For the Spec-chums in the audience
A classic early 80s TV commercial for the new ZX Spectrum +
(Found on UKNova, mirrored using Coral)
➠ January 15, 2005
LaughingMeme: MTKeywordList and Technorati
Kellan knocks out a quick MT plugin to tag your blog entries for Technorati.
Why I Have Asked Bloglines To Remove My Site From Its 'Service'
..or “How to lose 190 readers in one foul swoop”.
➠ January 14, 2005
www.clean-your-screen- for-free-now.com
If your monitor’s a little grubby, this *FREE* service helps fantastically.
F Lock Key Eliminator
Eliminates the annoyance of the “F Lock” key on otherwise excellent Microsoft Natural keyboards.
The Daily Mail Watch - watching them : watching us
They read the Daily Mail so you don’t have to. Because gawd knows, you don’t want to.
I’ve Never Listened to a Podcast
It’s my own fault. I made the mistake of clicking on the Scripting News feed in my Bloglines subscriptions. When I’m in the right mood, I like to take a nosey to see the random shite pouring out of the unpleasantly idiotic face of Dave Winer.
But the fuckwittedness on display this week, ranging from his petulant foot-stamping at being fooled by a faux transexual, to a new ego-powered poorly-designed solution to a problem that needs solving in a good way got to me. So to channel my grumpiness, I present this badge:
Feel free to steal & attach it to your own blog.
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➠ January 13, 2005
OMG Clothing | You don't have to "get it" to wear it.
Threadless.com for folks with no design skills.
BBC NEWS | Belle & Sebastian named 'best Scottish band'
… or at least the band with the most rabid online-voting following. At least the fannies (my choice) made it to Number 7.
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses
Apple pricepoint infographic. Was this a brilliant plan-from-the-start, or just capitalising on the luck of the iPod?
➠ January 12, 2005
mod_refererblacklist?
My poor server took a hammering today, when some referer-spamming shitbag hammered MovableType’s comments CGI script, effectively DDOSing it.
I chucked in some mod_rewrite rules to try to make this a little less likely in the future, but here’s a Lazyweb request:
Any ideas on a way to take the Comment Spam master blacklist and use it at an Apache level to block requests having a Referer that matches? Preferably one which doesn’t use more CPU cycles than the spam attack I’m looking to solve!
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Announcing the Apple iProduct
“Steve Jobs could take a dump, put it in an off-white plastic case, add two grey buttons and a small LCD display, and you’d pay $600 for it. Just fucking admit it.”
➠ January 11, 2005
Apple - Mac mini
Gorgeous. You can stick yer iPod Shuffles. *This* was the most important Apple announcement today.
➠ January 9, 2005
iPsychic (or Why I love having my iPod on shuffle)
Driving around Back Bay, late, desperately trying to find parking, phoning someone to tell them that I’ll be late…
And my iPod starts playing the Theme from Mission Impossible.
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