Bush makes a complete ass of himself on Meet the Press.
I never would have imagined a language with so much power could be so easy to pick up.
How protecting “intellectual property” ends up destroying it.
Rock on.
URLGrabber is a file fetcher in Python that works with HTTP and FTP.
A report on my experience using GMail for mailing list activity.
I am my own worst enemy.
It’s too good to be true. Avoid anything this simple and elegant.
A Firefox hack for styling specific sites using user stylesheets.
I’m not the only one.. This could be a real disorder.
A first class path object for Python.
Hmm..
Need to get this in the blog.
Will implement pythonic interface to..
Guido, getopt
“Pop-up blockers have only scratched the surface. Let’s see some innovation.” – Users should control much more of their browsing experience.
Jon Udell’s outtakes from an interview with Quentin Clark (director/WinFS)
ALICE for python
How I failed the Turing test.
Good detail on Python’s new style classes..
(hold belly).. hardy har har har..
Wiki rockin with info on Firefox Extension development
“If your web site doesn’t work in Lynx, your web site is thoroughly, thoroughly fucked.”
“Syndicated feeds are wildly popular, but they’re not a success for XML. XML on the Web has failed: miserably, utterly, and completely.”
Rockin color picker.
Oh God, please no. XML is not fun to program in!
Click the “Click here for a larger image” button. :)
will buy..
Add to beat up when seen in street list: Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Frist, Mr. Dashle, Mr. Graham, Mrs. Boxer
Hatch introduces bill to bring back telegraph, horse and buggie, and hoolahoop.
HTML Version
Why all the anonymous blogs? Wusses.
Isn’t this how “Planet of the Apes 3” started?
Entity Declrarations / Decimal and Hex values for important unicode code points.
Are there restrictions on how local content can be modified (e.g. user stylesheets)? Should there be?
I need to send this link to my mom..
Bunch of News Readers
A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
“No Matter What You Call It, the Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act Spells Trouble”
Full HTML Version.
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.
TODO: copy (gratuitously) this sites organization.
HTTP specification
“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.”
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
Good starting point for Induce act opionions and information.
FindLaw’s Writ:
If only I still took acid..
Transcript of a fat kid and moron on the playground (from the Drudge Report 2004).
Installing Linux might be a bit easier..
Pythonic interface to the del.icio.us REST APIs.
Most articles beginning with “occasionally I still discover some obscure feature of Python that displays surprising behavior” are usually worth reading.
“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
“…only 21, or 4.6 percent, of 454 member sites Karppinen could access passed the W3C’s own HTML validator…”
On entity substitution and whatnot..
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Da’ Biz!
Can’t beat it wit’ a stick.
You can never have too many of these to choose from..
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
Good intro to REST.
More in depth info on REST.
List of XHTML Sites
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.
Hardware mods.. Spooky!
OS X Hacks. Forum type format.
By Ron Reagan
Why would anyone volunteer to be an infantryman? By Owen West.
“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.”
Damn, this is turning into a lesser of two evils race..
“The scientific reason for keeping a brain in a jar is keeping a brain in a jar.”
Tim Bray on all the recent news about linux’s 283 patent infingements.
Civilian Combat Training with real guns!
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.”
“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.”
Free-as-in-speech fonts including Sans, Serif, and Monospaced faces. These are great use-everywhere fonts.
“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.”
No frills wiki that looks good has a short requirments list (grep, find, etc.)
… are possible with a little work and a lot of patience.
Using the address bar as a quick del.icio.us lookup tool
Difference between Software “Developer”, “Engineer”, “Architect”, and “Programmer”. Me, I tend to prefer “Software Assassin” or “Digital Pimp” or somesuch..
Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!
Python script to convert iTunes xml database to rhythmbox xml database.
“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.”
One of my heros is now just another blogger like the rest of us. :)
This document attempts to give a hacker over-friendly answer to the question “What is Mac OS X?”.
This much sed will eat your brains!
“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
”..this book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Panther-specific components that you may find challenging.”
“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.”
“Photoshop what the classic Nintendo games would have been like had they been owned by Microsoft originally.”
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.
Sample chapters from book I need to buy.
Applying Extreme Programming (XP) techniques to government and politics.
Conference for Linux enthusiasts of all kinds. Right down the street from me at OSU.
Bill points out the inevitability of the Pythonification of the world.
“…he helps machines design themselves, using principles borrowed directly from biological evolution.”
“This site documents my attempts at understanding and exploring the possibilities of CSS.”
New York Times talking about people moving away from IE. It may finally be happening…
More Python love from Mr. Paul Graham.
waste time here.
80% of what you need to find when coding in Python.
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.
Thinking about using this for my comment system. They have an XML-RPC API but it isn’t documented on the site.
More hacks for trying to get IE to do the right thing.
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.
Frequently asked questions on the Python programming language. I didn’t see “Why does Python rock so hard?”
Wish more people would get behind Paul on this one.
What about God?
Mark pretty obviously prefers morons to assholes.
“Two kids committing the carnal sin of copying a game onto a floppy disk..”
postoffice.ebay.com
You gotta love TBL.
Modify the RGB values used for ANSI colors in Terminal.app.
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.
Solid OS X interface.
The saga continues.
This could be really really really big.
“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.”
atom:id will use URIs (hurray). markp explains why.
Looks like the periodic chart of the elements for CSS hacks.
Get your share on!
A beautiful mish-mash of what works on the web. Hits Last Call WD.
Looks like John Gilmore just got a new pal.
After using Emacs for three years, I think I finally need to learn how to use it. This has some good pointers.
“…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
Must watch! Y O U M U S T W A T C H !
haha. just horrible.
I would have literally killed for one of these.
Richard Stallman - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
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
“…we pay the future to come and pick you up..”
Planet of the Apes “re-imagined” as an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Ahh.. Hani’s back. I’ll run through and back fill my favorite bile.
Don’t worry he does this to everyone..
Hani on JSR-170..
Hani on upgrading to new version of JRoller.
Hani disects commons-io
Hani breaks the story of JBoss’ astroturf campaign.
More ridding of tables..
SimpleTAL reference.
Single page printable version available.
Fixed media will die. Another reason copy-limit DRM can’t work.
The original DOOM ported to DOOM 3 graphic engine.
Björk supports file sharing.
Kerry picks The Daily Show over 60 Minutes, Nightline, and NBC Nightly News for first interview since Swiftboatgate.
“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?
OMFG Python is reaching critical mass.
Note: Follow and support Katie Dean (wired reporter). She has consistently and reputably covered every significant technological rights issue since 1999.
W3C Recommendation.
Six part series on OSX’s built in Apache httpd configuration.
which stands for “Compiler Language With No Pronouncable Acronym”, obviously.
Real audio of outstanding Feynman lectures on QED
Transcript from Aug 25, 2004 Daily Show with John Kerry
I watched this clips on comedycentral.com last night and wasn’t all that blown away.
A bunch of nice bullet images best used to style UL tags using CSS.
Old and still very valid. What’s the best mix of Simplicity, Correctness, Consistency, and Completeness in software design? Describes MIT and “NewJersey” approaches.
What really happened on Louis and Clark’s trip.
This is more documentation than I’ve ever seen on super.
A distributed P2P web cache thingy that looks cool. Need a bookmarklet to generate the URLs.
W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999
”..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.
I’ve had these exact discussions 1000 times at work with the marketing types. Who knew they could be so exciting?
Must watch flash presentation (with audio) of Prof. Lawrence Lessig’s speech on free culture at OSCON 2002.
Uche Ogbuji. Compiles schematron schema to python.
It took me 30 minutes to find this. That’s just plain wrong. Further, it might be illegal (ANSI does mail orders).
Article on simple free-text classification systems such as those found on del.icio.us.
Clay Shirky on Folksonomy
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.
An honest and objective comparison of Ruby and Python.
Wheel of Time theory submissions.
Why are they there?
Paul Graham on how to write an essay.
Generates per-site passwords based on a master password and the site’s domain name.
Free book on picking up Emacs.
That’s 2,000,000 USD, btw..
Entire book online. Looks like evidence of some huge educational conspiracy.
Getting a feel for Emacs on OS X.
How Emacs is extremely productive and horribly slow at the same time.
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”.
Silly amount of links to CSS resources of all shapes and sizes.
“Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong–something that only pirates would do.”
“We’re organizing a call-in day to Congress on September 14 to oppose new legislation that would undermine the Betamax decision (INDUCE Act).”
Congrats Mark!
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2 API Specification
Jetspeed 1 Enterprise Portal 1.5 API
XML.com: Dealing with tagsoup HTML in Python.
Goddam this is more shit than could ever possibly fit in my brain.
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.
Hey tkington! I noticed this come in on my OSX del.icio.us feed.
Nice article on how mod_python integrates with apache. Goes into significant detail on non-CGI type stuff you might want to do.
A wiki…. About mod_python..
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.
..that rocks. Quite possible the only javascript treeview I’d ever consider using.
Color name chart with hex codes and overlays.
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!
Katie Dean with an update on the Induce Act non-sense. Short version: dickhead copyright officials help dickhead senators reword Induce Act.
List of built in functions (i.e. non-module) in Python.
There has to be a place for this in the standard library.
Collection of poorly documented OS X key-sequences.
Syntax Reference for the Markdown text markup grammer.
Methods for creating a 2-col layout using CSS.
Some notes on Dan Hunter’s excellent work on Free Culture.
A report on meeting real life evil people.
I’m convinced that there’s some kind of weird link between hackers and librarians.
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.
A bunch of extremely useful notes on hacking emacs. (Ftrain.com)
Map Homer’s daily route from home to moes, to work, to moes, and then back home.
The article is “SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology” but the comments on “piracy” are hilarious.
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.
Stallman on fighting patents and patent reform.
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.
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.”
Tips and techniques for helping Googlebot. If you are a symantic markup perfectionist, you probably already have most of these right.
ASCII to Binary converter. Does Hex and Octal too.
21 Reason’s Google will never hire me.
More goodness from the archives of Tim Bray.
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.”
How they’re different from mine.
Super useful tips on diving into Emacs.
I can die in four things…
Euler 0wnz jo0
“US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy.”
Joe Gregorio on Tim Bray’s “The Loyal WS-Opposition” post. This might end up being a real committee or something.
The legs the Loyal WS-Opposition is standing on. (Tim Bray)
Sean McGrath backing Tim Bray on the Loyal WS-Opposition.
Kind of pissed no one told me about this. A bunch of audio of really smart people talking about important geeky stuff.
Audio from Graham’s Great Hackers presentation at OSCON 2004.
Doug Kaye reads the first chapter of Lessig’s “Free Culture”
Red Hat Exec Michael Tieman’s comments on Microsoft’s weird move into the open source mindview.
“share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems” via PhotoMatt.
Some more speculation about a Google Browser.
Simon St. Laurent noticing the recent WS-Opposition.
A big list of problems with the current WS stack. Contains pointers to mailing-list discussion on various issues.
“This is no longer an interesting coincidence. It is an unmistakable message from God.”
Adam Bosworth dumps on WSDL and hints at simple REST/HTTP interactions as being superior to WS-* in many ways.
Breaking up w/ PowerPoint.
A piece on the difference between static typing and strong typing. Hint: static typing sucks, strong typing is valuable.
“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. – Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.”
Floating images and other objects using CSS.
Finally..
People who watch Daily Show know the issues better than those that don’t.
we need more press like this..
Various methods of caching dynamic content.
Mark Nottingham wondering why WS-Transfer (HTTP wrapped up in SOAP wrapped up in HTTP bwhhahaha) didn’t get more heat from the opposition.
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
so cool..
Python web framework that rocks.
Some code and theory on developing RESTish stuff under Quixote.
Condensed version of everything you need to know about using Quixote. (From PYCON 2004).
Notes on good URI design.
Cookbook area of the Quixote Wiki. Lots o’ topic specific howto’s.
Nice profile on TBL followed by a brief Q/A on semantic related stuff.
Ouch. Python’s clicks/dollar ratio is horrible!
New draft of Induce Act looks like old version of Induce Act.
A nice, simple HTTP/XML based API for bloglines. I hope this trend continues.
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.
With bios and notes.
Beware! Danger lies ahead…
Brought a tear to my eye..
because it isn’t mine.
Wired’s five page look into the “intelligent design” vs. darwinist evolution debate. Ohio seems to be the battleground.
Everything that you can possibly know about iframes.
One of the nicer reference sheets for HTML 4.0.
“I prefer
