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Started April 3, 2006. See LinkDumpArchive, LinkDump.
= july 1, 2006 =
[http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-10.html Why] Yahoo is trawling for URLs that obviously don't exist.
[http://www.tug.org/ftp/tex/impatient/book.pdf TeX for the Impatient] (pdf)
An [http://vampirefreaks.com/u/twistedmisfit unexpected but wonderful re-use] of the [http://p1k3.com/2004/2/17 glowing skull motif]. (An image which is number four, no less, in a Google image search for [http://images.google.com/images?q=green%20skull green skull].)
[http://www.myspace.com/tyrusthekiller Another one]. The skull appears to be propagating in the wild.
Some discussion, loosely speaking, moved to [[June 27 2006]].
[http://www.ibiblio.org/webster/ GCIDE_XML] - interesting dictionary data.
[http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-000811.htm go thou hoketh poketh]
[http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/coblist coblist] - for those interested in building houses out of dirt and straw.
[http://www.qmailrocks.org/ qmailrocks.org]
RequiredMusic: ManuChao
[http://www.swissmennonite.org/feature_archive/2004/200411.html The near lynching of John Schrag]
[http://p1k3.com/imgs/rock_in_map.jpg weird gmaps image tiling bug]
TrackingWriters: BryanGarner
WareLogging: [http://mapnik.org/ Mapnik]
[http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking Geowanking]
WareLogging: MozillaGreasemonkey
WareLogging: [http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ Greasemap]
[http://www.streetnewsservice.org Street News Service]
WareLogging: [http://coralcdn.org/ Coral DCN]
[http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org/ National Day of Slayer]
[http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ earthexplorer.usgs.gov]
SlayerMusic: GodHatesUsAll.
[http://metacarpal.net/blog/ Paper Bits]
[http://hackaday.com/ hack a day]
[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/print 2004 election fraud]
[http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/CollectedInfo/OilSmokePoints.htm Cooking Oil Smoke Points]
[http://www.randyerbcarvings.com/ Randy Erb Custom Chainsaw Carvings]
JaronLanier: [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Digital Maoism]:
:Why isn't everyone screaming about the recent epidemic of inappropriate uses of the collective? It seems to me the reason is that bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology.
= june 1, 2006 =
[http://tnx.nl/php Why I hate PHP]
[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/517803fde9386f2a/a7dbb9152e4bf5ff?lnk=st=%5Ctableofcontents+header&rnum=8#a7dbb9152e4bf5ff \tableofcontents header bug]
TNH: [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007552.html Why I'm alarmed by proposals to militarize our borders]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wsFeXWc82Y&search=kaki%20king Kaki King] (video, solo acoustic guitar)
[http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf Visual Latex FAQ]
[http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/saline/society/alumni.html 1916 listing of Salina High School alumni]
Stephen's [http://blog.xyzzyb.com/ new blog].
NYT: [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/thecity/07free.html Brooklyn Free School piece]
VimEditor: Interesting [http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif cheatsheet].
[http://geocoder.us/ geocoder.us], a [http://geocoder.us/dist/eg/clients/csv.pl plaintext client].
[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007497.html "If ich sayde that thou hadde a bele chose, woldstow holde it ayeinst me?"]
RichardFeynman: CargoCultScience
"Micropatronage", self-publishing, that kinda jazz:
* [http://www.micropatronage.org/ micropatronage.org]
* [http://www.zenarchery.com/micropatronage/ Zenarchery]
* Idea for a [http://www.micropatronage.org/wiki/Micropatronage_Aggregator "micropatronage aggregator"] - I had exactly this thought years ago, and gave up before I ever got anywhere near an implementation. Still seems like a good idea.
* [http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=996 Micropatronage, through a different lense]
* [http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000580.html Shaking up tech publishing] (With comments from Tim O'Reilly)
[http://www.lyricwiki.org/ Lyric Wiki]
[http://popurls.com/ popurls]
Ancient [http://tecumseh.srv.ualberta.ca/hyperdispatch/HyperDispatch1/XFonts.html X font configuration stuff].
[http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/05/02/niedzviecki/index2.html Hipster rebel punk outsiders -- 99 cents a dozen]. Despite the title, a book review which is worth reading. (Salon, behind ad wall.)
[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Legislators_in_US_states_call_for_the_impeachment_of_President_Bush State legislators try] to introduce impeachment charges.
= may 2, 2006 =
The [http://www.colorado.edu/police/420_Photo_Album/index.htm Boulder police state gets creatively evil].
[http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/29/documentary_on_radic.html Boing Boing bit] on a free school docu.
[http://www.whitedust.net/article/55/Wal-marts_Wikipedia_War/ Wal-Mart vs. Wikipedia?]
[http://www.opencroquet.org/about_croquet/screenshots.html Everything we wanted out of VRML]
[http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/wight-96.php Robert Christgau: Found Weekend] - Ever wondered where that "We put this festival on you bastards, with a lot of love" bit at the start of Oasis' "Fuckin' in the Bushes" comes from?
[http://www.coffeegeek.com/guides/presspot Coffee Geek: How to Use a Press Pot]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pip/ flickr: photos from pip] - some stuff from Bath. Dude also [http://philwilson.org/blog/ has a weblog].
RequiredMusic: GuyClark
[http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.SE/0411096 Interpackage dependency networks in open-source software], co-authored by one Nate LaBelle.
WareLogging:
* MarkupEngines - a little googling on a problem I haven't considered as deeply as I'd like to think I have.
* MozillaFirefox: [http://mozex.mozdev.org/ mozex] - External editing of textareas, among other things. Doesn't seem to work, but it's a good idea.
* [http://www.oss4lib.org/ open source systems for libraries]
* [http://www.phpmylibrary.org/ Php My Library]
* [http://www.andre-simon.de/ Highlight] - Utility to produce syntax highlighted (highlit?) code in various output formats.
* [http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/index.php/SVG_Tools SVG Tools]
* [http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ Google Maps API Documentation] (Anyone else feel like this sort of thing represents a hideously fragile way to develop real-world applications?)
* [http://www.quirksmode.org/ quirksmode.org]
[http://www.unphotographable.com/archives.html Unphotographable]
[http://www.talkinghistory.org/stelton/msmapr1921.pdf Modern School Magazine, 1921] (pdf)
[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10 Second best Penny Arcade strip ever]
[http://toolshed.down.net/community/readinglist.html The Tool Page: Reading List]
wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding Geocoding]
[http://www.buttercupfestival.com/60vol5.htm "Hey, I'm Fred Durst."]
''Down to Earth: Nature in American History'', TedSteinberg.
wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Church Methodist Church]
[http://reddit.com/ reddit.com] - A much bigger linkdump.
WhoReadsPoetry?
MontBlanc ballpoint ink refills [http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/7899F5DC1A2310299AD7001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS fit in the Pilot G2]. This might save somebody, somewhere, some money, but it leaves open the question of why anyone would be lusting after a Mont Blanc ''ballpoint'' to begin with.
[http://www.buttercupfestival.com/ buttercupfestival.com]: [http://www.buttercupfestival.com/poetry.htm poetry], [http://www.buttercupfestival.com/buttercupfestival.htm comic].
[http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html map gallery of religion in the united states]
WebComics: xkcd: [http://www.xkcd.com/c87.html Velociraptors], [http://www.xkcd.com/c84.html National Language], [http://www.xkcd.com/c82.html Frame], [http://www.xkcd.com/c78.html Garfield], [http://www.xkcd.com/c75.html Curse Levels], [http://www.xkcd.com/c68.html "fuck the cosine"]. Also, and perhaps especially, [http://www.xkcd.com/c56.html The Cure], [http://www.xkcd.com/c14.html Copyright].
[http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/gmapez/ Google Maps EZ], [http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/ chouser].
WebComics: [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dmeconis/familyman/ "Family Man"], by DylanMeconis.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebrae_%28Maundy%29 Tenebrae]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday Maundy Thursday]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism Lutheranism]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_communion Closed communion]
Things I read or skimmed on c2 tonight: [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt You Aren't Gonna Need It], [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TedNelson Ted Nelson], [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ManagingCards Managing Cards], [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IndexCard Index Card], [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LinksDestroyFlow Links Destroy Flow].
[http://www.americanedit.org/ American Edit]
[http://www.ftrain.com/poetry_anthology.html The Ftrain Anthology of Poetry]
[http://www.ftrain.com/SortableLists.html Sortable Lists]
They make SoyCoffeeMate. Who knew there was a dairy substance in CoffeeMate to replace with soy?
TeenagersGuideToTheRealWorld
"I went out in the woods today, and it made me feel, you know, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5331955 sort of religious]."
WikipediaDump:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tancredo Thomas Tancredo]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._4437 H.R. 4437] (Is this shit for real? Here's the [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4437: full text] from the LibraryOfCongress.)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas Gospel of Judas]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek_%28animal_behavior%29 Lek (animal behavior)]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem Halting problem]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness Turing completeness]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine Turing machine]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation Reverse Polish Notation]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_Object_Verb Subject Object Verb]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language Persian language]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy Islamic calligraphy]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers TCP and UDP port numbers]
VisualizingThings: [http://cabspotting.org/ Cabspotting]
Stephen [http://metaball.livejournal.com/2006/04/08/ quotes Alan Watts]:
:To be a true scholar you have to cultivate an attitude to life where you're not trying to get anything out of it. You pick up a pebble on the beach and look at it. It's beautiful. Don't try to get a sermon out of it. Sermons and Stones and God and everything be damned. Just enjoy it.
Guy goes to Trinity Site, 'net sponsored article - [http://www.zenarchery.com/trinity/ Dark Miracle]
ChapbookProcess, BookMaking
If [http://jefflentz.blogspot.com/2006/03/naked-in-bathtub-wearing-ski-mask.html this] doesn't just weird you the fuck out, it could be the funniest thing you have seen in years. More sensitive readers and those with ski-mask phobias may wish to take a pass.
[http://builder.com.com/5100-6387-5278558.html Benchmarking Perl scripts with Benchmark.pm]
"under the 'drug provision' of the higher education act, about 200,000 people convicted of drug crimes have been [http://chrisuggen.blogspot.com/2006/03/federal-lawsuit-over-financial-aid-for.html denied] educational grants, loans, and work-study opportunities since 2000"
[http://editorwars.ning.com/ editorwars] - a "hot or not for text editors".
[http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Stevey's Blog Rants]
RequiredMusic: TheWaybacks, "I'm Fine".
Archive.org: [http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=State%20Radio State Radio shows]
[http://anarchogeek.com Anarchogeek]
= april 3, 2006 =
[http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=216 the more job interviews you go through, the more you think you know about how companies should be run]
[http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit Philip Greenspun on tuition]
WareLogging, MozillaFirefox: FireBug.
RequiredMusic: HamellOnTrial. ShearwaterMusic.
WebComics: [http://www.skullcano-island.com/comic/view/22 Penguin humor + zombies]
[http://www.pitt.edu/~fail/joybubbles.html A Conversation with Joybubbles]
[http://squid.us/ Squid] blog.
[http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/nonesuch-beast.html The Nonesuch Beast]
[http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/what-you-need-to-know What You Need to Know]
[http://brent.other-space.com/pictures/?cat=colorado_2006 Brent's pix from my back yard]
[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1734913,00.html Ballard on modernist architecture]
[http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby]
[http://webtypography.net/intro/ The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web]
Today's exciting word: "anthropophagous"
[http://www.myshkinsrubywarblers.com/free.html Myshkin's Ruby Warblers mp3s]
Go and read Gaiman's thing about [http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/03/divine-extermination-and-wolves-wolves.html God killing all the sodomites] just prior to the incarnation of Jesus. It is fascinating.
Full text of ''Free Culture'' in [http://www.free-culture.cc/remixes/ many formats].
[http://www.libed.org.uk/index.html For the Liberation of Learning]
[http://bclary.com/2004/07/10/mozilla-spiders mozilla spiders]
[http://local.live.com/ Windows Live Local] - Microsoft getting into the map game.
[http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=202 lunchbox mind]
[http://netdial.caribe.net/~adrian2/fdupes.html fdupes] - utility to find and optionally delete duplicate files.
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000398.html Parrot telepathy at the BBC]
Some [http://www.joeyharrison.com/2004/03/oaklands-mountain-view-cemetery.htm pictures] from a cemetery. Scope the "unendowed section".
GeorgeMonbiot: [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2000/06/09/choose-life/ Choose Life] and [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/27/how-britain-denies-its-holocausts/ How Britain Denies its Holocausts].
<[[alan]]> [http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/scifi.html The Top Ten Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed]
[http://instiki.org/ Instiki] - Decent looking Ruby based wiki.
[http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page Wiki How]
[http://larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw/~cthuang/vim/files/vim-regex/vim-regex.htm#Non-Greedy Non-greedy quantifiers in Vim]
PaulAvrich is dead.
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html accesskey] attribute.
WoodyGuthrie: [http://homepage.mac.com/danielmartin/Dylan/html/songs/T/TalkinFishinBlues.html Talkin' fisherman blues]
[http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/squid.html squid]
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:US_fallout_exposure.png US Fallout Exposure by county].
[http://www.loc.gov/poetry/ Library of Congress: Poetry]
Cool [http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/fun/hdtr/ technique] for showing the passage of time in a single image.
[http://www.scannerphotography.com/ Scanner Photography]
[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007262.html "a sudden crescendo of mystical awe"]
[http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=201 not working] (re: unemployment)
SandboxedPerl?
[http://search.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons search]
NetcatManPage
Some approximate [http://www.knerd.com/~bwillen/MMLyricsGN.htm lyrics] for ModestMouse.
GeorgeMonbiot: [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/01/31/property-paranoia/ Property Paranoia]. Related to Jeremy's line about "You never have more money, you just have more shit."
[http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/wargames.html The Ultimate War Sim]
[http://www.infoshop.org/ Infoshop.org]
[http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Infoshop wiki] - Lots of interesting content, but with their policy I wouldn't want to invest effort directly. I've been thinking about slurping GFDL content into this wiki and modifying locally.
WareLogging: [http://blogs.thegotonerd.com/maelstrom/archives/000581.html phew], relate to discussion in MozillaLockFileBug.
WareLogging: [http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ Trac]
Two statements which may evoke a serious response: [http://blogs.thegotonerd.com/twht/archives/000579.html trained to control] and [http://blogs.thegotonerd.com/twht/archives/000580.html the opportunity costs of geekery]. Also, [http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=199 glenn mcdonald's mind continues to fascinate me].
RollYourOwn: [http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/02/how_to_make_led_throwies.html Magnetized LED packets] for sticking on random public surfaces.
Interview [http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2006/0,4814,108568,00.html with J. Presper Eckert] about ENIAC.
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~hofman/jsexp/explslider.html Javascript sliders]
RequiredMusic: TheKillers.
[http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com Survival Guide to Homelessness]
[http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/ The Early Days of a Better Nation]
[http://www.guimp.com/space_flash.html Space Invaders] in 324 pixels.
RequiredMusic: LucindaWilliams, NinaSimone.
[http://search.cpan.org/~dmytro/Mac-iPhoto-0.1/iPhoto.pm Mac::iPhoto] - probably broken.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/ flickr advanced search]
[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3118 Noiseman Sound Insect]
[http://processing.org/ Processing]
[http://www.mcvideogame.com/ A quasi-RTS Mc Donald's parody]
[http://cerulean.st/ambigram/ Ambigrams]
ProgrammingRuby, [http://www.ruby-doc.org/ Ruby docs]
[http://google.com/musicsearch Google Music Search]
MoleskineNotebook
[http://www.pendemonium.com/ Pendemonium sells some interesting stationery, ink, pens, etc.]
[http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/more_on_the_mol.html More on the Moleskine alternative]
[http://www.summahistorica.com/ Summa Historica]
A pretty good [http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/academic_freedom/ essay on academic freedom]
[http://newnebraska.blogspot.com/2006/01/when-good-prayer-goes-bad.html "Forgive us for sowing the seeds of anarchy in the hearts of children."]
[http://insomnia.livejournal.com/652389.html?nc=2&style=mine Georgetown law students] turn backs on Alberto Gonzales, unfurl huge fucking protest banner. [http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2006/ag_speech_0601241.html Gonzales's prepared remarks].
[http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/archives/000369.html A list of free mp3s] which appears to include lots of music I might like.
<[[alan]]> [http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/news2/latimes3v.htm "I don't support our troops"], from the LA Times.
''Withnail and I'': [http://dillonstars.hilken.co.uk/reedallbootit/script.htm a transcript], [http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/withnail.html another], [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I quotes], and [http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=119&eid=130?on=essay an essay], [http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Withnail%20and%20I everything2 node].
[http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=186 furialog: Content and Presentation Are 3]. Includes v. good thoughts on why CSS sucks and why HTML tables are still a basic layout tool in 2006.
[http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2006/01/17/the_return_of_the_puppet_masters.php Mind-altering parasites]?
[http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/illegalart/ Illegal art?]
[http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen] - Legible small font.
[http://www.chumba.com/ChumbawambatubTEXTS1.html Tubthumper liner notes]. No, really.