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May 2004 163 Link(s)

• interesting news visualization: newsmap: I think even Tufte might approve (credit)
• 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? (credit)
• javadocs.org: shortcut to Java documentation (why doesn't sun.com do this?) (credit)
• Viridian Room game: I don't have the patience for these Myst-y games (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Linux, Linksys, Disruptive Technology: latest Cringely has some good ideas about taking on Telcos and ISPs (credit)
• Funny McSweeny's on possible Kerry running mates: I laughed out loud (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Ryze San Diego Networking Event: June 8, 2004
• Open journalism mailing list closes down, goes moderated: sad when good mailing lists close (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Garry Kasparov on Terrorism: thoughtful chess player takes on terror
• Bruce Sterling speaks [realaudio]: An Archeology of Imaginary Media (credit)
• Dershowitz advocates torture, still: cites precedent of English torture warrants. Hideous, but at least he's done homework. (credit)
• Teacher fired for not censoring student: Sickening (credit)
• $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 (credit)
• Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities: Bizarre translation; linguistic misunderstanding (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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. (credit)
• 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' (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Border Voices San Diego has an RSS feed too: Dang, this syndication thing is catching on.
• Leah interviews Margaret Berry: Mighty Girl! (credit)
• Hilltop High does RSS!: low cost information dissemination is cool (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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? (credit)
• MovableType Clarifications: aka Backpedaling (seriously though, it's wonderful they're working with their raving lunatic customers) (credit)
• 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. (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Red Hat Society Spotting: seems like a very cool idea (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• HMS Surprise on display at San Diego Maritime Museum: used in Master & Commander (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Earthquake Misconceptions: in response to '10.5' tv movie, which I managed to avoid entirely (credit)
• (MRE) Postcards from Iraq in the North County Times: touching (credit)
• 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. (credit)
• Slashdot comment on the value of education in the USA: the culture continues to degrade the importance of education. (credit)
• 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. (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• 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. (credit)
• 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 (credit)
• Funny Strange: it's so funny how relationships can span time and evolve and mutate
• Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture: looks good (credit)
• 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!