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June 2004 120 Link(s)

• RealPlayer 10 for Linux: having a player that supports Real is a necessary evil
• Chris Adams' notes from USENIX (Day 2): more interesting stuff
• Extremists bully moderates: Eggs provide an apt metaphor for the level of political discourse in the nation
• Can a customer take their IP addresses with them?: (Court says yes!) (credit)
• Web Comics Examiner: I like the magazine-ish format
• Chris Adams' notes from USENIX: some interesting stuff here
• Costs of the Iraq War: I wonder if these numbers are right (credit)
• Burning man tips and tricks from lifestudent nee cockybastard aka halcyon: I've been invited several times, and have never been. I like reading about it though.
• US Weather Service XML Services: Wicked cool, and free and open (credit)
• Grover is Bitter: reminds me of the old 'Bert is Evil'
• Ebert references 'The Uncanny Valley' in White Chicks review: Mori's study is getting around
• Christina Aguilera has had plastic surgery: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! /Your winnings, sir/ (credit)
• Book Drive for San Diego: very worthy cause
• The Reader does RSS: more local media involved with syndication
• Blog software breakdown: Semi-useful chart (credit)
• Friendster getting desperate: Social software has a hidden flaw: people don't do what you want them to (credit)
• Snopes covers San Diego: amazing facts
• iChat AV at 35000 feet: nifty! (credit)
• Spinning like crazy that Clinton book not a hit: No Spin Zone (credit)
• Interviewing San Diego: Brian Dear: San Diego Blogger
• Bruce Schneier editorial: unchecked police and military power is a security threat: Civilians must exert control over both, liberty demands it (credit)
• Fight Club and Calvin & Hobbes: compare and contrast (I remember reading this a long time ago, it's pretty funny)
• WordPress Plugin: Posts by Category: plugin architectures rawk
• Latest Halloween Documents: Microsoft and open source. Can't we all just get along?
• The Location Field is the New Command Line: nice follow-on to JoelOnSoftware's essay last week
• What's a quine?: A quine is a program whose output produces the source code of the program. Yes, it's recursive. (credit)
• Stew audio interview (too short, but very cool): on WNYC out of New York City
• All about message threading: geeky and fascinating (credit)
• WordPress Hacks: very darn useful to San Diego Blog!
• Being a superhero rocks: fun story about game play of (City of Heroes)
• Nerdiness: sounds about right
• DRM and Velvet Revolver: the music business is stupid
• The Daily Show rocks: funny news, serious as cancer (credit)
• MD5 Hash Calculator: I used this a few times recently
• Bruce Sterling and Bruce Schneier: Just a couple of brilliant guys named Bruce sittin' around talking
• Draft Bruce: very entertaining pitch to Bruce Springsteen, and, not entirely impossible
• Cory Doctorow's talk on Digital Rights Management: I pay this talk my highest compliment -- It reminds me of Bruce Sterling
• No matter if you have Paul McCartney play your wedding...: your relationship is not secure.
• Pray for Reason: and more freaky freaky stuff
• Presidential Prayer Team: that is some freaky freaky stuff
• Bush the elder and Bush the younger disagree on Iraq War: but only in private
• Roger Ebert on 911 and 'documentaries': The movie is sounding better and better all the time
• Bush and whole Administration has misled USA: Lying liars; dissembling dissemblers.
• Comment spammer gig for $8/hour: Local entreprenuership! (Kids, don't try this at home!) (credit)
• In 1978 a plane crashed in North Park: San Diego was never the same
• Latest Joel on Software: Web applications erode the appeal of traditional Windows development
• When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?: ...wonderfully detailed (credit)
• new lab item: ColdFusion TitleCase function: something I worked on at an old gig
• Greens for Kerry: "Register Green, Vote Kerry, Beat Bush"
• FoxNews likes Fahrenheit 9/11?: the world is getting stranger
• California's slave history: I had no idea. A column by Kynn.
• Amazing Nickelback audio-mash: one is a crib of the other
• new lab item: Image hover: css effects can be quite powerful
• Change the document background color: old-school
• The Web Is Not A Screenshot: kicking it 2000-style.
• new lab item: Navigation function in PHP and ASP: Old code, repurposed.
• Defining characteristics of fascism: We're not there yet
• Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Blogger: the end of free (credit)
• Christopher Hitchens on torture: no really, it's bad. (credit)
• William Pfaff on torture: it's bad. (credit)
• Very Happy: lyrics by Stew
• Reeling: lyrics by Stew
• The Smile: lyrics by Stew
• Mechanical voting has less accountability than mechanical gambling: If we are to do electronic voting, we must meet Vegas Standards (credit)
• You're Fired: SanDiego Blog chatters about Neil Morgan a few months late
• Phrase of the day: 'Chuck E. Cheese for adults'
• Major revamp to san diego blog continues: Improving, slowly.
• FoxRox (local music tv show) has a blog: well, sort of. last post was in May.
• Clean Sweep Life Assessment: I don't think much of the scoring, but it's a good set of questions for reflection. (credit)
• The San Diego County Fair began Friday: Who loves grease and sugar and rickety rides? We do!!!
• Tony explains what's up with the Lakers.: Hollywood baby.
• Hersh lecture: Abu Ghraib: it's even worse than it appears: I'm scared too. (credit)
• Horrible Conservative Christians saying Reagan is in Hell: not cool.
• Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating collaborative media as a news resource [pdf]: fascinating article I just got around to reading. Worth a read for you social-software types.
• Andy Warhol show in town: through the 19th of June
• Halfling for hire: Don't submit your halfassed fantasy fiction as a writing sample to a web dev firm
• Don't try and make your own hyperbaric chamber: 'The remains were taken away in plastic bags. It was horrific. It was like scraping leaves together in your garden and putting them in plastic bags.'
• 10 foods you should never eat: my grandparents love those doughnuts though (credit)
• Slate has a piece on The Uncanny Valley: a strange phenomenon I've remarked on before
• Kerry's Reagan problem, and opportunity: Interesting points there
• Avatar Creator: neat Flash tool (credit)
• iMap - an OS X mapping tool: Interesting shareware mapper. Testing and downloading it are low-hassle, not crippleware.
• Against my better judgement, I laughed at this: Bush/Zombie Reagan in 2004 (credit)
• Nisus Writer 2.0 is coming: I like Nisus. It's a good word processor.
• lastRSS.php: a class to parse RSS in PHP: I may be looking at this
• More Nick Denton Q&A: always interesting to read his ideas, even if I disagree with them
• Metaphorical fireworks for computer languages: suitably geekilicious
• The Way We Eat Now: Ancient bodies collide with modern technology to produce a flabby, disease-ridden populace
• Sterling writes about Lysenkoism: an apt comparison to our current administration's Science policies
• Upgrade Wordpress from 1.02 to 1.2? Lost your password?: Do this
• How long has geourl been down?: Useful service -- I had linked to it from San Diego Bloggers
• Fifty coolest song parts: some good examples, and some samples (credit)
• When Michael Jackson was Cool: touching eulogy for someone who was a great music sensation (credit)
• Experiences using PHP on large websites: valid criticisms, but PHP still rocks for smaller scale projects
• AirTunes looks sweet: I've been streaming music in the house more-labor intensively than this.
• There are non secret surf spots in San Diego: okay.
• Tony Pierce with a nice commentary on Reagan's death [warning: uses harsh language]: '10 out of 10 for style, but minus several million for good thinking'
• Hank Shocklee & Chuck D on sampling: and how it evolved, legally, financially (credit)
• Krassy hilariously experiences In Cahoots: a semi-yuppified honky tonk in Mission Valley
• Tragedy in Bird Rock: Horrible accident
• Bradbury, Schmadbury: Great point from Brian Dear about Ray's 'outrage' at Moore over 9/11 title
• Fahrenheit 9/11 Trailer: looking like a good film (credit)
• Blogs and revenue: Interestingly detailed (credit)
• Christina Aguilera on the cover of Elle: Not a bad look
• Comics for Sale!: Buy them now and support the purchase of an engagement ring for Leah
• No thanks, We mean it!: Krassy @ Olive Garden
• Digerotic Art Event: featuring a new book by Tiger Lee
• Tomcat tips 'n tricks: Using the Tomcat Java Application server (credit)
• More JBX experiences: I like following the spreading of the word of JBX
• Mathowie interviewed by LeahPeah: you can blame Matt Haughey for my blogging (credit)
• Army seeking mechanisms for assessing wisdom: a potentially hopeful sign
• XML to Nested Array Parser: in PHP, I've used it successfully.
• Creationism in San Diego: I had no idea
• Marvel Directory: my favorite Marvel Characters are Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk (credit)
• Backgrounder on SpiritOfAmerica.Net: Astronishingly cool use of the web for good
• Alexandra Polier's story: she was the subject of an untrue sex scandal involving Kerry. she tells her story: frightening. (credit)
• Mission Cliff Gardens, San Diego: I had never heard of this either (credit)
• Lee Barken from SDWUG: briefly profiled by the SDUT
• Requirement to submit thumbprint to buy ammunition in California: I don't think that's cool (credit)
• Thumbprint to buy ammunition in California: I'm no fan of the NRA, but what's the rationale for the invasion of liberties here?