Thursday, February 19

Reckless Driving on the Internet

Reckless Driving on the Internet - Renesys Blog

SuproNet, a local Czech provider, single-handedly caused a global Internet meltdown for upwards of an hour today. SuproNet accomplished this feat by sending out a rather unusual routing update, one which a lot of routers did not handle very well. The result was Internet bedlam.

Tuesday, February 10

MyBookmarks Firefox Add-On Folder List

Firefox 3 Add-Ons

MyBookmarks Firefox Add-On Style CSS


body {
background: #d2cfb5;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 9pt;
font-family: calibri, helvatica;
}
table {
margin: 4px auto;
background: #c2bfa5;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border: none;
padding:0;
}
td {
vertical-align: top;
border: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 4px;
align: center;
}
.folder {
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border: none;
margin: 4px auto;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
background: #fff;
}
.folder h2 {
-moz-border-radius-topleft:3px;
-moz-border-radius-topright:3px;
margin:0px;
padding:3px 2px;
background: #d2cfb5;
color: #000;
text-align: center;
font-size: 9pt;
}
ul {
margin: 8px 4px;
padding: 3px;
list-style: none;
line-height: 115%;
}
li {
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
li:hover {
background: yellow;
}
a {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
color:#000;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
a:visited {
color:black;
}
.folder h2 a {
color: #000;
}
.folder h2:hover {
background-color: yellow;
}
.folder h2 a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
cursor:pointer;
}
img.favicon {
border: none;
margin-right:3px;
max-height:16px;
max-width:16px;
vertical-align:middle;
}

Tuesday, February 3

I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 29

Marketing: Two Approaches For PR

Blogger Relations: Two Approaches For PR

Thursday, January 22

Java: ImageMagick with Runtime.exec()

JAI vs. ImageMagick image resizing | D'Arcy Norman dot net

This is good, no JNI and JMagick hassle. Slower, but usable. It probably needs a work queue to control the number of imagemagick instances.

Wednesday, January 21

Zendesk - FM3 Buddha Machine Wall

Zendesk - FM3 Buddha Machine Wall

How-To: Find out Linux Distro and Version

Try these commands at shell prompt:

$ cat /etc/*-release

$ cat /etc/*version

$ lsb_release -a

$ cat /proc/version

$ dmesg | head -5

$ cat /etc/issue

Once you see the output, you'll get a good grasp of who packaged you Linux distribution, what version of kernel they used and what version of the distro you got.

Monday, January 19

How-To: Choosing a good chart

This really is a great guide and is a true meta-chart in itself: The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method: Choosing a good chart

Browser Loot: SEO Checklist

Learn SEO basics | StylizedWeb.com

This is almost a checklist to make sure you get your SEO's worth.

Browser Loot: Stylizedweb: 10 Best CSS Hacks

This is really good and quick overview of tricky CSS.

10 best CSS hacks | StylizedWeb.com

Most used CSS Hacks

Monday, January 12

Browser Loot: OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap - Wiki for world map.

Wednesday, January 7

Browser Loot: Best Visualizations of 2008

"Data is interesting. As we collect more and more data about ourselves and our surroundings, the data and the visualization will only get more interesting."

5 Best Visualization Projects of the Year at FlowingData.

Also Flowing Data is definitely bookmark worthy.

Sunday, January 4

Browser Loot: Pair of NYTimes Articles on Financial Meltdown

Today there was two good articles on New York Times about the financial meltdown. Authors, Michael Lewis and David Einhorn, are well known Wall Street figures, one of which has been working hard on exposing Madoff's Ponzi scheme. For EIGHT PLUS YEARS. This is the kind of guy we need at the SEC.

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

How to Repair a Broken Financial World

PS: Nice to see that NYT does real journalism, their current Gaza coverage is quite deplorable.

Monday, December 29

Must Have: Obama on Unicorn


By Chris Bishop.

Via Boing Boing.