Simon Willison’s Weblog

The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed (via) Shirky compares file sharing to prohibition

# 18th December 2003, 7:58 pm / clay-shirky

Google gets digital toilets (via) Imagine what they’ll be buying after the IPO

# 18th December 2003, 12:52 am

Freshmeat’s XML-RPC interface. API documentation

# 18th December 2003, 12:49 am / xml-rpc

Turn On Search. Tim Bray’s open source search engine call to arms

# 18th December 2003, 12:41 am / tim-bray

Google Search: programming language. Python, then Perl, then Java

# 17th December 2003, 4 am

404 ERROR—Ultrashock.com (via) Usability error starring Jakob Nielsen

# 17th December 2003, 3:41 am

PostScript control structures. PostScript is a full on stack-based programming language

# 17th December 2003, 3:39 am

Web Page Development: Best Practices (via) Sound advice too

# 17th December 2003, 3:38 am

2004 Digital Edge Awards Finalists. We’re up for 5 different awards!

# 17th December 2003, 3:16 am

Blaster and the great blackout (via) Bruce Schneier writes for Salon.com

# 17th December 2003, 3:10 am / bruce-schneier, security, worm

Q+A—Edward Tufte (via) “There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.”

# 17th December 2003, 3:03 am

CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links (via) Great selection of links, nicely formatted

# 17th December 2003, 2:52 am / css

Microsoft Security FAQ (via) Point your less technical friends here

# 17th December 2003, 2:50 am / microsoft, security

Color scheme. Awesome colour scheme helper tool from pixy

# 17th December 2003, 2:43 am

BitTorrent and RSS. Maybe RSS can scale after all

# 17th December 2003, 2:40 am

Winamp 5. Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 + Winamp 5

# 17th December 2003, 2:38 am

Innapropriate Abstractions. Anders Hejlsberg + Bill Venners + Bruce Eckel = fascinating conversation

# 17th December 2003, 2:09 am

About Google Print (BETA) (via) Google’s take on “search inside the book”

# 16th December 2003, 7:31 pm

Apples and pears. How to get two types of apple from one tree

# 16th December 2003, 4:54 pm

Avoid Santa Claus approach to content management: December 15, 2003 issue of New Thinking by Gerry McGovern (via) “A portal is a website that costs you four times more.”

# 16th December 2003, 4:11 am

Napster: The Cat is Cool. Amazingly, it doesn’t completely suck!

# 16th December 2003, 3:04 am

Getting open source into public libraries. OpenOffice.org now available in most Scottish libraries

# 16th December 2003, 2:21 am

PECL :: Package :: tidy (via) Tidy for PHP; repairs busted HTML and lets you traverse the DOM as well

# 16th December 2003, 1:26 am

Just in time instantiation (via) Python trick for proxying object instantiation

# 16th December 2003, 12:46 am

Summer Internship at Fog Creek. One heck of an opportunity

# 16th December 2003, 12:45 am

Pricelessware (via) The best in Windows freeware

# 16th December 2003, 12:05 am

Problems at University. Bath’s new academic year structure sounds bloody awful

# 16th December 2003, 12:04 am

SiteBar. Like blogmarks but different

# 16th December 2003, 12:03 am

We are all nerds now. I proudly call myself a “geek”

# 16th December 2003, 12:02 am

PolyglotMan. Translates man pages in to HTML

# 15th December 2003, 3:04 am