Stumbling Around
I found this interesting and artistic flash site yesterday with Stumble. It’s a really interesting concept, but I’m not sure that they have a the best algorithm possible.
I found this interesting and artistic flash site yesterday with Stumble. It’s a really interesting concept, but I’m not sure that they have a the best algorithm possible.
McSweeney’s has a very fun unused commentary for the Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.
I’ve been looking into trying to build SOAP web services in PHP. Until today I hadn’t found any good looking libraries to handle all of the XML. Finally, I found one that looks promising: NuSOAP.
It’s licensed under the LGPL, so we should be OK there.
I sure hope they make all of this SOAP stuff standard in PHP 5.
Blogger pro is now free. The good people at Blogger.com and Google have rolled all of the pro features into the free service, and they’re even adding more features. Nice job guys, but you are still planning on making money some how aren’t you? What’s going on?
moock.org has a great description of how to use Flash 7′s cross domain policy file. It looks like a good idea to me. We sure could have used it with Flash 6. If you have Flash code out there that loads movies or files from other domains, this is a must read.
US Copyright Law apparently excludes actions against consumers of certain devices (see subsection 1008). The question is: do home computers count as a “digital audio recording device”.
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