Happy Christmahanukwanzakah everybody.

Virgin targets drunker dialers by allowing you to blacklist certain numbers. Will there be a service the other way? Don’t accept calls from X number between 2-6 AM on weekends and holidays? Hat tip: Jason Shellen.

Boston is so weird, it’s only 4 in the afternoon and it’s already almost dark.

Ryan Duff got a letter from the MPAA for using Bittorrent. We need something more secure.

I just wanted to take a moment and send major kudos to Ryan for fixing so many bugs this weekend over Thanksgiving break.

Google is a deaf user that doesn’t hear podcasts.

TrackBack and Pingback supported by CNET News.com, this is the official announcement. (You heard it here first, of course.) I think the UI for this on their site is a little funky, but this is a huge step for news media.

Announcing Feedster Support in the -matic.

Get your own hypo-allergenic cat today. “The mission of ALLERCA is to produce transgenic lifestyle pets and develop new technologies in the various disciplines of animal life sciences.”

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.

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!”

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?

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.