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YouTube - Anti-Piracy Ad from The IT Crowd

2007 Oct 3, 2:50Parody of anti-piracy ads you may have seen at the beginning of movies recently.PermalinkCommentsvia:felix42 copyright humor video videos piracy legal law advertising politics ip

Copyright and tattoos: who owns your skin? - Boing Boing

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! "PermalinkCommentsboingboing via:felix42 copyright ip law legal tattoo art culture blog article advertising

The Evolution of a specification -- Commentary on Web architecture

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.PermalinkCommentsarchitecture article tim-berners-lee w3c internet history evolution html namespace xml web mmm multimedia-mesh humor test-of-independent-invention

Terminal Services Team Blog : Multi Monitor support in the Vista TS Client.

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.PermalinkCommentsdesktop remote mstsc tools tool tips windows microsoft blog article howto vista

The Old New Thing : Windows Server 2003 can take you back in time

2007 Sep 28, 11:13Using Win2K3's timewarp featurePermalinkCommentsbackup windows timewarp microsoft blog raymond-chen tips howto

XSLT Standard Library

2007 Sep 27, 12:01Another open effort to produce an XSLT library that does some standard things you might want like string manipulation, URI combining, etc etcPermalinkCommentsxsl xslt reference library xml xpath proramming api

EXSLT

2007 Sep 26, 11:57Free XSLT Extension libraries to support things like date/time conversions, string manipulation, etc.PermalinkCommentsxslt xsl api xpath xml library extension programming free development

Stripemania - Stripe.licious

2007 Sep 21, 3:36Reminds me of the color scheme webpage but now in stripes. Useful? Hmm...PermalinkCommentsdesign via:porcupine_ web webdesign generator

Social Graph: Concepts and Issues - Alex Iskold Technology Blog

2007 Sep 21, 3:33Article on the graph of the relationships between you and your friends and the associated concepts and issues.PermalinkCommentsvia:infosthetics graph social visualization information privacy blog article larry-osterman

GPS

2007 Sep 18, 2:16Sarah got me the Garmin StreetPilot c580 for my birthday last month. I really like this because its a small device that makes my life easier without me having to learn anything new. Just the way tech. should be.

The device gets current weather, traffic, and movie times. The information is sent via FM and received via the FM receiver in the cigarette lighter power adapter of the GPS device. MSN sends out this info and I get a free one year subscription. In addition to taking traffic info into account when planning my route it will estimate the number of minutes I'm going to spend in traffic. Just knowing how long I might be in traffic somehow makes it more bareable.

The other day while driving for dinner I got a call. I got my phone out of my pocket and answered it. I heard Jon's saying 'Hello' under my passenger seat. After a moment of confusion I remembered that the GPS device also acts as a bluetooth hands free phone adapter and that it was under my seat.PermalinkCommentsgps garmin personal traffic nontechnical

Augmented Social Cognition: WikiDashboard: Providing social transparency to Wikipedia

2007 Sep 12, 1:48WikiDashboard proxies Wikipedia and displays a dashboard at the top with a timeline showing edits.PermalinkCommentsresearch visualization wikipedia tool tools blog article

Wikipedia Tools

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?PermalinkCommentswikidashboard stephen-colbert wikality wikipedia wikiscanner colbert-report

Ad Blocking built into IE7

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:
PermalinkCommentsad-blocking personal ad ie7 technical browser tip ie

17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life

2007 Sep 10, 4:29Bookmarklet suggestions for the iPhone.PermalinkCommentsapple iphone bookmarklets browser hack script javascript

IEBlog : Scripting Debugging in Internet Explorer

2007 Sep 7, 11:29Info on debugging script in IE.PermalinkCommentsie ie7 blog javascript debug debugger debugging web development programming vbscript tools tool download browser reference microsoft msdn

Slashdot | LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links

2007 Sep 4, 1:52Do I need to look for a new blogging service? I'll just keep backing up my content...PermalinkCommentsblog censorship internet livejournal

Sarah (hellosarah.multiply.com)

2007 Sep 1, 12:04Sarah's photos|Sarah MoffattPermalinkCommentssarah photos profile friend blog girlfriend

I don't think that you understand! - Firefox3 Vulnerable by Design | GNUCITIZEN

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.PermalinkCommentsfirefox security w3c standard via:swannman article

ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive - Stanford's DNS Rebinding Paper

2007 Aug 15, 3:20Listened to RSnake talk about this in person at one point. Pretty interesting without his scenario video with niave female Internet user narration.PermalinkCommentsajax rsnake via:swannman reference dns security javascript dns-rebinding

Video Woes

2007 Aug 15, 3:30I've been experimenting with adding video to my webpage. I tried to embed video in my livejournal blog posts previously however ran into some issues with that. When creating the LJ post I added an tag but when I submit that tags turned into an PermalinkCommentstechnical youtube video personal livejournal homepage
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