- Tavi Calendar – macro for doing calendar/event display for WikkiTikkiTavi
- Blog it Bookmarklet for Drupal – launches drupals bulky entry interface (see Drupal for Power Blogger) – sorta frustrating. Drupal has a lot of cool stuff and an architecture that makes a lot of sense to me, but the stuff I want to do would take almost as long to modify as to write a system from scratch
- Using Accesskeys – Is it worth it? – a pretty comprehensive examination of accesskey compatibility/support
- Blessing of the Non-Anti-Commons
- Airbag Industries – I can understand the reasoning, but it definitely a pita to lose one’s domain
Category: Legacy
CVS web tools:
- CVS Monitor – tracks and creates graphs for modules; RSS support
- CIA Open Source Notification System – 3rd party open-source project cvs tracking
- Chora CVS Viewer – is this the best web CVS interface?
simple assitance for code management: description, notes, fm ping/integration for releases?
- A Proposal of User Centric Profile Aggregation, Integration and Utilization
- Congrats!
- Thanks for the Memories – a Flash retrospective on Saddam Hussein, which includes a short history and also made some allegations with respects to the original Gulf War which seem to be… 100% true. Apparently, Saddam asked for approval and was given a green-light by the US to invade. Jeez, how many percent of the American public do you think knows about that? (f’in Bush’s)
Seymour Hersh gave a belated address at the University of Chicago last week. Brad DeLong has some scattered notes from Rick Pearlstein on the talk. Gripping stuff. I dropped a line to the UChicago contact, but was informed that Hersh requested that no public transcripts be made available.
(too bad, would love to hear all he said).
- Granted Sony’s new linux-based 3D map navigation is cool, but I’m not convince how useful it’d be in day to day life (vs having a more removed, maybe 3/4 view). Also, unless these things have real-time traffic data, I refuse to be impressed
- The Undead Zone – Clive Thompson writes about the uncanny valley and video games on Slate
- UThink: Blogs at the University Libraries – the University Libraries at UMN is using Movable Type to provide blogs for every student, faculty, and staff member
- Lots of good stuff at urlgreyhot (Drupal Usability):
To catch up on:
- The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents – read position papers, presentations; see also Hixie’s notes
- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group – so far most of the discussion seems to be on chrome (Web Forms 2.0) and not on piping. Also, I agree w/ ppk
- WHAT’s going on? – Simon’s summary
- Server Sent Events 1.0 – unified event model, good idea; based on dom events, probably not so good
Hey, Anil has made it to the top of the nigritude ultramarine pile. A little late for the iPod Mini, but, take that SEOs! Anil’s wrapup.
- BBC: Is the world’s oil running out fast?
- Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn’t Bind Bush – interesting discussion
The NYT articles says Ashcroft stated that “Bush ‘made no order that would require or direct the violation’ of either international treaties or domestic laws prohibiting torture.” However, POTUS’s lawyers say that torturing prisoners is not a violation of such laws. So, Ashcroft didn’t really say that Bush did not order torture.
- Bush to the US Constitution: Drop Dead
- Reflections on Witty: Analyzing the Attacker
- JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language
- Tom’s notes from NotCon
- Monolith – way cool, by the ever-prolific Jason Rohrer
Things get interesting when you apply Monolith to copyrighted files. For example, munging two copyrighted files will produce a completely new file that, in most cases, contains no information from either file. In other words, the resulting Mono file is not “owned” by the original copyright holders (if owned at all, it would be owned by the person who did the munging). Given that the Mono file can be combined with either of the original, copyrighted files to reconstruct the other copyrighted file, this lack of Mono ownership may be seem hard to believe.
Consider this simple fact: for a given Element file and any other file of the same length (call it fileA), it is possible to choose a Basis file that, when munged with the Element, will produce fileA as the resulting Mono file. Therefore, if a copyright holder claims that she owns the information in all Mono files that are munged from her work, she is also claiming copyright over all possible binary files that are the same length as her work. For example, suppose that fileA is an MP3 of a Beatles song, and the Element file is an MP3 of a Britney Spears song copyrighted by Jive Records. It is possible to find a Basis file that, when munged with the Spears song, will produce the Beatles song as the Mono file. Jive Records certainly cannot claim copyright over the Beatles song (which is copyrighted by Apple Records), nor can they claim copyright over any other Mono files munged from MP3s of their songs.
(every type of digital file is an arbitrary encoding however; it’s a mind-twister)
- Excerpts From “War Against War!” – fighting propaganda
- Eclipse RegEx Tester
- The Irresponsible Investor
Of the roughly $19 trillion in American investment capital, in other words, $17 trillion or so is invested with the implicit instruction: ”Just give me back as much money as possible. Gouge consumers, cheat employees, poison the environment, lie to the public markets — just do it all sufficiently artfully that it doesn’t dent my portfolio.” Then, when the market falls and one of the people on the receiving end of their beastly demands is caught behaving badly, investors collapse to the floor in disbelief and bay for their money back. It is at that moment — and not a minute before — that they discover the novel idea that businessmen in possession of other people’s capital should be held to the highest ethical standards.
Some travel this month and next. I went and read up on the TSA’s air travel guidelines (hey, clippers are ok, also, lighters and matches are ok (for carry-on, but not check-in) — interesting).
- June 19-23, Denver, JA-SIG Conference
- July 8-11, New York, HOPE 5
- July 13-15, San Fransisco, Advanced uPortal Training
- July 25-31, Portland, OSCON 2004
Orbitz had me filling about 3 screenfuls of crap and then after entering in my credit card number, gave me this message:
Because flight availability can change rapidly based on traveler demand, the flight you selected is no longer available. Please make another selection. (Message 150)