November 29, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-29
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November 26, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-26
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November 24, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-24
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November 23, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-23
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November 22, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-22
- The Propaganda Remix Project: 41 of the posters in full color and for each poster, a full page of political commentary by the Center for Constitutional Rights giving names, dates, footnoted sources backing up the humorous claims of the posters.
( Amusing Images Iraq Politics Terrorism dept_HomelandSecurity )
- Advanced Perl DBI (presentation): by Tim Bunce
( PERL Presentation people_TimBunce perl_DBI )
- Mobile Baby Toy turns your Nokia Series 60 mobile phone into developmental baby toy: The Mobile Baby Toy might save you then. It will turn your mobile phone into amazing developmental toy, with which your baby can play alone, or with you.
( Amusing Baby Kids Telephone Toys )
- Printer forensics to aid homeland security, tracing counterfeiters: So far, the researchers have been able to successfully identify which model of printers was used to create certain documents in 11 out of 12 models tested
( Printing Privacy Research Security edu_Purdue )
- G.O.P. Says Motive for Tax Clause in Budget Bill Was Misread: he found it strange that senators felt they were taken by surprise. He noted that the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep Young, had discussed it briefly on the House floor, and that the language had been available since Thur
( Law Privacy Taxes )
- Richard Clarke: Straight talking on terror: ZDNet UK sat down with Clarke, to discuss whether cyberterrorism is a misnomer or a real threat and whether he regrets publicly criticising the Bush administration.
( 9/11 Hackers Security Terrorism people_Bush people_RichardClarke )
- A New Vision for Nuclear Waste: U.S. Congress must now decide whether to proceed with Yucca at all. This presents an opportunity to align policy with physics and abandon the Yucca-or-bust dogma that has dominated the debate for nearly 20 years. Casks, centrally located, could make the h
( Environment Nuclear Terrorism )
- Mom's Cancer: My mother was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer.I made a comic strip about it.
( Amusing Cancer Comics Health )
- Microsoft Interview Questions: The following are actual questions from actual interviews conducted by Microsoft employees on the main campus. Microsoft Consultants are sometimes allowed to have a life, so questions asked of them during interviews don't really count and aren't listed.
( Jobs Puzzle Riddles co_Microsoft )
- Author of Linux Patent Study Says Ballmer Got It Wrong: Ptents are infringed by specific structures that accomplish specific functionality. "Patents don't care how the infringing article is distributed, be it under an open-source license, a proprietary license or not at all. Therefore, if a patent infringes on
( IP Linux Opensource Patents co_Microsoft people_Ballmer )
- mozdev.org - mycroft: deepdocs: In these documents you will find technical information on the full spectrum of the Mozilla-Search plugin capabilities. These documents will show you how to work with Mozilla-Search and sometimes how to work around Mozilla-Search
( Firefox Mozilla Plugin Search )
- Refactoring: a simple portal for information about refactoring. There is a list of sources of information about refactoring, including various books that have been written. There is a catalog of common refactorings, mostly taken from the original book.
( Books Programming XP )
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler: a controlled technique for improving the design of an existing code base. Its essence is applying a series of small behavior-preserving transformations, each of which "too small to be worth doing". However the cumulative effect of each of these transforma
( Books Programming XP )
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November 20, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-20
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November 19, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-19
- gotomedia : resources : goto guides: created as resource material for Kelly's regular lectures. The Web Design Workflow PDF has evolved from this 40-page document to the full 276 page book which will soon be published in a second edition.
( Books Design PM Tutorials WebDev )
- Invasion of the Body Switchers: infinitely extensible, handling any number of options and media types, all from a single Javascript and CSS file. It works by adding one or more unique class names to the page's tag; styles are then defined using descendent selectors.
( CSS JS Tutorials WebDev )
- /* Position Is Everything */ �� Modern browser bugs explained in detail!: we built this site to explain some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers, provide demo examples of interesting CSS behaviors, and show how to 'make it work' without using tables for layout purposes.
( CSS WebDev XHTML )
- A quick and dirty introduction to accessibility
( Accessibility Tutorials WebDev )
- Design by Fire: Design Eye for the Usability Guy: I decided I’d gather up some knowledgeable designers and help Nielsen in return with a little bit of design advice. The Design Fab Five, right here, right now.
( Design Usability WebDev )
- Unica Home
( Design Furnishings Home )
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: This is a reference document for accessibility principles and design ideas. Some of the strategies discussed in this document address certain Web internationalization and mobile access concerns.
( Accessibility Reference WebDev org_W3C )
- CSS Filters (dithered.com): a number of techniques have been developed to hide CSS stylesheets, rules, and declarations from browsers that won't understand or will mis-interpret them. On these pages, I've collected a number of these techniques (usually called filters or hacks) and d
( CSS JS Reference WebDev XHTML )
- Swept off his feet by severe heel pain: plantar fasciitis, an inflammation of the plantar fascia, the tough band of tissue that connects the heel bone to the ball of the foot.
( Feet Health )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 18, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-18
- Keyhole: zoom from space down to street level and combine imagery, 3D geography,maps, and business data to get the total picture in seconds
( EyeCandy Photography Satellite Software Space )
- MkArchitecture presents the Glidehouse: An Environmentally Friendly and Efficient Prefabricated House
( Architecture Design Home )
- Broward machines count backward: Early Thursday, as Broward County elections officials wrapped up after a long day of canvassing votes, something unusual caught their eye. Tallies should go up as more votes are counted. That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone . . . do
( Campaign04 Fl. eVoting )
- ethr.net - Business Solutions : Colocation Servers: Co-Lo services
( Co-Lo Hosting ISP )
- subversion.tigris.org: a compelling replacement for CVS
( SVN SourceControl )
- Version Control with Subversion: This is the online home of Version Control with Subversion, a free book about Subversion, a new version control system designed to supplant CVS.
( Books Documentation SVN SourceControl )
- Jet: South's high murder rate is key factor in why U.S. homicide rate is so high: experts believe the high Southern murder rate is a key factor behind America's high homicide rate in comparison with other democratic, industrialized nations
( Crime Murder Reference dept_FBI )
- Walking the walk on family values: AP, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per
( Marriage Reference issue_FamilyValues )
- Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed: The report shows that of the 32 states that are "winners" -- receiving more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes -- 76% are Red States that voted for George Bush in 2000. Indeed, 17 of the 20 (85%) states receiving the most federal spending
( Politics Reference Taxes )
- Time for a bigger crane...: Ouch.
( Autos Images )
- Intellectual property: A patent is a government-granted temporary monopoly intended to reward innovators in exchange for a disclosure by the patent holder of how his invention works, thereby encouraging others to further innovation. The qualifying tests for patents are straight
( IP Legal Op-Ed OpenIntelligence Patents mag_Economist )
- Apache Desktop Reference
( Books Reference apache_HTTP )
- mod_perl: The Apache Request Object: Setting Server Response Headers: You want to set the outgoing server response headers.
( HTTP Tutorials apache_mod_perl )
- mod_perl guide: Issuing Correct HTTP Headers
( Documentation HTTP Reference apache_mod_perl )
- Fuck the South
( Amusing Campaign04 Politics Rants Reference )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 17, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-17
- Dynamic Text Replacement: We can forget all that nonsense. No more
![]() or tags, no more id attributes or wasted time in Photoshop, and no more messy CSS hacks. Using JavaScript and PHP, we can generate accessible image-headings using any font we like. And we don’t have
( CSS Tutorials WebDev XHTML )
- Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!: You’ve written valid XHTML and CSS. You’ve used the W3C standard Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate dynamic page elements. Yet, in browsers designed to support these very standards, your site is failing. A faulty DOCTYPE is likely to blame.
( Reference Tutorials WebDev XHTML )
- Better Living Through XHTML: The rules of XHTML take minutes to learn and the benefits of XHTML are vast. It is easy to author in XHTML and equally easy to convert HTML to XHTML by hand.
( CSS Tutorials WebDev XHTML )
- NYPL: Style Guide: This Style Guide for the Branch Libraries of the New York Public Library explains the markup and design requirements for all Branch Libraries web projects, along with various standards and best practices.
( CSS Tutorials Validator WaSP WebDev XHTML )
- W3C CSS Validator FAQ: contains the most frequently asked questions about the W3C CSS Validator
( CSS Reference Validator WebDev org_W3C )
- The Grey Video
( Music Video band_Beatles band_DJDangerMouse )
- Governor sets money-raising record / $26.6 million in his first year -- most of it from special interests: By the Schwarzenegger political team's own records, Schwarzenegger accepted at least $26.6 million in his first year in office. Davis -- who was criticized for aggressive fund-raising -- accepted $13.2 million.
( Ca. issue_Lobbys people_Schwarzenegger )
- sorttable: Make all your tables sortable: if you saw that table in a client-side application, you'd expect to be able to click on the headers and have the table sort, would you not? I know it always annoys me when you can't. A fair few web applications do allow this; most of them, which are pulli
( JS Scripts Usability WebDev )
- Effective Notetaking
( GTD Kids Organization School )
- Larabie Fonts: hundreds of original, freeware fonts
( Design Fonts )
- Pacman breaks out of the arcade: researchers are taking Pacman out of the arcade hall of fame and setting him loose on the streets. instead of becoming a yellow blob trapped in a low-resolution two-dimensional maze, "Human Pacman" can roam freely through real environments.
( Games Research VR )
- That moose may soon be just a mouse click away: Underwood, an estimator for a San Antonio, Texas auto body shop, has invested $10,000 to build a platform for a rifle and camera that can be remotely aimed on his 330-acre (133-hectare) southwest Texas ranch by anyone on the Internet anywhere in the world
( GunControl Hunting Weapons )
- Knoppix: The Linux Windows Users Can't Live Without: Chapter 7: Resuce Windows. A collection of 9 hacks that showed me that even Windows users need a little bit of Linux in their life.
( Books Linux Software Utilities Win32 dist_Knoppix )
- Good Hyperlink, Bad Hyperlink: There are occasions where the style of writing allows for ironic linking (or bad linking, as I did above for didactic purposes). However, in technical writing, links are a tool for clarity. Used properly, they can provide powerful background or backchanne
( Op-Ed Usability WebDev )
- Palm Blogging Apps: it’s been encouraging to see several dedicated blogging clients appear for the Palm OS platform. Inspired in part by Palm Weblogging on Palmsource.com, I thought a quick round-up of the available clients would be helpful.
( Blogs PalmOS Software )
- Senate May Ram Copyright Bill: HR2391: The bill would undo centuries of "fair use". It would permit people to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- a right that consumers already have. However, viewers would not be allowed to skip ads or commercials
( Copyright IP Law issue_FairUse org_MPAA org_RIAA )
- In Texas, 28,000 Students Test an Electronic Eye: Hoping to prevent the loss of a child through kidnapping or more innocent circumstances, a few schools have begun monitoring student arrivals and departures using technology similar to that used to track livestock and pallets of retail shipments.
( Kids RFID Schools Security )
- Fred's Airshow Journal: Photos of the 2004 Miramar Air Show
( Aerospace EyeCandy Photography )
- fishighway.com
( Amusing Aquarium Fish )
- Can You Outsource Project Management?: The specifics of which work to farm out and when matter less than the quality of the three people new projects desperately need—a strong, involved sponsor from the business side, a good project manager and a skilled technical specialist
( Outsourcing PM Tutorials mag_Baseline )
- Primer: Event-Driven Architecture: The term "event-driven architecture" refers to any applications that react intelligently to changes in conditions, whether that change is the impending failure of a hard drive or a sudden change in stock price.
( Agents EventDrivenArchitecture mag_Baseline )
- Grid Computing: Too Good to Be True?: But that result is rare among applications at large companies, which rely on large databases processing transactions quickly, not hard-core analysis, which make them unsuitable for the parallel requirements of grids
( Costing Grid mag_Baseline )
- Saba Software: Heavy Lifting: receives the strongest acclaim for its system's ability to handle tens of thousands of users. But like any other enterprise software, customers say, there's a fair amount of complexity in deploying and using it.
( LMS co_Saba eLearning mag_Baseline )
- Paper airplane - The best paper airplane in the world!: Over the years, I have shown many eight year old children this paper plane. I don't know if they will remember but I hope they pass the knowledge on.
( Aerospace Inventive PaperAirplanes Tutorials )
- Plateau Systems: Comply With Me: Plateau Systems hates to be called a niche player. But like it or not, the company has won particular favor among large organizations that need to demonstrate that their employees meet government-mandated training requirements.
( LMS co_Plateau eLearning mag_Baseline )
- SumTotal: Greater Than Its Parts?: ustomers of Click2learn and Docent, which merged in March to become SumTotal Systems, generally believe the union is a positive step—though some are reserving judgment until they see how it plays out.
( LMS Software co_Click2learn co_Docent co_SumTotal eLearning mag_Baseline )
- Lessons From the Virtual Classroom: The major problem: The system included no information about which of the 2,700 training courses an individual employee was supposed to take.
( LMS co_Kinkos eLearning mag_Baseline )
- Amtrak: Runaway Train: Gunn, Amtrak's CEO, doesn't send or receive electronic mail. Gunn doesn't even have a computer in his office. That makes it critical for Galey to explain clearly what a new technology initiative is and why it is justified.
( Outsourcing co_Amtrak mag_Baseline )
- TeaLeaf : Product : RealiTea: Application management solutions today focus on infrastructure uptime and application performance — not whether every real user can successfully complete every transaction, every time — the real measure of application availability. RealiTea provides i
( Monitoring Software WebDev co_TeaLeaf )
- Quixtar: Cleaning Up: The online version of Amway racked up $1 billion in sales of cleansers and vitamins. Yet, if it the site were better, it could add another $100 million.
( Usability WebDev co_Amway co_Keynote co_Quixtar co_TeaLeaf mag_Baseline )
- Stanford University: Hard Lesson: When the prestigious institution installed new Oracle and PeopleSoft systems, it nearly flunked out of the project. Can tighter controls earn it a passing grade?
( Accounting HR ITM PM co_Oracle co_Peoplesoft edu_Stanford mag_Baseline )
- Beyond Nerds: SAS in the last two years has focused on industry-specific applications built on its data-analysis technologies, such as software to help banks detect credit-card fraud. The company has reorganized its sales group to line up with 12 vertical industries, i
( BI ITM Software co_SAS mag_Baseline )
- Merck Seeks a Cure: its product pipeline dried up, sales slowed and profits shrank. To get through what could be a long dry spell, Merck brought in a chief information officer from the tight-fisted paper industry. But can new CIO Chris Scalet wring efficiencies without imped
( ITM PM R&D co_Merck mag_Baseline )
- Get Me Someone With a Pulse . . .: Service executives say most systems are good at tracking complaints and making tickets. But project managers need to integrate procedures that can trigger responses that may actually retain the customer.
( CustomerService PBX Telephone mag_Baseline )
- Turning a Vision Into a Reality: Communicating is about listening as much as talking.
( ITM Op-Ed co_CharlesSchwab mag_Baseline )
- Baseline-Nucleus Research Technology ROI Awards Winners: Harrah's generated a triple-digit return of 389% by implementing a data warehouse that allows the company to identify and concentrate on the customers who will reward Harrah's with the most revenue.
( Awards DataManagement co_Alcan co_BurlingtonRailway co_Halliburton co_Harrahs co_IntermountainHC co_LeoBurnett co_RemingtonArms co_Zarlink edu_SeattlePubSchools mag_Baseline org_LosAlamos )
- Back in Control: WorldCom began implementing the SAS application, known as SAS Activity-Based Management, in June 2003 and sped up deployment to eight weeks from 13. Why? The company's business analysts realized they could use the SAS software to compile financial results
( Accounting Costing co_MCI co_SAS mag_Baseline )
- A Deal to Watch: "It's ludicrous to think Chevron [an SAP customer] would buy a word processor from me. It's also ludicrous to think Chevron would buy its enterprise software from Microsoft."
( ERP Merger co_Microsoft co_SAP mag_Baseline )
- Ready? Secure? Disclose: Meanwhile, cybersecurity gets worse. In the last six weeks, source code from Cisco Systems was leaked on the Internet, the Sasser worm wreaked havoc on corporate systems and Gartner reported that consumers lost $1.2 billion in 2003 due to "phishing attack
( Security mag_Baseline )
- Why You Will Come to Love Dead Zones: In the next 20 years, organizations of all types will be seeking out dead zones. If they don't exist, they'll create them.
( NetTech Op-Ed Telephone WiFi mag_Baseline )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 16, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-16
- BareTail - Free Tail for Windows: BareTail is a real-time file viewing utility. Like the Unix tail -f utility, it can be used to view the end of a growing file. It is ideal for viewing application traces or server logs in real time, as they are generated.
( Software Utility Win32 )
- Windows Tail Utility: This is a GUI Utility that gives a similar function of 'tail' command in UNIX systems. It can run either directly or by command line parameters. Very nice when debugging/monitoring application log files.
( Software Utility Win32 )
- Author Says Bush and Blair Are Mangling English: Humphrys says the original culprits in the destruction of English are "business gurus who are trying to sell their own particular theories and have invented their own ridiculous phrases and vocabulary to accompany those theories."
( Amusing English Grammar people_Blair people_Bush )
- CoFE Collaborative Filtering Engine Home Page: are software systems that enable communities to perform collaborative filtering. At the center of a collaborative filtering system is a collaborative filtering recommendation engine. The recommendation engine is responsible for analyzing ratings, determin
( CollaborativeFiltering Community Software )
- Human toll has some arguing for ban on cell phone use at the wheel, study says equiv to driving drunk: In Washington state, it's not illegal to drive while using a cell phone, nor is law enforcement required to track it as a factor in collisions. And if you kill someone while you're doing it -- called "phoneslaughter" by some -- it's unlikely you'll face j
( Autos DrunkDriving Law Telephone )
- Dedicated Devices Introduces End-to-End Home Media Solution: The only thing missing from the DDI system is some kind of TiVo-like functionality. It would make a ton of sense to have the central DDC unit recording satellite and/or cable video feeds for subsequent replay throughout the house.
( Home MediaCenter NetTech Television co_DedicatedDevices )
- TiVo Ready to Fast Forward?: The need for a digital command center is apparent, Ramsay said, pointing out the myriad of products creating content: PCs, iPods, digital still and video cameras, satellite radio and TV, PDAs, to name a few. The TV, coupled with TiVo, could be the gateway
( MediaCenter Television co_TiVo edu_HBS people_MichaelRamsay )
- The Faith-Based Encyclopedia: The user is in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. Obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the faciliti
( Op-Ed OpenIntelligence Wiki Wikipedia )
- TNO TPD - GigaPix UK: with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004
( EyeCandy Photography )
- Computers Linked to Glaucoma?: heavy computer users were 74% more likely to develop visual field problems as compared baseline in a group of 10,202 randomly selected workers. Furthermore, heavy computer users were found to be 81% more likely to develop glaucoma.
( MedSci Research Vision )
- mozdev.org - delicious: This extension integrates del.icio.us with Firefox.
( Del.icio.us Extensions FireFox )
- RBC's Account Imbalance: The problem began on May 31 when a single worker introduced a "relatively small number" of faulty pieces of code into the bank's transaction processing system, which then began issuing error messages to users. In press reports, RBC CIO Martin Lippert chal
( CustomerService SourceControl mag_Baseline )
- Tool: The Cost of Automated Upgrades: Excel file calculates costs and benefits of system management suites
( NetOps SMS mag_Baseline )
- Mercury Interactive: The 98% Solution: Mercury Interactive has convinced customers that it can monitor the performance of critical applications, not just Web applications.
( Monitoring Software co_Mercury mag_Baseline )
- Computer Associates: Scandal? What Scandal?: the financial turmoil may have humbled CA and given it a greater incentive to improve products. The company once had a bad rap for acquiring technologies and poorly melding them together. These days, the integration among the tools in the broader Unicente
( CustomerService Monitoring Software co_ComputerAssociates mag_Baseline )
- BMC Software: Sweating the Big Stuff: Software customers say the company's Patrol product can be tough to deploy. Once in place, they say, it successfully monitors critical applications.
( Monitoring Software co_BMC mag_Baseline )
- Software Testing, Performance Management, IT Governance: Mercury Sitescope and Application Management Foundation
( Monitoring Software co_Mercury )
- When to Stuff Voices Into Packets: Your company may not be making calls using Internet standards now, but it will—eventually. So far, though, the cost to switch from conventional phone systems often outweighs savings.
( VoIP mag_Baseline )
- Unicenter Enterprise Management: a personalized secure web interface for Unicenter solutions, addressing clients’ needs for role-based management, management by exception, and simplicity of use.
( Monitoring Software co_ComputerAssociates )
- BMC Software: PATROL Internet Server Manager: PATROL Internet Server Manager provides built-in expertise and automated administrative control for Web-based applications without compromising security. It monitors and manages Internet servers, ensuring greater availability for mission-critical Internet
( Monitoring Software co_BMC )
- Put Your Finger on the Pulse: Software that measures application performance doesn't live up to the most spectacular vendor promises—and it's harder to set up than most people realize. But such tools can be the difference between a system slowdown and a show-stopping disaster.
( Monitoring mag_Baseline )
- Trek Bicycle Corp: Tour de Force: The Wisconsin manufacturer has cranked out a series of 'ultimate road bikes' for Lance Armstrong—boosting its bottom line by selling to everyday cyclists wanting to own them.
( Manufacturing Marketing co_Trek mag_Baseline people_LanceArmstrong )
- Proctor & Gamble: Delivering Goods: Procter & Gamble has streamlined its supply chain to put more of its products on store shelves when customers are ready to buy.
( ITM SCM co_P&G mag_Baseline )
- Canada Firearms: Armed Robbery: Define what you want. Put someone experienced in charge. Freeze specifications. Don't expect users to comply on their own.
( GunControl Management PM Weapons mag_Baseline )
- Dollar General: 8 Days To Grow: Dollar General opens two new stores every day. The secret isn't Miracle-Gro. Instead, there's a well-honed choreography of human muscle and precision logistics that sets up each new outlet in little more than a week.
( Management ProcessEngineering co_DollarGeneral mag_Baseline )
- The Right Time for Real Time: McGee's point is there's a wealth of information available to companies. But too often they don't have the technology or processes—mostly, the wherewithal—to tap it. McGee says the key is to figure out what data is most relevant to a company's financi
( BI ITM mag_Baseline )
- Performing New Tricks for Old Customers: We also know who is using our products and how, so we can provide software patches or offer replacement products before a customer has a problem and logs a complaint with our technical assistance center.
( CustomerService mag_Baseline )
- CIO Pay Survey: Pay It Backward: The small club of information- technology executives who are among the five highest-paid officers at their companies has gotten smaller. The shift may indicate that technologists are being regarded more as plumbers than strategists
( CIO ITM Jobs Salary mag_Baseline )
- Wal-Mart's Texas Two-Step: He says RFID tracking data with weather pattern information could make better inventory predictions. "If it's a cold night and there are not enough fire logs on the shelf, it's not like people come back the next day and buy two logs," he says.
( Inventory RFID co_WalMart mag_Baseline )
- We Have Met the Enemy, and It Is Us: So, load up on protective software. Think this way: Everyone is on your technology staff as of today. Everyone has to be trained in fraud detection and prevention.
( ITM Security mag_Baseline )
- Does the White House know?: FCC's position is that its Act gives it regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus "associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received" via all interstate radio and wire communication. That's quite a claim.
( Law dept_FCC issue_BroadcastFlag )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 15, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-15
- A bike for the paralysed: the tricycle, which works by stimulating the legs electrically, will not only provide a means of transport and recreation, but should also stop muscle wastage and could provide more mobility.
( Health Inventive MedSci Toys )
- Google Groups : 43Folders: Lifehacks, productivity tricks, and OSX tips. Cousin of 43Folders.com
( GTD Organization Productivity mLists )
- Google Guide: Using Search Operators (Advanced Operators)
( Search Tutorials co_Google )
- Google Cheatsheet
( Reference Search co_Google )
- What is encryption?: symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems, public versus private keys, digital signatures, hash algorithms, RSA, DES, Rijndael, PGP, MD5, SHA-1, https, secure sockets, Camellia, IDEA; what does it all mean?
( Cryptography Reference )
- FireFox search toolbar extensions
( Extensions FireFox Search )
- Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms: Despite this, most web developers (of the minority of developers who even know or care that these elements exist) use to mark up both acronyms and abbreviations.
( Accessibility Grammer WaSP )
- , , Accessibility & Automation | Musings: Nothing seems to sow more confusion among markup geeks than the proper usage of the and elements. Many discussions get sidetracked by the arcana of English grammar rather than focussing on the real issues.
( Accessibility Grammer WaSP )
- Five tips for configuring Apache: tuning of Apache's accept() serialization, threading with Apache 2.0, SSL session caching with mod_ssl, optimizing the keep-alive timeout values, and examining server load to be able to tune the amount of requests the server can handle.
( Tuning Tutorials apache_HTTP )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 14, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-14
- FCC places regulatory shield around VoIP: With VoIP siphoning off traditional land line users, many state utilities were drafting legislation to secure taxes and fees on VoIP communications. These moves would have resulted in a patchwork of different regulations across the US and could stifle the
( Government Law VoIP dept_FCC )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 13, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-13
- US DoJ searches homes of P2P evil doers: The US DoJ (Department of Justice) today launched an assault on P2P file traders, using search warrants to investigate five homes and the offices of one ISP (Internet Service Provider). This is the first time the DoJ has applied such drastic measures agai
( Music P2P dept_Justice org_RIAA people_Ashcroft )
- A Question For Gonzales - About that juror disclosure form ...: When Gov. Bush appeared that day for jury duty, he did not fill out the part of the jury questionnaire that asked him to list any previous convictions. My question is this: Did you instruct Gov. Bush, or one of his aides, to leave that part of the jury qu
( DrunkDriving JuryDuty people_AlbertoGonzales people_Bush )
- Alien Autopsy - Halo 2 shows you the mind of the enemy.: Of course, you could argue just as easily that Paul Wolfowitz wrote the humans' guide. The narrative seems awfully familiar: a "good" force, convinced of its moral superiority, hacking through a faceless, undeterred horde that's driven by religious fervor
( Games Halo Iraq Op-Ed War xBox )
- The Trouble With CNBC and Smart Money and … - The financial media's undisclosed conflict of interest: financial journalists face conflicts of their own. First and foremost? To stay in business, they must persuade us to read, watch, or listen. Why is this a conflict? Because responsible investing is about as entertaining as watching bread rise.
( Investing PersonalFinance )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 12, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-12
- CSS2 - Tableless forms: I used to believe that to properly mark up a long and complicated form you need a table. Recently though, I changed my mind
( CSS WebDev XHTML )
- Little Fluffy Industries: Free Online Games Daily: Wasting your time... and ours.
( Amusing Flash Games )
- BootMaster Partition Recovery - XP and W98 Rescue Disks: a partition recovery app designed for FAT/NTFS HDD partitions. It provides automatic master partition table rebuild, FAT and NTFS partition boot sector restoration, and safe MBR backup and recovery.
( Software Storage Utilities Win32 )
- FreedomLink Locations in California
( Reference Wifi co_SBC )
- perl.com: Simple IO Handling with IO::All: IO::All does slurping and a whole lot more. The motivating idea behind this module is to simplify all of the Perl IO idioms as much as possible, and also to create new idioms for common-use cases that weren't really idiomatic to begin with.
( PERL Programming Tutorial )
- Virtual Bartender: Hints: /TammyClips.xml
( Amusing nsfw )
- Troika Studio: Guerilla Art, Design, and Devices
( Amusing Art Design Toys )
- MOOX: Firefox M3 Optimized Builds: M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set.
( FireFox Reference )
- Tired of SprintPCS dropping your calls????: To Claire: "Dropped Call Credit" (up to 20 times a month)
( CustomerService Telephone co_SprintPCS )
- Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: Mmm, yummy: Today, I wondered why nobody appeared to have done a Firefox search plugin. Twenty minutes later, here they are:
( Del.icio.us FireFox Plugin Search )
- Next Space Race Under Way: "You know, I was wondering what they are feeling, 'they' being that other space agency," Rutan laughs. "And, uh... you know, quite frankly, I think the big guys, I think they're looking at each other now, and saying, 'We're screwed!'
( Space Travel issue_xPrize people_BurtRutan tv_60Minutes )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 10, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-10
- Mailing List Archive: ModPerl
( PERL apache_mod_perl mLists )
- ASPN : Mailing List Archive: Mailing list archives, available for browsing and searching, categorized by topic.
( PERL co_ActiveState mLists )
- Densitron Computers - Products: Panel mount and all-in-one flat panel PCs
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware ThinClient )
- Cyclone Network PC Industrial Thin Client with 18.0" Color LCD: Powered by Microsoft Windows Embedded XP
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware ThinClient ms_EmbeddedXP )
- Wyse Technology - Winterm 9650XE: space-saving design of a high-quality, ergonomically designed 15” bright LCD flat-panel monitor with integrated multimedia speakers, the model 9650XE offers a rich built-in Internet browser, multimedia, and access to over 9000 peripherals.
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware ThinClient ms_EmbeddedXP )
- VersaView Industrial Wallmount Computers
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware )
- Touch Panel Computers: Touch Panel Computer's PC-Box and display unit are assembled with the Quick Change Mechanism. The QCM joins the PC-Box and display units by connecting the adapter card on the PC-Box side with the connecting socket on the display
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware )
- Room Defender: The tripod-mounted personal robo-sentry has a built-in motion detector to spot anyone trying to sneak into a bedroom, den, treehouse or anywhere else out of bounds to brother, sister, mum or dad.
( Amusing Security Toys Weapons )
- The $20,000 Suitcase. Really. No Kidding: Let's say you'd just paid $20,000 for a wheeled suitcase with a telescoping handle--arguably the finest in the world. What would you expect? "I'd expect $19,000 change," quipped one cynic.
( Amusing Luggage Toys )
- Battery-Free RFID Mouse: Battery-Free Wireless Optical Mouse consists of two parts: The Wireless Optical Mouse & RFID Mouse Pad
( Hardware Mouse RFID )
- Buffalo TeraStation 1TB Network Storage: The "TeraStation," features four 250GB hard drives, There's two boring "just store shit" modes, but two modes utilize RAID. Also, it connects via Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0
( Hardware NAS NetTech RAID Storage )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 09, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-09
- Densitron Computers - Products: Panel mount and all-in-one flat panel PCs
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware ThinClient )
- Cyclone Network PC Industrial Thin Client with 18.0" Color LCD: Powered by Microsoft Windows Embedded XP
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware ThinClient ms_EmbeddedXP )
- Wyse Technology - Winterm 9650XE: space-saving design of a high-quality, ergonomically designed 15” bright LCD flat-panel monitor with integrated multimedia speakers, the model 9650XE offers a rich built-in Internet browser, multimedia, and access to over 9000 peripherals.
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware ThinClient ms_EmbeddedXP )
- VersaView Industrial Wallmount Computers
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware )
- Touch Panel Computers: Touch Panel Computer's PC-Box and display unit are assembled with the Quick Change Mechanism. The QCM joins the PC-Box and display units by connecting the adapter card on the PC-Box side with the connecting socket on the display
( *Work_wallmount Computers Hardware )
- Room Defender: The tripod-mounted personal robo-sentry has a built-in motion detector to spot anyone trying to sneak into a bedroom, den, treehouse or anywhere else out of bounds to brother, sister, mum or dad.
( Amusing Security Toys Weapons )
- The $20,000 Suitcase. Really. No Kidding: Let's say you'd just paid $20,000 for a wheeled suitcase with a telescoping handle--arguably the finest in the world. What would you expect? "I'd expect $19,000 change," quipped one cynic.
( Amusing Luggage Toys )
- Battery-Free RFID Mouse: Battery-Free Wireless Optical Mouse consists of two parts: The Wireless Optical Mouse & RFID Mouse Pad
( Hardware Mouse RFID )
- Buffalo TeraStation 1TB Network Storage: The "TeraStation," features four 250GB hard drives, There's two boring "just store shit" modes, but two modes utilize RAID. Also, it connects via Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0
( Hardware NAS NetTech RAID Storage )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 07, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-07
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 06, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-06
- Dear TiVo...: Please create permalinks for episodes of television shows. For instance, when Boing Boing posts about a show, I want them to be able to embed a link that will add a show to my ToDo list using remote scheduling.
( Innovative MediaCenter co_TiVo )
- Lay Off Massachusetts - George W. Bush doesn't get to choose which United States he's president of.: it's all right to sneer at Massachusetts because Mass-dwellers sneer at everybody else. It's a cherished myth among conservatives that Northeastern liberals spend all their time snickering about those pathetic hicks in Texas, Mississippi, and the various
( Campaign04 Ma. Op-Ed Taxes people_Bush )
- It's PiPi Max!: Barks, Drinks, Walks, Pees?
( Amusing Dogs Toys )
- Tasks Pro: multi-user powerful web-based task manager (to-do list manager) that allows you to organize your tasks in a hierarchical structure. Group controls allow projects to be set up only for people who need to see them.
( GTD Organization PM Scripts Software )
- Robot cat gives patients happy felines: Researchers in Georgetown University, Washington DC, have found that stroking a robotic cat is more beneficial to health than petting a toy; and that such a machine could even remind patients to take medication.
( Amusing Cats MedSci Psychology )
- JMeter - User's Manual
( Benchmarking Reference Testing apache_JMeter )
- Re: Tricks with DBI: Before everyone runs and starts using Apache::DBI, I'd like to add a cautionary warning.
( PERL WebDev perl_DBI )
- WordPress/b2 Hacks: This page lists features and customizations I've written for b2 and WordPress; all packaged up so you can use them too.
( Plugins Scripts Software WordPress )
- Four more years - but not with Powell: He is described by Wil Hylton in Gentleman's Quarterly (GQ) magazine as "exhausted, frustrated, and bitter." He is said to resent the refusal of the White House to let him represent the United States at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens.
( people_Bush people_Powell )
- Constitution Society Home Page: collection that should be of interest to anyone seeking guidance on constitutional interpretation.
( Constitution Government Law Reference US )
- John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690)
( Government Law Reference US )
- Java Boutique - JMeter: a look into JMeter’s capabilities in the web application and web service area, but JMeter can also handle FTP and JDBC requests. If you need more than this it’s possible to build and add your own "samplers" to JMeter.
( Benchmarking Testing Tutorials apache_JMeter )
- Various Voting Methods: In a democracy, every vote is supposed to count. But the outcome of an election really depends on how you do the math.
( Electoral Reference Voting )
- Do Not Call list called a success, but many find way around it: But some charity watchdog groups and a federal agency that oversees telemarketing are warning that some telemarketers are taking advantage of exceptions. "We've noticed that none of these professional telemarketing firms have had any significant layoffs,
( Telephone dept_FCC )
- Celebrity Soundboards: Various celebrity and movie related sound boards
( Amusing Flash )
- Powerpoint To Flash Conversion Tools - The PPT2Flash Top20
( *Work Flash Software Win32 ms_PowerPoint )
- Boxmind FlashPoint: PowerPoint -> Flash conversion. For distributed users or those with high demand for conversion, FlashPoint can be hosted on a central server and operated remotely through a friendly web front end.
( *Work Flash Software Win32 ms_PowerPoint )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 05, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-05
- Dear TiVo...: Please create permalinks for episodes of television shows. For instance, when Boing Boing posts about a show, I want them to be able to embed a link that will add a show to my ToDo list using remote scheduling.
( co_TiVo Innovative MediaCenter )
- Lay Off Massachusetts - George W. Bush doesn't get to choose which United States he's president of.: it's all right to sneer at Massachusetts because Mass-dwellers sneer at everybody else. It's a cherished myth among conservatives that Northeastern liberals spend all their time snickering about those pathetic hicks in Texas, Mississippi, and the various
( Campaign04 Ma. Op-Ed people_Bush Taxes )
- It's PiPi Max!: Barks, Drinks, Walks, Pees?
( Amusing Dogs Toys )
- Tasks Pro: multi-user powerful web-based task manager (to-do list manager) that allows you to organize your tasks in a hierarchical structure. Group controls allow projects to be set up only for people who need to see them.
( GTD Organization PM Scripts Software )
- Robot cat gives patients happy felines: Researchers in Georgetown University, Washington DC, have found that stroking a robotic cat is more beneficial to health than petting a toy; and that such a machine could even remind patients to take medication.
( Amusing Cats MedSci Psychology )
- JMeter - User's Manual
( apache_JMeter Benchmarking Reference Testing )
- Re: Tricks with DBI: Before everyone runs and starts using Apache::DBI, I'd like to add a cautionary warning.
( PERL perl_DBI WebDev )
- WordPress/b2 Hacks: This page lists features and customizations I've written for b2 and WordPress; all packaged up so you can use them too.
( Plugins Scripts Software WordPress )
- Four more years - but not with Powell: He is described by Wil Hylton in Gentleman's Quarterly (GQ) magazine as "exhausted, frustrated, and bitter." He is said to resent the refusal of the White House to let him represent the United States at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens.
( people_Bush people_Powell )
- Constitution Society Home Page: collection that should be of interest to anyone seeking guidance on constitutional interpretation.
( Constitution Government Law Reference US )
- John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690)
( Government Law Reference US )
- Java Boutique - JMeter: a look into JMeter’s capabilities in the web application and web service area, but JMeter can also handle FTP and JDBC requests. If you need more than this it’s possible to build and add your own "samplers" to JMeter.
( apache_JMeter Benchmarking Testing Tutorials )
- Various Voting Methods: In a democracy, every vote is supposed to count. But the outcome of an election really depends on how you do the math.
( Electoral Reference Voting )
- Do Not Call list called a success, but many find way around it: But some charity watchdog groups and a federal agency that oversees telemarketing are warning that some telemarketers are taking advantage of exceptions. "We've noticed that none of these professional telemarketing firms have had any significant layoffs,
( dept_FCC Telephone )
- Celebrity Soundboards: Various celebrity and movie related sound boards
( Amusing Flash )
- Powerpoint To Flash Conversion Tools - The PPT2Flash Top20
( *Work Flash ms_PowerPoint Software Win32 )
- Boxmind FlashPoint: PowerPoint -> Flash conversion. For distributed users or those with high demand for conversion, FlashPoint can be hosted on a central server and operated remotely through a friendly web front end.
( *Work Flash ms_PowerPoint Software Win32 )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 04, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-04
- In Defense of Exit Polls - You just don't know how to use them.: But the real problem is not that the exit polls were wrong. They were about as accurate as they usually are. The problem was that in the age of the Internet the exit polls were being seen by thousands of people who didn't know how to read them.
( Campaign04 Polls Voting )
- iPodlounge | All Things iPod: iPodlounge is proud to announce the immediate availability of the iPodlounge Buyers’ Guide 2004
( Consumer iPod Reference )
- HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod: Mac and PC how-to
( iPod MacOSX Tutorials Win32 )
- My Netflix MCE 2005 Plug-In: plug-in that enables Netflix subscribers to login and manage their queue, check their rental history, review suggestions and new releases, view top 100 or top 25 rentals by genre along with other functions through a 10-foot TV interface.
( co_NetFlix MediaCenter ms_MediaCenter Software Win32 )
- Toyota Concept Car: Ultimate vehicle for DJs: The vehicle can be used as a DJ booth, to set up equipment for an event, display goods, etc. The vehicle is also fitted with audio gear, indoor lighting and other equipment for outdoor events.
( Autos co_Toyota Music )
- S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well.
( CSS people_Meyers WebDev XHTML )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 02, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-02
- Sudan Army Surrounds Darfur Refugee Camps: Sudan's government is accused of backing the Janjaweed in a campaign of violence - including rapes, killings and the burning of villages - to help put down a 19-month rebellion by non-Arab African groups. The government denies backing the militias.
( Darfur Genocide Sudan )
- Online BMW Parts Catalog: Enter your BMW Serial Number (last 2 letters and 5 digits of your VIN) OR use the search options below
( Autos co_BMW Reference )
- Gizmodo : BMW's Dog Safety Belt: the "dog safety belt" represents the world's first dog-only safety belt from an actual automobile manufacturer.
( Autos co_BMW Dogs Safety )
- Design In-Flight: From tutorials to case studies, Design In-Flight seeks to share useful tips for designers and developers of every skill level. Regular features such as Design Q&A and Design Insider will offer a look at common problems and solutions faced by today’s des
( *ToRead Design Magazine WedDev )
- Jotspot: JotSpot makes simple web applications simple to build by combining wikis and web applications in an easy-to-use hosted service for workgroups.
( Hosted Software WebApp Wiki )
- 37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design: To make better sites we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements. Christopher Alexander, who came up with this stuff, calls these chunks patterns.
( Design Patterns UI WebDev )
- Hot Topics! Nov. 2, 2004 California Ballot Propositions: The following links retrieve documents on all sixteen measures, including
( Ca. edu_UCB Voting )
- Open Source Content Management Systems: An Argumentative Approach: This report evaluates seven open source CMS products. The comparison is basedon eight categories as seen from a business perspective. These categories are;applications, data repository, deployment, integration, revision control, userinterface, user manage
( *ToRead CMS Review )
- Intel(R) IT Manager Game: Your company starts off with only a few members of staff; more staff will be hired as it grows. Your goal is to create the most streamlined and profitable company possible through technology leadership.
( Amusing co_Intel Games ITM )
- Improv Everywhere HQ: Improve Everywhere - Virgin Megastore, July 19, 2003
( Amusing Hack )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
November 01, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-11-01
- In A Class By Itself: Students at Cristo Rey spend four extended days a week in class – and one class at work. The school has its own employment agency, down the hall from the principal’s office. It’s also sent more than 2,500 students off to work since the school starte
( Education Innovative Kids tv_60Minutes )
- A Hole In His Head: "I am a happy-go-lucky sort of chap and I enjoy every minute of every day," he says.
( Cognative MedSci Parkinsons tv_60Minutes )
- Sudan: 'Rwanda In Slow Motion': "In Rwanda, the killing was done in 100 days. In Sudan, this thing has strung on for 17 months," says Prendergast. "Sudan is Rwanda in slow motion. It’s unfolding in a way that has ironically given the world the chance to redeem itself for the failures
( Darfur Genocide Sudan TV_60Minutes )
- A Journey Through Darfur: Hundreds of thousands of refugees had walked for days to flee violent attacks by the Janjaweed – an Arab militia that is waging a slash-and-burn campaign to drive all Africans from the region.
( Darfur Genocide Islam Racism Sudan TV_60Minutes )
- Jon Stewart Roasts Real News: What about Kerry? "He is what Kennedy has wrought, John, not Ted. Ted Kennedy has wrought a whole other thing that has to do with not wearing pants and running around Palm Beach."
( Journalism people_Bush people_JonStewart people_Kerry Politics tv_60Mintutes )
- Justice, Delayed But Not Denied: It took the jury just an hour and seven minutes to return a verdict of not guilty. One juror said it wouldn’t have taken that long, but they stopped to take a soda-pop break to "make it look good."
( Justice Ms. people_EmmetTill Racism tv_60Minutes )
- GIs Lack Armor, Radios, Bullets: Specialist Pepin, with the New York National Guard, says, "They have no ground plating. So if you hit something underneath you, then it's going to kill the whole crew, you know? And that's just something you have to live with."
( Budget Iraq Military PorkBarrel TV_60Minutes )
- What is meant by "pork barrel" project legislation?: Federally funded projects which benefit only one district or state should be viewed on a case-by-case basis. Some may well be goodies unfairly obtained through political clout. But others may withstand objective analysis, and turn out to be credible choic
( Government PorkBarrel Reference )
- President Schwarzenegger?: He is ineligible to run for president. Would he like to see an amendment? "Yes. Absolutely," says Schwarzenegger. "I think, you know, because why not? Like with my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.
( Ca. people_Schwarzenegger TV_60Minutes )
- Michaels: Lip-Sync An 'SNL' No-No: Michaels, who says he's a registered independent, says, "I think it’s incredibly important that the show not be partisan." He says he's never been pressured by a presidential administration to back off, either directly or indirectly.
( people_LorneMichaels Television tv_60Minutes tv_SNL )
- Florida braces for fights at the polls over who can vote: officials have a new tool that may help speed the process - provisional voting. In the event of a challenge, voters must be given an opportunity to cast a provisional ballot, and those votes will later be counted or disqualified based on subsequent invest
( Campaign04 Fl. Fraud Voting VotingRights )
- COALITION OF THE WILLING or COERCED? [pdf]: The US maintains powerful levers to use against other nations as it broadens its coalition. Some military; others are economic; still others are political or diplomatic.
( Iraq people_Bush )
- Big Arctic Perils Seen in Warming, Survey Finds: He noted that the signals from the Arctic have global significance. "The major message is that climate change is here and now in the Arctic," he said.
( Environment issue_GlobalWarming )
- Morae: A Complete Usability Testing Solution for Web Sites and Software: industry’s first all-digital, software-based solution that records and synchronizes user and system data for usability analysis of software, Web sites, Intranets and e-Business applications.
( Software Testing Usability Win32 )
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