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Buttload of del.icio.us links

The del.icio.us API has been flaky for me, so these links are a long time coming. Here's everything since my last installment of del.icio.us links: 178 links over 10 days. Until the del.icio.us API stops being flaky, I'm going to have to run the script manually, but now that it's done I shouldn't get this backlogged again.

Update: I e-mailed Joshua and he fixed the bug in literally 5 minutes from when I e-mailed him. Kick ass. Now I can cron this and be done with it.

I plan to post links up to the previous day... these links are everything up until Thursday (Feb 5). To get links "as they happen", go to http://del.icio.us/keith.

(Jan 27, 0:00) The Master List - "Here it is, 2449 words for a complete vocabulary."
(Jan 27, 0:02) Castro seeks out Robert Redford - Redford hob-nobs with the communist dictator
(Jan 27, 0:24) Artificial Intelligence and the Game of Go - "The field of Artificial Intelligence has conquered chess, but still has difficulties with Go. This blog will contain information about advancing the state of the art Go AI". via l.m. orchard
(Jan 27, 0:31) The Cassutt Files: Dead series earn second chances - Firefly DVD selling "like gangbusters". Via WHEDONesque
(Jan 27, 3:58) "Super Size Me" - What happens to your body after a month-long diet of McDonalds. Gross.
(Jan 27, 4:07) The FreeDOS Project
(Jan 27, 4:10) Winds of Change.NET: Understanding Evil
(Jan 27, 4:11) Winds of Change.NET: The Occupation Continues
(Jan 27, 4:14) Junction Link Magic - "junctions" are like symlinks, but for Windows 2000 or higher
(Jan 27, 4:16) Instapundit.com: More on the Kay report
(Jan 27, 4:21) WikiWeblogPIM
(Jan 27, 18:18) Tim Bray: On the Goodness of Unicode
(Jan 27, 18:18) Fabl -- A Native Programming Language for the Semantic Web
(Jan 27, 18:21) mezzoblue: Wanted: CMS
(Jan 27, 18:23) Open Source Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API
(Jan 27, 18:24) Fwd: Denmark Becomes First Country to Adopt OASIS Universal Business Lan
(Jan 27, 18:24) OASIS Universal Business Language TC
(Jan 27, 18:26) A tutorial on character code issues
(Jan 27, 18:30) Joel on Software: In the spirit of the escalator - A few follow-up comments to yesterday's article on resumes. Very funny.
(Jan 27, 18:32) Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories - via Slashdot
(Jan 27, 18:35) metamodel.com - What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model?
(Jan 27, 18:40) Wunderkinder: A Challenge to Democratic Orthodoxy on Iraq
(Jan 27, 18:44) MySQL Administrator - Cool. I had heard they were coming out with a new administration interface, but hadn't seen anything yet. Looks like this is it.
(Jan 27, 18:46) xmlhack: XML data formats take center stage in the Financial Services industry
(Jan 27, 18:53) Buffer Overflows with Content - A chapter on buffer overflows from some book (not sure what). via joatBlog, via Kayode
(Jan 27, 18:56) perl.com: Introducing Mac::Glue - via Kayode
(Jan 27, 21:21) Dichotomy's Purgatory: I Like "LinkBlogs," But I Like Some More than Others - The problem with having a linkblog generate individual items in an RSS feed is that it forces it to be a separate blog from your main blog. I usually neglect to read people's linkblogs when they're separate from their main ones.
(Jan 27, 21:45) The GRETA Regular Expression Template Archive for C++ - "GRETA gives you all the power of Perl 5 regular expressions in your C++ applications. These easy-to-use classes let you perform regular expression pattern matches on strings in C++." - not for commercial use
(Jan 27, 21:50) Microsoft Research: Downloads
(Jan 27, 21:54) Perlmonks.org: Perl in the "Microsoft Research Center"
(Jan 27, 22:00) Network Monitoring Tools - via joatBlog, via Kayode
(Jan 27, 22:00) Top 75 Network Security Tools - via joatBlog
(Jan 27, 22:05) Microsoft Research Publications: Dynamic Variables
(Jan 27, 22:10) lgf: UN: Get Out of NY
(Jan 27, 22:10) lgf: Pakistan Nuke Scientists "Got Millions"
(Jan 27, 22:17) Right Wing News: The Latest Word From David Kay
(Jan 27, 22:35) Pure css tooltips
(Jan 27, 22:35) Virtual Travelog | Judging the likely Success of an Ontology
(Jan 27, 22:46) Mad Cow - kind of funny
(Jan 27, 23:08) Anyone ever read Harrison Bergeron? - "Imagine: a whole society built around the notion that equality of outcome is the highest ideal."
(Jan 27, 23:19) Kernel 2.7: Back to the Future of Linux - via Slashdot. Interesting bits about Amazon switching completely to Linux.
(Jan 27, 23:21) Simon Willison: Iterating over a sequence in reverse
(Jan 27, 23:26) lgf: The Nuclear Black Market - "It?s another benefit of the Bush foreign policy that we?ve become aware of this nuclear conspiracy; let?s hope it?s not too late."
(Jan 28, 12:35) OpinionJournal: So Where's the WMD? - "Anti-Bush partisans aren't listening to what David Kay is saying." Good summary of the current situation.
(Jan 28, 12:37) lgf: Kay Blames Weak Intelligence - How much of this is because the Clintons destroyed our intelligence services? Tennet is a Clinton hiree, remember. In Losing Bin Laden the author reveals how Clinton stopped the CIA from hiring Arabic translators, which we're still very short on.
(Jan 28, 12:46) Amazon.com: Books: Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror - Not enough room to put a link to the book in the last link's "extended" field
(Jan 28, 12:48) Report Finds No Abuse of Patriot Act (washingtonpost.com) - I have to log in every single time I visit the Washington Post. Why don't their cookies work? I always put in a birth year of 1999 and a zip code of 12121. Via scott at Wunderkinder
(Jan 28, 12:54) A short piece on how the mind boggles at what Saddam was actually doing regarding WMDs - The short argument scott gives is exactly why I've been very patient on this issue. If Saddam didn't have WMD's, none of his actions really make any sense.
(Jan 28, 12:56) Jeremy Zawodny's blog: I got the house! - congrats!
(Jan 28, 13:27) CFQ & Femme Fatales - Right Said Fred - A great interview with Amy Acker. Via WHEDONesque
(Jan 28, 13:33) Jonah Goldberg: Straightforwardness would defuse WMD issue
(Jan 28, 13:35) The Corner on National Review Online: KAY & WMDS - via Josh
(Jan 28, 13:39) mezzoblue: Friday Challenge - It's amazing how many hacks have to be done in CSS to get certain effects. This hack uses a large negative margin, and another hack I've seen to get a three-column layout uses huge borders and displays stuff over the borders. Via... see next link
(Jan 28, 13:40) Float Right at Internet Alchemy - The via link for the last post.
(Jan 28, 13:43) Right Wing News: John Kerry In Quotes
(Jan 28, 13:57) The Indie Programming Language - via Steve
(Jan 28, 14:00) How do I find the geographical location of a host, given its IP address ? - via Steve
(Jan 28, 14:05) BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
(Jan 28, 14:07) Ontology, Metadata, and Semiotics
(Jan 28, 14:31) Hixie's Natural Log: Error handling and Web language design
(Jan 28, 14:32) Hixie's Natural Log: Error handling and XML
(Jan 28, 14:50) House Democrats claim prayer is 'disrespectful' - I think it's a great prayer
(Jan 28, 21:26) Joel on Software - Please Sir May I Have a Linker?
(Jan 28, 21:29) Guardian: Blair claims vindication - "A furious Tony Blair today declared himself totally vindicated by Lord Hutton's report and turned on his attackers, demanding apologies from both the BBC and the Conservatives." He "declared allegations that he misled the country as "the real lie"."
(Jan 28, 21:33) Girl 'sees' broken bones - An update to this
(Jan 28, 21:49) Slashdot: Another Serious MSIE Hole - GREAT
(Jan 28, 21:54) lgf: IDF Raids Islamic Jihad - "Arab terrorists cynically rely on the essential morality of the IDF when they hide among non-combatants; if the Israelis were truly the genocidal monsters the Palestinians constantly allege, not one of the people in the photo above would be alive right n
(Jan 28, 21:56) Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac - "Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.", via Glenn
(Jan 28, 22:01) Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online: Blame the State Dept. - "Anyway, my point is this: to the extent the post-Iraq failure to find WMDs is a disaster for the United States in terms of its credibility, its relationships with allies etc. one could argue that the fault lies in the fact that George W. Bush listened to
(Jan 28, 23:59) My Computational Complexity Web Log: The Da Vinci Code - Negative review of The Da Vinci Code. I've heard about the book a lot but it never seemed like something I'd want to read. This helps to further rule it out.
(Jan 28, 23:59) randomthoughts: A very simple jabber client using twisted
(Jan 29, 1:39) Porphyrogenitus: The EU and the Voting Citizen - Read the linked SDB post as well as this on EU scandals.
(Jan 29, 2:38) phil ringnalda dot com: There is no they
(Jan 29, 2:51) American RealPolitik: Money Maps - I got them all... neener neener neener.
(Jan 29, 2:54) Winds of Change.NET: Dealing with WMDs
(Jan 29, 3:04) Who, where, how? | Blog | 1976design.com - "A while back I promised I?d do a write-up on how I build my blogged people and blogged domain pages. So, here ?tis."
(Jan 29, 3:05) MUTE: Simple, Anonymous File Sharing
(Jan 29, 3:05) MUTE: How File Sharing Reveals Your Identity
(Jan 29, 4:15) Xen, a New Language From Microsoft Research
(Jan 29, 4:23) BBC NEWS | England | Daughter scotches Churchill parrot claim - You probably heard about the 104 year old parrot which supposedly belonged to Churchill. Turns out it wasn't his.
(Jan 29, 13:44) bottch.com: Joel's linker - via Erik. Turns out Java people want the same thing as Joel does
(Jan 30, 0:59) Iraq Beginning to Become a Normal Society - "Those who follow Iraqi politics would know that Iraq today is the only Arab country where all shades of opinion are now free to express themselves and to compete for influence and power in a free market of ideas."
(Jan 30, 1:48) Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs
(Jan 30, 2:56) Symbian: Developer Library: Symbian OS v7.0s
(Jan 30, 3:09) www. is deprecated. - Awesome. My site validates as "Class B", the "optimal no-www compliance level"
(Jan 30, 3:11) Symbian Developer Library: Symbian OS v7.0
(Jan 30, 3:19) The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues
(Jan 30, 7:54) Secure programmer: Countering buffer overflows - via Kayode
(Jan 30, 8:07) Russell Beattie: PHP Web Projects Continue to Impress Me
(Jan 30, 13:44) The Daily Targum: Group works for cheaper books
(Jan 30, 14:16) Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days - check out the part on continuations
(Jan 30, 14:23) lgf: Slouching Toward Big Brother - "In December, a provision slipped into an appropriations bill allowing the FBI to obtain personal financial information from banks, insurance companies, travel agencies, real estate agents, stockbrokers, the U.S. Postal Service, jewelry stores, casinos an
(Jan 30, 14:23) Schneier.com: Beyond Fear -- Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World
(Jan 30, 14:25) Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
(Jan 30, 14:39) local6.com - News - Teen Called 'Weakling' Saves Man In Pond
(Jan 30, 14:39) California Measure Would Align Building Rules With Feng Shui
(Jan 30, 14:40) rss2email: read newsfeeds from your email client
(Jan 30, 14:57) Native Widget Framework for OpenOffice.org - Cool, OpenOffice is getting native widgets soon.
(Jan 30, 15:00) ScrappleFace: Wealthy Senators to Cover $130B Medicare Drug Gap
(Jan 30, 15:29) Wunderkinder: This Story Should Only Get Bigger - "Hopefully this will stop the Democratic presidential candidates from mindlessly asserting that we should give veto power over our foreign policy to countries whose leaders may or may not be directly bribed by foreign dictators..."
(Jan 31, 6:21) Omniscient Debugging - "The debugger works by collecting "time stamps" which record everything that happens in a program. A GUI then allows you to navigate backwards in time to look at objects, variables, method calls, etc. "
(Jan 31, 23:33) NOD32 Antivirus
(Jan 31, 23:48) Rich Lowry on Poverty on National Review Online - He argues that poverty is a cultural problem, not a purely economic one
(Feb 1, 0:38) Ultra-geeky Life amusement - "Life" refers to Conway's "game of life", not human life
(Feb 1, 0:39) Life32 by Johan Bontes - Conway's Game of Life freeware for Windows
(Feb 1, 0:43) IE HTTP Authentication URL scheme behavior change is adhering to rather than violating the RFC - via l.m orchard
(Feb 1, 1:23) 2004: The Turning Point - "An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet"
(Feb 1, 1:25) ONJava.com: Qualities of a Good Middle-Tier Architecture [Oct. 01, 2003]
(Feb 1, 19:03) perl.com: How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ... [Jan. 30, 2004] - via Kayode
(Feb 2, 0:10) Lambda the Ultimate: Sina Language and Composition Filters
(Feb 2, 0:13) Lambda the Ultimate: New Scientist interview with Alexandra Aikhenvald - lots of stuff about linguistics, though I haven't read it yet. Make sure you read the comments on LtU.
(Feb 2, 0:20) New version of the YAML spec - It seems like they've made many improvements.
(Feb 2, 0:59) A neat use of geo-urls - via muxway. I wonder if/when del.icio.us will get comments.
(Feb 2, 1:08) tokidoki v2.0: sushi racing
(Feb 2, 1:14) CNN.com - Engineering geek names son version 2.0 - Feb. 1, 2004 - Now that's a true nerd. Too bad for the kid.
(Feb 2, 1:32) Jerusalem Post: The language war
(Feb 2, 5:17) ODBTP (Open Database Transport Protocol) - "ODBTP is a TCP/IP protocol that provides remote access to ODBC. The primary purpose of ODBTP is to allow computers that lack support for ODBC to access databases via the ODBC facilities residing on another computer..."
(Feb 2, 5:24) Universal Feed Parser 3.0 beta [dive into mark]
(Feb 2, 5:47) DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools.
(Feb 3, 2:33) WOMBAT! - via, via, via
(Feb 3, 2:37) The SWIPE Toolkit - decodes bar codes on drivers' licenses
(Feb 3, 2:39) youramazingbrain.org
(Feb 3, 3:33) ONLamp.com: The New Breed of Version Control Systems [Jan. 29, 2004] - Glad to know I didn't miss any on my list
(Feb 3, 3:41) How to manage smart people - via Simon
(Feb 3, 3:44) USS Clueless - What didn't happen - I thought the same thing
(Feb 3, 4:31) Coming in May: Hackers and Painters
(Feb 3, 17:53) Scheme vs. Perl for text parsing
(Feb 3, 18:16) CrypTool - Homepage - "CrypTool is a freeware program which enables you to apply and analyse cryptographic mechanisms... CrypTool has implemented almost all state-of-the-art crypto functions and allows you to learn about and use, modern and classic cryptography within the same
(Feb 3, 18:21) The Liberty Bill Act - "A bill before Congress... initiated by students, to put an abridged version of the Constitution on the back of U.S. currency." I think that's an interesting idea!
(Feb 3, 18:24) Ted Leung: Python vs Lisp - via Erik
(Feb 3, 18:24) Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: -2000 Lines Of Code - Yet another example of how lines of code is a piss-poor measure of productivity. Via The Pub, via Erik
(Feb 3, 18:26) Atox - "Atox is a fully customizable tool for adding markup to plain text."
(Feb 3, 18:29) Steve Dekorte's Weblog: Self programming language video
(Feb 3, 19:36) Ned Batchelder: Showing C header structure - Python to the rescue again
(Feb 3, 19:44) Albatross - a [Python] Toolkit for Stateful Web Applications
(Feb 3, 20:12) Ned Batchelder: Internet anagram server
(Feb 3, 20:18) Steve Dekorte's Weblog: Synthesis OS
(Feb 4, 1:35) Basic use of pthreads
(Feb 4, 1:37) POSIX Threads Programming
(Feb 4, 1:39) Introduction to Parallel Computing
(Feb 4, 1:40) High Performance Computing Training - from Lawrence Livermore
(Feb 4, 1:44) lgf: A Historian's Take on Islam
(Feb 4, 2:37) "why is she wearing a Borg implant on her boob?" - via Glenn
(Feb 4, 3:53) Programming language theory texts online - "This is a collection of programming language theory texts and resources, all of which are freely available over the Internet."
(Feb 4, 3:55) RoboCom - The Programming Game
(Feb 4, 4:14) TinyApps.Org
(Feb 4, 4:19) XacRett - "Drag-and-drop type Archive Extractor. XacRett supports ... more than 40 formats without any additional module". Very useful. I needed to decode a BinHex file, and this worked well.
(Feb 4, 4:26) Robocode
(Feb 4, 5:05) DiamondWiki - "an experimental WikiClone with an emphasis on MetaData and FacetedNavigation."
(Feb 4, 5:43) Bob Martin's Agile Programming book - review by Guido van Rossum - "Half book review, half Python-vs-static-languages musings". Printing it now
(Feb 4, 14:19) lgf: From PLO Terrorist to Lover of Zion
(Feb 4, 14:23) lgf: The Alternative to War: Defeat - Looks like a great column by Mark Steyn. [to read]
(Feb 4, 14:51) Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux - Also available for Windows. It seems to be based on Mozilla Composer. Open source. Via Steve Dekorte
(Feb 4, 21:01) The myth of RSS compatibility [dive into mark] - Mark explains in excruciating detail the various incompatibilities and changes in all the many versions of "RSS"
(Feb 4, 23:16) This image was made in Paint - pretty awesome
(Feb 4, 23:24) American RealPolitik: Points to Ponder - "The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away." --John Strider Coleman
(Feb 4, 23:44) Brad Choate: Textile - MT-Textile 2.0 has been released. Via Paul
(Feb 4, 23:45) J2SE 1.5 in a Nutshell
(Feb 4, 23:45) The Enhanced For Loop (in JDK 1.5) - Finally Java gets a "foreach" loop. There's no excuse for any language not to provide one.
(Feb 4, 23:54) Q-BAL Programming Language - found from here
(Feb 4, 23:56) Damn Small Linux, 50 megabytes of penguin power
(Feb 5, 0:00) StrangeBanana: Computer-generated webpage design - heh, many of the designs are probably better than what I can do myself
(Feb 5, 0:17) Virtually all plastics leach trace amounts of chemicals - Don't microwave in plastic containers! Or with plastic wrap on top of food.
(Feb 5, 0:42) Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? by Robert Nozick - via Justin
(Feb 5, 0:43) Philosophical Dictionary - via fritz
(Feb 5, 1:33) OOP as an Enrichment of FP - [to read] via snowman
(Feb 5, 1:37) Eastern Standard Tribe - a book by Cory Doctorow. I'd like to read if I have any free time.
(Feb 5, 2:57) Right Wing News: No "There There" To The Bush AWOL Charge
(Feb 5, 3:03) An interesting alternative to a balanced-budget amendment - via Glenn
(Feb 5, 3:04) InstaPundit.com: Lots more on Bush desertion changes
(Feb 5, 3:08) ned - Text Editor of the Future - "While there is no documentation for ned itself, you can find a lot of reference material I have gathered for this project below." And there's lots of it.
(Feb 5, 13:42) zwiki.org FunctionalityGuide
(Feb 5, 18:53) searchhi: Automatic search word highlighting after web searches - Cool, this is a Javascript version of the what I use on my site. I've wondered what it would take to do this client-side.
(Feb 5, 19:09) CLiki : Meta - "...one can, in a few dozen lines of code, build a recursive-descent parser in Common Lisp ... Whereas [Meta] does not handle all possible regular and context-free grammars, it can be used for a surprisingly large fraction of the grammars Lisp programmers
(Feb 5, 19:11) J2SE (TM) 1.5.0 New Features - via LtU
(Feb 5, 19:23) "Bad, bad server. No donut for you" - Funny error message. via Erik
(Feb 5, 20:03) Asia Times: It's not the end of the world - it's the end of you - "The Greens hector us about the impending end of the world. I put it to them: perhaps it is not the end of the world, but just the end of you... The evangelical zealotry that motivates the global-warmers has a different source than the facts."
(Feb 5, 23:53) Images for Halo 2 - Halo 2! Woooooo! Can't wait.

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Friday, February 6, 2004

Buttload of del.icio.us links

The del.icio.us API has been flaky for me

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