General

Well, I’ll be Damned

American Peace Homepage. “While most people, including most Americans, tend to believe that the United States has largely been a peaceful country until recently, in reality nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, the United States has been engaged in military operations for most of this country’s history. Of all the things the United States can claim, it certainly has no claim to being a ‘peace loving’ country. [Visit this site to see] a table containing every year, from 1776 to the present – all of US history. Just click on the year to see who US troops were killing, or threatening to kill, in that year.” [metafilter.com]

Any way you slice it, somebody in this story is stupid. The “security” group “Gobbles” recently claimed it’s working for the RIAA to develop a worm; the RIAA firmly denies the assertion as a hoax… [Morons Dot Org]

[PHP-Nuke]

Excellent! PHP-Nuke 6.5 will use phpBB forums instead of the current forums which I really hate.

From the OS-X 10.2.3 Dept:Creating Auto-Destructing Disk Images. [~stevenf]

Oh sweet. A nice little trick. Thanks to the guys at Panic! [radio free world]

On Jan. 13, 1991 my father died. I was at MacWorld San Francisco and it was the last day of the show, a Sunday, when I got the call. I was living in Los Angeles and my parents were in NYC.

I walked around in shock that day waiting to go home after I booked a flight to NY. That was the worst flight of my life.

His funeral was on the day we attacked Iraq. When we got home we turned on the TV and watched the bombs drop.

In response to comments made on Jan 8 on memeufacture.com about the site misrendering. I’ve narrowed it down to a basic fundamental problem. Whenever text can’t fit on a line with a float, KHTML (Safari’s version at least, maybe this has been fixed in Konq) shoves the text down past *all* floats. In memeufacture’s case there is a horizontal float stripe across the top and another vertical float stripe down the side. What’s happening is that rather than just placing the objects right below the horizontal float stripe, the text is being shoved all the way past the vertical stripe as well.

I’ve filed a bug. This probably affects a fair number of weblog sites (you guys love your floats), so I’ll try to address it soon. [Surfin’ Safari]

What about the problem Safari has logging in to all PHP-Nuke based sites? I find that problem critical, and it prevents me from using Safari as my primary browser.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

The entire text of Cory Doctorow’s novel is available as a free download in a variety of standards-defined formats. No crappy DRM, no teasers, just the whole damned book.

Very cool!

I got keep-alive connections working!