Simon Willison’s Weblog

DoubleCommand (via) A uControl alternative that works with 10.3.8.

# 10th February 2005, 5:23 pm

Lawrence Lessig on the West Wing. Rather strange. Leaves you wondering where he left his flux capacitator.

# 10th February 2005, 12:36 pm / lawrence-lessig

South America warms to Open Source. Great summary of open source adoption in that part of the world.

# 10th February 2005, 12:15 pm

Gannon Quits After Blogger Inquiry (via) The left wing blogosphere finally have a scandal to call their own.

# 9th February 2005, 7:18 pm

Blog baiting. Jeremy Dunck on why AdWord whoring topical blogs will end in tears.

# 9th February 2005, 6:04 pm

Excel is to Business People as the Text Editor is to Geeks. Strange but true; we were talking about this the other night.

# 9th February 2005, 11:47 am

Outsourcing Torture. This left me sick to my stomach.

# 8th February 2005, 6:40 pm

UK Diaries I: Hail Britannia. Britain from an American’s point of view.

# 8th February 2005, 2:43 pm

Why Craigslist Works, by Craig. A ChangeThis manifesto.

# 8th February 2005, 12:59 pm

IDN and homographs spoofing (via) Good coverage of the related specs.

# 8th February 2005, 12:17 pm

Maps released. Google Maps Safari support is being worked on.

# 8th February 2005, 12:03 pm / chris-wetherell, google, google-maps, safari

Secure wireless email on Mac OS X. Doug Bowman’s tutorial on SSH Tunnel Manager and wireless security.

# 8th February 2005, 11:20 am / douglas-bowman, email, macos, security, ssh

Google Blog: Get the picture. Image search results now sometimes appear along side regular searches.

# 8th February 2005, 10:49 am

Google Maps (via) Very slick, but sadly non functional for Safari uses.

# 8th February 2005, 10:49 am

Nasty Firefox vulnerability and Double Standards. In which I am accused of hypocrisy (response in the comments).

# 8th February 2005, 10:44 am / firefox

Shoe Lacing Methods. Another reason to love the internet.

# 7th February 2005, 11:45 pm

PythonForSeries60. Matt Croyden’s wiki has a ton of links concerning Nokia’s Python tools.

# 7th February 2005, 11:45 pm

Parasite Database. Andrew Clover’s comprehensive database of malware.

# 7th February 2005, 11:44 pm

Introducing JSON (via) A data-interchange format based on JavaScript objects and arrays.

# 7th February 2005, 11:42 pm / json

2001 Election Map of the UK. Inspired by the purple US one that did the rounds a while back.

# 7th February 2005, 9:11 pm

Stephen Greene’s Writing Tips. Aimed at journalists, but I really enjoyed the examples of what NOT to do.

# 7th February 2005, 7:50 pm

End to End Unicode Web Applications in Python. How to traverse the unicode maze.

# 7th February 2005, 3:18 pm

Shmoo Group exploit: 0wn any domain, no defense exists. Nasty new phishing trick, affects everything except IE.

# 7th February 2005, 11:02 am

PyRSS2Gen. I’ve been using this for a number of personal feeds.

# 6th February 2005, 10:23 pm

Bootstrapping a Corporate Wiki (via) Tips from personal experience.

# 6th February 2005, 10:23 pm

How I entered the hellish world of Guantanamo Bay. Martin Mubanga talks to the Observer.

# 6th February 2005, 8:40 pm

Unrest in Belize (via) Original reporting scoop on Wikinews.

# 6th February 2005, 7:29 pm

The Invisible Train (via) A Handheld Augmented Reality Game.

# 6th February 2005, 5:05 pm

Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing (via) From Scientific American.

# 6th February 2005, 5:04 pm

Clever use of Python’s complex number type. Using the complex number type to solve linear equations.

# 6th February 2005, 4:26 pm