Research proves what open source folks have been saying all along: “An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts.”
Better Web Browser
How to build a better web browser, a really great essay highly relevant to several issues at hand.
Absolut Path
Atomic Spam
Security Advice
Security advice from Bruce Schnier:
“If possible, don’t use Microsoft Windows.” There are some other good tips there too, like microwaving CD-Rs and deleting cmd.exe.
Shirts Apart
Oh no, someone went and did it, a somewhat crude blogging shirt parody site. They’re sparing no one, as evidenced by their Screw Template Tags WordPress spaghetti tank. I have no idea who’s behind this. Note: If you want real WordPress swag, we do have an official store.
Budget Extraction
Comment Spam Kills Sites
The Daily Whim asserts that MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site. Pretty scary stuff.
Planned Anarchy
No street signs. No crosswalks. No accidents. A fantastic Wired article about how removing the artificial safety nets we set up for ourself actually makes us safer. The illusion of safety is a very dangerous thing. This is totally applicable to software design too. If you put up a big notice saying “Don’t do this” people won’t read it, you have to design the interaction to encourage people in the right direction.
Venture Capital
Blogomoxie
Blogomania teams up with Blogmoxie, interesting vertical.
More on SxSW
I am a confirmed speaker for South by Southwest (SxSW) 2005.
Sherlock Holmes Recordings
The Sherlock Holmes society has a great archive of old radio performances available for free download. Fantastic! I used to have a few tapes of these (maybe 4) and I would listen to one every single night for a long time. Very grateful hat tip: Ben Hammersley.
New Hivelogic
Is it? Could it be? It looks like the new Hivelogic is running on WordPress. That’s too cool.
MyVirtualBand
My Virtual Band, cool idea and using WordPress.
No WinFS
WinFS is the Duke Nukem Forever of filesystems. Too bad, might have actually been a compelling reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
Gallery: 12-11-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Snow
It’s snowing! ’Tis the season. (My site, not San Francisco.)
SxSW Brochure
If you check out the SxSW Interactive brochure that they’re mailing to people it has a picture from my photolog on the fourth page. (They also use it on this page.) Groovy. 🙂 This year’s SxSW is going to rock, by the way.
Tortoise SVN
I just donated to Tortoise SVN. What an excellent project—I use it every day. Highly recommended for anyone working with Subversion on Windows.