Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Nice simple poll for prioritization of WordPress 2.8 features. Go vote!

Interesting roundup of disk space management tools. I’ve used OmniDiskSweeper since 2001, but might check a few of these out. I’m down to 2.7 GB free out of the 80 on my MacBook Pro.

You know, I actually enjoyed driving the rental Fusion I had a while ago.

A rare non-offal related recipe from this brilliant cookthrough blog, the dish looks really fabulous. I might be able to get my wife to try it, if I could find something smaller than a whole leg of mutton. And now I know that borlotti beans = cranberry beans.

Yeah, I think it’s a little insane–but very cool.

Heh. Yes, it sounds like the writer is auditioning for a standup job, but it’s funny stuff.

I would be a lousy vegetarian. I’m drooling just reading this article.

Reminding self to get an inverter and find out how to rig this off the battery of my wife’s Highlander Hybrid.

Larry, the funkmaster at Funky16Corners and Iron Leg, is sick with unspecified kidney problems.

Another workaround for FiOS router trouble.

Keeping the Verizon FiOS router around to feed the TV connection, but using your own wireless router for your internal network. The brute force option for fixing problems with FiOS + wireless.

How to replace the Verizon modem with an Airport Extreme. Apparently you don’t want to do this if you have Verizon TV services too.

Hysterical. In so many ways.

“No, Developer, Don’t Say That” BINGO. OMFG. I may have to risk offending my developer friends and hanging this one on my cubicle wall. My contribution was “Not in the spec,” which in my articulation was “That’s not in the user story, is it? … Oh.”

If there were ever a sign that a change is a-comin’, this is it.

Looks great. I can’t imagine trying to use my iPhone on the side of a mountain, though.

Emailing a visual of your OOF calendar for really dense people.

Nice essay about why Rick Warren as an inauguration speaker might be a good thing. I hear you, David, but I’m not sure it outweighs the gay marriage stance. It’s like inviting someone who’s pro-Jim Crow to speak at an inauguration in 1954.

Interesting, if a little navel-gazing, article about how the Obama relationship with the press is evolving in the transition.

Go get it. Now. Since you can’t easily uninstall IE, it’s better to be patched even if you’ve already made the switch to Firefox.

Interesting historical archive of WordPress administrative UI. I was just looking for something like this since I can’t look at my WP 2.5/2.6 dashboard any more. It also gives context for why people hated the 2.5 administrative views so much, though I though they were pretty good.

A fairly creative way to get around a shortage of gray blocks and plates.

Dust off that old Unix disk, the user-space AncientFS filesystem for MacFUSE will let you mount it from Mac OS X.

More documentation on how the blended GIF + JAR (GIFAR) attack worked, and some thoughts on mitigating it. In particular, I like the idea of having a separate domain to store user contributed content.

A quotable year.

View the score of Arvo Pärt’s Symphony No. 4 online.

The BSO and MFA avoided the Madoff mess through due diligence, apparently.

Interesting for the Civil War photos and the building of the Statue of Liberty; fans of early cinema should be pleased too. Interesting to see what else comes on line from NYPL.

Multifactor vulnerabilities lead to massive exploits. The scary bit about this is that this points out that the 500,000 or so IIS servers that got hit with SQL injection attacks are, if they remain unpatched, fertile ground for exploiting just about any other vulnerability that comes around.

I’m thinking steak for Christmas. Will try this method once before then.

Brilliantly evocative explanation of a colossal f-up. I didn’t know the connection to Mantoloking.

Sony apparently likes the taste of egg in their face.

Yet another iPhone Twitter client. Might be time to evaluate alternatives to Twinkle.

Hat tip to Pes for linking to this visual history of the S. S. Adams company, makers of sneezing powder, joy buzzers, and snakes in a can.

If you’re on Windows, and you haven’t switched to Firefox yet, now’s the time.

Interesting tips on doing grid-style layout via CSS.

Man, I’d love to be able to make this.

The Cupertino effect in spellcheckers.

Optimized for “word processors,” but nice to know about a site with public domain resources.

It always amuses me to learn new slang, even if it comes with a healthy dose of patronizing anti-Americanism.

Interesting to read Patrick Ruffini’s take on Obama’s offline campaign and what it means for the next Republican candidate.

Whaddaya know, something approaching a substantive, respectful discussion of the issue.

Shorter advisory: Use Firefox.

Whither Window?

A rare inside look at the workings of a particle accelerator. Despite misspelling “quadripole”, the photo feature is interesting and informative.

In commemoration of Messiaen’s 100th birthday, Alex Ross posts a performance of “The Resurrection of Christ” that’s absolutely spine-tingling.

The notoriously ephemeral poem/book Agrippa spawned a lot of legends. I think I still have the 1992 text file of the poem on my machine at home. It’s only fitting that this particular “reading” of the poem has drawn so much traffic that it’s taken its host machine offline.

Dan Gillmor’s memo to the Pulitzer committee, one of the things that resulted in opening up the award to online only publications.

That ain’t good. Not so much the fat lady singing, more a canary in a coal mine.

Matthew Guerrieri’s annual Christmas carol, this time around a nice Annunciation carol with a 16th century text.

Alex Ross capsule retrospective of Leonard Bernstein’s career, complete with anecdote of a National Cathedral performance of Mahler’s 2nd. Wonder who the chorus was for that one?

The fire sale on private equity firms is more than a little scary.

NYTimes starts linking to other websites. The end of business as usual at the Gray Lady. Nice.

The model of using antivirus software to reactively identify and remove worms is badly broken. The security market has to shift its focus to hardening the applications (and increasingly it’s applications, not the OS) that enable the hacks.