0xDECAFBAD - Tag: links

Pulling the Linkmobile back into the garage

2006-02-09T15:49:42+00:00

As a follow-up to Tuesday's post, I've disabled the nightly link post as of now and turned off the links category on the main page template.

I got a surprising amount of good and friendly feedback on the change in comments, IMs, and emails. And, the balance to me sounds like there are people who sorta liked the change and a lot of people just plain turned off by it—the nays were louder than the yeas. I was on the fence, leaning toward dislike, so down go the links.

I'd still like to reintegrate my link posting output on del.icio.us into this site in some other fashion soon, because that's where the bulk of my hasty blogging happens these days. In the course of writing this new book, I've got a panoply of other options available from sidebars to AJAX-powered geegaws. I've also considered pulling FeedMagick into the mix to offer a "build your own" remixed feed option, but I've not yet had the ambition to deliver on that.

So sorry link fans, it's back to the status quo for me, for now.

links for 2006-02-09

2006-02-09T05:22:38+00:00

365 tomorrows - Seeing is Believing

"He could barely hear them over the colors and shapes of the room. "...a new vision thanks to sight based on""

(tags: scifi writing fiction)
Lappy 486 - Strong Bad Email #143

It's Strong Bad's intro to technology!

(tags: funny flash cartoons)
Lappy 486 - Strong Bad Email #144

Wherein Strong Bad narrates every day lives as movies

(tags: flash funny cartoons)
Clearbits - SOME RANDOM DUDE

"Clearbits is a small spinoff of the Bitcons icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing."

(tags: webdev icons images)
futurilla: Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us

"JS is talking about what they've learned in building del.icio.us"

(tags: delicious)
Raw - del.icio.us Reading Lists

"Ok, a quick way of collecting a list of resources is to use del.cio.us through its bookmarklet. So I'll find a few feeds (the feeds, not the blogs) and tag them "readinglist"."

(tags: opml delicious readinglists rss xsl xml)
Tim Anderson's ITWriting - SOAP is insane, says Del.icio.us founder

"One fun remark: avoid using "SOAP, Corba or something insane" for your API - del.icio.us doesn't even use REST, Schachter said, but rather POX - plain old XML. His logic is that simple APIs are available to a larger subset of developers - why limit your

(tags: webservices delicious soap rest pox)
Recap: Becoming an Email Ninja | 43 Folders

"...one of the issues that consistently draws the most folks here is anything that helps them deal with email."

(tags: email productivity gtd)
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org

"Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing."

(tags: lifehack writing tips howto)
Anne 2.0: Churning and Burning

"We need new paradigms for following what's happening in the blogosphere."

(tags: metablogging attention)
Scripting for the Semantic Web SFSW2006

"The workshop aims to bring together developers of the RDF base infrastructure for scripting languages with practitioners building applications using these languages."

(tags: scripting programminf semweb rdf)
The Scientific Activist: Reporting from the Crossroads of Science and Politics: BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University

"Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not

(tags: politics bush science nasa morons)
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA - New York Times

"George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agenc

(tags: nasa science bush politics)
Penny Arcade! - The Sporting Life

"I heard the refs were paid off by ... Gay Democrats? I don't know. Who do we not like?"

(tags: sports football comics gaming)
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi - Blog Archive JSON is so hot right now!

"Awhile ago it dawned on me that JSON bears more than a passing resemblance to old-school NeXT plists, and that it would be pretty natural to write an NSDictionary category that could deserialize a JSON string into a Cocoa object graph."

(tags: cocoa json webdev mac apple next)
blakeseely.com - Blog » Blog Archive » +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithJSONString:]

"...since JSON is basically a series of key-value pairs, it would be a good match for NSDictionary - and it should be easy to create a dictionary out of a JSON string."

(tags: cocoa objc mac osx json apple webdev)
CocoaJSON

"Blake Seely released some code yesterday to convert Cocoa datatypes to JSON. I've had similar code that Ive been meaning to put online for a while now. So now the world has gone from zero to two Cocoa code-bases to read/write JSON."

(tags: cocoa apple objc programming webdev osx)
Cocoa, JSON & Turbogears

"This post discusses how to use Cocoa to communicate with Turbogears powered web-applications."

(tags: python objc cocoa mac osx apple programming webdev)
Phil Windley's Technometria | Using Google's Universal Authentication Engine

"With no fanfare at all, Google has created a universal login for anyone who wants to use it."

(tags: google gtalk jabber webdev programming security)
Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » Working on the book: lessons learned so far

"At this point, I can’t even imagine what life would be like if I didn’t spend every weekend doing research and writing. I mean, I do something book-related almost every day, so it’s completely sewn into the fabric of my life."

(tags: writing books)
The Cult of Mac Blog

"Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset."

(tags: woz apple funny)
Wired News: Forget Jobs, Let's Worship Woz

"this week I figured I'd balance things out by talking about someone I admire greatly: Steve Wozniak."

(tags: apple wozniak woz)

links for 2006-02-08

2006-02-08T05:22:59+00:00

Lorelle on WordPress - More Must-Have Bookmarklets Than You Can Swing a Browser At

"I thought I'd do you better and offer you more must-have javascript bookmarklets than you can swing a bookmarklet at - if you could swing a bookmarklet. Can you?"

(tags: javascript bookmarklets)
Bad Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Outrage at attacks on NASA science

"NASA is not in the business of teaching religion. They should be teaching science, and the Big Bang is definitely science."

(tags: astronomy nasa religion bush politics)
Thoughtless for the Day: She Blinded Me with Acid

"This is why, if you think about it, celebrating Darwin Day is more than just a good idea: it's your patriotic duty."

(tags: darwin science religion)
Achewood - February 7, 2006

"I ain't need no Dell Inspiron to bust a man down on into his component pieces."

(tags: achewood comics funny)
RSS: Guidelines for reading lists

"A few ideas as they occur about the developing art of reading lists."

(tags: opml readinglists newsriver)
OPod

"The OPML-Pod is an AJAX OPML and RSS viewer widget that you can embed in any web page you like."

(tags: opml rss javascript webdev)
Russell Beattie Notebook - No Comments Pushback

"Anyways, as I've repeated from the very beginning in response to all sorts of criticism over the years, I will publish this weblog how I want, about what I want and you read if you want. Thats it, very simple."

(tags: metablogging)
Amy's OPML blog: Tuesday, February 07, 2006

"It's going to give people a bad impression of reading lists if they try the concept and end up feeling inundated."

(tags: readinglists opml rss aggregators)
LEGO Technic Difference Engine

"I set out to build a working Difference Engine using LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits."

(tags: lego compsci hacks hardware)
Boing Boing: Legend of Zelda pixelblocks

"Nintendo has released a commemorative set of Legend of Zelda pixelblocks to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary."

(tags: gaming nes nintendo zelda nifty)
Boing Boing: Halliburton to build "immigration detention centers" in US

"Call me paranoid, but seeing "Halliburton," "Homeland Security," and "detention centers" in the same article doesn't make me feel safe at all."

(tags: politics bush war halliburton scary)
Wired News: Podfading Takes Its Toll

Maybe it's better to expect podcasts to be less of a regular thing like radio, more like a series of limited runs.

(tags: podcasting)
Paolo Valdemarin Weblog - My ideal RSS reader

"My problem is that I'm not getting what I would really like from any of the available readers."

(tags: rss hackingfeeds aggregators)
Raw - Ideal RSS Readers

"I'm becoming increasingly convinced that extending (human-readable) content-oriented approach is the quickest path to a more generalised data-oriented (i.e. Semantic) web."

(tags: rss hackingfeeds aggregators)
WP lightbox JS WordPress plugin

"WP lightbox JS is a WordPress plugin that enable you to use lightbox JS script to overlay images on the current page."

(tags: metablogging webdev ajax)
ESBN - Electronic Standard Book Number

Heard about this on the TWiT podcast from Leo. Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this what URLs and URIs are for?

(tags: webdev publishing)

links for 2006-02-07

2006-02-07T05:21:22+00:00

Buddy's Pizza - Voted Detroit's #1 Square Deep Dish Pizza

Good pizza and chicken wings!

(tags: pizza warren michigan geotagged geo:lat=42.521146 geo:long=-83.026619 food)
herrmann2.c

It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! It's source code! It's a stereogram! (Not a schooner)

(tags: stereogram sourcecode programming)
CBBC Newsround | Animals | Herman could be 'biggest bunny'

"The mighty bunny weighs a massive 7.7kg, and his ears are a lengthy 21cm - almost as long as most pet rabbits are tall. And he is almost 1m tall."

(tags: big bunnies rabbits animals nifty)
OPML Editor support:

"Here are two new OPML Editor apps, one for Mac, one for Windows."

(tags: opml usertalk frontier)
Tumultuous Porter (Goat Scrotum Ale)

"This recipe is for a dark, spicy porter ale."

(tags: beer goats)
The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas - Sometimes, the commercials are worth it

"There was a MacGyver MasterCard commercial on the Super Bowl right now."

(tags: superbowl commercials advertising macgyver)
IFILM - TV Clips: Mastercard: MacGyver -

"MacGyver is back and armed with an air freshener, a tube sock, paper clips, rubber bands and a few other odds and ends." Pretty nifty, this.

(tags: video superbowl advertising commercials nifty)
J. Alexander's

(tags: food troy michigan restaurants geotagged geo:lat=42.561259 geo:long=-83.185128)
nuxx.net - Honda Music Link iPod Adapter Review

"Unfortunately, my good experiences with the Honda Music Link iPod Adapter ended here."

(tags: honda music ipod automotive cars)
MakeZine.com: iSight Tripod Mount

"by Steve Vigneau"

(tags: friends isight apple make via:c0nsumer)
QDB: Quote #610717

"... what do you think the game would be called if mario had a gun? ... Metroid."

(tags: irc quotes funny gaming nintendo mario metroid)
Russell Beattie Notebook » Back to Old School Blogging

"I subscribe to several Ego feeds from Technorati, Google, IceRocket, etc. so I should see the response if it’s out there. See you in the blogosphere!"

(tags: metablogging)
How to Quickly Get an iTunes Podcast URL - dekstop weblog

"iTunes already has OPML export."

(tags: itunes opml podcasts apple podcasting)
Workbench: Using the Feed Validator on RSS

"Eric Lunt and I made an RSS Advisory Board proposal today to officially recommend and use the Feed Validator."

(tags: rss hackingfeed aggregators syndication)
The Straight Dope: In Nintendo's "Duck Hunt," how does the TV know when you've hit a duck?

"But really the TV is shooting the gun."

(tags: nintendo hardware gaming)
bnode - semantic weblog / JSONC, JSONI, JSONP: Creating tailored JSON from SPARQL query results

"My current sparqlet (SPARQL-driven portlet) implementations mostly use queries generated server-side, the results are returned as application-specific JavaScript."

(tags: json rdf)
Incantis ECM Blog: LIFE CACHING - LIFE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

"The LIFE CACHING trend is approaching mainstream appeal: every day brings consumers even more powerful cameraphones, even bigger memory cards, and even more streamlined do-it-yourself or serviced story-telling tools."

(tags: metablogging)

Archived Comments

Sean Conner
2006-02-07T22:29:49

Was there a time when Buddy's wasn't voted the best deep pan pizza? I remember they were considered the best deep pan pizza in the Detroit area in the mid-80s.

Sigh … if only I didn't live 1200 miles away. I really miss Buddy's pizza.

links for 2006-02-06

2006-02-06T05:26:53+00:00

TRAXMOD SD Card MOD Player

"The current dsPIC based prototype can play 4 channel MOD music files at 24KHz 9 bit, stereo, using a dsPIC30F4013 and SD Card." Wow, where were these back when I was composing on my Amiga? :)

(tags: mods music nifty gadgets hacks hardware)
Micro Persuasion: Bye Bye Email Marketing, Hello RSS

"That's all folks. The door has officially closed on email marketing. Maybe this will drive more companies to start up opt-in RSS feeds and blogs that facilitate dialogue."

(tags: marketing rss hackingfeeds email spam)
Jeff Barr’s Blog » A Few Words on Technology Evangelism

"I hope that is it clear from what I have written that technology evangelism is a whole lot of fun." This does sound like a fun job, though I wonder if I could be happy evangelizing just one technology.

(tags: amazon technology evangelism webservices)
google-snack-room.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x768 pixels) - Scaled (82%)

This makes me want to work at Google :)

(tags: google snacks)
haircut.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x375 pixels)

Awesome haircut that looks like a baseball hat with a brim

(tags: haircut images)
Mummert Sign Co. - Steaming Hot Coffee - 18" x 24" rusted metal sign

We've got this sign up in our apartment. I likes it.

(tags: furnishings home decoration coffee caffeine)
i d e a n t: Tag Literacy

"Tag literacy in this sense refers to the 'etiquette' of generating tags in a way that increases their social value, balancing individual needs with the needs of the group."

(tags: delicious tagging metadata folksonomy)
Those pesky customers :: Adam Kalsey

"Ning co-counder Marc Andreessen ... says that one of their customers had the audacity to come to their office. For shame. This is the sort of thing you need to nip in the bud, or else you might have customers start becoming fans of your company."

(tags: ning fans dumb cluetrain)
Visiting Ning

"Marc Andreessen finds it annoying when customers want to visit the Ning office. So we're going to stop by. Want to join us?" Notice where this little site is hosted...

(tags: ning funny)
TechCrunch » CoComment: Tracking Your Blog Comments

"CoComment is experimenting with a new way for people to keep track of all of the comments they leave on various blogs." Damn, this is totally something I've had on my Greasemonkey to-do list for 6 months now. (Anyone have an invite code I could borrow?

(tags: metablogging)
Comment Tracking with coComment » Solution Watch

"It just occurred to me that one could easily create a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will enable coComment if a comment form has been detected. So, I decided to make one quickly! It is very simple." And here's the Greasemonkey script.

(tags: metablogging)
What to do with the empty Whisky/glass bottles; Whisky PC by MetkuMods - Because you love your hardware!

"I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle."

(tags: whiskey computers modding hacks hardware)
geobloggers: Advanced Tagging and TripleTags

Embedding advanced metadata in tagging conventions / microformats

(tags: delicious tagging microformats)
Zumba Mexican Grille

"Fresh, affordable, great-tasting, healthy Mexican food served fast is what Zumba Mexican Grille™ is all about."

(tags: geotagged food mexican royaloak michigan geo:lat=42.490049 geo:long=-83.144301)
Panchero's Mexican Grill: 888-MEX-BEST

"It's all about the tortilla!"

(tags: geotagged southfield michigan food mexican geo:lat=42.501470 geo:long=-83.310111)
geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder

"find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free"

(tags: geocoder geography gps)
Falafel King : Local reviews and advice in Royal Oak

Really good and fast Middle Eastern takeout

(tags: geotagged food middleeastern royaloak michigan geo:lat=42.530297 geo:long=-83.198006)
Metro Times Detroit - Restaurant Review - Tokyo Sushi & Grill

"The choices are vast because Sayanthone is constantly adding ideas as his in-laws fax menus from Japan."

(tags: geotagged sushi food royaloak michigan geo:lat=42.487991 geo:long=-83.145412)

Archived Comments

l.m.orchard
2006-02-08T19:10:17

This is a test coComment comment.

links for 2006-02-05

2006-02-05T05:29:33+00:00

Anne 2.0: Ning: Great for Mediocre Programmers

"I spent some time playing with Ning today. I couldn't believe how easy it was to parse an OPML file and display it on a web page."

(tags: ning webdev)
Scripting News: 2/3/2006 - It's a different world today

"But none of that means that I can't find enough users for my aggregator, and you for yours, to be able to continue development and influence the market, because we don't have to convince the editors of PC Mag and PC Week that our products matter. ... Now

(tags: nifty webdev programming syndication rss aggregators)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Gaming glamour tempts tennis pro

"Scotsman David Kinnaird is swapping his tennis racket for a railgun."

(tags: gaming quake)
Wymsey Weekend: A Guide to Mobile Cooking

"we show you how to use two mobile phones to cook an egg which will make a change from phoning out for a pizza." Eggs == brains?

(tags: mobile cooking)
Nelson's Weblog: culture / games / emulation / noahsArk3D

"Instead of a soldier shooting evil Nazis with machine guns, you're Noah lobbing sleep-inducing berries at unruly goats on the Ark. Yes, really."

(tags: gaming snes id christianity)
BlogicBlog: View from the trenches: The techie way of liberating the podcast URL from iTunes

"Jon Udell is not happy about having to transcribe podcast URLs that iTunes displays, but does not allow to copy. While the general point about lock-in is good, here is a quick techie workaround in a meanwhile."

(tags: itunes stanford podcasts)
01 - South Side of the Sky.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Awesome cover of Yes' "South Side of the Sky", with all parts done by one girl.

(tags: nelljames mp3 music audio yes covers rock)
04 - Madrigal.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Another Yes cover with Nell James doing all the parts

(tags: nelljames music mp3 yes)
The Music of Nell James

"Welcome to the official website of musician Nell James (previously known as Nell & the Nellettes), 17 year old multi-instrumentalist and composer."

(tags: nelljames music)
NPR : Al Lewis, Beloved as 'Grandpa Munster,' Dies at 95

"Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of The Munsters whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died after years of failing health. He was 95."

(tags: sad)
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - March 6-9, 2006 - San Diego, CA

"> take proposal Okay. You have taken the proposal. "

(tags: nifty grue conference etcon)

links for 2006-02-04

2006-02-04T05:23:41+00:00

Achewood - February 3, 2006

"He was like the Thomas Edison of handing a dude his ass."

(tags: comics funny)
DETROIT BRINGS 'EM BACK: Like tourists in own town, suburbanites gape at view

"Many parents used the Motown Winter Blast as an opportunity to show their children the city for the first time." Now, let's see how long this lasts after the Super Bowl.

(tags: detroit superbowl tourism)
The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future

Attack of the Pod Roaches

(tags: insects biology neuroscience cogsci)
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

He's a doctor, he's a ninja, he's Irish. It's like The Tick meets pirate-vs-ninja. I wish it had an RSS feed.

(tags: comics nifty)
smb_super_synth.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

It's a Super Mario Bros soundboard! With sprites from the game as sound buttons

(tags: gaming retro nes mario flash sound)
NSLog(@"Erik J. Barzeski"); - Definition of the Word 'Asshole'

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(tags: asshat asshole jackass hummer)
ThinkGeek :: RPG

"You will utilize these five actions to save the world."

(tags: tshirt rpg clothing wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: Viva Miyamoto

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(tags: tshirt clothing wishlist gaming)
ThinkGeek :: Life

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(tags: tshirt gaming clothing wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: Mr. Period T-Shirt

"Originally created to help young people produce legible English, Mr. Period and The Bad Boys Of Punctuation watch from the margins and cluck disapprovingly when you make perfectly honest mistakes."

(tags: nifty clothing wishlist punctuation)
ThinkGeek :: Wang Fu

"The Yin-Yang design on the back declares the owner of this shirt to be a student of Cheng Long Freestyle Kung-Fu, which we're sure is nonsense."

(tags: gaming clothing wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: Code

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(tags: tshirt gaming clothing wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: I Roll Twenties

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(tags: tshirt gaming clothing wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: Penny Arcade Bumper Stickers

""

(tags: tshirt gaming bumperstickers wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: Penny Arcade Div Shot Glass

""

(tags: tshirt gaming glasses wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: CTS - Obey The Tube

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(tags: tshirt gaming clothing wishlist)
ThinkGeek :: WASD

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(tags: tshirt gaming clothing wishlist)
PHP: create_function - Manual

"Creates an anonymous function from the parameters passed, and returns a unique name for it." It's meta, Jim, but not as we know it...

(tags: php webdev)
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"You're taking the "safety" part of "safety razor" too literally, grandma."

(tags: funny razors gillette)

links for 2006-02-03

2006-02-03T05:27:50+00:00

The Detroit Institute of Arts - AN EVENING WITH SHINICHIRO WATANABE - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:00 PM

"The critically acclaimed animation (anime) director Shinichiro Watanabe will make a very special appearance at the Detroit Film Theatre,"

(tags: anime detroit dft dia)
IEBlog : A New Look for IE

Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?

(tags: msft msie ie webdev windows ie7)
QDB: Quote #609240

"One time my dad stole a roll of brightly-colored stickers from a butcher's counter that said "BREASTS" and went to the video store and stuck them on all the movies that looked likely to contain nudity."

(tags: irc funny quotes)
ClickOnDetroit.com - LOCAL 4 FINANCE - Ikea To Bring Jobs, Shopping To Canton

Hooray! "The Swedish home furnishings retailer is working toward a summer grand opening at its new location in Canton Township."

(tags: ikea michigan canton shopping)
NASA - Apollo Chronicles: The Smell of Moondust

"Why does it smell? How does it react with landers, rovers and habitats? What surprises await?"

(tags: space moon science)
PHP: usort - Manual

When I grouse about PHP not having good meta magic, here's a case in point: "Sort an array by values using a user-defined comparison function" My kingdom for an anonymous function or function reference or *something*

(tags: php webdev programming)
Light and atoms get entangled (January 2006) - News - PhysicsWeb

Ansible communications, here we come: "Physicists have for the first time entangled two atomic quantum bits, or "qubits", that are separated by long distances."

(tags: physics future nifty)
Newspapers want search engines to pay | CNET News.com

"The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back." ...and in so doing, will cut their own throats.

(tags: media publishing newspapers)
easing equations for dynamic tweening - ActionScript.org Forums

"Here are the quadratic easing equations." Math for making things slide.

(tags: flash javascript dhtml math ajax)
rentzsch.com: Stop Stop Stop Hurting the Internet

"My God, they’ve made metal look good." ...and with a bonus quote and link to my link to the IE7 demo.

(tags: msft msie vista gui safari apple webdev)
Kempa.com: Destroying History - Motown Building Razed for Super Bowl Parking

"Before demolishing the building, the city couldn't be bothered to remove these artifacts. All sorts of historically important ephemera, knowingly demolished." As if I didn't have enough reasons to despise the Super Bowl and the Mayor

(tags: detroit morons motown)
OPML Editor support: OPML Community Server Howto

"How to install your own server"

(tags: frontier opml webdev)
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | httplib2.py

"A comprehensive HTTP client library, httplib2.py supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries." Huzzah - some great updates beyond httpcache.py, a module from which I've gotten much mileage.

(tags: http python)
Scott Sigler’s Podcast Novels - The Bloodcast » Infection, T-minus 5 weeks

Massively slick production values on this podcast trailer for Scott Sigler's next upcoming run...

(tags: podcasts scifi horror scottsigler)
Fantasy and Science Fiction - Fiction - KEYBOARD PRACTICE, CONSISTING OF AN ARIA WITH DIVERSE VARIATIONS FOR THE HARPSICHORD WITH TWO MANUALS

"Got to force myself to sit down, sluice, educe the force that through these carpal tunnels drives the florid." Such an awesome story, reads like William Gibson mashed up with Douglas Hofstader.

(tags: scifi writing stories)

Archived Comments

Martin Atkins
2006-02-03T18:09:14

If you want a laugh, you should take a look at PHP's create_function function...
l.m.orchard
2006-02-04T02:03:18

Gagh... this create_function function makes me sputter and curse.

links for 2006-02-02

2006-02-02T05:32:04+00:00

Make your own Ringtones

Remember to cut it down to mono. With this capability, I'm surprised there's a ringtone industry whatsoever.

(tags: mobile ringtones)
BBC NEWS | UK | Speed-texter beats world record

This, again, makes me wonder if some sort of morse code interface might be desirable on a mobile device?

(tags: mobile sms records)
howto-qmail-procmail.txt

Checking out how to get procmail working with qmail, in anticipation of setting up a moblog-by-email script.

(tags: qmail procmail unix sysadmin)
jwz - GLTerminal

"It's pretty sweet, though not as faithful a simulation of a CRT as Trevor Blackwell's fantastic Apple ][ screen saver (in xscreensaver)."

(tags: nifty software hacks retro oldschool computing)
I blog therefore I am | Please Guido, pick me, pick me!

Hee hee, I'm glad someone said it: "But hurry up, many leading web framework developers are pleading their case and you don't want to be last."

(tags: webdev python)
365 tomorrows - We All Fall Down

"On the eighteenth day the sun didn't rise, we locked ourselves in our homes and apartments."

(tags: scifi stories writing)
President Creates Cabinet-Level Position To Coordinate Scandals | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"In his State of the Union address to the nation last night, President Bush announced a new cabinet-level position to coordinate all current and future scandals facing his party."

(tags: politics bush funny)
0xDECAFBAD

Friends don't let friends drink decaf.

(tags: programming coffee caffeine)

Archived Comments

Pete Prodoehl
2006-02-02T19:54:33

My Nokia phones lets me use any MP3 as a ringtone. I just transfer the file via Bluetooth from my Mac to the phone and select it. As I recall hearing, many phones/providers don't allow this because of all the potential money they can make off of selling ringtones.

links for 2006-02-01

2006-02-01T05:26:16+00:00

MicroEmulator

J2ME in J2SE

(tags: midp mobile wireless java)
Dr Dave - Blog Archive WP-keitai-mail Plugin v. 1.0

"This script might as well have been called wp-cellphone-mail, I just liked the sound of 'keitai'."

(tags: wordpress metablogging cellphone mobile)
James 'Pug' Jones' Random Bits Of Code

"WordPress Sprint PCS Vision Camera Phone support for wp-mail.php "

(tags: sprint mobile cellphone moblogging metablogging moblog wordpress)
MidpSSH | SSH and Telnet client for Mobile devices (MIDP/J2ME)

Holy crap! "MidpSSH is an SSH and Telnet client for MIDP 1.0 / 2.0 (J2ME) devices such as Java(tm)-capable cellphones and other mobile devices."

(tags: midp java j2me mobile phone)
Chaucery Blog: Doctor Who's very special effects

"Did the BBC use a cheap home computer from 1981 to simulate the advanced computing power of hundreds, even thousands of years into the future?"

(tags: retro oldschool computing scifi drwho doctorwho)
Asperger syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"In very broad terms, individuals with Asperger's have normal or above average intellectual capacity, and atypical or less well developed social skills, often with emotional/social development or integration happening later than usual as a result."

(tags: asperger cogsci wikipedia)
Boing Boing: StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products

How not to be a good PR guy: "If you're looking for reasons to boycott StarForce-crippled games (besides the obvious ones), you might add their use of bullying legal threats to your list."

(tags: pr legal copyfight gaming starforce)
Python Routes | 2006-01-30 | BitWorking

"Routes is a Python re-implementation of the Rails routes system that allows for a two-way mapping between URLs and a dictionary."

(tags: python webdev rails)
Web Framework Redux

"Zope and Twisted are off the scale ... But they only work if you drink lavish quantities of their particular flavor of kool-aid"

(tags: webdev programming python twisted zope)
Brewed Fresh Daily » My NetNewsWire -> del.icio.us applescript » Opinions, news and events from Cleveland, Ohio

"Here’s what I’m using to send stuff from NNW to my del.icio.us account"

(tags: delicious nnw mac applescript)
Workbench: RSS Advisory Board Goes Public

"The board is taking on eight new members." Looks like some well-established members of the blogging and RSS community joining the board. Nice.

(tags: hackingfeeds rss syndication)
do what thou wilt

"For the next five minutes, you are permitted to lose your inhibitions and go wild. Do whatever you like."

(tags: funny jwz freedom comics)
? The Joy of Tech! ? - Steve Jobs Dress-Up

(tags: stevejobs apple dressup flash comics)
Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go

"We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist. We need to keep the number of licensees down to a manageable number. We charge a license fee to keep the number of people we have to deal with down to a level we can handle."

(tags: msft microsoft drm copyfight monopoly anticompetitive)
b3ta.com board - The worlds of computer games would be different...

"Introducing the JoyGroove..." It's quite a change from the usual joystick

(tags: funny photoshop gaming)
Dave's Wordpress Blog - Microsoft ships RSS platform

"This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the first Microsoft release that includes comprehensive support for RSS not only on the producing side, but also on the consuming side."

(tags: rss syndication hackingfeeds msft)

Archived Comments

Anne Zelenka
2006-02-01T19:16:40

Geez, I don't know if I like that you're now posting your daily links. Your feed happens to be one of the first in my feedreader because it's in my favorites folder and because it starts with a zero (that was crafty of you). I can barely get beyond it because I'm clicking through on all these links. This stuff is not what I'd get from my other feeds so I can't count on seeing it elsewhere. Darn you to heck, Orchard.
l.m.orchard
2006-02-01T23:16:51
Anne: Heh, heh. You know, the 0 in my site's name wasn't planned for that purpose, but my alphabetic superiority has come in handy more than once. :)

As for the links, I turned on the daily posting feature partly for research for the new book, but also because I felt like a big chunk of my daily brain dump was missing from here. But, I'm still trying to decide if I like these summaries, if they should be individual posts (as I'd originally intended and use sporadically on Hacking Feeds), or if they should stay separate.

But, for what it's worth, if you'd like to spread the 0xDECAFBAD experience out over your reading lists, my WordPress install offers category feeds:
I keep meaning to document / display that somewhere... at any rate, nice to see you around here again!
Anne Zelenka
2006-02-02T22:38:39

Crap, man, you have another blog? About feeds?

Get yer' information overload here, folks!

Seriously, I'm glad you're posting the links. I was interested to see that two women were appointed to the RSS Advisory Board and I blogged it for BlogHer. I didn't come across that anywhere else in my feeds so for now you appear to be an orthogonal source among my subscriptions.

links for 2006-01-31

2006-01-31T05:24:10+00:00

kafsemo.org: 2006-01-23: Larry Sanders and Dr. Katz (SPARQL and Mivvi)

Use RDF and Sparql to find which actors were in what episodes of each of two shows.

(tags: rdf sparql tv)
The Joy of Tech #781

"Hey Bob, did you realize you're sharing your iPhoto library?"

(tags: iphoto mac apple photos)
Dyadin the Game

I haven't played this yet, but the concept reminds me just a tad of Zelda: Four Swords with the GameCube / GBA integration and multiple planes of cooperative play

(tags: gaming nifty indiegames dyadin)
MIDP for OS X

"This package is a Darwin/OSX port of the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) Reference Implementation v1.0.3."

(tags: mobile osx mac wireless)
Do-It-Yourself MIDP on Mac OS X

"Mac OS X ships with a wide assortment of free developer tools, but these don't include everything you need for J2ME development. "

(tags: osx mobile wireless midp mac)

links for 2006-01-30

2006-01-30T05:20:09+00:00

Mologogo - downloads

"THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ANY ENVIRONMENT WHICH REQUIRES THIS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NUCLEAR FACILITIES, MILITARY OPERATIONS, POWER PLANTS, BOWLING ALLEY PIN MACHINES, SPACE AND/OR TIME TRAVEL MACHINES, ANYTHING

(tags: funny disclaimer mobile)
The address book desk / elastic space

"Underneath the desk I have stuck a grid of RFID tags, and on the top surface, the same grid of post-it notes."

(tags: rfid nokia mobile)
Deploy Your J2ME Application on a Sprint Phone

"Web server configuration and caching problems are just two of the obstacles you'll need to overcome when you deploy Java applications on cell phones."

(tags: mobile java j2me)
youngpup.net - Managing complexity in asynchronous GUIs

"One thing that has plagued me on the various asynchronous GUIs I've worked on over the years ... is what I'll call 'callback madness'."

(tags: ajax webdev javascript)
Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data (beta)

"By carefully choosing the right 1s and 0s to burn to a CD, it is possible to burn visible images on normal CD-Rs." I always figured this was possible, but never bothered to explore it.

(tags: nifty hacks hardware)
firedoglake: 01/22/2006 - 01/28/2006

"Dear Ann Coulter: STFU."

(tags: politics coulter)
JSON extension to be bundled into the PHP core? - Jim Plush's Programming Paradise

"I see JSON becoming the dominant player in the AJAX world in the upcoming future. It's ease of entry, especially if bundled with PHP will make it a no brainer for AJAX or AJAJ applications."

(tags: ajax json javascript php)
LM PM-225 device profile in RDF

Just got a new cell phone. It's not a powerhouse, but it's a lot more than I had. I do wish it wasn't MIDP 1.0, though

(tags: mobile sprint midp)
Hamachi : Stay Connected

"With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. "

(tags: networking p2p security)
Python Cheese Shop : pickleshare 0.2

"PickleShare - a small 'shelve' like datastore with concurrency support"

(tags: python modules programming)

links for 2006-01-29

2006-01-29T05:25:52+00:00

Dave’s Wordpress Blog » What is friendship?

"There are approx 80,000 people who will think this post is about them. It’s not. That’s the point."

(tags: friends metablogging winer)
Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet

You know what? If they want to protect their steaming piles so badly, they can keep them. I've paid more attention and been more entertained by non-DRM, indie sources lately than anything else. I only expect that to grow.

(tags: drm copyfight)
EFF: DeepLinks - New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use

I'm almost fine with this, if it can be done in a way that only affects the content of groups who want to opt into this bullshit. Don't cripple devices in the general case, just for the case of these morons. Let their industry commit suicide.

(tags: drm copyfight)
Sriram Krishnan : Lisp is sin

"Lisp is like the villainesses present in the Bond movies. It seduces you with its sheer beauty and its allure is irresistible."

(tags: lisp programming compsci)
Plan59 > Gallery of Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine

Any one of these kids would swallow your soul with a glass of juice.

(tags: photos funny)
Superpatron: the stray bookmarks of previous patrons

"I'd love it if every time I got a book there was some leftover of a previous reader"

(tags: libraries books annarbor)
BBS Ads Collection v1.0

"This is the unofficial online version of bac-v10.zip that was published with PAiN issue 10/03 (54) in Oct'2003."

(tags: oldschool bbs retro nifty amiga ascii ansi)
Dorica - Gold inlayed titanium ring

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(tags: wedding wishlist)
Morgan - Platinum inlayed titanium ring

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(tags: wedding wishlist)

links for 2006-01-28

2006-01-28T05:23:57+00:00

matt.west.co.tt » Blog Archive » Forensic criminology, the ZX Spectrum way

"Kevin Reilly on comp.sys.sinclair uncovered some unintentional humour in season 1, episode 13 of CSI: Miami which UK-based geeks of a certain age will appreciate."

(tags: nifty sinclair retro oldschool sounds)
jay is games: php Zork!

"And now, many years later, the first game of the Zork series has been ported to PHP for your gaming pleasure by someone who goes by kodrik over at thcnet.net."

(tags: nifty ifiction gaming interactivefiction zork php)
Sci Fi Wire -- Schneider Talks Smallville's 100th

Ouch. "John Schneider—whose character of Jonathan Kent played a key role in Smallville's 100th episode, which aired Jan. 26—told SCI FI Wire that he knew what was coming, but used his mixed emotions to fuel his performance."

(tags: smallville television)
Three Decades After Roe, a War We Can All Support - New York Times

"What we need is an explicit pro-choice war on the abortion rate, coupled with a political message that anyone who stands in the way, yammering about chastity or a "culture of life," is not just anti-choice, but pro-abortion. "

(tags: abortion prochoice politics health)
Care for Some Wood? - Gizmodo

"Why anyone else in their right mind would go for these wooden USB drives is beyond me..." Actually, the kinda techie / natural mix seems appealing to me.

(tags: nifty wishlist gadgets)
Sony's Stringer kills (robot) dog | Reg Hardware

This seems stupid to me. I wonder just how much in free attention the Aibo bought Sony over the years?

(tags: hardware sony)
Wired News: Machines Pluck Cash From Trash

"When you give people the option and make it easier on them, you find that people will recycle on a much higher level" Seems like this will be very useful for when the oil runs out.

(tags: recycling trash future environment)
Escape Pod » EP038: L’Alchimista

"You are willing to follow a recipe? So many chefs of your caliber think themselves above the direction of others." Awesome story of cooking as alchemy.

(tags: podcasts fiction scifi)
KurzweilAI.net - I am the very model of a Singularitarian

"Expand his mental faculties by merging with technology" Awesome riff on a classic song.

(tags: posthuman singularity transhumanism kurzweil)
Singularitarian.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

"I am the very model of a Singularitarian"

(tags: mp3 audio singularity transhumanism future kurzweil)
Ancestor » Ancestor Claymation Movie!

"Oh my goodness, people, look at this amazing piece of work." Hah, this kid did a clamation animation of a scene from Ancestor. Totally Airwolf.

(tags: podcasts ancestor scottsigler claymation)
Neatorama » Blog Archive » Poor Man’s Air Conditioning.

Window air conditioner + generator + beater car = hott

(tags: hacks hardware notwishlist)
Ancestor Swag : Sigler Swag : CafePress.com

"This is the place to find all things Ancestor. Embryos, Blood, and Cow Fur... these are the symbols that speak to our generation. "

(tags: wishlist scottsigler angestor)
QDB: Quote #608100

"imagine being that guy... WORST NIGHT OUT EVER"

(tags: funny quotes irc)
Mike Chambers: Learning Object Oriented JavaScript Programing from ActionScript

He's exactly right, Flash developers pushed the bounds of JS first: "if you are interested in doing object oriented JavaScript development, ... check out some of the older resources and tutorials around object oriented programing in Flash 5 / ActionScript

(tags: ajax dhtml webdev javascript)

links for 2006-01-27

2006-01-27T05:22:24+00:00

Keith Schofield / Wintergreen / "When I Wake Up"

Best music video that has nothing to do with the song itself ever. Tells the story of the Atari 2600 game ET, including a bonus visit to the landfil where the game is buried.

(tags: gaming retro music video)
David Galbraith - Outline style blogging

"Non outline style blogging leads to the type of writing where you feel compelled to make every post a mini essay. This is bad for both writers and readers - since most people don't want to read essays about everything and most bloggers don't really want

(tags: metablogging opml)
..:: Ragdoll Masters ::..

"In this game you control a stylized martial arts master, making his way through stronger and stronger opponents with spectacular moves and impressive blows."

(tags: gaming nifty)
Treewave - Morning Coffee Hymn.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Can I make this the official theme song of my blog?

(tags: mp3 audio bleepy wishlist)
opsound: free love, free music

"Podcasters need music that is free to share ('podcast-safe') so Opsounders are starting to get some serious airplay. "

(tags: podcasting wishlist music)
Cingular Patents the Emoticon :(

Bastards. Let's burn the patent office.

(tags: mobile patents asses morons)
bb's Homepage - SleepWatcher

"SleepWatcher 2.0.3 is a command line tool (daemon) for Mac OS X that monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac."

(tags: mac osx)
Nintendo announces DS Lite [Update 3] - Joystiq

HOT. DAMN. Now I can finally get a DS for myself and Alex. "Nintendo just emailed us the following announcement of the redesign of the Nintendo DS (dual screen) handheld."

(tags: gaming nintendo mobile)

Archived Comments

Leslie
2006-01-29T18:24:39

Wait! despair.com owns the frownie!

http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html