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Entries for week beginning January 9, 2005

January 15, 2005

For the Spec-chums in the audience

A classic early 80s TV commercial for the new ZX Spectrum +

New ZX Spectrum+

(Found on UKNova, mirrored using Coral)

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.

KahunaBurger: Spam Assassin and Movable Type

Nice simple SpamAssassin plugin to catch commentspam.

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:

I've never listened to a Podcast

Feel free to steal & attach it to your own blog.

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!

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.”

TextWrangler

The lite version of BBEdit is now $0.

January 11, 2005

Apple - Mac mini

Gorgeous. You can stick yer iPod Shuffles. *This* was the most important Apple announcement today.

The Face Transformer!

Fizzog messer-around-wither. Upload your mugshot and chimpify yourself. Ace!

First Apple rumour - EVER

Some things never change.

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.

saute-swinish