Compress Your Web Pages | # | Comments (2)
| I just used this very simple method of compressing PHP pages to get my other blog's front page down to 18K from 80K. Your dial-up readers will love you for doing this, and you'll cut down on your bandwidth usage. Thanks to Charles (http://charles.gagalac.us/) for the tip.
Ethical Trackbacking | # | Haydur makes some excellent points about the use of TrackBack
Registry Guide for Windows | # | Get your tweak on!... This site 'provides an extensive range of registry tweaks, tricks & hacks for optimizing, enhancing and securing the Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95 and Windows Me operating systems.'
How the Net Withstood the Blackout | # | Redundancy, generators and battery backups... who would've thunk it? I love this line -- 'landline service continued normally, except for hapless customers who only own cordless phones' -- a good reason to keep a wired phone around.
August 14, 2003
Movable Type BlogRoll | # | Very nice implementation of a BlogRoll using Movable Type. Now if we could just get it to tell when a blog gets updated.
Blackout MoBlog | # | They got this up MoBlog up with a quickness
All-Expense Paid Trip to Brasil | # | A great opportunity to spend a month in Bahia Brasil! -- Travel Beyond Borders, the international travel magazine with a multicultural focus, is now accepting applications for its Multicultural Sojourn program to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil!
Can Little Johnny Blog? | # | The New York Times has a few articles this week about weblogs and online writing in schools. Weblogg-ed does a good job of covering them.
Jin, the Rapper Who Happens to be Asian | # | Comments (1)
| Eric makes some excellent points. I wonder if Jin will get hated on nearly as much Eminem. One thing's for sure, he proved himself on all the Freestyle Friday battles he won hands down.
FlashMob.com | # | Flashmob.com is a website for growing the idea of flash mobbing. Projects are under way to implement what can be called a flash mob search engine. This will allow flash mob organizers to more easily promote their flash mob. Other projects are targeted towards maintaining the history of these developing events. In the future many other community based projects will enrich and promote the flash mob idea.
Tech vs. Jobs | # | The good news: tech spending is coming back. The bad news(for the unemployed) : all that technology is allowing companies to get by with fewer employees and/or outsource positions overseas.
August 13, 2003
A Young Writers' Roundtable, via the Web | # | Even 4th graders understand that their writing must be on point if it's going to be posted online. Some adults need to take note.
Video - Rubik's Cube Solved in 18 Seconds | # | Comments (2)
| Dude's quick! I used to be able to solve one in about a minute when I was a kid. After I memorized the solutions book of course. (via http://www.kottke.org/remainder/)
Napster's Return | # | Check out this funny flash animation series about the return of Napster.
Links, Links, and More Links | # | OverStated.net is keeping a list of link blogs (like this one). So far they all have RSS feeds, so load up your newsreader.
Google Calculator | # | You can also do this from the Google Toolbar... To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2). You can also experiment with other numbering systems, including hexadecimal and binary.
Web's first 'e-première' | # | A British film, 'This is not a Love Song', is to get the world's first 'e-première' when it is released on the internet at the same time as in cinemas. The film will be available on 5 September at 1800 BST in various size files at www.thisisnotalovesong.com.
Zone Labs Branches into IM Security | # | IMsecure has developed IMsecure Pro 1.0 to detect viruses and block spam for the most popular messaging applications on the market--AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, said Fred Felman, vice president of marketing at Zone.
August 11, 2003
MP3 Goes Hi-Fi | # | Ever wished you could listen to the hundreds of MP3 tracks on your PC on your stereo? A range of digital music players are springing up that let you listen to songs on a hard drive on a hi-fi.
Futures Trading and the Internet | # | The Pentagon's plan to conduct an online market in "policy futures" for events that could include terrorist attacks was recently shouted down by moral outrage. But even if the plan's subject matter seemed repugnant, or its timing a bar or two off the mainstream political rhythm, it would have been an intriguing test of the Internet's power to weigh the opinions of millions of people who are normally shut out of the geopolitical debate.
Hip-Hop on the Highway | # | Media mavens seeking examples of synergy, that elusive quality of corporate cross-pollination, might travel to the anonymous Bronx garage that houses the automotive operations of Funkmaster Flex. There, not far from where he grew up, the D.J. known for his Hot 97 radio show keeps his car collection and reigns over an expanding kingdom of automotive businesses.
Tunnel Escape from Brazil Jail | # | These Brazilian prisions are wild! -- More than 80 prisoners have tunnelled their way out of one of Brazil's top security jails, with almost all the escapees still on the run
