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“Warnock’s Dilemma”, named for its progenitor Bryan Warnock, points out that a lack of response to a posting on a mailing list, Usenet newsgroup, or Web forum does not necessarily imply that no one is interested in the topic.

The best video plugin for Linux I’ve found. Plays Quicktime, Windows Media and Real Video without complaint, hiccup, or browser crash.

Immensely thorough and thoughtful UK TV reviews and history. Quality stuff.

Interesting twist on tabbed browsing for Firefox 1.5 — Displays screenshots of each tab in the sidebar.

Tags solution for MovableType. I’m taking this for a bit of a roadtest at the moment.

Get paid for grunt-work that’s too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com.

Excellent list from David Pogue. “We may be the bane of your existence, but we’re also the reason for it; you’re stuck with us. We’ve got our credit cards ready - now show us some love.”

Recaplet of last night’s Apprentice, the boardroom of which was one of the finest, most superbly bizarre and duck-behind-a-cushionly cringemaking bits of television ever.

Oooh, I fancy one of these, if only for the obsessive-compulsive collector part of me.

Hrmm… Not sure about this one. All the social awkwardness of leaving voicemails, with the technical complexity of trying to get a microphone working on your PC.

Free ebook on the hows and wherefores of running an open source project, from someone who’s been round the block a couple of times.

Some beautiful visualizations generated from FAA data of all flights over the USA one day in March.

Rather intriguing — An attractive UI for bookmarklets.

Attention Cantabrigians. Darwin’s has a new-ish store in Inman Square. Rather sadly, the highlight of my day at an old job was getting to Darwin’s for one of their superbly flavourful sandwiches.

Sony are now using Windows vulnerabilities to hide DRM software on Windows PCs so that users can’t uninstall them. Fuckers.

This has the potential to be fantastic, and knock IMDB into a cocked-hat for UK telly info.