Now Corporations Claim The “Right To Lie” a well written article by Thom Harmann, author of Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft of human rights.

I’ve laid a lot of the groundwork for some a little photo experiment area. It’s sort of a continuation of one of my earlier photographic projects. Right now it’s pretty limited (only shuffling from a few hundred photos, and only has one format) but it should be expanding in the near future).

Pete’s Guide: ToolTip Torture Test

ImgSource reduction comparison – compares 17 image reduction algorithms, also timings

• Mozilla’s DOM Sample Project
• thefixor has css and dhtml links
• Position Is Everything – part of the CSS webring – I see a bunch of css-d regulars

Good Lord, this took me forever to find again. I though I’d blogged this a long time ago, but was unable to find it. So, more keywords (yes, how primitive): Mozilla DHTML DOM window properties demo test page

• MSIE6 Doctor Unclear’s window properties, methods, events page
• NS6 (Mozilla) Doctor Unclear’s window properties, methods, events page

There are a bunch of other tests in the directory listing as well.

I spent the afternoon writing a simple file processing Perl-script, which brought two things to my attention: 1) my Perl is rusty and 2) the online Perl documentation sucks. PHP’s documentation blows away perldoc when you’re looking for function references or peculiarities. I will acknowledge that the CPAN and PEAR documentation both consistantly suck equally.

EXIF parsing:

• jhead – Exif Jpeg camera setting parser and thumbnail remover
• libexif – EXIF Tag Parsing Library
• Exif-Tools
• MetaCam
• makethumbs

I’d never even heard of, much less seen anyone use the Windows Script Encoding before Andy sent me a link to a site that had an interesting JS effect (IE only). It’s actually by Kokogiak. I actually think I hit that site a long time ago, but didn’t notice it either because it wasn’t there or I don’t browse w/ IE.

A quick google search led to an article describing the Windows Secript Encoder algorithm, and how relatively trivial it is to break (here’s MSDN’s description of Using Script Encoder). Two decoders: Windows Script Decoder (in C), and in one in Perl, and in Javascript, part of an apparently long since abandoned JS scripting API.

Related:

• Anti-Tagslock
• More translators and converters at unfiction.com
• Hmm, a freeware Obfuscator called JAMMER
• iWeb Toolkit has a number of encoders (mislabeled as encrypters)

Along the way to posting this, I found a few interested related links, one On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs, and a second, a page of Obfuscated-HTML De-obfuscation Tools, which looks like it has some very useful tools.

I was taking a look at some small form factor pc’s, and found a link to mini-itx.com. There are some great projects featured heare, including an amazing tube radio conversion, and some fun ones like the NESPC and the E.T.PC.

Even more interesting than the mini-pc’s are the micro-pc’s, like the Cappuccino PCs (relabeled Jadetecs it looks like) or Maxan systems. Pretty neat stuff.

Would you look at that, William Gibson is going to have a blog soon. I wonder if he’ll update it as often as Neil Gaiman and his journal?

I just re-read neuromance about a month ago (my friend was taking a sci-fi english lit class and I decided to drop in). It really stands the test of time, and is perhaps even more impressive looking back at it now. It’s also always fun reading about fencing 4MB of RAM.

Hmm, interesting. New Photoshop, Indesign, After Effects, and Indesign by the end of the year according to Think Secret.