ArtLung Semidaily Links

April 2004

• Rini knows the diver "Left Behind" small world
• Synovate they're working on the Jack In The Box customer feedback form
• URL for the feedback form for commenting on Jack In The Boxes experimental JBX locations I'm going to fill it out now.
• Syntax for an array of Objects in Java used this for my City College class on Java
• Christina Aguilera cancels tour not that we were going to go or anything
• About.com San Diego I didn't know about the redesign of About.com
• Warflying Los Angeles not bad via boingboing.net
• Jack Valenti Interview with an intelligent journalist too brief via slashdot.org
• Media criticism exercise photographs are choices, the ones on the Newsweek cover are bad ones
• Linux Desktop Summit 2004 thoughts underwhelming
• Hacking memory How Philip K. Dick can you get?
• BusinessWeek covers the fast-forward area of wireless innovation the world keeps changing, fast via sdwug.org
• GreekFest 1989 and how it changed Virginia Beach more surveillance, more family-friendly via interesting-people.org
• Fascinating though long history of word processors, Word, Word for Japan, etc many nuggets of worthwhile reading
• 'Take one for the country' discretely offers sex to Iraq-bound servicemen; can it be true? the first rule of TOFTC is don't talk about toftc; appears to have San Diego squads via boingboing.net
• Bruce Sterling's Blog gets redesigned re-skinned with Wired look-and-feel
• Coppermine: open source PHP/MySQL photo gallery software an alternative to gallery via ravensblood.net
• Music made with Windows default sounds complexity is borne of simplicity
• Clay Shirky points to 'A City is Not A Tree' Reading for later via corante.com
• Bush uses woman's clothing as kleenex without her permission? like school in the summertime... no class. via boingboing.net
• US Intelligence Tracking Blogs googlebombing will meet bombing? via waxy.org
• Texaco UK putting in WiFi parking spots but it's through T-Mobile via sdwug.org
• List of Monsters in 'Godzilla Final Wars' Makes me smile. I was never a Godzilla Fan, but Joe Toledo showed me the way.
• Rise of Elegance in Open Source Software I'd like to see more elegance in non-desktop applications as well via waxy.org
• Last year's Free Cone that was yummy
• Today is Free Cone Day @ Ben & Jerry's I enjoyed this last year
• LEGOLand Billund launches kid l-jack system how long till San Diego LEGOLand has these? via boingboing.net
• OJ Simpson spotted in La Jolla (?) styling by Miami Vice?
• Rewriting subqueries as joins in MySQL SQL on the brain.
• Interrogations of Saddam (satire) am i the good cop or bad cop?
• Desktop Linux Summit wrap up cheerleading
• Visual Studio Dot NET reformats HTML not good text editor behavior via vistaseeker.com
• Jerry Orbach films last scenes for Law & Order milestone via oliverwillis.com
• Unofficial "Resume" of President George W. Bush snarky, but appears predominantly factually correct
• Electric Bugaloo calls me a superhero 'just doin' my job, sir'
• both hands another new san diego blogger via sandiegobloggers.com
• Bruce Sterling will be in San Diego in May at Mysterious Galaxy for a talk and reading
• DogWaffle, PC paint software local company, presenting at the San Diego Macromedia UG in May
• David Moore of CAIDA's web page links to his fascinating and scary research papers
• Summary of last weeks San Diego ACM Meeting about internet worms: we're doomed; I'm the guy in the white hat.
• FlashPaper: printable document viewer export for Contribute but, windows only?
• Nuggets in the Bob Woodward book Slate offers Cliff's Notes
• Frinklin Speaks new san diego blogger via sandiegobloggers.com
• Aplus Net 's press release after fixing it they blame a subcontractor
• Aplus Net adding code to spam google unethical if folks were not notified that random includes might come along with hosting
• Janece will have a girl! whee!!
• Geek Dinner with Tim Bray? hey, this sounds cool
• Photos of military coffins from Iraq self-serving news embargo overcome by FOIA request via livejournal.com
• Marketplace: Spoils of War who makes dough in Iraq via popdex.com
• TrueBlue: Convert TrueType fonts to PostScript Type I free utility for OS X!
• Brad Templeton on GMail Templeton is always cogent and smart, and addresses legal issues rather than hyperbole
• I hate brain drain keep hope alive
• Monetize THIS Ideas, ideas, ideas. via sandiegobloggers.com
• KPBS seeks co-host for 'A Way With Words' public search for verbal and linguistic sidekick
• boingboing stephensonia more goodness
• Neal Stephenson thread on MeFi I hope for many cool links
• One-Trick Cyberpony's students have fun! This sounds like a good class
• A chandelier you can send an SMS to a chandelier you can spam!
• Impossible to live with AIDS if you work at Wal-Mart meta messages: healthcare is broken; Wal-Mart rakes in dough while workers scrape by
• Bell's Palsy on Wikipedia a friend has contracted this
• ACM San Diego putting on inexpensive and comprehensive UML seminar May 15, good price, great organization, great speaker. spread the word.
• Diebold suffers from shoddy software engineering *shock!* via interesting-people.org
• LA DMZ I took part in this tiny site a million years ago
• Oddball Comics weekly, *oddball* comics; one of the best things about Comic-Con
• The Story about the Baby still funny, but not for the faint of heart
• It'sYourTurn.com does gaming via web and email I like playing Go
• Old story on z57, web company, by Bill Volk oldie but goodie. I used to link to this blog when it was active. Alas, no more.
• El Oso adds a blogging compadre I wonder how it will change the blog?
• Google looking for index.rdf and atom.xml files like they wuz robots.txt files or something via waxy.org
• Mythusimage links to my O2 story thanks!
• Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications thoughtful
• The Dunbar Number humans have limits
• Unofficial Guide to the DC Comics Universe nerdy, cultural
• Anesthesia and Popular Culture too short, not current enough, still interesting
• ArtRage: free natural media painting for Windows I want to download this for Leah
• Document moved. this is for google
• Kynn is the latest columnist for The Californian "sweet" indeed
• MP3.com content not lost? semi-unexpected development via waxy.org
• Basics of Scripting OS X primer
• Ryze San Diego Event Tonight going to this, I am
• My cousin and his amazing hobbies check out the new RC plane stuff
• Extracting upcoming.org data I've so been meaning to do this
• Some very nice CSS to apply to html tables for future reference.
• Benedict Arnold, American Patriot heh via kottke.org
• Hot Ambercrombie Hoax intriguing, insular, incestuous blogosity
• How to Be A Programmer perty good
• Joe and Leah at the Park I must admit, we look great. Cute and rumply
• I linked to a interview with Zinni a few months ago depressing
• Zinni again says Iraqi problems predictable the Bush administration simply did not listen to the advice given it
• Mitch Wagner forms Fiction Writing Group emphasis on Science Fiction, but not only
• How to persuade required reading for me via j-walkblog.com
• Everything I needed from a database I could get from Excel no, not really via j-walkblog.com
• Academic geophysicist predicts quake scary? true? quake prediction would be really cool. how would it change how Angelenos live?
• Don't hurt the TV, but go ahead and kill Mom everyone has priorities
• Saudis manipulate oil prices to aid Bush? manipulative and sick, and more, unethical
• San Diego Perl Mongers Meeting Tomorrow LAMP Host hosts them, gratis
• Rini on Programmer Productivity and Market Demand Bill is smart
• Tom Bickle Redesigns how do you say 'spiffy' in French?
• Ad Age covers Subservient Chicken I was in a bookstore the other day and people were talking about it
• Nine reasons why we never sent our Special Operations Forces after al Qaeda before 9/11 intruiging via interesting-people.org
• Some tweaks to Space Instruments were made today amazing engineering feats
• Mark Cuban is the effing bomb I saw him speak at a Digital Coast Conference, heckuva personality
• What's a vote worth? Analysis from Bruce Schneier. Cold and looks right to me. Vote trustworthiness is critical to successful democracy.
• Cyberspace Warriors put here because I intend to read it
• Interview with Neal Stephenson about 'The Confusion' cool
• How did I miss that 'The Confusion' is out now? o, my lamentations!
• UUID definition on wikipedia related to my curiosity about GUID
• GUID definition on wikipedia was just curious
• Spirit of America: Help Americans in Iraq do Good seems like a noble cause to me, check it out
• American Sign Language clock in Flash nifty! via j-walkblog.com
• Herman Kahn cold war thinker
• Philip Greenspun interview in IT Conversations an inspiration to me. i'll listen to this when i can.
• Black Ships & Samurai Gaijin in Edo in art
• Hidden message at PETCO Park by PETA "B.O.Y.C.O.T.T. P.E.T.C.O." -- yeah, but they paid for the space at PETCO Park to do it via j-walkblog.com
• new Amazon Search Engine, uses Amazon sign-on, tracks searches, searches in books called A9
• ZeroDegrees sign up utterly fails for Safari, Firefox, and Mozilla on the Mac the developers could not hit water if they fell out of a boat
• SoCalFreeNet.org on local TV I love free wireless
• Local computing world 'David' Lindows is now Linspire I still like 'lindows' as a name, it's cheeky via slashdot.org
• San Diego CityBeat reviews JBX/Jack in the Box concept store followup via tenth-muse.com
• Great Harold Ramis Interview in the New Yorker the guy has done some good work via waxy.org
• Discussion of what caused the great August Blackout simple mismanagement, amplified by computer worm
• Bake Sale for Democracy creative fundraising via voz37.typepad.com
• Cavebear on the loss of Libya's .ly domain better background than the register story
• David Byrne on Onion AV Club nothing personal
• "Something in our culture elevates steadfastness and good intentions above intelligence, flexibility and reflection" excellent quote about Bush
• "JBX" concept store in Hillcrest report bizarre rebranding test here in Foodmaker's home town
• Online Viewer for Word, PDF, PostScript code is GPL'd too via j-walkblog.com
• Donald Trump Anti-Iraqi Invasion not what I would have predicted from the avatar of 80's-style greed
• Miss USA Pro-Iraqi Occupation curiously underreported via oliverwillis.com
• Kids and their hairdos in road signs more interesting than it sounds via j-walkblog.com
• Weird Al's statement on his parents' death moving via waxy.org
• Krassy (a websandiegan) has a blog! slowly, everyone is coming around
• Apple 1984 Commercial Backgrounder fascinating via diveintomark.org
• Bruce Sterling will keynote SIGGRAPH 2004 in Los Angeles *drool*
• The Infamous 911 Memo [pdf] Judge for yourself
• ComicBase to be Windows only ... "heartbreaking" sad to see it not make the jump to OS X
• Zeroconf: Howl is to Rendezvous... ...as Windows is to Macintosh OS X via diveintomark.org
• Richard Stallman on Java "Free but shackled:" predictable
• USS Midway Museum in San Diego opens in July
• Midway comes to San Diego [from January] great punchline
• Easter Bunny Ale more from the styn brothers family Easter
• Referrals must be given freely this is true, and difficult
• SoCalFreeNet: Free Wireless Solar Node in Golden Hill, close to me
• Mailblocks f***ing sucks If you send ME mail, you should turn off YOUR stupid challenge response system
• Beastie Boys Concordance more or less
• Weird Al's Parents lived in San Diego, dead of asphyxiation incredibly sad
• Not an egg hunt, a beer bottle hunt That lifestudent nee cockybastard really is something
• Clay Shirky interviewed by Gothamist Clay is insightful and fun, as usual
• Controversial Ford SportKa Cat and Pigeon commercials i have not, and will not watch them
• Subversion and CVS Contextual Menus for OS X very very useful
• Generics aren't computer science geekiness
• What jobs will be in demand in the future? good question
• Mambo CMS another open source content management system
• INeedCoffee.com turned 5 last week milestone for a labor of love via criticalmas.com
• Emese with some typically brilliant photos of Encinitas prosaic and sublime
• Mikey & Joelle (2 sandiegobloggers) date they sound really cute together!
• Security Drill at SDG&E sounds like they passed. good to know.
• UCLA Festival of Books leah and i may hit this next weekend
• C12 BioVentures bioinformatics conference
• Tech Mecca 2004 coming up soon
• Be Love: Finding Your Voice [pdf] Local event looks intriguing
• CFmyAdmin analogue of phpMyAdmin (sadly, does not work with CFMX) via sumoc.com
• San Diego CTC new website!
• Urban Trees cool San Diego art project along the bay via workingsofthemind.com
• Cringely depressed about Sun/Microsoft deal entertaining as usual
• Chuck points out only 15% of households can afford a San Diego home wouldn't it be pretty to think that was not so?
• Broadband by 2007 realistic or hollow Bush campaign promise?
• Java Swing tutorial: includes GridBagLayout I used this a few weeks ago
• Wayback machine: Dann Filter Whatever happened to Dann Filter?
• Thoughts and Links on the Passion of the Christ big clearinghouse of links and background
• Oddly touching remembrance of Kurt Cobain by Thurston Moore in the new york times, so read it before it disappears behind registration
• Planet getting stranger Doomed or just eccentric?
• Kuraoka's Ad Blog new san diego blogger via sandiegobloggers.com
• Spotlight Starman International celebrating the mediocre series Starman since 1987
• Amy's Diary more from exorcist/bunnies woman - leah laughed hard at this
• the exorcist in 30 seconds with bunnies quietly brilliant
• computing and the arts the wooden mirror is really cool
• P22's The Terminal a journal of typography
• History of Everything more or less via dashes.com
• Lindows will not be Lindows next week ...until the next court case via slashdot.org
• Kintera is hiring web projects in the works
• el-oso.net is optimistic about san diego mentions pokez and influx; can't be all bad
• Baron R.K. Von Wolfshield's & the computer business lessons of a peculiar character
• Unified Blog Pinging Theory one stop shopping via waxy.org
• i miss robotwisdom no posts in far too long
• Interview with Laurie Notaro funny woman via leahpeah.com
• waxy.org an inspiration for ArtLung Semidaily
• Wireless Security Primer for Regular People necessary in an increasingly WiFi'd populace via sdwug.org
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years anything worth doing takes time to learn. no shortcuts.
• coping with a joe job I dislike the name, for obvious reasons.
• The Problem with CAPTCHA keeping robots out is a hard problem though
• Graphical History of Baseball statistics can tell stories
• USA Theocracy You've got your religion in my democracy!
• Shirky on Situated Software software targeted at a small working group
• phpCodeBeautifier neat idea
• new header i love smeary graphics
• open source needs usability experts to lay down the law because programmers make programs for programmers
• Why Content Management Fails CMSes need managers