Spamback
bogofilter, another spam filter by ESR in C). I've installed this and I'm trying it out for a while. It seems to be going pretty well so far.
Bayespam, a similar program in Perl.
Silly Pi
<rodapop> Is this switzerland hack?
<AaronSw> nope
<rodapop> I'm looking for the guy that ran my perl script to compute 16 million hex digits of Pi.
<AaronSw> not me, I only calculate pi in hardware now
<rodapop> I've got a method of generating the hex digits of Pi really fast. What applications could this be used for?
<AaronSw> Calculating Pi is fun, but not very useful...
<rodapop> It sure gets me hot under the collar.
<AaronSw> I hear they make a cream for that now.
<rodapop> Too expensive.
<AaronSw> It could be useful in cryptography. You'd use the secret key as the starting digit, then XOR your message with the bitstream. You'd have to modify the starting digit every time... perhaps add the hash of the previous message, decrypted.
Do the Archive!
The Internet Archive has put up a preview of their spiffy new dynamically-driven website.
Dead Blog Walking
Mark Bernstein: Writing for the Living Web.
At the same time, steel yourself to expect the unexpected visitor and the uninvited guest; the most unlikely people may read your work. Your mother, who never uses a computer, may read your intimate weblog one day in the library. To be honest with the world, you may need to be honest with your mother; if you cannot face your mother, perhaps you are not ready to write for the world.
Hm...
That’s what our high-school friend Zack discovered. A few months ago his mother discovered his blog, and was alarmed to read about Zack's occasional drinking, his (mild) drug use and his hosting a party in her absence. Zack now worries about having to censor his Weblog. Real life, he's learned, sometimes intrudes on the Blog-osphere. One day there may not be a difference.
- Steven Levy, Living in the Blog-osphere
Hey Mark, what happened to your own blog? As you say, "If you don't write for a few days, you are unfaithful to the readers who come to visit."
YOUR FAVORITE RSS AGGREGATOR SUCKS
Mark Pilgrim: Ultra-liberal RSS Locator. An RSS usability rant.
Weblogs of the Rich and Famous
Steven Levy has a funny blog.
My Eyes!
AppleCare: How to Avoid Eye Fatigue.
Eye fatigue can occur whenever the eyes are focused on a nearby object for a long time. This problem occurs because the eye muscles must work harder to view an object that's closer than about 20 feet (6 meters). Improper lighting can hasten the development of eye fatigue. Although eye fatigue is annoying, there's no evidence that it leads to permanent damage.
Got a nice letter about the 2see email list. Need to check it out and post to weblog.
The Revolution Will Be Digitized
Wired: Born Digital, Children of the Revolution. Heh, one girl profiled found a prom date named Aaron from Janesville.
TODO
- maintain warchalking
- integrate warchalking into site lists
- rdf whowhere
- get urllib to support ETags and suchly
- add this to site lists
- old todos