Bagatelle: nerd links
le 17, avril 2008
- Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- I don’t know how Andy got his hands on this, but it brings a tear of nostalgia to this old fart nerd.
le 5, mars 2008
- “The Connection Has Been Reset”
- Fascinating article on how the Chinese Internet firewall works.
le 28, décembre 2007
- Cintiq 12WX
- I wish I could draw so I could justify buying one of these…
le 13, juillet 2007
- Unintentionally Sexual Comics Covers/Panels
- Featuring too many awesome examples
le 30, mai 2007
- Microsoft Surface
- Very cool-looking multi-touch table from Microsoft, not due out until “Winter 2007”.
le 26, mai 2007
- The Usable Home
- Lots of great little tips on how to make one’s living space more user-friendly.
le 24, mai 2007
- Inside the Digital Dump
- Photo essay of how people scrounge a living from our digital waste.
le 23, mai 2007
- Guy Is Nude No More
- Guy Kawasaki tours the Threadless headquarters. Wow. Just… wow.
le 22, mai 2007
- Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop
- Start of what looks like a killer productivity series by Ethan “Kinkless GTD” Schoonover.
le 16, mai 2007
- Freehand is dead
- RIP.
le 11, mai 2007
- Annals of Communications: Critical Mass
- Entertaining piece on Wall Street Journal tech writer Walter Mossberg.
le 28, mars 2007
- 10 things I learned at SXSW 2007
- Kevin Smokler recaps this year’s conference
le 23, mars 2007
- Bruce Sterling in Belgrade
- I’ve only ever seen Bruce at SXSW, so it’s a bit strange to see him in the context of online video
le 23, février 2007
- Autumn and the Plot Against Me
- Nick Toshes searches for the location where the well-known Windows XP desktop background was photographed
le 20, février 2007
- Declutter Your Desk
- Mount everything to a peg board located on the underside of the desk. Brilliant.
le 18, février 2007
- Mail.app GTD Perfection
- Good system for using Mail.app as a Getting Things Done vestibule
le 1, février 2007
- PigPogPDA - A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System
- I have a Moleskine Pocket Reporter that has been just dying to be used like this
le 24, janvier 2007
- FUSEWiki - FileSystems
- Whole whack of plugins (all run from the command line [for now]) for the stupidly cool MacFUSE “file system mechanism”
le 29, décembre 2006
- Buggy Saints Row: The Musical
- Is there anything that this guy can’t do?
le 26, décembre 2006
- Known issues in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta
- In other words, “not quite ready for production use”
le 15, décembre 2006
- Adobe to release beta of Photoshop CS3
- Well I’ll be. What’s been up with Adobe these days with all of their public betas?
le 22, novembre 2006
- Stupid htaccess Tricks
- This stuff is like precious lore passed down from generation to generation.
le 14, novembre 2006
- David Allen on best practices for implementing GTD
- Merlin has been consistently knocking them out of the park, and this is no exception.
le 10, novembre 2006
- pzizz 2.0 is out
- I started using this sleep enhancement tool a while ago (thanks to 43folders) and it actually works
le 27, octobre 2006
- Pearly
- Dan Cederholm’s review of the Blackberry Pearl, which I’ve been seriously thinking about buying.
le 19, octobre 2006
- Macworld: News: Logitech buys Slim Devices
- Interesting…
- Internet Explorer 7 Available Now
- This is a really nice step forward - hope this momentum is maintained
le 15, octobre 2006
- How will Microsoft stop you stealing Windows Vista?
- The Guardian on Microsoft’s new “Software Protection Platform”
le 11, octobre 2006
- Interview with GTD’s David Allen on Procrastination
- Awesome interview with the Godfather of GTD
le 6, septembre 2006
- Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Critique
- This is awesome - detailed, lucid, and really a lot of fun to watch and listen to.
le 15, juillet 2006
- How to help someone use a computer
- “You’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a beginner.”
le 8, juillet 2006
- The Art of the Layoff
- “One good thing about the dotcom implosion in 2000 is that we got lots of practice laying people off, and I’m afraid that this valuable knowledge may get lost.”
le 29, juin 2006
- Flash Player 9 for Intel Macs Public Beta
- Good to see a beta finally for us Intel users
le 26, mai 2006
- They Might Be Giants rimgtones
- Now those are some ringtones I’d definitely use
- The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
- Ouch.
- Tales From Packaging Hell
- When packaging design hurts the ones you love
le 25, mai 2006
- Official Google Blog: Avoiding RSI
- Some good tips on how to avoid work-related pain and discomfort
le 22, mai 2006
- The best comments ever seen on Slashdot
- The creme of the nerderati
- Thanks. No.
- Perfect.
le 18, mai 2006
- Cork’d
- This new wine review site by Dan Benjamin and Dan Cederholm is getting mundo linkage
le 14, mai 2006
- Odd Super Mario movie
- Recasting Mario as a death-dealing, conquering badass
le 5, mai 2006
- The Rip-Off Express
- Gotta love that worn look!
le 1, mai 2006
- How Hollywood portrays computers
- My new whiz-bang-doodad is unstoppable
le 27, avril 2006
- The Top Ten Lies of Engineers
- “I have great faith in engineers and believe that in the long run, they do get it right. It’s just that in the long run, we’re all dead.”
le 24, avril 2006
- Nintendo DS Lite Third Look
- Cabel Sasser (of Panic fame) with a hilarious look at the DS Lite
le 3, avril 2006
- Interview with Merlin Mann
- “when you’ve spent your whole life in a sad, disorganized haze, it can be intoxicating to feel really on top of your game for the first time”
le 22, mars 2006
- Jeopardy online contestant test
- From March 28-30 you can take a 50-question test to potentially qualify as a Jeopardy contestant
le 5, février 2006
- The Effective Emailer
- Great tips on crafting emails that actually get read
le 26, janvier 2006
- “I want to build something that grows”
- Interesting Guardian article on del.icio.us creator Joshua Schachter
le 9, décembre 2005
- Lazy-ass rich boys outsource gaming to the Chinese
- They’re too lazy to play the early levels, so they get someone else to do it. WTF?
le 7, décembre 2005
- Keyfob: Anatomy of an Icon
- Neat step-by-step examination of creating a new icon
le 8, novembre 2005
- History’s Worst Software Bugs
le 4, novembre 2005
- Access IE in a Firefox Tab
- For Windows Firefox only. Pity.
le 1, novembre 2005
- BBEdit Grep Tutorial
- I suck at regular expressions, so this is really handy
le 14, octobre 2005
- Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones
- I’m going to need this for my next project, big time.
le 12, octobre 2005
- About about:
- everything you ever wanted to know regarding the about: pseudo procotol
le 9, octobre 2005
- Automating deployment with Subversion
- I started using svn for web projects recently and it’s brilliant
le 28, septembre 2005
- Restore your iPod with a can of Brasso
- I’ll have to try this. My iPod is rather abused.
le 24, septembre 2005
- Tons of information on the Linksys WRT54G
- the wireless nerd’s router of choice
le 23, septembre 2005
- Popular PHP is hot, and it’s Canadian
- i never knew that Rasmus Lerdorf was Canadian.
le 22, septembre 2005
- Web server backup via rsync
- Dave Shea on a nifty way to trigger server backups from your desktop
- Nabaztag, the Wifi-enabled bunny
- this is a neat idea, but I wonder how annoying its voice is.
le 21, septembre 2005
- How To: Asterisk answering machine
- I really, really want to get rid of the telco-based answering service (too expensive)
le 19, septembre 2005
- Dontbuyjunk
- product recommendations site. Looks pretty good
- Roku SoundBridge Radio
- this would look smashing in the kitchen.
le 18, septembre 2005
- Tips for debugging PHP
- Kevin with two very useful sounding tips
le 30, août 2005
- New Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard coming
- seriously, they make great keyboards. Me = carpal tunnel. :(
le 25, août 2005
- sxsw 2006 now live
- holy crap, already?
le 22, août 2005
- Communication Nation
- weblog on more productive communication from the CEO of XPLANE
- Google Desktop 2 features new Sidebar
- seems like a vague competitor for Konfabulator or Dashboard, but plugins seem harder to create & it’s Windows-only
le 20, août 2005
- AG-225H: ZyXEL’s Wi-Fi Finder Hunts Hotspots Hastily
- I have a support email in asking if this will support OS X - will report back what they say.
le 18, août 2005
- Tips for debugging PHP
- Kevin Smith with some tasty debugging tips
le 17, août 2005
- Flash Earth
- flash-based world map using Google and MSN satellite photos
- Great collection of Adobe Photoshop about screens throughout the years
- ah, merlin… brings back memories
le 16, août 2005
- Wireless optical desktop and Bluetooth mouse review
- Ars Technica takes a good look at a bunch of options
le 14, août 2005
- Mental exercise = “cognitive longevity”
- the “use it or lose it” theory of preventing mental aging
- Learning Useless Skills
- like “the art of hand cooling” and “The Internet Yodel course” - I’m so there
- BBEdit Gems
- tips and tricks for the text editor that doesn’t suck
le 8, août 2005
- Macromedia announces Studio 8
- the question is: what is the road map for these applications post-Adobe?
le 4, août 2005
- Stupid Tech Support
- it’s not just the users who are losers
- Outlook-QuoteFix
- for those of you stuck using Outlook, this looks like a godsend
- Hawking Wi-Fi Device Frustrates, Rewards
- review of the new HWL2 wifi detector and USB adapter - I was thinking of getting one
le 1, août 2005
- How to Reinstall Windows Without Losing Your Data
- bookmarked for the inevitable future
le 28, juillet 2005
- “Solar Grove” announced
- turns parking lot into electric generating system via solar panels. Totally brilliant.
le 26, juillet 2005
- Inside the Adobe Headquarters
le 22, juillet 2005
- If World War II was an RTS
- incredibly foul-mouthed historical chat-room banter
le 19, juillet 2005
- Learn How to Use Regular Expressions
- a very good, well-paced tutorial
le 13, juillet 2005
- Huge collection of Photoshop tutorials
- gotta love these sites that sucks up hours and hours
le 12, juillet 2005
- Wired News summarizes Getting Things Done
- I really tried to implement GTD, but systems make me itch
- Macromedia Flash 8 plugin beta
- you know what this means… new version of Flash on the way
le 9, juillet 2005
- Web Zen: Time Killing Zen
- do not click this link if you have something important to do
le 7, juillet 2005
- Incredible JavaScript-based GTD “web” application
- Firefox is best, but it seems to work in Safari, too
le 16, juin 2005
- Cableyoyo: cord management
- looks great. I could easily use a dozen of these…
le 7, juin 2005
- Google’s Summer of Code
- contribute to open source and get paid for it. Great idea.
le 6, juin 2005
- Laptops Outsell Desktops for First Time
- and 95% of them have built-in wireless
le 4, juin 2005
- Everything you ever wanted to know about hair and fibre evidence
- for the CSI-obsessed - direct from the FBI
le 26, mai 2005
- Secrets of WordPress theming
- I haven’t played around with WP that much, but plan to
- Make Your PC Work (not look) More Like a Mac
- bookmarked for the next inevitable time I have to use a PC
le 25, mai 2005
- Nice overview of what’s new in Photoshop CS 2
- it says “beta” in the title, but I’m sure this applies to the release, too
le 23, mai 2005
- File Naming / Organization Methods?
- a long-standing question with no perfect answer.
le 19, mai 2005
- Top Tips For Freelancers
- good stuff in the comments
le 17, mai 2005
- Killzone 2 PS3 demo
- I’m guessing this is pre-rendered, but they claim it’s actual game play
le 11, mai 2005
- Dive Into Greasemonkey
- wow - Mark Pilgrim wrote a free book on Greasemonkey. Very cool
le 28, avril 2005
- John Gruber gives Adobe the once over
- well-written and inciteful [sic], as much of Gruber’s stuff is
- Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC
- good to know for later…
le 26, avril 2005
- The Inbox Makeover
- Merlin Mann on how to take control of your inbox
- Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers
le 25, avril 2005
- Interview with Steve Meretzky - co-creator of the Infocom game Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- I use to love this game like no other
le 23, avril 2005
- Free wireless at Second Cup extended to “mid-May”
- unfortunately their coffee tastes like crap, but there’s always juice
le 11, avril 2005
- On why hackers != painters
- a fine ass-kicking
le 9, avril 2005
- Treehugger: Can-O-Worms
- I don’t have a garden, but I really want one of these. I must be sick.
le 4, avril 2005
- What’s new in Adobe Creative Suite 2
- Macworld also has a good overview of new features
le 24, mars 2005
- Transparent Screens
- very cool desktop background idea
le 18, mars 2005
- Installing Ruby, Rails, and FastCGI on OS X
- a fine walkthrough by Mssr. Hivelogic
le 23, février 2005
- How Paris Got Hacked?
- don’t choose an obvious secret answer, silly
le 18, février 2005
- The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
- lovingly researched with lots of nerd-friendly detail
le 14, février 2005
- Photo Gallery Component for Flash MX 2004
- very sweet looking, and not too expensive, either
le 12, février 2005
- Create ringtones from MP3 tracks
- for free! Neat-o.
le 6, février 2005
- Very cool DOM-based slideshow
le 24, janvier 2005
- Movable Type 3.15 released
- plugs a very nasty security hole that could allow a jerkoff to hijack the comments script
- Is Google going to start offering free long distance?
- this could be rather nasty for Telcos. I say hallelujah!
le 23, janvier 2005
- Kevin Gerich takes another stab at pretty form widgets for Firefox
- very nice, I must say.
- AP article on Firefox developer Blake Ross
le 21, janvier 2005
- Use MT-Blacklist to filter referrer spam
- if you run Movable Type, this is darn helpful
le 19, janvier 2005
- Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists
- from those wacky brainiacs at 37Signals
le 14, janvier 2005
- Filter comment spam through SpamAssassin
- More ammo in the arsenal against comment spammers
- Block comment spam from open proxies in Movable Type
- kick ass!
le 8, janvier 2005
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid to ask)
- good to know when you’ve got insomnia
le 6, janvier 2005
- Carte Suisse
- incredible map created using DHTML and xmlhttprequest
- The Surprising Legacy of Y2K
- 1905 all over again
- It’s official: Six Apart buys LiveJournal
- holy crap.
le 5, janvier 2005
- Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam
- written by John “Daring Fireball” Gruber
le 24, décembre 2004
- 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - Interactive Edition
- sweet delicious statistics
le 14, décembre 2004
- Clearing floated images in body text
- More fine CSS action from Roger Johansson
- How to build a better web browser
le 7, décembre 2004
- big list of, er, best of 2004 lists
le 6, décembre 2004
- Scalable Inline Image Replacement
- worth investigating
- Post to Movable Type via online form
- this is a brilliant idea and seems really useful
- Free Wi-Fi Hotspots around the World
- … which you can sync to your iPod. Neat.
le 2, décembre 2004
- The magic that makes Google tick
- pretty interesting (and impressive)
le 29, novembre 2004
- WiFi detector roundup
- I need to get me one of these
le 24, novembre 2004
- Image transitions
- pretty neat.
le 6, novembre 2004
- Thinking like a Genius
le 5, novembre 2004
- MT-DSBL - Open proxy comment filter
- Brad strikes again!
le 28, octobre 2004
- Under Gmail’s hood
le 24, octobre 2004
- Panic! How it Works and What To Do About It
- another Bruce Tognazzini joint.
le 12, octobre 2004
- How to help someone use a computer
- great advice; I follow much of this when teaching web stuff, too
le 11, octobre 2004
- Apple article on CSS and Eric Meyer
- Version Control for Web Development using CVS
le 13, septembre 2004
- Firefox hits 1.0 preview release
- good to see - this browser has come a long way
- Redesigned AOL.com is 100% flash
- what tha…?
le 9, septembre 2004
- What’s new in Firefox 1.0PR
- edging even closer to the monolithic 1.0 release
le 3, septembre 2004
- mozilla.org Markup Reference
- looks like a really excellent guide
le 23, août 2004
- A Bit of Transparency
- playing with PNG transparency
le 22, août 2004
- 4096 Color Wheel
- this looks useful
le 17, août 2004
- It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
- it’s about time!
le 13, août 2004
- High-level changes in IE for XP SP2
- pop-up blocking finally arrives.
le 12, août 2004
- NYT on the growth of Firefox and Opera in the mainstream
le 11, août 2004
- What’s Wrong With BitTorrent
- ahem, brother
- Native OS X form widgets in Firefox
- Jon Hicks makes the world a better place
le 10, août 2004
- Awesome triple-sized issue of A List Apart
- PHP5 package for Mac OS X available for testing
- Marc Liyanage comes through again
le 5, août 2004
- Tech ‘54, Where Are You?: trying to live 10 days with only circa-1954 technology
le 4, août 2004
- See What You Share on P2P
le 2, août 2004
- The “Surf at Work” page: massive nerdism, but very handy
- Data backup practicies: hey, go and do a backup!
le 1, août 2004
- CSS - Auto-height and margin-collapsing
le 30, juillet 2004
- ViewIt: killer fast, full-featured slideshow / image viewer
- Smultron: awesome open-source text editor
le 27, juillet 2004
- Rooting out forged photos: doesn’t work for JPEGs, but it’s a start
- What’s new in MT3.1: finally, dynamic pages!
le 12, juillet 2004
- UK 80’s video game television adverts
le 11, juillet 2004
- New version of Desktop Manager: Woo hoo - multiple desktops for everyone!
le 2, juillet 2004
- XHTML Validator to RSS: check for validity in your favourite RSS reader
le 29, juin 2004
- New version of ShortStats released
le 15, juin 2004
- When Good Discs Go Bad: longevity of burned media
le 4, juin 2004
- Nigritude Ultramarine: Nigritude Ultramarine: just helping a brother out
le 30, mai 2004
- How to size text using ems
le 21, avril 2004
- Sex.Com suit kicks Verisign in the ass: oh-so-deserved and long overdue
le 9, avril 2004
- MP3Concept: A Mac MP3 virus or hoax?
le 6, avril 2004
- Topographic page layout
le 29, mars 2004
- Life in the Slow Lane: Observations on a return to dial-up speeds
le 23, mars 2004
- Information wants to live forever
le 16, février 2004
- Visual spoofing = more phishing opportunities: it’s stupid out there
le 15, février 2004
- Managing the Complexity of Content Management
le 22, janvier 2004
- Interesting article on Justin Frankel (Mr. Winamp and Gnutella)
le 16, janvier 2004
- Beautiful animation of the Mars mission
le 13, janvier 2004
- Interview with 1&1 Internet CEO Andreas Gauger (the “3 years free”) company
le 17, décembre 2003
- Configuring OS X for Web Development
le 12, décembre 2003
- Blogs for Business: another great 37Signals tidbit
le 8, décembre 2003
- Turning a Mac into a Fax Server
le 2, décembre 2003
- Spammers turn to classic prose
le 24, novembre 2003
- Jason has some interesting Movable Type ideas
le 20, novembre 2003
- The Tao Of Backup
le 16, novembre 2003
- Weblog spam: if Mark is even half right, this is depressing
le 6, novembre 2003
- Running multiple versions of IE on Windows
le 28, octobre 2003
- Pixar and the move to Mac OS X
- Macworld review: 15-Inch PowerBook G4s
le 23, octobre 2003
- X10 files for Chapter 11: Good riddance.
le 13, octobre 2003
- MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin
- Volume Logic iTunes plugin: makes it all sound funky
le 6, octobre 2003
- Bloggers: “We have to keep perspective”
le 3, octobre 2003
- ICANN tells VeriSign to knock it off (finally!)
le 1, octobre 2003
- Great primer on Outliner software features
le 31, août 2003
- Dogpile redesigns, reinvigorates: this may replace Google for me
le 26, août 2003
- Lance Arthur: “I hate spam so much I can taste it.”
le 22, août 2003
- The hidden dangers of documents: track changes can be nasty
le 5, août 2003
- Why I use a Mac, reason #10626
le 4, août 2003
- Battle of the blog: Can they make this sound any more dramatic than it is?
le 2, août 2003
- It’s a standardized world - we just live in it
le 31, juillet 2003
- Reason #10625 why I use a Mac
le 28, juillet 2003
- Justice, finally? Network Solutions is evil
