If you’re up for a morning laugh you should read one of the most brain-dead posts on open source I’ve ever seen. So many different things are mixed up there it’s hard to keep track, it’s like twenty issues tangentially related all being tied together in a conspiracy theory that is interesting but frightening. I left a comment but it hasn’t shown up yet. Update: The comments and pings have been updated and they’re letting all viewpoints through, so speak your mind over there if you want to.

Liz Lawley and her site Mamamusings are being maliciously google bombed by a comment spammer.

This reformulation of enclosures is completely useless except for adding an optional “description” attribute. I think enclosures are groovy but fundamentally inaccessible in ways that are ultimately harmful to the web. Why not just take a cue from HTML and allow three optional attributes: title, alt, and longdesc. This wouldn’t break backwards compatibility with anything and while honestly it probably wouldn’t be used much at least the possibility is there for something. Perhaps Matt May could give some feedback on this.

“I’m as restless as a willow in a windstorm, I’m as jumpy as puppet on a string, I’d say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn’t spring.” This version by Brad Mehldau is one of my favorites because of what they do with the time.

Rob says “I don’t like Scrivens” and the discussion you would expect follows. Can’t… not… link… it. Maybe we should start a poll? “You dissed Zeldman? You are so off the island!”

Pete Sheerin, yes that Peter Sheerin of ALA and Pete’s Guide fame, is investigating using WordPress for his site. How did I find this out? He registered for a bug tracking account, I guess he’s about to report some bugs. Can’t wait. 🙂

“Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread” says the Wilco guy.

I can never spell “guarantee” right, I always end up googling it. Maybe if I blog it I’ll be able to remember. Other words that I consistently mess up: “separate,” “Wednesday,” and “bourgeoisie.”

What if Frontier had gone Open Source in 2001? I wonder how the landscape would be different now. The mission statement is quite nice, “to turn the Web into a fantastic writing environment.” Hat tip: Timmy.

Ping-o-Matic Announces A2B GeoLocation Support, rock on.

Coldforged has an entry title image replacement plugin that lets you have titles like mine (done previously) that also has word-wrapping. I think I saw an approach somewhere (was it b2evo?) that actually broke each word into a separate image. For me the length limitation isn’t a limitation as much as a sanity check, if I’m writing titles so long it breaks my site I should probably shorten up a bit. I’ve also found caching isn’t worth it, every title here has been completely dynamic for about a year now.

I just installed Windows Media Player for Mac. Doesn’t that sound wrong? Sometimes Microsoft’s naming and branding really throws me for a loop. Is there a Windows Media Player for Linux?

Rubhub, the hottest XFN aggregator around, has been redone. Check it out and get XFN Friendly.

Have you ever noticed how milk tastes better when you’re drinking it with something that’s just a little bad for you? It’s a beautiful balance.

I’ve been testing out a spam plugin that has been very effective. You can get Spambot Stopper on the WordPress support forums. It’s very simple, for more advanced protection check out the Combat Comment Spam page on the Codex.

I finally got internet hooked up at my house today. I ended up going with Comcast mostly because MJ sweet talked me into it. I just ran the speed test from DSL Reports on it and it came back 3469 down and 230 up. That’s over three megabits downstream, crazy! I could get used to this. Now I can finally get start getting things done from home again. (I had internet before but it was a patchy wifi connection that wasn’t reliable.)

I had the pleasure of lunch with Jeff Veen earlier today. I attend his and Doug’s Blogger Redesign workshop earlier this week and it was excellent, I’d recommend checking it out if you get a chance. I found out most of Adaptive Path’s material is published under a Creative Commons attribution license, which is very cool.

Anatomy of a WordPress Theme from Ryan the rockstar.

Another WYSIWYG plugin for WordPress. I think we have three now.