Category: linkblog

Cool anti-injection flaw plugin for WordPress.

How to make sure that you keep the hires you want.

It’s stuff like this that made me want to get into physics in the first place.

The last word on "The Night Before Christmas," by the EC Comics crew, pre-Comics Code. Hysterically dry and literal take on Clement Moore's holiday verse.

Good resource for some interesting statistical tricks with Excel. I particularly like the FREQUENCY function.

Built in shortlinks for your self-hosted WordPress blog.

Another way to make your holidays bright. Playing the font game.

This is awesome. “I don’t see through walls, but I can kick your ass.”

Interesting play by an MIT team. Question is, does it work well enough to make more people want to get on bikes?

A nice cogent example of how implementing different APIs can lend some really cool results.

The comment thread is predictably pointless, but I love the names of the sections of this new literary genre: “Praeinstallatio, Contrainstallatio, Descendo, Depilatio…”

Key quote: “all these new implementations of the Twitter API tend to lessen the importance of teh Funnel” (aka Twitter as a standalone service). Part of what makes a technology community is the API, and lots of tools and services communicating with an API means it’s successful. Reimplementing the API in a different cloud allows a ridealong effect. There’s probably a good technology strategy project in this for some bright business researcher.

Some good things to do on vacation.

In the aftermath of the Plurk code theft, Microsoft signals it’s going to get serious about review of third party code.

I think the Bush White House had a records retention problem. I hope that isn’t just the tip of the iceberg.

Interesting. Useless until there’s an API, but interesting.

Careful with that fructose, Eugene.

Interview with Keith on the Holiday Pops. Great audio from the chorus.

Interesting recommendation for making demos more manageable by breaking them into tasks, presenting the “wow” first, then show how you got there.

AT&T vs. Apple Part II: Yes, it sure looks like Apple has issues with the iPhone. It sure doesn’t look like the AT&T network is to blame. Or does it? I know who my money’s on.

Absolutely brilliant takedown of AT&T, and what’s wrong with only navigating your market by the numbers.

While “right thing” may be an overstatement, it's a good thing to see a conservative pastor, especially a homophobic one, speaking out against Uganda's laws requiring imprisonment and imposing the death penalty for homosexual behavior. On the other hand, congratulating a pastor for speaking out against injustice is a classic “Congratulations. Did you want a cookie for that?” moment.

Actually, I do. I had no idea that the DOD was using system dynamics to plan their engagement in Afghanistan, but I feel a lot better knowing that someone is out there drawing those complex charts.

Interesting review of the new Dragon Dictation app. It sends your voice to their servers and the text back. Clever design. Hope it’s secure.

Veracode is a finalist for Best Security Software Development Solution.

Interesting. Like all good experiments it gets more interesting the deeper you go into it. I particularly like the timeline of news articles that trace developments in the story.

This. This is what makes a vein in my forehead twitch every time I hear about the RIAA going after someone for filesharing “because it hurts the artist.” If record companies devoted a fraction of the resources to paying their own damned bills that they do to tracking down peer-to-peer users, artists would be a lot better off.

Good to have a little more transparency, even if it's accidental, around the TSA's processes.

It is, inevitably, humbling to show up for a routine gig and become a part of someone else’s story. That happened today as we performed at the Prudential Center at a free gig; at the end of the second set, we helped to make Victor’s wish a reality. When I think about how we take performing for granted… I don’t think I’ll take it for granted any more.