Tuesday, 31st August 2004
Alex Halavais: The Isuzu Experiment (via) 13 deliberate errors introduced to Wikipedia; every single one spotted within hours.
Shitcanned (via) I just cancelled my Friendster account.
Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of Friendster. Commentary on the Friendster firing fuck up.
A Business Information Publication Standard and Google’s Power to Make It Happen. Sigh. Another piece of robots.txt style namespace pollution.
Sub Pop Records: The Postal Service. Includes a great streaming video of a live performance at a radio station.
Keith Devens: Testing PRG. The POST-redirect-GET pattern for avoiding form resubmissions.
Morbid Tendencies: Bunny Of The Month Club. Pretty freakin’ cool.
Garden State—Zach Braff Blog. Another celebrity blog. I thoroughly enjoyed this film over the weekend.
Unleashing memes with Context Specific Mirroring. Ben Hammersley suggests an Atom-to-webform bridge for popular sites.
Download Skype for Mac OS X (via) Finally!
Embittered generals. Daniel Glazman on innovation outside the W3C.
State Machines. Eric Dobbs’ extensive series on state machines.
Perl state machine to scrape HTML. Great working example of a state machine in action.
XML-RPC in JavaScript. Opens up some interesting remote scripting possibilities.
Creating Rich Applications with Mozilla, XUL, and AMP Technology (via) Slideshow in XUL: Mozilla browser required.
My impressions of the iMac G5. Russell Beattie entertains.
New Mozilla.org Design is Live (via) Very nice.