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Thursday, July 31, 2003
[from RSS on 7/31/03]
Hackers look to hide communications. A program called NCovert lets people intent on anonymously sending information conceal the source of communications and the data that travels over a network. [CNET News.com - Enterprise]
[from RSS on 7/31/03]
Surviving Windows XP. If you want to brush up on your XP skills, check out PCMag.com's Windows Survival Guide. It's full of tips and tricks for upgrading, migrating, reinstalling and more. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
[from RSS on 7/31/03]
Free, Fun Fast Food Fonts.
Fonts that mimic corporate fast food brands (Coke, McDonalds, Burger King, etc.) Link, Discuss (via Geisha)
[Boing Boing Blog]
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Crash course in emergency PC recovery. Sooner or later, a faltering hard disk, CPU, or other component will bring your PC to its knees. This article from PC World tells you what to do. [Computerworld News]
Assembling Images. PanaVue makes ImageAssembler software. Whether you want to stitch a panorama shot with your digital or film camera for professional high resolution printing (hundreds of megabytes) or lower resolution output for web publishing through a Virtual Reality viewer, make a montage out of a series of scanned images to rebuild the original one, or use it for specialized photo montage - aerial/satellite/microscope/medical- we have designed our product for the most demanding needs Even if you're not a p...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
Monday, July 28, 2003
Copying Is Theft And Other Legal Myths. For years, I've argued that the entertainment industry is being incredibly misleading when it says that downloading is "theft" and no different than stealing a CD from a story. It's not. It's copyright infringement, which is a different issue altogether. Mark Rasch, who once ran the Justice Department's computer crime unit has written up a nice article explaining the legal issues behind copying music, pointing out that the Supreme Court has clearly said it's infringement, and not theft. Of course, that doesn't mean you won't go to jail for it. The article also describes what the law is, and what it takes to go to jail under the current system - though, it's not as clear cut as you might think. For all the talk that goes on here about file sharing, the legal issues are the least interesting to me. The important issue isn't whether or not file sharing is illegal (it clearly is in some cases and isn't in others), but whether or not copyright owners should learn how to use file sharing (whether illegal or not) to their advantage. My argument has always been that, even if it is illegal, companies are better off realizing there are more opportunities in allowing file sharing, than in pissing off their customers. [Techdirt]
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Blogging For Exposure
So you're blogging. That's really great. You can say you have these altruistic motives for doing so, but at the end of the day, you're doing it to get exposure. This is especially critical in the .NET community, as there are hundreds of thousands of us lowly code monkeys vying for attention. So how do you make yourself stand out from the crowd? Simple Answer: Put your name in your blog title. You'd be surprised how quickly this affects your search placement with Google. Fire up your browser, and search for "Kirk Allen Evans" in Google. The 2nd result you'll see is his blog. That's important when a potential employer decides to Google your name to see what comes up. Scoble and others have noted that their blogging is what helped them get hired. [Robert McLaws: BoyWonder.NET]
Announcing Help Blog.
Seamless City. Now this is an incredible project: Seamless City. Seamless City is a continuous visual image of the city [San Francisco] made up of sequential photos of a walk through the city shot from a pedestrian point of view. Each image is seamlessly visually connected to the next as the objects are in the real world. This will make an incredibly huge single image. Indeed it does! Permalink Created Fri, 18 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Hand-Written Clock. This clever clock has been around for a while, but I've never linked to it. So, in case you've missed it... Permalink Created Fri, 18 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
A better CSS horizontal menu. Alexander Hill retools our mini-site's horizontal nav bar to work better in IE5/Mac. Help yourself to the code. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
CSS design championship. In keeping with our recent theme (standards-based design can be great design), we are pleased to point to The Open Championship, designed and hand coded in lightweight XHTML and CSS by the brilliant Todd Dominey. If you are a designer, he is the man to beat. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
More sexy standards-based sites. Three beautiful sites, one of them the home of a major commercial design product, convert to CSS layout and XHTML structure. All hail Hicks Design, Quark Inc., and Ten Years Ago in Spy. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Adaptive Path: The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams. Jesse James Garrett. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. [Tomalak's Realm]
Search For Sounds. Need to find a sound? Try FindSounds. Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples. It took me about three seconds to locate a sound file of Homer Simpson screaming. Permalink Created Tue, 15 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Saturday, July 26, 2003
Know Thyself: An Easy Approach. Asking yourself five basic questions can provide a surprising amount of information about your values, motivation, temperament and personal style. Here's how to use these insights to guide your career choices. [Computerworld News]
PluggedInns.Com "specializes in hotels that offer high-speed Internet access." [Scripting News]
Good stuff on WiFiNetNews lately. Glenn Fleishman has been doing an excellent job with his WiFi Networking News site lately. His last half-dozen posts are really fascinating. Check it out. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
hmmm..... blogLinker
The Economist: Storing e-text for centuries. Rather than invent a better mousetrap, they are using existing technology to imitate an important function of libraries. They want to ensure that readers will still be able to access electronic academic journals even centuries after they have been published. [Tomalak's Realm]
Google Tricks & Tips - Stuff you Bloggers need to know. Steve Covell has a good post on how to use Google to search just blogs, or just law blogs. Inspired by his love of Google (and his specific recommendation) I have purchased Google Hacks, which contains a wealth of information on how use Google productively. [Ernie the Attorney]
839 Buttons.
Behind a Hacker's Book, a Primer on Copyright Law. An engineer and programmer in San Diego has also been an introduction to copyright law in the digital age. By Seth Schiesel. [New York Times: Technology]
Blog Chatter. With Blog Chatter, you can get an up-to-the-minute list of recently updated blogs. It is a real-time event stream of weblog updates, similar to the data provided by weblogs.com, without polling or a static data format. Pings to BlogChatter are displayed instantly the moment they are received, and only persisted in memory for no longer than 30 seconds. This is actually a good way to check out some new blogs, and be assured that they haven't gone stale. Permalink Created Wed, 09 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Stock icons for developers, designers. Iconfactory has designed the interface widgets for Windows XP, Netscape 6, Extensis Suitcase, Panic's Transmit, Microsoft Messenger, and many other products. Now you can afford to add their potent blend of information design and illustration to your own software projects and websites. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Tasty tutorials and network effects. Mike Pick's sweet little tutorial on Pull Quotes and the Web, and Hebig.org's CSS trickery in "About the Title Pictures" will not only repay your interest, but the existence of material of this quality on independent personal sites also says a great deal about the rise of entrepreneurial authorship among designers. It also shows how network effects have succeeded at decentralizing the medium, as was intended from the day the web was created. But with that decentralization comes a question: what is the value of centralized web design resources like A List Apart when so much excellent material can be found across ten hundred thousand million design blogs? [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Beginner's guide to wireless home networking. Speaking of WiFi, PCStats has a beginner's guide to setting up home wireless networks. Nothing that many of you out there probably don't already know, but these are still pretty helpful for first-timers, especially given how much more confusing WiFi has gotten lately since the introduction of 802.11a and 802.11g. Read... [Gizmodo]
Re: Traffic stats?. Scott, Try blogpatrol. http://www.blogpatrol.com/ By Kevin Respecki. [Radio UserLand Messages]
Linkage Harvest. Herewith, dear reader, practical hints for turning up interesting stuff on the Web, with a sample of the findings.... [ongoing]
If Abraham Lincoln had Powerpoint, the Gettysburg Address might have gone like this.
Buzzing New York, July 9 - 16.
Live On.
Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch [Slashdot]
Hacker How-To Good Summer Reading. Stealing the Network is an entertaining hacking manual that purports to get inside the minds of hackers, explaining how they think. It's a good read, but it may infuriate some security types. A review by Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
Burning Copy Protected CDs. If you would like to burn a copy protected CD or DVD, you'll find complete instructions here. It is my duty to inform the public on how to correctly burn some copyrighted copy protected games Permalink Created Fri, 27 Jun 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Loop Recorder. I haven't tried this yet, but I will. Loop Recorder lets you capture music from web casts or other streaming sources. The loop mode infinitely records up to a specified number of minutes in a continuous loop while scrolling the data. At any time the current data can be previewed and songs can be cut and saved as WAV or MP3-files, while the recording continues in the background. So you can always save the recently played songs. This will be great for capturing some of the highlights on Whol...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
Web Comics Reviewed. Instead of working, I spent the better part of a week reading over 15 different web comics in their entirety. What follows are the fruits of my labors, with a link to the comic, a rating (out of 5 stars), and a short review and description of the comic. Before we get to The List, we'll take a brief look at the history of web comics, and provide some tips on finding those rare web comics that are actually good. [kuro5hin.org]
Photo Managers.
Good story on Photo Management [Alan Kleymeyer's Radio Weblog]
Zen Garfield. Jim Davis' Garfield is one of the most popular comic strips -- and also one of the most unfunny comic strips. The Zen Garfield site is much more amusing. I ripped off a copyrighted work and made a mockery of modern living. This site displays random panels from Garfield comics, and puts them together as a single strip. In most cases, you can't tell the difference between the phony strip and the real thing. (via Incoming Signals) Permalink Created Wed, 25 Jun 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Zen Gardener. A few weeks ago, the CSS Zen Garden burst on the design scene and opened a few people’s eyes, including mine. I had lunch today with its author, and he’s an interesting story.... [ongoing]
What Inventions Would You Create To Change The World?. Earlier today I posted a story about ten inventions Newsweek thought might change the world. However, those are inventions that people are already working on and not what kind of inventions people really want. The DaVinci Institute asked that question, and they got quite a number of interesting (and amusing) answers. A self-cleaning house certainly sounds nice, but do you really need plaid spray paint or caffeinated eye-drops? How about "instant sleep"? You walk into a little chamber for a few seconds of shut-eye, and come out completely refreshed. Of course, I wonder how well that would work with the "dream recorder" - to make sure you remembered all your dreams. Fun stuff to get you thinking. Of course, I swear I've heard of a bunch of these before, so I wonder how many are really original - and how many are stolen from science fiction stories or elsewhere. [Techdirt]
Tips on setting up a wireless LAN. Mobile and wireless analyst Craig Mathias gives realistic advice for building a wireless LAN. [Computerworld News]
Ten Inventions That May Change Your World. Newsweek is running one of those always-popular stories talking about "ten inventions that will change your world". To avoid the unnecessary overhype, I probably would (and did in my title) change the headline to "may change your world". Still, though, I always find these types of articles interesting, if just to get me thinking about new possibilities. Yes, clearly, some of these technologies are overhyped or vaporware, and some may go nowhere. However, it's a good reminder of the spirit of innovation - something that (despite repeated predictions of an "end to innovation) will never go away. Some of the more interesting technologies mentioned are advances in ways to "trick" the tongue into tasting flavors that aren't there (useful for making dietary products taste like their fat-and-calorie filled relatives) and quantum cryptography (where the act of spying on a message changes the message itself, so you know it's been tampered with). [Techdirt]
Amazon.com RSS Feeds. They never got around to it, so we set up 160+ separate RSS channels for darn near every type of product on Amazon.com for you. If you have any feedback for this new (free) service, please let me know immediately! We're looking to make it an outstanding and permanent part to your collection. Enjoy!... [C:PIRILLO.EXE]
Mastering Regular Expressions [Slashdot]
The Tard Blog. The Tard Blog is a weblog written by a special ed teacher. This site is not intended to mock the retarded, the mentally disabled, or the behaviorally challenged. The authors understand that these people have a difficult life, and sympathize with them. This site does nothing but catalog the funny happenings in a special ed classroom. If you think this mocks anyone, this is because you are bringing these prejudices to the site, they are not here to begin with. (via Hi, I'm Black!) Permalink Cre...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
The Wireless Sensor Net.
Please be my guest.
Learning from others mistakes - this is broken.
Glaser's guide to the blogosphere. Fascinating. [Scripting News]
Simon Willison: CSS ain’t Rocket Science. Excellent ongoing tutorial on real-world CSS design, warts and all. [dive into mark] [Alan Kleymeyer's Radio Weblog]
:::Today's Pick:::
Aggregator Overload - Good Stuff - Some Explored - Some Not
Thursday, July 31, 2003[from RSS on 7/31/03]
Hackers look to hide communications. A program called NCovert lets people intent on anonymously sending information conceal the source of communications and the data that travels over a network. [CNET News.com - Enterprise]
9:26:19 PM
categories: Items To Review
[from RSS on 7/31/03]
Surviving Windows XP. If you want to brush up on your XP skills, check out PCMag.com's Windows Survival Guide. It's full of tips and tricks for upgrading, migrating, reinstalling and more. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
9:23:48 PM
categories: Items To Review
[from RSS on 7/31/03]
Free, Fun Fast Food Fonts.
Fonts that mimic corporate fast food brands (Coke, McDonalds, Burger King, etc.) Link, Discuss (via Geisha)[Boing Boing Blog]
Tuesday, July 29, 2003Crash course in emergency PC recovery. Sooner or later, a faltering hard disk, CPU, or other component will bring your PC to its knees. This article from PC World tells you what to do. [Computerworld News]
11:27:34 PM
categories: Items To Review
Assembling Images. PanaVue makes ImageAssembler software. Whether you want to stitch a panorama shot with your digital or film camera for professional high resolution printing (hundreds of megabytes) or lower resolution output for web publishing through a Virtual Reality viewer, make a montage out of a series of scanned images to rebuild the original one, or use it for specialized photo montage - aerial/satellite/microscope/medical- we have designed our product for the most demanding needs Even if you're not a p...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
11:25:06 PM
categories: Items To Review
Monday, July 28, 2003Copying Is Theft And Other Legal Myths. For years, I've argued that the entertainment industry is being incredibly misleading when it says that downloading is "theft" and no different than stealing a CD from a story. It's not. It's copyright infringement, which is a different issue altogether. Mark Rasch, who once ran the Justice Department's computer crime unit has written up a nice article explaining the legal issues behind copying music, pointing out that the Supreme Court has clearly said it's infringement, and not theft. Of course, that doesn't mean you won't go to jail for it. The article also describes what the law is, and what it takes to go to jail under the current system - though, it's not as clear cut as you might think. For all the talk that goes on here about file sharing, the legal issues are the least interesting to me. The important issue isn't whether or not file sharing is illegal (it clearly is in some cases and isn't in others), but whether or not copyright owners should learn how to use file sharing (whether illegal or not) to their advantage. My argument has always been that, even if it is illegal, companies are better off realizing there are more opportunities in allowing file sharing, than in pissing off their customers. [Techdirt]
11:16:33 PM
categories: Items To Review
Sunday, July 27, 2003Blogging For Exposure
So you're blogging. That's really great. You can say you have these altruistic motives for doing so, but at the end of the day, you're doing it to get exposure. This is especially critical in the .NET community, as there are hundreds of thousands of us lowly code monkeys vying for attention. So how do you make yourself stand out from the crowd? Simple Answer: Put your name in your blog title. You'd be surprised how quickly this affects your search placement with Google. Fire up your browser, and search for "Kirk Allen Evans" in Google. The 2nd result you'll see is his blog. That's important when a potential employer decides to Google your name to see what comes up. Scoble and others have noted that their blogging is what helped them get hired. [Robert McLaws: BoyWonder.NET]
1:58:49 PM
categories: Items To Review, Radio Fun
New Windows XP PowerToys are out.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]Announcing Help Blog.
Announcing Help!Blog!
This seems like a really good thing.
Utilizing blogs and newsfeeds, HELP!blog is a vehicle to connect people with needs with people with solutions. It might as be as simple as an easy answer to a question or it might be more significant help to someone's desparate situation.
Either way, HELP!blog is there to put out the word of needs to folks listening who might have answers.
HELP!blog URL: http://www.helpblog.com
HELP!blog News URL: http://www.helpblog.com/newsblog/
Nice job. Recommended.
[The FuzzyBlog!]Seamless City. Now this is an incredible project: Seamless City. Seamless City is a continuous visual image of the city [San Francisco] made up of sequential photos of a walk through the city shot from a pedestrian point of view. Each image is seamlessly visually connected to the next as the objects are in the real world. This will make an incredibly huge single image. Indeed it does! Permalink Created Fri, 18 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
1:44:04 PM
categories: Items To Review
Hand-Written Clock. This clever clock has been around for a while, but I've never linked to it. So, in case you've missed it... Permalink Created Fri, 18 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
1:40:25 PM
categories: Items To Review
A better CSS horizontal menu. Alexander Hill retools our mini-site's horizontal nav bar to work better in IE5/Mac. Help yourself to the code. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
CSS design championship. In keeping with our recent theme (standards-based design can be great design), we are pleased to point to The Open Championship, designed and hand coded in lightweight XHTML and CSS by the brilliant Todd Dominey. If you are a designer, he is the man to beat. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
More sexy standards-based sites. Three beautiful sites, one of them the home of a major commercial design product, convert to CSS layout and XHTML structure. All hail Hicks Design, Quark Inc., and Ten Years Ago in Spy. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Wow - Dad, check out the Hubble Heritage Image Gallery! [via MetaFilter]
[The Shifted Librarian]1:36:57 PM
categories: Items To Review
Adaptive Path: The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams. Jesse James Garrett. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. [Tomalak's Realm]
Search For Sounds. Need to find a sound? Try FindSounds. Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples. It took me about three seconds to locate a sound file of Homer Simpson screaming. Permalink Created Tue, 15 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
1:31:08 PM
categories: Items To Review
Saturday, July 26, 2003Know Thyself: An Easy Approach. Asking yourself five basic questions can provide a surprising amount of information about your values, motivation, temperament and personal style. Here's how to use these insights to guide your career choices. [Computerworld News]
7:46:23 PM
categories: Items To Review
PluggedInns.Com "specializes in hotels that offer high-speed Internet access." [Scripting News]
Good stuff on WiFiNetNews lately. Glenn Fleishman has been doing an excellent job with his WiFi Networking News site lately. His last half-dozen posts are really fascinating. Check it out. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
hmmm..... blogLinker
HERE'S THE BIG IDEA: If you link to a member of blogLinker, the member will automatically link back to you, thus dramatically increasing the number of visitors to your site![via Sugarfused] [jenett.radio]
The Economist: Storing e-text for centuries. Rather than invent a better mousetrap, they are using existing technology to imitate an important function of libraries. They want to ensure that readers will still be able to access electronic academic journals even centuries after they have been published. [Tomalak's Realm]
Google Tricks & Tips - Stuff you Bloggers need to know. Steve Covell has a good post on how to use Google to search just blogs, or just law blogs. Inspired by his love of Google (and his specific recommendation) I have purchased Google Hacks, which contains a wealth of information on how use Google productively. [Ernie the Attorney]
7:40:50 PM
categories: Items To Review
PCWorld: Best Free Stuff on the Web
[The Scobleizer Weblog]Susan Bradley put together a really great page of Microsoft RSS Resources. Fire up your aggregator! Thanks Susan for doing this! Yet another example of MVP goodness.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]839 Buttons.
In case you haven't noticed, the "Steal My Buttons" effort run by Taylor at gtmcknight.com is up to 839 Buttons. Wow.
[inluminent/weblog]7:24:59 PM
categories: Items To Review, Radio Fun
Behind a Hacker's Book, a Primer on Copyright Law. An engineer and programmer in San Diego has also been an introduction to copyright law in the digital age. By Seth Schiesel. [New York Times: Technology]
7:24:12 PM
categories: Items To Review
Blog Chatter. With Blog Chatter, you can get an up-to-the-minute list of recently updated blogs. It is a real-time event stream of weblog updates, similar to the data provided by weblogs.com, without polling or a static data format. Pings to BlogChatter are displayed instantly the moment they are received, and only persisted in memory for no longer than 30 seconds. This is actually a good way to check out some new blogs, and be assured that they haven't gone stale. Permalink Created Wed, 09 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
7:23:30 PM
categories: Items To Review, Radio Fun
Stock icons for developers, designers. Iconfactory has designed the interface widgets for Windows XP, Netscape 6, Extensis Suitcase, Panic's Transmit, Microsoft Messenger, and many other products. Now you can afford to add their potent blend of information design and illustration to your own software projects and websites. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Tasty tutorials and network effects. Mike Pick's sweet little tutorial on Pull Quotes and the Web, and Hebig.org's CSS trickery in "About the Title Pictures" will not only repay your interest, but the existence of material of this quality on independent personal sites also says a great deal about the rise of entrepreneurial authorship among designers. It also shows how network effects have succeeded at decentralizing the medium, as was intended from the day the web was created. But with that decentralization comes a question: what is the value of centralized web design resources like A List Apart when so much excellent material can be found across ten hundred thousand million design blogs? [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Beginner's guide to wireless home networking. Speaking of WiFi, PCStats has a beginner's guide to setting up home wireless networks. Nothing that many of you out there probably don't already know, but these are still pretty helpful for first-timers, especially given how much more confusing WiFi has gotten lately since the introduction of 802.11a and 802.11g. Read... [Gizmodo]
7:21:33 PM
categories: Items To Review
Re: Traffic stats?. Scott, Try blogpatrol. http://www.blogpatrol.com/ By Kevin Respecki. [Radio UserLand Messages]
Linkage Harvest. Herewith, dear reader, practical hints for turning up interesting stuff on the Web, with a sample of the findings.... [ongoing]
Chris Pirillo sent me this one (does he ALWAYS find the cool Windows utilities first?): FolderSizes. Hey, they have a weblog too (and the tool does just what you'd expect)!
[The Scobleizer Weblog]If Abraham Lincoln had Powerpoint, the Gettysburg Address might have gone like this.
And we as a nation would have been poorer for it. [FS Consulting Inc's Weblog]
7:16:59 PM
categories: Items To Review
Buzzing New York, July 9 - 16.
Hey, I'm headed to New York next week (after the 4th of July holiday). I arrive on Wednesday, July 9 and I'm returning to Oakland late on Wednesday, July 16.
Before then, I have some brutal deadlines. While in New York I'll do some work (mostly reviewing manuscript for my current book project and meeting with a few publishers) but I'm also trying to take some time off, decompress, and catch up with some old friends.
Speaking of which, for my friends who do have a life, I thought I'd mention the b3ta newsletter that sends out a slate of kooky links every Friday. If you already know about b3ta then you are a geek, which is OK. Don't send me any "d00d, I've been getting my wacky links from b3ta for years now - where have you been?" mail. I am mentioning the b3ta collective for the benefit of my less jacked-in friends and family, who are legion and include Jeff Green.
now playing:
"The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back" by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band [Trout Mask Replica]
[Radio Free Blogistan] 7:16:23 PM
categories: Items To Review
Live On.
Just ran across this from WebSense on GlobeAlive:
Not since I discovered blogging have I been as thrilled with a new idea on the internet as I am now with GlobeAlive.
Yep, there's something to it.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]7:15:23 PM
categories: Items To Review
Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch [Slashdot]
7:12:50 PM
categories: Items To Review
Hacker How-To Good Summer Reading. Stealing the Network is an entertaining hacking manual that purports to get inside the minds of hackers, explaining how they think. It's a good read, but it may infuriate some security types. A review by Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
7:09:20 PM
categories: Items To Review
Burning Copy Protected CDs. If you would like to burn a copy protected CD or DVD, you'll find complete instructions here. It is my duty to inform the public on how to correctly burn some copyrighted copy protected games Permalink Created Fri, 27 Jun 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
6:10:43 PM
categories: Items To Review
Loop Recorder. I haven't tried this yet, but I will. Loop Recorder lets you capture music from web casts or other streaming sources. The loop mode infinitely records up to a specified number of minutes in a continuous loop while scrolling the data. At any time the current data can be previewed and songs can be cut and saved as WAV or MP3-files, while the recording continues in the background. So you can always save the recently played songs. This will be great for capturing some of the highlights on Whol...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
6:10:03 PM
categories: Items To Review
Web Comics Reviewed. Instead of working, I spent the better part of a week reading over 15 different web comics in their entirety. What follows are the fruits of my labors, with a link to the comic, a rating (out of 5 stars), and a short review and description of the comic. Before we get to The List, we'll take a brief look at the history of web comics, and provide some tips on finding those rare web comics that are actually good. [kuro5hin.org]
6:09:22 PM
categories: Items To Review
Photo Managers.
A few photo managers to checkout
Preclick
iView Media
Picasa
[Scobleizer]
Good story on Photo Management [Alan Kleymeyer's Radio Weblog]
Zen Garfield. Jim Davis' Garfield is one of the most popular comic strips -- and also one of the most unfunny comic strips. The Zen Garfield site is much more amusing. I ripped off a copyrighted work and made a mockery of modern living. This site displays random panels from Garfield comics, and puts them together as a single strip. In most cases, you can't tell the difference between the phony strip and the real thing. (via Incoming Signals) Permalink Created Wed, 25 Jun 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog]
6:04:30 PM
categories: Items To Review
Zen Gardener. A few weeks ago, the CSS Zen Garden burst on the design scene and opened a few people’s eyes, including mine. I had lunch today with its author, and he’s an interesting story.... [ongoing]
What Inventions Would You Create To Change The World?. Earlier today I posted a story about ten inventions Newsweek thought might change the world. However, those are inventions that people are already working on and not what kind of inventions people really want. The DaVinci Institute asked that question, and they got quite a number of interesting (and amusing) answers. A self-cleaning house certainly sounds nice, but do you really need plaid spray paint or caffeinated eye-drops? How about "instant sleep"? You walk into a little chamber for a few seconds of shut-eye, and come out completely refreshed. Of course, I wonder how well that would work with the "dream recorder" - to make sure you remembered all your dreams. Fun stuff to get you thinking. Of course, I swear I've heard of a bunch of these before, so I wonder how many are really original - and how many are stolen from science fiction stories or elsewhere. [Techdirt]
6:03:02 PM
categories: Items To Review
Tips on setting up a wireless LAN. Mobile and wireless analyst Craig Mathias gives realistic advice for building a wireless LAN. [Computerworld News]
6:02:17 PM
categories: Items To Review
Ten Inventions That May Change Your World. Newsweek is running one of those always-popular stories talking about "ten inventions that will change your world". To avoid the unnecessary overhype, I probably would (and did in my title) change the headline to "may change your world". Still, though, I always find these types of articles interesting, if just to get me thinking about new possibilities. Yes, clearly, some of these technologies are overhyped or vaporware, and some may go nowhere. However, it's a good reminder of the spirit of innovation - something that (despite repeated predictions of an "end to innovation) will never go away. Some of the more interesting technologies mentioned are advances in ways to "trick" the tongue into tasting flavors that aren't there (useful for making dietary products taste like their fat-and-calorie filled relatives) and quantum cryptography (where the act of spying on a message changes the message itself, so you know it's been tampered with). [Techdirt]
6:01:34 PM
categories: Items To Review
Amazon.com RSS Feeds. They never got around to it, so we set up 160+ separate RSS channels for darn near every type of product on Amazon.com for you. If you have any feedback for this new (free) service, please let me know immediately! We're looking to make it an outstanding and permanent part to your collection. Enjoy!... [C:PIRILLO.EXE]
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Mastering Regular Expressions [Slashdot]
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The Tard Blog. The Tard Blog is a weblog written by a special ed teacher. This site is not intended to mock the retarded, the mentally disabled, or the behaviorally challenged. The authors understand that these people have a difficult life, and sympathize with them. This site does nothing but catalog the funny happenings in a special ed classroom. If you think this mocks anyone, this is because you are bringing these prejudices to the site, they are not here to begin with. (via Hi, I'm Black!) Permalink Cre...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
5:59:33 PM
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The Wireless Sensor Net.
Excellent, in-depth article in the July issue of Technology Review on wireless smart sensors and how they have the potential to change just about everything, if only manufacturers could settle on a networking standard.
Read [Via TechDirt]
5:58:52 PM
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Please be my guest.
To anyone who wants to use the
graphic that I have on my weblog - please, be my guest.
It was created with the
magic button maker.
I'm very grateful to them for making it available.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]5:56:25 PM
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Learning from others mistakes - this is broken.
This Is Broken: Bad Design from Good Experience.. Ever notice design errors in everyday things? Send them in for a post-mortem to mark at goodexperience dot com. He's cataloging them at This Is Broken. Learning from mistakes. [a klog apart]
One of the powers of imagination is that we have the opportunity to learn not just from our own mistakes, but also from the mistakes of others. Repeating others' mistakes is a singular waste of time. You don't make progress unless you're making new and interesting kinds of mistakes.
I'm reminded of a comment I first came across reading the proceedings of the 1968 NATO conference on software engineering (one of those classics in the field which I unfortunately gave away years ago, glad to see it is available on the web). Paraphrasing Newton's remark that he had seen farther by standing on the shoulders of giants, software engineering had mostly been characterized by "standing on each others' feet".
[McGee's Musings]Glaser's guide to the blogosphere. Fascinating. [Scripting News]
Simon Willison: CSS ain’t Rocket Science. Excellent ongoing tutorial on real-world CSS design, warts and all. [dive into mark] [Alan Kleymeyer's Radio Weblog]
:::Today's Pick:::
"We could finally write standards compliant code. Almost." What Owen just said there is a key reason for my choosing as today's pick. If you're into tableless design, you'll find his resources and tutorials useful. Little Boxes offers a number of layouts, complete with commented stylesheets and the CSS Panic Guide is an excellent list of related resources. And if CSS bores you, perhaps the designomatic or his weblog will be more your thing. What does noodles have to do with it? Hell if I know..