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Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low
In the latest example of blatant intellectual property abuse, self-proclaimed “hacker” Aaron Swartz has uploaded the entirety of the bestselling…
How iTMS Works
I just finished writing Behind the iTunes Music Store: A Technical Description of iTMS and FairPlay. As you might guess,…
Markdown
For months I’ve been working with John Gruber on a new project. The idea was to make writing simple web…
rss2email
I had a couple hours the other day, so wrote a new version of my script, rss2email. If you use…
Apple’s Secret Strategy: TV for Everyone
What’s the unifying theme behind Apple’s diverse product offerings? I’ve finally figured it out: They want to let everyone make…
Fixing Public Transportation
Public transportation is hobbled by a lack of several things: cleanliness, convenience, status. I can’t easily solve any of those…
Alternative Compensation Systems
New: Alternative Compensation Systems. With every passing day, online music downloading becomes more prevalent and industry countermeasures become more odious….
Cats: The Silent Killer
Some bad news from Signal + Noise [Volokh]:Toxoplasmosis results from infection by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Most domestic cats are…
Frag the Flag
Word on the street is that the FCC is planning to issue a Broadcast Flag mandate soon, giving the movie…
Fixing Compulsory Licensing
In a previous post I dashed the world’s hopes for a viable compulsory licensing system, no matter how attractive one…
Day, Today
I got up three hours early this morning to record a fifteen minute interview which will be cut down to…
Secrets of Standards
In mjd’s talk “Mailing List Judo” (removed from the Web due to its evil content), he gives several strategies for…
Canadians Do It Right
Both at our hotel in Vancouver and here at the Vancouver Airport, YVR, they’ve had free Internet with no annoying…
Postel’s Law Has No Exceptions
As Mark Pilgrim is fond of saying, “There are no exceptions to Postel’s Law.” (Postel’s Law is generally quoted as…
Super Searching
(Updated 2002-07-29, see below.) The New York Times reports that Amazon is considering a service to allow their users to…
Aaron’s Censorware
Ed Felten half-seriously suggests that we create censorware that doesn’t overblock and has an open list, so that US libraries…
Google AdSense
Google has a new program called AdSense. Here’s how it works: You create an account with Google. Google gives you…
Time for Forward Motion
As previously noted, weblog protocols are stuck in a rut. We want to work together and solve the problems, but…
Algorithm for Determining Imagination from Reality
Let’s say you’re torn between two worlds. You know that one is a fevered delusion that your mind has created…
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Specs
Dave Winer says Movable Type’s RSS is funky because an out-of-the-box MT blog comes with an RSS 1.0 and an…
Dave Winer Keynote
I took live notes on Dave Winer’s keynote here at OSCOM. Bill Kearney, Syndic8.com: DW: oh, you’re Bill Kearney. my…
Charging Society
Mark Bernstein, who should know better, argues that software should be charged for. I hear this a lot, but it…
RFC: Annals of Planet Hacking
Elevator pitch: CodeCon in writing. A peer-reviewed journal on the Web, with articles that describe the details of your latest…
xmltramp
In trying to write some code to use the new Technorati API, I noticed that all the tools for accessing…
How to Do Stuff
I’m proud to introduce my new series: How to Do Stuff. It currently features two articles: How to Do Version…
Trip Report
When I last left you, I was at Ping’s place for his birthday party / Bab5 meeting. We had some…
The Wireless Future
Let me tell you how it will go: Apple gets tired of releasing new, faster wireless hardware (AirPort, AirPort Extreme,…
Enabling IPv6 on OS X
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dancing Kame Note: This will apparently not work if you’re…
Small is Beautiful
I’ve been working on a book called Small is Beautiful: The Unix Philosophy, to be serialized in Tekka. It’s been…
Happy Birthday to Mac
On this day in 1984 (story), the first Mac went on sale. [iacas] Today, we celebrate the nineteenth glorious anniversary…
Fascinating User Interface Research
Ka-Ping Yee: Peephole Displays. This most innovative UI ideas per minute I’ve ever seen: Lists you can select from using…
802.11b Theremin (two geeky pursuits that geek well together)
Seth Schoen has built an theremin in shell using an 802.11b card as a sensor. How cool! In other news,…
the 13th is supposed to be tomorrow!
A relative came over. We wanted to play a networked game of Jedi Knight II with him. This is our…
Last Chance to Comment
ICANN is soliciting comments on two important whois issues. (The whois database explains who owns and runs each domain name.)…
DO THIS NOW
Stop what you’re doing. Read this now. (Or run out and buy it.) You’ll thank me later….
TiVo and Macs and Networks, oh my!
Chuq: minor woo-hoos from Macworld. “TiVo’s upcoming premium service package will use Rendezvous technology to automatically discover Macs within the…
Apple Goodies
Source code to Safari’s HTML renderer: WebCore (announcement and list of changes). Hopefully 3rd-party apps (NNWL, WebDesktop) will use this….
Classic PowerPoint Presentations
Today’s Chicago Tribune Magazine had a feature story on PowerPoint, which included PowerPoint renditions of two classic works: Robert Frost’s…
Is the Treo ideal?
I wrote up my requirements for the ideal PDA and got a bunch of suggestions. The best so far seems…
Ideal PDA
Everyone’s getting a Hiptop/Sidekick, but it doesn’t seem to have all the things I need. I will buy a WearableGizmo…
Wireless “Security”
Sadly, people keep talking about how wireless networks are “insecure” and “open to attack” and how we should secure them,…
OS X Hack: Printing 4-up to Save Paper
If, like me, you find yourself with good eyesight printing out long PDF documents (cough, legal documents) on OS X…
Explaining Spectrum, RDF
I’ve put up a first draft of my explanation of “open spectrum” on LogicError. I also have an early draft…
Santa Switch
These Switch parodies starring Will Ferrell (produced by Apple themselves, apparently!) are pretty funny. And of course don’t miss Yo-Yo…
the rss rebellion
Browsers that Parse, Jorn Barger: “generalise the repeated formatting-patterns and build regexps that can dissect them” xpath2rss, Mark Nottingham: “XPath…
bandwidth and open spectrum
Geeky detail: For some reason I had set Apache to try and parse every file on the site for server-side…
Stirling Engine introduced on 60 Minutes, Segway on Amazon.com
As the CS Monitor reports, Dean Kamen introduced his Stirling Engine to the world. (Luckily for me, the TiVo thoughtfully…
greenspan# make economy
More H4X0r ECONOMIST. The rest aren’t really as funny….
Is the intuitive hypertext interface finally here?
The first web browser, Tim Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb was also a Web editor. You visit a page of yours, notice a…
File Cabinet Lib
Jon Keegan, New York Times David Gelernter has another article in the Times today. What’s up with this? Why…
Quality Software
I’ve put together a list of Quality Software Designers. Funny how all the software either runs on OS X or…
IMMINENT END OF NET PREDICTED (source code at 11)
Curious Yellow. There, I said it. I’ve been struggling over whether or not to say that for a while now….
Sinister RSS Conspiracy
Mark Pilgrim, Sam Ruby and the Internet Archive are all in a vast underground conspiracy to validate RSS feeds. The…
all the features, none of the fat
Yes! Experimental build of Phoenix for Mac. “This is not an official Mozilla.org product. Please do not file bugs in…
little voices in my head
Morning diversion: Want to make my computer say stupid things? Check out Speak to Me!, a series of little shell…
Who’s Making a What?!
Mitch Kapor and Andy Hertzfeld (with Tim O’Reilly and Pamela Samuelson on the board) are making an free software RDF-backed…
Speeding Broadband Deployment
Andrew Odlyzko is very clever [Wer]: The impractical method for stimulating broadband adoption is to make music free on the…
Heaven on Earth
Thanks to bbum, you can now write 100% Pure Cocoa OS X apps in 100% Pure Python with your users…
RedHat 8 (Psyche) via BitTorrent
Looking for a fast download of RedHat 8? Get it now. (This link requires BitTorrent to work.)…
is that your final answer?
IMS/ISC: Final Response: Full StopIn fact, the rumors “on the street” are that the new TLDs have been beset by…
quick hack
New York Times as a Weblog (source code) Comments appreciated. Yes, I know UserLand had something like this but as…
TRAMP Update
Finally finished up (most of) TRAMP, my RDF interface for Python. (If you don’t use RDF or Python you can…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Am I Insane or Not?
Rael was looking at me funny for not being able to ping his entry, but of course it turned out…
Spring has Sprung!
User Creations: Spring. Available now for OS X. Has problems on Jaguar. If you’re lucky, you should be able to…
This is TrackBack. Blosxom, do you copy?
Rael has implemented TrackBack in Blosxom. It’s pretty cool to see TrackBack popping up everywhere. It’d be nice to have…
IMS Gets Mad, Even
The .org supplicants at the IMS aren’t taking none of this nonsense anymore. webchick has created this funny coloring contest…
Free Radio on Free Software
If you’re involved in the free software movement, you’ll probably enjoy this radio interview which humorously and interestingly covers all…
Ask Ashcroft to Stop Library Invasion
Working Assets has an email campaign asking Ashcroft to stop asking libraries for private records and repealing the gag order…
Incredible Commentary on .Org Process
Eric Brunner-Williams: Comments on the Preliminary Evaluation Report. In summary: ISOC is at risk of bankruptcy. GNR is just a…
Zooko and Seth in RSS
Since I’m spending more and more time in NetNewsWire, I decided to RSSify the few remaining sites I read. First…
Screen Savers on the Desktop
Pat Jensen has posted a cool trick for running your screen saver on your desktop. Just open a terminal, and…
Dear Bigshot
Internet lawns, why not what, Perl 5 regexps, Gilmore on .org, OmniIcon conspiracies, NetNewsWire, New York visit, Cory vs. Barney, Dear Congressman, OS X password limit, Apple wireless strategy, secrets of zeroconf.
Software and Source Code
With a book, there are two important people involved: the writer and the reader. The writer has a concept which…
Fireworks of Failure
It’s 1:30AM. Hours ago, my server seemed to stop working. I could ping it, but I couldn’t do anything else….
IMS/ISC out of the ICANN Running
ICANN has proposed to give the dot-org bid to ISOC. Despite the IMS/ISC’s strong support from the community and endorsements…
Electronic Pulsing Spam-Killing Superbrain
Paul Graham: A Plan for Spam. Paul proposes to use Bayesian probablity and client-side mail analysis to do content-filtering on…
Car Factories and Post Offices
We haven’t really gone on vacation this summer, but Dad’s been taking us on trips a lot. This week we…
James Valenti, 81 103 103 197 224 0
[The above number is the Xing DeCSS key, in decimal.] This week’s Crypto-Gram has a real zinger about the DigiVigilante…
book publisher is chinese household
Dave Winer, 2002-08-15: A note of appreciation. ‘A few days after returning from the hospital, a delivery man brought a…
The Search for Sight
Wired Magazine: Vision Quest. The riveting story of a blind man and the scientists who’ve used cameras, computers and neural…
Full Tilt for Software Freedom
Full Tilt for Software Freedom is Affero’s FSF Benefit Party tonight(!) in San Francisco. Lessig, Kuhn, Pinball, Paints, signed certificates…
Yee-Haw! Roundup time!
I’ve been trying to get the Bizar implementation of Ka-Ping Yee’s Roundup: an Issue-Tracking System for Knowledge Workers to work…
rfc822 has no chance to survive. take your mime.
I put together Aaron’s Internet Mail 2000 Proposal earlier today for the im2000 list. It was sort of fun. Someone…
Make Mozilla Money Fast!
David Hyatt: How to Monetize(tm) your browser.The first monetizing technique I’ll show you is called “Stealth Infection.” Under the principle…
Apple Gives In To Copyright Terrorism?
I was extremely proud of Apple not bowing to the copyright terrorists and letting users have full use of their…
Tokelau Gives Free Domains
Tokelau, a small island in the Pacific is inhabited by less than 1500 people. They’ve always divided their share of…
Congresmen Want You in Prison
Apparently they got the message about us not liking their vigilante justice schemes, so they’re trying a different tack. A…
Rube Golderberg DRM
Check out John Zulauf’s hilarious Rube Goldberg-style DRM system. [Seth] “attach book (B) to door (D) of cage (C) containing…
Hall of Fame: Crucial
I’m returning some memory from Crucial.com and I’m reminded of just how much a joy their website is to use….
I’m Baaaaaack!
A .nym TLD would be cool. I’d give people <fingerprint>.pgp.nym if they could prove that they owned the key with…
Geek Tees
I love this cool Geek Tee from Halibut. [Cory] It’d make a cool HTP T-Shirt if Wes programmed Perl….
Font Editor in Jaguar?
It looks like Jaguar has a Font Editor according to this screenshot from MacMegasite. Pretty cool! I’d love to play…
Blogging with the Big Boys
BurningBird talks about weblog consortiums (is it just me, or is that site white on white?): “On my own system,…
Reading in your Aggregator
Mark Pilgrim struggles with RSS feeds and aggregators: ‘I don’t use my aggregator to read things; I use it to…
A Contrarian View of Open Source
Bruce Sterling: A Contrarian View of Open Source. Given at OSCON. “Now, I get it about being the bazaar. I’m…
movable code
It’s neat that Stallman went to see Raph. The most interesting thing I learned at the conference was how human…
OSCON: Final Night
My stay at OSCON ended short but my last night was by far the best time I had. At Writing…
Carl Malamud: NetTopBox
Carl Malamud’s giving a status report on the NetTopBox project. (Slides, O’Reilly Page)…
RMS and Miguel: Straight Talking
Stallman has quite a bit of humopr about himself and his positions even if he’s serious about his ideals. They…
HelixCommunity.org
At lunch RobG and TimO discussed the new helixcommunity announcements. A new thing announced today was that Helix would be…
Guido van Rossum: State of the Python Union
Guido’s going to talk about the state of Python. O’Reilly Page. Full coverage is below….
Richard Stallman: Where This All Came From
Richard Stallman says we don’t talk about and fight for our freedom enough. (O’Reilly Page) Full coverage is below….
Larry Lessig: Freeing Culture
Larry Lessig says that we’re not active enough politically and if we don’t do anything our freedoms will be taken…
OSCON Bloggers
I’ll be heading to OSCON soon and I’d like to keep track of other bloggers. Let me know if you’ll…
Reflections on the Keynote
Today was a very interesting keynote. There wasn’t a lot of hardware, but I’m much more interested in the software…
MacWorld Keynote Coverage
I’m watching the MacWorld New York 2002 Keynote — MPEG4 stream crashes QuickTime, guess I’ll file a bug report. Hey,…
today’s featured superhero: Seth Schoen
I could tell you all about Seth Schoen but you could probably get everything you need to know just from…
OSCON Key Signing Party
I think it’s awful that OSCON doesn’t have a scheduled key signing party. I thought about submitting it as a…
Writing Useful Web Content
Jorn Barger remains one of the foremost authorities on writing useful web content and annotational pages. This is one of…
Glorious Linkfulness
Justin Hall wonderfully explains why I hate BoingBoing’s linking straightjacket. (Heh, Cory’s not a blogger but a posting-agent.) Wow, Justin…
Building Baked Sites
Bake, Don’t Fry has been one of my more successful blog entries. I wonder if this was because of style…
Bake, Don’t Fry
I really got started with this whole Web mess with the ArsDigita Prize where I learned how to build database-backed…
Special Gifts
I checked outside and there was a package from Eastgate. What could this be? I wondered. They’d already sent me…
Herodotus: A Peer-to-Peer Web Archival System
Timo Burkard has created Herodotus: A Peer-to-Peer Web Archival System as his Master’s Thesis. The paper (PDF or PS) describes…
today’s featured superhero: Brad Templeton
It seems fitting that for the day we celebrate our freedom, the superhero is Brad Templeton, Chairman of the EFF…
Today’s Hack: html2text Converter
My new html2text Converter (Python source) will convert any HTML web page into gloriously plain ASCII text. URI: Well, enjoy….
Putting an End to ICANN
John Gilmore: Open Letter to Vint Cerf, ICANN Chair. “ICANN is going down, one way or another. Either it will…
Recursive Blogging
Matthew Langham is presenting on blog aggregation at OSCON and doing something I thought should have been done a while…
Introducing Memesh
I’m still chugging along on my Cocoa app, which I decided to name “Memesh” (a cross between the fabled Memex…
Web Roundup
This hypertext representation of a real house is one of the more exciting things I’ve seen on the Web lately….
Essentially… Blogging Cats?
Mena Trott writes: If, like me, you’re a sucker for illustrations of seemingly insane, flat-headed cats, then you’ll love the…
Who’s heading to OSCON?
Who’s going to O’Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2002? (Let me know!) I’ll also be putting together a list of…
Trackback
Movable Type has an exciting new feature called TrackBack, which allows blogs to communicate with one another.
Shorter Than TinyURL!
shorl.com not only is a shorter domain name than TinyURL, they use MeRS (which they call Koremutake). Nice! They also…
Public Trust, Not Public Trough
IMS, IMC: .org Application Packing List. Be sure to drop a note expressing your support. This proposal is key to…
My Cocoa App
While reading Machine Beauty I came up with a wonderful idea (as seems to happen often with Gelernter books…) for…
cloudmark
The folks behind the free-software razor have teamed up started a new company: cloudmark. They’ve build Cloudmark SpamNet, a plugin…
today’s featured superhero: Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud is an unstoppable technical and social hacker.
simpler than HTML m172n
The WaSP is back and Mark is talking.
CCing LR MP3s
Lisa Rein does some technical singing.
i don’t want to know what the RDF one will be
On the cover of O’Reilly’s IPv6 Essentials is… a snail?! What were they thinking? [via wmf]…
you too can have Star Wars-level security
This weeks issue of Counterpane Crypto-Gram is pretty funny. Too bad there are so many broken links.In response to the…
Switch to a Mac
Seattle Times on Public Domain and Apple’s new “Switch” ad campaign.
My Social Network
Mark Pilgrim’s been on a roll lately, with one cool hack after another. First he’s been working on a system…
Tim O’Reilly: OS X and the Next Big Thing
O’Reilly macdevcenter.com: Tim O’Reilly’s WWDC Keynote Manuscript. Also: Inventing the Future, The Network Really Is the Computer Foresight Gathering: Tim…
Public Access to the Public Domain
Raj Reddy wants to put a million books on the Internet. Brewster Kahle, the man behind The Internet Archive and…
TinyURL
TinyURL.com - where tiny is better! [via MarkF] Not only are these URLs shorter than MakeAShorterLink, but they’re real redirects,…
Local Wireless
I’d been seeing a second wireless network in my Airport menu so I finally got around to investigating. I opened…
Microsoft Software So Insecure It Could Cost Lives
Microsoft VP Jim Allchinhas testified that Microsoft code is so insecure it cannot be disclosed. As ESR points out, either…
New Hacks
Two new hacks: HTML Diff (source) highlights the differences between two HTML pages (currently semi-broken, patches appreciated) and Aaron’s Text…
Problems with MakeAShorterLink
Make A Shorter Link is a great site and a useful service but it does have its problems. They’re not…
Point-Headed Academics vs. Pointy-Haired Bosses
Paul Graham: Revenge of the Nerds. “The Pointy-Haired boss […] (a) [] knows nothing whatsoever about technology, and (b) []…
Crypto History
A fascinating interview with Ralph Merkle. Merkle invented what we now call public-key cryptography — the ability for two users…
The Secret alife of Webloggers
Mark Bernstein is doing some fascinating experiments with a simulated weblog community. He’s recently release his first report: ALife and…
Emergent Hindsight
Now that Emerging Technologies is done and gone, check out two ideas from Wes Felter (and hosted by me): YouAreWhatYouUse…
Emerging Technologies - Day 3
I’m running EtherPEG — it’s awesome. (Requires Mac OS 9 or X.) We did the Creative Commons intro in the…
Emerging Technologies - Day 2
I was woken up at 4AM to help my little brother Ben with his paper on Guttenberg. I went back…
Emerging Technologies - Day 1
I’ve been taking notes on each session (watch me on the Panopticon): Tim O’Reilly on future of technology. Bob Morris…
WWW2002 - Day 5
Today was Developer’s Day. I hung out in the Semantic Web track, there was a lot of cool stuff. Check…
WWW2002 - Day 1
Although the past few days have been cloudy and raining, the sun came out for a little bit today. Tim…
Today’s Hack: display.cgi
I just whipped up display.cgi (source), a little CGI script to display some HTML that you type in. I’ve wanted…
Instant Outliners
Dave Winer: Radio.Outliners.Com : How the OPML Coffee Mug works Awesome! This has always been Radio’s big strength for me:…
Interesting Conferences (and the interesting people attending them)
I put together a list of Interesting Conferences (with interest attendees in parentheses). Let me know if you’ve got additions…
The Copyright Tax
Winterspeak: The Copyright Tax Who does extending copyright hurt? All of us, to the tune of $3B a year, just…
CodeCon Wrapup
CodeCon 2002 (blog entry) is now over. After three days of presentations from friends and fellow hackers, I now know…
CSS: Client-side rendering rules
There have been a lot of questions about CSS and its uses in the last few weeks, so I thought…
CodeCon!
The long-awaited CodeCon (Advogato, The Register) starts today at jwz’s DNA Lounge. CodeCon, started and run in large part by…
The Decline and Fall of ArsDigita
Guan: ArsDigita VCs v. Co-founders (/.) Philip: ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up (/.) Eve: Diary of a Start-Up (/.) Mass…
Fancy Stats-Man
I’ve just added Aaron Swartz: The Stats, thanks to Mark Pilgrim’s awesome sitestats.py software. It was easy to install, only…
Moving to Movable Type
Well, on some good recommendations I’ve decided to try Movable Type. I’m really loving it so far, especially the stunning…
Arrgh, pirates.
I’ve often complained to folks about their use of the term “pirate” to mean “share”. When folks complain about pirated…
FBI: Illegal DVDs Fund Terrorism
Sickening: Two shops in Vancouver were raided last week for selling counterfeit DVDs. Along with the standard “billions and billlions…
Plucky Headline Viewer for Mac
Plucky Headline Viewer for Mac. A very nice GUI aggregator, which supports RSS and Perl regexps. They even link to…
Validating Radio UserLand
Karl “Be Strict To Be Cool!” Dubost decided to try out Radio. Naturally, he’s as upset as everyone else I…