Terrorism
Even after they're captured, terrorists can terrorize. [via Anil]
cat likes TV dogs
The only time the cat is interested in TV...
photos at reversible.org
I like sending photos to reversible.
Build Your Own Submarine
It's amazing to me that there is a whole group of people out there who are building their own submarines. This site is filled with plans, photos, stories, news and general personal-submarine talk. They even have an Open Source Submarine project to design the ideal personal submersible as a group.
Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering
The secret behind Amazon Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering. [via Erik Benson]
Bowling for Columbine
The Academy Awards got something right? Bowling for Columbine is up for best documentary.
Feeder 0.1 (Alpha)
Feeder 0.1
In my continuing quest to prove you can do more with Windows scripts than nightly file backups, I wrote a simple RSS reader with WSH. It stores a list of feeds in a tab-delimited file, and grabs/transforms them on the fly with the MS-XML-parser and an XSL stylesheet. It will only work on Windows 2000 or XP, and you probably need the latest parser (4.0) and latest Scripting Host (5.6). (If you're using IE 6, most likely you already have these installed.) It might work with earlier versions anyway, though. It's extremely simple and doesn't have any features beyond adding/removing feeds and reading them as HTML. I wrote it for my own use and figured someone else might like it too. I got a huge head-start on the all-RSS-flavors XSL file at this page.
Download: Feeder 0.1 (Alpha)
To install just download the zip, create a folder at c:\feeder\, and unzip the contents to that directory. Double-click feeder.vbs, and you should be off and running. If you want to change the install location, just edit the first few lines of feeder.vbs to match your setup.
In my continuing quest to prove you can do more with Windows scripts than nightly file backups, I wrote a simple RSS reader with WSH. It stores a list of feeds in a tab-delimited file, and grabs/transforms them on the fly with the MS-XML-parser and an XSL stylesheet. It will only work on Windows 2000 or XP, and you probably need the latest parser (4.0) and latest Scripting Host (5.6). (If you're using IE 6, most likely you already have these installed.) It might work with earlier versions anyway, though. It's extremely simple and doesn't have any features beyond adding/removing feeds and reading them as HTML. I wrote it for my own use and figured someone else might like it too. I got a huge head-start on the all-RSS-flavors XSL file at this page.
Download: Feeder 0.1 (Alpha)
To install just download the zip, create a folder at c:\feeder\, and unzip the contents to that directory. Double-click feeder.vbs, and you should be off and running. If you want to change the install location, just edit the first few lines of feeder.vbs to match your setup.
clockworks photo
Flower photography
Beautiful macro flower photos. I can't wait for spring.
snapGallery fix
As I mentioned a few days ago, the default snapGallery design wasn't displaying properly on a Mac. After playing around with different solutions, I decided to go back to using tables and standard HTML. It's the only way to vertically center content across platforms. bummer. (Thanks again to Brian and Dave for helping out this Mac-challenged developer.) So the latest Mac-friendlier version is now available to download.
Ballot Tampering
I can't believe the ballot-tampering scandal that is unfolding in my home state and potentially around the country. If there was ever a need for open-source software, it's in vote-counting. Companies that create ballot-counting machines should be held to excruciating public scrutiny. (It is our process of electing our leaders, after all.) Apparently, they're not. And Senators should definitely not own stock in said secretive companies that they used to run. This is very scary stuff.
Jimmy Carter on Iraq
Jimmy Carter writes about an An Alternative to War.