Month: June 2009

The Blog of Cligs – » Updated: Cligs Got Hacked – Restoration from Backup Started Another problem with url shorteners, what happens when they get hacked. (tags: clig twitter security cracking) BBC NEWS | Technology | Twitter responds on Iranian role "Twitter has distanced itself from State Department revelations that it asked the company to […]

Is Fox News big enough for Shep Smith and Glenn Beck? | Media Matters for America "Talk about putting a target on the back of a Fox News anchor. A shout-out from the hated Times op-ed page? Things only got worse for Smith over the weekend when the Times' Frank Rich also singled out the […]

John Resig – Server-Side JavaScript with Jaxer "Jaxer is a strange new hybrid application coming from the folks at Aptana (the makers of the quite-excellent web IDE). Literally, they took the Mozilla platform (which powers Firefox, Camino, etc.) and built a stateful platform on top of it. You can imagine it as a browser that's […]

Many in Congress Hold Stakes in Health Industry – NYTimes.com "As President Obama and Congress intensify the push to overhaul health care in the coming week, the political and economic force of that industry is well represented in the financial holdings of many lawmakers and others with a say on the legislation, according to new […]

RSS Marketing | Blind Five Year Old "RSS is the foundation of the real time web. RSS allows us to track, consume and share our passions. This is what makes the real time web work. Each person contributes a little bit of their universe to the whole. Give a little, take a little. … RSS […]

Geek My Ride Geekiest car yet. Onboard computer stores all kinds of real time data about the car and it's operation. (tags: computer technology geek hardware automotive transportation mysql linux data)

BBC NEWS | Americas | US set for TV digital switchover "More than two million households in the United States will be faced with blank television screens when stations switch off their analogue signal for good." Bye analog tv, good riddance. (tags: television technology politics usa media)

Wash. Post ignores Pence double standard on war funding bills | Media Matters for America "The Washington Post quoted Rep. Mike Pence — criticizing Democrats' war funding bill — as saying, "A war funding bill should be about war funding and nothing else." But the Post did not note Pence's previous support for war funding […]

Round-up: Every iPhone 3G S Compatible Accessory Ever. "That said, it got us to thinking: what other accessories from the last generation iPhone will still work with this upcoming one? So, we compiled a list. It’s not exhaustive, of course – but it covers all of the ones you’re most likely worried about." I'm amused. […]

Can a Made-Up Disease Help Xerox Sell Services? – Digits – WSJ "A slapstick Web video describing “Information Overload Syndrome,” or IOS, is aimed at getting viewers to think of Xerox as a company that can help them manage and direct information rather than simply print or copy paperwork." Pretty good ad. (tags: advertising marketing […]