photo: seattle public library
Danah Boyd posted recently at Many-to-Many about the future of social software. I’ve been more than a little bit gung ho on web 2.0 for a while, but I do like her caution:
If MySpace falters in the next 1-2 years, it will be because of this moral panic. Before all of you competitors get motivated [...]
I’ve whittled things down to the point where the only baseline change from WordPress 2.0.2 is in the next_posts_link function of the wp-includes/template-functions-links.php file. The change is necessary because WPopac rewrites the SQL search queries in a way that’s incompatible with a piece of this function, but necessary for performance reasons.
Between WordPress 1.x and 2.x there was a big change to the way rewrite rules are handled.
In the old days, everything got written out to a .htaccess file. Every condition, every form of permalink could be found there, and I had some comfort knowing I could see and mess with it all. I was a [...]
April 15 has been tax day in the US for as long as anybody can remember, but with the weekend and all, most of us have ’til Monday to file and some of us in the Northeast have ’til Tuesday.
The thing I don’t like about tax time is that it brings out the worst in [...]
Who wouldn’t like to play with The Crucible’s “fire truck”?
What’s “The Crucible”?
[it's] an arts education center that fosters a collaboration of arts, industry and community. Through training in the fine and industrial arts, The Crucible promotes creative expression, reuse of materials and innovative design while serving as an accessible arts venue for the public.
You can [...]
This is strange enough on its own, but I dare you to use it as a soundtrack to this one.
News came out a while ago that many of our laser printers were embedding “fingerprints” that allowed folks who knew how (like, say, the feds) to trace a printed page back to the day and time it was printed, and the serial number of the printer.
Or, at least that was the theory, until the EFF [...]
I didn’t hear big announcement of it, but deep in the docs (? PHP 5.1.0) you’ll find a note about additional Libxml parameters. In there you’ll learn about “LIBXML_NOCDATA,” and it works like this:
simplexml_load_string($xmlraw, ’SimpleXMLElement’, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
Without that option (and with all previous versions of PHP/SimpleXML), SimpleXML just ignores any < ![CDATA[...]]> ‘escaped’ content, such as you’ll find [...]
Colin has a nifty guide to your iPod’s hidden commands, like those for rebooting or getting into the diagnostics. He’s got more iPod tips if you look.
diagnostics, ipod, ipod hacking, key combo, key command, reboot, special keys, tips
Don’t these Mainich Daily News editors think they’re the shit when they get to combine “bondage” and “rope” in the same headline.
Yes, as it turns out, “freedom of expression®” is a trademarked term. And, yes, as it turns out, somebody’s been cease and desisted for using it.
I happened to stumble back onto the Pew Internet Report on teens and technology from July 2005 that report that told us “87% of [US children] between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.” But the part I’d missed before regarded how these teens were using communication technology:
Email, once the cutting edge “killer app,” [...]
Super heros gotta go too, ya know?
Not all errors in news reporting are as trivial as this one:
THE COST of beer kegs has risen by about 30% since the end of 2003. In addition, Neil Witte is the draught beer quality-control specialist of Boulevard Brewing Co., and Steven Pauwels is the brewer’s brewmaster. A March 14 page-one article on beer-keg theft [...]
Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP
