Serendipity takes a moment out of the day for a philisophic interlude from “providers of fine online gambling services.” Ha!
Ideas
Things I need to blog before I forget: (1) Cocoa gui for SSH tunnelling — profiles, status menu (2) Mac OS X port of myTunes redux (3) Replication plugin for WordPress — plugin file captures _POST/_COOKIE headers and replicates to an array of other installations, allows WP to be massively redudant and scalable with only commodity shared hosting.
WordPress on French ISP
Michel points out that WordPress is now a one-click install on one of France’s largest ISPs.
Zeldman on Kinja
The Zeldman on Kinja isn’t the real Zeldman. Of course we’re all making the problem worse by googlebombing blogging the faux Zeldman.
Yahoo Media RSS
Yahoo Media RSS model, doesn’t look final yet. This would be an excellent oppurtunity to get some accesibility-related things into a module that will likely be widely adopted. I’ll have to join the discussion group.
WordPress 1.2.2
WordPress 1.2.2 is available with some bug and security fixes. Get it while it’s hot!
Fewer Bugs in Open Source
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.