Simon Willison’s Weblog

Codeville (via) Not content with revolutionising file distribution, Bram “BitTorrent” Cohen has his sights set on CVS.

# 21st February 2004, 1:24 am

Flowers for Al and Don (via) Send flowers to gay couples waiting in line to get married in SF.

# 20th February 2004, 11:54 pm

Big and Bad (via) Why SUV safety is a myth.

# 20th February 2004, 7:17 pm

WackyCam. Play with your iSight.

# 20th February 2004, 7:17 pm

Perl Gets Extreme Makeover. Surprisingly informative overview of Perl 6 from Yahoo! News.

# 20th February 2004, 4:17 am

Om Malik on Broadband: pMachine is now Expression Engine. Interesting interview with the man behind pMachine and Expression Engine.

# 20th February 2004, 3:47 am

Codeville (via) Not content with revolutionising file distribution, Bram “BitTorrent” Cohen has his sights set on CVS.

# 20th February 2004, 3:38 am

Wired News: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Porn (via) In which Larry Flynt discusses the Patriot Act.

# 20th February 2004, 2:28 am

Hypocrisy: RDF and the Atom API. Russell really doesn’t like PUT and DELETE.

# 19th February 2004, 3:58 am

Electrolite: Upholding standards. (via) Judge denies court order over rogue semicolon.

# 18th February 2004, 11:16 pm

Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine (via) Did you know Yahoo! owns both AltaVista and AllTheWeb?

# 18th February 2004, 9:49 pm

Largest Living Thing Is a 2,200 Acre Fungus in Oregon. 2,000 years old and mostly harmless.

# 18th February 2004, 9:24 pm

AT&T Trips Up SCO. Things are getting a lot trickier for Darl and chums.

# 18th February 2004, 6:47 pm

Killer rabbit 404. Creative ;)

# 18th February 2004, 6:32 pm

New PHP releases (via) Joey reports on PHP 4.3.5 RC 2 and PHP 5.0 Beta 4

# 18th February 2004, 3:42 am / php, php5

Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks (via) Cory’s notes from Danny O’Brien’s Etcon session.

# 18th February 2004, 3:41 am

What’s New in Python 2.4. An early look at Python 2.4’s new proposed features.

# 17th February 2004, 2:21 am

EtherPEG (via) Watch GIFs and JPEGs loaded on your local network

# 17th February 2004, 2:10 am

WaveBlog. So that’s what Russell’s been up to...

# 16th February 2004, 11:44 pm

document.getElementsByWhatever() (via) Like getElementsBySelector() but... different.

# 12th February 2004, 11:10 pm

Webmonkey R.I.P. The site responsible for my unofficial job title is no more.

# 12th February 2004, 4:41 pm

Photoshop a Google logo for a ficticious holiday (via) Fark fun.

# 12th February 2004, 3:50 pm

foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.swf (via) This one left me speechless.

# 12th February 2004, 4:14 am

Scary-cool: Decompression bombs. How to crash a mail scanner with a 7 KB attachment.

# 12th February 2004, 3:35 am

Compilers. Not, it turns out, a difficult thing. Dan says they’re easy. But then he did write most of Parrot...

# 11th February 2004, 6:38 am

Optimizing Mozilla Firebird. Hacking prefs.js

# 11th February 2004, 6:10 am / mozilla

Rands In Repose: Agenda Detection (via) An almost painfully cynical guide to getting out of meetings as soon as possible.

# 11th February 2004, 3:05 am

AskTog: Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line (via) Usability advice for e-commerce sites.

# 11th February 2004, 1:28 am

The Fishbowl: Pronunciation of SQL. Because they’re cute.

# 10th February 2004, 10:08 pm

Lawrence.com blogging gem. “... I just decked him and broke his nose.”

# 10th February 2004, 9:38 pm / blogging