2007 Oct 3, 1:30"Hatcher explores the legal ramifications of tattoo artists who assert copyright over their works after they've been inked, objecting to the tatts being displayed in advertising -- and even seeking
to prevent old tattoos from being erased! "
boingboing via:felix42 copyright ip law legal tattoo art culture blog article advertising 2007 Oct 3, 10:21Tim Berners-Lee writes about principles for new technology in the context of the evolution of HTML and the development of namespaces and XML.
architecture article tim-berners-lee w3c internet history evolution html namespace xml web mmm multimedia-mesh humor test-of-independent-invention 2007 Sep 28, 11:24How to get mstsc to span multiple monitors -- sort of. Actually this kind of sucks. It just makes my TS session the size of a rectangle that would include all of my client side monitors.
desktop remote mstsc tools tool tips windows microsoft blog article howto vista 2007 Sep 28, 11:10"The Microsoft fallacy has the following components: If a company has a lot of money, this means that they have sufficient resources to do anything. If a company has a lot of money, every piece of
that company has access to all of it. Every large company
article microsoft humor mac blog 2007 Sep 21, 3:33Article on the graph of the relationships between you and your friends and the associated concepts and issues.
via:infosthetics graph social visualization information privacy blog article larry-osterman 2007 Sep 20, 12:20Article on the fall, division, and name changes of countries affecting top level domain names and vice versa.
dns internet domain icann blog article politics 2007 Sep 12, 1:48WikiDashboard proxies Wikipedia and displays a dashboard at the top with a timeline showing edits.
research visualization wikipedia tool tools blog article 2007 Sep 12, 6:54I'm visiting
Wikipedia more and more recently but I always find myself reading the referenced webpages to get the full context of quotes and for
more info. Basically I use Wikipedia as an introduction and a place to look for links. For times when I'm looking for opinions rather than facts I like to use
Everything2. No need to check references there.
There's the much hyped
WikiScanner tool which reports who has been making anonymous (thought to be anonymous at the time anyway) edits to
Wikipedia. Its humorous and interesting in a few cases, but in general I think its stretching to say that because an IP address range is owned by a corporation and someone edited Wikipedia on an IP
in that range that you can attribute that edit to that corporation. If I edited Wikipedia I'd probably do a bit of that during my lunch break, but that wouldn't mean that Microsoft wants the
Wikipedia pages for Weird Al, Dave Risney, URIs, or whatever else I would edit on Wikipedia changed.
Also, via
Everything Is Miscellaneous I found the tool
Wiki Dashboard. Wiki Dashboard proxies
Wikipedia and on each page shows a timeline view at the top with who made edits and when. Its nice to see a gentle curve down from an initial spike at the beginning for topics you don't imagine to be
controversial. As the canonical test page for this service I looked up 'Elephant' the
Wikipedia page Stephen Colbert
suggested folks vandalize on his show on 2006 July 31st. If you look at the
Wiki Dashboard Elephant page you can see a very large spike
in edits on that date. That's all I need to see.
As a side note, for the link on Stephen Colbert suggesting folks vandalize Wikipedia I linked to a Wikipedia article. Is it inappropriate to provide info about Wikipedia being vandalized and thus
incorrect via a link to a Wikipedia article?
wikidashboard stephen-colbert wikality wikipedia wikiscanner colbert-report 2007 Sep 11, 2:55There's been
some news recently on some guy hating on FireFox for its ad-blocking.
On a similar note here's a fun tip for IE7 users I got from Eric. You can get decent ad-blocking in IE7 by putting ad servers in the restricted zone. By default script inclusion is blocked between
different zones so you can put domains that serve up ads in your restricted zone after which, normal internet zone sites won't be able to include script from them. This covers most of the ads I run
into these days.
I use
Fiddler to figure out the domains that are serving up ads which incidentally also has an ad-blocking^H^H^H^H general purpose content blocking plugin. Here's
a screenshot of Slashdot and ArsTechnica from my browser. Notice the large blank areas in the screenshots:
ad-blocking personal ad ie7 technical browser tip ie 2007 Aug 27, 11:26The article is a bit rambling but he makes an excellent point at least in separating the FireFox description of the feature from what it actually does.
firefox security w3c standard via:swannman article 2007 Aug 27, 10:35Article on laptops in meetings by Dean Hachamovitch my GPM. I knew the people in that photo before they were in an article in NY Times.
article laptop culture microsoft dean-hachamovitch 2007 Aug 23, 9:03An interview with David Weinberger.
david-weinberger audio blog interview article 2007 Aug 21, 10:19More URI related stuff in a FF plugin.
lifehacker mozilla reference extension firefox review article 2007 Aug 15, 3:24From the article: "... a scan of a brochure from the Kelsey-Hayes Company, Detroit, MI for their pre-fabricated fallout shelters, circa 1963." Very cool.
culture design flickr history images photo photography photos retro via:swannman 2007 Aug 15, 3:16Reasons why del.icio.us style tagging is different and better than things that have come before it.
article blog business taxonomy tagging delicious folksonomy reference tag ontology 2007 Aug 15, 2:33Accelerando had interesting stuff on this. I'm also reminded of the argument against time travel: If time is infinite and time travel is possible then we should be overrun with time travelers.
philosophy science simulate scifi article 2007 Aug 13, 3:15Article and video on Mr. Woo a Chinese farmer who creates robots from scavenged materials. Very cool.
robot robots video china diy article humor 2007 Aug 13, 2:05From : "Rarely do we think of mathematicians as glamorous. But during the 1980s, the rising importance of cryptography injected a certain amount of glitz into the discipline.
math article history cryptography
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