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February 2005 Posts

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  1. Feb 1: IP address incident (4)
  2. Feb 3: $895 of PAIN (13)
  3. Feb 7: towards a philosophy of life (12)
  4. Feb 8: rethinking the reality-based community (3)
  5. Feb 9: a night of mod_rewrite (6)
  6. Feb 10: 70-71 (5)
  7. Feb 12: good morning from the triangle bloggercon (3)
  8. Feb 12: post-bloggercon reflections (4)
  9. Feb 12: my boo (7)
  10. Feb 15: replacing a laptop lcd screen (116)
  11. Feb 15: custom referrer tracking (11)
  12. Feb 16: blogging and journalism are the same thing (7)
  13. Feb 20: the rules of blogging (11)
  14. Feb 21: journalism as a conversation (3)
  15. Feb 22: a vision of the future of mass media journalism (6)
  16. Feb 23: html generator (19)
  17. Feb 25: what it means to dis blogging (5)
  18. Feb 28: xmlhttprequest will change the web (1)

February 2005 Neatlinks

Tue, Feb 1

mozilla in today’s news and observer: Browser challenges Explorer (get the bugmenot plugin to bypass registration) (0 comments)

billion dollar disasters: how could north carolina possibly be worse than florida? (thanks jason!) (0 comments)

i’m glad i can still catch up on commericals even though i don’t have a tv: Porn, Again (nesfw) (0 comments)

nice: Computerworld SLAMMED by readers after printing Firefox FUD article (0 comments)

O’Reilly to publish: Don’t Click on the Blue E!, a roadmap for switching to Firefox (0 comments)

Thu, Feb 3

i gotta say, these illustrations are neat: How to Cut (0 comments)

Fri, Feb 4

my favorite thrift store art makeover (0 comments)

Sun, Feb 6

jane asks, “why foo and bar?” hmm, good question. i don’t know, i’ll look it up. and we discover: Metasyntactic variable (god i love wikipedia) (3 comments)

Mon, Feb 7

hella effin’ cool: iPod Shuffle RAID (0 comments)

there should be a way to place bets on how many days it takes before this hole is plugged: phishing idn hole in firefox (0 comments)

cool: Antique French School Desk with Bench Seat (1 comment)

Tue, Feb 8

this just blows me away: Four-year-old’s late-night drive (0 comments)

OH MY GOD: Google Maps why so awesome?

  1. grab the map to pan smoothly over great distances
  2. map is sized to the browser window
  3. visually pleasing vector maps
  4. google search technology

(0 comments)

new word: idempotent (meaning something like…actually i have no idea what this definition means) (4 comments)

nice: See You in Hell, Valentine! (0 comments)

Wed, Feb 9

katie m on the web: Ten reasons . . . to holiday in Iraq (2 comments)

haha: I’m not going to Pat’s. Last time I was there I lost my diet root beer cherry. (0 comments)

oops: thankfully my thinkpad is in better shape (0 comments)

Thu, Feb 10

blast from the past: my masters paper enters USAID’s development experience clearinghouse (ironically, their server seems to be under some kind of incredible load, so the link above may not work–but feel free to “reread” it here) (0 comments)

huh? weather underground radicals? Stewart, who once represented Weather Underground radicals and mob turncoat Sammy “The Bull” Gravano…

oh, this not this. (2 comments)

news of the psychosomatic: ‘Broken Heart’ Syndrome Is Serious (0 comments)

took me longer than it should have: Sex With a Miner (0 comments)

picture of the day: Spine (from here) (0 comments)

Fri, Feb 11

google + wikipedia = unstoppable! (0 comments)

multimedia juggernaut: get any achewood strip printed in high resolution, signed and/or framed (0 comments)

in the news: Bloggers gathering outside cyberspace (2 comments)

yeah, this is hella cool: NameVoyager (0 comments)

what the: Kung Fu Hustle (some sort of post-modern crouching tiger) (0 comments)

Sat, Feb 12

triangle bloggercon pic: justin and jackson at 9am (thanks to ruby’s treo) (1 comment)

brave new world: my photos on flickr (the bloggercon gave me a reason) (1 comment)

Mon, Feb 14

i frighten myself: Hell Dance Party (3 comments)

hell fucking yeah: you can sue but you can’t catch everyone (0 comments)

i love my internet denizens: Hundreds of music CDs, zero dollars*, obtained legally (0 comments)

Tue, Feb 15

wordpress 1.5 release today (0 comments)

Republican Family Values: Marcel-Keyes told the Post her parents have thrown her out of the house, stopped speaking to her and refuse to pay for college because she is gay. She said she loves her parents. (0 comments)

headline of the day: An Architect’s Wet-Cement Dream (0 comments)

the coolest stuff i’ve learned this week: using EditPlus as WinSCP’s external editor (0 comments)

in my neck of the woods: measure snags blogging conference mastermind (1 comment)

way to take stand: But I do believe that homosexuals are subject to prejudice and that they are forbidden the same rights and safeguards that heterosexuals enjoy, including the right to marry. That, in my book, is wrong. (0 comments)

OH NO THEY DIDN’T! Rate My Poo (my eyes are watering that’s so awful!) (2 comments)

Wed, Feb 16

wow, this looks cool: The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (0 comments)

quote of the day: In my work at Microsoft [I've written] a number of very key memos (Bill Gates) (0 comments)

tonight: chapel hill blogger meetup and my first unc basketball game evar (1 comment)

Thu, Feb 17

excellent cartoon: I double-reverse googled him! (1 comment)

dooode! what is wrong with Blogger? it is sooo slow. wordpress may sooner be on my horizon. (1 comment)

wow. thanks for the props (0 comments)

sheee-it. thems a lotta nekkid women (0 comments)

Fri, Feb 18

hi-larious! the daily show on bloggers (quicktime required) (2 comments)

Sun, Feb 20

dad finishes first in the Austin Distance Challenge!!! (0 comments)

acronym of the moment: msm (0 comments)

wikipedia article of the day: Gentrification (1 comment)

i’ve posted on West Rosemary Developments over at orange politics (0 comments)

perhaps the cutest tpod ever? Roll up your sleeves… (0 comments)

Mon, Feb 21

this should be good to see: Moog (click the link on this page to see the trailer) (0 comments)

damn. sucks to be paris hilton (0 comments)

hell yeah! god is an abortionist: Unintelligent Design (0 comments)

buzzword: ajax: asychronous javascript + xml (0 comments)

so you mean blogging? “gonzo journalism” — in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story (0 comments)

oh dear: Alice in Doggieland (1 comment)

Tue, Feb 22

hehe: Penis models wanted (0 comments)

Wed, Feb 23

image of the day: on top of Washington Monument (0 comments)

excellent, now we’re talking: The Crackers (0 comments)

whoa, neat: build your own silkscreen (0 comments)

cool, literally: manmade ice towers (1 comment)

behind me in line at weaver street market: jd samson of le tigre (0 comments)

previously tonight: chapel hill blogger’s meetup (1 comment)

design kids, eat your heart out: the eleventh of may (internet explorer users: download firefox) (0 comments)

Thu, Feb 24

wikipedia article of the day: Fundamental attribution error (0 comments)

such amateurs! but what’s the rate of swear words per minute? sideways is clearly the champ with one swear word every 62.5 seconds, whereas in the aviator we had to wait a staggering 81.6 seconds between swears. (0 comments)

clever: what you can do with two digital cameras (0 comments)

never heard of it (till last night), but wayback says tabulas has been around since at least may 2003 (0 comments)

it’s gonna be an xmlhttprequest world: Very Dynamic Web Interfaces (0 comments)

the gloves come off: katie m calls me out as a prescriptivist (4 comments)

this made me chuckle: You’re a Seven… (0 comments)

i love how the new highway font has it’s own website: ClearviewHwy (only a blog would have been cooler) (0 comments)

holycrap, Richard M. Stallman has a blog? (0 comments)

Fri, Feb 25

use EditPlus for taking /and highlighting/ your notes (0 comments)

holy crap, jason lays the smack down on ala president Michael Gorman (0 comments)

trish brings the pain on my “rules” of blogging (0 comments)

mommy, why does jeff bezos hate the blind? (0 comments)

something i missed in 2003: Urban Tribes (thanks ruby) (0 comments)

mmm… yeah… you see we’re putting the cover sheets on all tps reports before they go out (0 comments)

Sun, Feb 27

to read later: The FUD-based Encyclopedia (0 comments)

oh snap: overlaying GPS data on Google Map plus a screencast by john udell demontrating the the effect in a walking tour of keene, nh (0 comments)

to read later: Community Blogging (0 comments)

Mon, Feb 28

quote of the day: When techies burn out, they tend not to do strange things. They are, by nature, already a few degrees off plumb. So they revert to the ordinary. (0 comments)

god america, get a fucking clue: School Board Bans Photo Of Girl Wearing Tux update: meanwhile, Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education (1 comment)

book to read: The Art of the Start (0 comments)

relevance more important than accuracy in contemporary journalism: Whither The Wall Street Journal? (0 comments)

my latest post on orange politics: The Grocery Shopping Project: Whole Foods or Whole Paycheck? (0 comments)

from cyberjournalist.net: A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics (1 comment)

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