August 2005

297 bookmarks saved in August 2005

Mike Chambers: Flash and Web 2.0

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2005/08/flash_and_web_2.cfm
"The neutrality of the entry is disputed, but it gives an example of how groups are trying to steer the direction of the discussion to benefit one technology over another (in this case Ajax over Flash)."

Advance Wars By Web v2.0

http://www.amarriner.com/awbw
"This website enables people to play Advance Wars online over the web. There is nothing you have to download. Everything happens within the browser and is mostly point and click."

Barnes&Noble.com - How The Universe Got Its Spots: Diary Of A Finite Time In A Finite Space

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/BookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1400032725&r=1&userid=00000320887929195366
"In a series of unsent letters to her mother, a theoretical physicist meditates on her life, examining how her work and her personal life both mesh with and obstruct each other. Taking a highly original approach to science writing, Levin reveals herself a

IGN: GBA Micro

http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/645/645774p1.html
"At first glance, you're not sure if this system is just a gimmick by Nintendo to sell more GBAs, or if it really is a well-intentioned game machine delivered in the smallest of packages."

The Safari Image of Doom

http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000635.html
"Now, before you click and view the following image, if you happen to be using Apple's Safari or possibly OmniWeb, you may want to commit www.drunkenblog.com to memory, as there's a very high likelihood your browser is about to crash..."

Fossil

http://www.fossil.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?iMainCat=965&iProductID=26508&iSubCat=1076&itemID=26508&itemType=PRODUCT&pbid=&psid=es525
"Dial animates and plays the game Asteroids on a black background."

MPD - wikiPodLinux

http://www.ipodlinux.org/MPD
"MPD is the Music Player Daemon.. Work is currently ongoing on a uClinux branch (http://mpd.wikicities.com/wiki/MusicPlayerDaemonUclinuxBranch) for the iPod, as well as a client (http://musicpd.org/clients.shtml) within podzilla."

Path: readable URL's | drupal.org

http://drupal.org/node/3665
"The path module allows you to specify aliases for Drupal URLs. Such aliases improve readability of URLs for your users and may help internet search engines to index your content more effectively. More than one alias may be created for a given page."

USB to TTL

http://www.avitresearch.co.uk/usb_to_ttl.htm
"The cable contains a USB to serial converter chip and is terminated in a standard 0.1" pitch header. The serial data is at standard TTL levels allowing it to interface directly to the micro-processor of the intended application."

Internet Archive: Details: xoc - SMW

http://www.archive.org/details/xoc_SMW
"The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo."

Werewolf

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html
"Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, secon

Hallon

http://homepage.mac.com/pgw3/hallon
"Hallon can create bookmarks in many applications (like iTunes) that usually can't create bookmarks and they are always accessible from a menu whatever you are doing."

ongoing · The Real Problem

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/15/On-Feeds
"If our thought leaders actually stepped up and started shouting about this, pretty well the whole world could have one-click subscriptions by next summer, using well-established, highly-interoperable, wide-open standards."

PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com - Va. laptop sale turns into a stampede

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/COMPUTER_FRENZY?CTIME=2005-08-16-13-44-46&SECTION=HOME&SITE=VANOV&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
"A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line."

Plymouth

http://www.hometownlife.com/Plymouth/News.asp?OnlineSection=Main+News&RefDate=8/11/2005+5:02:11+AM&Section=Main+News&SectionPubDate=8/11/2005+5:02:11+AM&StoryID=120501&pageType=Story
"I haven't been down in Detroit for 30 years and they're proud of it."

EZTV: RSS over IRC

http://eztv.atw.hu/?atw_referer=http://www.tvtorrent.info/eztv/&atw_referer=http://users.atw.hu/eztv/?site=eztv.atw.hu/&atw_referer=http://www.tvtorrent.info/eztv/&site=eztv.atw.hu/&site=eztv.atw.hu
mIRC plugin which generates an RSS feed from IRC channel traffic, intended for use with a Bittorrent broadcatcher like Azureus.

evhead: But it's not NEW!

http://evhead.com/2005/08/but-its-not-new.asp
Thanks for the link! "Without fail, whenever there's a new buzzword/concept/idea getting a lot of attention, there's a chorus of offended geeks who have seen it all before."

The Elite Club

http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/faq.html
"This site was created with the intention of it becoming the hub for various projects based around the Elite series of games, particularly Frontier and First Encounters - including the release of the source code of the latter two games."

COMP.BASILISK FAQ

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v402/n6761/full/402465a0_fs.html
"We're all nostalgic about the old, colourful web, and about television, but today's risks are simply too great."

deep:code

http://www.jroller.com/page/deep?entry=aop_fun_with_javascript
"Maybe it is because Java is NOT so good for AOP, so every Java AOP implementation looks like a great achievement?"