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February 2006

318 bookmarks saved in February 2006

Airbag - Fl.ower.

http://airbagindustries.com/archives/008888.php
"As some of you know I got the chance to work with the super joyful people of Happy Cog on their project for Ma.gnolia, that keen social bookmarking application that more and more people are using."
#design #magnolia #webdev
archive.org #6530

Yabfog - FTP Upstream

http://www.yabfog.com/wp/opml-editor/ftp-upstream
"The ftpUpstream script will automatically upload your OPML files as they change to the FTP server of your choice."
#ftp #opml
archive.org #6509

Standards, APIs, and the eye of the reader

http://www.benhammersley.com/FCE47259-78BA-4B5E-ABF2-F39B93520C85/Blog/8A127A89-AAD2-4243-8E11-0BDE85AB5394.html
Ben Hammersley rails against "validation porn" - and then, as if to just tweak the web geek's nose... the whole text of the article is a solid image, inpenetrable to copy-and-paste quotation.
#metablogging
archive.org #6494

Default style sheet for HTML 4.0

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/sample.html
"This style sheet describes the typical formatting of all HTML 4.0 ([HTML40]) elements based on extensive research into current UA practice. Developers are encouraged to use it as a default style sheet in their implementations."
#css #html #webdev
archive.org #6482

Audible nabs popular podcast | CNET News.com

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6041352.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=6041352
'Audible will charge $1.95 per episode or $6.95 for the season, which will include at least four episodes by the creator and star of television's "The Office."' This will probably do well enough, but I think it's a totally wrong-headed, no-tailed way to
#podcasting #rickygervais
archive.org #6468

0xDECAFBAD

http://www.decafbad.com/blog
experimental workbench of tech nerd, tinkerer, and infovore Leslie Michael Orchard
archive.org #6466

ongoing · On PHP

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/17/PHP
"I should really buckle down and try writing a PHP app because, at the moment, I have an attitude problem." I certainly understand this sentiment, which is why i started delving into PHP myself.
#php #webdev
archive.org #6457

ONLamp.com: Introducing Lua

http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6467
"What if you could provide a seamlessly integrated, fully dynamic language with a conventional syntax while increasing your application's size by less than 200K on an x86? You can do it with Lua!" Looks like JavaScript from an alternate universe. Lots o
#dev #lua #programming
archive.org #6456

dejalicious.js

http://rose.kleinfelter.com/slant/technology/greasemonkey/dejalicious.user.js?password=asdf2fdsa&username=jdblacklung
'It is similar in function to the "Familiar Taste" greasemonkey script, except this on // uses cached bookmarks, where Familiar Taste hit del.icio.us for each page you loaded in your browser (and got banned for that reason).'
#delicious #greasemonkey
archive.org #6437

An Arrogance of Power

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401783.html
"They have blown past the usual rules and restraints into territory where few presidents have ventured -- a region where the president conducts warrantless wiretaps against Americans in violation of a federal statute, where he authorizes harsh interrogati
#bush #cheney #politics
archive.org #6425

Yahoo! UI Library

http://developer.yahoo.net/yui
"The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX."
#webdev #yahoo
archive.org #6416

Tuple space

http://www.howradical.com/articles/2006/02/14/tuple-space
"Oh magical bag of Internet – bring me all the black, metal marbles for sale in Missouri. Well that’s just silly, however tools bringing magic are on the way. But we have to keep adding tuples."
#metablogging #tuples
archive.org #6413

OPML Editor support:

http://support.opml.org/2006/02/11#a749
"Well, the next big thing on my todo list is to package up all this innovation, newsRiver.root, wordPress.root, the beautiful new icons, and make it trivially easy to install, and get new download packages going."
#opml #usertalk
archive.org #6387

Kate Bush in MP3

http://www.norbry.net/kate-bush/mp3
While I have been led to believe that Kate is not fond of these early works, I can imagine it's akin to parents showing those embarrassing baby photos to a significant other, but all of us hardened (mad) fans love to hear these, just as we all love to see
#katebush #music
archive.org #6385

Charlie's Diary

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/02/10#travel-2
"Incidentally, the folk tale that if you put a frog in a cool kettle and apply the heat gently, it won't notice the water temperature rising is apparently untrue. But it's a neat metaphor for gradual intensification of stress, so I'm going to keep using
#fiction #scifi #writing
archive.org #6373

Salon.com | The little man

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/02/08/keillor
"Most of us sense that when, decades from now, the story of this administration comes out, it will be one of ordinary incompetence, of rigid and incurious people overwhelmed by events in a world they don't dare look around and see."
#bush #politics
archive.org #6342

The Cult of Mac Blog

http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=1408908
"Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset."
#apple #funny #woz
archive.org #6337

CocoaJSON

http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/cocoajson
"Blake Seely released some code yesterday to convert Cocoa datatypes to JSON. I've had similar code that Ive been meaning to put online for a while now. So now the world has gone from zero to two Cocoa code-bases to read/write JSON."
#apple #cocoa #objc #osx #programming #webdev
archive.org #6333

The Scientific Activist: Reporting from the Crossroads of Science and Politics: BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University

http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-george-deutsch-did-not.html
"Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not
#bush #morons #nasa #politics #science
archive.org #6328

Comment Tracking with coComment » Solution Watch

http://www.solutionwatch.com/313/comment-tracking-with-cocomment
"It just occurred to me that one could easily create a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will enable coComment if a comment form has been detected. So, I decided to make one quickly! It is very simple." And here's the Greasemonkey script.
#metablogging
archive.org #6276

TechCrunch » CoComment: Tracking Your Blog Comments

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/04/cocomment-managing-user-blog-comments
"CoComment is experimenting with a new way for people to keep track of all of the comments they leave on various blogs." Damn, this is totally something I've had on my Greasemonkey to-do list for 6 months now. (Anyone have an invite code I could borrow?
#metablogging
archive.org #6275

Visiting Ning

http://visiting.ning.com
"Marc Andreessen finds it annoying when customers want to visit the Ning office. So we're going to stop by. Want to join us?" Notice where this little site is hosted...
#funny #ning
archive.org #6274

Those pesky customers :: Adam Kalsey

http://kalsey.com/2006/02/those_pesky_customers
"Ning co-counder Marc Andreessen ... says that one of their customers had the audacity to come to their office. For shame. This is the sort of thing you need to nip in the bud, or else you might have customers start becoming fans of your company."
#cluetrain #dumb #fans #ning
archive.org #6273

NPR : Al Lewis, Beloved as 'Grandpa Munster,' Dies at 95

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5189733
"Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of The Munsters whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died after years of failing health. He was 95."
#sad
archive.org #6264

PHP: usort - Manual

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.usort.php
When I grouse about PHP not having good meta magic, here's a case in point: "Sort an array by values using a user-defined comparison function" My kingdom for an anonymous function or function reference or *something*
#php #programming #webdev
archive.org #6226

QDB: Quote #609240

http://bash.org/?609240=
"One time my dad stole a roll of brightly-colored stickers from a butcher's counter that said "BREASTS" and went to the video store and stuck them on all the movies that looked likely to contain nudity."
#funny #irc #quotes
archive.org #6223

IEBlog : A New Look for IE

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522737.aspx
Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?
#MSFT #ie #ie7 #msie #webdev #windows
archive.org #6222