http://atomicplayboy.net All hail the mushroom cloud Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:46:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like any good obsessive-compulsive blogger, I frequently pour over my web site statistics looking for interesting stuff. One thing that caught my eye is that search results coming in from Google tends to link to threaded comment pages for entries. For example, I’d get hits to /blog/2009/03/05/entry-slug/comment-page-1/, which is an URL ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/03/05/canonical-urls/ Welcome to Spotify Bay. There’s an application called SpotSave making waves in the Spotify community. SpotSave lets you save music from Spotify straight to your computer, no strings attached, with the same quality you hear straight from Spotify itself. I haven’t tried it myself, because to be quite frank, Spotify stinks and ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/02/23/spotify-bay/ Public service announcement: I read my feeds in Google Reader, and I end up sharing tons of entries I find interesting and/or weird. Here’s the shared page, or go straight to the feed for it. There will be the occasional item in Swedish, but most of it is English. Addendum: I should also ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/02/06/sharing-is-caring/ 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, ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/02/02/links/ Ingvar Åkesson, chief spymaster of FRA, was on SR (Sweden’s Radio) openly declaring that citizens should consider all email sent on the internet to be “postcards,” thus making it perfectly okay for anyone who handles the postcard to read its contents. My first question here is what he thinks of people ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/02/01/postcards/ 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 ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/01/26/links-january-26th/ I’ve enabled OpenID validation for comments now. Feel free to try it with a comment on this entry. http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/01/26/openid-enabled/ So I got an unsolicited email invitation from some Maria that I’ve never heard of for an auction site called MrSvensson, that I won’t deign with a link. I’ve seen this sort of semi-scammy deal before. Sure, they have auctions. Sure, people win them and get the item. But the entire ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/01/25/mrsvensson-scam-auctions/ 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 ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/01/23/links-090123/ 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 ... http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2009/01/10/enforcement/