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These are links I found interesting for 26/01 through 30/01:

• GlimmerBlocker — Ad blocker for Safari implemented as a non-intrusive proxy.
• Noscope | Journal | Extra Image Tags Plugin — This is a very minimalistic WordPress plugin, which finds all images you insert into your posts, and wrap them in extra divs, so you can style the hell out of them.
• The $300 Million Button — “It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem.”
• Cops Talk Funny — “From recruits in academies to senior officers and command staff, you talk funny when you take the stand. Is it in the water at the academies; is there a secret society where you're taught this special language?”
• Videogames outsell DVD and Blu-ray in 2008 — Retail sales of videogames overtook that of DVD and Blu-ray for the first time, as sales of packaged media grew 6 per cent worldwide to hit USD 61 billion in 2008, according to Media Control GfK International.

These are links I found interesting for January 25th through January 26th:

• Applescript support in Adium 1.2 and later — AppleScript reference for hooks in Adium.
• AppleScript Language Guide: Introduction to AppleScript Language Guide — This document is a guide to the AppleScript language—its lexical conventions, syntax, keywords, and other elements. It is intended primarily for use with AppleScript 2.0 or later and Mac OS X version 10.5 or later.
• Matt Legend Gemmell – MGTwitterEngine – Twitter from Cocoa — MGTwitterEngine is an Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API. The entire API is covered, and appropriate data is returned as simple native Cocoa objects.
• The Raw Story | Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists — “The National Security Agency had access to all Americans communications – faxes phone calls and their computer communications” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas in the middle of the country and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”
• RedBedlam Boss Says Gold Farming “Inevitable” | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — The boss of virtual world tech company RedBedlam, Kerry Fraser-Robinson, has said that companies must find a way to bring virtual currency trading into their games. The must, he argued, accept that virtual currency trading will take place in games that have an economy. “Trying to stop that happening is literally like telling the tide not to come in – you will fail.”
• Key binding in L4D — Brief tutorial on how to bind keys in Left 4 Dead, including a list of Vocalize commands.
• GreaseKit – User Scripting for all WebKit applications — GreaseKit is a SIMBL plugin, that adds user scripting to Safari, Mailplane, Diet Pibb.app and all WebKit applications.

I’m trying Postalicious to automagically post my Ma.gnolia bookmarks whenever I have enough of them to post. I’ll need to fiddle a bit with the settings, so for the moment I’m doing a bit of manual stuff. Let’s see how this works and if I actually manage to write stuff between the generated link dumps…

I’ve already found some bug in the default templates that try to stick paragraph tags in silly places.

These are my links for January 23rd from 04:38 to 04:41:

• Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive – The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs commissioned a study by research company TNO about how much Dutch Internet users download music, movies, and games, and what the social and economic effects of this downloading are.
• Practika: A Free Icon Set – Practika: a free set of 11 practical and useful high-quality icons, designed by DryIcons, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px

Favorite quote of the month from this Techdirt article:

Law enforcement isn’t supposed to be easy in a free society. If the goal of society was to make law enforcement’s life easy, we’d get rid of all privacy rights entirely. The excuse that this is somehow “necessary” for law enforcement to do their job is a lie. It may mean they have to investigate crimes in different ways, but no blanket removal of privacy is ever “necessary.”

Churchill once wrote: “If your argument is weak, shout. ” Remember that when you watch the politicians & the preachers on tv. Just sayin’. Ben Templesmith

To their credit, if that’s the right word, you can now purchase some music from the iTunes store that is unencrypted and plays anywhere. Apple calls these songs “iTunes Plus”, because it sounds so much better than calling everything else “iTunes Minus.” Mark Pilgrim

This World of Goo trailer kind of makes me want a Wii. The combination of cutesy looks (somewhat Tim Burton-ish) and ominous, melancholy epic music tickles my brain in all the right spots.

The fact that the first response to “John Locke” was Lost and not Second Treatise on Civil Government or An Essay Concerning Human Understanding really shouldn’t surprise me nearly as much as it does. Minwee

The new British coin designs are indeed very lovely. Via Kottke.

I don’t support Netscape, Firefox or any other webbrowsers since I believe that there should be one HTML standard and not a dozen. Pixels on the web

Ahahahahahahahaha!

Way to not understand what a web standard is, buddy.