• OpenWRT: Storing firewall rules – some interesting discussion on remote loading of rules
• WRT54G – SNMP – more on mapping and graphing data
• OpenWRT: Apps for monitoring traffic? – netsnmp package
• rrdtool tidbits – rrd scripts
• Network Traffic Monitoring with RRDTool – good RRDTool tutorial
• New OpenWRT statistics package
• OpenWRT: Instructions for building on OS X – rather involved. I’ve switched from running ewrt to OpenWRT for more flexibility
• Paul’s Boutique Samples and References List – a large, collaborative effort
• Jose Luis Visual Journal – nice photoblog
• If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? – by the numbers. via rc3

Wow, Aaron’s blogging about his Stanford experience. It wasn’t so long ago that he was a 13yo boy genius, contributing to RFCs, and now he’s off to college already. In light of the closing of “I Found Some of Your Life,” this shall have to be my daily source of vicarious thrills.

Goatse Rescue Floppy – no matter how you slice it, it’s just plain wrong.

It really warms the cockles of my heart that the Sifl and Olly clip I put online tops alltheweb’s video search for the search term “orgasm” (you can try it w/ the content filter off, it’s still #1). RAWK.

Wow, this Bushism’s DVD (trailer) is cheap enough to send in mailers as pre-election-day gifts. Aside: I’m still surprised that no one has mass mailed political DVDs. It worked for AOL right? Maybe they’d just get tossed. But not if, say, you included something that people wanted, I guess… (like the Paris Hilton video or something).

TiddlyWiki – an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It’s written in HTML and JavaScript to run on any browser without needing any ServerSide logic.

Looks interesting, but not entirely useful (use case: detachable interface that can sync once you get network connectivity again). Notes: install by doing a ‘save all’ from the browser. No permalinks (see Ahoy for some possible ideas). Doesn’t save anything (yet). All data is on one page. Neat animation

Ahh, looks like our public government is preemptively collecting True Names.

Guardian Unlimited: After Abu Ghraib – goddammit, and half the country still wants to re-elect Bush?

Alazawi says that US guards left her sitting on the chair overnight, and that the next day they took her to a room known by detainees as “the torturing place”. “The US officer told us: ‘If you don’t confess we will torture you. So you have to confess.’ My hands were handcuffed. They took off my boots and stood me in the mud with my face against the wall. I could hear women and men shouting and weeping. I recognised one of the cries as my brother Mu’taz. I wanted to see what was going on so I tried to move the cloth from my eyes. When I did, I fainted.”

We killed one of her brothers in custody, and tortured/confined her for eigth months. Her two surviving brothers remain in Abu Ghraib, all because an Iraqi informant’s report (part of a blackmail scheme). Words fail to describe what I”m feeling right now.

They hate us for our freedom, do they? I think not.

Metadata. Specifically the capture, auto-generation, visualization, and interaction of. Like for many others, it’s fair to say that my intellectual orbit has been firmly captured in its gravity for some time. I believe that I can say without much controversy, that at the current point in the information age, the control and processing of this n-order information has increasingly superceded the importance of the information itself (very pomo; but of course, the distinction between data and metadata itself becomes increasingly murky as one tries to pin down the referent).

I swung by the local Korean supermarket today and picked up a number of things I’ve never eaten before, many with labels that I can’t read. It occurred to me that might be an interesting project: to try to get through every single fit for human consumption item in a market. (Over the past year or so, I’ve been entirely too conservative, and also eaten out way too much. I’m trying to better take advantage of the bounty and variety that generations past couldn’t even fathom).

Another interesting project might be to document that said endeavor. Which of course, gets the wheels turning about the best way to enter, tag, organize, represent, and present this data. How flexibly and most easily allow these arbitrary pursuits to be dashed off? Obviously many individuals, groups, companies and research institutions are exploring different aspects and approaches to this.

Still, it’s sobering to think about how far we have to go in reducing the complexity of even the simplest tasks when you consider Jason’s description of his Movie Listing functionality, self-described as done fairly easily, but requiring the installation and set up of 4 plugins combined together (ExtraFields, Compare, MTSQL, and MTIfEmpty for those counting at home).

• How Dell got soul – interesting strategy+business piece. (see also Bnoopy)
• osx2x – uses supports VNC and X11. (could run Ultr@VNC on Windows)
• SynergyOSX – OS X GUI for Synergy. While the OS X Synergy client works fine, the server has a problem if you’re running multi-monitor on the mac (see my current desktop setup). I’d rather switch the server to the Mac because OS X already has an sshd installed and running, but, well, I’ll live
• An alternative method of saving QuickTime streams
• jedimike.net :: Tsk, tsk, tsk, Apple and Akamai – Or, How To Actually Download Apple-Hosted QuickTime Files (see also: debed perl script. Sometimes this doesn’t work. I recommend Ethereal)
• Billabong Odyssey – documentary made of insane XXL surf competition 75-footer caught on film (see also)
• Inside Firefox – Firefox development musings by Ben Goodger.
• Columbia University Computing History – A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University
• JPG Magazine – for people who love imagemaking without attitude. It’s about the kind of photography you get when you love the moment more than the camera. It’s for photographers who, like us, have found themselves online, sharing their work, and would like to see that work in print.