Inklings: 2004-09

I downloaded this last night to take a look. It was embarrassing. I don’t know what was worse: the acting, the beards, or Guido’s haircut. As a pythonista, I’m ashamed.

GMail Notifier for Firefox

🕑 2004-09-24T18:00:52+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I’ve been using this for a while and thought I’d throw up a link. It’s excellent.

Infocom games playable via telnet

🕑 2004-09-25T02:58:21+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Download Zork I, II, and III

🕑 2004-09-25T03:02:14+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Go on! It’s fun! And there’s nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia.

Boffo Games, Inc.

🕑 2004-09-25T03:03:47+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Steve Meretzky’s adventure game company.

Reminiscences on the History of Time Sharing by John McCarthy

🕑 2004-09-25T03:19:50+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Graham Nelson's Inform and all things Z-Code Site

🕑 2004-09-25T04:26:52+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Milky Way has a caramel centre ;-)

🕑 2004-09-25T06:23:34+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

And if you don’t get that, then you don’t eat Irish/UK sweets.

The biggest Free Shell list on the net

🕑 2004-09-25T06:26:52+00:00; via del.icio.us; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The World Website in the World

🕑 2004-09-27T13:07:11+00:00; via www.rogis.net; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Good Bad Attitude

🕑 2004-09-27T16:51:12+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An excerpt from Paul Graham’s “Hackers and Painters” on why hackers dislike the IP laws, and unruliness is good.

One Word

🕑 2004-09-27T19:01:42+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Given a word, a random word, what can you write in sixty seconds? Try it.

Microsoft Says Buy New Windows or Be Unsafe

🕑 2004-09-27T19:49:07+00:00; via www.decafbad.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

So, MS still says IE7 is only going to be available to XP users. Hey kids! Can you say M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y? Yet another good reason to change to just about any other modern browser, if not another OS.

Jewel Heist in the Louvre!

🕑 2004-09-27T20:07:52+00:00; via www.benhammersley.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

That’s in french, but the gist is that the thieves stole two diamonds, worth EUR6mil and EUR5.5mil each, between 3pm and 3:15.

Why your code sucks

🕑 2004-09-27T20:11:02+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An examination of how code can suck, and why.

Dubya Channels Calvin, or Vice Versa

🕑 2004-09-27T20:27:49+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A great Calvin and Hobbes ‘toon on Crooked Timber

Well-formed Web Namespace Elements

🕑 2004-09-27T23:21:39+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The comments API and comments RSS stuff might come in useful.

Breadth is sometimes better than depth

🕑 2004-09-28T00:28:59+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Eric Lippert explores the benefits of doing breath-first searches rather than depth-first, and points out their relationship with queues and stack.

"Internet is dying!", screams guru.

🕑 2004-09-28T01:27:03+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

BT Exact boffin (sniff sniff, is that bias I smell?) Graham Whitehead complains the Inturweb is dying ‘cause it’s dumb and flexible rather than smart and rigid (phone system, anybody?) so people and do stuff with it and corporations can’t control it. Aw!

Shitty Bum

🕑 2004-09-28T01:41:36+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Interesting music video. Song’s pretty funky too.

Wicked Weasel Girls

🕑 2004-09-28T01:49:12+00:00; via www.forgetfoo.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Phwoar!

Firefox breaking page

🕑 2004-09-28T02:16:35+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Which is, um, a bit broken itself.

ChangeThis.com

🕑 2004-09-28T02:19:41+00:00; via www.russellbeattie.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Manifestos a-go-go. Blurb: ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.