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George Carlin is Up in Heaven Now
Damn. Last year we lost Kurt Vonnegut, and now we've lost George Carlin. Two darkly hilarious guys who despite their cynicism still made us (or, at least, me) laugh out loud at the human condition. I never subscribed to the growing bitterness that Carlin showed as he aged (I agree with Terry Heaton that his best work was earlier in... [read more]
Stupid is as Stupid Does
Michael Arrington's recent experience with a litigious photographer reminds me of a similar experience I had a few years ago. I think we should maintain a list of these people, and then sue them for negligence if they start breeding. [read more]
Users on Crack
Our support team just received an email from a FeedDemon user which contained a screenshot of an error he was encountering. Clearly visible in the screenshot is a RAR file which contains a crack for FeedDemon. Yep. Not only did he contact us despite using a pirated version, but he also included a screenshot which proves he’s using a crack!... [read more]
Link Dump: January 17, 2007
Read/Write Web: The Art, Science and Business of Recommendation Engines Mark Pilgrim: Sharecroppers SuckBusters!: No More Confirmation, Pt. 1 Coding Horror: The Power of Defaults Data Mining: The Blogosphere: A Fresh View Web Worker Daily: Web Worker stretches Steve O'Hear: Do ordinary users care about data portability? Scott Hanselman: FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog Dave Winer: RSS wasn't invented... [read more]
Link Dump: December 8, 2006
RSS - The Newspapers Revenge? Feed publishing best practices Mind the Gap The Dilbert Blog: Nearly Funny Things "Beta" Is Not an Excuse MSN Video - Arrested Development Privacy, the Web and Rich Internet Applications Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems YouTube: Young (ok, VERY young) rockers playing Iron Maiden (via Dethroner) [read more]
Link Dump: November 20, 2006
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy It's a Malformed World Al Jazeera English RSS feed (via Kevin Burton) Brightcove.com goes full-screen The Laws of Simplicity Data Portability 10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur Google… the OS for Advertising YouTube: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground YouTube: Rush - YYZ YouTube: The Beatles - Revolution [read more]
Link Dump: September 15, 2006
Two link dumps in a row? That's a sure sign I'm in another coding frenzy :) Kevin Murphy: Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds (via Alex Barnett) Danny Chamberlin: "Those Were the Days" with a Bradsoft.com twist Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up Eric Meyer: W3C Change- Outreach Wired News: Cyber Crime Getting Organized [read more]
Link Dump: September 14, 2006
Michael H. Goldhaber: Hoorah!! Here’s the first installment of Chapter 3! Danah Boyd: Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama MSDN: XSLT Security MSDN: Enhanced Styles in Internet Explorer 7 Nicholas Carr: Office generations Kim Carmeron: The virtualization of crime Scott Karp: This is What the Social Networking Privacy Backlash Looks Like Read/Write Web: Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps... [read more]
Link Dump: July 6, 2006
Anil Dash: Write Something Meaningful Open XML Translator project (ODF support for Office) Google Account Authentication FrontPage: The King is dead, long live the king Web Users Open the Gates Can Publishers Survive in an RSS Age? Scaling up is good. Scaling *down* is even better. [read more]
