links for 2008-07-09

Simple way to chain WordPress themes together for easier code management.

Probably a good idea to put as many free tools out there to sniff out web security problems as possible. It raises awareness of the problem, solves some common issues, and builds a market for more sophisticated tools.

Have an opinion, be concrete, be direct, and be a contrarian. If I remember nothing else about writing this blog, hopefully I can remember these points.

Pointer to the Onion’s “Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused by His Disastrous Presidency.” I miss the days when the Onion did print rather than video, but they work a funny concept here.

Hook Spotlight into the cloud to search your online docs. Nice.

Useful for finding out if you’re being spied upon, among other use cases.

The problem solving process for resolving a very nasty Delicious Library bug. Great reading. Go buy Delicious Library.

Nice exercise in UI design for a humble Preferences window.

Heh. A great collection of Adobe error messages.

A shrinking planet with an active iron core and water. Nice for a first flyby.

Maybe someday I’ll be this cool. Or have this much time to futz around with pork bellies.

Options to eliminate the WordPress version number from your source code.

More thinking about tightening the security profile of web applications. Bonus: some pointers to tightening security for blog CMSes, including WordPress.

Different categories of product, and the importance of moving from a category sell to a product sell.

Thorough evaluation of the security of WordPress. Must read.

Useful! Except my Firefox 3 hasn’t crashed yet.

Never doubt the power of indexing.

Wow, just…wow. Needless to say, all my hopes go to the Maestro for a quick recovery, but damn.

“The Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the vice president were seeking deletions to the CDC testimony (concerning) … any discussions of the human health consequences of climate change.”