Author: Tim's Bookmarks

More hints about cross-platform font goodness.

Managing salespeople is a little like managing opera stars (my analogy, not theirs).

Disqus steps into the Commenters Rights discussion. Baking this into the code is fine, as long as it remembers that there are two kinds of comments: benign and spam.

Interesting to see the rage in the comments at the suggestion that people should actually, you know, drive the speed limit.

You have to, have to, have to watch the performance on Dick Cavett. Rarely have I seen the clarinet played like Buster Keaton would have.

Long thought lost 1950s BSO broadcast tapes, restored. So why aren’t they on the Internet Archive? Or at least on iTunes?

Very interesting. I have to say, though, that as someone who spends most of his time in Bloglines these days, I’d need to get hands on to figure out the incremental benefits.

mmm, Virginia cuisine.

In honor of my undergrad professor and advisor.

I think McCain is telegraphing his target demographic just a tad. Golf gear?

Early screenshots from one of the first new confirmed 3rd party iPhone applications.

Sounds like a good guilty pleasure: “Stick a fork in the fat lady; it’s done! She’s eaten.”

Structural comparison between pop, jazz, classical, and the latest Indiana Jones movie.

I struggled trying to find info about the storm on my iPhone last night as I sat on the runway at Dulles. Why doesn’t the Post just blow up its home page and stream all its content together? Because: then what would the editors do?

Interesting point. With the advent of AJAX, what is the future of web user experience metrics? (I’ve written an answer for syndication: http://www.www.jarretthousenorth.com/internet/measuringrss/.)

Include one WordPress post inside another post or page.

The WSJ handicaps the race after reciting the usual success factors for Obama (Iraq, the Internet, “today’s generation of new, young voters,” and Bush’s faceplant), and suggests his numbers game isn’t done.

“I was against warrantless wiretapping before I was for it!”

Clinton’s farewell letter to her supporters.

When I have time to watch movies again, this science fiction film with Tilda Swinton as Ada Byron Lovelace is going on the list.

Should be a good summer read. With essays from Brian Eno and Vijay Iyer, among others.

The secret to using the Map gadget on a Google Site.

We’ve had open campaigns, how about open VP selection?

Droll summary of fanboy anticipation for Monday’s keynote. I think a few (One more thing, native 3rd-party iPhone app demo) are gimmes.

Summary of the Senate Intel Committee’s Phase II report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq. The summary: two “not substantiated by intelligence”, one “contradicted by available info”, two “did not reflect uncertainties” and one “did not support.”

Seriously. I think the Zune staff is probably listening to a lot of Joy Division themselves these days.

And the speculation begins. I’m delighted to see it begins in Virginia.

Mark Halperin’s Cliffs Notes on factors McCain will have to address to compete effectively against Obama.

More primary post-mortems.

“American Civil Religion” as an explanation for Obama’s rhetorical excellence.

Smart study showing how P2P enforcement attempts can smear innocent people and devices.

An oral history of the Internet.

Understanding how the race is run is important if you want to win.

interesting concept. I can’t imagine that this would ever work. I think if you want to keep and report your comment, copy and paste.

A speedy open source JavaScript VM sounds just like what the doctor ordered.

Good strong obit by Joe Gross that focuses on his impact on rock music.

Insightful review of Pound’s life.

Killer little plugin for point-n-click, drag-n-drop management of your WordPress content.

Registration required. Interesting findings on application security. No surprise: the vast majority of attack traffic was trying to exploit vulnerabilities that are three or four years old–and succeeding.

“I find it disgusting and right now I’m suicidal,” says Love. I find it disgusting too. Couldn’t she have found someplace else to keep him other than her purse???

Will Bill refuse to campaign for Barry?

“Guitarist” is too modest an epithet. Respect.

Much better headline.

Some justice, but not enough. Overreactions like this case shouldn’t be rewarded even conditionally.

Boomers? Guess I can put that vinyl digitization project on hold.

Reader reports point to a number of minor glitches, including (troublingly) temporarily disappearing Airport support. But nothing show stopping, apparently.

ORLY? The original post claimed “mobile Safari,” but it appears to be a browser based on an old version of Webkit (Apple’s open source browser foundation) that was ported to Symbian.

I was right. B&W is shifting to experience-based marketing. Check out the “sound tasting” description–influence the influencers.

Download Day! I think it’s time for me to update to RC1.

And the swiftboating begins.

Cheeselords at the Kennedy Center! Sil’hooettes at the Kennedy Center!

Five points to clarity on Netflix’s new appliance.

Because I keep forgetting where this is.

Why is Wikipedia writing so boring? The combined influence of neutrality and {fact}, I think.

I can’t even begin to describe what’s going on here, but it’s effed up.

Via Slashdot.

How did I miss the one about The Whole Beast???

A positive review that compares the album to old 4AD numbers.

McClellan breaks ranks, speaks the obvious.

I’ll be playing around with some of the advanced features soon. The beta was already faster than 1.0, and slicker.

Deconstructing the latent racism of HRC.

“Sometimes code rewrites are the way to go.” Yeah, if you’re dealing with 16 year old code, it’s probably worth reexamining your assumptions occasionally.

Don’t go barefoot in the park to avoid infections? Oh for goodness sake. Just bundle yourself up in a cleanroom suit so we can all know which one is the spoilsport to avoid.

“Open source application vulnerability scanning” has different meanings depending on where you pause for breath.

Such a wonderful read, ILT is. I also love the rubrication on the headings.

Mmm, tete a porc. You must watch the video. Carol’s no Julia Child, but she’s pretty funny.

A religious dispute that will never be settled. Makes me wonder what it would be like with Taleggio.

How to be gracious and inspiring in the midst of sadness.

I think that we need more of this kind of thinking. With the problems facing this country, rivalries need to stop after the election and we need to put the best qualified team of people on fixing things.

Why pay a band less for audio cassettes that you make enormous profits on? “Because that’s the way it is.” If you ever doubted the record business was fatuous and cynical, doubt no more.

The flip side to my post yesterday about B&W. This is why they’re jumping so hard into digital distribution and working so hard to build audience.

Interesting perspective on how Chicago’s emerging post-partisanship might inform an Obama general electoral campaign.

What this article needs… is instructions.

Joan Anderman finds a few good things about Scarlett Johansson’s otherwise benighted Tom Waits tribute album.

Didn’t see this one coming.

Reactions to the VRM initiative.

And then there were three: Google Books, Amazon’s Search Inside, and Project Gutenberg/Internet Archive.

Disappeared base near where I grew up.

How to work as a web designer who works with developers.

Stupid CSS list tricks.

Be sure to check out the implementation.

Wow. That’s 1500 words about how painful keyboard shortcut reassignment is in Microsoft’s latest version of Word. That’s a product manager’s worst dream.

“All parts of the universe are made up of eensy strings, each of which resonates with its fellow strings at the most fundamental level. ‘Ballmer looks like an egg. Ergo, at some point the egg and Ballmer will find each other in a deeply resonant way.’ As

How to exploit older versions of Firefox with a very easy exploit.

The Finals Concert!

Shitterton!

Not for small children or real automobiles.

One-click way to harvest cool tunes from the Funky16Corners and KEXP podcasts into one’s regular library.

Pega luna, Manny!