Atomic Playboy

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.

The Dictionary application in OS X is just plain gorgeous with its typography.

Various user interface graphics by Susan Kare, who has done (among others) the famous icons for early Mac, Windows 3.0, OS/2 Warp and more modern icons such as the icons used in Gnome. And don’t miss the cute t-shirts with her icons. Moof!

(I’m starting to feel like MeFi…)