• Chinese Characters and Culture – it took me a second to realize the ‘Zhongwen’ romanization.
  

  Zhongwen.com
  contains the complete text of Amazon’s
  
  best selling, best reviewed
  Chinese-English
  dictionary,
  : Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary,
  which uses the new (zipu) system of character trees.
  Distributed exclusively by Far Eastern Publications at Yale
  and available from
  Amazon.com.

Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music hits v2.0. Pretty hot.

• Daniel Hsia’s shorts – some clever 10s films (oh, and “How To Do The Asian Squat“, which is quite funny)
• Bernard Chang’s short films – he used to draw Valiant comics!
• Nimpsy – Buster Slims
• Ruben Fleischer
• BEAM.TV: Radiohead – Go To Sleep

He walked the line that Bush does not – comparing and contrasting Johnny Cash’s Christianity vs Dubya’s.

Suzanne Fields wants us to think that George W. Bush is just like Johnny Cash, but the difference between the two is as great as the difference between pride and humility, between white and black.

Syncato is quite interesting, and in many ways reflects some of my thoughts on using and re-using XML fragments.

• Questions: (how) does Syncato take XML (tree-based) and allow graph-like representation
• Sam Ruby’s Xpath enabled Query, expanding on javaslash’s xpath and blojsom querying

Bionic Office – Joel Splosky talks about designing spaces for maximizing programmer productivity – I know that I could be at least 5x more productive in a better environment.

• OS X and ipfw Firewall Protection
• OS X Firewall Setup
• Firewall and NAT startup script for OS X Server
• Firewalk X
• Turn off the Microsoft Office “anti-piracy” feature that causes a security vulnerability
• OS X: What Time Is It?
• StartupItems
• HOWTO: Running as an OS X StartupItem
• Using Startup Items in Mac OS X

Celebrity Turing Test – In which a rock star visits his own forum, but neglects to bring a valid I.D.

aptitude – looks better than dselect; also, apparently has minesweeper built-in

Looks like Soekris et al have some new high-power competition w/ the new Nano-ITX boards if the price is decent…