25/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : The Gunning Fog Index of the last month of kottke.org posts is 10.70 - That's a little less than the Wall Street Journal and more than Time or Newsweek. (Three years ago it was 9.61...I'm getting less readable.)
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Anne van Kesteren : HTTP authentication logout/stop phishing - Looks nice indeed. #
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Anne van Kesteren : The 1 million download challenge - This is fun. He is actually going to swim! #
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25/04/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Not Your Father's Cascade - On the cascade chapter; user style sheets are less important than author style sheets without '!important'. #
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Anne van Kesteren : JavaScript Terminology - On anonymous functions, closures, et cetera by Mark. #
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Anne van Kesteren : More Seriously: Why CSS Doesn't Define Behaviour - Mark publishes a follow-up on his DOM CSS selector. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Validation Service for Relax NG - XHTML 1 validation is a default option. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Hacking RSS and Atom is a Real Book - A book on syndication. #
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Anne van Kesteren : The 3D CSS Box Model - It now has a permanent location and some bugs are fixed. It also has been relicensed. [via] #
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25/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 2 - Ugh. #
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25/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kayodeok : Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)
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deusx : Blue Sky On Mars: Ten years since the end of the NSFNET - "Someone on the mailing list of former ANS employees points out that ten years ago this week, the NSFNETt was turned off."
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25/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : ASPN : Python Cookbook : Integrating Twisted reactor with IPython - "Runs the Twisted reactor event loop in a thread alongside an IPython shell, for introspecting a running Twisted process."
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25/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Making the iPod's shuffle function work better - Making the iPod's shuffle function work better: I need to try this as soon as I stop forgetting to bring my shuffle to work
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kayodeok : John Battelle's Searchblog: Google Moves Into Branding Business - "Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is Google as DoubleClick, Web 2.0 style"
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kayodeok : Using the ESV Bible as a Web Service - API - API Examples
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kayodeok : Using the ESV Bible as a Web Service - This service, like most web services, requires that you have access to a programming language on your web server, such as Perl, PHP, or ASP, as well as basic knowledge of how to program in that language
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kayodeok : The Ten Commandments of system administration, part I - "In this series, I'll present what I feel are the 10 most important steps a systems administrator can take to ensure that when that dreaded 3 a.m. page hits, you're prepared to react quickly, assess the situation, and make everything right again"
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25/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Daily Kos :: DeLay's Big Lie may be last straw - "If this bears out, it not only provides a clear violation of House ethics rules, but also of DeLay's efforts to lie himself out of his self-inflicted ethical mess."
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deusx : MSN Money - Extra: SUV owners get free gas -- courtesy of Uncle Sam - "It's hard to think of a worse formula for wrecking the country."
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deusx : Top News Article | Reuters.com | Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by 1991 POWs in Iraq - "Seventeen American prisoners of war in the 1991 Gulf War failed on Monday to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review of a ruling that threw out a nearly $1 billion judgment against Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Intelligence Service."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Alice: Free, Easy, Interactive 3D Graphics for the WWW - Alice: Free, Easy, Interactive 3D Graphics for the WWW: teach your kids to program
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25/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : David Byrne on how the tightening of US borders keeps creativity out of our country - I imagine this has had an effect on the scientific community as well.
Milo Vermeulen : David Byrne's Journal - David Byrne's Journal [via] [via]
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25/04/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : the basics of concording - this would be more useful if i had ready access to the electronic version of any text that i might read #
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25/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : bash Tricks From the Developers of the O'Reilly Network - "Here were our gems, the most useful tips that weren't already common knowledge among the developers."
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25/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Edward Tufte closing "Ask E.T." forum - for someone so brilliant at information design, the design of the forums is lacking
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25/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : There are some signs that Americans are actually paying off their credit card debt
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25/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : Flickrjs - A javascript wrapper for flickr, using xmlhttprequest (aka ajax)
Philippe Janvier : Flickrjs - "...a wrapper to use the Flickr API from javascript through xmlhttprequest's. Or, in a more fancy way, using AJAX techniques to get data without reload the whole page". [via] #
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25/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Audio from the Who Own Culture? talk by Lessig, Tweedy, and Johnson now online - Streaming audio or mp3.
Andy Baio : MP3: Audio from Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Lessig's "Who Owns Culture?" presentation - 45 MB of goodness [via] [via]
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jkottke : "There's a game I like where you have to think of people whose name makes a complete sentence" - "Tom Waits. Jeremy Irons. Jeff Bridges. Wesley Snipes."
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25/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 900,000-year-old ice may destroy US case on Kyoto - "...this latest ice core could provide evidence that even hardliners would find hard to ignore."
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25/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Bloggle: The Coffee Odyssey: SCAA, Redux - "As is the dawning realization that there are fewer coffee houses here in the state of Vermont than there were in a 10 city-block radius of my hotel in downtown Seattle, and that if I want to have an over-the-top cappuccino experience I'll need to ... mak
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plasticbag : Does anyone speak or read Turkish well enough to translate this article? - "Arama motorlarının yerini bloglar alıyor" - Quite.
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25/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : Microsoft Comes Under Fire for Reversal on Gay Rights Bill - It looks like Microsoft have buckled under pressure from Christians threatening a Microsoft boycott. A better move would be to talk to all their competitors and go in as a united body.
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25/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Kerry supporters barred from international telecom meeting by Bush Administration - This type of thing makes me *so* angry. It's the fucking **US** government, not the Republican government or Bush government. So! Angry!
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25/04/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Google readies banner offerings - More traditional ads to come to Google ads, with Cost Per Impression and animated graphics (yikes!)
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25/04/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Nikon encrypts D2X white balance metadata - Fury over a bad move from Nikon to encrypt part of its digital negative file format
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25/04/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Software patent directive back in motion - The circus continues
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25/04/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google readies banner offerings - Google is taking a big step toward becoming an online banner-advertising network as the market for brand ads heats up
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25/04/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
kayodeok : US Doubleclick bought for $1.1bn - US internet advertising and marketing company Doubleclick has been bought by Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco buyout firm, for $1.1bn (£575m)
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25/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Misleading Installations of the Week - This week, Ben Edelman discusses misleading installations of PacerD, and Claria's Dope Wars
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25/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Free Upgrade to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Technology Advancement Program enables customers who have purchased Windows XP Professional (32-bit) to exchange it for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
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25/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Public Whip's quick election quiz - It's a nice piece of work this - you put in your postcode and how you feel about some core issues and it matches you to a party
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25/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : Are Adaptive Path working on an Ajax app? - And if so, can I come play?
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25/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : Microsoft Social Computing Symposium 2005 - God, I've been so distracted I didn't even realise this was happening. Drool. Sigh.
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25/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Are you thinking what we're thinking? An entertaining Pinky & the Brain / Michael Howard poster mash-up - Someone (me?) needs to do a video / music combination of Pinky and the Brain cartoons and the Conservative party
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25/04/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
plasticbag : 'Interesting' / useful looking PHP cheat-sheet - I sometimes find it hard to remember whether it's Ruby or PHP that I'm trying to find the time to learn. Ruby's more fashionable...
Richard Rutter : PHP cheat sheet - Handy PNG of functions, regex, globals, etc. [via plasticbag.org]
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25/04/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
plasticbag : The London Review of Books' Personals column is now available online... Beautifully English... - "The LRB?s own Son of Jor-El, stuck in the Phantom Zone of the personal ads for three years now. Reckon I could still lick anyone of you wusses. Man, 36. Alone. Tonight, and very possibly forever. Box no. 07/12"
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25/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : A (Near)-Complete List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts - Terrifyingly fun list of keyboard shortcuts for hours of entertainment with your Mac laptop
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25/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : I'm honored that the excellent File Magazine has added my photo of the man by the fountain in the Jardin des Tuileries to their collection
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25/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Comparing newspapers' online "circulation" (# of blog links) with their offline circulation - The Christian Science Monitor had the highest ratio by far, with the Wall Street Journal being almost invisible on the web (which will eventually affect their influence, I think).
Andy Baio : Comparing blog links to major newspapers - as a percentage of their print circulation, Christian Science Monitor is the most blog-friendly [via] [via]
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25/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : According to this article, The Simpsons have some new writing blood and the episodes are getting better - I'm skeptical because the show has been marginal for years now...maybe I'll have to give it another try.
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25/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Part one of Elizabeth Kolbert's three-part series on global warming for the New Yorker - "Disappearing islands, thawing permafrost, melting polar ice. How the earth is changing." (Comment on this)
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25/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Maybe the high price of oil isn't such a bad thing - "When you look closely, it is hard to know what effect, exactly, oil prices have on the economy."
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25/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft and the Anti-Discrimination Bill - An interesting PR battle within MS and yet another example of why secularity is key to democracy. Look at the comments on Scobble's post
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25/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Is It Cool to Be Anonymous? - The blogosphere, transparency, and three tips for keeping it real
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25/04/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dangerous Hacker! - too good to be true, but I'm hoping [via] [via]
Wayne Burkett : Dangerous Hacker! - Funny stuff. #
kayodeok : Dangerous Hacker!, Be careful, he might hack you, too... - Funny story about a clueless hacker
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25/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Case of the Mysterious Locked File - Forensic analysis example using Filemon and Process Explorer to determine which process has the handle on the locked file
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Google knows Katamari Damacy 2 release date
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Free wi-fi cafes and other wireless hotspots
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25/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : A Directory Of Windows Explorer Replacements - Here's a list of programs that seek to replace, one way or another, Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer) used not only to view directories/folders and move files around (otherwise known as file managers), but to view the contents o
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25/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Greasemonkey compiler - This site converts Greasemonkey user scripts into full-fledged Mozilla Firefox extensions. Fill out the form below, and it'll give you an XPI file, suitable for installation into Firefox. Bold fields are required
Philippe Janvier : Greasemonkey compiler - "Convert Greasemonkey user scripts into full-fledged Mozilla Firefox extensions". [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Greasemonkey compiler - Greasemonkey compiler: kick ass!
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25/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Adrian's Greasemonkey compiler - turn into Greasemonkey script into a standalone Firefox extension
Wayne Burkett : Greasemonkey compiler | Holovaty.com - "I've written a Greasemonkey compiler, which makes a Firefox browser extension (XPI) from a given Greasemonkey user script." Cool! #
kayodeok : Greasemonkey compiler - "This is useful if you're a script developer and want to distribute your work to people without having to ask them to install Greasemonkey. It can also be a helpful starting point if you want to write a more advanced Firefox extension"
jimray : Greasemonkey compiler - Compile greasemonkey scripts into standalone Firefox XPIs
Paul Hammond : Greasemonkey compiler | Holovaty.com - makes a Firefox browser extension (XPI) from a given Greasemonkey user script.
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25/04/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
jimray : Tags: Database schemas - Or, how to build a database ready for folksonomies
Wayne Burkett : Tags: Database schemas - A few ways to handle tags in your database. #
jkottke : Some different database schemas for tags
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25/04/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Articles (the finest of the short nonfiction form) - Aaron Schwartz cherrypicks magazine articles for his new blog.
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25/04/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Some Like It Hot - Chris Mooney outlines the TechCentralStation/JunkScience.com/Exxon effort to throw chaff up in response to scientific consensus on global warning.
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Steve Cook : Environmentalism's new leading edge is in the red states? - Keith Schneider on Earth Day 35
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25/04/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : New York Press shreds Thomas Friedman's new book - The whole damn thing is premised on a metaphor that -didn't apply in 1492-.
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25/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Rails tips for OS X users - Ruby's breakpoint implementation is weird and fascinating
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25/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Tweaking life - A six-part piece on the intersection of small-town politics, prostitution rings, meth addiction, and the reshaping of Montana.
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25/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Baishawan - The jungle-covered remnants of a futuristic community in Taiwan; reminiscent of "The Prisoner"'s Portmeirion after WWIII.
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25/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : frequently asked questions about the Chinatown bus
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25/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
mbertier : PEAR 1.4.0, meet REST 1.0 - "I've completed the work of designing a server-side implementation of REST for the PEAR installer, and now am working on the client-side implementation." #
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