2007 Oct 3, 2:50Parody of anti-piracy ads you may have seen at the beginning of movies recently.
via:felix42 copyright humor video videos piracy legal law advertising politics ip 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, 11:13Using Win2K3's timewarp feature
backup windows timewarp microsoft blog raymond-chen tips howto 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 etc
xsl xslt reference library xml xpath proramming api 2007 Sep 26, 11:57Free XSLT Extension libraries to support things like date/time conversions, string manipulation, etc.
xslt xsl api xpath xml library extension programming free development 2007 Sep 21, 3:36Reminds me of the color scheme webpage but now in stripes. Useful? Hmm...
design via:porcupine_ web webdesign generator 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 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.
gps garmin personal traffic nontechnical 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 Sep 10, 4:29Bookmarklet suggestions for the iPhone.
apple iphone bookmarklets browser hack script javascript 2007 Sep 4, 1:52Do I need to look for a new blogging service? I'll just keep backing up my content...
blog censorship internet livejournal 2007 Sep 1, 12:04Sarah's photos|Sarah Moffatt
sarah photos profile friend blog girlfriend 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 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.
ajax rsnake via:swannman reference dns security javascript dns-rebinding 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
technical youtube video personal livejournal homepage