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.”
431 Total
“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.”
Arrrrr!
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 (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!)”
Bosworth gets it..
“BooYAH”
Grrrr. This seems like a silly technicality to me.
Mind-blowingly fucked up.
… there has been a recent round of “glowing reviews from analysts”. What could possible go wrong?
A remote file editing package for Emacs. Uses ssh/scp.
Danger’s my middle name.
Some good tips on building RESTful web services.
“A guide to writing shell scripts for C/C++/Java and unix programmers”
Excellent.
where tf did this come from?
Hey! I wrote that..
ctags/etags, strace, fuser, ps, time, nm, strings, od/xxd, file, objdump
‘bout time.
Excellent article on the huge edge-case media market.
History of WinFS (hint: OFS)
LaughingMeme: tags for wordpress.
That would be an improvement. I thought he was a robot.
Some good ideas here. Would have been nice to fold some of the classes into a module..
nice..
just.. wow.
beautiful, beautiful code.
First major blow to Induce Act :)
yes. they are. IE is the new Netscape 4.7.
Sad. ISPs not performing fact checking on copyright cease-and-desists.
“Quickly zoom from space down to street level and combine imagery, 3D geography, maps, and business data to get the total picture in seconds.”
On del.icio.us style tags and how they differ from existing keyword and category styles of classification.
Newton: I’d eat a mile of his shit just to kiss his ass. (via slashdot.org)
Various CSS layouts.
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.
Can be run in-process or client/server. Whole database stays in memory. Could be super useful in some situations.
nuckin futs!
Maybe we’ll get another transcript.
imagine that.
looks to be from the guys that brought you rockpapersadam.com.
AirWolf, Alf, The A-Team, Fraggle Rock!, Gadget, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Thundercats!, Transformers, and many many more!
Some really good info on various methods of dealing with synchronization between processes on *NIX based systems.
“Bush Vows To Pay Closer Attention To Needs Of Non-Presidents”
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..
A nice breakdown of how float works in CSS, which isn’t always intuitive.
It’s hard work! hard hard hard!
More good Firefox press.
come on now.. this is silly. leave windows. it’s sunny and warm and beautiful over here.
Protect your intellectual property now or risk having your business sacked by open souce-touting bandits!
Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations to air “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal” without commercials in prime time next week.
Great wrap up of problems with the current patent system and some seemingly realistic proposals for reform. (groklaw)
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.
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.
What do Moore’s law and boiling oceans have in common? Sun’s Jeff Bonwick explains in three easy paragraphs. Really brilliant stuff.
Lessig on recent Ashcroft remarks.
“A repository of every keyboard secret in OS X.”
“KDE and GNOME have both gotten much better, but let’s get real. They’re not even in the same ballpark.” — Ouch. True though…
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!
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.
A deep look at the career of Karl Rove. Seems biased but scary if even 10% is true.
Neal Stephenson on UNIX.
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.
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.‘’
Almost as good as the guy who was auctioning an “ass whoopin'” on ebay.
Hard to believe this isn’t part of the standard distribution.
US Citizenship 101: Freedom of Expression :)
Dell Exec: “Spyware installed on roughly 90% of computers.”
Bwwwaaahahahaaa.
Python based guitar tab editor/viewer.
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.
Includes some quotes from Novak and Carville. Funny Carlson and Begala couldn’t make a single valid point while Stewart was on the show.
critical mass biatch!
Jon Udell on corporate Wiki adoption..
news.com covers the Jon Stewart on Crossfire phenomenon..
yeah whatever… I’ve been trying to learn emacs for years.
Excellent repository of OS X configurations, tips, applications, etc.
Surprisingly interesting look at fears of corporate blogging both internally and externally. Scoble thinks most people are afraid to get fired.
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).
One fish story to rule them all..
This QA session is a book in itself. Stephenson’s a complete madman.
“Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously” — good to know!
:) “… it isn’t about REST or SOAP or WS-* or .NET or Java or whatever, it’s about easy.” — Tim Bray
Some guy is trying to buy the GPL off the Linux kernel by contacting individual copyright holders and offering them cash.
Go sign this.
Stewart will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday talking about the same things he was talking about on Crossfire.
omfg. make it stop! make the bad man stop!
adobe reader is a tool of pirates. this will undoubtedly strangle the nascent graph paper market!
scary..
Wow! Beautiful wrap-up of everything that’s wrong with the Bush administration by my very own congressman Tim Ryan. Must watch..
the day after his crossfire appearance.
note: trying to learn this at work seems to annoy people.
Proposed amendments to the DMCA for limiting anti-circumvention, reaffirming the betamax standard, and ensuring proper labelling of copy-protected media.
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…
Hilary Rosen (former head of RIAA and usher of DMCA) is promoting Creative Commons… I’m skeptically optimistic.
The Guardian with some history and props for wikipedia..
perfect..
Sheeewww. Lexmarks attempt to stifle competition using the DMCA is overturned.
for the next two weeks only.
Joel Spolsky is putting together a book of the 30 best essays related to software development. This is a growing list of public nominations.
“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.”
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…
911, 911, 911, 911, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, weapons, nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, weapons, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorists.. Vote Bush!
Chris Anderson explains creative commons licensing on NPRs Talk of The Nation.
“something you could never comprehend conflicts with something that you’d never understand.”
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.
“something you could never comprehend conflicts with something that you’d never understand.”
New York Times gets hip to podcasting.
a thorough look at how to use HTML tables correctly.
This is the best Go app I’ve ever seen in my whole life.
A flickr desktop client.
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.
Real pirating has tripled in the past decade reaching the highest level in modern history.
this is just sad… a calendar of November 2001 with color coded major events related to Bin Laden and Iraq.
sigh.. corporate resistence to change never fails amuse me.
liar! your not even a good liar, liar!
probably true. shrug..
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.
Cory seems a bit upset with Apple, and rightfully so.
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.
“Help stop Internet Explorer, the world’s most popular and worst internet browser.”
A comparison of translations of the Oct. 30, 2004 Bin Laden tape. CNN on one side and Aljazeera on the other. Who’s spinning?
good to know..
so you can watch the votes come in..
only takes 15 pages to explain.
Kerry concedes. Dan Gilmour gives a glimpse of the next four years..
red/green/yellow for specific css attribute support in major browsers.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
yep, gay marriage was the tipper in this election. I can’t believe we didn’t see it coming. Rove sure saw it!
I don’t even know how to summarize this.. honest and shaking!
The poem that inspired the book that inspired the movie that tweaked my brain for about two weeks.
Tim Bray redesigns North America for efficiency.
Possibly more accurate model of reality.
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.
I can finally shelve my bash/curl framework :)
The recommendation..
I love this paper…
A look at bottom-up communities and the 2004 political election.
New York Times article on copyright law differences across countries and how the internet complicates enforcement.
Orwell’s masterpiece in all the beauty of text/plain. Note: this isn’t public domain in the US but is in AU.
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.
A look at various ways people misunderstand the value of the web. If it’s not useful, don’t use it.
Haven’t tried yet but these optimized builds are rumoured to blow the doors off the standard distribution.
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?
Wherein we predict that whoever decides to take dynamic languages seriously will win the interpreted bytecode market.
I’ve been waiting for this one for awhile now..
Different methods of finding primes. Quantum machinary not required.
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..
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.
Hani on JUnit. priceless..
Schneier takes a thorough look at the problems with electronic voting machines.
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.
The best wtf to date.
Katie Dean following Free Culture activism on college campuses.. looks promising.
when you can’t afford a google appliance…
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.”
A bunch of Knuth talks and experiments. Some video, audio, book excerpts, etc.
Maybe Balmer could include the fact that msn search runs on Linux in his next “Get The Facts” campaign.
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.
real pooping sounds! fun for the whole office!
“I love God.”
looks like POP is finally coming. I’m seeing reports of it being switched on for selected accounts.
Another great all-html color-picking app.
wow! I’m not sure how they could have faked this. the voices are clear as day with the volume cranked.
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.
“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.”
Why Java won’t even be considered for most types of F/OSS applications until they ease up on the license.
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.
let’s just count ‘em all under “insurgent”…
This is a really good idea.
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.
The Economist calling for patent reform. Thank you!
NPR covers The Purge.
Punctuation substitution!
I think I’m going to give ZODB a try with my blogging system.
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.
Hmm.. Kerry is either a liar or a genious.
phaw! how do we know that’s not some other virgin?
Firefox as “gateway drug” to Free Culture for the masses.
A Python based weblog thing or something.
A guide to calling shotgun.
Adam Bosworth joins the Loyal WS-Opposition – minus the loyal part, perhaps.
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…
Tremendous theory on how Fight Club is based on, and a continuation of, Calvin and Hobbes.
I hope they keep this semi-technical. First issue looks pretty good.
An LGPL old-school print-press looking font similar to the font used in different parts of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.
Pretty good look at the four mainstream F/OSS license models.
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.
Count the stars game. Surprisingly addictive.
“Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick two.” (via Simon Willison)
Doctorow with a short review of the Baroque Cycle.
43,000 of ‘em, in fact..
Oh man that’s sad..
hardcore!
Microsoft is so completely out of touch with reality it hurts.
Instructions for getting a FC3 installed and up to snuff.
This seems to be a bit cleaner and more functional than the standard python unittest module.
Some information on using proper q and blockquote elements in HTML and then styling them with CSS to fix all the browser brokeness.
GNU Classpath (GPL’d J2SE implementation) hacker weblogs.
All on one page :)
I forgot about the burning shark!
Generator expressions, simpler string substitution, built-in set Objects, function decorators, subprocess module, and much more…
How to get syndicated in Python-oriented news communities.
Love it..
Looks like a lot of real-world stuff in here and is also very recent.
How I decided to build Kid – the simple, pythonic, XML-based template language.
Lawrence Lessig’s talk at Bloggercon 3 just hit IT Conversations.
timeless..
Styled for landscape printing…
Paul Prescod rebuttal to Paul Graham on the Python/Lisp connection. Good stuff…
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.
This book is excellent. B&N and Borders keep telling me it’s out of print.
This release is all about documentation.
I’ve noticed that too. Concepts aren’t portable between the two languages somehow.
Sorry, no one is getting christmas presents from me this year.
BoingBoing tests the MSN blogs censors..
BoingBoing as tractor-beam for litigation. Xeni says I’m on crack.
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.
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.
Applying a chain of Python generators to achieve transformation of the XML infoset.
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.
A complete comparison..
Did IBM drop the x86 PC so it could start selling Mac’s? Interesting..
My notes on upgrading Fedora Core from 2 to 3 using the Yum package manager.
Best bug report I’ve ever seen in my life.
Nope.
oops..
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.
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.
Oh Tim, how I love thee. Let me count the ways..
I’ve been looking for an alternative to vasectomy.
Tim seems to be working miracles over at Sun.
Hani at his finest, lambasting the Groovy project and the Dynamic Java meetup.
Why not extend XSLT to be easier instead of building a new template language?
Nice intro to Python HTML-based slides. This covers a ton of info in a very small space.
It’s not going to happen you guys…
“Nobody really modifies the source of open source software.” — somebody didn’t get that memo; possibly all of australia..
Trying to figure out a way of providing XSLT-like template matching in Kid.
I miss Mark Pilgrim.
Alan Turing would sooo beat Linus Torvalds in arm wrestling and technologies no different.
It’s not a robot thing.
mmmmm.. mangos.. yum.
We’ll be adopting this tradition in my home this Christman. no doubt.
Udell talk on Python from Summer 2004. He talks about python running on JVM/CLR/Mono towards the end.
Supposedly kick ass video game for OS X, Linux, and Windows. Free demo available.
Elliotte Rusty Harold announces Kid to the masses. thanks!
The frog is probably radioactive too.. it’s pretty big.
The story of Worse is Better.
Big list of traditional newspaper’s that support RSS.
A report on what seems to be real forward progress in the Fedora project.
powell sucks
A comparison of Java’s static methods and Python’s class methods.
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.
that’s sick. sick! did you notice he even squeezed a CC license in there?
excellent list of python Idioms
My name will be in the NY Times tomorrow
Coolest language tutorial I’ve ever seen.
ouch!
if only more people had that problem.
haha
Linus on Solaris going OSS.
Drugs that make you smart; sign me up.
What “The Wizard of Oz” was really about..
AKA: “how to avoid the language war..” must read!
Kos with a nice recap of the war effort thus far. Here’s to another year of dying a lot.
One of these freenet clones really needs to get some traction. The EFF is providing funding for these guys.
Excellent look at various HTML and XML templating methodologies..
Is google the next netscape?
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.
Can’t wait..
Patch for uncripling the Bluetooth DUN on treo 650 smartphones.
Nice list of applications that run on the Treo 650.
Buy it: $1. Proceeds go to the EFF.
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.
this is just crazy. make sure you take a look at the large 800x600 images toward the bottom.
News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.
take 15 minutes to dramatically increase your understanding of the world we live in…
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 :)
home video of the tsunami hitting all over the place. unbelievable.