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Category: Misc
George Carlin is Up in Heaven Now
Damn. Last year we lost Kurt Vonnegut, and now we’ve lost George Carlin. Two darkly hilarious guys who despite their cynicism still made us (or, at least, me) laugh out loud at the human condition.
I never subscribed to the growing bitterness that Carlin showed as he aged (I agree with Terry Heaton that his best work was earlier in his career), but I still loved his insightful, biting humor. You can count me among those who will miss the dirty old bastard.
PS: Check out Mashable’s video obituary for a smattering of Carlin’s humor.
Stupid is as Stupid Does
Michael Arrington’s recent experience with a litigious photographer reminds me of a similar experience I had a few years ago.
I think we should maintain a list of these people, and then sue them for negligence if they start breeding.
Users on Crack
Our support team just received an email from a FeedDemon user which contained a screenshot of an error he was encountering. Clearly visible in the screenshot is a RAR file which contains a crack for FeedDemon.
Yep. Not only did he contact us despite using a pirated version, but he also included a screenshot which proves he’s using a crack!
Unbelievable.
Update: Scott Adams has a great post on the topic of piracy.
Link Dump: January 17, 2007
- Read/Write Web: The Art, Science and Business of Recommendation Engines
- Mark Pilgrim: Sharecroppers
- SuckBusters!: No More Confirmation, Pt. 1
- Coding Horror: The Power of Defaults
- Data Mining: The Blogosphere: A Fresh View
- Web Worker Daily: Web Worker stretches
- Steve O’Hear: Do ordinary users care about data portability?
- Scott Hanselman: FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog
- Dave Winer: RSS wasn’t invented
- News.com: The security risk in Web 2.0
- Calvin & Hobbes Snowman Art
Link Dump: December 8, 2006
- RSS – The Newspapers Revenge?
- Feed publishing best practices
- Mind the Gap
- The Dilbert Blog: Nearly Funny Things
- “Beta” Is Not an Excuse
- MSN Video – Arrested Development
- Privacy, the Web and Rich Internet Applications
- Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems
- YouTube: Young (ok, VERY young) rockers playing Iron Maiden (via Dethroner)
Link Dump: November 20, 2006
- Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
- It’s a Malformed World
- Al Jazeera English RSS feed (via Kevin Burton)
- Brightcove.com goes full-screen
- The Laws of Simplicity
- Data Portability
- 10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur
- Google… the OS for Advertising
- YouTube: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
- YouTube: Rush – YYZ
- YouTube: The Beatles – Revolution
Link Dump: September 15, 2006
Two link dumps in a row? That’s a sure sign I’m in another coding frenzy :)
- Kevin Murphy: Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds (via Alex Barnett)
- Danny Chamberlin: “Those Were the Days” with a Bradsoft.com twist
- Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up
- Eric Meyer: W3C Change- Outreach
- Wired News: Cyber Crime Getting Organized
Link Dump: September 14, 2006
- Michael H. Goldhaber: Hoorah!! Here’s the first installment of Chapter 3!
- Danah Boyd: Facebook’s “Privacy Trainwreck”: Exposure, Invasion, and Drama
- MSDN: XSLT Security
- MSDN: Enhanced Styles in Internet Explorer 7
- Nicholas Carr: Office generations
- Kim Carmeron: The virtualization of crime
- Scott Karp: This is What the Social Networking Privacy Backlash Looks Like
- Read/Write Web: Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps
- Tim Bray: “Publish” Everywhere
- YouTube: Frank Zappa – Peaches En Regalia (a great performance of my favorite Zappa instrumental)
- YouTube: Stevie Ray Vaughan – Voodoo Child
- YouTube: Graham Chapman’s funeral