February 2005
Feb. 1, 2005
mini Tower (via) Here come the accessories.
digitalmedia.oreilly.com. I hadn’t seen this one before.
Build Your Own PVR (for free) with HackTV (via) You also need a digital camcorder with a video pass-through option.
Apple restricting DVD region-changes -- voluntarily! As a UK owner of a US PowerBook I ended up having to hack my firmware.
Installing OS X on a PC (via) Using the open source PearPC emulator.
MSN Search: spam like it’s 1999. Phil spots some nasty holes in their ranking algorithms.
New Blog Gets Big Bucks; Popular Blog Goes on Hiatus;. Crikey: Sony are sponsoring that new LifeHacker blog to the tune of $25,000 a month!
The BBC’s new complaints site launches. Roll up, roll up. “It seems we live in an age when technology amplifies our strength of our voices but not always the quality of what we say.”
PanicGoods (via) Slick interface, but bad accessibility (no fallback if JavaScript is disabled).
Introducing the Panic Goods store! Some background details.
Feb. 2, 2005
Ned Batchelder: Css-discuss wiki. Ned says nice things about the Wiki.
Feb. 5, 2005
Subversion on Windows quick start (via) Subversion cheat sheet.
Stewart Butterfield on Flickr. Interview in preparation for EtCon.
Feb. 6, 2005
Total Immersions D’Fusion Technology (via) Awesomely impressive augmented reality video (Windows Media, unfortunately).
NewsFire 1.0 (via) $19.99—NetNewsWire finally has some stylish competition.
Clever use of Python’s complex number type. Using the complex number type to solve linear equations.
Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing (via) From Scientific American.
The Invisible Train (via) A Handheld Augmented Reality Game.
Unrest in Belize (via) Original reporting scoop on Wikinews.
How I entered the hellish world of Guantanamo Bay. Martin Mubanga talks to the Observer.
Bootstrapping a Corporate Wiki (via) Tips from personal experience.
PyRSS2Gen. I’ve been using this for a number of personal feeds.
Feb. 7, 2005
Shmoo Group exploit: 0wn any domain, no defense exists. Nasty new phishing trick, affects everything except IE.
End to End Unicode Web Applications in Python. How to traverse the unicode maze.
Stephen Greene’s Writing Tips. Aimed at journalists, but I really enjoyed the examples of what NOT to do.
2001 Election Map of the UK. Inspired by the purple US one that did the rounds a while back.
Introducing JSON (via) A data-interchange format based on JavaScript objects and arrays.
Parasite Database. Andrew Clover’s comprehensive database of malware.
PythonForSeries60. Matt Croyden’s wiki has a ton of links concerning Nokia’s Python tools.
Shoe Lacing Methods. Another reason to love the internet.