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bramcohen's Journal

21/06/2005 @ 23:56 GMT

Milo Vermeulen : bramcohen's Journal - bramcohen's Journal

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Go Daddy founder Bob Parson's offers mea culpa for Guantanmo blog post

21/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT

jimray : Go Daddy founder Bob Parson's offers mea culpa for Guantanmo blog post - When politicians do this, it's called flip-flopping? Bah, I'm still not using Go Daddy. If only to offset all the Little Green Goofballs that lemming on over to sign right up. And because this asshat insists on using 'gitmo'.

Tags : dumb politics terrorism torture weblogs

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Tristan compares how Yahoo and Google index the blogosphere

21/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT

Andy Baio : Tristan compares how Yahoo and Google index the blogosphere - surprising results: Yahoo is indexing blogs better than Google

François Nonnenmacher : Technorati Yahoo and Google Too

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canvas in IE!

21/06/2005 @ 22:56 GMT

Anne van Kesteren : canvas in IE! - CANVAS plugin for IE. #

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The NY Times on the end of the LA Times wikitorial experiment

21/06/2005 @ 22:56 GMT

jimray : The NY Times on the end of the LA Times wikitorial experiment - The LA Times blames Slashdot, which might have a grain of truth, but really, this was just poorly implemented

Tags : media newspapers

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Live Linux System Knoppix 4.0 is ready

21/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT

kayodeok : Live Linux System Knoppix 4.0 is ready - In time for the event LinuxTag 2005, which will commence this Wednesday in Karlsruhe, the developer Klaus Knopper will be releasing the Version 4.0 of his Linux system, which can be booted and operated directly from CD

Tags : bootcd daily distros knoppix linux livecd sysadmin via:osdir

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Secunia - Multiple Browsers Dialog Origin Vulnerability Test

21/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT

kayodeok : Secunia - Multiple Browsers Dialog Origin Vulnerability Test - You are vulnerable, if a JavaScript dialog box appears in front of the Google.com web site without displaying information about its origin

Tags : browsers daily firefox internetexplorer mozilla opera phishing safari security spoofing vulnerabilities web

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Spoofing Flaw Haunts IE, Firefox, Safari

21/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT

kayodeok : Spoofing Flaw Haunts IE, Firefox, Safari - The vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious hackers to trick surfers into disclosing confidential information, including credit card and social security numbers

Tags : browsers daily firefox internetexplorer mozilla opera phishing safari security spoofing vulnerabilities web

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O'Reilly Radar > EBay Launches New Developer Portal

21/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT

ricmac : O'Reilly Radar > EBay Launches New Developer Portal - "This morning EBay announced announced the eBay Community Codebase, a site for code sharing among EBay and PayPal developers."

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Designers Inhouse

21/06/2005 @ 21:56 GMT

Douglas Bowman : Designers Inhouse - Mathew Patterson is an "inhouse designer" looking to connect with other similar individuals who might be "a web designer (maybe *the* web designer) employed by a non-design company." Starting with a mailing list, maybe more in the future.

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Universal adapting American McGee's Alice game to the screen

21/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT

Andy Baio : Universal adapting American McGee's Alice game to the screen - starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the goth Alice in Wonderland, this could be awful [via]  [via]

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Accessible DHTML Technology Preview

21/06/2005 @ 20:56 GMT

Isofarro : Accessible DHTML Technology Preview - 'The new standard allows authors to develop desktop-style widgets such as tree views, menu bars and spreadsheets that are accessible both with the keyboard and assistive technologies such as screen readers.'

kayodeok : Accessible DHTML Technology Preview - Accessible DHTML is now possible due to work that IBM is doing at the W3C, within the Firefox codebase, and with leading assistive technology (AT) vendors

Tags : accessibility browsers daily dhtml firefox javascript mozilla standards web webdesign webdev

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Widgetarium

21/06/2005 @ 20:56 GMT

jimray : Widgetarium - Alpha IDE for developing Dashboard widgets

Tags : dashboard mac webdev

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Guy's Dog

21/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT

Ethan Marcotte : Guy's Dog - YES. I've been looking for this for frickin' ages.

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Ilya's thoughts on his involvement with the LA Times wiki project

21/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT

Andy Baio : Ilya's thoughts on his involvement with the LA Times wiki project - though it failed, this kind of media experimentation should be commended instead of ridiculed

jimray : Those darn wikis - Some great thoughts on where the LA Times went wrong on how to get better. While I agree that it's great that a big company was experimenting with this, I still think they went about it in a really dumb wayk, though.

Simon Willison : Those darn wikis - Why the LA Times wikitorial failed.

Tags : media newspapers

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Video: Tom Cruise Kills Oprah

21/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT

Andy Baio : Video: Tom Cruise Kills Oprah - he's coming after your children next

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Pranksters Undo Ten Years Of Cruise Auditing

21/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT

plasticbag : Pranksters Undo Ten Years Of Cruise Auditing - "By lunchtime on the West Coast, it?s unlikely that there will be a single human being who hasn?t seen the video of Tom Cruise getting blasted in the face with water from a prankster?s microphone"

Tags : celebrity funny humour prank tomcruise

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Skyscraper News, the place on the internet where you will find everything you wanted to know abou...

21/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT

plasticbag : Skyscraper News, the place on the internet where you will find everything you wanted to know about the brightest rising star in international architecture - Despite being a World City, London has suffered years of neglect in the high-rise stakes as the conservatism of heritage bodies and the worries of planning bodies have scuppered any attempts at a skyline...

Tags : architecture building london skyscrapers

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Dirac Video Codec

21/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT

plasticbag : Dirac Video Codec - The BBC R&D produced free video codec is available on Sourceforge (just in case you missed it a while back)

Tags : bbc codec dirac opensource rnd sourceforge television video

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"A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Wi...

21/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT

jkottke : "A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt--and to be offered a job by Joseph Stalin"

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Monket - an Ajaxy wall calendar UI

21/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT

kellan : Monket - an Ajaxy wall calendar UI - Source apparently coming soon. #

philgyford : Monket Calendar - Wiki - monket.net - Lovely PHPy and Ajaxy calendar interface. Mmmm, the web's getting nice.

Paul Hammond : Monket Calendar - Wiki - monket.net - An Ajax enabled online calendar

joshua : Monket Calendar

Tags : calendarwebappajax ajax calendar javascript php top webdevelopment cal

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Sawzall from Google

21/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT

Nelson Minar : Sawzall from Google - New systems paper from Google

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Credit card markets

21/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT

Nelson Minar : Credit card markets - Great NYT piece on how stolen credit cards are marketed

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Edsac Simulator

21/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT

Nelson Minar : Edsac Simulator - retro computing goes way back (via Make blog)

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Barcena volcano

21/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT

Nelson Minar : Barcena volcano - Volcano in the middle of nowhere, off Baja

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Richard Rutter declares his love to CSS

21/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT

Richard Rutter : Richard Rutter declares his love to CSS - .

Ethan Marcotte : Richard Rutter declares his love for CSS - Some choice quotes here--yet another great read from Richard.

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microformats

21/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : microformats - microformats: very small formats

Tags : links

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A slightly old piece on the stuff you can learn about Google's search engine behaviour from their...

21/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT

plasticbag : A slightly old piece on the stuff you can learn about Google's search engine behaviour from their patent documents... - "Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at..."

Tags : algorithms google patents searchengines seo

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the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards

21/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT

Aquarion : the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards - Warnink: Contains polticos in spandex

plasticbag : The Very Model of a Modern Labour Minister - This Flash video about the National Identity card is possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen ever in my life ever.

philgyford : Eclectech : the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards - Wonderful. The only thing that would make this better was if it was released and got to Number 1...

Rod Begbie : eclectech : the very model of a modern labour minister : a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards - "a hint of politics and opinion, a dapper dog singing and the cutest puppy pianist on the planet" [via#

Richard Rutter : A tribute to Charles Clarke and his ID cards - Ooh satire. Gotta love it, especially when it’s this funny!.

Tags : blink flash humour id-cards politics funny uk animation charlesclarke gilbertandsullivan idcards labour music no2id top

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TruePower iPod batteries

21/06/2005 @ 16:56 GMT

jimray : TruePower iPod batteries - It's about time to change the battery on my first gen 20 gig

Tags : hardware ipod

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Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie on the promises and perils of email

21/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT

jkottke : Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie on the promises and perils of email

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Bram Cohen slams Microsoft's BitTorrent clone

21/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT

Andy Baio : Bram Cohen slams Microsoft's BitTorrent clone - an entertaining read

Nelson Minar : Bram on Avalanche - BitTorrent author comments on latest MS announcement (via Waxy)

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Fun new book from O'Reilly's Hacks series: Astronomy Hacks

21/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT

jkottke : Fun new book from O'Reilly's Hacks series: Astronomy Hacks - "This handy field guide covers the basics of observing, and what you need to know about tweaking, tuning, adjusting, and tricking out a 'scope."

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plain, simple, primitive? not the jellyfish

21/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT

cobra libre : plain, simple, primitive? not the jellyfish #

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New York magazine on the battle over foie gras

21/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT

jkottke : New York magazine on the battle over foie gras

plasticbag : "The Controversy Over Foie Gras - Does a Duck Have a Soul?" - The major question is where's the balance point between deriving human pleasure and inflicting pain on animals. As far as I'm concerned, there is a point at which inflicting pain for pleasure rather than necessity is sadistic and should be stopped. Where

Andy Baio : Does A Duck Have A Soul? - the controversy over delicious, but extremely cruel, foie gras [via]  [via]

Tags : animalrights ethics food

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Da Vinci scholar may have found a long lost Da Vinci fresco

21/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT

jkottke : Da Vinci scholar may have found a long lost Da Vinci fresco

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Eyebeam is currently accepting proposals for their fall/winter Artist in Residence program

21/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT

jkottke : Eyebeam is currently accepting proposals for their fall/winter Artist in Residence program - If you get in, I will be within heckling distance of your workspace.

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Quick Firefox - del.icio.us hack

21/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT

Philippe Janvier : Quick Firefox - del.icio.us hack - Une méthode vraiment très simple pour bookmarker la liste de ses tags del.icio.us. [via#

Tags : del.icio.us firefox

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In defense of drinking expensive wine

21/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT

jkottke : In defense of drinking expensive wine

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A ridiculously long list of all the Microsoft browser user agent strings

21/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT

jkottke : A ridiculously long list of all the Microsoft browser user agent strings

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Marc's Voice: Announcing ReBlg.com

21/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT

ricmac : Marc's Voice: Announcing ReBlg.com - Marc unveils the universal ?Blog This? button.

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Geek Space: Top 10 RSS Topic Blogs?

21/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT

ricmac : Geek Space: Top 10 RSS Topic Blogs? - Woo hoo, I'm number 2! With a bullet, I presume :-)

Tags : ideas rss web2.0

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Michal Migurski is baffled by reblg

21/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT

ricmac : Michal Migurski is baffled by reblg - ...and he wants to know what's up with the name, as he runs a site called reblog.org.

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Micro Persuasion: Six NFL, Two NHL Teams Offer Private-Label RSS Readers

21/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT

ricmac : Micro Persuasion: Six NFL, Two NHL Teams Offer Private-Label RSS Readers - ThePortNetwork, who sponsor my Weekly Wrap-Up, are starting to get some good coverage.

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Gillmor Daily » Blog Archive » Corner of Search and Attention

21/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT

ricmac : Gillmor Daily » Blog Archive » Corner of Search and Attention - Steve Gillmor chats with John Battelle about RSS.

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Anthony Towns on Ubuntu

21/06/2005 @ 12:48 GMT

Aquarion : Anthony Towns on Ubuntu - Debian's (ex?) release manager on the future and present of Ubuntu

Tags : blink debian ubuntu

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Patent absurdity

21/06/2005 @ 11:55 GMT

Isofarro : Patent absurdity - A week to go before it will be impossible for individuals to write software in the European Union

François Nonnenmacher : Patent absurdity - If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman

jkottke : Richard Stallman on the absurdity of software patents - Stallman draws a parallel between software patents and hypothetical literature patterns.

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Gmail emails interesting feature

21/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT

Philippe Janvier : Gmail emails interesting feature - "...if you have x.y@gmail.com and your friend happens to write to xy@gmail.com by mistake you still get the email. Vice versa works as well". [via#

Tags : email gmail

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Spyware Danger Meets Rootkit Stealth

21/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT

kayodeok : Spyware Danger Meets Rootkit Stealth - Recent versions of the Cool Web Search spyware have rootkit-like features that allow the spyware authors to hide their program files on Windows systems

Tags : coolwebsearch daily rootkits security spyware web windows

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Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept, Company Admits

21/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT

kayodeok : Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept, Company Admits - The chief of the credit card processing company whose computer system was penetrated by data thieves, exposing 40 million cardholders to a risk of fraud, acknowledged yesterday that the company should not have been retaining those records

Tags : banking credit_cards daily finance hackers hacking hacks privacy security technology trends

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Oblique Info: In the street?

21/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT

ricmac : Oblique Info: In the street? - My weirdest trackback ever... "Spice up for opposing the stack of the British Library." somehow finds a link to my site. Dada, good stuff.

Tags : ideas

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RSS for Adsense readers aren’t clicking in large numbers

21/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : RSS for Adsense readers aren’t clicking in large numbers - RSS for Adsense readers aren’t clicking in large numbers: well there's a big shock... not!

Tags : links

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Boston ethnic markets

21/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : Boston ethnic markets

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Walt Disney's testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947

21/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : Walt Disney's testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947

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Small corrections (from Dave Eggers) to Neal Pollack's piece in the Times Book Review

21/06/2005 @ 05:55 GMT

jkottke : Small corrections (from Dave Eggers) to Neal Pollack's piece in the Times Book Review - Includes a response to the response from Neal.

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Good Eats pickle recipes

21/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : Good Eats pickle recipes

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turn your digital photo into a Polaroid with a message

21/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : turn your digital photo into a Polaroid with a message

jkottke : Turn your favorite photo into a Polaroid with the Polaroid-o-nizer

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Ambedo - beta app that acts as a front page for multiple search engines

21/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT

ricmac : Ambedo - beta app that acts as a front page for multiple search engines - "Ambedo helps you start your searches without going to each search engine's front page." (via Threadwatch)

Tags : ideas web2.0

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List of Blog Networks

21/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT

ricmac : List of Blog Networks - Blog networks are the new black.

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Movie industry cracks down on copyrighted pinatas

21/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT

Andy Baio : Movie industry cracks down on copyrighted pinatas - fasinating article about L.A.'s homebrew pinata cottage industry [via]  [via]

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Griffin Technology's iFill

21/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT

plasticbag : Griffin Technology's iFill - ".. streams mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to your iPod."

Tags : apple application audio ipod mp3 music osx radio

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Ross Mayfield: Stealth is Old Skool

21/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT

ricmac : Ross Mayfield: Stealth is Old Skool - "Entrepreneurship is experimenting at the margin, so get out there and start pushing boundaries."

Tags : ideas web2.0

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Transcripts and mp3s of cockpit voice recorders

21/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT

jkottke : Transcripts and mp3s of cockpit voice recorders

Aquarion : Last words - The last transmitted words of failing aircraft. May disturb

Tags : accident blink disaster fear mp3 words writing

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Eliot's presentation has some great thoughts about photoblogging and where it's going

21/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT

jkottke : Eliot's presentation has some great thoughts about photoblogging and where it's going - Overproduction, overconsumption, and inappropriate audience participation are some of the pitfalls of photoblogging. This probably goes for regular blogging as well.

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Michael Lewis: Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life

21/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT

ricmac : Michael Lewis: Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life - goodie, a new Michael Lewis book

Tags : books ideas

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Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent Technology

21/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT

plasticbag : Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent Technology - This kind of thing was pretty much inevitable as the larger software companies look to find effective ways of distributing big files without crippling people financially...

Tags : bittorrent microsoft p2p

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