Category: linkblog

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!

Strong words from a Democratic senator who’s starting to sound like a frontrunner.

Nice potential exploit of an as-yet-unreleased browser.

“Plenty of warmth and good definition, but a sense of the large acoustical space is also captured.”

Good rundown of the roadblocks that can occur in rolling out even a simple piece of software functionality.

Reminder to always trade off value for feature count.

One hates to provide help to censors, but guys–if you want to censor a PDF, you really have to make the text and the redaction bars all images rather than overlaying rectangles.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Oh crap.

I can’t wait to see the Swift Boat freaks get on this one. It’s a happy story but will come out as, “He’s a MILLIONAIRE! By the way, let me tell you his middle name again!!!”

The New Yorker makes Woody’s “Cassandra’s Dream” sound like a Thomas Hardy novel.

$1.4 million spent on prosecuting 26 cases of vote fraud in Texas, of which 8 were actual fraud and 18 were screw-ups with absentee ballots. Glad to hear the GOP is on top of that vote fraud thing.

Too bad that the courts bothered to strike down the Broadcast Flag, because Microsoft implemented it anyway. WTF????

Ooops.

Wow. Very cool.

Why are the Pioneer probes so far off course?

How a bunch of Valley people thinking like social network builders made Obama a fundraising force to be reckoned with.

The font game just got a lot harder.

Bush once again proves he’s a uniter, not a divider. He’s doing a great job of uniting the Democrats.

Hmm. The Pops and Death Cab? The Pops and Belle & Sebastian? Hey, it could happen. I’m still holding out for that call to be backing vox for an EdgeFest show. I’d go in a second.

Interesting perspectives. I don’t think Sloan is the only school to bank on growing non-MBA programming, though–think Darden’s executive ed.

Hilarious.

It’s probably not too early to start talking about running mates, but it sure feels like it.

Nice to see a member of the RIAA hoist on their own petard.

An interesting point: “‘The statistics show that there’s no effect on piracy.’… then [DRM] is merely a nuisance for the user.” Or a lock-in tool for Apple?

The new Apple Store looks, from the street at night, like a parking garage.

Anthropological explanation of Twitter; or, putting a human face on the “network effect.”

Yes, another WordPress theme. Might do the trick.

I actually like the blank 3 column theme here. But does it support WP 2.5 and widgets?

Another free theme–this one built on a solid type grid.

Examples of drop caps on various sites.

3 column, rotating images, nice typography