianga.kcore.de/2004/redland-objc
"These are Objective-C/Cocoa bindings for the Redland RDF Application Framework."
Create macros with the DOSKEY utility in Windows NT
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10879_11-5755589.html
"The DOSKEY utility allows you to create simple but powerful macros. Learn more about this powerful utility." Wow. I haven't used DOSKEY since... well, since I last used DOS on a regular basis.
JavaScript Archive Network - JavaScript Archive Network
http://www.openjsan.org
"JavaScript Archive Network is a comprehensive resource for Open Source JavaScript libraries and software."
TextExtras
http://www.lorax.com/FreeStuff/TextExtras.html
"TextExtras is a bundle that gets loaded into all Cocoa applications. It adds cool features to the text handling of all Cocoa applications."
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
http://ripcord.co.nz/behaviour
"The better way to do javascript is to do it unobtrusively. ... The only problem is that it's a bit of a pain in the ass."
CD Times - Kate Bush To Release New Album This Autumn
http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=1928
"...Kate has finally delivered her new epic to EMI and is ready for an Autumn release. ... blown away by the eclectic collection of styles and guest stars on the album..."
Back to the Future - Morse Code and Cellular Phones
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7016
"Try writing a text message without looking at the phone. Not easy. "
NPR : Durbin: Bush Restates Reasons for Iraq Conflict
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sourceCode=RSS&storyId=4722499
"Iraq was not a haven for international terrorism before we invaded it."
The Speech the President Should Give - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/opinion/28kerry.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print
"Our troops deserve better: they deserve leadership equal to their sacrifice." People keep asking for specifics from Democrats - well, here are some.
TechWeb | Microsoft Windows Longhorn security | RSS: Safe At Any Feed?
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/164903095
"If it gets built, someone will try to make a hole in it," said Pescatore. "That's the world of security."
How It Works...The Computer
http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer
"This book was published in 1971, and the revised edition was published in 1979."
Think Progress » In 1999, Bush Demanded A Timetable
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/06/28/in-1999-bush-demanded-a-timetable
"Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
Guest Viewpoint: The party's over for betrayed Republican - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/26/ed.col.chaney.0626.html
"My problem is this: I believe in principles and ideals which my party has systematically discarded in the last 10 years."
News | canada.com network | Canada approves same-sex marriage
http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=e0905a7a-c1c9-47ad-8e1e-f35ccd7b6a6f
"Canada becomes the third country to legalize gay marriage after its Parliament approved landmark legislation late Tuesday despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders."
Yahoo! Search Services and Tools - Media RSS Module - RSS 2.0 Module
http://search.yahoo.com/mrss
"An RSS module that supplements the element capabilities of RSS 2.0 to allow for more robust media syndication." Now, besides the NIH Syndrome, why didn't Apple use this in the new iTunes Podcast support?
spinneret.org - The Spinneret Project
http://www.spinneret.org
"Spinneret is a semi-structured storage engine that can be thought of as an extended tuple storage system. It takes the best aspects of relational, object, and hierarchical databases and throws away the dead weight associated with those technologies."
Spinneret Query Language Primer
http://www.spinneret.org/doc/query-language.html
"This document briefly introduces SPQL (Spinneret Query Language). It will be updated as the language definition continues to be refined."
jclark.org : HOWTO: Build DB XML 2.0 with Python Bindings on OS X
http://jclark.org/weblog/Apple/OSX/dbxml2-py-osx.html
"Here's what I did to build and install DB XML 2.0 along with python bindings on OS X 10.3.7." Wow, this has gotten a *lot* easier.
A first look at iTunes RSS extensions
http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/06/28-rss-apple-itunes/read
"Apple prove they know how to be cool, but they've got no idea about making friends on the web."
Quake on your cellphone - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000307048454
"New 3D enabled phones will start shipping with the title in July."
Ajaxian Blog: Prototype and DWR: function $()
http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/2005/06/prototype_and_d.html
"Handy, elegant, and Perlish."
RSS: Apple's itunes namespace
http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/06/28#a682
"It would have been really smart to review this stuff with the community before releasing their software."
Apple - iTunes - Podcasting
http://www.apple.com/podcasting
"Welcome to the Golden Age of Podcasting" Pretty nice podcast UI so far...
Daring Fireball: Hacking Apple's Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update
http://daringfireball.net/2005/06/weather_widget_hacking
Sooner or later, I need to get into working with widgets.
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
http://www.agron.iastate.edu/courses/agron342/diamondmistake.html
"In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."
Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog: Microsoft RSS Longhorn announcements
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2005/06/microsoft_rss_l.html
"I go back to 1995 and the Windows 95 release. What was the most important feature in that release? A built in TCP/IP stack."
All in the Mind: 18 June 2005 - Social Prosthetics – How You're On My Mind
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/stories/s1391503.htm
"Our relationships with others are akin to social prosthetics for the mind, argues one leading Harvard psychologist. We’re hardwired to care as much as we are to compete, says another, and the clues lie in the biology of our brains."
GameTap: Play hundreds of the greatest arcade, console and PC games of all time
http://www.gametap.com/index.html
Like what you can get now with emulators, only for pay?
FoxySofts - Another World GBA
http://www.foxysofts.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=86f4af172c027f908748f716de3293d4&l=content/gba/anworld.inc
"~official conversion~"
Afterlife from 1UP.COM
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141638
"What looks like a game system, plays like a game system, and yet isn't a game system? The answer is an emulator..."
SprintUsers.com | Focus
http://www.sprintusers.com/focus
"Our free uploader tool allows you to send ringers, images, videos, games and applications to your Sprint PCS Vision handset."
USB rotary channel changer
http://megaui.net/fukuchi/works/gacha/index.en.html
'...a channel changer like old TVs, using a rotary switch sounds "click-click"...'
Jens/log » I’ve been Microsofted!
http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2005/06/ive-been-microsofted
"Hint to Windows diehards: You could have this feature now, not in 18+ months. Just get a Mac."
The Capital Times - Dave Zweifel: We've seen enough to impeach Bush
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=44161&ntpid=0
"Lying presidents need to be impeached. That's what the Republicans in Congress told us only a few years ago."
Audible.com - Considering Podcasting?
http://www.audible.com/podcastingprofit
"Starting June 24th, you can put Audible's management experience, platforms and tools to work for you and your podcasting strategy."
US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN - Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/06/24/afx2110388.html
"Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said. "
rentzsch.com: Perhaps Time Away from the Computer Would be a Good Thing
http://rentzsch.com/notes/perhapsTimeAwayFromTheComputerWouldBeAGoodThing
"I finished the message except for one point I needed to think about some more, so I just commented it out and compiled the email."
Big Ball of Mud
http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html
"A BIG BALL OF MUD is a casually, even haphazardly, structured system. Its organization, if one can call it that, is dictated more by expediency than design. Yet, its enduring popularity cannot merely be indicative of a general disregard for architecture.
All The Quickies
http://borkware.com/quickies/everything
It's a treasure trove of OS X command line and Obj C tips.
Warrenellis.com » Edison Hate Future
http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=931
"in future, edison will have The Button"
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical. "
frActAlspIn[dot]com, OMG OMG geek-cessories, k-neat! we rule. ok thx.
http://fractalspin.com/index.php?main_page=index
Wearable PC parts. Man, I feel duped - I was looking for PC parts for wearables.
Religious Gadget Thursday: The E-Meter : Gizmodo
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/medical/religious-gadget-thursday-the-emeter-109772.php
"And yes, this is probably the last ‘Religious Gadget Thursday,’ since, well, that’s it."
Put Down Your Key And No One Will Be Hurt @ Transportation Facilities Columns SecurityInfoWatch.com
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=4568&siteSection=387
' "Well, sir, that's a switchblade style, and that's a prohibited item,'' Mr. Rau said he was told. ''We're going to have to confiscate that.'' ' The terrorists have succeeded in making us look like morons, yet again.
White Frog T-Shirts - The Robot Anatomy
http://www.wfshirts.com/product_info.php?products_id=53
"I made my damn robot shirt. And I like it."
Snorg Store - BODY Ringer Tee
http://www.snorgstore.org/product_info.php?products_id=47
"This shirt is ideal for the internet connoisseur, HTML junky, and anyone who likes ringers."
Snorg Store - HTML - HEAD Beanie
http://www.snorgstore.org/product_info.php?products_id=36
"The HTML HEAD hat is perfect for the internet connoisseur, HTML junky, and anyone who likes beanies."
The BabelFish Blog - The Early Atomicsts
http://bblfish.net/blog/page7.html#2005/06/24/12-54-28-860
"Tears of joy sprang to my eyes seeing this thought so clear and so far ahead of its time (400BC)."
mnot’s Web log: Another, More Disturbing Reason Not to Buy a House
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/06/23/eminant_domain
"That’s right, it turns out that your locality’s tax revenue is more important than your fifth amendment rights."
ASCII by Jason Scott: All The Podcasts: It Continues
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000135.html
"It was 4 months ago that I announced I was collecting all the podcasts. I figured we were about due for a further update."
RealClimate » The Wall Street Journal vs. The Scientific Consensus
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=167
"It is puzzling then that the WSJ editors could claim that "the scientific case....looks weaker all the time"."
RFC 3205 (rfc3205) - On the use of HTTP as a Substrate
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3205.html
Rands In Repose: Rands on Joel
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/06/23/rands_on_joel.html
"You can wax on about how the web is revolutionizing personal publishing and I'm a fan, but holding a published book with your work in it... is just... real. Being in the business of bits, it is a pleasant change to see my work in atoms."
Quirk Blog: June 23, 2005 Archives - My Job
http://surgery-graphics.med.umich.edu/~matt/archives/2005_06_23.html#000742
"So here I am sitting in my office, watching with great interest while docs slice and dice someone's face so that they can wire together the broken bones underneath, and what gets me cringing and howling is the guy in the plaid suit with the four inch wid
diesel sweeties #1254
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1254
"I swore an oath to my dead parents that I'd never enjoy another Batman movie after the one with the Bat-Nipples." Amen!
Achewood - June 23, 2005
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=06232005
It's true. Vanilla extract doesn't taste very good by itself.
Matrioshka Brain Home Page
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains
"A Matrioshka Brain is a megascale structure constructed at atomic scale limits."
Palm Radio - Mini-Paddle
http://www.morsex.com/palm
"Palm Radio (Hannes DL9SCO and Dieter DJ6TE) decided to develop a special portable twin paddle for outdoor, traveling and QRP activities: the Mini-Paddle."
Welcome to the Freedroid homepage
http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/info.php
"Freedroid is a clone of the classic game "Paradroid" on Commodore 64 with some improvements and extensions to the classic version. "
blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! / June 14, 2005 2:26pm @ trainedmonkey
http://trainedmonkey.com/entry/2251
"this is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that we had some of
"No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame
http://www.unixwiz.net/ndos-shame.html
"I've observed one technique that has been nearly universal: the practice of refusing to allow spaces or dashes in credit card number entry fields ... If there were some security or integrity reason for disallowing these characters, I guess I'd buy it, bu
80s Tees Da Big One Sanford and Son t-shirt
http://www.80stees.com/products/Sanford_and_Son_t-shirt.asp
"This Sanford and Son t-shirt features Red Foxx as Fred Sanford giving his heart attack pose. The print is a distressed silk screen."
Bunny # 287
http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?id=287
"The weathermen forecast a light bunny shower this evening"
Accelerando! - Accelerando available for download
http://www.accelerando.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/06/16#download-2
"This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached." Hooray! A book to read on my Visor until I get the paper edition!
TV.com: Firefly lands on the Sci Fi Channel
http://www.tv.com/story/story.html&story_id=335
"Firefly, a science fiction series that was canceled midway through its first season on Fox, has found a new home on the Sci Fi Channel." Hot damn, it's about gorrammed time!
OSXFAQ Mac OS X UNIX Tip-of-the-Day - Week 98 - Spaces in Filenames (7 February 2005)
http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week98/thursday.ws
I'd never heard of the IFS variable before!
Doctor Fun - df20050616.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels)
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200506/df20050616.jpg
"Who knew that the ultimate result of all those pills they were selling on the internet would be that we'd become nothing more than the parasitic appendages of giant, sentient, uncaring penises?"
Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: Is Ajax the new Flash?
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000539.php
"it seems so - at least when it comes to making the same mistakes that Flash developers were able to make for several years."
Telegraph | News | 'Missing link' between madness and genius
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?sSheet=/news/2005/06/11/ixworld.html&xml=/news/2005/06/11/naut11.xml
"Genius cannot exist without mental disorder, according to a study that names George Orwell, LS Lowry and Lewis Carroll among 21 artists who suffered a form of autism."
Five, the Zope 3 in Zope 2 project
http://codespeak.net/z3/five
"Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today."
GamePal - Internet Gaming Services
http://gamepal.com/rentals
"GamePal allows you to rent MMORPG accounts for 14 games. Renting accounts means you have the option to go from game to game, server to server, class to class. Now you can experience MMORPGs in an entirely new way."
BlogWrite for CEOs: How GM's Fastlane blog was born
http://blogwrite.blogs.com/blogwrite/2005/06/how_gms_fastlan.html
"From an interview I did today with GM's Gary Grates, VP Communications for North America..."
News - Gameboy music & camera/ 8-bit futurist/ atari /micro-chiptunes/electro-funk/space-punk -ReceptorsMusic.com
http://receptorsmusic.com/news.html
"WE'RE THE OPERATORS" 8-Bit KRAFTWERK Covers Compilation CD & collectors' 12 inch Vinyl single!
eBay - a500 usb, Accessories Parts, Software, Parts Accessories items at low prices
http://search.ebay.com/a500-usb_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQsojsZ1QQfromZR10QQsacatZ-1QQcatrefZC6QQsargnZ-1QQsaslcZ2QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsadisZ200QQfposZQ5AIPQ2FPostalQQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQcoactionZcompareQQcopagenumZ1QQcoentrypageZsearch
usb cables for my Samsung A500
Portable Innovation Technology Ltd.- Hardware - Memplug
http://www.pitech.com/hardware/SD/SD_index.htm
"MemPlug SD/MMC is an adapter for the stamp sized Secure Digital and MultiMedia memory card. Moreover, it comes with a built-in vibrating alarm, a feature that many Handspring Visor Handheld owners are looking for."
yergler.net » CC Metadata for Spotlight
http://yergler.net/projects/cc-spotlight
"The CC Metadata Importer for Spotlight adds support for searching on Creative Commons license information embedded in files." Wait a minnit! Does this actually prove me wrong-- or does it kick out all other importers for MP3 files?
Cassette tape DJ on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kde-head/19313082
"DJ Aptem is a Russian DJ who's built a cassette tape mixing desk." Hot as all hell.
43 Folders: Quicksilver: The Comma Trick
http://www.43folders.com/2005/06/quicksilver_the.html
'...when you’re using the first (and often the third) pane in Quicksilver, you can hit “,” (comma, with no modifier key) at any time to add the currently selected item to a working stack...'
CNN.com - Katie Holmes embracing Scientology - Jun 13, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/13/people.holmes.ap/index.html
"Katie Holmes says she's embracing Scientology, the religion of her boyfriend, Tom Cruise."
Obsidian Wings: More Things We Throw Away
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/06/more_things_we_.html
"I care about Amnesty International. And as I've said, I would not have used That Word. But I care about my country more."
The Palm Programmer's Cookbook.
http://onboardc.sourceforge.net/cookbook.html
"The intent of this paper is to provide a C programmer with all the information necessary to jump quickly into writing Palm code."
Physics, complexity and causality : Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/full/435743a.html
"Consequently physics per se cannot causally determine the outcome of human creativity; rather it creates the 'possibility space' to allow human intelligence to function autonomously."
Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications
http://openrico.org/home.page
"Rico is just one small part of a larger effort at Sabre Airline Solutions to create a suite of rich internet components, behaviors and effects for the web application space."
Category:Palm Software - 43FoldersWiki
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Category:Palm_Software
MacNoteTaker Home Page
http://mac-huwis.lut.ac.uk/~wis/programs/NoteTaker/NoteTaker.html
"MacNoteTaker lets you write notes up to 32,676 long. ... When you do a hotsync it synchronises the folder structure of your notes with a folder on your Mac."
aspZone.com : ASP File Upload using VBScript
http://aspzone.com/articles/160.aspx
"This article will show you how to write a VBScript class to handle file uploads."
CircuitWriter™ Pen
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog_name=CTLG&product_id=64-4339
"CircuitWriter™ Pen from Caig Laboratories dispenses silver-based conductive “ink” for your electronics. "
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | 'Freedom fries' lawmaker's U-turn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4086380.stm
"A pro-Iraq war US congressman who campaigned for French fries to be renamed "freedom fries" is now calling for US troops to return home from Iraq."
QDB: Quote #515496
http://bash.org/?515496=
"listerine + foot odour smells worse than just feet, and now my shoes are technically flammable"
del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3
http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3
This special tag causes the links to show up as enclosures in the RSS feed. Go-go gadget podcast!
ASCII by Jason Scott: I'm Shocked! Truly SHOCKED!
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000130.html
'Well, finally someone turned the Documentary into a "ware".'
Parsing and serializing XML - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Parsing_and_serializing_XML#Parsing_strings_into_DOM_trees
"Mozilla doesn't support (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155749) the W3C's Document Object Model Load and Save (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-LS/load-save.html) at this moment, so the easiest way to serialize and deserialize DOM trees is
MBS: NFS Manager
http://www.bresink.de/osx/NFSManager.html
"NFS Manager solves this problem by providing an easy-to-use Aqua interface for the definition of NFS connections."
Kung Fu Monkey: It's a "Global" Frequency now ...
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/06/its-global-frequency-now.html
"A year and a half of writing and sweat and production disappeared down the TV pilot hole..." Well, shit. I was really looking forward to that one
Boing Boing: Yoda origami
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/11/yoda_origami.html
"This downloadable PDF has step-by-step instructions for folding an amazing, lifelike Yoda"
HobbyPrincess: Draft Craft Manifesto
http://ullamaaria.typepad.com/hobbyprincess/2005/03/draft_craft_man.html
Funny, this sounds like it could be my manifesto as a tinkerer, too.
AudioPad : Gizmodo
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/musical-instruments/audiopad-107348.php
"The AudioPad throws audio tracks, samples, and effects on a table, where the user controls all via little plastic pucks." Reminds me of the controls on Thor's ship on Stargate
Bear-Shaped MP3 Player : Gizmodo
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/flash/bearshaped-mp3-player-107394.php
"I also had to giggle like a sixth grader when I noticed the USB port is right where the pooper should be."
jwz - that was, in fact, the final straw.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/494040.html
"I bought an iMac, and now I play my music with iTunes. ... Dear Slashdot: please don't post about this. Screw you guys."
Blogcritics.org: Rush Guitarist Lifeson Sues and Speaks
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/10/101144.php
"The legal action we are embarking on now will hopefully bring attention to the fact that people cannot and should not be treated this way."
Something Awful - An iPod Man visits an Apple Store!
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2949
"a couple of non-goon friends and I took it to the next level by rocking out in an Apple Store (this one in Novi, Michigan.)"
Big Fat Stinking Software - Utilities
http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/utils.html
"Speed Freak, at a user-specified interval, reprioritizes applications so that the frontmost (or active) application gets more processor time than background applications."
..geek..: recycling hardware
http://www.8dot3.com/geek/archives/000536.html
"I might just have enough old monitors around to do this at home.." An archway built from old monitors. So wrong.
Xbox HID Driver for Mac OS X
http://homepage.mac.com/walisser/xboxhiddriver
"This software enables the Xbox USB gamepad, DVD remote, and other Xbox devices on Mac OS X."
Arbor Update: Google to build Ann Arbor tech center?
http://arborupdate.com/article/860/google-to-build-ann-arbor-tech-center
"Ann Arbor may become home to a new technology center for up to 1,000 employees from Google Inc., the Internet search engine giant that was recently hired to digitize the University of Michigan’s 19 libraries." Whoa. Neat, if true.
Cocoabuilder - (Lee Morgan) Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2005/5/4/134815
"Is it possible to write a Spotlight importer that handles every file without it interfering with other plug-ins? So that I can extract the extended attributes and add it to the Spotlight store." I wish it were. It's like things are -] [- this close to
Future predictions - short term
http://www.accelerando.org/_static/future_predictions.html
"The following are some informal projections of possible technology-oriented developments that I made back in late 1999 to early 2000, while I was working on part two of "Accelerando" ("Troubadour"). "
Tantek's Thoughts - Principles of visibility and human friendliness
http://tantek.com/log/2005/06.html#d03t2359
"I'm looking at the technology I've built and/or am working on, first to see where I may be making such mistakes and correcting them, and second to build structured data systems that use visible data, instead of invisible metadata."
"How important are deadlines for a book writing project?" from the Ask Dave Taylor! Help Desk
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_important_are_deadlines_for_a_book_writing_project.html
"If you say you're going to have the book done by 10/1, have it done by 10/1, period."
Accelerando!
http://www.accelerando.org/book
"The text of "Accelerando" will be available for download under a Creative Commons license from this site later this month (June 2005)." Oh, goody!
Backup Brain - Texas is a barbaric hellhole, Part 2 in a continuing series
http://www.backupbrain.com/2005_06_05_archive.html#a004576
"So in Texas, you can basically get away with beating up a retarded black man, as long as you're a bunch of white men. Because as long as you beat him up because he's retarded, it's no problemo, cowboy. "
komo news | 'This Is Not Right'
http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm
"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... you don't have any'." All for a blunt bread knife. Yeah, I feel safer.
Blogcritics.org: George W. Bush and the Ascension of the Hyper-Rich
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/08/194834.php
"In fact, by analyzing income and tax data, it appears that the higher up the income ladder you climb, the less subject you are to paying taxes in the United States."
Under construction - CPU fan PC case
http://www.peteredge.orcon.net.nz/casepics.htm
"What you are looking at is a case made of case fans, Dexian (there's probably a trademark in there somewhere) shelving, nylon cable ties, terminal blocks, nylon motherboard mounts, backplane blanks, screws and wire. Oh, and PC hardware."
CTHEORY.NET 1000 Days of Theory: Detroit Tagging by Jeff Rice
http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=454
So, let me get this straight: Save-- or reconstruct-- Detroit's urbanity by tagging experiential networks and maps of it in digital spaces? And graffiti tags are analogous to XML tags? Somehow this will make people want to work/live/play in the city?
Smart Mobs: "21st Century Graffiti":The Real Urban Renewal?
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/06/08/21st_century_g.html
"We find new Detroits emerging out of our own discursive constructions." I also find new lint architectures emerging from my navel.
Stacy Brooks' Perspective on Auditing
http://www.ezlink.com/~perry/Co$/Christian/stacy.htm
"They have truly come to believe in a bizarre future, in which the ultimate goal is a Scientology world, a world in which everyone who disagrees with Scientology will be done away with, quietly and without sorrow."
Poll Finds Dimmer View of Iraq War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060700296.html
"For the first time since the war in Iraq began, more than half of the American public believes the fight there has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll." Any voters' remorse, maybe?