Simon Willison’s Weblog

Back to Iraq 3.0: Election Day (via) Early indications are that they pulled if off. Excellent news.

# 30th January 2005, 5:58 pm

Baghdad Girl (via) 13 year old Iraqi cat blogger.

# 28th January 2005, 2:07 pm

Hacker or Lynx user? That is the question.

# 28th January 2005, 12:10 am

NSLog() has a funky new design. I don’t know how long it’s looked like this, but I love it.

# 27th January 2005, 11:20 pm

Darin Fisher joins Ben Goodger at Google. Maybe they’re interested in XUL and Mozilla’s other cross-platform tools.

# 27th January 2005, 3:30 pm

Ruby On Rails + XUL Experiment. States that Wiki is Hawaiian for “can’t find shit.”

# 27th January 2005, 3:16 am / rails

Copyright vs Community with Cory Doctorow (via) If you haven’t seen Cory speaking before, watch this.

# 26th January 2005, 9:43 pm / cory-doctorow

Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty. There’s a graph and everything.

# 26th January 2005, 6:56 pm

Iraq and cynicism. .

# 26th January 2005, 6:50 pm

Sound Studio. Nice shareware sound editing app for OS X.

# 26th January 2005, 10:57 am

Kid by Example. It’s Yet Another Python Templating Language, but I have to admit it does look very cool.

# 26th January 2005, 10:23 am

A Plan for Spam Folders. Some people actually buy stuff from spam filtered to their spam folders.

# 25th January 2005, 10:56 pm

Tags != folksonomies && Tags != Flat name spaces. Clay Shirky’s latest thoughts on tags.

# 25th January 2005, 10:54 pm / clay-shirky, tagging

Burns supper. Happy Burns night!

# 25th January 2005, 9:24 pm

Where was desktop search when we needed it? Did you know Win XP and 2000 have a half-decent full text indexer built in?

# 25th January 2005, 4:11 pm

BBC Radio mp3 takes off. It seems the podcasting trial has been going pretty well.

# 25th January 2005, 11:23 am

BBC re-launches internet radio—everything in one place (via) Listen Again is fantastically useful.

# 25th January 2005, 11:22 am

Google Video Search: firefox. Recent mentions of Firefox on American TV.

# 25th January 2005, 9:52 am / firefox

THE FLICKR SONG. Oh Dear God...

# 24th January 2005, 10:01 pm / flickr

Gamma correction—Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mac users: activate expose on this page for some trippy alisaing effects.

# 23rd January 2005, 4:36 pm / wikipedia

Tiger Pics (via) Screenshots from a development build of OS X Tiger.

# 23rd January 2005, 1:12 am

Guardian style guide. Interesting to poke around in.

# 22nd January 2005, 11:19 pm

PyCon DC 2005 Preliminary Program (via) Looks like a great lineup.

# 22nd January 2005, 2:51 pm

The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software. The latest essay from Bruce Perens.

# 21st January 2005, 7:52 am

Rolling with Ruby on Rails. Extensive Rails tutorial on ONLamp.com.

# 21st January 2005, 7:50 am / rails

Free Software Magazine (via) A magazine that practices what it preaches.

# 20th January 2005, 9:41 pm

SpellBound 0.7.3 (via) Spellchecker extension for Firefox.

# 20th January 2005, 9:23 pm

Getters/Setters/Fuxors. The oddly titled definitive guide to getters and setters in Python.

# 20th January 2005, 8:27 am

GreaseMonkeyUserScripts. There are quite a few already.

# 20th January 2005, 12:16 am

Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? Sparklines for Wikipedia: an outstanding idea.

# 19th January 2005, 11:12 pm / wikipedia