ArtLung Semidaily Links

May 2004

• interesting news visualization: newsmap I think even Tufte might approve via krassycandoit.com
• Nettle.com visits Kerry Meetup writes it up (and why has he not been to one of our webdesign meetups yet?)
• Great picture of Bush, Clinton, and Bush Oliver asks what the heck they're saying... perhaps W is telling a dirty joke? via oliverwillis.com
• javadocs.org shortcut to Java documentation (why doesn't sun.com do this?) via tbray.org
• Viridian Room game I don't have the patience for these Myst-y games via chefjoanna.com
• Matt Lee discourses on pros and cons of Dot NET thorough and evenhanded from a pro who speaks several toolkits
• Zinni talking about mistakes in Iraq on NPR
• Kid power! insanely clever via a.wholelottanothing.org
• Linux, Linksys, Disruptive Technology latest Cringely has some good ideas about taking on Telcos and ISPs via sdwug.org
• Funny McSweeny's on possible Kerry running mates I laughed out loud via waxy.org
• Web standards bookmarks one links to my tidbit on ancient DTD hacking
• Happy Birthday Cockybastard! one of the first sandiegobloggers I ever heard of
• Sun Java Desktop meeting on June 2 Put on by SDLUG/SDOSS
• Nomic World -- latest by Clay Shirky Shirky always makes me think. This times it's about the intersection of games, rules, and community.
• Object-oriented language Basics in Java I'm still learning this OO stuff, I'm playing with it in my native tongue -- PHP and JavaScript
• Return to the Fold possibly relevent to me now
• Even Republicans coming around to the fact that Bush administration is incompetently managing Iraqi occupation and Comedy Central's The Daily Show is a great source for smart commentary
• Buying Biosafety Bioterror is something we *do* need to think about, even though all we've gotten is anthrax nonsense
• Biomedical Research: Integral Component of National Security good article, I'll have to check NEJM more often
• How to Defeat Terrorism by Benjamin Kuipers worth a read, some thought provoking stuff in there via interesting-people.org
• Ryze San Diego Networking Event June 8, 2004
• Open journalism mailing list closes down, goes moderated sad when good mailing lists close via politechbot.com
• website with command line interface bloody silly!
• Ford 150 LOSES to Mini Cooper in 40mph crash test counterintuitive
• Thoughts on Shame more good thoughts on how people feel and think about current American conduct via sandiegobloggers.com
• Garry Kasparov on Terrorism thoughtful chess player takes on terror
• Bruce Sterling speaks [realaudio] An Archeology of Imaginary Media via deadmedia.org
• Dershowitz advocates torture, still cites precedent of English torture warrants. Hideous, but at least he's done homework. via interesting-people.org
• Teacher fired for not censoring student Sickening via interesting-people.org
• $2 dollar gas is amazing; but cheaper than Europe, yes but we are supposedly running the world right now, so why wouldn't it be lower? oh right, oil interests in the Administration
• Bruce Sterling rants about party success at Microsoft, May 2004
• ToolTips on a JTable I will never use this, I think
• I am always with you quoth Jesus
• ClearChannel patents making a CD of a concert outrageously broken patent system via jwz.livejournal.com
• Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities Bizarre translation; linguistic misunderstanding via waxy.org
• BioBrew is a professional networking organization for business professionals, scientists, entrepreneurs, investors and service providers in the life sciences. BioBrew organizes after-work events where bio people in academia and industry can meet, swap business cards and exchange ideas. Intriguing
• Leah interviews Emese Gaal excellent photographer and San Diego Blogger via leahpeah.com
• La Jolla Light an interesting local paper. been around for a long time. what's up with that whitespace?
• photo.net's photos of the week some of these are really wonderful
• Tom Clancy criticizes Iraq War co-writes new Zinni book via instapundit.com
• Frinklin reviews the Bakshi LOTR I've seen parts, and can barely stand to look at it. Jackson did a great job on the live-action LOTR. via sandiegobloggers.com
• Regarding the Torture of Others (by Susan Sontag) Americans have no shame, and amatuer media will proliferate despite administration desires
• Linkback on JBX stuff inconsequential san diego happenings? I'm all over it!
• the 'one guy involved' -- that's me! san diego blog is the most neglected member of the artlung empire
• San Diego Macromedia Users Group relaunches with blog presence kudos to Al Abut for taking this on!
• Andy Kaufman's Death Certificate the last 'word' via web405.org
• Bruce Sterling in San Diego Wednesday, 19 May 2004
• The funniest bit of political writing this year from Defective Yeti
• Tile Machine Shockwave tool to build 8x8, 16x16, 32x32 tiling backgrounds via j-walkblog.com
• Border Voices San Diego has an RSS feed too Dang, this syndication thing is catching on.
• Leah interviews Margaret Berry Mighty Girl! via leahpeah.com
• Hilltop High does RSS! low cost information dissemination is cool via sandiegobloggers.com
• Another visit to JBX Cool!
• Rendering cells in Swing's JTable Component some of the the complexity I think I'm beginning to understand in Java
• Walt Pennington profiled by San Diego UT very cool.
• Matt Haughey's PVRblog is case study #1 for Google AdSense Matt is classy, and pretty classy to see his AdSense enthusiasm showcased this way.
• NYTimes article about prisoner abuse and being able to make an independent decision Do not succumb to peer pressure!
• San Diego Trolley Expansion: Mission Valley East I can't wait to take the Trolley to DZ Akin's!
• Fun Vonnegut Rant Makes me want to re-read the Beatitudes
• How to get thrown off Google use cloaking; the story of WhenU's banishment
• Insightful Wesley Clark article on the Middle East compared to USSR change must come from within, and take time; imposed democracy is an oxymoron
• Percentage of peanuts in Planter's Mixed Nuts highly silly diversion via waxy.org
• Panda as zen role model I like!
• SubEthaEdit upgrades I would love to start a SubEthaEdit club, but what would we write?
• New Yorker: Reloaded the Iraq articles have been an amazing public service
• Gas prices, La Jolla 18 May 2004
• Disinfopedia 'who makes the news' -- in a wiki form
• Conflict Map no way to delay that trouble coming every day
• Dictionary of Algorithms & Data Structures chunky geek goodness
• Doc Searls' IT Garage how had I not visited this till now?
• Buffy the Vampire slayer as a Mormon role model more than a little surprising
• FackCheck.org Holding politicians accountable via metafilter.com
• Kevin Mitnick, public servant The ultimate insult from a hacker: He wasn't really hacking, he was really just being a jerk
• Tina Fey at UVa in 1992 This means she lived in Charlottesville when I did. Wacky!
• Nomadic Design Interesting portable stuff
• DG Wills Bookstore great literary bookstore in La Jolla next to Pannikin La Jolla
• WatchBlog US Election News and Opinion
• Arrows and Bullets and Posts Icons of all kinds from many places!
• MS Mobiles sez sorry for using non-Microsoft Technology
• Shirky, "the new reformation" pushback nice analogy of librarians vs. Google
• Jesus had short hair! really? via memepool.com
• MovableType Clarifications aka Backpedaling (seriously though, it's wonderful they're working with their raving lunatic customers) via dashes.com
• The Ranch 99 Experience cultures are nifty
• diveintomark responds to new MT licensing moved to WordPress; donated the MT license fee to WordPress; ballsy and strong move
• Kottke on MT pricing reasonable, fair, still critical, and manages to make Dave Winer sound like the voice of reason!
• Moblogging is the new Reformation Yes.
• MovableType licensing changes - upsetting to many people I feel my strong hesitation to embrace MT has been vindicated. via waxy.org
• Do we have a culture of torture? In fiction, we accept torture and brutality. Do we accept it in reality?
• Mark Cuban weighs in on the funny complexities and shams of buying stocks he's so entertaining, and so funny, I'm jealous via searchvisibilityreport.com
• Tom Bickle replies to Sassy replying to me more good points about scholastic performance
• Science Friday: QED: Richard Feynman [realaudio] Audio about dramatizing Feynman
• Leonard Mlodinow interviewed about Richard Feynman [realaudio] I'm thinking a lot about Feynman lately
• 50 Pounds of CDs for no apparent reason
• Chuck has a blog birthday! Happy Birthday Howling Point!
• Photo of Neal Stephenson from Los Angeles Times Festival of Books via leahpeah.com
• Red Hat Society Spotting seems like a very cool idea via metafilter.com
• Da Goddesss on Parenting, Bullies, and Abu Ghraib Acknowledge good and bad, hold ourselves to a high standard
• PB block Party Wrap Up Oso makes me laff
• Awesome post about trips to NoCal and Martin Luther King Inspirational
• manual Trackback with Python Trackback and comments are two things worth learning about in the blog-world
• the day I had the yahoo! quote of the day canada, but still cool
• I like legos I'm a big kid
• The day my blog got its own page milestone
• My Blog Referers has been reformatted I parse search terms now
• Thomas Jefferson Quotes on peace & on war
• The Shoeshine Post I still get searches for 'flimsy skirt'
• QuarkXPress will use Mono (open source dot net) for next rev? Sounds bizarre via slashdot.org
• HMS Surprise on display at San Diego Maritime Museum used in Master & Commander via j-walkblog.com
• Bush Approval Timeline so when will we catch Osama?
• This calls me an Aries, birthday 3/20 I thought I was Pisces.
• JBX Concept Store Linx including a link to the menu
• Brianstorms points out Linspire/Lindows pages of note very very interesting
• rtf2txt converts rich text, html, and doc files to plaintext
• Senior level US Military Officials bolder with criticism of the administration over the occupation of Iraq, obviously via backupbrain.com
• Quentin Tarantino Interview fun insights into all the little referential nuggets in Kill Bill
• American Sign Language Multimedia reference; excellent use of the web
• Snitch San Diego: new newsprint tabloid for San Diego - subject = crime I picked up Volume 1, Issue 1 the other day by accident while downtown; it's interesting
• Andy Kaufman House of Blues Event long article on the event, Andy's history of talking of faking his own death
• Migrating from PHP4 to PHP5 lots of changes, lots of code will have to change via sdphp.net
• Earthquake Misconceptions in response to '10.5' tv movie, which I managed to avoid entirely via memepool.com
• (MRE) Postcards from Iraq in the North County Times touching via lt-smash.us
• Bush runs out of options Something I know about: Mismanagement, unaccountability, and shallow inattention lead to poor results.
• PHP Syntax Checking in BBEdit for checking that pesky PHP
• Bringing Design to Software (1996) Talks about Kid Pix, others. via commons.somewhere.com
• Slashdot comment on the value of education in the USA the culture continues to degrade the importance of education. via interesting-people.org
• Bad Year for San Diego Universities I get a thrill from getting into the IP list. It's what I consider the A-List.
• Panthers are carnivorous, Longhorns, not Based on naming, MacOS beats Windows
• Best 46 freeware titles for Windows Where's the list for MacOS?
• Register.com != good value some claim the new management at register.com has been a boon. evidence proves otherwise in this case.
• UCSD: 380,000 records exposed to a hacker keeping movie files computer security is hard. via interesting-people.org
• ZeroDegrees really does suck spamtastic!
• Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 refused release by Disney Media consolidation sucks
• San Diego City Council restricting access to Petco Park by Pedicabs unfair, crazy, nonsensical!
• Barbarella's Pillow Talk makes cover of San Diego Reader how did I miss this. And yes, she's a San Diego Blogger via sandiegobloggers.com
• Cerritos Fire, Eagle Fire, San Diego on fire again Seems early for fire season
• The Yes Men infiltrate Heritage foundation gathering Culture jamming par excellance via nettime.org
• latest brain dump my intention is to do them monthly
• The original New Yorker detailing abuses of Iraqi prisoners heartbreaking, appalling, morally bankrupt. heads should roll.
• David Foltz's herculean archive of websandiego posts amazing amount of work -- for fun!
• Google indexing SWF files new features all the time from that Google!
• Developers! Developers! Developers! PayPal gets with the web services program
• TRADEMARK5150 has a neat way to communicate 'Directions' it's multimedia, and all flash, but the little video featuring fast forward driving footage is clever
• PayPal web services woo developers The future is APIs
• Ted Koppel, Iraq, Political Statements we are all implictly political, all the time, particularly journalists. seek substance. think.
• San Diego Futurists I wonder if this is any good?
• Leah interviews Andy Behrman I'll read this one later
• Leah interviews Defective Yeti he's boss
• Gun safety presenter shoots self oops
• Backgrounder on Godzilla, the original motion picture US version was apparently entirely reworked. I had no idea. via fark.com
• My Flickr account I should do more with this
• Attrition.org has fun with Chik-Fil-A silly lawyers, tricks are for kids!
• Matrix co-creator to become woman a Wired profile had hinted at some oddness along these lines
• Oliver WIllis going to work for Media Matters couldn't happen to a nicer guy!
• Camp Pendleton on fire (well, part of it) oh no, not again
• Recap by SignOnSanDiego of The Wildfires from November 2003 it seems like only yesterday
• Horrible Funny Blimp Story Even better the second time around
• One-Trick Cyberpony links back I pointed out Pac-Manhattan to him, and indeed, he finds it a hoot!
• President Jimmy Carter on today's politics and Christianity a voice of political and religious reason via ravensblood.net
• Funny Strange it's so funny how relationships can span time and evolve and mutate
• Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture looks good via nicholsgrp.com
• Mitch makes the case against George W. Bush I like that the argument is narrow. The argument is also strong.
• The Memory Hole has the images of Iraqi POW abuse DISGRACEFUL
• Entertaining account of Sterolab concert at the Belly-Up 'Experts' - heh!