Aggregator Overload - Good Stuff - Some Explored - Some Not
Sunday, June 08, 2003PhotoStack 1.1 is out.
PhotoStack 1.1 is out... great application. If you're interested in having a cool, super easy to use photo gallery, download PhotoStack and then say thanks to Noel.
[inluminent/weblog]Getting the most out of Google.
Fantastic article here about getting more than you're used to out of Google. Examples like:
Using the * with a pipe and quotes:
"Google has * my life" | "Google * my life"
Quick read too. [via JD]
Congrats ActiveWords.
Congrats ActiveWords
Buzz from ActiveWords just got some great press:
While GuruNet is built around the art of the click, ActiveWords is all about eschewing the mouse. The idea is to create a series of customizable keystrokes or shortcuts to launch programs, transport you to Web addresses or initiate some other computing action.
You might type "xl" to bring up the Excel spreadsheet, "calc" to launch the calculator or "nem" to prepare a new e-mail. You can even dedicate a single letter, like "q" for starting up Quicken. And you can use ActiveWords to automatically type in a longer string of characters; I use "ecb" to spell out Edward C. Baig.
Very good going. Nice to get national coverage from USA Today. Something for Feedster to aspire to.
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HyperActiveWords.
Buzz Bruggeman is a happy man. Dig what Bill Machrone just wrote about ActiveWords.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]How to make DVDs.
PC Magazine guide to making your own DVDs, with primers on video capture and compression, editing and authoring software, and, of course, DVD burners.
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Hard Drive Searching: A New Version of Scopeware is Available. Personal Information ManagementHard Drive Searching: A New Version of Scopeware is AvailableAbout a month ago I mentioned a personal search tool called Scopeware Vision that allows you to keyword search html web pages, many document file types (including Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat), Outlook e-mail boxes, and other material on your hard drive. [ResourceShelf]
Time Lapse Photography. The Playing With Time web site has a huge collection of time lapse images, in the form of Quicktime videos. Watching a woman transform during nine months of pregnancy is pretty amazing. This time-lapse animation was created from a series of still photos. The woman stood in a set position before each picture was taken. The pictures were digitized, transferred to PhotoCD, and aligned with a computer graphics program. The images transform gradually through the use of a process called morphing. ...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
HONDA ENGINEERING. My friend Mike Snell passes on this link to a truly remarkable Honda ad that Mike describes as "Rube Goldberg meets Mr. Potts from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." Check it out, but take Mike's viewing advice: "If you have a... [Dynamist Blog]
Webcam Accessory.
Webcam Accessory
Ok I know that webcams have traditionally been the foray of late night adventuring in the digital world. Still they really do have a role in a business contexta and I can actually see that this:
could well make it better. Positioning a web cam just plain sucks. And when you finally get it right then a fat cat just comes over and knocks it over. Cool product, small company, nice people (we met through Chris Pirillo's Brain Trust ).
[The FuzzyBlog!]Scary Signs. More good stuff from Worth 1000. This time the topic is Scary Signs -- signs that you don't want to see. Permalink Created Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:56 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Ripping from Vinyl, Simplified [Slashdot]
Make way for the contender to Google's crown. Turbo10 really is that good [The Register]
TiVo Hacks.
TiVo is notoriously cool about people hacking their digital video recorders, so it's unlikely that they're going to sue the author of TiVo Hacks, a new book which teaches you how to add extra recording time, change the titles of TV shows, and check your email with your TiVo.
Read Amazon - TiVo Hacks
History of the Paper Clip. The paper clip was patented in 1867. Read more about this history of this item (lots of illustrations). This is just one part of the Early Office Museum, which has many other exhibits. (via The Presurfer) Permalink Created Sat, 31 May 2003 15:54 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
1971 Sears Catalog. Scanned pages from the 1971 Sears catalog. Don't laugh... In 30 years, photos from the 2003 Search catalog will look just as ridiculous. Permalink Created Wed, 28 May 2003 14:57 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Swartz on Tufte on Powerpoint.
PowerPoint Remix. Edward R. Tufte’s “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint” Presented in the Form of a PowerPoint Presentation Overview PowerPoint is standard.….. [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]
A funny and accurate summary of Tufte's most recent rant against powerpoint. It's well worth getting your hands on your own copy of Tufte's essay.
[McGee's Musings]Old Ads and Photos. If you like looking at old things, you'll find lots of eye candy at paperdoll.com. Lots of old printed material for sale (and on display). Permalink Created Wed, 28 May 2003 09:14 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
QuickMath. Now why didn't they have a web site like QuickMath when I was in school? What is it? QuickMath is an automated service for answering common math problems over the internet. Think of it as an online calculator that solves equations and does all sorts of algebra and calculus problems - instantly and automatically! When you submit a question to QuickMath, it is processed by Mathematica, the largest and most powerful computer algebra package available today. The answer is then sent back to you an...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
A View From Mt. Everest. A 360-degree panoramic view from the top of Mount Everest, taken by Roderick Mackenzie. Why did he climb it? "I have a theory that people climb for the smell of it. Air at very high altitude smells completely different to lower altitudes. People become addicted to this smell and need more and more to get less and less of it. This is what makes them get higher." Permalink Created Wed, 28 May 2003 09:09 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Your rights as a photographer. Attorney Bert Krages has compiled a helpful guide of a person's rights as a photographer: The right to take photographs is now under assault more than ever. People are being stopped, harassed, and even intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were taking photographs of subjects that made other people uncomfortable. Recent examples include photographing industrial ... [kottke.org]
Legal TiVo hacking... er, upgrades.
TiVo has been notoriously cool about people hacking their digital video recorders to add extra hard drive space, but for anyone who wants to, say, bump up their TiVo box to 240 hours without actually busting it open and doing the upgrade themselves, there's a new authorized service center that'll do it for you. (There are also few other "less authorized" companies, like WeaKnees, that have been offering TiVo upgrades for a while.)
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Top Network Security Tools.
insecure.org - Top 100 Network Security Tools.
In May of 2003, I conducted a survey of Nmap users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to determine their favorite security tools. Each respondent could list up to 8. This was a followup to the highly successful June 2000 Top 50 list. An astounding 1854 people responded in '03, and their recommendations were so impressive that I have expanded the list to 75 tools! Anyone in the security field would be well advised to go over the list and investigate tools they are unfamiliar with. I discovered several powerful new tools this way. I also plan to point newbies to this page whenever they write me saying "I do not know where to start".
Respondents were allowed to list open source or commercial tools on any platform. Commercial tools are noted as such in the list below. Many of the descriptions were taken from the application home page or the Debian or Freshmeat package descriptions. I removed marketing fluff like "revolutionary" and "next generation". No votes for the Nmap Security Scanner were counted because the survey was taken on an Nmap mailing list. This audience also means that the list is slightly biased toward "attack" tools rather than defensive ones.
Resources to be aware of. BTW, Nmap is the tool Trinity uses in The Matrix Reloaded.
[McGee's Musings]The Geekout: "Chris Pirillo emailed me about my comic." Good comic strip, done online.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]Vibe looks like a cool way to share your photos with your friends.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]O'Reilly TiVo Hacks!. O'Reilly has announced its "TiVo Hacks" book, written by my pal, Raffi -- I love the idea of distilling all the little tricks and tips for the TiVo into one inch-thick brick of paper. Link Discuss (Thanks, Rael!) [Boing Boing Blog]
My New Favorite Comic. Forget Fox Trot. Forget Dilbert. Forget User Friendly. The Little Things is it. The site's mantra is "for geeks, by geeks" - need I say more? Each strip is witty, well-drawn, and full of Hanvey-style humor. Sure, the author doesn't have an RSS feed yet, but... give him time. What won me over? Well, that'd have to be last week's creation. I was just really excited - and still am. Thanks, Brandon!... [C:PIRILLO.EXE]
WHO WAS,WHOIS, AND WHO WILL BE: Domain Name Ownership Research Tools. Professional Reading ShelfWHOISSource: Online"WHO WAS, WHOIS, AND WHO WILL BE: Domain Name Ownership Research Tools"Mark Goldstein takes a comprehensive look at fee and free services to search WHOIS databases. One tool that Mark doesn't mention in his article is a free software app called Sam Spade. [ResourceShelf]
The Mood Among Campus File-Swappers. A Stanford student has written an opinion piece for News.com explaining why the music industry is making a huge mistake by antagonizing their customers, rather than embracing the technology they want to use. He makes the point that these people are still their customers - and there is a large group of them that use file sharing to discover new artists, who they then spend money on. If the RIAA embraced file-sharing and targeted those groups with promotions, they could increase their market. Instead, they're pissing off their own customers who are increasingly looking towards alternatives. [Techdirt]
A Quick Guide to XP Keyboard Shortcuts. Check out PCMag.com's list of handy-dandy keyboard shortcuts for Windows XP and Office XP. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
Beating the DRM.
Dr. Weinberger offers the best case against DRM I've read yet. Complete with a graphic of the author that I thought at first was J.D. Lasica. (See?)
[The Doc Searls Weblog]Copy Protection Is a Crime. An interesting article at Wired, written by David Weinberger. The crime, he says, is against humanity. He argues that society is based on bending rules, and copy protection allows no rule bending. There are times when rules need to be imposed within that marketplace, whether they're international laws against bootleg CDs or the right of someone to sue for libel. But the fact that sometimes we resort to rules shouldn't lead us to think that they are the norm. In fact, leeway is the default and r...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte. Edward Tufte has a new 24-page pamphlet out called The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint on how to improve your PowerPoint presentations: In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead projectors lit up transparencies, and slide projectors showed high-re... [kottke.org]
Hugo-nominated fiction online. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine have both posted the Hugo-award-nominated fiction they published this year to their websites. Win or lose, these are some of the finest sf published in 2002.
Asimov's Link (Ian R. MacLeod -- Breathmoss; Charles Stross -- Halo; Gregory Frost -- Madonna of the Maquiladora; Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Wild Girls; Molly Gloss -- Lambing Season; Michael Swanwick -- The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport)
F&SF Link (Maureen F. McHugh -- Presence; Charles Coleman Finlay -- The Political Officer; Jeffrey Ford -- Creation; Richard Chwedyk -- Bronte's Egg) Discuss (via Futurismic) [Boing Boing Blog]
99 bottles and 515 languages. The 99 Bottles of Beer project has translated a computer program that outputs all 99 verses of the folk-song into 515 programming languages. Link Discuss (Thanks, Trish!) [Boing Boing Blog]
another neat XP toy.... Y'z Dock "XP-only ripoff of the Mac OSX dock." [gammatron (phase ii)] [jenett.radio]
Whole Wheat Radio... Now in Stereo. Last night my favorite webcast, Whole Wheat Radio, switched over to stereo. It's still a fairly low quality stream, but it sounds much better to me. Jim made the change mainly because of my constant bitching and moaning. It was the only way he could get me to shut up. Permalink Created Sat, 10 May 2003 17:03 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
MSNBC: AAC sound quality not up to par [The Macintosh News Network]
thanks Loyd!. PowerToys for Windows XP
[via The Daily Thing: Product Reviews] [jenett.radio]
A New Look at FirstGov.Gov. U.S. GovernmentFirstGov.Gov Unveils Redesigned SiteA new look and some new features this federal gov portal. The search functionality, including the powerful advanced interface, remains the same. Remember, you can limit your search to material from state government web sites. [ResourceShelf]
Enterprise Search: When Google Isn't Enough. Intranet and Personal Search
Source: Business 2.0
"When Google Isn't Enough"
A discussion of Scopeware and The Brain Btw, I've been demoing a version of Scopeware that allows me to keyword search most materials on my hard drive. So far, very impressive. [The ResourceShelf]
Spam Toons. A small collection of cartoons about spam. Permalink Created Wed, 07 May 2003 16:34 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Akiyoshi's Illusions. I've linked to Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Illusion Pages in the past, but it's worth another trip. He updates it regularly, and it never ceases to amaze me. It now has a warning: Caution: This page contains some works of "anomalous motion illusion", which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately. Permalink Created Wed, 07 May 2003 16:01 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Shakespearean Insults. Get a random insult, courtesy of Willie the Shake. If you don't like it, then... Thou hath not so much brain as ear wax. Permalink Created Wed, 07 May 2003 15:58 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Monolithic Domes. The Monolithic Dome Institute has everything you need to know about monolithic domes. Let's start with the basics... what is a monolithic dome? The Monolithic Dome is a super-insulated, steel reinforced concrete structure used for homes, schools, gymnasiums, bulk storage facilities, churches, offices, and many other uses... Monolithic Domes have real strength. They can withstand the force of a tornado, hurricane or earthquake. They cannot burn, rot or be eaten by bugs. The Monolithic Dome is en...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction. In the fine tradition of E2's Books that will induce a mindfuck, I present a list of authors and books that I think are more than worth the time required to read them. My main criteria here are that the books be interesting, gripping, etc. -- not necessarily of great "literary" value. [kuro5hin.org]
Mathematical Comic Strips. A very nice collection of newspaper comic strips that deal with mathematics. (via Robot Wisdom) Permalink Created Tue, 06 May 2003 15:09 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Recommended: Registry Mechanic.
Recommended: Registry Mechanic
Found via the Gnome folks newsletter. Well worth downloading and running on your box. I'm not going to report how many issues it found save to say that the number was odd, the number was not prime and the number was large.
Thanks Chris!
[The FuzzyBlog!]Calling all Windows Media 9 freaks, there's a new skin that's awesome. So says Sean Alexander.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]Google Stuff. This site has links to lots of information about Google. Nicely organized, and up-to-date. (Thanks Zaine) Permalink Created Mon, 05 May 2003 18:01 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
QuickTopic.
I've recently gotten to know Steve Yost and his QuickTopic topic board/mail list program. Instead of being a message board - scaled to handle threaded discussions and full fledged bulletin board features, QuickTopic focuses just on one thread.
It's a wonderful system as every post to the topic board or mail list entry - gets mirrored. So if I go to the site - what I leave on the topic board gets sent to the mail list. And if I reply to a email message or post my own message, that gets put onto the Topic board. Totally seamlessly!
If only other commenting systems and message boards were this clean! A lot of people use QuickTopic as their comment system for their blog. That way the blogger can ne notified when someone leaves a comment behind.
No wonder Steve is one of the architects and implementors of ThreadsML!
[Marc's Voice]The ABC's of Personal Knowledge Management.
The ABC's of Personal Knowledge Management
Who would have thought that one of the most powerful personal knowledge management tools available to us is the simple alphabet.nbsp For a while now I've been using the ideas of David Allen and his Getting Things Done (GTD) process for organising oneself.nbsp His ideas for keeping track of projects, ideas, actions and reference materials is personal knowledge management to the quick. nbspFor me and others has helped to quieten down the background noise of reminders for those things not yet done.
One of the simplest yet most powerful ideas within GTD is the reduction of noise in a personal filing system.nbsp How do you file your own reference materials?nbsp Two parameters drive the system.
1) It must be easy and fun to file materials otherwise you won't
2) It must be easy and fun to find materials otherwise you won't trust the results of step 1.
This is the beauty of the alphabet.nbsp Simply categorise what you have in your hand (and I mean simply), put it in a manilla folder, label it and file it under the first letter of the label.nbsp All in order and quick to retrieve.nbsp When you need something, what you have filed will be on only 1-3 places.nbsp My gas bill will be under G for Gas or T for TXU my supplier.nbsp I can find it quickly and so can my wife if I'm not around.
A complicated system may have had me filenbspmy gas billnbspunder Bills -> Home -> Utilities -> Gas.nbsp Far to difficult to recall and far to difficult to initially categorise because I have to keep the categories and their rules in my head.nbsp Hence, nothing gets filed and it all piles up.
I came across the General Reference Filing tip before the book had arrived (Amazon isn't the quickest on postage across the Pacific) and implemented it straight away.nbsp Read the tip a couple of times and buy a labeller.nbsp It makes all the difference.nbsp Scanning consistent and well printed text is much quicker than reading handwriting.nbsp Itnbsponce tooknbspa while to read all the folder labels for my gas bill which were not ordered alphabetically, were handwritten and not always in the same place on each folder.nbsp Just now I found it in under a second.nbsp My filing cabinet is now more useful than the 4-drawer box it was.
This morning I re-organised my Outlook folders the same way.nbsp I now have a Reference Filing file (separate from my mail .pst file) and within it a long list of alphabetically ordered folders.nbsp Within five minutes I had most material refiled under the new system.nbsp That itself shows how quick the filing and retrieval can be.
This afternoon my Palm Pilot is going to get a good re-organisation as well.
Effective Research Strategies. Internet Research Skills
Source: The Virtual Chase
The Skill of the Hunt: Effective Research Strategies for Finding Information on the Web
From Genie Tyburski's article, "Successful Web-based research encompasses economy of time and effort. It also takes into account the quality of the answer. The key is to focus on the strategy and skill of the hunt rather than the find." [The ResourceShelf]
The Simpsons and Math. This site deals with mathematical references on The Simpsons. The Simpsons also contains over a hundred instances of mathematics ranging from arithmetic to geometry to calculus, many designed to expose and poke fun at innumeracy. In fact, Al Jean, Executive Producer and head writer, has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. Example: Apu: In fact I can recite pi to 40,000 places. The last digit is one! Homer: Mmm, pi. (via Muxway) Permalink Created Tue, 29 Apr 2003 ...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
Six Technologies That Will Change The World. I've seen plenty of overhyped articles about "technologies that will change the world" that basically take some of the overhyped topics of today and extrapolate out five or ten years. This article, from Business 2.0, though, looks at six specific technologies that companies are working on that could really have a huge impact. The difference here, of course, is that many of these technologies are pretty far away from ever making it to market - and some may never get there. So, this is more like a list of six technologies that may change the world - rather than ones that will change the world. Even if you feel the article is full of hype, it's still useful for getting you to think about what possibilities new technologies can lead to. The six technologies discussed are: ink-jet printers that print human organs, personable robots, supersonic business jets, fuel cells the size of marbles, flexible displays, and sensor swarms. [Techdirt]
Key security questions that every executive should be able to answer. You don't necessarily have to spend a lot of money to ensure good security. But you do need to know what questions to ask and what needs protection before you can formulate a sensible security plan. Security expert Eric Cole has put together a quick cheat sheet for doing just that. [Computerworld News]
Founders licence. Founders licence: O'Reilly to release over a hundred out-of-print books for free download. [Matthew Langham's Radio Weblog] [dws.]
Micro-Helicopter Fun [Slashdot]
More On Detecting NAT Gateways [Slashdot]
Shop Around For Best Hotel Rooms. As hotels are working overtime to take back control of their inventory from the various online travel sites, a new study shows that you're best bet is to search around for the best hotel rates. They found that relying on a single travel site won't get you the best rates at all. I've had similar findings personally when I've traveled. The difference in rates from one site to another can be huge (I once found a hotel on one site that was less than half the price that I could find for that hotel on any other site) and constantly changing. While most sites tend to give similar results for airlines, it seems that hotels are a different story completely. [Techdirt]
Fixing Bad Word Output With 'HTML Tidy'. Copying text from Microsoft Word and Pasting it into your WYSIWYG equipped Manila website used to work perfectly, and still does if your version of Word is older then 2000 or XP. For some reason copying text from MS Word 2000+ produces a ton of very useless, and I would consider poorly formed HTML. The usual result of this poorly formatted HTML is to have your page peppered with weird tags and odd characters. Most people who run into this problem spend a lot of time fixing the anomalies that show up in their source code by hand. A friend of mine pointed out this site to me today... and it might be a solution for those people who have battled this problem. I have put together a small tutorial on how you might use HTML Tidy to help Windows users who run into this problem. now you can't say I never did anything for Windows users ":)" [BryanBell.com]
Check out all the Microsoft weblogs. [Scripting News]
Classical Music Archives. Want to download some classical music? Try the Classical Music Archives. We offer 23,918 full length classical music files by 1,514 composers, in MIDI; Live Recordings downloadable in HiFi MP3, and streamed in WMA. Although this site is mostly free, please subscribe now (only $25/year) to help us in our mission to expand this premier cultural site on the Internet. I downloaded a few MIDI files, and I was very impressed by the quality. Permalink Created Sat, 19 Apr 2003 16:16 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Book review: paper prototyping. Jakob Nielsen is back on form with a review and commentary on paper prototyping. To quote: Paper prototyping isn't used because people don't think they will get enough information from a method that is so simple and so cheap. It... [Column Two]
Testing the Three-Click Rule. Josh Porter from User Interface Engineering explores the results of recent tests on the three-click rule. That is, the rule that says that every page should be accessible from the homepage in no more than three clicks. Of course, it's... [Column Two]
Search for Music and Video. This morning I ran across this media search engine. For example, you can use it to locate MP3 files available on the Web, and you can limit the hits by bitrate (for higher quality) and by song length (to avoid getting sample clips). Most of the hits seem to be legitimate -- songs placed on the web by the artist or by his/her label. But it also finds lots of apparent copyright violations. Oh yeah, the site is from Microsoft. Permalink Created Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:14 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Classic Internet Videos. StupidVideos.com has a large collection (584, to be exact) of short videos -- you know, the one's that are passed around via email. It has all the classics, including one of my favorites (shown here). This is the clip of Randy Johnson accidentally hitting a bird with a 95 mph fastball. That cloud of white feathers is what remains of the poor bird. Permalink Created Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:07 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Justin Frankel. Justin Frankel is the guy responsible for WinAmp. He also has an interesting web site packed with excellent photos (and other stuff). Permalink Created Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:55 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
CSS Columns Wizard.
CSS Column Layout Builder -- a very cool wizard for those of us that are falling behind on the CSS curve. [via Daypop Top 40]
[The Shifted Librarian]PURL's and the ENT URL.
I've noticed quite a few people publishing the ENT 1.0 spec url as:
which is quite understandable because that is, for now, where the document lives. It's, probably, also the URL your browser shows when you view the spec. However the proper URL for the spec is:
This is a PURL or permanent url.
A PURL is like a regular URL except that it is managed by a redirection server. When you create a PURL you decide what it should be called & where it should point. Whenever a browser tries to load the PURL the PURL server automatically redirects the browser to the actual target URL.
This means that when, for example, we move the ENT spec to a more permanent home we can change where it's PURL points and the link doesn't break. It still points to the right place. PURLs are a powerful way to use redirection in advance.
Oh by the way. Anybody can create them. Just go to www.purl.org, register and away you go.
However, for this reason, it is important that the spec is always referred to by it's PURL and not by any particular URL at which it is found. We would be grateful if you could check and see which URL you have used.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]Making the transition to Linux -- the unadorned truth?. This account of how a non-techie made the move into the non-Microsoft world is detailed and instructive -- and 8,000 words long. It's interesting as a reality check. And it's been published in a major Linux journal. [Living Without Microsoft] [dws.]
The Guide to Spyware. Here's your online guide to spy and anti-spy software. Spyware guide was created to provide an all inclusive resource to spy ware applications, what they do and how they're used. These resources include: which software applications can detect and defeat spyware, an extensive database of all known spy ware applications and contact information. Incredibly, the site lists and describes 194 spyware programs. Permalink Created Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:12 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
LinuxWorld: "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users."
[The Scobleizer Weblog]UC Berkeley Lab Notes. Smart Dust radios, quantum computing, greener chip fabs, and sensor networks from the Silk Road to the Dead Sea... in the latest issue of Lab Notes, my UC Berkeley College of Engineering research digest. Please check it out! Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
Best practice URL design. pixelcharmer has brought together an excellent list of resources on best practice URL design. Excellent stuff...... [Column Two]
Tom Lehrer Sing-A-Long.
If you remember Tom Lehrer, you'll love this Flash version of The Elements! [via More Like This WebLog]
[The Shifted Librarian]A New URL To Track Airline Flights [The ResourceShelf]
Tips for Protecting Your Identity.
Much is made of the potential for identity theft in online transactions, but the truth is that the vast majority occursdue to meat-space activities that are much simpler to pull off. I ran across a set of ideas on how to protect your identity and thought they'd be good to record. Some of them are obvious, at least to me, but they probably aren't to everyone. I don't know who the author was. Here they are, edited and augmented by me: [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] New Blog worth checking out.
Dave Winer has convinced Philip Greenspun from MIT to get a weblog. I am so excited. I got a copy of his book on Web publishing (Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing) about 4 or 5 years ago just because it looked cool and was well written. At the time I knew nothing about websites, and had no idea I would ever be able to publish to the web.
His first post is not descriptive of who he is. Philip is a great writer, photographer, programmer, commenter on social and cultural issues, and apparently he's taken up flying. Oh, and he teaches at MIT, so I'm guessing he's kind of smart too. He's definitely funny. His Photo.net site is a great resource if you are into photography.
Oh, and be sure to read his How I became a Scum-Sucking Yuppie Materialist.
[Ernie the Attorney]The Webby Awards. The nominees for the 2003 Webby Awards have been announced. There are lots of sites I've never heard of. I'm glad to see that the always-funny Eric Conveys an Emotion was nominated in the Humor category. Permalink Created Wed, 09 Apr 2003 18:55 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Chris Pirillo points out that he's not unemployed. He just isn't working for TechTV anymore. Here's some of the sites that Chris is working on:
Tech E-Mail Newsletters : http://www.lockergnome.com/
Tech PDF and LIT eBooks : http://www.gnometomes.com/
Tech Conference Manager : http://www.gnomedex.com/
Tech Magazine Columnist : http://www.cpumagazine.com/
Tech Guy To The Extreme : http://www.rentmychest.com/
[The Scobleizer Weblog]