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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security. Thought provoking.
Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1. Highlights include REST, resources and unicode support.
Rich-Media Delivery In Second Life—A HOWTO. Second Life supports SMIL, via QuickTime.
The Spam Farms of the Social Web. Really interesting exposé by Niall Kennedy.
Natalie Downe: Inline image quotes. Neat CSS trick this one.
Zhongdian. Ping’s continuing adventures in China.
bbum: How to harvest a turkey. Fascinating, if a little graphic.
Flickr Camera Finder. I hadn’t seen this; includes some really nice graphs.
TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Rob McKinnon’s site for tracking New Zealand’s Parliament.
The top 10 arguments against DRM. Includes some good business arguments I hadn’t heard before.
Donut Robot of Love 2000 (via) IM ON UR ROBOT EATIN UR DONUTZ (scroll to comments)
The continued adventures of the Permalink slideshow. Now powered in part by YUI.
How To Subclass The JavaScript Array Object. Utterly brilliant—create a fresh copy of Array in an iframe and customise that.
minimock. Python mock object library for use with doctest, in 25 lines of code.
Introducing the Technorati Link Count Widget. I’m trying this out; it’s pretty sweet. Nicely unobtrusive too.
Django on OS X setup notes. MySQLdb currently depends on Python 2.3.3 or higher.
New World Notes on the Second Life CopyBot controversy. Absolutely fascinating, especially the in-game protests.
svnrepo 0.1. A Pythonic API to svn, wrapped around the low-level svn bindings.
Get the most out of generic views in Django. Awesome tip re-inforcing the power of wrappers around generic views.
Firebug 1.0 preview. With network profiling inspired by Tamper Data!
Graded Browser Support: Q4 Update. Opera 9 Mac is now A-Grade.
Ruthless enough for a startup? Quite depressing reading.
UK copyright law petition. New official petition system from MySociety.
Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free. Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?
JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya. When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.
Spiritual Research into Addictions. This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.
Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 (via) Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2.
Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb. Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).
Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.
Concerned is over. Now you can read the whole thing through from the start!