July 15, 2005
Django, like Rails for Python
— outstanding new web framework by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison; read the overview #
Vintage arcade photos on Flickr
— rescued from the trash bin; also, see the same photographer's arcade tokens and electronic games #
Secure RSS syndication with Greasemonkey and Bloglines
— very neat hack for encrypting your feeds (via) #
JD Lasica asks movie studios for permission to use movie clips for personal, non-commercial home video projects
— out of seven requests, only one agreed, kinda (via) #
Google Video adds "playable video" filter
— using it, I found these guys plugging Waxy Links at the 7 minute mark (via) #
Google Answers on the history of the laugh track
— shows still use laughter taped from the Red Skelton Show in the late 1950s #
Video: A Few Good G-Men
— machinima remake of "A Few Good Men" courtroom scene with Half-Life 2 engine #
Defective Yeti's excellent primer of the Valerie Plame scandal
— I hereby demand that Matthew summarize all major news stories for me #
Hyperlinks in Print, part 3
— ongoing look at visual representation of hypertext in print; parts one and two (via) #
Internet Archive sued for archiving copyrighted content
— raises all sorts of depressing intellectual property issues; nice debunking (via) #
"Real-life" VR inside Second Life
— very meta; visiting a busy SF city street from within Second Life #
Audio: Teller reviews a magic biography on NPR
— the smaller, quieter half of Penn and Teller speaks! (via) #
Classical labels attacking BBC for free Beethoven downloads
— they're in the public domain, so it's fair game (via) #
XHTML quick start templates
— brilliant set of bare-bones templates to get a design off the ground (via) #
Wikipedia list of Price Is Right minigame
— includes a link to this collection of game screenshots (via) #
Flash: Planarity game
— for people who detangle Christmas tree lights for fun; I got to level 9 (via) #
Newsweek reveals Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source
— is it selfish to be excited that Upcoming.org is mentioned in the same issue? #
Tim O'Reilly on Perl's relevancy
— his trend analysis of the programming book market from last month is a great read (via) #
ESPN reporter tracks down infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman
— I tracked the the Cubs Fan meme back in 2003, but most of the links are dead #
Yahoo testing blog/RSS searching
— ideally, I want to filter on blog-only posts with a date sorting option #
Research shows lab-grown meat possible on an industrial scale
— Stem Cell Steak, here we come (via) #
Psychedelic Christian Radio MP3s from 1967
— these are ridiculously good; a genre I never knew existed #
Australian ABC News creates Google World map of London bombings
— pretty geeky for a mainstream news source #