Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Using a structured query language to mine Wikipedia. Nice stuff.

Slick Firebug add-in that gives a checklist of items to improve page performance.

Incident management meets security ratings.

Many features of interest, including the built-in static analysis capabilities in XCode.

Yet another ham that won’t be available in the Boston market without a lot of hunting. Who do I have to kill to get good country ham up here?

Heh. On the other hand, not heh. How many miles of “black ops utility” lines are around Tysons Corner?

The good news, and the bad news, for Ford is that it’s the only one of the Big Three to not ask for or receive government help. The better news for Ford is their products are attractive again. My dad just bought a Ford about ten years after a bad Windstar experience made him swear off their products forever.

Where the ducklings were born and where they go when they get injured.

Simple meeting structures provide the framework on which real creative work can take place.

The biggest challenge to making GM solvent is for the government to follow Obama’s lead in intervening in the carmaker’s business as little as possible. The government is now going to be the majority shareholder of GM and needs to act like it.

This is freaking amazing. Can’t wait to see what starts to show up as part of my download subscription (eMusic subscriber since about 2002).

The irony of Fiat, an Italian carmaker not without its own troubles, owning Chrysler is pretty significant, as is the irony of Chrysler rolling out of bankruptcy before GM.

Significant upgrade to Delicious Library, including a new iPhone app to be released soon.

Scott points out the obvious: if you are locking away articles behind a paywall to get revenue, you’ve automatically decreased the value of the articles relative to the rest of the web.

Illustrations of how to think about writing secure code: a little brainteaser called “what’s wrong with this application?”

Chrome’s extension model will be HTML5 + CSS + JavaScript.

Is there room-temperature quantum entanglement at play in photosynthesis?

The book reviewed, _Guesstimation_, sounds like a good way to un-rust some rusty physics and problem-solving neurons.

HTML 5 is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

A standard license and library of embeddable high quality fonts for the web. This could make Typekit the Adobe of web design.

Maybe, finally, a replacement for Art of the Mix?

Lowering transaction costs = more small entrepreneurship opportunities. A good read, provocative as always, from Chris Anderson. The flip side of this is that on the financial side, smaller lenders = less readily available cash = constraints to getting new businesses started.

Using the Redirection plugin with regular expressions–some quick examples. I used this to fix a big chunk of my old blog archives that were 404ing after my blog consolidation.

Buffer overflows–not just for criminal purposes. A buffer overflow in a Zelda game can be exploited to load an “arbitrary code” channel on your Wii.

A sobering, even frightening exploration of vulnerabilities in the way most browsers and OSes interact with proxies can be exploited to pwn an HTTPS session, stealing and altering supposedly secure data. Must read.

When I first read about this, I totally missed that the subway car MOVED. I just thought it was a small, lame repro. My bad.

Some very interesting speculation on how the iPhone is about to evolve.

Good luck with that.

The Wikipedia community voted to dual-license its content under GFDL and now Creative Commons/ShareAlike. That’s a big, big victory for the commons.

Oh man. Data porn at its finest. My favorite part? Not only is the data available in a variety of formats (not all of it is XML, but it’s getting there) but each data source contains a description of the methodology listed to collect it.

Why try to make sites pixel perfect for IE6 when you can give them an adequate default appearance and leave it at that?

Disclosure on the nature of Apple’s unpatched Java flaws, and how it’s possible to 0wn the whole machine with a supposedly sandboxed applet. MacOSX users, disable Java now.

An interesting policy tradeoff — I wonder which “major lawsuits” are being dropped to get this to move forward.

Responses to security audits range from the funny to the sad.

Handy checklist to determine whether a work is in the public domain in the US.

Nicely executed. Missing only a few details (astronaut dummy with donut) to join the police cruiser atop the Great Dome as one of the great all-time hacks.

OK, this is conceptually brilliant. Black socks in a subscription model (a package of three every three months). They do underwear too. I wouldn’t pay $89 for a year’s subscription though, not when a $20 package from Costco of assorted black socks lasts more than a year.