May 2007

143 bookmarks saved in May 2007

Mark Bernstein: Get yourself a server

http://markbernstein.org/May0701/Getyourselfaserver.html
"Continuing with the spring cleaning theme: you need a server. Yep: you. A place to put files. Some for sharing, some just for safekeeping. A place far, far from home. A place with professionals who take care of the machines."

The Daily Dish: "Verschärfte Vernehmung"

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/verschfte_verne.html
"As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charles Krauthammer,

Last.fm – the Blog

http://blog.last.fm/2007/05/30/lastfm-acquired-by-cbs
"Today, Last.fm was acquired by CBS, a company who had the first commercial radio station in the US, ran a record label (CBS Records), and amongst other things are responsible for several respected TV series (CBS on Wikipedia)."

Build Your Own Burrito Bar - CHOW

http://www.chow.com/stories/10115?tag=nl.e351
"The inspiration for this party came from the famous taquerias in San Francisco’s Mission District, where enormous foil-wrapped burritos, with various types of rice, salsas, beans, and meats, are made to order before your eyes."

Blitzaffe Code - PHP Classes - Jabber Client

http://code.blitzaffe.com/pages/phpclasses/files/jabber_client_52-11
"This is an event-driven Jabber client class implementation, allowing your script to connect to and interact with Jabber (XMPP) servers. This script was originally based on class.jabber.php, but has been almost completely rewritten (with permission from

MonitorThis

http://alp-uckan.net/free/monitorthis
"With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 22 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format."

AppleTV hacked to run Xgrid - Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/18/appletv-hacked-to-run-xgrid
"if you're just using the Apple TV as a media extender, that processor is just sitting there wasting spare cycles when you're not using the device, so this little hack to run Apple's Xgrid distributed-computing client on an Apple TV seems pretty slick."

News Brews

http://www.therealbenbrown.com/newsbrews
"In the quest to produce dynamic data displays which present the absurdity of our situation on earth in a more appropriate manner(i.e. an absurd manner) the possibility of using taste as a means of data transmission presents itself. Due to the sensitive n

Memory leak patterns in JavaScript

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-memleak
"Plugging memory leaks in JavaScript is easy enough when you know what causes them. In this article authors Kiran Sundar and Abhijeet Bhattacharya walk you through the basics of circular references in JavaScript and explain why they can cause problems in

YBOX

http://www.uncommonprojects.com/ybox/index.html?more=
"YBox is a prototype/proof-of-concept for an ultra-cheap, always on, internet appliance that attaches to a standard TV set. The YBox is like Konfabulator for TV, turning TV into a platform for helpful, easy-to-read, live internet "channels"."