January 2008
204 posts
Commons Misunderstandings: ASCAP on Creative... →
ASCAP’s essay, “Common Understanding: 10 Things Every Music Creator Should Know About Creative Commons Licensing” nicely highlights some important considerations that any musician should review before using a CC license. Unfortunately, however, it also continues some common misunderstandings about Creative Commons. I’ve reprinted, and responded, to these in the extended...
Jan 1st
December 2007
119 posts
Old documents, new documents →
From Page 1 of MoMA’s press release for “New Documents” exhibition of 1967 Though of course they wouldn’t have known it at the time, The Museum of Modern Art’s 1967 exhibition, New Documents, organized by John Szarkowski and featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, became one of a handful of truly landmark exhibitions in photography’s history. And so it is with...
Dec 31st
Ron Paul Supporters Plan World Of Warcraft Rally |... →
Dec 31st
Ron Paul Supporters Plan World Of Warcraft Rally |... →
Dec 31st
wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007,... →
Dec 30th
wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007,... →
Dec 30th
Let’s make 2008 the year of embracing the server... →
I am always fascinated by the amount of Ajax tutorials and examples out there that totally ignore the backend part of an Ajax app. A lot of times you’ll find page-long ravings about the 6-7 lines of JavaScript that allow the client to make an HTTP request but when it comes to talking about the proxy script needed to allow for cross-domain requests a lot is glossed over as “you don’t need to know...
Dec 30th
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and... →
Dec 30th
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and... →
Dec 30th
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and... →
A great article about designing for what Tom Coates calls a “web of data”, emphasising the importance of making sure that a resource sits at one URL.  bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by adactio to web2.0 url ia design resource rest - more about this bookmark…
Dec 29th
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist →
Dec 29th
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist →
Dec 29th
Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns →
Dec 29th
Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns →
Dec 29th
End of Support for Netscape web browsers - The... →
Dec 29th
End of Support for Netscape web browsers - The... →
Dec 29th
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your... →
Dec 29th
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your... →
Dec 29th
good games, fun games →
Dec 29th
good games, fun games →
Dec 29th
Metal Fingers in My Body: Interview with David... →
A few months ago, I saw David Levy give a presentation based on his new book “Love + Sex With Robots” at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan. While the presentation had a pretty interesting premise, I had so many questions afterwards and could’ve run roughshod over the Q&A session. I bought the book and read it for myself, and just like the presentation it left me wanting so much more. Levy lays...
Dec 28th
Hacky holidays on OS X →
Christmas is a time for giving, a time for over-indulgence, a time for lounging around and for me, a time for doing those somewhat time-consuming tasks that I’d otherwise never get around to doing… like upgrading my operating system. I used the downtime here in Arizona to install Leopard on my Macbook. I knew from reading other people’s reports that it might take some time to get my local web...
Dec 28th
This Blog Sits at the: How social networks work:... →
Dec 27th
This Blog Sits at the: How social networks work:... →
Dec 27th
Logo Design Trends 2007 →
Dec 27th
Logo Design Trends 2007 →
Dec 27th
FlashReplace - A light-weight JavaScript to insert... →
Dec 27th
FlashReplace - A light-weight JavaScript to insert... →
Dec 27th
AT&T: Scraping the bottom of the barrel →
Flat assertion: “the new” AT&T needs a “new” ad agency, and yesterday. Or that, anyway, is what I’d be arguing if I actually cared one whit about their fortunes in the world. If you thought their outdoor couldn’t possibly get any worse - any less passionate, less convincing, less enthused by …
Dec 27th
Antisocial networking →
As a skeptic and, for the most part, a confessed non-user of them, you might think I wouldn’t touch discussions of social-networking systems with the proverbial ten-foot pole, and ordinarily you’d probably be right. But it’s past time for me to acknowledge that while the discourse of social networking may …
Dec 27th
Antisocial networking →
Dec 27th
Antisocial networking →
Dec 27th
ack -- better than grep, a power search tool for... →
Dec 27th
ack -- better than grep, a power search tool for... →
Dec 27th
Gefen 2 x 1 DVI KVM Hooks Up Two Computers to 1920... →
Dec 26th
Gefen 2 x 1 DVI KVM Hooks Up Two Computers to 1920... →
Dec 26th
JD Smith: Scraps →
Dec 26th
JD Smith: Scraps →
Dec 26th
Whose Value Is It Anyway? →
Dec 25th
Whose Value Is It Anyway? →
Dec 25th
The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies -... →
Dec 24th
The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies -... →
Dec 24th
Swiss Accept Assisted Suicide, but Not in Their... →
Dec 24th
Swiss Accept Assisted Suicide, but Not in Their... →
Dec 24th
Cat pwns dog →
Dec 24th
Cat pwns dog →
Dec 24th
cpipe: Determine the throughput of a pipe →
Article submitted by Todd Troxell. Please help DPOTD by submitting good articles about software you like! A package I find useful is cpipe. It is simple tool you can use to determine the throughput of a pipe. Potential uses of cpipe might include determining the speed of: backups that use tar and dd your system’s pseudo-random number generator (see below) an OpenSSH tunnel or OpenVPN between...
Dec 23rd
Mobile Usability for Teens Who Are Going Mobile ::... →
Dec 23rd
Mobile Usability for Teens Who Are Going Mobile ::... →
Dec 23rd
Documenting the Design of Rich Internet... →
Dec 23rd