In honor of the “events of the day”, here are some of the choicer bits from the past week or so from Wonkette:
Wonkette - W’s iPod Playlist
George Bush Believes in God, Film at Eleven
Wonkette Answers: Inaugural Ball Names
Welcome to the Greatest FCC in the World
Inaugural Speech and Parade Drinking Game
And the inauguration coverage itself:
Live-Blogging the Coronation
Fucking A. WIKI SPAM???!! Spammers are the abhorrent scum of the earth. Some dickhead from a .ru domain puts all sorts of links in my personal wiki, in some cases even overwriting what was there. Luckily, (1) my wiki has a rollback function so I can go back to the previous version - though I need to see if I can kill it out of the rollback history… (2) the idiot made the change to the “home page” of the wiki, so I noticed it RIGHT away, and (3) my wiki has edit security (I’m sure not high strength, but whatever) so once I rolled back, I could at least lock down the whole thing so it shouldn’t happen again.
Maybe I’ll post the IP that made the changes…
I love the ever-present Komatsu Excavator. With all the building/demo around here, they’re everywhere. Also Hitachis. We had one work next to us when we lived in Cambridge, too. That bucket is a lot bigger than you think.
I managed to get Appletalk (well, technically, Localtalk) working on my FreeBSD-based fileserver, but I still haven’t managed to work out the permissions, on the Linux webserver (running clarkconnect). So I’m “regularly” mounting both afp shares (music and software archives - I keep the iPhoto pics on the local drive) and smb shares (the sites dir), and have noticed some things.
AFP is much more tolerant of interruptions or transitions in network service. Both when resuming from sleep and the switch from Airport to Ethernet (or vice versa), the afp shares stay alive. The smb share, however, never fails to, well, fail. And then, boom, up comes the “The server you were connected to is no longer available…” message. Much nicer.
Great idea about the direction of the heirachy of the web in URLs. This would so totally work with the REST-ish nature of flickr, del.icio.us, etc… The idea is, why do sites go right to left (www.emmott.net) when the rest of the site then goes left to right (/2005/01/07/heirarchy-the-right-way)?
Great Hackers - Nice essay on programming and hackers, etc.