Ryan Tomayko

Patent for "Automated Detection of Pornographic Images" —

nice..

100 years of Einstein —

The Economist explains Einstein’s contributions to the science world.

Cory sets DRM strawmen ablaze —

Some nice arguments from Doctorow on why consumer electronics device reviewers need to include information on DRM restrictions.

Stapless Stapler —

Staples without staples… Brilliant!

HOWTO: Make that palmOne Treo 650 Even Better! —

Info on a few Treo 650 hacks..

Why There's No Escaping the Blog —

Fortune looks at the impact of weblog’s on business.

Get Album Art for your iTunes Songs. —

Export list of songs from iTunes, upload here, drag images to iTunes. Nice.

Death and Taxes —

A visual look at where your tax dollars go. (hint: DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE)

The New York Times : Letter to the Editor : Are Google's New Libraries a Good Thing? —

hahah ahahahah ahahah ahahaa! BBbwwwwhhahahahaaa! ha. hhhaaa. huuh…. ohhhhhh..

Shirky on Sanger on Wikipedia Anti-elitism —

Classic Shirky retort to Sanger’s plea to pull the reign’s back on wikipedia. Clay reminds him that wikipedia starts with “wiki,” an oft forgotten fact at the present.

Ponarv (A Definition) —

PONARV (PO narv) n. [acronym] A project of no apparent redeeming value. Hence, Ponarvian: one who pursues such projects.

Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Communists —

At least we got a cool flag out of the ordeal..

The Command Line In 2004 —

Neil Stephenson’s “In the Beginning was the Command Line” updated and annotated by Some Guy.

CNN Lets 'Crossfire' Host Carlson Go —

HA! The CNN exec who did the firing is quoted as saying “I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp”. Amazing!

Worlds Largest Blue Screen of Death —

nice…

CSS - Quirks mode and strict mode —

Information on quirks vs. strict mode for HTML/CSS rendering: how to trigger, what DOCTYPEs do what, etc.

Young Prospective Artist Finds Herself in a 'No Sketch' Zone —

Second grader is told she’s not allowed to sketch at museum because the works are protected by copyright.

GovTrack.us: Track Federal Legislation —

Find out and track what’s going on in congress. We need more tools like this.

We're Creative Commonists, Bill —

Wired’s Katie Dean on the recent Creative Communist fiasco.

Truth and Bill Gates —

Dan Gillmor comments on Gates' creative communist statements..

Tuning the Linux Kernel with a Genetic Algorithm —

Good idea!

Bashing Google —

Howard Stern and journalists throw some jabs at Google.

Quitting the Paint Factory - On the virtues of idleness —

I would love to read this but I’m too busy doing work. Let me know if it’s interesting. Work, work, work! ;)

Comic Sans Anti Fucking Piracy —

A nice rant against the Movie Picture Association’s recent inclusion of scary anti-piracy propoganda in DVD and cinema reels.

Old People —

Gabe from Penny Arcade let’s the geezers in on this little secret the whipper-snappers have been hoarding to themselves called “The Internet.” Check it out at your local library!

Commons-based Peer Production —

Ted Leung generalizes his involvement w/ free and open source software as being a simple contribution to the societal commons. Interesting viewpoint.

New Voices —

$12,000 grants for people who want to take on building community based micro-local news projects.

REST Intro and Overview —

Paul James wrote this nice technical summary on REST and competing technologies back in September 2004 and I missed it somehow.

Electr-O-Sketch —

Hooking a mouse up to the Etch A Sketch.. Impressive!

IBM Gives FOSS Free Access to 500 Patents - Rethinks IP Management —

Was this a typo or something?

Mac Mini Porn! —

Oh, this is big. $500 Mac Mini.

Mac mini —

Apple’s Mac Mini product page.

Really Bad News —

Senator Hatch to chair a new subcommitte on Intellectual Property.

Mac mini As A Home Media Server —

Some discussion on turning the new Mac Mini into a Media PC for the living room.

Jailed for a Song —

“Congress isn’t listening to the public, and we need to be loud if we want to be heard over the Hollywood lobbyists and record label flunkies.”

Experimental Culture —

A look at the past, present, and possible future of GNOME culture.

Hacking Coke Machines —

Fun!

Ban Comic Sans —

Putting the Sans in Comic Sans – The source for anti-comic sans propoganda.

Iocaine Powder Explained (How to win Paper, Rock, Scissors) —

Doesn’t this qualify as a genetic algorithm?

A del.icio.us study —

I need to read this a couple times when I get some times..

Free Software Magazine —

This could be really cool.

CNet: Red Hat tries again with Linux enthusiasts —

Decent coverage of recent Fedora activity. Things should start kicking up here now that Fedora Extras CVS is available and Seth Vital is taking a more active role.

Gizmodo Gates Interview Part Four: Communists and DRM —

Gates backpetals on the previous “creative communist” remarks and talks about DRM as a speedbump… caugh strawman caugh

Technorati Takes Tags Global —

del.icio.us style tags are taking over the world.

Darth Tater & Wookiee Soaker: New Star Wars Toys —

Check out the new Star War’s themed Mr. Potatohead lineup.

CBS Tries DRM to Block Criticism of Rathergate Report —

You will now need to go to jail to cite a report released by CBS. Yet another unfair and unintended use of the DMCA.

JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language —

So true.

The Gillmor Gang - January 14, 2005 (Adam Bosworth) —

Adam Bosworth on the Gillmor Gang.

MilkMint GTK2 Theme (for GNOME) —

A nice and simple theme for GTK2/GNOME desktop environments (click thumbnail image to see larger screenshot).

Picasa —

Photo management software, free from Google. Find, edit, share photos.

A Sneak Peek at GNOME 2.10 —

Looks like a nice little upgrade..

The Globe and Mail: How copyright could be killing culture —

Thanks Globe and Mail!

Clutter by Sprote Rsrch. —

“Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it’s your choice.”

Full-back Zelda Tat —

9 hours under the needle. hardcore.

Prepare to lose your mind —

AAaahhhhhhhh! Stop! Make it stop!

MSFT refuses to give 15 XP licenses for tsunami relief related work —

I almost puked when I read this. I hope there’s just been a mix up or something.

Child appears unhappy after parents slain in Iraq —

speachless..

Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends? —

Truly odd. What’s going on here?

Dan Gillmor Interview on IT Conversations —

I’ve been waiting for this one. Dan talks about blogs and his new startup, Grassroots Media, Inc.

Iraq war bites into US business —

US product boycots in EU and CA due to Iraq war. Maybe people will start paying attention now that we’re losing money instead of just lives.

Baghdad Burning —

An Iraqi chick blogger writing about events in Iraq from Iraq.

Baghdad Burning Blog Wins Battle —

Some interesting background on the “Baghdad Burning” blog.

What You'll Wish You'd Known —

Paul Graham takes the honest route with High School kids and tells them what they should really be worried about. Great quote: “Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience.”

Why is the president's daughter throwing signs? —

“Is it me, or is Jenna Bush holding up the sign of Satan next to her father’s face?”

Social Security: There Is No Crisis —

Awesome looking grassroots blog-based initiative to respond to the dismantling of social security by the Bush administration and republican congress..

Open Source Radio —

“A space for you to help contribute to a forthcoming CBC radio column about the open-source movement.” This is a great example of blog-as-collaboration-tool.

Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman —

The first time I’ve heard a major player admit that DRM is harmful.

Social Security For Dummies —

Understand how Social Security works and why Bush is saying there’s a “crisis”.

The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software —

Finally got a chance to read through this massive piece. It’s worth the time if you have it.

NY Times: Few but Organized, Iraq Veterans Turn War Critics —

People would just come up to me and say, ‘How’d you lose your arm?’ “ Mr. Acosta said. "And I’d say, ‘In the war.’ And they would be like, ‘What war?’ ”

How to ambush Fox News —

Vanity Fair’s Judy Bachrach disturbs Fox’s plans of a nice afternoon of inauguration coverage. Note that lying about what you’re going to talk about and being on Live are requirements for getting an honest opinion onto the TV.

WS-Who's-on-First —

Oh, this is brilliant. Look at the bright side, Mark, at least it’s horribly useless in a way that’s interoperable!

HOWTO: Mod a microwave to melt iron —

Perfect science experiment for the kids.

Java get/set - not that harmful —

Bill de hÓra challenges some of the points I made in Getters/Setters/Fuxors. Specifically, the getter/setter bloat and IDE comparisons. Some good points here.

The Firefox Religion —

Blake Ross talks about what drove every Firefox design decision: simplicity.

XForms Add-On for Mozilla Coming Soon —

bout time..

Worst weatherman ever —

This is almost too painful to watch.

Open-Source Java Under Consideration —

Hmmm.. Maybe the confirmed “three letter part” referred to: “S” “U” “N”?

Cory Doctorow: "Copyright vs Community" (MOV, MPEG) —

Feature length lecture by Cory Doctorow on copyright, DRM, and other digital rights issues. CC share-alike licensed.

How Groovy Lost its Groove Thang —

Interesting look at how Groovy has been floundering for quite some time now under the JSR process. I wasn’t aware of any of this..

Eclipse Java-GNOME Demo —

Demo of 100% free Java/Eclipse natively compiled with gcj. This is slated for Fedora Core 4.

PBS FRONTLINE: Watch online —

Full video library of PBS' Frontline. I’ve never heard of Frontline but they’ve covered some interesting topics. All available through the web.

PlaysMaybe —

Finally, CE manufacturers will be placing a badge on their crippled-with-DRM devices to inform the consumer that said devices suck and should be considered broken. Oddly enough, the badge reads: PlaysForSure.

JHymn - Removing DRM from iTunes —

Excellent O'Reilly article describing Apple’s DRM apparatus in detail and pointers to tools for curing your crippled music..

Gilberto Gil's extraordinary engagement with Brazilians —

Wow! You mean the political figures talk to the people in this backward country? That’s never going to work!

Iraq and cynicism —

I guess that sums it up pretty well.. Gah! sucks…

Version Control with Subversion —

Entire subversion book on one page.

My Experiences With Subversion —

Nice look at moving to subversion. Go into migrating from CVS, subversion idioms, gotchas, etc.

Subversion for CVS Users —

Title says it all..

Porter Stemming Algorithm —

Implementations in lots of different languages, too. Nice.

cluetrain/hughtrain —

Cluetrain Manifesto: “This is why we hate you.” Hughtrain Manifesto: “This is how we’re going to fuck you up.”

Linux in Government: Another Look at Linux in the MS Infrastructure —

Samba eating Microsoft’s lunch. I smell a patent infingement case…

Plame Leaked by Fake News Source? Part VI —

Wow. These guys are really organizing now around this distributed journalism. Please take a look and see if you can help out. I have someone in Ft. Hood that might be able to give general info…

New York Times Link Generator —

Generates non-expiring links to New York Times content. Bookmarklet included.

Eliot Weinberger : What I Heard about Iraq —

Block off a half-an-hour for this…

Wikipes! —

Community-contributed distributed recipe thing.

LA city councilman says open source = more cops —

Next time someone asks you “why?” tell them you’re all about putting more cops on the street.. That doesn’t have value?

Rumsfeld cancels trip after accusations (of war crimes) —

Rumy won’t be visiting germany any time soon..

Dijkstra - Separation of Concerns —

Dijkstra is a complete badass.

Tim Gerla's Blog - Kid —

Ahhh, shucks..

Gizoogle - Fo all you beotches who wanna find shiznit —

All yo resizzle is shizzilated and shizzle, nizzle..

The open source monopoly —

Nice look at how companies are releasing new products under F/OSS licenses but missing much of the spirit.

Subversion quick start —

Quick guide to loading a new project into subversion.

Chicago's public sculpture can't be photographed by the public —

Oh horse shit!

Bootstrapping a Corporate Wiki —

Best practices for creating and managing an internal Wiki in a large company.

TheyWorkForYou.com —

Track whether your MP is working for you in the UK Parliament.. Really cool looking piece of civic software.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code —

“In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the si

Neal Stephenson?'s Past, Present, and Future —

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America

Why Craigslist Works, by Craig —

The whole PDF requirement at ChangeThis sucks but this looks like a good read anyway..

Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction —

Google for president!

Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain —

Really interesting concept. Tags can be combined to form “tagwebs”

North Korea admits having nuclear weapons —

Say they need the weapons “as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.” — IMO, this is the first of many such announcements. I imagine the so-called “terrorist states” are especially wanting to start nuke programs.

The Unassociated Press —

New York Times covers the Wikinews project.

Open Sores Software Development —

“Save Money, Save Time, Save Your Ass”

Rockys Back —

Rocky warm-up spoof. This guy is my hero.

Who did MPAA rip off "You can click but you can't hide" from? —

Some dogfood for the MPAA. This kind of theft is obviously unacceptable. I’m sure they will be contacting Barlow and Joe Lewis' successors to work out a royalty program.

Opera to MS: Get real about interoperability, Mr Gates —

That about nails it.

Gartner urges caution before downloading Firefox —

Redefining the concept of making sense: “some of the factors that make Firefox more appealing than Internet Explorer are likely to go away as the browser gets to be more popular”

R.I.P. Microsoft? —

That’s a big prediction for having a “bad smell” but whatever…

Vonage Third Party Call Control —

Vonage hacking..

The sad state of SOAP interoperability —

Complexity is kryptonite to interoperability. It’s that simple.

del.icio.us/popular/sparkline —

del.icio.us/popular with nifty sparkline graphs for tracking popularity over time (via Simon Willison)

The false promise of template languages —

David Hansson (of Ruby on Rails fame) on why codeless template languages don’t work.

Altered HIV Attacks Mice Tumors —

HIV as a possible cure for cancer?

SOAP is boring, wake up Big Vendors or get niched —

More reports of shrinking WS-* mindshare and cries for tools for building REST based architecture.

Politics-Oriented Software Development —

“Someone who points out a problem early is a troublemaker; someone who fixes a problem at the last minute is a hero.”

Best Voicemail Ever! —

“She just hit em in the head with a bible!!”

I, Robot (Doctorow) —

A short story by Corey Doctorow.

Bill Gates and other communists —

Stallman cutting through the bullshit.

SHA-1 "Broken" —

Sam Ruby with one of the better write-ups on the impact of the SHA-1 break. Short and accurate.

Markdown in Python —

An implementation of John Gruber’s markdown text to XHTML processor in Python.

Groupware Bad —

Goddam this is an awesome essay on how bad software is written..

How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line, part 1. —

Introduction to being a complete bad-ass.

Malcolm Gladwell - Tech Nation —

Nice. Gladwell talks about his new book “Blink” on IT Conversations. I haven’t listened yet but it’s impossible for Gladwell to say anything that is uninteresting.

Ball Revamped —

Kick-ass flash game. Level 23 is impossible.

Python whitespace FAQ, or, Python is not Fortran 77

To Evil! Feb '05 Edition —

Tales of cruftiness in Sun’s Hotspot JVM code and a nice look at some of crap attached to their SCSL license (like not being able to talk about the cruft JVM code).

The HotSpot source code is a bad joke —

Oh, my. 3 Millions lines of C++, awk, sed, and scheme! “lets make everything OOP and add 100 layers” style. This is an instant classic.

SOAP is Comatose But Not Officially Dead! —

Carlos Perez with a nice wrap up of recent WS-* vs. REST discussion around the blogosphere.

Why democracy starts with an 'e' —

BBC covers the UK civic software movement.

Struts Flow: Continations come to Struts —

Right on. All roads lead to Lisp.

Fear Driven Development —

“… the opposite of fear may be curiosity.”

Emacs WebDev Environment —

Information on setting up emacs for (X)HTML web development including nxml-mode, rng-validate-mode, etc.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures —

When did I die and how the hell did I end up in heaven? Crazy!

Microsoft's first explicit anti-GNU/Linux ad —

From Oct 23, 2000 issue of the German language magazine c’t

Broadcast Flag Oral Arguments —

This guy is live-blogging the broadcast flag hearings. Looks like the good guys did pretty good in oral arguments.

Top Posting Is Evil —

Stop it, I’m serious.

The Associated Press RSS Feeds —

The AP just put out some RSS feeds. ‘bout time, eh?

Courts question anti-piracy rule —

“You crossed the line,” Judge Harry Edwards told a FCC lawyer during arguments before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.“Selling televisions is not what the FCC is in the business of.”

A Note to the FCC - Call their bluff… —

Mark Cuban on why the FCC should tell CBS (and the MPAA) to go screw themselves.

First Video Game Written In Ant —

For christ sakes, man! I hope Hani doesn’t ever see this…

Rails as a disruptive technology —

Sorry, I can’t stop linking to this guy…

JBoss Killed Hunter S Thompson —

Another reason to hate JBoss. :)

Web Building: Style Templates —

Big list of sites that provide CC licensed CSS layouts and tools for generating layouts.

Microsoft to Demo at EclipseCon 2005! —

wtf: “Visual Studio lead program manager Jason Weber to show how to build extensions for Microsoft’s IDE.”

What happens when you meet Tim Berners-Lee? —

heh.

Cory's Y2K Compliance Statement —

Has this been entered into the smithsonian yet?

Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web —

Oh wow. This is cool.

GartnerWatch —

Weblog for watching and reporting shady Gartner activity. Those guys are crooked as a barrell of snakes if you ask me.

What's Special About This Number?

Show Me the Code —

Joe Gregorio’s second installment in his series on building RESTful applications shows us how to build a bookmark service kind of like del.icio.us. He nailed this one really nicely.

Word-of-mouth is why authors succeed —

Doctorow explains that the way to be successful in a distributed culture is to exploit long-tailisms like word of mouth…

Dive Winer Just Killed Podcasting —

This is just horrible Dave. Please, stop.. Stop… huuuurrting us.

Lucid Dreaming FAQ —

I tried to do this for two months straight in college but it never worked..

NS8, part 1: I need closure —

Blake Ross tearing into Netscape/AOL on Netscape 8. Can’t wait for part 2.

NASA using BitTorrent —

Need more stuff like this to keep the RIAA/MPAA lunies from illegalizing our technology…

The Ever-Worsening Curse of the Cog —

Nice little “People who make up new rules continue to be in very short supply.”

WS-Nothing —

More people coming over to the loyal opposition…

The on-demand blogosphere —

An Udell screencast on the future of the blogosphere. del.icio.us as a shared brain.. all great stuff. watch it.

AMERICA - ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN —

Simon Willison showed me this scan of a Newspaper from April 14, 1865. It looks like a blog.

Abstractions vs Patterns —

Sam Ruby trying to put a definition to the word “simple”. Seriously, it’s not as easy to define as you think.

I *heart* Rails —

Author of “Better, Faster, Lighter Java” compares building MVC webapps in Java to building them in Rails. I wish I could say I was surprised at the results but I’m not…

When is a hacker a "hacker" and when is software flawed? —

that’s what i’m saying, bro..

It’s Not Dangerous —

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

Bill sets?fine for low-riding pants —

$50 fines for anyone who displays his or her… wait for it… no. now.. wait for it…. UNDERPANTS! AHHHHHHH!

Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers —

hehe.

The unspoken language of the office —

How to properly use body language to convey your negative feelings at the office…

Programmers' block —

Bill de hÓra describes the major flaw in high level languages like Python..

Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate —

Paul Prescod gives some background and opinion on the REST/SOAP debate.

Cory Doctorow - Web 2.0 —

Doctorow’s Web 2.0 presentation on IT Conversations.

The Selfish Class —

How programs adhere to the basic laws of Darwinian evolution.. Seems to gel with everything I’ve learned.

The del.icio.us Screencast —

Jon Udell runs through some of the potential of del.icio.us in a screencast. rockin…

Project Coyote —

Tim Bray on the dynamic language push at Sun.

Doing Java Without Java —

More dynamic language play on the Java front.

Tim Bandits - What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? —

Yea, this is the coolest thing I’ve read in a long time. Tim: let me borrow that “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book – I’ll tear that shit up in a night, I swear…

Yahoo! Buzz Game —

Interesting prediction market that uses buzz around different technologies. I split my starting cash between REST, delicious, and Python.

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python —

Nice.

Reports of Java developers becoming addicted to Ruby programming —

The line forms to the left people..

Lesson's learned launching a web service —

Google reflects on some of the decisions made for the AdWords API.

"Closed Open Source" —

Superb rant against Sun’s licensing tactics and especially Gosling’s cluelessness wrt what’s important in a license.

Who Will Free Fiona Apple? —

Awesome look at how big music companies DON’T GET IT! Ugghh. This stuff drives me crazy.

MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software over Microsoft —

I’m seriously considering considering moving to Brazil. That country is really starting to get their shit together and the gov seems close to the people.

Black Hole created in Lab? —

holy shit

DRM-free iTunes interface "PyMusique" (written in Python) —

Looks like this let’s you use iTMS like normal but the files are stripped of DRM on the way down or something. And it’s written in python.

Don't throw out the SOAP with the bathwater —

Udell wishes REST and WS-* could get along… The REST people did too – two or three years ago (e.g. Prescod, Baker).

Bush and Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda —

That’s messed up.

MP3s and PDFs of Feynman Lectures —

There’s a ton of stuff in here.

Bowstreet Predicts 2002 Will Be The `Year of Web Services` —

Just for fun :)

Design patterns part I - Chain Of Responsibility —

Pretty reusable implementation of the Chain Of Responsibility pattern in Python. Very clean.

Design patterns part II - State —

This one is kind of weird but it shows another kick ass capability dynamic languages have: changing and object instance’s class (behavior) at runtime.

Conkeror - Emacs mode for Firefox —

Make firefox act like Emacs. How cool is that?

Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines —

Word!

Report: P-Languages Better For Enterprise —

Here they come…

Fred Von Lohmann (EFF) vs. Theodore Olson (RIAA/MPA) on CSPAN —

The RIAA/MPA lawyer is a complete tool, yo…

Paul Graham - Return of the Mac

[delicious-discuss] big news —

Joshua gets some funding for del.icio.us so that he can work it full time. Congrats!

Index of /~twl/conferences/pycon2005 —

Very organized and thorough notes from PyCon.

Two Is An Impossible Number —

Wow, this may be the most serendipitous page I’ve come across on the c2 wiki. It starts with strategies for when generalization is okay, leads into caveman number systems, how many objects the brain can recognize without counting, God as Lisp programmer,

MGM v. Grokster - Law and IT —

Panel discusses the Supreme Court ruling in the MGM vs. Grokster case.

Stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online —

Clay Shirky on how he doesn’t have access to his own copyrighted works.

Water found on Mars —

Oh wow, this is huge – the hard evidence we’ve been waiting for…

TheServerSide changing focus —

HARDYFUCKINGHARHAR! Laugh it up you dumb shits. This might have been funny were Ruby and PHP not eating your lunch.

Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend —

Brazil gets it. They could be the international version of Silicon Valley in the next five years…

Emacs as Cargo —

Came across this odd section in a “leaving Emacs for vi” document and it has a really interesting description of the history of FSF/GNU, Linux, and the evolution of Free Software. Seems out of place in this document but is worth reading.

Starbucks Delocator —

Find locally owned alternatives to Starbucks in your neighborhood.

Upcoming changes in Python 1.5 —

Best c.l.p thread ever: irritating whitespace-based indentation gone, death of for loop, all strings are regular expressions, and WE FINALLYY GET BRACES! (via Hans Nowak)

IronPython 0.7.1 is released to the world! —

Jim Hugunin announces Microsoft’s first official release of IronPython. Let’s be absolutely clear: Microsoft just released a respected free software project.

The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin —

Mark Cuban gets it.

Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT —

I’m sure I always get these wrong and likely always will.

How to enable Emacs Keybindings w/ Firefox (Linux, Mac, Windows) —

One down, two to go…

Analyst Report: Scripting languages lag in Web services support —

That’s because they don’t have shithead analyst speculation driving feature development…

Using Bash's History Effectively —

Need to move away from history | grep -i

TIOBE Programming Community Index —

A non-deterministic market index for programming languages. Pretty cool, really – and somewhat surprising I guess.

The Long Emergency : Politics —

Holy shit!

Markdown + Make vs. Microsoft Word —

Hell yea..

Malcolm Gladwell's South by Southwest (SXSW) 2005 Keynote —

Talks about Blink and other cool stuff as usual.

Radical Simplification —

Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides. Thanks, Sam.

New Lisp book on the shelves —

Why Java developers should buy “Practical Common Lisp”.

Mr. Yum —

A great snap of Seth Vidal, quite possibly the best project leader I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.

Dabblers and Blowhards —

A debunking and satirical look at the collected works of Paul Graham.

United States Patent: 6,880,125 —

“System and method for XML parsing” – BEA Systems, Inc.

Quixote 2.0 Released —

and under a GPL compatible license.

What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't? —

I didn’t know SOAP/WS systems were so capable. Astounding!

Bunch of Peak oil articles —

Mark at BoingBoing with a bunch of links to all kinds of opinion on peak oil.

Greasemonkey FUD —

Hi, we’re Forrester Research, a division of Microsoft. — I really didn’t expect Firefox to get this much FUD thrown at it.

The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel —

And the hits just keep on comin' – IT Conversations / Tech Nation has an interview with the author of a Godel biography.

Laser-controlled headless zombie flies —

The beauty of science ladies and gentlemen.

Japanese Translation of How I Explained Rest to My Wife —

How cool is that?

The Brick Testament —

Old Testament meets Lego – brilliant!

SCO to Groklaw's PJ: Who Are You? —

Haha! SCO is out of control.

Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review —

Oh wow – this is the definitive work thus far I guess.

SFP: Come see us —

Aaron Swartz writes a novella about his startup interview w/ Paul Graham et al. I’m so jealous!

A REST Intervention —

Koranteng ponders how it is possible for REST based systems to kick so much ass.

How to patch drywall —

:)

Mentat Wiki —

“… a collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker.”

Cornell Copyright Debate In Pieces —

The 3.5 hour copyright debate featuring all the players from the EFF, RIAA, MPAA, acedemia, etc. cut up into little pieces for ease of viewing.

Rupert Murdoch should buy Jon Udell. —

I wish I could buy Jon Udell; I’d keep him in my cubical to impress my friends.

Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates —

New law puts your ass in jail for 3 years for leaking a pre-release movie.

tecosystems: Five Developer Blogs You Should Read —

Awww shucks, Mr. O'Grady, I’m flattered!

The spit fight that ended my career at MSNBC —

“So, fuck it. I quit.” – David Weinberger on leaving MSNBC because they’re clueless.

Email destroys the mind faster than marijuana —

I’m sooo screwed.

Checked Exceptions are Fundamentally Flawed —

It’s a shame Java doesn’t have higher order functions and it’s a good thing Java doesn’t higher order functions.

Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? —

Superb slashdot pile-on regarding the switching off of analog TV signals on 1/1/2006. The FCC/MSM do not know what to do since NO ONE will be switched over to digital.

PEAR 1.4.0, meet REST 1.0 —

Greg Beaver talks about some of the benefits of REST based design as he’s moving PEAR from XML-RPC to standrad HTTP/URIs/XML.

Business Week predicts corporate takeover of blogs —

BusinessWeek has “Blogs” on cover but they don’t get it. Predicting a massive takeover of the blogosphere by major corporations – no one is going to some shitty feed-me-PR blog. We have those today, they’re called “Corporate Websites” and “Magazines”

God is Great, by which I mean, Very Very Large —

that’s some funny shit…

Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It... —

About time someone noticed.

George Dyson - Von Neuman's Universe —

More great stuff from IT Conversations. This time a look at Von Neuman’s impact on math, science, computing, etc.

Afghan woman stoned to death for adultery —

Husband has wife stoned and her adulterer whipped 100 times and released.

JavaScript Reference —

Decent javascript reference. I really like the format but the cards are images so you can’t use your browser’s find to locate stuff…

Accomplishments —

Wow! I didn’t think this was actually possible. I’m sure I’ll try at some point in my life but I don’t have any dilusions about actually reaching Marc’s level of accomplishment.

The wrong end of the telescope? —

You’ll have to excuse my ego linking but having Udell point to you is like have Carson ask you onto the Tonight Show.

Design by Wiki —

This is too cool.

Google Search: programming language —

How cool is this?

Preparing for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Installation -- Avoiding issues before and after updating —

Notes on stuff that should be backed up and other tips for a smooth upgrade. The comment thread looks promising as well with everyone reporting in with problems and opinion.

Everything You Need to Know to Install Tiger —

Will be useful if amazon ever decides to ship my stuff.

Python Challenge —

Weird game that uses facets of the web as pieces of riddles. Kind of spooky.

World of Ends —

What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.

Cell Phone Finder - A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones —

Right on.

Disco Apache video —

It’s kind of amazing that at some time in some place in this very universe this actually took place.

V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT! —

Kick ass.

IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED." —

Actual evidence that Bush lied and forced others to lie about intelligence from Iraq so that we could go to war.

How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? —

Bwwwhhhaaahhaahahaaaaahhaa!

Apocalypse Soon —

Robert McNamara warns that nuclear war is coming if the US doesn’t remove its reliance on nukes as a “immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous” tool of foreign policy.

Dracula Blogged —

Bram Stroker’s Dracula blogged based on dates in the book. This will run for the next six months. Subscribed.

The History of Sampling —

Why free culture is important – in a java applet.

how i implemented tags: a de-normalized approach —

I may be needing this in a bit…

Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction —

Finally located while orbiting a strange gaseous planet…

Fallujah mosque shooting video -- unedited, for first time. —

Wow

Ruby Class and Library Reference

Ruby Standard Library Documentation

Typo - Weblog package atop Rails —

I’m going to see about moving my weblog to this..

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman —

Holy crap a new Feynman book! Published by his daughter.

Process of Forming a Company —

I guess it’s okay to say out loud now that I’ll need all the information like this I can get.. :)

Well, this is what I do. —

Sick.

Register of Copyrights Misunderstands Copyright —

Ed Felton digs into the Register of Copyrights. More informative than dig, really…

Cory Doctorow - All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites —

I bookmark a lot of doctorow and I bookmark a lot of IT Conversations; this is two birds with one stone. Doctorow sick genius as usual…

Not Elegant? —

Patrick Logan calls bullshit on a BUILDER.COM article on “scripting languages”… Quick list dynamic language misconceptions: inelegant, fragile, unprofessional, only used by monkeys..

My Long Bet with the NY Times —

It’s quite possible you’d win that bet today.

Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags —

“People have been freaking out about the virtuality of data for decades, and you’d think we’d have internalized the obvious truth: there is no shelf.”

Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby —

Holy crap this is the coolest language book I’ve ever seen. No seriously, you have to flip through the chapters – there’s regular comic strips and other crazy non-sense.

Okay, James Gosling isn't really this ignorant... —

Yes he is! He seems to not understand even fundamental F/OSS licensing concepts and always throws up that same “Open Source = everyone can check in anything” strawman.

Drowning in the koolaid —

“Just remember that the next time you use one of the mainstream languages – many of the "features” were designed with the idea in mind that you, the developer, are a moron."

Orange Billion Dollars —

Gha!

300 Images From 1800 Sites —

A bunch of nice little bullet images. I can never find them when I need them…

Python Metadata Importer —

A Spotlight Plugin that imports and indexes Python source code. w00t!

Fear, Greed and Social Software —

Why corporations will have to pick up on blogging…

Bill de hÓra: No more nails: making good technology choices —

That’s what I’m saying bro..

How The Kernel Development Process Works —

Debunking the common myth that anyone can commit changes to any F/OSS project whenever they.

Anonymous Blocks in Python 2.5? —

We really need this, IMO. I’ve noticed that a lot of Ruby libraries use anonymous blocks for resource management like this and it’s hard to argue that its inferior to the try/except model.

The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux? —

I don’t even know what to think of this…

Seth Vidal : Fedora Foundation —

Seth on the recent Fedora Foundation announcement: “It reminds me of the announcements about 2 years ago for something called the Red Hat Linux Project.”

Tomato Salsa Recipe —

Holy crap I’m going to be eating this in about two hours…

Who knows? Maybe nonstandard arithmetic is just unavoidable —

Some interesting thoughts on Gödel’s Proof and its implications on nonstandard numbers.

More on small —

Yes! Yes! More on this in a bit…

Small is the new big —

I missed the precursor to the last link. This one might even be better..

YubNub —

This does look cool.

No hero —

Fuck yea, Len..

Integrate This —

Looks like an interesting new blog with proper taste for integration technologies. I can’t figure out who it is though…

The History of the GNU General Public License —

“What led Stallman to the creation of this copyleft license was his experience with James Gosling, creator of NeWs and the Java programming language, and UniPress, over Emacs.”

The Apple Blog - Quicksilver Changes Everything —

Seriously.

The Power Of Us —

“Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business” — that’s not all it’s shaking up…

The Long Tail: Bring tha noize! —

“It sounds like a paradox, but it isn’t. Much of what you want is in the tail. Most of what you don’t want is also in the tail.”

del.icio.us: casting the net wider —

Oh crap, he did it this time. Is the RIAA/MPAA going to be after del.icio.us now? Insane, I know but not impossible considering past history.

Linus compares Linux and BSDs —

“Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens)”

Rejected Sun Microsystems slogans —

Bwwahhahahahaaa.

Java6 delightful new features —

The Sun bashing posts today are superb!

Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers —

Beautiful. Our pal Stephen O'Grady gets a nice quote in this one. To the moon!

Writing code for others that use it —

Damn if I haven’t started writing this post 10 times and stopped because I couldn’t get the point out. Well said, Bill.

Public Broadcasting Targeted By House —

This is just horrible. How about you assholes hold back on a tank or two and leave Big Bird alone!

Lever and fulcrum —

“Jim Gray reminded me that TerraServer does offer SOAP interfaces. And yet those interfaces demonstrably have not inspired a flurry of innovation. Why not?”

DarwinPorts Guide —

Alright, it looks like I’m going to have to break down and learn how to package ports since none of this crap is working on Tiger.

The 80-20 problem —

This is mostly true in my experience. It’s too bad we had to pick on some nice Python projects to make the point but true is true.

Mark Cuban: Why Macrovision's customers are fools —

This horse should be dead by now.

Is Linux For Losers? —

Worse is better.

Stealth Start-Ups Suck —

God this is so true and I’m doing exactly what he says not to. :(

IT Conversations: Guido van Rossum (part 1) - Building an Open Source Project and Community —

Can’t wait to listen to this. Guido talks about how the Python community has grown over the years.

IT Conversations: Guido van Rossum (Part 2) - Building an Open Source Project and Community —

Second part of what looks to be a really kick ass presentation by the BDFL.

Dealing with marketing types... —

Nice python-list thread with Paul Rubin challenging my ibm-poop-heads article and Andrew Dalke (and quite a few others) champions it. This discussion is worth more than the original article!

Priest crucifies nun —

Holy crap.

Schneier on Security: Disarming Soldiers —

“FAA regulation that requires soldiers — all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles, shotguns and pistols — to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters.”

Patent absurdity —

Stallman on the EU software patent mess.

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah —

haha

Links to essays in Joel's Best Software Writing I —

Nice!

PowerPoint Remix —

that’s some funny shit — “Feynman only needed 2” :)

A Bright, Shiny Service: Sparklines —

Joe Gregorio throws together a RESTful web service for generating sparklines.

Join us now and share the software —

As it turn out, Sun Microsystems owns the word “share” and they aren’t sharing it..

Get Rich Quick With Blogs —

The always insightful James Governor’s with a fist full of insight into insightless topics such t-shirts… weeeeeeee!

Microsoft releases under Creative Commons ShareAlike —

Holy shit Microsoft is copylefting stuff. What’s going on?

Microsoft makes web feeds easier —

Looks like RSS will finally be coming to “everyone else” now.

US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN - Forbes.com —

big surprise.

The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) —

Just wanted to link to this because it pisses me off that download.com is the first hit in a google search for “Free Software”. Bha!

Google command line —

could be useful…

Picker MobBlog —

Grokster MGM supreme court opinions are out. These guys are covering all the angles.

Grokster, StreamCast Lose —

“The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the Internet”

File-Sharing Networks Can Be Held Liable, Court Rules —

New York Times covers the MGM vs. Grokster decision

Blogs on today's SCOTUS rulings, Xeni on Grokster on NPR —

Initial coverage on MGM v. Grokster from BoingBoing. I’d like to hear what Cory has to say… and I’m sure we will shortly…

... All Your Base Rhapsody —

oh hell no.

All your base are belong to us —

The original european zero-wing introduction followed by a load of AYBABTU spottings in teh wild..

Apple - iTunes - Podcasting —

bout' time

Generics Considered Harmful —

Ouch! It would have been so much cooler if Java would have just dropped static typing completely.. :)

Hotel Lost Liberty —

Brilliant!

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference —

Mozilla’s JavaScript Reference..

Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address —

“Not everybody can wander around in an alcoholic haze and then at 40 just, you know, decide to be president.”

Gallery of DRM-Related Antipixel Buttons and Badges —

If you must put badges on your site, make it one of these…

Journalism and weblogs, part 327 —

Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)

Squawkbox: Corporate Use of MSN Spaces-- check out CNBC. Rant alert —

Damn, looks like Microsoft is back to their old ways again…

LAMP and J2EE competition heating up —

it seems the tech press is only about a month behind the bloggers now… :)

JURY SERVICE —

An short story y Cory Doctorow… Will need to read this at some point..

Cartoon Network Acquires Neon Genesis Evangelon —

w00t!

CLR Dynamic languages under the hood (Part 1 of many) —

Joel Pobar to dive deep into dynamic language support on Microsoft’s CLR..

Mac OS X Things - Disable Dashboard —

I wanted to like it but…

EU Parliament bins software patent bill —

“by a massive majority”

CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE —

Right on…

The BuildBot —

Let’s build an open / distributed build network.

The "Server side" Zeldman —

Holy crap he did not just say that.

Rails Take 2 w/ Sound —

Perdy..

'Plain Dealer' Holding Stories Because of Fear of Jail —

Okay this is just messed up. wtf is going on here?

Nine Days Later, White House Press Corps Discovers the Rove-Plame Story —

Whoa. Sock it to ‘em!

AxisofLogic/ United States —

Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents, a Federal Crime, During Oct 2003 Testimony Into CIA Agent Leak

This Spartan Life - Episode 1 - Module 5 —

Podcasting Red vs. Blue style?

Guide to Grammar and Writing —

always useful…

Kissing the 4th Amendment Goodbye —

Nice knowin' ya.

potter crash —

Video of a guy plot-spoiling the latest Harry Potter books to a crowd of many in front of Barnes and Noble.

Bush: Intelligent Design Should Be Taught —

UUUUuuhhhhggg!

Unattended, Encrypted, Incremental Network Backups: Part 1 —

Cool.

Turning 'Unknown' Into 'Unknowable' —

Yep, yep…

Someone Tell the President the War Is Over —

Excellent New York Times OP-ED by Frank Rich.

Dave Matthews Band encouraging people to crack their DRM —

… and encouraging Apple to not DRM their shit on iTunes. Awesome! (via Waxy)

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory —

Bwwwhhahahahaaaa

Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge —

“We are willing to pay any individual $250,0000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”

Utah dance party broken up by police —

Developing story… From the video it looks like it was broken up by military using assault rifles and tear gas. The video making its way onto the web is scary…

The Moral-Hazard Myth —

New Gladwell article in the New Yorker… On Healthcare

DRM != SSL —

Doctorow on why Open Source DRM makes no sense… In response to Sun’s recent OSS DRM implementation…

How To Look Like A UNIX Guru

This is about Self-Reference —

Godel would be proud, I think…

Is your son a computer hacker? —

OMFG this is so messed up. I feel so bad for the kid whose parents read this and take it seriously.

Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia —

It’s about to hit the fan now. Wikipedia coverage should be timely and excellent.

Katrina Hurricane Images —

Great set of satelite and doppler images showing Katrina’s path. I’m looking at an image from 7:30 PM EDT at 7:50 PM EDT so the images seem like they’re being updated frequently.

Hurrican Katrina from Space —

Wow

Einstein and Godel on a walk —

Godel looks scrappy – I think he could kick Einstein’s ass if he got a sucker punch in to start…

Black people loot, white people find? —

Thanks Xeni… I’ve been meaning to write something to this effect as its so blatantly obviously.

Goodbye, New Orleans —

Saddest image I’ve seen a looooonng time…

New Orleans Mayor Issues Desperate SOS —

… raises an upside down flag as an SOS…. Completely out of control

"George Bush doesn't care about black people" —

The realness a major emergency creates is soooo refreshing.

Bush: Katrina "a mess," but Lott's house is gonna be AWESOME —

hahaha! Good one George! You’re soooo funny. Good one George.

Kid steals bus and drives to New Orleans to help evacuate people. —

A TRUE American.

Bush's use of firemen: props —

Sooooo wrong..

KATRINA TIMELINE —

very well done..

COOKING A POT OF DOG GUMBO —

I knew subscribing to the katrina flickr feed would pay off. This is the best picture I’ve seen yet!

Playmobil - Security Check Point —

Now kids can get in on all the fun of airport security!

Color Scheme Generator 2 —

This is probably the nicest color picker for choosing compliments off of a base color.

Pictures of Katrina Coming in —

Wow!

George Washington's Rules of Civility —

Nice.

ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS —

I don’t even know what to say. Robertson has left reality.

CSS Import™ —

this site rocks

Microsoft blames Sun —

haha. this cracked me up…

Whitedust: The Hunt Is On —

How to not be fucked with…

Former Head of U.S. Central Command Blasts Administration Over Iraq —

Insane: “And so it seems to me that the Defense Department not only needs to think about disengaging in Iraq, but to develop the contingency plans if you wind up with a full-scale insurgency in, say, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or if these people redoub

expressivity of "idiomatic C" —

Best Lambda Thread. Ever.

Einstein's Big Idea - E = mc2 Explained —

Audio excerpts from recent PBS/NOVA program celebrating “E = mc2”

Holy Squid! Photos Offer First Glimpse of Live Deep-Sea Giant —

Mmmm.. If only I had 1000 lemons.

JHymn —

Oh wow, I just ripped all my iTunes DRM’d songs down to unprotected AAC in about 10 minutes. These guys did a great job.

HP DRM Talk —

A sequel to Doctorow’s “Microsoft DRM Talk”

Curing Float Drops and Wraps —

I run into these problems on a daily basis…

Shining —

hahahahaaaa!

CSS: Specificity Wars Diagram —

CSS specifity chart based on Sith power levels — to good to be true.

Linux is Not Windows —

Lot’s of things I’ve wanted to say in here…

Bill Gates shouts at Sony CEO that his crappy DRM is less crappy —

I miss this Cory Doctorow: “…a stupid DRM standard for suck-ass next-gen DVDs, arguing that Microsoft’s sellout suck-ass next-gen HD-DVDs are better.”

Javascript Event compatibility tables —

Nice list of DOM events and the varying support of different browsers.

Bookmarklet Builder —

Useful…

Presentation Zen

When C is the Best (Tool for the Job) —

Perfect timing as I’m just about to write a little piece on how C is the only reason dynamic languages are viable…

The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid —

w00t! lesscode bringing in the tail….

The New McCarthy: Bill O'Reilly —

Aaron nails it…

What I Did this Summer —

Paul Graham reports on the first class of Summer Founders…

HTTP PUT and GET from emacs —

Yep :)

Ruby on Rails: FastCGI on OS X

The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) —

Ouch. I’m making 50% of these right now :/

VI reference —

Nice and compact…

Evolution in the bible, says Vatican —

Charles Darwin has a posse…. In Rome!

What Is TurboGears (Hint: Python-Based Framework for Rapid Web Development) —

Really cool to see TG and Kid getting some press on O'Reilly

Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes —

Doc just got upgraded to hero status…

Daily Kos: The new map —

w00t!

The Beauty of Simplicity —

On Google and other things..

del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! —

Whoa.. Yahoo! buys del.icio.us.

timbl's blog | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs —

Tim Berners-Lee’s blog. Finally!

IBM UDDI Business Registry: Shutdown FAQ —

The first of many such FAQs and announcements…

Shell Tips and Tricks —

… and not just the usual suspects either.

webkit2png —

Dumps graphic (PNG) representations of a webpage to disk using Apple Webkit. Similar to a screenshot but better because it can capture the entire height and width of a page even when they extend pass your screen size.

AJAX Activity indicators —

Animated GIFs designed to indicate your site is doing something…

rednecksurfing.wmv —

Dumbass..