The Economist explains Einstein’s contributions to the science world.
Some nice arguments from Doctorow on why consumer electronics device reviewers need to include information on DRM restrictions.
Staples without staples… Brilliant!
Info on a few Treo 650 hacks..
Fortune looks at the impact of weblog’s on business.
Export list of songs from iTunes, upload here, drag images to iTunes. Nice.
A visual look at where your tax dollars go. (hint: DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE)
hahah ahahahah ahahah ahahaa! BBbwwwwhhahahahaaa! ha. hhhaaa. huuh…. ohhhhhh..
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 (PO narv) n. [acronym] A project of no apparent redeeming value. Hence, Ponarvian: one who pursues such projects.
At least we got a cool flag out of the ordeal..
Neil Stephenson’s “In the Beginning was the Command Line” updated and annotated by Some Guy.
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!
Information on quirks vs. strict mode for HTML/CSS rendering: how to trigger, what DOCTYPEs do what, etc.
Second grader is told she’s not allowed to sketch at museum because the works are protected by copyright.
Find out and track what’s going on in congress. We need more tools like this.
Wired’s Katie Dean on the recent Creative Communist fiasco.
Dan Gillmor comments on Gates’ creative communist statements..
Howard Stern and journalists throw some jabs at Google.
I would love to read this but I’m too busy doing work. Let me know if it’s interesting. Work, work, work! ;)
A nice rant against the Movie Picture Association’s recent inclusion of scary anti-piracy propoganda in DVD and cinema reels.
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!
One of the many interesting anecdotes waiting for you in Neil Stephenson’s “In The Beginning Was The Command Line”
Ted Leung generalizes his involvement w/ free and open source software as being a simple contribution to the societal commons. Interesting viewpoint.
$12,000 grants for people who want to take on building community based micro-local news projects.
They have more in common than I thought.
Paul James wrote this nice technical summary on REST and competing technologies back in September 2004 and I missed it somehow.
On changing from GPL to MIT, going after web-framework support, and simplifying as much as possible.
Ross Burton builds the first real-world application using Kid Templates.
Hooking a mouse up to the Etch A Sketch.. Impressive!
Was this a typo or something?
Oh, this is big. $500 Mac Mini.
Apple’s Mac Mini product page.
Senator Hatch to chair a new subcommitte on Intellectual Property.
Some discussion on turning the new Mac Mini into a Media PC for the living room.
“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.”
A look at the past, present, and possible future of GNOME culture.
Putting the Sans in Comic Sans - The source for anti-comic sans propoganda.
Why I prefer ElementTree to “standard” DOM APIs and why it’s sometimes better than libxml2.
Bringing gems from the del.icio.us mailing list to the masses.
Doesn’t this qualify as a genetic algorithm?
I need to read this a couple times when I get some times..
This could be really cool.
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.
Gates backpetals on the previous “creative communist” remarks and talks about DRM as a speedbump… caugh strawman caugh
del.icio.us style tags are taking over the world.
Check out the new Star War’s themed Mr. Potatohead lineup.
You will now need to go to jail to cite a report released by CBS. Yet another unfair and unintended use of the DMCA.
Adam Bosworth on the Gillmor Gang.
A nice and simple theme for GTK2/GNOME desktop environments (click thumbnail image to see larger screenshot).
Photo management software, free from Google. Find, edit, share photos.
Looks like a nice little upgrade..
Thanks Globe and Mail!
“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.”
9 hours under the needle. hardcore.
AAaahhhhhhhh! Stop! Make it stop!
I almost puked when I read this. I hope there’s just been a mix up or something.
Coverage of an odd mailing list thread suggesting that IBM is gearing up to slap an F/OSS license on their Java compiler and runtime.
speachless..
Truly odd. What’s going on here?
I’ve been waiting for this one. Dan talks about blogs and his new startup, Grassroots Media, Inc.
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.
An Iraqi chick blogger writing about events in Iraq from Iraq.
Some interesting background on the “Baghdad Burning” blog.
If it is ever discovered, we would have known about it a long time ago.
Python’s attributes are not Java’s getters/setters and why that’s a good thing.
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.”
“Is it me, or is Jenna Bush holding up the sign of Satan next to her father’s face?”
Awesome looking grassroots blog-based initiative to respond to the dismantling of social security by the Bush administration and republican congress..
“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.
The first time I’ve heard a major player admit that DRM is harmful.
Understand how Social Security works and why Bush is saying there’s a “crisis”.
Finally got a chance to read through this massive piece. It’s worth the time if you have it.
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?’ ”
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.
Oh, this is brilliant. Look at the bright side, Mark, at least it’s horribly useless in a way that’s interoperable!
Video on the web stick sucks.
What does Ruby on Rails have that we don’t and why?
Perfect science experiment for the kids.
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.
Blake Ross talks about what drove every Firefox design decision: simplicity.
bout time..
This is almost too painful to watch.
Hmmm.. Maybe the confirmed “three letter part” referred to: “S” “U” “N”?
Feature length lecture by Cory Doctorow on copyright, DRM, and other digital rights issues. CC share-alike licensed.
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..
Kid 0.5 announcement with a couple of page fulls of example usage.
Demo of 100% free Java/Eclipse natively compiled with gcj. This is slated for Fedora Core 4.
Full video library of PBS’ Frontline. I’ve never heard of Frontline but they’ve covered some interesting topics. All available through the web.
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.
Excellent O’Reilly article describing Apple’s DRM apparatus in detail and pointers to tools for curing your crippled music..
Wow! You mean the political figures talk to the people in this backward country? That’s never going to work!
I guess that sums it up pretty well.. Gah! sucks…
What the War In Iraq is really about.
Entire subversion book on one page.
Nice look at moving to subversion. Go into migrating from CVS, subversion idioms, gotchas, etc.
Title says it all..
Implementations in lots of different languages, too. Nice.
Cluetrain Manifesto: “This is why we hate you.” Hughtrain Manifesto: “This is how we’re going to fuck you up.”
Samba eating Microsoft’s lunch. I smell a patent infingement case…
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…
Generates non-expiring links to New York Times content. Bookmarklet included.
Block off a half-an-hour for this…
On using the web to co-ordinate massive grass-roots efforts quickly.
Community-contributed distributed recipe thing.
Next time someone asks you “why?” tell them you’re all about putting more cops on the street.. That doesn’t have value?
Rumy won’t be visiting germany any time soon..
Dijkstra is a complete badass.
Ahhh, shucks..
All yo resizzle is shizzilated and shizzle, nizzle..
Nice look at how companies are releasing new products under F/OSS licenses but missing much of the spirit.
Quick guide to loading a new project into subversion.
Best practices for creating and managing an internal Wiki in a large company.
Track whether your MP is working for you in the UK Parliament.. Really cool looking piece of civic software.
“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
The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America
The whole PDF requirement at ChangeThis sucks but this looks like a good read anyway..
Google for president!
Really interesting concept. Tags can be combined to form “tagwebs”
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.
New York Times covers the Wikinews project.
“Save Money, Save Time, Save Your Ass”
Rocky warm-up spoof. This guy is my hero.
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.
That about nails it.
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”
That’s a big prediction for having a “bad smell” but whatever…
Vonage hacking..
Complexity is kryptonite to interoperability. It’s that simple.
del.icio.us/popular with nifty sparkline graphs for tracking popularity over time (via Simon Willison)
David Hansson (of Ruby on Rails fame) on why codeless template languages don’t work.
HIV as a possible cure for cancer?
More reports of shrinking WS-* mindshare and cries for tools for building REST based architecture.
“Someone who points out a problem early is a troublemaker; someone who fixes a problem at the last minute is a hero.”
“She just hit em in the head with a bible!!”
A short story by Corey Doctorow.
Stallman cutting through the bullshit.
Sam Ruby with one of the better write-ups on the impact of the SHA-1 break. Short and accurate.
An implementation of John Gruber’s markdown text to XHTML processor in Python.
Goddam this is an awesome essay on how bad software is written..
Introduction to being a complete bad-ass.
The web as currently imagined by the tech. industry is quite different from the web that actually exists.
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.
A theory on why big vendors, big analyst houses, and the tech press want to sell you the worst possible solutions to your problems.
Kick-ass flash game. Level 23 is impossible.
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).
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.
Carlos Perez with a nice wrap up of recent WS-* vs. REST discussion around the blogosphere.
BBC covers the UK civic software movement.
Right on. All roads lead to Lisp.
“… the opposite of fear may be curiosity.”
Just keep talking.
Information on setting up emacs for (X)HTML web development including nxml-mode, rng-validate-mode, etc.
When did I die and how the hell did I end up in heaven? Crazy!
From Oct 23, 2000 issue of the German language magazine c’t
This guy is live-blogging the broadcast flag hearings. Looks like the good guys did pretty good in oral arguments.
Stop it, I’m serious.
The AP just put out some RSS feeds. ‘bout time, eh?
“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.”
Mark Cuban on why the FCC should tell CBS (and the MPAA) to go screw themselves.
For christ sakes, man! I hope Hani doesn’t ever see this…
Sorry, I can’t stop linking to this guy…
I humbly retract my previous negative statements about IBM.
Wherein we avoid a Python vs. Ruby flamewar by changing the subject to Object vs. RDMS persistence.
Another reason to hate JBoss. :)
Big list of sites that provide CC licensed CSS layouts and tools for generating layouts.
wtf: “Visual Studio lead program manager Jason Weber to show how to build extensions for Microsoft’s IDE.”
Praise for Yahoo! as they launch an initial set of web style APIs.
Some thoughts on AMQ, the latest solution to all your problems.
Has this been entered into the smithsonian yet?
Oh wow. This is cool.
Weblog for watching and reporting shady Gartner activity. Those guys are crooked as a barrell of snakes if you ask me.
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.
Doctorow explains that the way to be successful in a distributed culture is to exploit long-tailisms like word of mouth…
This is just horrible Dave. Please, stop.. Stop… huuuurrting us.
I tried to do this for two months straight in college but it never worked..
Blake Ross tearing into Netscape/AOL on Netscape 8. Can’t wait for part 2.
How to not understand the value of a web browser.
Template Inheritence, Match Templates (kind of like XSLT’s), cElementTree support, a refined Python API, documentation…
The loyal opposition is growing in weird ways.
Need more stuff like this to keep the RIAA/MPAA lunies from illegalizing our technology…
Nice little “People who make up new rules continue to be in very short supply.”
More people coming over to the loyal opposition…
An Udell screencast on the future of the blogosphere. del.icio.us as a shared brain.. all great stuff. watch it.
Simon Willison showed me this scan of a Newspaper from April 14, 1865. It looks like a blog.
On the growing importance of del.icio.us.
Sam Ruby trying to put a definition to the word “simple”. Seriously, it’s not as easy to define as you think.
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…
that’s what i’m saying, bro..
Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career
$50 fines for anyone who displays his or her… wait for it… no. now.. wait for it…. UNDERPANTS! AHHHHHHH!
How to properly use body language to convey your negative feelings at the office…
Bill de hÓra describes the major flaw in high level languages like Python..
Paul Prescod gives some background and opinion on the REST/SOAP debate.
It has nothing to do with the web.
Doctorow’s Web 2.0 presentation on IT Conversations.
How programs adhere to the basic laws of Darwinian evolution.. Seems to gel with everything I’ve learned.
Jon Udell runs through some of the potential of del.icio.us in a screencast. rockin…
Tim Bray on the dynamic language push at Sun.
More dynamic language play on the Java front.
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…
Interesting prediction market that uses buzz around different technologies. I split my starting cash between REST, delicious, and Python.
The line forms to the left people..
Google reflects on some of the decisions made for the AdWords API.
What I think success means with regards to “Web Services”.
Superb rant against Sun’s licensing tactics and especially Gosling’s cluelessness wrt what’s important in a license.
Awesome look at how big music companies DON’T GET IT! Ugghh. This stuff drives me crazy.
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.
holy shit
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.
Udell wishes REST and WS-* could get along… The REST people did too - two or three years ago (e.g. Prescod, Baker).
That’s messed up.
There’s a ton of stuff in here.
Just for fun :)
Pretty reusable implementation of the Chain Of Responsibility pattern in Python. Very clean.
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.
Make firefox act like Emacs. How cool is that?
Here they come…
IronPython vs. JPython: who cares?
The RIAA/MPA lawyer is a complete tool, yo…
Joshua gets some funding for del.icio.us so that he can work it full time. Congrats!
Very organized and thorough notes from PyCon.
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,
Panel discusses the Supreme Court ruling in the MGM vs. Grokster case.
Clay Shirky on how he doesn’t have access to his own copyrighted works.
Oh wow, this is huge - the hard evidence we’ve been waiting for…
HARDYFUCKINGHARHAR! Laugh it up you dumb shits. This might have been funny were Ruby and PHP not eating your lunch.
How complexity killed the best bug ever created in the whole world.
Brazil gets it. They could be the international version of Silicon Valley in the next five years…
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.
Find locally owned alternatives to Starbucks in your neighborhood.
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)
Jim Hugunin announces Microsoft’s first official release of IronPython. Let’s be absolutely clear: Microsoft just released a respected free software project.
Mark Cuban gets it.
I’m sure I always get these wrong and likely always will.
One down, two to go…
That’s because they don’t have shithead analyst speculation driving feature development…
Need to move away from history | grep -i
A non-deterministic market index for programming languages. Pretty cool, really - and somewhat surprising I guess.
Holy shit!
Hell yea..
Everything has something in common on the blogosphere.
Talks about Blink and other cool stuff as usual.
Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides. Thanks, Sam.
Who Owns Your Browser revisited.
Why Java developers should buy “Practical Common Lisp”.
A great snap of Seth Vidal, quite possibly the best project leader I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.
A debunking and satirical look at the collected works of Paul Graham.
“System and method for XML parsing” - BEA Systems, Inc.
and under a GPL compatible license.
I didn’t know SOAP/WS systems were so capable. Astounding!
Mark at BoingBoing with a bunch of links to all kinds of opinion on peak oil.
Hi, we’re Forrester Research, a division of Microsoft. – I really didn’t expect Firefox to get this much FUD thrown at it.
And the hits just keep on comin’ - IT Conversations / Tech Nation has an interview with the author of a Godel biography.
The beauty of science ladies and gentlemen.
How cool is that?
Old Testament meets Lego - brilliant!
Haha! SCO is out of control.
Oh wow - this is the definitive work thus far I guess.
Aaron Swartz writes a novella about his startup interview w/ Paul Graham et al. I’m so jealous!
Koranteng ponders how it is possible for REST based systems to kick so much ass.
“… a collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker.”
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.
I wish I could buy Jon Udell; I’d keep him in my cubical to impress my friends.
New law puts your ass in jail for 3 years for leaking a pre-release movie.
Awww shucks, Mr. O’Grady, I’m flattered!
“So, fuck it. I quit.” - David Weinberger on leaving MSNBC because they’re clueless.
I’m sooo screwed.
It’s a shame Java doesn’t have higher order functions and it’s a good thing Java doesn’t higher order functions.
And why we need more three-legged stools.
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.
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.
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”
that’s some funny shit…
About time someone noticed.
More great stuff from IT Conversations. This time a look at Von Neuman’s impact on math, science, computing, etc.
Husband has wife stoned and her adulterer whipped 100 times and released.
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…
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.
You’ll have to excuse my ego linking but having Udell point to you is like have Carson ask you onto the Tonight Show.
This is too cool.
“If you cannot think of 3 good reasons why dynamically typed programming languages have a role to play in this universe, you don’t want the job.”
How cool is this?
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.
Will be useful if amazon ever decides to ship my stuff.
Embracing brokeness.
For a little while anyway.
