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January 14, 2005

Overriding site-wide CSS styles at the page level with PHP

— a nice hack #

Dream World, Thailand's cheap Disneyland knockoff

— complete with fake Space Mountain, Fantasyland, and bootleg Disney gift shop via Jason Cosper #

MP3: Nina Gordon's "Straight Outta Compton"

— some other offbeat covers on her official site via b3ta #

Patrick Nielsen Hayden criticizes Boing Boing's "Copyright Communist" parody propaganda

— outstanding comments by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, and more via Delicious #
January 13, 2005

Marcus Arnold aka "LawGuy1975," dead at 19

— AskMe.com’s #1 legal expert at age 15, he was featured in Michael Lewis’ Next via MetaFilter #

Spam Assassin plugin for MovableType

— very neat via Jeremy Zawodny #

Will you still need me, will you still feed me?

— my mom overhears a conversation #

Technorati introduces tag searching

— searches Flickr, Delicious, and category-tagged blog posts via Jason Cosper #

BayTSP's FirstSource anti-piracy software targets first uploads

— find the first instance of a file online, verify it, and capture the IP addresses of the initial seeders #

Blogpulse charts of blogger meals

— “breakfast” and “dinner” references go up every Sunday, while “lunch” references go down #

Ocean-related keywords recede and then sharply rise after Indian Ocean tsunami

— blog keyword frequency as a strange, but coincidental, predictor of tsunami activity via blogpulse.com #

Jennifer Garner's Awesome Great Workout Mix!

— I’m not sure what’s worse, her comments or her taste in music via Delicious #

Gizmodo grills Bill Gates about his copyright communist remarks

— read his earlier remarks for some background via Larry Lessig #

A World of Invisibilia

— photos with the people replaced by line drawings via MetaFilter #

Pac-Man Game Over

— game ova, holla #

iTunes update breaks anti-DRM Hymn utility, again

— and JHymn has the workaround and recovery procedure via Gizmodo #

Joey DeVilla's guide to writing interactive fiction with Inform

— this is an impressive overview with tons of great references #

Blizzard orders World of Warcraft pulled from shelves?

— the rumor is their servers can’t handle the insane growth and demand via Joystiq #

Gamasutra's excellent overview of emulating the Atari 2600

— it’s one of the hardest and most CPU-intensive to emulate via Slashdot #

Waxy Links Statistics

— here’s the background, for those of you that don’t read the main weblog #

Hong Kong makes first file-sharing arrest

— he should’ve been arrested for bad taste #

NYT on the style guidelines of Google AdWords

— Google reviews and edits text ads for spelling, grammar and clarity via techlawadvisor.com #

Google Mini

— hopping on the “mini” bandwagon with a $5k Google search appliance via Delicious #

Video: Bizarro iPod World

— very, very weird via Gizmodo #

First issues of JPG Magazine released

— Derek and Heather go print and bring Flickr users with them via Flickr #
January 12, 2005

Harvard Crimson interviews Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli about Apple lawsuit

— Apple is suing the formerly-anonymous 19-year-old Harvard freshman via Delicious #

TKPal plugin for MovableType

— easy micropayments at the post level with MT, Paypal, Typekey, and PHP via Andre Torrez #

Wired's Top 10 Vaporware of 2004

— topping the list is Longhorn, CherryOS, and the Phantom console #

Comic: Derek Kirk Kim's "Same Difference"

— All Things Considered just interviewed him #

Making ASCII stereograms with Javascript

— my eyes hurt via Delicious #

Video: The Uncle Liam Show

— Liam Lynch’s music video for his nephew Arlo’s first birthday #

Beatles Anomalies

— obsessive list of Beatles oddness; see also, background noises in Led Zeppelin songs via John Walkenbach #

Del.icio.us Inbox is back

— one of my primary sources of linkage is back via Delicious #

Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, fails to notify customers

— he monitored Secret Service e-mails, and took cam photos from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Paris Hilton via Delicious #

Guardian Angel bags

— handbags built with the outline of a gun or knife; laptop bags with the outline of groceries via Eyebeam #
January 11, 2005

Justin Frankel's Assniffer for Windows and Linux

— network sniffer that automatically saves files of transferred data #

Early '90s Predictions Database

— 4,200 predictions made between 1990-1995; also, some new predictions via Delicious #

Justin Hall stops publishing Links.net?

— this was his last entry, also found in the source code of his homepage via Kottke #

OJR on tsunami video hosting on blogs

— organized mirroring is great, but isn’t BitTorrent a better long-term solution? #

iPod shuffle differences between US and UK

— apparently, we eat gum in the US, while the Brits chew it #

Decentralized BitTorrent with Kenosis

— more information in the Slashdot thread via Slashdot #

Verizon blocking e-mail from the UK

— as an ISP, Verizon has a responsibility not to have any false positives via tomalak.org #

The Words of Albert Spamus

— spam poetry for the ages #

Mac mini, official homepage

— do not taunt Mac mini #

iPod shuffle, official homepage

— “do not eat iPod shuffle” #

Video: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Archive.org

— also: most popular feature films for download on Archive.org via Delicious #

New iPod Shuffle, the Flash-based iPod

— really tiny, no screen, weighs under an ounce; $99 for 512MB, $149 for 1GB; shipping today; photo #

Mac Mini, 2" tall headless Mac for $499

— Think Secret was right! more details coming; photos of box and product #

SQL Injection Attacks by Example

— a great starting point to securing your own code via Delicious #

Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition

— Ali G strikes again via Delicious #
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