February 2009
38 posts
“Supports Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest operating system, including features such as...”
– VMware Fusion 2 Release Notes. Unity for Ubuntu guests? Sweet!
“There was no Fifth Amendment privilege because the government already knew the...”
– District Court Overturns Magistrate Judge in Fifth Amendment Encryption Case. The Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply when the government claims to already “know” that you’re guilty? WTF?!?
“At the same time, 280 North is a three person company, developing our own...”
– RossBoucher.Com » Funk Rock » Blog Archive » Accessibility & Degradation in Cappuccino. Ross makes an important distinction here: it’s one thing to complain about the closed product 280 Slides being inaccessible. But to complain that the open source Cappuccino framework...
“AS the sun begins to sink behind the Santa Monica Mountains and the northbound...”
– For a New Generation, Kimchi Goes With Tacos - The New Los Angeles Fusion - NYTimes.com. Yes! This sounds perfect for Brattleboro. Somebody please make it happen so that I can enjoy a $2 kimchi blood sausage taco.
“I don’t apologize for the camera but instead honor it for the eloquent...”
– Lance Hidy via Designing the Mentoring Stamp — The Designer’s Review of Books
“Near that area are dozens of booths selling batteries for these phones … and the...”
– bunnie’s blog » Mobile Phone Mega-Market in Shenzhen
“Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR”
– About - cufon - GitHub. Neat trick, but sadly it’s even less accessible than sIFR: at least I can copy/paste sIFR’s Flash-rendered text (albeit without context), but cufón text is rendered as an image.
“I’m not so sure which is scarier, the fact that the nuclear industry uses duct...”
– 3M Performance Plus Duct Tape (Nuclear Grade). Ah, so that’s how they keep Vermont Yankee running!
“Adobe is calling the flaw “critical” and says a patch for Reader 9...”
– Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs. In other words: don’t use Acrobat for the next two weeks. Hope you’ve got another way to read PDF documents…
“Rob may have missed a name.”
– Sam Ruby: Engineer for Serendipity. LOL.
“Queries which take more than 5 seconds to execute used to time out and returned...”
– Amazon SimpleDB - New Count Function, Long Running Queries, Etc.. Excellent!
“Time to be frank: any security that OAuth claims – with respect to native...”
– Fixing OAuth. A frank discussion of a problem many people tend to ignore, plus a suggested solution.
GridIron Software - Flow →
Asset management, version control, and time tracking from a single piece of software that automatically handles most of it for you behind the scenes. If I spent less time in vim and Terminal, and more time in CS4, I’d be all over this.
“The “blind astrometry server” is a program which monitors the Astrometry group...”
– Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Found in space. Way cool.
“The above area circles were prepared by someone at JP Morgan. I don’t...”
– Fail: Area Circles on Wall Street | FlowingData. Silly JP Morgan person.
“Here at The Times, we often hear a common story of usage from our customers:...”
– Sunday Browsing. Yes!
Slayers, Dolls And Singing Villains →
Joss Whedon on Fresh Air: yes!
Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store - igvita.com →
Looks promising.
“Even more complex than the previous method, use the symbol’s Unicode code! To do...”
– Maths symbols in Word (Mac). Ahh, finally I find a decentpassable way to type the multiplication character on the Mac.
Microsoft follows Apple into the retail business →
HA HA HA HA HA! Ha ha HAAAAAA ha ha! Ha HAAAA! Ha ha. ha. ha…
“Now, with the release of YQL, we’ve gone a step further. We took the...”
– YQL now supports microformats! Way cool.
“Since I’m no evolutionary expert, I shipped Slate’s data to Lauren...”
– Evolution and Facebook’s “25 Random Things About Me” craze. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
Yellow Thunder Woman Interview - WickedInfo.com →
A highly enjoyable interview with the vocalist/lyricist for The Bastard Fairies. (Not appropriate for those with a low tolerance for swearing.)
Eightmaps and Really Right Stuff
I’ve been looking for a new tripod and ballhead of late, and had narrowed down the ballhead candidates to RRS, Kirk, and Acra.
Then today I found out about eightmaps, which shows who donated to support passing Proposition 8 in California. Turns out the Joe Johnson, the owner of Really Right Stuff, is on the list. (Do a location search for Los Osos if you want to find him, I just...
“The first post in this series is going to be about not so well known Unix...”
– A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer - good coders code, great reuse
“Most people reading this will already be fairly tolerant. But there is a step...”
– Keep Your Identity Small. Wow. What an incredibly dumb conclusion, coming from an otherwise smart person.
“Web hooks are simple HTTP callbacks. They’re nothing new, you may be familiar...”
– About Web Hooks. New name for an old idea, but there’s nothing wrong with that: it’s important for our industry to develop a shared vocabulary of short descriptive names for common practices.
“Interestingly, my numbers still put IE at close to 20% for the past month....”
– comment by Jonathan Snook on “Trading places” at stopdesign. I haven’t paid any attention to Windows 7 yet, but here Jonothan gives us all a compelling reason to be excited about it.
Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
What is it with PHP programmers and this date and time? As far as I can tell, it was once used in an example of how to tell a browser not to cache a page (by setting the Expires header to a date in the past). It looks like that example was copied so many times, and now appears in so many places, that these days many PHP programmers just treat it as a kind of “magic number”....
“President Obama signed an executive order on Thursday to create a new White...”
– Obama Expands Faith-Based Programs. WTF? That line’s looking blurrier and blurrier if you ask me.
“I hate it when athletes thank God when they win. My reasons for hating it have...”
– Why athletes thanking God for victories is stupid. Unfortunately these arguments will get you nowhere because, as DAB aptly describes, you’re either facing “theological babytalk” or plain vanity. Neither of those is amenable to reasonable discussion.
“What the article describes is that, if you can identify a terrorist as a test on...”
– Comment by “RH” at Schneier on Security: Racial Profiling No Better than Random Screening
“The reason that this strong profiling strategy is inefficient,” Press...”
– Study: racial profiling no more effective than random screen - Ars Technica
“It has been determined that complete and accurate diagnostic, service and repair...”
– MassRightToRepair.Org. Yes, please!
