Links for 2006-08-14
- Ryan Carson talks about the value in a premium service for Web Apps Charging $99 for DropSend's premium service increased their revenue by 30% in two weeks...
- Pictures of beautiful metro stations in Stockholm Absolutely stunning. Beautiful bits of design work. Elegant and atmospheric.
- Feed Icons More for my use than for yours, feedicons.com contains a variety of different colour versions of the various RSS/Atom standard icons
- An SFGate article from a couple of months ago talks about purity balls and chastity "It is one of the great superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
- Upsettingly - but perhaps unsurprisingly - Clay Shirky's moderation strategies wiki has been overrun by revolting porno spam It's all spurts and holes and sluts now. Very upsetting, but probably predictable. The open wiki is pretty much a thing of the past now already.
- Highly entertaining video of the I/O brush The link went around a couple of months ago, but if you haven't seen it yet you should have a look immediately. Very cool indeed.
- Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang Webb sent this to me a while ago - it's a short novel about the experience of becoming more intelligent and the consequences of it as well. Mostly when people write about being more intelligent than they are, it sucks. This does not suck.
- The guy who represents 'macs' in the new adverts talks about his experiences First spotted him in Galaxy Quest, then in Dodgeball. Hot nerds are so awesome.
- Modest Apparel USA Because women just expose too much of themselves and need to be put into large tent-like structures to stop straight men killing and murdering everyone in frustrated rage. Religious people weird me out.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
Re: Modest Apparel. Showing the ankle in middle age was highly erotical.
→ Posted by: karl at August 14, 2006 2:34 AM
I disagree with "The open wiki is pretty much a thing of the past now already." Yes, running an open wiki with only a small initial community of editors can leave you overrun with SPAM, but you can get it under control with a few tweaks of your MediaWiki installation: SpamBlacklist (using some of the big community-gathered blacklist), allowing only logged-in users to start new pages, and the odd RegEx expression.
Takes a bit of work to set up, but then so does blog comment spam filtering software...
→ Posted by: Frankie Roberto at August 14, 2006 7:46 AM
Re: Modest Apparel USA - I can't believe they're showing a girls TOES on the front page of the site!
→ Posted by: Trevor at August 14, 2006 10:02 AM
Hey you can see his belly button in one of the Jeepers Creepers movies... Just saying.
→ Posted by: Bart at August 14, 2006 4:35 PM
In my experience, simply requiring javascript for a form submission will knock out 98% of spam.
→ Posted by: Jon at August 15, 2006 6:24 AM
Maybe you should start charging a licence fee to read your site, and publish your spending annually? Alternatively plug Nokias product in an "ad break" :)
→ Posted by: Thom Shannon at August 15, 2006 11:18 PM