• The year to fear for Taiwan: 2006 – outline of decapitation attack strategy in Chinese invasion of Taiwan (discussion @ mefi)
• Richard Clarke on Meet the Press – Lisa put up a full capture. Worth watching

• XUL vs FLEX vs XAML
• Flex in Relation to DHTML, XUL, SVG, JavaServer Faces, and Flash MX
• Flex Samples Explorer – pretty sweet (docs)
• Overview – Macromedia Flex
• Macromedia Flex 1.0 Released – oh wait, $12K/server license? hmm… and no free developer license? Laszlo at least gets that

• Re: What are the goals of Mozilla.org? [LONG; spin off new threads by topic] – Brendan Eich contributes (can FOSS/Open Standards compete against Flex? — well, until XAML crushes it) — complete thread
• GUIdebook – Graphical User Interface gallery, history of GUIs
• High Accessibility, High Design
• Card sorting: a definitive guide
• Dithered.com Javascript Library – still useful xDOM extensions
• ATM Contingency Design – good discussion
• SpaceTree – a novel node-link tree browser
• Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies
• Piccolo – a Java 2 toolkit that supports the development of 2D structured graphics programs in general, and Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) in particular (see How does Piccolo differ from Jazz
• LifeLines for Visualizing Patient Records
• Hierarchical Clustering Explorer – for Multidimensional Clustering and Outlier Detection (wow the UMD HCIL kicks ass)
• Re:Pfffft! AOL had 40GB e-mail storage…in 1994!
• Super-Condensed Political Summary of Taiwan.
• Gmail Update – Aaron makes a great point. Now is there a way (or a need) for a DHTML WebApp to support web conventions? (see also Mark’s Gmail accessibility analysis)
• God Bless America
• Hatena::Antenna – I wish I could read Japanese; what does this site do?
• Double-checked locking: Clever, but broken – getting back into the hardcore programming groove
• WebCamXtra / Myron – computer vision and motion tracking for Processing, Java, and Director

• SMTP Auth/SMTP over SSL – Debian Woody 3.0
• postfix vmail admin – for setting up Postfix + Courier-IMAP and virtual hosts
• Mutt and IMAP
• VALIANT DAYS, VALIANT NIGHTS – A LOOK BACK AT THE RISE AND FALL OF VALIANT

Put some SXSW 2004 photos online finally.

• Labels seek end to 99c music per song download – Andrew Orlowski makes some good points
• Claim vs. Fact: Condoleezza Rice’s Opening Statement
• X1 – PC software that uses an advanced indexing process that lets you find any word in any email message or file on your computer (compare to ZOË
• How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn
• Free Play – The politics of the video game
• Contextual Menu Workshop – a free framework for creating Contextual Menu plugins for Mac OS X
• WebDesktop – hmm, not quick Active Desktop for OS X…

I bought a package of sliced mushrooms on a lark a couple months ago while doing some grocery shopping with a friend, and since then I’ve taken to snacking on them. A six ounce package is less than 50 calories and has a decent amount of B complexes and other such not-bad-for-you things. Mmmm, umami.

• floAt’s Mobile Agent – very nice looking Windows/Sony Ericsson phone syncing tool

• Graphics from the command line, More graphics from the command line, and Examples of ImageMagick Usage for ImageMagick refererence
• juggle – open source tool to create photomosaics; see also png2html (self-portrait)