Last Friday I saw the traffic to my site spike to previously unheard of levels, surpassing even the Joel Spolsky Effect. And it wasn’t because of my nonexistent OSCON blogging. I had noticed previously that when you search for “google”…
Tim Bray: I just wanted to say how much I’ve come to dislike this “Web 2.0” microslogan. It’s not only vacuous marketing hype, it can’t possibly be right. I would tend to agree. One could argue that it’s a useful…
I spent all week at O’Reilly’s OSCON (Open Source Conference). It’s our flagship conference, now in its 7th year, and also the largest, with around 3000 people attending. We occupied the Oregon Convention Center for the week, with tutorials on…
Yey! I finally took the ferry from Larkspur to the city today. Approaching the San Francisco Ferry Building Marcia, a friend I met through Dawn at O’Reilly, mentioned that she’d be on vacation all week and was looking for things…
What motivates the brain to call the body into action? I imagine many things, they’re probably ranked, and high on the list is the threat of punishment, or in the grownup world, embarrassment. For example, the possibility that someone might…
Mitchell Baker: I’d like a series of discussions on the interface between open source projects and commercial organizations. This post first appeared on From the Belly of the Beasts, a weblog from some of the people who build O’Reilly websites.
Last night, someone left the following comment about our latest O’Reilly poll question Which LDAP directory do you use on Linux? Voting on When to pull out of Iraq First time wanted to vote on tonite’s question Cannot find anything…
Last night I made shrimp and grits, a traditional southern dish popularized by Bill Neal at Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill. I’ve had the shrimp and grits at Crook’s at least twice in my life and the best thing about…
Every once and a while I feel like I’ve got to give serious props to the algorithms that play an active roll in my daily life. In this case, I exhibit the Wilfred Avenue exit off of the 101 in…
My Netflix arrived today—a documentary that came out a few years ago called The Fog of War about Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. Given that the United States is mired in a contentious conflict in…
As the story goes, someone was joking that O’Reilly should have a literal “foo bar” (see metasyntactic variable if you don’t get the joke) and invite movers and shakers in technology over for drinks. Thus FOO Camp was born, with…
This idea was inspired by blatantly stolen from Greg McCarroll and James Duncan of Fotango at this year’s FOO Camp. It’s particularly lively among geeks with alcohol. When someone says… Web 2.0 – take a drink Long Tail – finish…
Casey, Andrew, their two friends, and I got to Guerneville for the Russian River Beer Revival around 2 on Saturday, and I have to admit, at first glance it looked pretty trashy. I kind of felt like we’d arrived at…
Scenario: as your webmail login interface is loading, you’ve already selected your username—thanks to Firefox’s form autocompletion—but at the instant you tab over to the password field, the page finishes loading, some javascript onload event fires, and the page focuses…
I wonder if NPR’s increasing fortunes are indelibly linked to the increasing duration of the average American commute? My drive from Santa Rosa to Sebastopol takes me about 12-16 minutes (compared to a 6-8 minute bike ride from Carrboro to…
Can you guess what this is a picture of? Spent the day catching up with Katie Masleid, an old friend from Pflugerville, TX who now lives south of San Jose. Met up with her and her boy Rob, got a…
Wow. Source: AP Photo/David J. Phillip
frequently mentioned in my sonoma county appellations class: Two Buck Chuck #
sweet: Stipple Portrait Drawings and Pen and Ink Illustration by Wall Street Journal portrait artist Noli Novak #
no they di’int: Apple – Mighty Mouse (can we say “two buttons”) #
brian’s spot on: During One Button [DOB] and After One Button [AOB] #
yikes! [Microsoft’s Internet Explorer] is a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. #
for the six feet under fans: San Francisco and Los Angeles turned down the ad because they thought it would reduce ridership, but New York (and Chicago) approved it. #
only at a conference of open source geeks would Tribbles come up twice spontaneously #
whoa, news: Mozilla Foundation that organizes development of the Firefox Web browser has formed a corporate subsidiary (more from Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler) #
ha! elevator hacks: by pressing the “Door Close” and “Floor” buttons at the same time…avoids stops at any other floor #
a boingboing first? Opps. Already blogged this last July. #
monthchunks gets props en español #
design critique of the alphabet: I really love the lowercase g with its curved descender, although the typographic form is a baroque excess of unusual hooks and parts. Incredibly difficult to draw or remember what exactly goes where. #
where’s Justin? rocking out at OSCON #
where’s Justin? at the PDXPHP meeting (can you spot me? how about here?) #
to read later: Listening to Books on the Run (via GreeneSpace) #
this looks so HOT: Pride and Prejudice #
lovely weirdness: Thumbsucker #
job title of the day: Lee Calhoun, an apple historian and retired orchardist in Pittsboro, N.C. (and more nc luv) #
to check out: Road Trip Nation (thanks mark) #
weird and twisted: Catch a bunch of flies. Put them in a jar and put the jar in the freezer. In a few seconds the flies will be chilled out completely. This is called cryogenics, and it has its drawbacks. (thanks corey) #
how is it that i’ve never heard of this before? beercasting #
i just can’t get enough of bright eye’s album “i’m wide awake it’s morning.” listen to the song First Day Of My Life when you get a chance #
animated gif of the day: love your job? #
frightening: All I hear in higher education is, ‘Brand, brand, brand’ #
wow. all i can say is wow: ok go – a million ways #
this struck me: Why do we treat email differently than a phone call? (but I came to different conclusions) #
wikipedia article of the day: Santiago Calatrava #
newsflash: kansas not too hot on science #
aww, i’ve been feeling so nostalgic for so much lately, it’s nice to see this shot of our house in austin #
all i have to say is “hahaha you close-minded, fundamentalist motherfuckers” In the days before the event, several of the [Justice Sunday] telecast’s participants and some of their allies acknowledged that their confidence in the [Supreme Court] nominee was tempered by reports that [Judge John Roberts] had contributed pro bono aid that helped a gay rights group win a landmark Supreme Court case.
so John Roberts has a heart. how un-Christian of him. #
Kräftskiva is swedish for crawdads! (i took that picture in new orleans) #
the most frightening text message imaginable: The pilot has turned blue. Cousin farewell, we’re freezing.
update: the new york times is reporting that this was a hoax #
awesome: the motivation to get tattooed is its use with technology to facilitate hook-ups #
this is worth reading more about: Physics enlisted to help singles #
facinating: For the first time in the 80-year history of The New Yorker magazine, a single advertiser will sponsor an entire issue. #
oh this is too funny: The Head First Girl’s Double Life #
i am reading Everything Is Illuminated now because of the trailer (the song at the end is devotchka – how it ends and holy crap what a good song it is) #
wikipedia and typography, two of my favorite things: Quotation mark #
i like the last one, kind of freaky: Recycling George Lois’s Classic Esquire Covers #
hehe, the onion is nasty: I am confident that she can still stand up to heavy fire and serve ably, even in a rearguard action. (from corey) #
to look at after work: FlickrLicio.us
update: geez, i didn’t realize how skeezy that sounded, i really just meant NESFW #
monthchunks gets props from Itsuki Shiina in Japanese! #
ha! What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’ #
this is so smart, tonight i wish i was an artist: bitfall (check out the videos below to fully appreciate) #
OH MY GOD, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has a wikipedia entry! and i LOVE this painting: touched by his noodly appendage #
yowzers: Woman seriously burned in downtown S.F. explosion #
i want! micro compact home #
Argh, something is wrong with either Dreamhost or Blogger, because I’ve not been able to successfully publish my neatlinks since Sunday morning. (23-Aug-2005)
I think Dreamhost may have updated their systems in such a way that it’s locking out some SSH/SFTP connections. My Windows-based ssh client (SecureCRT) won’t connect, but my SFTP client (WinSCP) works like a charm. Commandline ssh clients seem to work but Blogger bombs with the following message: 005 Unable to connect to SFTP server: Auth fail.
Update (25-Aug-2005): After searching for the particular error message I was getting with I try to log on with SecureCRT (Unable to authenticate using any of the configured authentication methods), it appears that after Dreamhost updated Debian over on Monday, their OpenSSH settings got munged and PasswordAuthentication is no longer set to yes.
I’ve been back and forth with their customer service all week, and it was not until I pointed out that my problems coincided with their announced OS upgrade did they begin to take me seriously. This may warrant a longer followup post later depending on how/if/when things are resolved. As it stands, Blogger is still unable to SFTP to my Dreamhost account. And I’ve got a week’s backlog of neatlinks stuck in web application purgatory. #
its seems that these days the only way to fight fundamentalism is by making fun of it #
god damn! The Pesto Manifesto #
cory really has a way with words sometimes: Pledge to poison a registration database #
yey achewood! Dude, are you bangin’ a website? #
hell, yeah: XHTML Fist Shirt (funny on several levels) #
ok yeah this is cool: Instant Labeling Tape #
google search (that brought someone to my site) of the day: what does prose before hos mean? #
wikipedia article of the day: Theremin (whoa! discovered while watching the moog documentary) #
bah! the excellent Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox ripped off and released for IE #
to listen to: Tilly and the Wall on NPR #
I’m all about the bib: Justin prepares for a garlic feast #
LA Artist COOP: Paintblogging (NSFW) #
awesome! Gay Merit Badges #
wow, quote of the day: Or, was it not all simply for the stubborn hubris of a man unable to admit when he has erred and the blinkered morality of a frightened nation unwilling to call him on it? (Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald) #
quote of the day: Every two minutes Elvis spends on his wheel gives me about thirty minutes talk time on my phone. #
newsflash: IE hates tags #
at first i was like “what the…?” Can you tickle the plastics a little more softly tonight #
work of art of the day: Penis Landscape #
wow, who writes this? HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS #
triple threat: Sneaking into Apple #
shivers: iron and wine – the sea and the rhythm #
sounds like indie/emo/pop music collided with a horror movie soundtrack: The Paper Chase #
Neatlinks are FINALLY back. With no help from Dreamhost or Blogger. I had to set Blogger to publish via insecure FTP *and* change the directory locations to relative instead of absolute paths.
As you can see, I continued neatlinking over the past week (in the dark), and there is some good stuff in there! Feel free to check out the August 2005 archive and scroll down to Monday August 22 to see what I found interesting on the web last week. #
what a photo… A row of school buses sits in floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina east of New Orleans. #
interesting: “Loan a lesbian” idea to promote tolerance #
hmm, interesting math. Imagine your worst nightmare and quadruple that times 100 #
huh. a glockenspiel is just a xylophone with metal bars. i did not know that. #
quote of the day: A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest (from the onion) #
Video explaining the New Orleans flooding catastrophe: CNN.com Video (ha, note the use of Google Earth) #
Wikipedia article of the day: Strategic Petroleum Reserve #
Elevation map of New Orleans (from the Washington Post) #
this has got to be the headline of the day: People torn to pieces, relatives scream – another week in the theme park of death #
