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July 2004 64 Link(s)

• Notes on protecting your open discussion forum: I have learned *some* of these lessons on websandiego
• It's amazing how the internet works: ...yes, yes it is
• Great Hackers by Paul Graham: Many people linking this, I intend to read it
• In the future, you are the producer of the media: Participatory news is moving inexorably forward (credit)
• Jimmy Wales slashdot interview: term of the day = 'revert war'
• Technorati Politics: if there's anyone with the capacity to read 'the cloud' of blogs, it's Technorati
• Install the W3C Validator on MacOS X: Super-useful (credit)
• Hipster Target Opening: only in NYC (credit)
• Dodge Truck logo is a vagina diagram: shocking subliminal implications (credit)
• Spamusement!: Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! (credit)
• The Birth of Unix and C: changed the world with code
• Another cool tony pierce photo essay: short, but good.
• What Australians think of Ugg Boots: 'tacky'
• Censorzilla: Obscenity in Netscape's source code (credit)
• The Steely Dan Dictionary: I love their lyrical complexity (credit)
• Chuck of Howling Point interview: by Leah, of course!
• Programs with manners don't make users feel stupid: nobody wants to feel stupid (credit)
• Let them sing it for you: Use famous singers to say your words
• Rules for political activity for members of the Department of Defense: including active duty military and civilian contractors
• Sandler: Atom library for Java: This intrigues me. My Java class last semester whetted my appetite. (credit)
• Microsoft bought cool Outlook search add-on Lookout to kill it: Fark would label this 'obvious'
• Peanut-based Thai salad dressing, includes chunky peanut butter!: Awesome flavor, I had a version made by my friend Mickele
• They Might Be Giants Interview in Newsweek: 'Being a musician ... is not something you do because you’re being sensible'
• Possible follow up songs for one-hit wonders: 'Everybody Was Kung Fu Making Up' (credit)
• What the President is Not: Entirely from public statements (credit)
• Tim Bray on Atom @ the IETF: Sounds like it's going well. Take that Dave Winer!
• khtml2png: automating screenshots using the khtml rendering engine
• Pretty Blue San Diego!: Emese rox
• Gates Residence Security Zone: Microsoft meets The Department of Homeland Security
• Republican dirty tricks in Patriot Act vote: not cool when dems do it, not cool when GOP does it (credit)
• light up the sky dot org: a unique form of protest
• Cute personal ad: Nice draw-rings and a lovely flowchart
• Five habits for regular expressions: Thorough and useful (credit)
• More Homestarrunner + They Might Be Giants collaboration: 'Experimental Film' (credit)
• Footnotes from Fahrenheit 911: Academical (credit)
• Photographer at the Locks: ...meets Homeland Security
• Nick Denton Interview: talking about the Gawker (empire) (credit)
• Microsoft loves Blogs!: Scoble's hand definitely in this
• C.L. Stegall is writing a novel: ...and he is writing about it online
• Batch file rename has been updated: the lab gets better and better all the time
• Ass-vertise: Advertising enters a new age (credit)
• Nisus Writer Express 2.0 Preview: footnotes, tables, and more goodies -- for a reasonable price
• More on IPv9: nifty, strange (credit)
• "I've earned an 'I told you so'": Kynn on the new revelations about the Saddam statue photo-op
• 'American men seem to like totally fake people. Big boobs and mouths.': E3 2004 Report: Booth Babe Dialogues
• Michael Moore will soon blog: In the future, everyone and his brother will have a blog.
• Michael Moore wraps up the first week of Fahrenheit 911's release: The man-on-the-street reactions are what interests me most. It's a populist hit.
• Chris Adams' USENIX Notes (Day 4): good stuff on Google and hardware
• Halliburton waste in Iraq: 'We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care'
• Rock, Paper, Saddam!: 'TIGER HAND! RAWR!!!!! RAWRR! rar. Hahaaa, hi. Tiger Hand. Come on! You Know! ... You don't know Tiger Hand? Tiger Hand beats paper. Like totally beats paper. Always'
• IPv9: I had never heard of it before today. (credit)
• Marlon Brando died broke and alone: Tragic. Jack Nicholson sometimes took him food. (credit)
• Stew+Heidi audio interview (too short, but very cool): I *heart* Stew
• Mr. Picassohead: Flash Toy: Roll your own Picasso
• Contrarian Amazon Reviews: People who don't like good stuff, just to say they don't like good stuff.
• 'The List' of browser-based HTML Editors: comprehensive
• Titanic in 30 Seconds with Bunnies: 'Iceberg right ahead!' (credit)
• Bush slipping in Corporate America: "bad for the American brand" -- well, it's true.
• Houston Airport Rangers: Back to the future! (credit)
• Joe's Corsage: new Zappa compilation: where's the tracklisting?
• San Diego Bloggers added in June 2004: Growing by leaps and bounds!
• Sun open sourcing much of Solaris: it's significant if interesting bits can be moved into other projects legally
• Pictures of Tom Tom Club playing a gig: from 2003
• Chris Adams' notes from USENIX (Day 3): and more interesting stuff