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April 2004 198 Link(s)

• 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 (credit)
• Jack Valenti Interview with an intelligent journalist: too brief (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• GreekFest 1989 and how it changed Virginia Beach: more surveillance, more family-friendly (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Music made with Windows default sounds: complexity is borne of simplicity
• Clay Shirky points to 'A City is Not A Tree': Reading for later (credit)
• Bush uses woman's clothing as kleenex: without her permission? like school in the summertime... no class. (credit)
• US Intelligence Tracking Blogs: googlebombing will meet bombing? (credit)
• Texaco UK putting in WiFi parking spots: but it's through T-Mobile (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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? (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Jerry Orbach films last scenes for Law & Order: milestone (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Marketplace: Spoils of War: who makes dough in Iraq (credit)
• 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. (credit)
• 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!* (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Everything I needed from a database I could get from Excel: no, not really (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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! (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• San Diego CityBeat reviews JBX/Jack in the Box concept store: followup (credit)
• Great Harold Ramis Interview in the New Yorker: the guy has done some good work (credit)
• Discussion of what caused the great August Blackout: simple mismanagement, amplified by computer worm
• Bake Sale for Democracy: creative fundraising (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Kids and their hairdos in road signs: more interesting than it sounds (credit)
• Weird Al's statement on his parents' death: moving (credit)
• Krassy (a websandiegan) has a blog!: slowly, everyone is coming around
• Apple 1984 Commercial Backgrounder: fascinating (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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) (credit)
• San Diego CTC: new website!
• Urban Trees: cool San Diego art project along the bay (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Lindows will not be Lindows next week: ...until the next court case (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• i miss robotwisdom: no posts in far too long
• Interview with Laurie Notaro: funny woman (credit)
• waxy.org: an inspiration for ArtLung Semidaily
• Wireless Security Primer for Regular People: necessary in an increasingly WiFi'd populace (credit)
• 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