curb your celebrity
Aaron Warchalker will probably be on Public Radio’s Marketplace tomorrow evening. I tried to cut down on the number of…
Quickly
Anyone have a copy of Bell Centennial I can borrow? I wonder if I’ll ever have $100 to spend on…
Tufte
Today I took a one-day course from Edward Tufte, the infodesign maven. He was surprisingly kind and silly — not…
Fuzzy Math
One of the weirdest things I heard when listening to the Cato Institute debate was an economist claim “a tenet…
p2p is not a crime
You can see Cory Doctorow explain the problems with the Berman Bill while his host subscribes to the EFF Action…
Rights Fight
I need a lawyer willing to argue that not-for-profit file sharing is fair use. I’ve got a plan. Napster: Work…
Gary Shapiro: Sharing is Legal and Moral!
Gary Shapiro: The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights [Seth]. Yes! Yes! Yes! This is the…
TRAMP Update
Finally finished up (most of) TRAMP, my RDF interface for Python. (If you don’t use RDF or Python you can…
Feeling Lucky
I’ve received an incredibly kind invitation; I sure hope I can take it! I feel sort of bad though, because…
Aaron on the Radio [updated]
Aaron Swartz, defender of warchalking, was on the BBC World Service’s NewsHour (1.8MB Ogg, 3.2MB MP3) and NPR’s Weekend Edition…
Subscribe to this Weblog by Email!
I’ve used my RSS to email aggregator to create an email list for this weblog. If you’re tired of checking…
RSS to Email Aggregator
Dean Jackson (of the W3C) has written up Aaron’s RSS to Email Aggregator, which, well, allows you to read RSS…
Counter-terrorizing Osama
Larry Lessig: Anti-trusting Microsoft. “Microsoft has a John Cleese problem. Again and again, it has been accused of anticompetitive behavior….
The Making of a Police State
Mark Bernstein complained an airport screener was damaging his TiBook’s delicate screen and got searched by the police for his…
CBDTPA Requires Open Source
I was reading through the text of the CBDTPA (Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) and noticed that it…
Hack Yo’ Mac
Marc Liyanage has a great list of Mac OS X customization tools, I’ve found myself downloading a bunch of them…
Apple Expo Paris News
Apple Expo, Paris: Apple Announces Mac OS X-Only Booting For 2003. “Apple today announced that starting in January 2003, all…
Kragen Explains the Sunlight Effect
Thanks to Kragen Sitaker for sending me feedback about my sunlight experience. He writes:This is painful at first because too…
More Myopia
Previous:: A cure for nearsightedness?, Eyesight Feedback I had some time to kill and it was a beautiful day so…
Santa Cruz Hands out Marijuana at City Hall
BayArea.com: Santa Cruz council invites marijuana users to distribute pot at City Hall. Summary: In response to high-profile raids by…
The Last Straw
Straw is “the GNOME 2 desktop news aggregator” and functions very much like NetNewsWire. It uses some of Mark Pilgrim’s…
Wayback Machine Adds Diff
The Wayback Machine has added support for diffing two updates, using technology licensed from DocuComp. HTML Diff is extremely difficult…
CodeCon 2003
CodeCon: “CodeCon is the premier showcase of active hacker projects. It is an excellent opportunity for developers to demonstrate their…
More Crazy Haxies
The crazy people over at unsanity have put together some more haxies for OS X including metalifizer which can add…
RSS 3.0 Update
Thanks for all the great feedback on RSS 3.0. I’ve been in New York the past few days, but I’ll…
iCal!
So today Apple released iCal, the Internet calendaring component of their application suite. It imports straight from Entourage, lets you…
Pepper Author Speaks Out
Daring Fireball: Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman. “But Pepper 4.0 was not well received. The first releases had some performance issues…
Apple’s Guide to Cocoa Icons
Looking for the perfect icon for your Cocoa app? Apple’s put up a page of icon resources including instructions, templates,…
The Road to RSS 3.0
Edd Dumbill: RSS Moves Forward. “The goal of RSS 1.0 has been to fix some problems, provide an extensible framework…
Jaguar Ate My Life
I don’t think fate wants me to get any work done. After wrestling with my server (the one that hosts…
Buy His Books, Sell Your Furniture
Cory’s put up the cover for his new book. Bruce Sterling: “He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks…
A .Mac Solution
I admit it. I was one of those suc^H^H^Hcool people who bought a .mac account. Apple sent an update today…
MAKE RSS FAST!!!
mnot: RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters. “This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called…
The First Ammendment Microwave
In djb’s latest brief in his export-crypto case, he has an interesting first ammendment argument:Consider, as a hypothetical example, a…
What’s the Berman Bill for?
In Politech, Rep. Berman’s office notes that their bill is rather restrictive and that it does not allow copyright holders…
the neighborhood just got a lot bigger
Black Alchemy Enterprises: Fake AP. “If one access point is good, 53,000 must be better. Black Alchemy’s Fake AP generates…
jwz is angry
jwz: you people are LAME. “I’m so utterly disappointed to learn that nobody — nobody — out of the thousands…
Don’t Napsterize the Discussion, Guys!
Seth Schoen notes:Napster sent their VP for policy, Manus Cooney, to a CPTWG meeting once, around six months ago. The…
JavaScript Form Validation Done Right
A long time ago, I believe on Netscape’s site, I saw JavaScript form validation done Right. Next to each required…
There’s Only One Way To Do It
To balance out the Perl I thought I’d share this quote. [PyURL] “I thought that it was a firm principle…
MJD’s File of Good Advice
Ooh, I just found MJD’s hilarious file of good advice online. It’s even funnier when he wears a wifebeater and…
got spam?
Well, do you? If you’ve been collecting your spam for a while (as I have), then Paul Graham wants it…
Books Consume Life
I’m the kind of crazy web-head who finds replacing paper book marks by storing current page numbers on a remote…
The Emergent Internet
I’ve always wondered how the Internet works. An incredible example of an emergent system, the (relatively) simple rules of how…
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