2007 Nov 7, 1:53Link roundup and summary article on censorship in Pakistan since Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution on November 3rd.
internet web censorship politics legal pakistan blog article 2007 Nov 6, 7:34Humorous TED talk based losely on the topic of 4AM.
humor video ted conspiracy history politics 2007 Oct 29, 1:48FTA: "Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian, examining the claims of scaremongering journalists, quack remedy peddlers, pseudoscientific cosmetics
adverts, and evil multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Th
monthly blog science politics religion media news healthy research humor 2007 Oct 9, 5:10Cory Doctorow gives talk to Microsoft research on DRM.
via:thedpshow drm microsoft security politics read cory-doctorow 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 Sep 27, 2:17Starting on a new simple project I wanted to get the history of my Delicious links. Delicious has an export tool available via the settings section so I thought I'd try that. However, the links
aren't exported in XML not even in XHTML but rather in HTML. Shocking. An example:
"Don't Tase Me, Bro!" (UF Student Tasered Remix)
Remix of the 'Don't tase me, bro!' guy getting tasered.At this point I'm already not going to use this file because its in HTML but I'm even more disgusted by those date time values.
Raymond Chen of the Old New Thing posted about recognizing timestamps and timestamp sentinel values. From the first blog post and with the use of a calculator for base conversion one can tell that
those are UNIX style timestamps counting the number of seconds since 1970.
It reminds me of my hatred for the MIME date time format I developed working on my webpage's server side parsing of atom and RSS. Atom is
of course my favorite as Atom uses the Internet date time format described in the following documents. Here's an example of one
2007-09-27T020:50:00.000-08:00
On the other hand the evil and villainous RSS uses the MIME date time format now described in the more
recent IETF MIME standard. Here's an example Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:50:00 -0800
The Internet date time format has the advantage of being so easy to sort. An alphabetic sort with normal C-style collation rules of strings containing Internet date times will also sort them
chronologically. This is not the case for the MIME date time due to the preceding day of the week and the spelled out month name. This also means that when producing these you have to figure out
the day of the week and when parsing them you have to match month names rather than just parsing out numbers. Anyway now days if I see mention of a date time in a new proposed standard or spec I be
sure to point out the numerous advantages of the Internet date time format.
date xml html feed time technical date-time code atom rss 2007 Sep 20, 1:23Remix of the 'Don't tase me, bro!' guy getting tasered.
youtube video taser student politics kerry humor remix 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 Jul 22, 7:50Enter your views on various topics and see which candidates publicly stated opinions most match.
government politics quiz vote 2007 Jul 18, 8:51Games that influence your opinion. They're Op-Ed games.
flash game games politics 2007 Jul 14, 12:15How hackers bugged the largest Greek cell provider and listened to government and military officials.
article ieee cellphone phone conspiracy hack hackers politics privacy security 2007 May 2, 1:12Voting records from congress people available as well as money trail information.
article politics mashup web blog social public privacy voting 2007 Apr 13, 1:56"We'd be better off without Religion" with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and AC Grayling. In London's Westminster Central Hall on March 27, some 2,000 people turned out to hear Hitchens,
Dawkins and philosopher A.C. Grayling debate a trio of rel
audio mp3 politics religion debate philosophy richard-dawkins 2007 Mar 30, 11:36During the whole intelligent design & evolution thing in Kansas this guy wrote an open letter requesting that they also teach the creation beliefs of his religion as a follower of the Flying
Spaghetti Monster.
religion humor politics education fsm flying-spaghetti-monster evolution satire 2007 Mar 19, 1:23A site dedicated to creating a tool for leaking documents in an uncensorable fashion.
wiki politics censorship government privacy security crypto cryptography 2007 Mar 1, 1:43Sir Timothy Berners-Lee talks at a congressional hearing. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing "Digital Future of the United States:
Part I -- The Future of the World Wide Web".
politics tim-berners-lee semanticweb web internet congress reference video 2007 Feb 25, 11:58Shirt with a picture of Gaius Baltar (from Battlestar Galactica) reading "Not My President"
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