July 2005

125 bookmarks saved in July 2005

Penny Arcade! - Doldrums

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-07-25
"I can't relax knowing that doo-dads exist out there, under some log, and even when I find one that doesn't relax me, because it makes me think that there's some other thing out there I'm not determined enough to find, which makes me catalog my deficits a

emlxconvert

http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
"This tool will convert your individual emlx mail files (found in ~/Library/Mail/) to the old mbox format, used by almost every UNIX/Linux mail client and recognized by many more."

Web Development Bookmarklets

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#generated_source
"These bookmarklets let you see how a web page is coded without digging through the source, debug problems in web pages quickly, and experiment with CSS or JS without editing the actual page."

Bolton May Accept Recess Appointment

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201319.html?nav=rss_politics
"But an administration source who is close to Bolton said that Bolton is prepared to accept a recess appointment next month unless the administration and Senate Democrats can resolve differences that have held up the confirmation for four months."

Multi-Track Cassette Looping

http://www.loopers-delight.com/tips/multitrack.html
"Using a typical answering machine 20-second loop cassette in any 4-tracker, you can record up to four layered parts and control their level of playback, overdubbing in the same method as you would to record in standard fashion."

Space Trader Centre

http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/p.spronck/picoverse/spacetrader/STFrames.html
"Space Trader is a strategy game for the PalmPilot. It is inspired by David J. Webb's PalmPilot game SolarWars ... and the 80's classic 3D strategy game Elite... "

B Movies Invade Your TV! - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/arts/television/10beal.html?8hpib=&oref=login
'So, said Tom Vitale, the Sci Fi Channel's senior vice president for original movies "We had a choice of recycling older movies or going out and trying to create original movies ourselves. We went back to these producers who made genre movies, and asked t

Just Say No to DRM

http://norman.walsh.name/2005/07/08/drm
"I buy the music I listen to, but if you want to sell me music (or any other media for that matter) sell it to me without all this DRM crap all over it. That's not actually going to stop the folks who aren't honest, but it's a bloody inconvenient nuisance

Idle Words - Sweet Sweet Unemployment

http://www.idlewords.com
"The chance of someday accidentally hitting Paul Krugman with my car did not begin to compensate for the long hours of staring at red taillights on Route 1, or the many meters of bad hot dogs despondently eaten at the WaWa."

del.icio.us: tags for two

http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/07/tags_for_two.html
'We've just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use "for:username" where username is the name of the user you want to send the item to.'

Main Page - LeverageWiki

http://leverage.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
"Welcome to the leverage wiki. The leverage project is all about tools for working with text on OS X."

Go Siege

http://gosiege.sourceforge.net
"Go Siege is a transformation of the ancient Chinese game of Go into a massively multiplayer online game in which hundreds of players can compete simultaneously."

Drawing lines in JavaScript | www.p01.org

http://www.p01.org/articles/DHTML_techniques/Drawing_lines_in_JavaScript
'You probably already said to yourself : " it'd be great if I could draw and move some lines at will in JavaScript. " If you don't, let's pretend you did.' Similar to, probably better than what I came up with yesterday