Ryan Tomayko

Fedora People

Waking Up Is Hard To Do —

I’m not the only one.. This could be a real disorder.

path Python module —

A first class path object for Python.

Truth and beauty —

Hmm..

XML.com: XML Source Highlighting —

Need to get this in the blog.

The del.icio.us REST API —

Will implement pythonic interface to..

Python main() functions —

Guido, getopt

Simon Willison: Site-specific extensions —

“Pop-up blockers have only scratched the surface. Let’s see some innovation.” — Users should control much more of their browsing experience.

Planet Python

Longhorn follow-up: Quentin Clark Interview —

Jon Udell’s outtakes from an interview with Quentin Clark (director/WinFS)

New Ant 1.6 Features for Big Projects

Regular Expression HOWTO

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine (bittorrent)

PyAIML (a.k.a. Program Y) - A Python AIML Interpreter —

ALICE for python

JavaScript Toolbox - Calendar Popup To Select Date

How NOT to Talk!

Python Types and Objects —

Good detail on Python’s new style classes..

CensorZilla —

(hold belly).. hardy har har har..

FirefoxExtensionHowTo —

Wiki rockin with info on Firefox Extension development

Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM talk

Color scheme

Everything I need to know about EJB I learned from watching Bugs Bunny

Mastering DocBook Indexes

I dream of Gmail [dive into mark] —

“If your web site doesn’t work in Lynx, your web site is thoroughly, thoroughly fucked.”

XML on the Web Has Failed [xml.com] —

“Syndicated feeds are wildly popular, but they’re not a success for XML. XML on the Web has failed: miserably, utterly, and completely.”

Installing libxml2, libxslt and the Python bindings on OS X [James Clarke]

Blogging: A world stuck on itself [news.com.com.com.com]

ColorWhore —

Rockin color picker.

Introducing o:XML [xml.com] —

Oh God, please no. XML is not fun to program in!

Ritual Cat

Crowds Flock To See Jesus Image In Window —

Click the “Click here for a larger image” button. :)

Dive Into Python —

will buy..

mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server

URL Rewriting Guide - Apache HTTP Server

Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate) —

Add to beat up when seen in street list: Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Frist, Mr. Dashle, Mr. Graham, Mrs. Boxer

Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? [wired.com] —

Hatch introduces bill to bring back telegraph, horse and buggie, and hoolahoop.

Python Sidebar

The 9/11 Commission Report —

HTML Version

An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning

Am I missing something —

Why all the anonymous blogs? Wusses.

Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two Legs —

Isn’t this how “Planet of the Apes 3” started?

Rock, Paper, Saddam!

XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner —

wow.

HTML 4.0 Entities —

Entity Declrarations / Decimal and Hex values for important unicode code points.

HTML 4.01 Specification

Just Fucking Google It —

I need to send this link to my mom..

Weblogs Compendium - RSS Readers —

Bunch of News Readers

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

How to be a Programmer —

A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

Frequently-Asked Questions about sed, the stream editor

The Induce Act Spells Trouble —

“No Matter What You Call It, the Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act Spells Trouble”

The 9/11 Commission Report —

Full HTML Version.

Notes on Axis fault handling —

Axis fault handling is essentialy undocumented, at least anywhere I could find. I spent the better part of the last two days experimenting so I could understand how to properly do some error handling.

d.sankey.ca —

TODO: copy (gratuitously) this sites organization.

Ghost in the Shell 2 Trailer

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP 1.1 —

HTTP specification

BayStar-SCO Agreement Falls Apart, Legal Action Threatened —

“In the first quarter of 2004, SCOsource realized only $20,000 and in the last quarter the revenue from IP licensing came to a mere $11,000.”

NPR : Proposed 'Induce Act' Could Outlaw iPods —

Day to Day: technology reporter Xeni Jardin talks about a new U.S. Senate bill, the so-called “Induce Act,” that could outlaw devices such as iPod portable music players and other technologies that critics say “intentionally induce” copyright infringement

Boing Boing: Xeni on NPR: INDUCE Act update —

Good starting point for Induce act opionions and information.

History of the English Language —

Cool

Chander: Verizon's Solution In The Napster Debate —

FindLaw’s Writ:

Great Hackers

donwave.gif —

If only I still took acid..

Michael Moore/O'Reilly Showdown at Convention —

Transcript of a fat kid and moron on the playground (from the Drudge Report 2004).

How to Remove Internet Explorer —

Installing Linux might be a bit easier..

It's so del.icio.us —

Pythonic interface to the del.icio.us REST APIs.

Dark Corners —

Most articles beginning with “occasionally I still discover some obscure feature of Python that displays surprising behavior” are usually worth reading.

EFF's Letter to United States Senators on Induce Act —

“I write today to express the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s opposition to S. 2560, a measure premised on the misguided notion that the dilemmas currently facing the music industry can be solved by holding the threat of more lawsuits and more unce

Sam Ruby: URI Equivalence

Prepare for the transition from HTML forms to XForms —

Uh oh..

W3C members: Do as we say, not as we do —

“…only 21, or 4.6 percent, of 454 member sites Karppinen could access passed the W3C’s own HTML validator…”

Proper XML Output in Python [xml.com] —

On entity substitution and whatnot..

Thomas H. Huxley Quotes —

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”

Nuclear Elephant: File Sharing Experiment

http://markie.biz/ —

Da' Biz!

Shizzolated Microsoft Research DRM talk, and shit. —

Can’t beat it wit' a stick.

Calendar Popup Widget —

You can never have too many of these to choose from..

Transcript of interview with Cory Doctorow —

More Doctorow: “I mean, books are printed on substrate that is so fragile that it burns when it comes into contact with oxygen. We actually use that substrate to wipe our asses with. This is not robust, archival material. This is the very definition of ep

Web Service the REST Way —

Good intro to REST.

Paul Prescod's REST Resources —

More in depth info on REST.

Gallery of Stupid XSL/XSLT Tricks

Various Ways of Cooking Plantains

The X-Philes [goer.org] —

List of XHTML Sites

Fink —

The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.

MacMod - Your Mac Mod HQ —

Hardware mods.. Spooky!

Brad Choate: OS X software inventory

macosxhints - Get the most from X! —

OS X Hacks. Forum type format.

The Case Against George W. Bush —

By Ron Reagan

Bush Discusses Economy in Struggling Ohio Cities

Dispatches From Fallujah —

Why would anyone volunteer to be an infantryman? By Owen West.

what is 'the flow'? —

“So with this tutorial I hope to lay out the concept of the flow, and why understanding it will give you a greater grasp of CSS.”

John Kerry's real tech agenda —

Damn, this is turning into a lesser of two evils race..

Brain in Vat —

“The scientific reason for keeping a brain in a jar is keeping a brain in a jar.”

Patents and Linux [ongoing] —

Tim Bray on all the recent news about linux’s 283 patent infingements.

Urban Ops: Combat Mission 101 —

Civilian Combat Training with real guns!

The Science Behind Dim Mak Death Touch —

I’ve always wished I could kill people with my bear hands.. “Includes dim mak history, theories, techniques, and the medical science behind dim mak, kyusho, pressure points, and vital points.”

NPR : Group's Ad Blitz Questions Kerry's War Stories —

“Kerry’s campaign has come under fire by a group of GOP-linked activists who question his wartime conduct in a television ad. NPR’s Mara Liasson reports.”

Bitstream Vera Fonts —

Free-as-in-speech fonts including Sans, Serif, and Monospaced faces. These are great use-everywhere fonts.

Radio-Locator —

“We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.”

DokuWiki —

No frills wiki that looks good has a short requirments list (grep, find, etc.)

"Software Developer" vs. "Software Engineer" —

Difference between Software “Developer”, “Engineer”, “Architect”, and “Programmer”. Me, I tend to prefer “Software Assassin” or “Digital Pimp” or somesuch..

First look at MSN blogs —

Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!

Big Business Becoming Big Brother [wired]

itunes2rhythm.py —

Python script to convert iTunes xml database to rhythmbox xml database.

Five Things You Probably Didn't Notice in The Shining —

“If the wood moves, it’s because he decided he wanted it that way. Can you possibly conceive of it as an accident? Do you think Stanley Fucking Kubrick didn’t notice that the wood moved? Everything in the film is on purpose. There are no mistakes.”

Turning The Tide - Noam Chomsky's Weblog —

One of my heros is now just another blogger like the rest of us. :)

What is Mac OS X? —

This document attempts to give a hacker over-friendly answer to the question “What is Mac OS X?”.

The seder's grab bag —

This much sed will eat your brains!

Bumper-Sticker Computer Science —

“Of all my programming bugs, 80% are syntax errors. Of the remaining 20%, 80% are trivial logical errors. Of the remaining 4%, 80% are pointer errors. And the remaining 0.8% are hard.” —Marc Donner

Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks [safari.oreailly.com] —

“..this book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Panther-specific components that you may find challenging.”

Dear Media, my fake beheading video 0wn3d J00 —

“Our hearts go out not only to the families of those who have died as a result of international terrorism, but to the soldiers who have also bravely died for my right to speak freely.”

macosxhints - All macosxhints Panther hints —

431 Total

fark 106684 —

“Photoshop what the classic Nintendo games would have been like had they been owned by Microsoft originally.”

Novell and IBM to Implement XForms in Mozilla

'Cable A La Carte' TV Picks Up Steam —

My cable bill would be $5/month. I watch Comedy Central, C-SPAN, and Cartoon Network. The 50 shop-at-home channels are kind of cool though too. I’d hate to lose those.

Hacking Mac OS X Panther —

Sample chapters from book I need to buy.

Extreme Democracy —

Applying Extreme Programming (XP) techniques to government and politics.

Ohio LinuxFest —

Conference for Linux enthusiasts of all kinds. Right down the street from me at OSU.

Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines

Resistance is Futile —

Bill points out the inevitability of the Pythonification of the world.

When machines breed —

“…he helps machines design themselves, using principles borrowed directly from biological evolution.”

Stu Nicholls | Doing it with Style —

“This site documents my attempts at understanding and exploring the possibilities of CSS.”

In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter —

New York Times talking about people moving away from IE. It may finally be happening…

Interviews with the cast of Office Space

The Python Paradox —

More Python love from Mr. Paul Graham.

WEBoggle —

waste time here.

Python 2.3 Quick Reference —

80% of what you need to find when coding in Python.

Blog Interrupted —

Some lady that throws away mail for my very own Sen. Mike DeWine got fired because she kept an anonymous X-Rated blog about relations w/ FIVE upper staffers.

QuickTopic - Instant Discussion Space —

Thinking about using this for my comment system. They have an XML-RPC API but it isn’t documented on the site.

max-width in Internet Explorer —

More hacks for trying to get IE to do the right thing.

Shirky: Situated Software —

Apps rarely need to scale, so don’t spend time making them scalable. The more specific software is to a problem domain, the more successful it will be. Software that tries to do too much usually sucks.

Python Programming FAQ —

Frequently asked questions on the Python programming language. I didn’t see “Why does Python rock so hard?”

WebStack —

Wish more people would get behind Paul on this one.

It's Just the 'internet' Now —

What about God?

Why specs matter —

Mark pretty obviously prefers morons to assholes.

Don't Copy That Floppy —

“Two kids committing the carnal sin of copying a game onto a floppy disk..”

What Happens When You Buy a Post Office on eBay —

postoffice.ebay.com

Answers (about the web) for young people [Tim Berners-Lee] —

You gotta love TBL.

TerminalColors —

Modify the RGB values used for ANSI colors in Terminal.app.

Nopaste —

A solution to paste flooding IRC channels. Paste code to this website. The paste stays for 24 hours. Neat. It’s kind of fun just browsing the Recent Pastes.

Colloquy: IRC Client —

Solid OS X interface.

Simon Willison: Site specific stylesheets in Mozilla —

The saga continues.

Google.rss - Serves you Google's search results as RSS feed. —

This could be really really really big.

Bad Gas - Striking a Lynndie —

“The image has shocked, sickened and outraged people. But more importantly, it has captured the imagination of young men and women up and down the country who don’t give much of a shit about anything.”

Identifying Atom [xml.com] —

atom:id will use URIs (hurray). markp explains why.

CSS Filters (hacks) —

Looks like the periodic chart of the elements for CSS hacks.

P2P Services in the Clear —

Get your share on!

Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition —

A beautiful mish-mash of what works on the web. Hits Last Call WD.

Ted Kennedy mistaken as terrorist, thrice denied flight —

Looks like John Gilmore just got a new pal.

The Joel on Software Forum - Explain why emacs is popular? (Not a troll) —

After using Emacs for three years, I think I finally need to learn how to use it. This has some good pointers.

Appeals Court Rules For Grokster —

“…the question is, does the statutory monopoly that Congress has given you reach out to that something new. And that’s a very debatable question. You don’t solve it by calling it ‘theft.’ You have to show why this court should extend a statutory monopol

Red vs. Blue : Primer on Real Life vs the Internet —

Must watch! Y O U M U S T W A T C H !

RSS 2.0 Specification

New, unpatched Windows XP will be wormy within 20 minutes of being connected to net —

haha. just horrible.

Fortress Maximus: The Transfan's Wet Dream —

I would have literally killed for one of these.

Why Software Should Not Have Owners —

Richard Stallman – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Backdoor dynamic languages —

Ted Leung explores recent developments that seem to suggest that both Sun and Microsoft might be thinking about hijacking Python. If Jython and IronPython grow large followings, the library support has split three ways: Standard Python Libraries, Java Lib

The Time Travel Fund[tm] —

“…we pay the future to come and pick you up..”

Twilight Zone: Planet of the Apes —

Planet of the Apes “re-imagined” as an episode of The Twilight Zone.

The BileBlog —

Ahh.. Hani’s back. I’ll run through and back fill my favorite bile.

Paul, meet Hani.. —

Don’t worry he does this to everyone..

JavaOne day one yawnfest

More inmates running the asylum —

Hani on JSR-170..

JRoller: Continuing a fine tradition of sucking —

Hani on upgrading to new version of JRoller.

Commons-io: By retards, for retards —

Hani disects commons-io

JBoss panties around ankles, again. —

Hani breaks the story of JBoss' astroturf campaign.

CSS2 - Tableless forms —

More ridding of tables..

TAL/TALES & METAL Reference Guide —

SimpleTAL reference.

Emacs reference card —

Single page printable version available.

HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future —

Fixed media will die. Another reason copy-limit DRM can’t work.

Misunderstanding Wikipedia

DOOM 3 Classic —

The original DOOM ported to DOOM 3 graphic engine.

Waving a pirate flag —

Björk supports file sharing.

Seriously: Kerry on Comedy Central (washingtonpost.com) —

Kerry picks The Daily Show over 60 Minutes, Nightline, and NBC Nightly News for first interview since Swiftboatgate.

Microsoft slammed over misleading Windows Linux claims —

“The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars between Linux running on two z900 mainframe CPUs and a Windows Server 2003 image running two 900MHz Intel Xeons chips.” Since when are mainframe chips only 10 times more expensive than x86 chips?

A New Program for the Enterprise —

OMFG Python is reaching critical mass.

Copyright Bill Needs Big Changes —

Note: Follow and support Katie Dean (wired reporter). She has consistently and reputably covered every significant technological rights issue since 1999.

XSL Transformations (XSLT) —

W3C Recommendation.

Apache Web Serving With Mac OS X —

Six part series on OSX’s built in Apache httpd configuration.

Lisp in Python —

:)

The INTERCAL Resources Page —

which stands for “Compiler Language With No Pronouncable Acronym”, obviously.

Richard Feynman: The QED Lectures —

Real audio of outstanding Feynman lectures on QED

Jon Stewart and John Kerry Transcript —

Transcript from Aug 25, 2004 Daily Show with John Kerry

Quicktime: John Kerry on Daily Show (whole show) —

I watched this clips on comedycentral.com last night and wasn’t all that blown away.

Stylegala Bulletmadness —

A bunch of nice bullet images best used to style UL tags using CSS.

The Rise of "Worse is Better" - Richard Gabriel —

Old and still very valid. What’s the best mix of Simplicity, Correctness, Consistency, and Completeness in software design? Describes MIT and “NewJersey” approaches.

The secret diary of William Clark —

What really happened on Louis and Clark’s trip.

Python's super Considered Harmful —

This is more documentation than I’ve ever seen on super.

Coral: The New York University Distribution Network —

A distributed P2P web cache thingy that looks cool. Need a bookmarklet to generate the URLs.

XML Path Language (XPath) —

W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem —

“..provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.” – Maybe I will be able to put these 7 Gmail invites to good use after all.

The Adventures of ACTION ITEM! —

I’ve had these exact discussions 1000 times at work with the marketing types. Who knew they could be so exciting?

free culture —

Must watch flash presentation (with audio) of Prof. Lawrence Lessig’s speech on free culture at OSCON 2002.

Scimitar - A Python implementation of ISO Schematron —

Uche Ogbuji. Compiles schematron schema to python.

ANSI SQL-92 Standard —

It took me 30 minutes to find this. That’s just plain wrong. Further, it might be illegal (ANSI does mail orders).

classification? —

Article on simple free-text classification systems such as those found on del.icio.us.

Many-to-Many: Folksonomy —

Clay Shirky on Folksonomy

Wikipedia Reputation and the Wemedia Project —

Nice summary of the recent wave of crap swirling around wikipedia. No one can quite believe an open and free culture can produce quality factual content.

Ruby vs. Python (comp.lang.python) —

An honest and objective comparison of Ruby and Python.

Python Cookbook : Simplest useful thread-pool example

Wotmania Recent Theories —

Wheel of Time theory submissions.

The Age of the Essay —

Paul Graham on how to write an essay.

Password generator bookmarklet —

Generates per-site passwords based on a master password and the site’s domain name.

Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours —

Free book on picking up Emacs.

Two of Seven Millenium Problems may have been solved —

That’s 2,000,000 USD, btw..

The Underground History of American Education —

Entire book online. Looks like evidence of some huge educational conspiracy.

Useful OS X Keystrokes

Richard Stallman, you light-hearted optimist you —

There are a few arguments that almost all politicians are sensitive to: “For the children”, “For the poor starving artist”, “For the public good”, “For the almost extinguished animal/plant”.

CSS Directory —

Silly amount of links to CSS resources of all shapes and sizes.

The Right to Read - Richard Stallman —

“Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.”

Save Betamax - National Call-In Day September 14 —

“We’re organizing a call-in day to Congress on September 14 to oppose new legislation that would undermine the Betamax decision (INDUCE Act).”

Slashdot | Dive Into Python Book Review —

Congrats Mark!

J2SE 1.4.2 —

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2 API Specification

Jetspeed 1.5 API —

Jetspeed 1 Enterprise Portal 1.5 API

Wrestling HTML —

XML.com: Dealing with tagsoup HTML in Python.

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual —

Goddam this is more shit than could ever possibly fit in my brain.

The Atom Syndication Format 0.3 —

I know it says 0.2 in the URL and PRE-DRAFT in the title but this as normative as you can get with the 0.3 feeds in the wild.

Goban —

Hey tkington! I noticed this come in on my OSX del.icio.us feed.

mod_python - Integrating Python with Apache —

Nice article on how mod_python integrates with apache. Goes into significant detail on non-CGI type stuff you might want to do.

ModPython Wiki —

A wiki…. About mod_python..

Building a Large-Scale E-commerce site with Apache and mod_perl —

Disects the components of a large scale e-commerce site run on Apache/mod_perl with some Berkeley DB and Oracle thrown in for good measure.

Jakarta Struts CVS Repository

XML/XSLT/CSS/JavaScript/ Treeview component.. —

..that rocks. Quite possible the only javascript treeview I’d ever consider using.

Web Colors: html color names, hexidecimal values, hex codes —

Color name chart with hex codes and overlays.

The DRM Debacle —

Tim Bray on DRM and its consequences. I’d love to see more of the popular bloggers jumping in and educating people on this. You have the medium!

Copyright Proposal Induces Worry —

Katie Dean with an update on the Induce Act non-sense. Short version: dickhead copyright officials help dickhead senators reword Induce Act.

Python Built-in Functions —

List of built in functions (i.e. non-module) in Python.

Magical Macintosh Key Sequences —

Collection of poorly documented OS X key-sequences.

Markdown Syntax Documentation —

Syntax Reference for the Markdown text markup grammer.

2 Column Tableless Layout —

Methods for creating a 2-col layout using CSS.

Don't Mess With Librarians —

I’m convinced that there’s some kind of weird link between hackers and librarians.

GNOME: We've overtaken Windows, bring on Apple —

Title is a bit misleading. GNOME feels they have reached Windows' level of functionality (I’d agree) and are now shooting to bring the featureset in line with Apple’s OS X.

Emacs Notepad —

A bunch of extremely useful notes on hacking emacs. (Ftrain.com)

Obsessively detailed map of Springfield —

Map Homer’s daily route from home to moes, to work, to moes, and then back home.

Slashdot on Origins and Misuse of the Word Piracy. —

The article is “SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology” but the comments on “piracy” are hilarious.

US: Korea Cloud Not From Nuclear Blast —

Massive mushroom cloud spotted near a Noth Korean nuclear testing facilities. But don’t worry, we don’t think they’re letting off nukes or anything.

How to fight software patents - singly and together —

Stallman on fighting patents and patent reform.

US Patent Office: Information on Disclosure Document Program —

A Disclosure Document is official documentation of an art or work and can be used as a prior-art claim if you get sued for patent infingment. These are muuch cheaper than patents but last only two years.

The Loyal WS-Opposition —

Tim Bray on WS-Sanity: “So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to stay out of the way and watch the WS-visionaries and WS-dreamers and WS-evangelists go ahead and WS-build their WS-future.”

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19 —

Arrrrr!

Help the Googlebot —

Tips and techniques for helping Googlebot. If you are a symantic markup perfectionist, you probably already have most of these right.

Binary- it's digitalicious! —

ASCII to Binary converter. Does Hex and Octal too.

Google Labs Aptitude Test —

21 Reason’s Google will never hire me.

On Semantics and Markup —

More goodness from the archives of Tim Bray.

Google Groups : jslaves —

Delicious Developers: “A point of rendezvous for developers "standing” on the platform provided by the del.icio.us API; i.e. those who are slaves to Joshua."

EmacsNewbie —

Super useful tips on diving into Emacs.

10 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die —

I can die in four things…

e^(i pi)+0 = -1 —

Euler 0wnz jo0

Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power —

“US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy.”

Joe Joins Loyal WS-Opposition —

Joe Gregorio on Tim Bray’s “The Loyal WS-Opposition” post. This might end up being a real committee or something.

WS-Pagecount —

The legs the Loyal WS-Opposition is standing on. (Tim Bray)

A complete guide to WS in one, short paragraph —

Sean McGrath backing Tim Bray on the Loyal WS-Opposition.

IT Conversations - New Ideas Through Your Headphones —

Kind of pissed no one told me about this. A bunch of audio of really smart people talking about important geeky stuff.

IT Conversations: Paul Graham - Great Hackers —

Audio from Graham’s Great Hackers presentation at OSCON 2004.

IT Conversations: Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture, Chapter 1 —

Doug Kaye reads the first chapter of Lessig’s “Free Culture”

Easy Card Trick Index

Red Hat Executives Blog: The Latest Joke from Redmond —

Red Hat Exec Michael Tieman’s comments on Microsoft’s weird move into the open source mindview.

Synergy —

“share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems” via PhotoMatt.

The Google Browser, Reloaded —

Some more speculation about a Google Browser.

Are Web Services receding? —

Simon St. Laurent noticing the recent WS-Opposition.

SOAP Problems —

A big list of problems with the current WS stack. Contains pointers to mailing-list discussion on various issues.

Final Warning. Vote for Bush, Feel the Wraith. —

“This is no longer an interesting coincidence. It is an unmistakable message from God.”

Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark

Dear Laura.. —

Breaking up w/ PowerPoint.

Strong Typing —

A piece on the difference between static typing and strong typing. Hint: static typing sucks, strong typing is valuable.

How to Write Unmaintainable Code —

“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. — Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.”

Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial —

Floating images and other objects using CSS.

delicious extension for mozilla firefox —

Finally..

No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race —

People who watch Daily Show know the issues better than those that don’t.

The New York Times - Does the Patent System Need an Overhaul? —

we need more press like this..

Caching CGI generated content on Apache —

Various methods of caching dynamic content.

The ‘Web’ in Web Services —

Mark Nottingham wondering why WS-Transfer (HTTP wrapped up in SOAP wrapped up in HTTP bwhhahaha) didn’t get more heat from the opposition.

$6000 Answer Bounty... —

It’s to the point where people have to pay people to ask politicians hard questions! $6,000 to the first person who can get Bush to answer how many times he’s been arrested. via:boingboing

Rural Kids Print, Bind and Read —

so cool..

Quixote —

Python web framework that rocks.

REST for Quixote —

Some code and theory on developing RESTish stuff under Quixote.

Developing Web Applications with Quixote —

Condensed version of everything you need to know about using Quixote. (From PYCON 2004).

Cool URIs don't change. —

Notes on good URI design.

QuixoteCookbook —

Cookbook area of the Quixote Wiki. Lots o' topic specific howto’s.

HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication (RFC 2617)

Technology Review: Sir Tim Berners-Lee —

Nice profile on TBL followed by a brief Q/A on semantic related stuff.

Programming Language Popularity —

Ouch. Python’s clicks/dollar ratio is horrible!

New Induce Act Alarms Foes —

New draft of Induce Act looks like old version of Induce Act.

Bloglines Web Services API Documentation —

A nice, simple HTTP/XML based API for bloglines. I hope this trend continues.

Premature Generalization —

I’ve always wondered if this was a recognized issue. Premature Generalization (or Abstraction) is like Premature Optimization but is about having too many abstractions in OOP systems.

Top 50 Agenda Setters 2004 —

With bios and notes.

Python __special_attributes__ —

Beware! Danger lies ahead…

The history of Pi —

Brought a tear to my eye..

Why Your Code Sucks —

because it isn’t mine.

The Crusade Against Evolution —

Wired’s five page look into the “intelligent design” vs. darwinist evolution debate. Ohio seems to be the battleground.

Using inline frames (iframe elements) to embed documents into HTML documents —

Everything that you can possibly know about iframes.

WDG HTML 4.0 Element Reference —

One of the nicer reference sheets for HTML 4.0.

Python Quotations, page 1 of 10 —

“I prefer (all things being equal) regularity/orthogonality and logical syntax/semantics in a language because there is less to have to remember. (Of course I know all things are NEVER really equal!)”

Adam Bosworth: What is the platform? —

Bosworth gets it..

ACLU and EFF strike down part of PATRIOT Act —

“BooYAH”

Ohio Kicks Nader Off Ballot —

Grrrr. This seems like a silly technicality to me.

Quixote Programming Overview

Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates —

Mind-blowingly fucked up.

Ed, settle down. And please don't call it "WS-mess"... —

… there has been a recent round of “glowing reviews from analysts”. What could possible go wrong?

TRAMP User Manual —

A remote file editing package for Emacs. Uses ssh/scp.

Common REST Mistakes —

Some good tips on building RESTful web services.

Shell (sh,ksh,bash) scripting in 20 pages —

“A guide to writing shell scripts for C/C++/Java and unix programmers”

Is God a Taoist? —

Excellent.

Yahoo! News - Man Mistakenly Cuts Off Penis, Dog Eats It —

owe

Python Web Modules —

where tf did this come from?

Linux@DUKE: urlgrabber: A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber —

Hey! I wrote that..

Ten Commands Every Linux Developer Should Know —

ctags/etags, strace, fuser, ps, time, nm, strings, od/xxd, file, objdump

Doom 3 for Linux Released —

‘bout time.

Wired: The Long Tail —

Excellent article on the huge edge-case media market.

Linux cannot compete with Longhorn —

History of WinFS (hint: OFS)

WordPress, Tagging, and a Critique of Hierarchy —

LaughingMeme: tags for wordpress.

Is Bush Wired? —

That would be an improvement. I thought he was a robot.

Fast, Easy Database Access with Python —

Some good ideas here. Would have been nice to fold some of the classes into a module..

Writing Bugfree software —

nice..

F*ck Big Media: Rolling Your Own Network —

just.. wow.

When (n<0) won't do. —

beautiful, beautiful code.

Senate Shelves Induce Review —

First major blow to Induce Act :)

The Browser Wars Are Back? —

yes. they are. IE is the new Netscape 4.7.

Guide to Lock Picking

HOWTO censor the net with a Hotmail account —

Sad. ISPs not performing fact checking on copyright cease-and-desists.

Keyhole —

“Quickly zoom from space down to street level and combine imagery, 3D geography, maps, and business data to get the total picture in seconds.”

Tags elsewhere —

On del.icio.us style tags and how they differ from existing keyword and category styles of classification.

The Man Who Grasped the Heavens' Gravitas —

Newton: I’d eat a mile of his shit just to kiss his ass. (via slashdot.org)

Max Design - CSS Page Layouts —

Various CSS layouts.

NPR : Free Speech Landmark for Colleges —

Remembering the college free speech movement of the sixties. Some clips from Mario Savio’s speeches at Berkeley and how they spread through the country.

GadflyB5: SQL Relational Database in Python —

Can be run in-process or client/server. Whole database stays in memory. Could be super useful in some situations.

'New' giant ape found in DR Congo —

nuckin futs!

Doctorow speaking tomorrow night in Edinburgh —

Maybe we’ll get another transcript.

SCO CEO admits IP license revenue disappointment —

imagine that.

youforgotpoland.com —

looks to be from the guys that brought you rockpapersadam.com.

Retro TV Themes —

AirWolf, Alf, The A-Team, Fraggle Rock!, Gadget, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Thundercats!, Transformers, and many many more!

Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions —

Some really good info on various methods of dealing with synchronization between processes on *NIX based systems.

The Onion's 2004 Election Guide —

“Bush Vows To Pay Closer Attention To Needs Of Non-Presidents”

Introduction to Stackless Python —

From late 2000, promises of continuations and other niceties. Will probably never make it into Python core though since there’s JVM and CLR Python implementations to worry about now..

Float: The Theory —

A nice breakdown of how float works in CSS, which isn’t always intuitive.

Hard Working George —

It’s hard work! hard hard hard!

Buffalo News - New Firefox browser is smokin' as upstart challenges Internet Explorer —

More good Firefox press.

Microsoft warns of 22 new security flaws —

come on now.. this is silly. leave windows. it’s sunny and warm and beautiful over here.

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' —

Protect your intellectual property now or risk having your business sacked by open souce-touting bandits!

Dems seek probes into Sinclair plan to air anti-Kerry film —

Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations to air “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal” without commercials in prime time next week.

Patents - An Alternative View —

Great wrap up of problems with the current patent system and some seemingly realistic proposals for reform. (groklaw)

Can a resurrected Netscape compete with IE? —

No. Netscape as a brand/browser is irrelevant. Anyone with a cluestick care to drop by cnet and whap those monkeys around a bit? Some decent history here though.

Patent Theory —

Tim Bray with an objective look at something that’s hard to talk about without using the words “bullshit” or “fukt” or “broken”. We need more people like Tim. I tend to just bitch.

128 bit storage: are you high? —

What do Moore’s law and boiling oceans have in common? Sun’s Jeff Bonwick explains in three easy paragraphs. Really brilliant stuff.

Ashcroft: "I don't think we have a public domain attitude." —

Lessig on recent Ashcroft remarks.

Rixstep —

“A repository of every keyboard secret in OS X.”

A Tao of Regular Expressions

Mac Takes Honors as Best Unix Desktop —

“KDE and GNOME have both gotten much better, but let’s get real. They’re not even in the same ballpark.” — Ouch. True though…

The good of McCain —

Sen. McCain delivers a letter to the president questioning HR 4077 (THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION ACT). Looks like Public Knowledge and Consumers Union have McCain’s ear. Great to hear!

Jon Stewart on Crossfire —

This is amazing. Jon Stewart is my hero. Bittorrent of the whole show or text transcript available. You have to watch it to get the full effect though.

Karl Rove in a Corner —

A deep look at the career of Karl Rove. Seems biased but scary if even 10% is true.

The Hole Hawg —

Neal Stephenson on UNIX.

CSS Negotiation and a Sanity Saving Shortcuts —

Some tips I haven’t seen before for dealing with IE’s broken CSS support. Using conditional comments for ie specific css, setting manual defaults, etc.

New York Times - Without a Doubt —

On Bush’s weird use of faith as tool. “Real faith leads us to deeper reflection and not to the thing we as humans so very much want: easy certainty.‘’

recent college grads seek entourage - mm4mm —

Almost as good as the guy who was auctioning an “ass whoopin'” on ebay.

anacron for Mac OS X 10.3 —

Hard to believe this isn’t part of the standard distribution.

The Toilet Online - Leave It To Bush! —

US Citizenship 101: Freedom of Expression :)

Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related —

Dell Exec: “Spyware installed on roughly 90% of computers.”

Google Search: "Miserable Failure" —

Bwwwaaahahahaaa.

SongWrite —

Python based guitar tab editor/viewer.

Doctorow's Edinburgh talk video .torrent —

Video for the “Web 2.0 == AOL 1.0? How the Sinister Forces of Darkness are Conspiring in Smoke Filled Rools to Make the Web Illegal, and You’re Not Invited” talk.

Crossfire responds to Jon Stewart (washingtonpost.com) —

Includes some quotes from Novak and Carville. Funny Carlson and Begala couldn’t make a single valid point while Stewart was on the show.

Help get Firefox full-page ad in The New York Times! —

critical mass biatch!

The Wiki way —

Jon Udell on corporate Wiki adoption..

Jon Stewart "Crossfire" feud ignites Net frenzy —

news.com covers the Jon Stewart on Crossfire phenomenon..

Sam's Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours —

yeah whatever… I’ve been trying to learn emacs for years.

Ted's Macintosh Tips and Tricks —

Excellent repository of OS X configurations, tips, applications, etc.

Scobleizer: Are you afraid to blog —

Surprisingly interesting look at fears of corporate blogging both internally and externally. Scoble thinks most people are afraid to get fired.

Good Bad Attitude —

Paul Graham on why hackers have “shitty attitudes” when it comes to topics of IP and removal of natural liberties. (Feynman’s safe cracking gets a mention, btw).

Monster washes up on beach in New Zealand —

One fish story to rule them all..

Slashdot - Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor —

This QA session is a book in itself. Stephenson’s a complete madman.

Lots of Random Facts —

“Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously” — good to know!

Showing Off —

:) “… it isn’t about REST or SOAP or WS-* or .NET or Java or whatever, it’s about easy.” — Tim Bray

The Novell-Merkey Case (1998) —

Some guy is trying to buy the GPL off the Linux kernel by contacting individual copyright holders and offering them cash.

No Iraq Draft —

Go sign this.

Jon "I'm not your Monkey" Stewart on 60 Minutes —

Stewart will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday talking about the same things he was talking about on Crossfire.

defective yeti —

omfg. make it stop! make the bad man stop!

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs —

adobe reader is a tool of pirates. this will undoubtedly strangle the nascent graph paper market!

100 Facts and 1 Opinion —

scary..

MC Tim Ryan (D-OH) —

Wow! Beautiful wrap-up of everything that’s wrong with the Bush administration by my very own congressman Tim Ryan. Must watch..

Jon Stewart on CSPAN —

the day after his crossfire appearance.

How do you whistle with your fingers in your mouth really loudly (or at all)? —

note: trying to learn this at work seems to annoy people.

Digital Media Consumers Rights Act (DMCRA) —

Proposed amendments to the DMCA for limiting anti-circumvention, reaffirming the betamax standard, and ensuring proper labelling of copy-protected media.

Hard drives to accelerate into gadgets —

no dount. this is where it’s going. tell me again why we’ll need HD-DVD discs? In three years I should have a terabyte in my pocket…

How I Learned to Love Larry —

Hilary Rosen (former head of RIAA and usher of DMCA) is promoting Creative Commons… I’m skeptically optimistic.

Simon Waldman on Wikipedia's success —

The Guardian with some history and props for wikipedia..

Google Help Central —

perfect..

Lexmark Injunction Overturned —

Sheeewww. Lexmarks attempt to stifle competition using the DMCA is overturned.

Free Fahrenheit 9/11 Download —

for the next two weeks only.

Best Software Essays of 2004 —

Joel Spolsky is putting together a book of the 30 best essays related to software development. This is a growing list of public nominations.

Advent of the Robotic Monkeys —

“If a monkey is hungry but has his arms pinned, there’s not much he can do about it. Unless that monkey can control a nearby robotic arm with his brain.”

Ballmer: Comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX —

for some reason, anytime I’m reading ballmer, I always get that charlie-brown-on-the-phone-voice in my head. — Wah wah.. Wah wah wah wah, wah wah…

RNC fear-phrases video —

911, 911, 911, 911, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, weapons, nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, weapons, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists.. Vote Bush!

NPR: On The Wired Creative Commons CD —

Chris Anderson explains creative commons licensing on NPRs Talk of The Nation.

Dilbert 10/28/2004 —

“something you could never comprehend conflicts with something that you’d never understand.”

Lexmark Loss Good for Consumers —

Katie Dean with more on the Lexmark DMCA smack-down. EFF and others are hopeful this will send a message that DMCA abuse won’t be tolerated by the courts and slow the recent cease-and-desist tyrany.

Dilbert 10/28/2004 —

“something you could never comprehend conflicts with something that you’d never understand.”

New Food for IPods: Audio by Subscription —

New York Times gets hip to podcasting.

Bring on the tables —

a thorough look at how to use HTML tables correctly.

GoGrinder —

This is the best Go app I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

Kula: 1001 —

A flickr desktop client.

FC4 - Thoughts about the future. —

Seth Vital provides a list of things that need to happen for Fedora to be successful moving forward. Note that most of these have been problems that received little attention since Fedora 1.

Pirates and terrorists: Yo ho ho, infidel —

Real pirating has tripled in the past decade reaching the highest level in modern history.

How Bin Laden Got Away —

this is just sad… a calendar of November 2001 with color coded major events related to Bin Laden and Iraq.

Why the term 'intellectual property' is a seductive mirage —

Stallman..

Fear of Bloggers in Business and Journalism —

sigh.. corporate resistence to change never fails amuse me.

NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate —

liar! your not even a good liar, liar!

Linux not ready for mass market —

probably true. shrug..

Ending the Fantasy —

MSNBC says Kerry in landslide? Didn’t look that way in northeast ohio last weekend but hey I’ll latch onto anything at this point.

Apple to iPod owners: "Eat shit and die" —

Cory seems a bit upset with Apple, and rightfully so.

Revealed: Blair's secret mission to woo Kerry —

Tony Blair freaking out because he’s going to be the only one still supporting what we’re doing in the war after Kerry gets elected on Tuesday.

stopie.com —

“Help stop Internet Explorer, the world’s most popular and worst internet browser.”

A Tale of Two Osamas —

A comparison of translations of the Oct. 30, 2004 Bin Laden tape. CNN on one side and Aljazeera on the other. Who’s spinning?

Don’t use a GPS-enabled cellphone to prank call 911 —

good to know..

CNN Election Watch 2004 —

so you can watch the votes come in..

HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod —

only takes 15 pages to explain.

Four More Years —

Kerry concedes. Dan Gilmour gives a glimpse of the next four years..

Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart —

red/green/yellow for specific css attribute support in major browsers.

Ashcroft likely to leave post —

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

The Gay Marriage Thing —

yep, gay marriage was the tipper in this election. I can’t believe we didn’t see it coming. Rove sure saw it!

How George Bush won the election —

I don’t even know how to summarize this.. honest and shaking!

Psychologist Finds Instance Where 'Two Wrongs Do Make A Right' —

ha!

Choose Life —

The poem that inspired the book that inspired the movie that tweaked my brain for about two weeks.

New North America —

Tim Bray redesigns North America for efficiency.

Another North America Redesign —

Possibly more accurate model of reality.

Save Canada's Internet from WIPO —

Doctorow on how the DMCA notice-and-takedown clause is becoming a tool for censoring the web in the US and how Canada is pondering importing it.

httperf - A Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance —

I can finally shelve my bash/curl framework :)

XHTML 1.0 —

The recommendation..

Metacrap —

I love this paper…

The Rise of Open-Source Politics —

A look at bottom-up communities and the 2004 political election.

One Internet, Many Copyright Laws —

New York Times article on copyright law differences across countries and how the internet complicates enforcement.

1984 —

Orwell’s masterpiece in all the beauty of text/plain. Note: this isn’t public domain in the US but is in AU.

Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet? —

Microsoft is claiming some form of IP rights over “a total of 130 protocols which Microsoft is offering for license.” The list includes TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Bluetooth, FTP, HTTP, SSL, etc. Looks like a new FUD strategy.

G4 Optimized Firefox builds.. —

Haven’t tried yet but these optimized builds are rumoured to blow the doors off the standard distribution.

Los Alamos Hermit —

This guy is living the dream. I wonder if there’s room in his cave for me and my powerbook. Does he get wifi in there?

Joshua adds popular support for tags —

I’ve been waiting for this one for awhile now..

Fun With PrimeNumbers —

Different methods of finding primes. Quantum machinary not required.

Holy shit! this guy got the MPAA propoganda posters pulled from Tuttle Mall! —

They were in the food court area. Massive 8 ft. posters! I took my camera with me this weekend to try to get a snap but they were gone..

Why I Like Windows —

IE team on Firefox 1.0 release. The comments have me rolling on the floor. I can’t believe microsoft is letting these guys keep comments on.

JUnit Bible Thumpers —

Hani on JUnit. priceless..

The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines —

Schneier takes a thorough look at the problems with electronic voting machines.

Ohio Sit-In to protest unfair election —

On the steps of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Saturday, Nov 13th to protest the use of e-voting machines with no paper-trail and for-profit corporations counting votes.

An Alternative to "Traditional" Array Resizing —

The best wtf to date.

Students Fight Copyright Hoarders —

Katie Dean following Free Culture activism on college campuses.. looks promising.

Build your own search engine with ht://Dig —

when you can’t afford a google appliance…

Is Microsoft using 'Halo 2' to thwart Xbox hackers? —

How to be wrong: “I would argue that Xbox Live is a great experience for the end user precisely because it’s a closed, controlled environment, and anything that threatens that is a real concern for Microsoft.”

Don Knuth: Musings and More —

A bunch of Knuth talks and experiments. Some video, audio, book excerpts, etc.

Netcraft Results for beta.search.msn.com —

Maybe Balmer could include the fact that msn search runs on Linux in his next “Get The Facts” campaign.

Ashcroft condemns judges who question Bush —

I just don’t understand how someone can make statements like this publicly and get away with it. there are a few gem quotes in the article.

RoboDump 1.0 —

real pooping sounds! fun for the whole office!

Gmail: How do I enable POP? —

looks like POP is finally coming. I’m seeing reports of it being switched on for selected accounts.

ColorMatch Remix —

Another great all-html color-picking app.

Real Ghost Sighting Caught on Film —

wow! I’m not sure how they could have faked this. the voices are clear as day with the volume cranked.

Does the White House know? —

Some info on a recent FCC filing on the broadcast flag. This is going to start heating up as the July 2005 date gets closer.

CIA plan to purge its agency —

“Goss was given instructions to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda.”

Status Report: Wormwood to Screwtape —

Hell is making tremendous progress.. I’m going to move my previous recommendation of a moderate-buy to a strong-buy due to a recent strong showing in the market.

No civilian deaths in Fallujah? —

let’s just count ‘em all under “insurgent”…

Fedora Core 3 Screenshot tour —

This is a really good idea.

Positron! Records —

Small label that supports and encourages Creative Commons licensing for their artists. You can purchase some of their bands music from the iTunes Music Store.

Monopolies of the mind —

The Economist calling for patent reform. Thank you!

New CIA Head Goss Sparks Agency Shakeups —

NPR covers The Purge.

communication skills —

Punctuation substitution!

ZODB/ZEO Programming Guide —

I think I’m going to give ZODB a try with my blogging system.

Knuth: Open Letter to Condolezza Rice —

Knuth and Rice were at Stanford together (as faculty). Interesting note: this is only the second letter Knuth has written to a gov. official. The other time was Vietnam.

Inside The Election Fraud Battle - Think Kerry Is Not Involved In This Fight? —

Hmm.. Kerry is either a liar or a genious.

Virgin Mary sandwich —

phaw! how do we know that’s not some other virgin?

Mozilla's Firefox key to Free Culture —

Firefox as “gateway drug” to Free Culture for the masses.

Official Rules for Calling Shotgun —

A guide to calling shotgun.

Emacs Keybindings for Firefox —

This is one of the last things I’ve been waiting for before switching from Safari. Now if only the scrollwheel worked a little nicer and I could get a decent proxy-configuration plugin…

Metaphilm - Fight Club —

Tremendous theory on how Fight Club is based on, and a continuation of, Calvin and Hobbes.

Red Hat Magazine —

I hope they keep this semi-technical. First issue looks pretty good.

Essays 1743 —

An LGPL old-school print-press looking font similar to the font used in different parts of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.

Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same —

Pretty good look at the four mainstream F/OSS license models.

Does a Free Download Equal a Lost Sale? —

The Times reports studies on how much real harm freely downloadable music is causing the record industry. The numbers don’t surprise me: free sharing has a neglible effect on immediate sales but also creates more demand for music in general.

12many —

Count the stars game. Surprisingly addictive.

RFC 1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths —

“Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick two.” (via Simon Willison)

Neal Stephenson's System of the World concludes the Baroque Trilogy —

Doctorow with a short review of the Baroque Cycle.

Physicists Decry Bush's Mars Mission Plan —

43,000 of ‘em, in fact..

New Security Vulnerability: Clueless Users —

Oh man that’s sad..

Full-back HTML tattoo —

hardcore!

Fedora Core 3 Installation Notes —

Instructions for getting a FC3 installed and up to snuff.

The py.test tool and library —

This seems to be a bit cleaner and more functional than the standard python unittest module.

Quotations and citations: quoting text —

Some information on using proper q and blockquote elements in HTML and then styling them with CSS to fix all the browser brokeness.

Planet Classpath —

GNU Classpath (GPL’d J2SE implementation) hacker weblogs.

GNU make Manual —

All on one page :)

How to Kill a Mockingbird - The Book Report —

I forgot about the burning shark!

What's New in Python 2.4 —

Generator expressions, simpler string substitution, built-in set Objects, function decorators, subprocess module, and much more…

Dilbert on Patent Reform (or not) —

Love it..

Practical Common Lisp —

Looks like a lot of real-world stuff in here and is also very recent.

Bloggercon 3 - Law —

Lawrence Lessig’s talk at Bloggercon 3 just hit IT Conversations.

Greenspuns Tenth Rule Of Programming —

timeless..

Cascading Style Cheatsheet —

Styled for landscape printing…

On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp —

Paul Prescod rebuttal to Paul Graham on the Python/Lisp connection. Good stuff…

The Restful Web —

Joe Gregorio has a new XML.com column called “The RESTful Web” where he just posted his first article. This is great news. No one seems to want to stand up and bring REST to the masses.

The Naked Ape : A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal —

This book is excellent. B&N and Borders keep telling me it’s out of print.

Python Is Not Java —

I’ve noticed that too. Concepts aren’t portable between the two languages somehow.

1.2 Terabyte Linux based media PC for $2000 —

Sorry, no one is getting christmas presents from me this year.

MSN Spaces: seven dirty blogs —

BoingBoing tests the MSN blogs censors..

Cross-breeding XSLT and ZPT —

Leslie Orchard with some thoughts on Kid. I’ll have to get a post out on exactly what I’m looking to steal from XSLT.

RE: fedora core 3 goals. —

Icon’s fictitious #redhat IRC transcript relaying some of the issues surrounding the Fedora project from the community’s POV. This is a few months old. I hope some of this has been cleared up.

a generator-based XML reader —

Fredrik Lundh with a super simple technique for incremental parsing with ElementTree. There’s a few limitations but this is probably all that is needed in large portion of cases.

Python Vs Ruby —

A complete comparison..

Apple of IBM's eye? —

Did IBM drop the x86 PC so it could start selling Mac’s? Interesting..

bugzilla.redhat.com: Bug 127369 —

Best bug report I’ve ever seen in my life.

Java is not Python, either... —

Nope.

Teen pregnancy in the Red States —

oops..

4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1 —

Is it just me or are color pickers the only apps that are innovating on the web? You can never have too many of these.

gyum - Graphical User Interface for Yum —

Cool. This is one of the most frequent requests on yum-devel. Not sure who’s behind this though because I don’t remember seeing it discussed on the mailing list.

Dynamic Java —

Oh Tim, how I love thee. Let me count the ways..

Laptops a Hot Fertility Issue —

I’ve been looking for an alternative to vasectomy.

The groovy sinking ship —

Hani at his finest, lambasting the Groovy project and the Dynamic Java meetup.

A Crash Course in Python —

Nice intro to Python HTML-based slides. This covers a ton of info in a very small space.

New file system (WinFS) has long road to Windows —

It’s not going to happen you guys…

Optimize Me Harder —

“Nobody really modifies the source of open source software.” — somebody didn’t get that memo; possibly all of australia..

Python Tutorials, more than 100, sorted by topic and category —

nuf' said.

Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You —

mmmmm.. mangos.. yum.

Have a coprophilic Catalan Christmas —

We’ll be adopting this tradition in my home this Christman. no doubt.

The present and future value of Python —

Udell talk on Python from Summer 2004. He talks about python running on JVM/CLR/Mono towards the end.

Gish —

Supposedly kick ass video game for OS X, Linux, and Windows. Free demo available.

Kid on Cafe con Leche —

Elliotte Rusty Harold announces Kid to the masses. thanks!

Massive Frog Eats Three-Legged Radioactive Dog! —

The frog is probably radioactive too.. it’s pretty big.

Worse Is Better —

The story of Worse is Better.

Newspapers with RSS —

Big list of traditional newspaper’s that support RSS.

The Internet's biggest foe —

powell sucks

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One —

Finally hits 1.0. If you read one big nasty spec this year, this should be it. It’s actually full of stories and other weird stuff that make portions kind of fun.

TinyP2P —

that’s sick. sick! did you notice he even squeezed a CC license in there?

Python Idioms and Efficiency Suggestions —

excellent list of python Idioms

10,000 Firefox enthusiasts make history —

My name will be in the NY Times tomorrow

Casting SPELs in LISP —

Coolest language tutorial I’ve ever seen.

Dilbert 12/17/2004 —

ouch!

I'm just not evil enough —

if only more people had that problem.

Microsoft Attempts To Shutdown MacSlash —

dumb.

Dear Santa —

haha

Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic —

Linus on Solaris going OSS.

Sharper minds —

Drugs that make you smart; sign me up.

The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism —

What “The Wizard of Oz” was really about..

Basic Critical Thinking for Software Developers —

AKA: “how to avoid the language war..” must read!

Bush's War —

Kos with a nice recap of the war effort thus far. Here’s to another year of dying a lot.

An anonymous Internet communication system —

One of these freenet clones really needs to get some traction. The EFF is providing funding for these guys.

Web Application Component Toolkit - Template View —

Excellent look at various HTML and XML templating methodologies..

What's Next for Google —

Is google the next netscape?

Christmas Interlude —

Adam Bosworth is the last person I would have guessed would summarize my religious and political position… but I’ll take what I can get.

Treo DUN via Bluetooth for Mac —

Can’t wait..

First Treo 650 hack: Enable the Bluetooth DUN profile —

Patch for uncripling the Bluetooth DUN on treo 650 smartphones.

What's On My Treo 650? —

Nice list of applications that run on the Treo 650.

Audiobook of Cory's DRM talk —

Buy it: $1. Proceeds go to the EFF.

Bruno Souza to Sun: "Stop Saying That 'Our Implementation Is Open Source,' It Is Not" —

Right. The issue is the (lack of) redistribution rights, not whether the source is available. Free Linux distros cannot ship Sun’s Java (or IBM’s by extension). Lastly, Bruno needs a spell-checker.. bad.

Satellite imagery of the Sri Lanka before/after/during Tsunami —

this is just crazy. make sure you take a look at the large 800x600 images toward the bottom.

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog —

News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.

Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview —

take 15 minutes to dramatically increase your understanding of the world we live in…

Blue Sky Development —

Well written line-of-though writeup on the decision process leading up to a language selection when the sky is blue and you’re building a new app. Hint: Python :)

Amateur Tsunami Video —

home video of the tsunami hitting all over the place. unbelievable.