nintendope: The Ultimate Minus World Guide
http://nintendope.iodized.net/minusworld
How to get to World -1 in SMB 1, and how and why it exists.
OPML Editor support: newsRiver.root
http://support.opml.org/2005/12/29#a423
A new aggregator starting from Dave Winer.
lazyi.net // Ryan Prins' Blog - NNW: Subs to HTML
http://www.lazyi.net/archives/2005/09/24/nnw-subs-to-html
"So, I took my first foray into AppleScript and hashed out a simple little script to populate my blogroll page like Bloglines once used to."
Speirs.org :: Hacks
http://speirs.org/hacks
"Here's an Applescript that takes the front tab in Safari and automatically posts it to Del.icio.us, giving it the tag "@review" and notifying you of success or failure via Growl."
Emil's Chronicle - Canvas in IE
http://me.eae.net/archive/2005/12/29/canvas-in-ie
"Using VML, in combination with behaviors, it should therefor be possible to emulate a subset of SVG or Canvas in IE."
Date-Time Arithmetic
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.ab.html
"AppleScript supports these operations with the + and - operators on date and time difference values"
Attention.xml export for NetNewsWire
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/01/attentionxml_ex.html
"AppleScript that exports all of your NetNewsWire subscribed feeds and followed items within the feed to the Attention.xml format."
AppleScript Shell
http://hayne.net/MacDev/Ash
"I was curious to see if I could make an "AppleScript shell" which would allow immediate execution of AppleScript commands. I implemented "ash" as a Perl script and it works quite well."
Inhabitat
http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_901.php
Jellio Design took inspiration from those classic toys to create TURBO, a one-of-a-kind wall sculpture designed to evoke fond memories from a model-making childhood. Apparently, they are only making ten of these awesome sculptures; so if you want one, bet
Waxy.org: Daily Log: Dogwelder's "My Humps"
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/12/18/dogwelde.shtml
"...a cover of Black Eyed Peas' 'My Humps,' a song that represents a low point not only for popular music, but for humankind."
» Death of the RSS reader | Software as services | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS?p=80
"The problem with feed readers is that, although they help us to organize our information feeds, they don't address the root problem of reducing the amount of information we have to take in."
VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming » Blog Archive » The Secrets of Archon
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/44
"Answering the call of my own inner geek, I have exposed Archon’s mechanisms and hidden numbers through days of experimentation with the game’s original and best version, that for the Atari 800."
‘About’ Script
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2005/12/about-script
"I’ve made available the PHP script that powers my about page."
Zelda Challenge ~ Outlands
http://rha.cymoro.com/zelda3c/ZeldaC/index.shtml
"You are guaranteed not to recognize any locations from the previous game."
[uf-discuss] Almost Universal Microformat Parser: source code
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-December/002528.html
"The AUMFP provides Python (2.3) classes for extracting microformat content from HTML documents, and includes classes for hCard, hCalendar, xFolk, and rel-tag."
Server Help :: View topic - Finally Continuum In Linux!
http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=5639
"he recompiled wine and overrid some system call..."
Fear destroys what bin Laden could not
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/13487511.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
"Are we agreeing, then, to give the king unfettered privilege to defy the law forever?"
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Losing the Right to Tinker?
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16084,294,p1.html
"The new year could see new challenges to hardware reverse engineering."
Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » The book: progress report
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/12/28/the-book-progress-report
"It’s one thing to write a sucky article that no one will remember a year later, but a sucky book will be on Amazon for a good long while and will be a constant reminder of your suckitude"
waiterrant.net » HOW TO ORDER WINE WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE AN ASSHOLE
http://waiterrant.net/?p=250
"since most people are dopes when it comes to ordering wine, I’ve assembled a list of tips to help you not look like a putz."
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Star Trek is 'most missed' series
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4563814.stm
"Sci-fi series Star Trek is the show most people want to see returned to their TV screens, a survey has found."
AJAX Activity indicators | Animated GIFs designed to indicate your site is doing something
http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators
"These images are all released into the public domain."
Sauce Dispensing Chopsticks For You, Mr. Lazy - Gizmodo
http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/sauce-dispensing-chopsticks-for-you-mr-lazy-145160.php
"Throw your duck sauce in one, your soy in the other and you’re good to go."
MJ PEAK PERFORMANCE: Snooze, You Win - Improve your mental and physical performance by power napping
http://www.mensjournal.com/healthFitness/0601/napping_power.html
"You must keep the nap to 20 minutes or slightly less, and if you need the extra sleep, wait until the 50-minute mark."
[lxml-dev] Re: Encapsulating text in CDATA
http://codespeak.net/pipermail/lxml-dev/2005-December/000873.html
"if you think you need them, you're wrong, or you're not really using XML, and CDATA won't solve your problems."
Crooks and Liars
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/12/21.html#a6426
"You can check the facts and see who's right, but Rob Boston went after John Gibson and Gary McCaleb of the Alliance Defense Fund, by calling the war on Christmas a lie."
What 'War on Christmas'?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901357.html
"This has reached its most imposition-of-Sharia-law-like level of intolerance in the campaign to cow stores into saying Christmas."
Commodore sets up for a comeback
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051223-5829.html
For Pete's sake, let Commodore die. It's like they're sticking their hands in a dead guy's head and making him talk.
VWvortex Forums: A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1837641
"I have visited the Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden several times, and thoroughly enjoyed each visit."
24 ways: DOM Scripting Your Way to Better Blockquotes
http://24ways.org/advent/dom-scripting-your-way-to-better-blockquotes
"Here’s a plan for generating an attribution link for every block quote with a cite attribute"
Daily Kos: Science Friday: The One That Got Away
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/23/72434/238
"The third rock from the sun might instead be a planet of intelligent squid or technological insects, peering with inhuman eyes at the ancient fossils of long forgotten, curious fish-like creatures with paddling fins that mysteriously died out."
Peter Maurer - ServiceScrubber
http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=servicescrubber
"Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using?"
pacamajig.mov (video/quicktime Object)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~austincb/pacman/pacamajig.mov
Loud cosplay live-action pac-man in the libraries
Save Detroit Radio
http://www.savedetroitradio.com
"We, the Public, are deeply disappointed in Wayne State University’s decision to stop the broadcast of all daytime music on WDET FM Detroit Public Radio."
presentacular - Adding effects to S5 with script.aculo.us
http://labs.cavorite.com/presentacular
"Presentacular adds script.aculo.us visual effects to slide shows created with S5."
XGenStudios.com - Stick Arena
http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/stickarena
Bruce Schneier: Unchecked presidential power
http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5793639.html
"In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he immediately started using it to avoid the law."
The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age
http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/12/the_probabilist.html
"these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
apophenia: Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/12/14/wikipedia_acade.html
"We should be teaching our students how to interpret the materials they get on the web, not banning them from it. We should be correcting inaccuracies that we find rather than protesting the system."
jay is games: 零刻 (Moment Zero)
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2005/04/_moment_zero.php
brentashley » Blog Archive » JSON trumps Ajax for Mashups
http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley?p=574
"It may be just another crayon in the box, but I think it’s going to get a lot of sharpening now that Yahoo is actively promoting JSON."
CanvasGraph.js : Graphing in Javascript | liquidx
http://www.liquidx.net/canvasgraphjs#examples
"Canvas Graph is a small simple javascript library that allows you to conveniently plot simple line, bar and pie charts using the new HTML Canvas Tag."
BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - TOP 100 - Fairytale Of New York
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/fairytaleofnewyork.shtml
"Shane MacGowan has written a fair few classics, but none have had more appeal than this bittersweet Christmas song."
reflection.js demo - Cow's Blog
http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/383-Reflectionjs-Demo
"Every time it finds an image with the class reflect, it generates a new canvas element. It will do some canvas magic (scaling, cropping, gradients) and produce a reflection image. "
del.icio.us tag browser
http://www.hubmed.org/touchgraphs/deltags.php
Nifty java applet for browsing tag relations
Fortuna - Platinum inlayed titanium ring
http://www.titaniumera.com/order/Fortuna_p.html
"Titanium Ring, Platinum Inlay"
JavaScriptStrftime
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/JavaScriptStrftime
"Date.strftime(formatString, dateObject);"
phil ringnalda » No, ask what Bloglines can do to you
http://weblog.philringnalda.com/2005/11/21/no-ask-what-bloglines-can-do-to-you
"If you are depending on the search feed providers to strip dangerous markup before it gets to you, you’re putting your faith in two wrong places."
timbl's blog | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4
"it is nice to edit in a mode in which you can to limited damage to the site"
Improv Everywhere Mission: The Mp3 Experiment 2.0
http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=52
"They're all these people here throwing beach balls everywhere. I need backup. Wait... it looks like they're cleaning up after themselves. Nevermind."
365 tomorrows » Boom
http://www.365tomorrows.com/12/15/boom
"They interpret our words as bugs in the programming." Sounds a bit like a cousin to Bomb #20 in Dark Star.
Google Homepage API - Developer Guide
http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/guide.html
"The Google Homepage API provides a way to put third party content onto the Google homepage."
New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43441&rss=1
"...a first-person vertical-crate-arranger guaranteed not to influence young people's behavior in any way."
Fuck Christmas
http://fuckchristmas.org
'Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit?'
LUGOD: Mailing List Archives - Re: [vox-tech] Suddenly the Dungeon collapses
http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2002-08/msg00102.html
"Uh, can someone explain to me this technical term?"
Aqua Teens assemble! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67625811@N00/63081435/in/set-1362186
"Custom Aqua Teen Hunger Force Heroclix. Hand-made by my friend Don for my birthday this year."
I, Cringely . NerdTV . Transcript | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/011.html
"We're back again at Doug Engelbart's house, trying to do another edition of Nerd TV. Doug, thanks for having us here."
Pat Robertson Says Pie Not Delicious | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43451&rss=1
"The pious eat not the pie, knowing it an unclean thing, nor the crust, nor the filling. Get thee behind me, pie!"
EA IFF 85
http://www.szonye.com/bradd/iff.html
"Customers should be able to move their own data between independently developed software products. "
** Atomic Sock Monkey - Freebies **
http://www.atomicsockmonkey.com/freebies.asp#mnpr
"Bathed in atomic radiation, these champions - Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot - fight to the death, in order to claim the sweet, sweet uranium for their people... and victory!"
TMBG podcast
http://www.tmbg.com/pod.html
"They Might Be Giants' very first podcast is available right now right here."
Wired News: Bush 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69800,00.html
"It's such a pity the United States is still very much unwilling to join the international community"
Agile Partners weblog » iPhoto-like image resizing using Javascript
http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/07/iphoto-image-resizing-using-javascript
"Upon seeing the Fluxiom intro video, I was compelled to figure out how they pulled off iPhoto-like image scaling in a browser."
Dreamcast VGA mod
http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/dreamcast/dreamcast_en.php
"When I learned that the Dreamcast could output a VGA signal, I installed a VGA connector on it almost instantly. "
Underwear Rotation | The ChangeLog
http://changelog.complete.org/node/428
"I discovered this evening that my underwear has been rotated for me for the last three years."
west elm
http://ww2.westelm.com/cat/pip.cfm?area=shp&cid=acccan&cmreferrer=&flash=on&ftest=1&gids=a027&mjrVer=5&mnrVer=5&pkey=cacccan&sid=WEE1ZWSZOMNPOPZXGJXKDYLUXBL6Z9MH200512101955&template=8grid
"Candle cups perch atop wide flare bases, which balance the candles. Handmade from clear glass."
user registration
http://feh.holsman.net/articles/2005/11/20/user-registration
"They ask for the email address first."
A Yahoo! Company
http://mike.teczno.com/ayahoocompany
Now, this is pretty dern funny... 'Add “Yahoo! Company Logo” to the whole web'
Yahoo! becoming a Web 2.0 Poster Boy
http://woodrow.typepad.com/the_ponderings_of_woodrow/2005/12/yahoo_becoming_.html
Video game crash of 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
"The video game crash of 1983 was the sudden crash of the video game business and the bankruptcy of a number of companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America in late 1983 and early 1984."
OhGizmo! » The RSStroom Reader, Feeds On Your Toilet Paper
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2005/12/07/the-rsstroom-reader-feeds-on-your-toilet-paper
Probably fake: "It’s this crazy machine that hooks up to your computer wirelessly, and prints random RSS posts right to your toilet paper, for you to read before you, eh, use it."
USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm
What a whiny moron. He took the trouble to call an ISP and report abuse, but the ass couldn't find the "edit" button and D.I.Y.?
jwz - "WE ARE NIHILISTS. WE BELIEVE IN NOTHING."
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/572749.html
"YIPPY YA YA. YIPPY. YIPPY. YAY." Nothing better than a German in a hat ranting about power tools.
[delicious-discuss] Familiar Taste greasemonkey script plus free bonus feature request
http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-December/004555.html
Whoa, deja vu! :) "I just came across this greasemonkey script in Les Orchard's linkstream"
CSS2 - Tableless forms
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/forms.html
"That's it: tableless forms with a good, solid horizontal alignment."
A web professional can never stop learning | 456 Berea Street
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200511/a_web_professional_can_never_stop_learning
"Why should web professionals not be required to know their craft?"
StashCard-A secret drawer for your laptop
http://www.stashcard.com
"The StashCard from Wireless Garden is a secret compartment that slides into your PC slot to stash away all sorts of stuff."
Ajax Sucks Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 2005)
http://www.usabilityviews.com/ajaxsucks.html
He used the Web 2.0 business idea generator at the end, didn't he? That cheeky bastard.
Familiar Taste - A Greasemonkey Script for del.icio.us
http://www.blackperl.com/javascript/greasemonkey/ft
"Each time you visit a page, FT consults your set of del.icio.us bookmarks to see if you have the current page marked."
Swimming Pools and Hard Disks (by Jeremy Zawodny)
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005820.html
"It took many hours to fill a swimming pool with the garden hose doing the work, but we really didn't worry about it that much."
Alex Bosworth's Weblog: 10 Places You Must Use Ajax
http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2005/12/10_places_you_must_use_ajax.html
"It's now officially annoying to use web apps that haven't replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness."
cb2.com / do not forget doorhanger
http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=340&f=2453
"Shaped paper notepad"
Boing Boing: Botched 200'-tall building demolition video
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/03/botched_200tall_buil.html
"Demolition experts blasted the bottom of the tower expecting it to tip over. Instead, the building sank into it's basement."
Stupidfool.org: "No, I can't stop yelling, cause that's how I talk!"
http://btrott.typepad.com/typepad/2005/12/no_i_cant_stop_.html
'At which point, she put on what truly is the worst song ever: Bill Cosby's version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band".'
THE GET LAMP ADVENTURER'S CLUB
http://www.getlamp.com/club
"Membership in the Adventurers' Club is $100."
Freedom to Tinker - Blog Archive - Hidden Feature in Sony DRM Uses Open Source Code to Add Apple DRM
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=940
"Sam Hocevar found conclusive evidence that part of XCP’s code was copied from a program called DRMS, which he co-authored with DVD Jon and released under the terms of the GPL open source license."
AJAX Shoutbox at Jalenack
http://blog.jalenack.com/ajax
This Wordpress plugin adds live chat functionality to your Wordpress blog.
Russell Beattie Notebook » RSS + SMS
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008706.html
"Let it mull in your brain for a second: RSS + SMS. For free. Think about it."
Canvascape - 3D walker
http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape
"What you are seeing is a test using the new Canvas tag to demonstrate its capabilities. I am beginning a project to port 'Doom' to the common browser through javasScript."
Shutter - code.jalenack.com
http://code.jalenack.com/shutter/readme.txt
"When a link is clicked with Shutter, a translucent layer is created on top of the current page and the new page is loaded (via AJAX) in a small window on top of this translucent layer."
they must need bears - The magic of butt-in-chair.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/665133.html
"You just spend a little less time drinking Heineken and a little more behind the keyboard." How about drinking the Heineken *at* the keyboard?
EarThumps - Griffin Technology
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/earthumps/index.php
I wonder if these are any better than the iPod earbud caps they make? (Which suck, by the way) "EarThumps are earbuds that are designed to isolate your listening experience from outside sound by fitting comfortably inside the ears, to deliver rich, crys
Inspirational Technology: XML is done
http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/6530_XML_is_done.item
"...[XML Schema] is causing developers to adopt the strongly typed XML concept and create system of despicable fragility, when they should be leveraging the flexibility of XML to build systems of surprising resilience."
Edge 174: The Universal Library
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge174.html
"Even in the Age of Search, we still need authors to find the meaningful books! "
[uf-discuss] Microformat Base
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-December/002202.html
This is hot: "I thought I'd go ahead and play around with a microformat-based alternative to Google Base."
Subversion Users: Re: 1.1.0_rc2 update db version 4.2 on existing repositories
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-09/1186.shtml
Brainjacked.com - OOJS
http://www.brainjacked.com
"This website aspires to serve as an open-source code repository of functionally-organized, well-documented, truly reusable OOJS, Object-Oriented JavaScript."
Remedial JavaScript
http://crockford.com/javascript/remedial.html
"The JavaScript Programming Language suffers from premature standardization."
JavaScript: A Survey of the Language
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/survey.html
"This document is an introduction to the JavaScript Programming Language for professional programmers."
Scripting News: 12/2/2005
http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/02.html#When:12:16:30PM
"Wikipedia is so often considered authoritative. That must stop now, surely." Whomever assumed Wikipedia was ever authoritative or inherently correct is a moron who missed the point.
CURRY.COM: Adam Curry's Weblog
http://www.curry.com/2005/12/02#a54336
Wherein we learn of the *true* PodFather, Kevin Marks. "Wow, I stand corrected. Thanks to this posting I was able to find this video of Kevin Marks demoing an applescript downloading mp3 enclosures straight to his ipod."
Wi-Fi Networking News: The L in Linksys WRT54GL Stands for Linux
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006101.html
"Linksys confirmed what some analysis firms have been saying: to their knowledge, the WRT54G is the single bestselling model of Wi-Fi gateway in the world." It's too bad that they've switched to VxWorks-- the Linux-based firmware was the single reason I
QuirksBlog: JavaScript and "serious" programmers
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/11/javascript_and_1.html
"For the past few months I've been thinking about the gory production details of the Ajax hype."
RSS Next Big Worm Threat at Forever Geek
http://forevergeek.com/security/rss_next_big_worm_threat.php
"There goes Microsoft, ruining something else." I'd hope that MSFT doesn't make all the same mistakes with RSS in OS-level support in Windows Vista.
DOM Scripting: The innerHTML dilemma
http://domscripting.com/blog/display/35
"Using a proprietary property like innerHTML does make me feel slightly dirty."
Explorer Destroyer - Switch to Firefox, Make money from Adsense Referral
http://explorerdestroyer.com
AJAX Yahoo! Mail/foXpose/Tabnail - Viamatic Softwares
http://viamatic.com/firefox
"The Viamatic foXpose plugin is a tiny little extension that lets you view all your tabs inside a browser window."
Unofficial Firefox 1.5 changelog (comprehensive)
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5-comprehensive.html
"This page lists the improvements in Firefox 1.5 over the previous stable release of Firefox, 1.0.7. Last updated November 29, 2005."
ITworld.com - ODF - The Future of Literate Programming?
http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1247/nls_ebiz_0df051128/index.html
"What if we used ODF compatible tools like OpenOffice to write our programs?"
CulturePulp 041: The Not-So-Secret History of 'Aeon Flux'
http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/iblog/B835531044/C1162162177/E20051128001823/index.html
"One wonders how this crew could capture the pure imagination explosion of Chung’s elaborately perverse cartoons -- much less in a film that’s rated PG-13."
philwilson.org: Microformats (ab)used -
http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/11/microformats-abused.html
"The output from Person Finder, the University of Bath's staff and student directory is now marked up with hCard."
Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time
http://www.dustindiaz.com/top-ten-javascript
"If there was ever a universal common.js shared among the entire develosphere, you’d fine these ten (plus one bonus) functions."
Joi Ito's Web: A bit too "easy"
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/12/01/a_bit_too_easy.html
"Of course, I'm probably free at midnight, but I wasn't sure if that was great."