Links » September 2004
Escher for Real. # Free. Your. Mind. (in Oddball)
Why Disney Is Destroying Barbie. # I'll start Christmas shopping for my daughter now. (in News)
News you choose. # The why, what, and wherefore of blogging, RSS, or XML. (in Resource)
Ouch. # Ouch. (via Mr. Sun) (in Oddball)
For Savants Only. # A simple alternative to Smarty that uses -- gasp! -- PHP as its template engine. The philosophy behind it. (in PHP)
Cleaning pennies with taco sauce. # Ahh! The bright golden shine of polished copper! Active ingredients: vinegar and salt. (in Miscellany)
Paparazzi. # Resolution-independent screenshot capture. (in Code)
The Chewbacca defense. # Any self-respecting lawyer must review this persuasive logical ammunition for closing arguments. (in Humor)
Zipdecode. # Very cool. Click the zoom option and begin typing in letters of a zip code. (in Miscellany)
The history of 911. # A timeline of three digits. (in Culture)
Powers of Ten. # Zoom from 10 million light years away from the Milky Way to examine the atomic structure of an oak tree on Planet Earth. (in Miscellany)
This Bible you sold me is clearly defective, and I'd like to return it please. # (in Humor)
A powerful new tool. # sIFR is going to be big -- very big. HTML header text is dynamically replaced with Flash files -- using custom fonts. Thus, enabling you to do this without a single image. (in Web Development)
Bush Guard Documents are Forgeries. # Wow. More on this at instapundit, powerline, and here. (in Politick)
Orson Scott Card weekly column. # I've always loved Card's writing -- and still do. Every week he comments on a range of political issues in this collection of essays. (in Politick)
My favorite line of the day. # "Clearly, something has gone wrong here." (in Miscellany)
Password generator bookmarklet. # Put this bookmarklet in your toolbar, and you'll only have to remember but one password ever again. A unique password for every site you visit is created from an MD5 hash of the URL and your master password. So passwords on insecure sites can never be compromised as each is different. This is fantastic. (in Resource)
What if Bush wins. # 16 interesting articles on this Doomsday or Save-the-day scenario. (in Politick)
Color Scheme Generator. # This is the best one I've seen so far. (in Design)
New meaning to DMB lyrics. # Lyrics that take on new meaning in light of the recent brouhaha surrounding one of the band's bus drivers, who allegedly dumped the contents of the excrement tank off of a chicago river bridge and onto the deck of a tour boat. (in Humor)
Secret Agent Man. # GQ uncovers that Bush was a covert American spy during his supposed "missing years" in the Alabama Air National Guard. (in Humor)