YouTube - Otters holding hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/&v=epUk3T2Kfno
"Vancouver Aquarium: two sea otters float around, napping, holding hands. SO CUTE!"
Wordpress Mailhook Integration Script - Version 0.1
http://dogtoe.com/weblog/wp-mailhook.txt
Problems with OpenID on Highrise at FactoryCity
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/03/24/problems-with-openid-on-highrise
"Turns out that 37 Signals’ implementation of OpenID could use some… getting real."
WoW Moviewatch: Murkilla Trailer - WOW Insider
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/03/27/wow-moviewatch-murkilla-trailer
"Pallyimba Pictures presents: Murkilla! This is the stuff of nightmares, and it really can't be explained -- you're going to have to hit the play button up there and see it for yourself."
JavaScript UUID Class
http://www.af-design.com/services/javascript/uuid
"While a true implementation of UUID is not possible at this time, this implementation provides reasonable uniqueness."
PVE Servers
http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/pveservers2.jpg
"Where carebears roam freely!"
150 Headlines: Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards
http://blog.space150.com/2007/1/11/faust-flash-augmenting-standards
Did this at Organic over a year ago. "Faust is a process for writing accessible sites where the page seen by users with Flash installed uses the same HTML as the page seen by users without Flash. ... parses content right out of the HTML page. "
7 Flash Myths - Warpspire
http://warpspire.com/journal/web-production/7-flash-myths
DOM Scripting: The Ajax/Flash continuum
http://domscripting.com/blog/display/102
"I’m talking specifically about situations where you are going to have a technological barrier to entry in any case. I’m just suggesting that Flash is a lower barrier than Ajax."
macosxhints.com - Use MaxMenus to initiate drag actions in the Terminal
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021220062633569
"a utility hidden within MaxMenus that allows you to initiate a drag of a file or folder from the command line!"
Google Account Authentication
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApps.html
"To maintain a high level of security, the Authentication Proxy interface, AuthSub, enables the application to get an authentication token without ever handling the user's account login information."
John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-hacked
"Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage…particularly marriage between two passionate females.
The Unarchiver
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
"The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X."
John Manoogian III » Yelp on Wheels, 2.0 / Inventing What's Next
http://blog.jm3.net/2007/03/25/yelp-on-wheels-20
"Installing this will add Yelp’s community “star” ratings to the Waiters on Wheels listings (via AJAX magic), so you can choose your delivery food by Yelp’s trusted ratings. Check it out."
YouTube - World of Warcraft - Karazhan Musical Chairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?sid=1&v=K2f0aGMAx7w
"Our guild gets really bored in Karazhan, after over a month of full clears. So this is how we pass the time. ... we play musical chairs in Moroes' room"
If I want your links, I'll sub your links | One Big Library.
http://onebiglibrary.net/story/if-i-want-your-links-ill-sub-your-links
"I'd much rather see your blog go quiet for weeks, months, or even years and then happily find the occasional post than just find links where I once expected to find your own original words."
andrew ruder :: software :: ZIRC
http://www.aeruder.net/software/ZIRC.html
"So, I proudly (sort of) present ZIRC. The only IRC client that I know of that is completely implemented and integrated into your favorite shell (zsh)."
Craig Maloney » Listening to podcasts
http://decafbad.net/2007/03/25/listening-to-podcasts
"Just got off the phone with a radio-research survey company. They asked me what my favorite radio station was. I told them “I listen to podcasts exclusively”."
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/longnow
Here are the "slides" for my talk at Seminars about Long-Term Thinking, 15 February 2007.
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Colbert says Impeach Bush now... [VIDEO]
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/49681
"Stephen Colbert challenges the Democrats to impeach Bush now. He's just been taunting you all these years with the outing of Valerie Plame, WMD lies, Katrina tragedy, wiretapping, attorney firings, etc. etc. etc..."
The entire recording of "Strength"
http://www.insoc.org/audio/STRNall.mp3
The Object HTTP Mapper
http://pythonpaste.org/ohm
"OHM is a library for serving Python objects as REST-style HTTP APIs, and for consuming REST-style APIs as Python objects."
Composite: thoughts on poetics by Liz Henry: SuperHappyDevHouse: Serial enthusiasm
http://liz-henry.blogspot.com/2007/03/superhappydevhouse-serial-enthusiasm.html
"So we all three were sitting here wishing there was a job for serial enthusiasts, who are maybe an intersection with early adopters. ... so many things that it's not humanly possible for them to use all of those things."
iConcertCal - A Personalized Concert Calendar Built For iTunes
http://www.iconcertcal.com
"iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city."
Mormons miffed over coffee-swilling angel image - CNN.com
http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/03/24/mormons.coffee.ap/index.html
"T-shirts of a Mormon angel with java flowing into his trumpet are selling well. ... don't have the blessing of religious leaders. ... Not only is the angel Moroni a revered figure ... church members are discouraged from drinking coffee"
YouTube - Detroit Zoo Ad from the 80s
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oQr548olzOo
"A popular ad made for the Detroit Zoo that aired in the early-to-mid-80s in the Detroit area."
Kevin Lynch: Apollo alpha
http://www.klynch.com/archives/000086.html
"With Apollo, you can leverage existing web development skills (HTML, Flash, JavaScript, Ajax, Flex) to build and deploy RIAs to the desktop. ... Apollo will enable anyone with basic web development skills to create a desktop application."
sacha chua :: tech evangelist, connector, geek :: 2007.03.23
http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/2007.03.23.php#anchor-4
"I think that blogging is a natural fit for introverts. I blog because it's such a convenient way for me to connect with people. I blog when I want to. ... I can withdraw and re-join without anyone noticing."
Dean Edwards: Rules For JavaScript Library Authors
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2007/03/rules
"I wrote this about six months ago before starting work on base2. I decided not to post it at the time as I thought it sounded a little pompous. On reflection, they aren’t bad rules and I managed to stick to them."
Joho the Blog: Physical DRM
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/physical_drm.html
"You forced me into stabbing your product with a carving knife. Is that really the sort of "initial user experience" you were hoping for?"
Commodore 2.1-20070321 | Theme viewer
http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/1-column/1867/commodore-21-20070321
"A pretty faithful recreation of an old-style Commodore VIC-20 or 64 interface."
Best idea ever. (FreeBSDGirl.com)
http://freebsdgirl.com/2007/03/best_idea_ever.html
"This weekend, I am going to find a Bedazzler. Maybe target has one. I'm going to bedazzle the hell out of my network equipment. The Cisco 1100, Netgear RangeMax Next, and both Netgear gigabit switches. It will be hot. Pics to come."
90% Crud: Detroit Roundup
http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/local/detroit_roundup.php
"....JC Penney just announced that they'd be the anchor tenant in an $80m shopping center on Woodward, and builders in the region are reporting that Detroit's the best place to find work in the region these days."
Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Doesn’t anyone remember Grand Central?
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/03/doesnt-anyone-remember-grand-central
"I’m confused. What is Grand Central? Is that Apollo alpha. A pre-cursor or just something everyone wants to forget about? Google remembers it - 611k mentions of it - in fact. Others panned it back then."
xkcd - Blagofaire
http://xkcd.com/c239.html
"Did bloggers really wear red capes and goggles and blog from high-altitude balloons? ... No! Well, Cory Doctorow does, but nobody else."
Choose Your Own Adventure Books That Never Quite Made It
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/choose-your-own.php
"Forum member Jer decided to dig deep into the collective fetid imaginations of the forum goons this week to find out just what, in their minds, should have made it to the bookshelves."
Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070319/ts_nm/usa_subprime_detroit_dc
"With bidding stalled on some of the least desirable residences in Detroit's collapsing housing market, even the fast-talking auctioneer was feeling the stress."
Search With Kevin
http://searchwithkevin.prodege.com
Uhh, what? Who's the genius who thought this would work? "Every time you search the web you stand a chance of winning a prize from Kevin Federline."
Will The Last Person To Leave Detroit Please Turn Out The Lights? | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/59639/Will-The-Last-Person-To-Leave-Detroit-Please-Turn-Out-The-Lights
"House are cheaper than cars. The city's neighborhoods are in decay. Families are leaving. Even "revived" areas are struggling. Entire portions of the city are starting to revert to prarie and ruins."
I have met the enemy and it is tribalism « Jon Udell
http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/03/21/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-it-is-tribalism
"The problem isn’t religion, Wilson said, it’s tribalism. The two often coincide but they are not the same thing. Religion is not a pernicious force in the world. Tribalism is."
Dean Edwards: Yet Another JavaScript Library Without Documentation
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2007/03/yet-another
"Because this library is standards-based it means that you don’t have to learn a new API."
quoteunquote | anil bawa cavia | zim is an outliner.
http://www.quotesque.net/archives/2007/03/zim_is_an_outli.html
"Over the last couple of weeks i've been playing with the idea of a browser-based Outliner not unlike DECAFBAD's XoXoOutliner."
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST Tip: Deep etags give you more benefits.
http://bitworking.org/news/150/REST-Tip-Deep-etags-give-you-more-benefits
"if a resource is tied to a single row in a table then a simple timestamp or revision number on the row is a good source of information for generating an etag"
RSS is delicious on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://flickr.com/photos/sock/429657161
rss has a taste.
Wired 15.03: PLAY - Did Timbaland Do It?
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=8
"Janne “Tempest” Suni claims the melody for “Do It,” a Timbaland-helmed track on Nelly Furtado’s 2006 platinum smash Loose, was filched from a chiptune he recorded in 2000."
xkcd - Keyboards are Disgusting
http://xkcd.com/c237.html
Holy crap, that's a good way to get pink eye!
Twittering Your Home - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/twittering_your_home.html?ATT=Twittering+Your+Home&CMP=OTC-13IV03560550
"I’d like to share a few notes on my more prosaic experiment of using [Twitter] as part of my home automation system."
Scripting News: Twitter news feeds
http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/17/twitterNewsFeeds.html
"The reason why it's such a good fit is that Twitter is a river, I saw that immediately. It's what I've been preaching. They got a lot of people to think in terms of River of News. So of course I'm going to jump on that bandwagon. I'll take victory howeve
John Manoogian III » Blog Archive » (The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS
http://blog.jm3.net/2007/03/16/the-only-ten-things-to-know-about-css
"AKA Secrets of the patented JM3 Gasbag Model™"
An Introvert Stands Up for The Right to Stand Alone - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021800804.html
"Because we are introverts, which means we don't reveal ourselves by working through problems out loud or by talking much about how we think or feel."
macosxhints.com - 10.4: Disable Safe Sleep for faster sleep on lid close
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?query=safe+sleep&story=20070302210328928
"The problem with this is putting your computer to sleep can take a while (20 seconds to one minute or more), depending on how much data you currently have loaded in RAM."
The (del.icio.us) War Room on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://flickr.com/photos/7299708@N03/418540251
"Gathering our forces to do battle against another day's worth of action items."
Dems abandon war authority provision - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq
"Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. "
You are kidding arent you ? -- jerryleecooper's comment on "Why Linux will not displace Windows" | TalkBack on ZDNet
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&messageID=579806&start=43&threadID=31199
"Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? ... That sounds preposterous to me."
Watchmen (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_(film)
"Similiar to his approach to 300, Snyder is using the comic book as a storyboard, travelling with a copy and drawing and making notes on it"
☄ Cometd - The Scalable Comet Framework
http://cometd.com
"Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet."
Cometd, streaming blog entries - Xantus
http://xantus.vox.com/library/post/cometd-streaming-blog-entries.html
"I've been working on Cometd"
Google Steps In To Help U.S. With Google Navy | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59726
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST Tips: Prefer following links over URI construction
http://bitworking.org/news/141/REST-Tips-Prefer-following-links-over-URI-construction
"Note that the client doesn't get to 'know' how to construct employee URIs from employee-ids, instead it just follows links from the employee list to each employee resource."
E! - Kristin's Blog - Exclusive! Veronica Canceled -
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/blog/index.jsp?uuid=6bcc5753-bc66-41f4-8283-131667132231
"With actual tears in my eyes, I must tell you that I’ve heard from several solid sources that the CW has decided not to bring Veronica Mars back for a fourth season."
A quote from Dick Costolo
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/16/apis
"The best reason to always build out APIs for your product is that it makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors."
Ludicrous › Firefox Search Plugin: Post Updates to Twitter right from your Firefox Search Bar!
http://lud.icro.us/post-twitter-updates-from-firefox
"“Post to Twitter” is a search plugin for Mozilla Firefox which allows you to quickly post statuses (or “tweets”) to your Twitter account from the Firefox search bar"
Ficlets | Welcome to Ficlets!
http://ficlets.com
"A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel."
TheHill.com - Emanuel tells freshmen to avoid Stephen Colbert
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/emanuel-tells-freshmen-to-avoid-stephen-colbert-2007-03-14.html
"avoiding the kind of publicity that only “The Colbert Report” can confer on a lawmaker may be the only advice from Emanuel that freshman Democrats are ignoring."
YouTube - Carnage and shops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rujO2MzOpTE
"You never know how dangerous it can be to go shopping." An SUV crashes into a mall and drives around for awhile
50 States In A Week's Vacation
http://www.barrystiefel.com/50_states_in_a_weeks_vacation/50_states_in_a_weeks_vacation.htm
"A very strange trip in which I personally visited all 50 states in a week's vacation"
YouTube - I am the very model of a Singularitarian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos&v=qnreVTKtpMs
"Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General," from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance.""
Super Mario Bros. Sound Blocks Annoy Your Office Mates to No End - Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/super-mario-bros-sound-blocks-annoy-your-office-mates-to-no-end-244127.php
"Super Mario Bros. Sound Blocks just sit there on your desk until you press down on their heads, and then four different familiar and authentic sound effects emanate from within."
they must need bears - brain the size of a planet, and what do they have me do?
http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1078893.html
"Holy shit. I PATCHED MY BRAIN."
Castlevania's Koji Igarashi: 2D games will never die! - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/13/castlevanias-koji-igarashi-2d-games-will-never-die
"2D games will never die!"
Rush - Far Cry.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://www.crookedstep.com/rush/Rush%20-%20Far%20Cry.mp3
First single from the new album. {{{O.O}}}
Vintage Computing and Gaming | Archive » Retro Scan of the Week: The Ultimate Pac-Man Room
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/288
"So tell me, Pac-Friends. How many of these Pac-Man items do you have?"
Chocolate Guinness Cake
http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~saliola/chocolate_guinness_cake.html
"1 cup Guinness Stout (and one for me)"
YouTube - Bandito Coastguard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OL8IIMo3hs
"Los Banditos Locos, a Horde guild on the Barthilas realm of World of Warcraft, teaches the Alliance how to take a bath. Well, we hope they had soap in their pockets for their swim, anyway. Avast! Arrr!"
Joost™ - Open Source - libb
http://opensource.joost.com/libb
"We have been developing a triple store called B, a very low level C library. One of its uses is as a backend store for redland."
aim_20070310.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/aim_20070310.mp3
"Leda Cosmides, renowned pioneer of the controversial field evolutionary psychology, asks, 'Are We Already Transhuman?' Don't miss this Templeton Research Lecture recorded for All in the Mind at Arizona State University."
Habitat Chronicles: The Untold History of Toontown's SpeedChat (or BlockChattm from Disney finally arrives)
http://www.fudco.com/habitat/archives/000058.html
"I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. "
A Workshop Lexicon
http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/paradigms_workshop_sterling.lexicon
"This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and myself from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to SF workshops."
Because Crotch-to-Air Missiles are Awesome...
http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm
"There comes a time in any geek's experience when he realizes exactly what he's just read, and something breaks."
Priests to purify site after Bush visit - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070309/ap_on_fe_st/guatemala_bush_purification
The Omni Mouth » OmniGraffle for Bureaucracy
http://blog.omnigroup.com/2007/03/09/omnigraffle-for-bureaucracy
"OmniGraffle might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you need to fill out some official forms for the U.S. Government. Or, say, some character sheets for your weekend Dungeons & Dragons session. But it should be."
Crowdhacking: 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com | Chris Webb: Publishing, Media, and Technology
http://www.ckwebb.com/books/crowdhacking-10-simple-ways-authors-can-help-to-increase-sales-at-amazoncom
"I’m not suggesting that authors or publishers purposely try to game the Amazon.com reviewer system. However, there are several ways authors can participate to be sure that their voice is part of the conversation."
John Manoogian III » Blog Archive » Shut-ins rejoice: Yelp/Waiters on Wheels Mashup here!
http://blog.jm3.net/2007/03/09/shut-ins-rejoice-yelp-waiters-on-wheels-mashup-is-here
"Introducing Yelp on Wheels!, a jm3.net unauthorized script that adds Yelp review links into Waiters on Wheels listings, so you can easily read user-generated reviews of what you’re ordering. currently coded for San Francisco only."
YouTube - Inhaling the New FlameThrower Chicken Sandwich
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZC4OknWHens
"The latest of the DQ taste-tempting and humorous commericals." Holy crap, does this commercial have freaking hilarious flamethrowy timing.
charles: The Sandwich Provider Protocol
http://charles.livejournal.com/223764.html
"challenge-response wastes time, as you pay double the cost of the latency between you and the person behind the counter."
Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070309/ap_on_go_co/gingrich_affair
Scripting News: Programming with love
http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/08/programmingWithLove.html
Amen: "I think the problem with browser-based RSS software is that the people who write the apps aren't news junkies. If they were, they could, with much less effort, create something far more powerful and far more usable."
WIRED Blogs: Danger Room
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/03/how_to_break_a_.html
"By taking out three spanners, Graham showed how you could isolate relatively homogeneous chunks of the network, rendering it stupider and less adaptive than before."
subbes: Someone out there has written Mythbuster
http://subbes.livejournal.com/1437089.html
"Someone out there has written Mythbusters slash fanfic. I'm certain of it, but I don't want to confirm this certainty by searching because of what I fear I'll encounter."
Achewood - March 8, 2007
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03082007
"We have these things called burritos, and they are an ideal foodstuff..."
Me Gusta Comer Gatos t-shirt and apparel from Zazzle.com
http://www.zazzle.com/product/235182183450862622
I must re-find this video: 'I had to sit through this horrible video attempting to teach students the meaning of the verb "gustar"-- to like. The video showed a high speed reel of images from movies and pictures with all kinds of things like cats and fren
Wired News: Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72737-0.html?tw=rss.index
"It starts with good intentions. 'I'm going to get all of these movies while I can.'"
365 tomorrows » 124
http://www.365tomorrows.com/03/07/124
"So, Paul, you’re profiting off of the crimes and careers of 123 of the world’s greatest criminals."
Scripting News: Point of view
http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/06/pointOfView.html
"They say it's just a rehash of Netvibes. If they had been aware of how RSS came to be, they would realize that it's the other way around, Netvibes is a reprise of My.Netscape. "
Boing Boing: Clarion bootcamp for sf writers deadline is Apr 1!
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/04/clarion_bootcamp_for.html
I want to go to Clarion someday. Need to start writing more, first. "This summer marks the first year that the venerable Clarion Writers' Workshop will run at the University of California at San Diego."
The Tanooki » Blog Archive » Zelda Music of Golden Proportions
http://www.thetanooki.com/2007/03/03/zelda-music-of-golden-proportions
"the golden ratio is thought by many to represent a ratio of natural beauty. Buildings, human faces, and musical compositions that exhibit this ratio tend to be considered “beautiful,” regardless of whether or not the beholder realizes the presence of
Serbian vampire hunters prevent Milosevic come-back | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/milosevic_staked
"Serbian vampire hunters have acted to prevent the very remote possibility that former dictator Slobodan Milosevic might stage a come-back - by driving a three-foot stake through his heart."
digital-scurf → software → aranha
http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/aranha
"Aranha is a Lua and FastCGI based web application framework."
Barracuda Embedded Web Server
http://barracudaserver.com
"A script engine that is faster, smaller and simpler than any Java VM." ...and that script engine would be Lua.
Kepler: The Lua Web Development Platform - US.HomePage
http://www.keplerproject.org
"Kepler is a Web development platform. ... It is implemented as a set of Lua components, so it offers the same advantages as Lua: it is Simple, Portable, Light and Extensible (SIMPLE)"
It’s All Text! « Archive « The Doctor What
http://docwhat.gerf.org/2007/01/its-all-text
"Have you ever had to fill in a form on a web page and wished you could open it in an editor?"
Tip #1500 - By default, when opening files in Mac OS X, a new vim window is opened. This shows you how to have only one window. : vim online
http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1500
"This tip shows you how to make an applescript file, and how to use it so you can open files from the command line in the same window."
Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped--Now
http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=200162,00.asp
"in the last few years I've been asking computer scientists and programmers whether they've ever typed E-N-G-E-L-B-A-R-T into Google-and none of them have."
rc3.org: Is Lua the next big thing?
http://rc3.org/2007/03/is_lua_the_next.php
"Lua is a scripting language that was designed to extend applications. It's interesting to see it suddenly take off."
HTTP Vocabulary in RDF
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/HTTP/WD-HTTP-in-RDF-20070301
Was looking for something like this back when I was working on AgentFrank
JSON is not as safe as people think it is - Joe Walker's Blog
http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/03/05/json_is_not_as_safe_as_people_think_it_is.html
I thought everyone knew this! Ugh! "I believe that JSON is unsafe for anything but public data unless you are using unpredictable URLs."
Printable Cold Sores
http://printablecoldsores.blogspot.com
"Printable cold sores allow us to take action! Bring these people back down to our level, and tell advertisers that you don't agree with their message."
Making dynamic static pages | ianloic.com
http://ianloic.com/making_dynamic_static_pages
I'd totally forgotten that FeedBurner now offers JSON renderings of RSS feeds. I should use this if I ever revamp to a new portal-of-me homepage.
Reading Comprehension and other controversies « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/04/reading-comprehension-and-other-controversies
"There’s two separate styles of reading that I notice I’m in. One is a “grazing” style of reading where I’m just looking at the item and doing some quick pattern recognition on it."
njr 3.0 - An AppleScript to update podcasts and your iPod
http://njr.sabi.net/2007/03/04/an-applescript-to-update-podcasts-and-your-ipod
"These days nearly 100% of my iPod listening is podcasts, and iTunes’ iPod-syncing podcast support is decent but lacking in a few areas."
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST Tips: URI space is infinite
http://bitworking.org/news/132/REST-Tips-URI-space-is-infinite
"For status codes, if the given zipcode is not a valid one then we will return a 404 Not Found, and a PNG of a red X, otherwise we return a 200 Ok for the happy green checkmark."
Redirect test page - Content-Location and Base URL
http://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/CL/ok.html
"Your browser does NOT compute the base URI of the document per Section 14.14 of rfc2616"
Exploratorium: Opportunities for Artists
http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/air.html
Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog - Wrong-headed impersonation
http://www.identityblog.com/?p=701
"We need to move beyond the idea of omnipotent services running behind the curtain, which is what we have come up with in the past, to a truly secure model where the user consciously delegates and systems demonstrate this in an auditable fashion."
YouTube - If I had a Murloc!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gg0vWZ4s5do
Marijuana, the wonder drug - International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/01/opinion/edgrinspoon.php
"A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine."
charles: NSFW
http://charles.livejournal.com/223396.html
"Except somehow, Scriptwriter/Director David Goyer saved the entire movie by coming up with the immortal phrase: "cock-juggling thundercunt"."
The Daily Dish: Coulter In Her Element
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/03/coulter_in_her_.html
"When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young."
The North Korea intel botch is worse than you think. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2160958/fr/rss
"It's too bad that the U.S. political system offers no way to take a vote of "no confidence," because that describes the state we're living in now"
WordPress › Blog - WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212
"It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file."
Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts - Publishing - Podcasts - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/books/01podb.html?_r=1&oref=login
"Several times a week Mr. Sigler, 37, steps into a walk-in closet in his San Francisco home. He reads into a microphone that connects to his computer via a sound mixer. Hanging shirts envelop him, masking ambient sound."
YouTube - Chicken Police?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVb3t560oY
"Fighting rabbits get what they deserve."
YouTube - Rabbit vs Snake - Hase vs Schlange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=&v=4-K2oj1_muI
"This is a Fight with a Rabbit an a snake. Enjoy it."