Category: linkblog

The other race angle for the campaign.

Is the scientific method based on scarcity of data?

And really, what did BW expect?

Doc Searls envisions a world in which we are in control of our health care, for real.

What to do if you’re sailing on the Charles.

Hi-larious parody of the faux science of audiophiles.

This is really depressing.

Missed this on Friday. This is why you don’t let morale slip in your call centers.

Wikipedia norms say “no original research” but in the case of breaking news that doesn’t always stick.

Sounds like a good way to build another Web 2.0 name generator. BurlyDrive! For the unbreakable hard drive! (I want credit on that name if a startup ever uses it btw.)

Congrats to Doc for getting through a nasty bout with pancreatitis.

Two masters for the new Mudcrutch album: one with compression, one without.

Waiting for Obama to take unambiguous positions to define himself to voters. He’s got plenty of good ones to choose from.

Summer reading? A novel that treats the fallout of the Tiananmen massacre is unlikely to be read in China, but sounds like a good perspective for the West.

Fighting against the gingko. I miss the stench of those trees between the Rotunda and the Corner in the fall.

Charles Wright on summer.

Ruby might be a good candidate to start looking at systematically for vulnerabilities.

A nice survey of the art and science of quoting on the web.

It’s on my bookshelf, but I didn’t remember how cranky and brilliant Dowding’s book was.

Domains include pingadw.com, alzhead.com, pingbnr.com, coldwop.com, adwbnr.com, bnrcntrl.com, chinabnr.com. At least one service that I use has been infected (and temporarily delinked).

Maybe when we have more space in this house.

Under agile, making every user story measurable is a tall order. Maybe the right translation is to make every epic measurable…

An interesting inside look at the considerations of arts marketing.

In addition to the ARDAgent vulnerability, there’s the AppleScript.THT Trojan and a Firefox 3 vuln.

Guys, don’t screw with the product!!! White Lily = the bomb and it sounds like you’re wrecking it!

Note that Zalm pointed to the first way in my comments yesterday, but one commenter here points out that it doesn’t really work.

The AP was trying to draw a conservative line in the sand about linking and reuse to prevent wholesale linkblogs from profiting on its content. Nice goal, wrong approach.

Just like dropping 3.5″ floppies and CRTs. IE6 is dead. Put a fork in it.

Someday my blog will be able to have some really excellent fonts on it. Until then you’re stuck with what’s available. But Webfonts.info is mapping the way forward.

Translation: I know it sucks, but I haven’t been around to work behind the scenes in the House to block it.

I’m relieved to see that I’ve only ever done one (learn a drinking song).

Good mine of photos for Wikipedia articles among others.

Triangulating the “Media Bloggers Association.”

A proposal for detecting XPath injection vulnerabilities. Surely it can’t be that simple.

Privilege escalation appears to be the fault of the Apple Remote Desktop Agent, not specifically AppleScript.

TechCrunch picks up on the “MBA” mystery.

Recommendation for rearchitecting the stack to detect manipulated return addresses–claims to render buffer overflow vulnerabilities harmless. Interesting.

BSO office is warning listeners about the Amanda Palmer show. Um, I thought this was supposed to be an audience building move.

Fuzzy legal logic calls connecting to open wireless access points “theft.” Slashdot points out that a wireless access point is like asking someone to come in: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/19/1411204&from=rss.

Dave takes a balanced look at the AP blogging coverage.

2009 budget interactive and wallchart infographic.

Oboy. You have to watch the video on Boston.com. (The one on the BSO site is, frankly, a little patronizing.)

Snark snark snark. Lovely. I enjoyed the film but this is dead on.

Oboy. Just as I finish listening to all my music collection, Doc Searls turns me on to another killer radio station. Get well soon, Doc.

I pwn your networked coffee maker!

I think the VGs ought to get a new press agent. The B’Hoos are eating their lunch.

If the fish stinks, must we put it under a microscope to verify that it’s rotten?

Ah, to be a kid again.

See. I knew there was nothing wrong with me. I just have a particularly strong lark instinct.

Argh. What’s the opposite of schadenfreude?

I’m now reconsidering my decision to put my photos on Flickr. Any alternatives?

Book review of a flawed hagiography of RFK. Are there any definitive books on the last campaign that are a little less one-sided?

A review of the ending of Hillary’s campaign and its implication on the vote in the fall.

What a realistic “Heroes” would look like.

Deconstructing the .Mac –> MobileMe branding change.

To upgrade or not? Based on John Gruber’s article, I’ll be waiting at least one more iPhone rev — for a better battery.

I didn’t think FSJ could be topped, but FJY is pretty damned funny too. Although he’s doomed.

Assessment of Obama as manager.

The first version of this headline said “Yanks Lose Their Wang.” I was wondering how that slipped past the editors.

Handy use of lsof to figure out what’s keeping my iPod connected and busy…

Do excerpts infringe?

Are free fonts worth what you pay for them?

A former TFC member heads west.

The story from last year about Charlotte Landrum’s work setting up the Gardner Museum’s podcast series.

I call shenanigans.

Sounds like a good summer read.

Sounds like a good month’s read! BitTorrent FTW!

Brilliant web poetry/illustration/creative project (PDF download).

Geez. Say what you like about his interviewing style, and there is a lot to say, he at least was a man who got the country to care about politics.

Nice new revision of Franklin Gothic. No pricing as yet. I like the way the compressed medium weight looks.

I guess there’s no mourning Usenet. This is a really sad day.

Ooops. Check those subdirectories.

To listen: a Radiohead remix using old computer components. Perhaps to put on a mix with the Symphony for Dot Matrix Printer and “IBM 1401: A User’s Manual.”

Using Ikea cabinets for built-ins behind a knee wall.

Fans! (Or faans, as the original URL had it.) Well written webcomic, art inspired by Archie, science fiction fandom: what’s not to love?

23% of all hacks of Verizon Business customers targeted application vulnerabilities.

Katherine Patrick is a brave kid who has her head on straight. Yay!

Congrats to Jeremy on his next big move.

Quick hands-on summary.

How to sabotage a business.

More hints about cross-platform font goodness.

Managing salespeople is a little like managing opera stars (my analogy, not theirs).

Disqus steps into the Commenters Rights discussion. Baking this into the code is fine, as long as it remembers that there are two kinds of comments: benign and spam.

Interesting to see the rage in the comments at the suggestion that people should actually, you know, drive the speed limit.

You have to, have to, have to watch the performance on Dick Cavett. Rarely have I seen the clarinet played like Buster Keaton would have.

Long thought lost 1950s BSO broadcast tapes, restored. So why aren’t they on the Internet Archive? Or at least on iTunes?

Very interesting. I have to say, though, that as someone who spends most of his time in Bloglines these days, I’d need to get hands on to figure out the incremental benefits.

mmm, Virginia cuisine.

In honor of my undergrad professor and advisor.

I think McCain is telegraphing his target demographic just a tad. Golf gear?

Early screenshots from one of the first new confirmed 3rd party iPhone applications.

Sounds like a good guilty pleasure: “Stick a fork in the fat lady; it’s done! She’s eaten.”

Structural comparison between pop, jazz, classical, and the latest Indiana Jones movie.

I struggled trying to find info about the storm on my iPhone last night as I sat on the runway at Dulles. Why doesn’t the Post just blow up its home page and stream all its content together? Because: then what would the editors do?

Interesting point. With the advent of AJAX, what is the future of web user experience metrics? (I’ve written an answer for syndication: http://www.www.jarretthousenorth.com/internet/measuringrss/.)

Include one WordPress post inside another post or page.

The WSJ handicaps the race after reciting the usual success factors for Obama (Iraq, the Internet, “today’s generation of new, young voters,” and Bush’s faceplant), and suggests his numbers game isn’t done.

“I was against warrantless wiretapping before I was for it!”

Clinton’s farewell letter to her supporters.

When I have time to watch movies again, this science fiction film with Tilda Swinton as Ada Byron Lovelace is going on the list.

Should be a good summer read. With essays from Brian Eno and Vijay Iyer, among others.

The secret to using the Map gadget on a Google Site.

We’ve had open campaigns, how about open VP selection?

Droll summary of fanboy anticipation for Monday’s keynote. I think a few (One more thing, native 3rd-party iPhone app demo) are gimmes.

Summary of the Senate Intel Committee’s Phase II report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq. The summary: two “not substantiated by intelligence”, one “contradicted by available info”, two “did not reflect uncertainties” and one “did not support.”

Seriously. I think the Zune staff is probably listening to a lot of Joy Division themselves these days.

And the speculation begins. I’m delighted to see it begins in Virginia.

Mark Halperin’s Cliffs Notes on factors McCain will have to address to compete effectively against Obama.

More primary post-mortems.

“American Civil Religion” as an explanation for Obama’s rhetorical excellence.

Smart study showing how P2P enforcement attempts can smear innocent people and devices.

An oral history of the Internet.

Understanding how the race is run is important if you want to win.