At O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference this week, Cory Doctorow showed he has a good sense of humour. But you might want to refresh your memory of what a blagofaire is first. (via waxy.org)

It's been a slight (okay, long) while since I last did a linked list, and I ended up junking half of it, just because of how stale some of the links are. I've been snowboarding, fixing my tooth, writing midterms, papers and even got out to see Body Worlds, Gunther von Hagens' exhibit detailing our internal anatomy. If you're in Toronto in the next few weeks, I strongly suggest checking it out.

So, now I'll just post them, and again continue to refine my methods.

• subverting your homedir, the benifits and perils of keeping all of your belongings in SVN
• a bit about microformats
• and a bit more, with hcard
• a forecast for 2006 web trends
• apparently GStreamer wants to support DRM
• Esoteric programming language 1: HQ9++
• Esoteric programming language 2: Chef
• A way around image slicing, CSS Sprites
• vischeck, a handy tool for checking how your webpage will look to colour blind people
• Kuro5hin on content creation and text processing
• Geo IP Route, a graphical representation of traceroute
• Damn Small Linux, a graphical 50 meg Linux distro
• royal city music, for local bands and concerts
• The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

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• PostBar, the method Canada Post uses to encode the information for it's automated delivery system

Edit: fixed vischeck link. [Thanks Cait]

• RAID. emphasis on the inexpensive disk part, using floppies.
• the hipster PDA
• more dialogs that make you say WTF.
• real life videogames
• the construction of an awesome hidden bookshelf door
• suited for subversion
• a creative shelving system. take that right angles!
• a 10000 year clock
• using XHTML properly, and it's perils
• suicidegirls podcasting pr0n
• webs of trust and the internet
• Flock, is it worth anything?
• why software suites suck
• Debian GNU/Solaris
• Galeon throwing it down to Epiphany
• the dark side of caffeine. how much caffeine will kill you?
• honest game titles, photoshopped truth
• what makes music good (warning: Everything2)
• my new diet. Junk food and shampoo (warning: everything2)
• the livehttpheaders mozilla extensions
• stop sending annoying email. read this. internalize it. remember it before the morning coffee.
• the beer hunter. Just where is that LCBO/Beer Store/... (currently TO only)
• control winamp via a serial interface
• nifty facts about fibonacci numbers
• the DoucheTracker
• the website badge button maker
• a quick look at mysql queries and indexes
• the power of the URL
• a ion-like windowmanager wmii-2
• some good css templates
• final fantasy potions, finally drinkable in meatspace

Deterministic Wikipedia Link

• Laserdisc everything you need to know of the dead format. Anyone have a Blade Runner LD for me?

Yeah, this one was long. I'm working on an entirely different format for the posting of links like this, as I've come to thinking this is a really crappy way to do it, and recent events have inspired me to do so. Chances are this will move and drastically change soon. Look forward to it!

• a bunch of CSS tricks
• vim tip: howto save a file without changing the mtime
• google video random mode
• official rogers speed testing
• google's feeds Terms of use
• some straightforward C - > ASM stuff
• Boards of canada interview on Pitchfork
• DIY mp3 player
• record telephone. build it with an old modem
• why you shouldn't play WoW
• mirrormask review, hrm...I should see this
• wiki software comparison...did i choose the right one klev?
• a party on a CD, amarok Live CD
• par-tay
• last.fm toronto group, a realistic way to chart listening
• fairly comprehensive browser css adherence
• looking at gnome startup time

Deterministic Wikipedia Link

• Errors in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia ...the name says it all.

• computational art, both cool and unique
• a UNICEF promo with quite a number of cool people (buck, beck, arcade fire...)
• some interesting USPS Experiments
• why you should use strong and or salted passwords another md5 database
• RELEIF! Making windows usable. blackbox for windows as a shell replacement. Now using windows isn't like getting kicked in the mean bean machine
• the mutopia project, dedicated to sheet music.
• commandeer a network
• Make your own Jacobs ladder
• why captcha sucks, from the W3C
• what the wiki, from what the hack?
• design and buy your own lego kits
• hrmm....it's just so easy with perl.
• the state of linux graphics, man, it could be better
• the fountain pen, an online news source for Guelph
• ASCII Tux!
• pop-up potpourii, bad dialogs from Daily WTF
• web standards are your responsibility!
• vim tip: commenting blocks of lines
• templates for folded-paper notebooks. with a hip geeky name pocketmod
• did I just say, "hip geeky"?
• how much juice does your box need? no, not two double-A's. it's a PSU calculator
• ssx fan site, useful information
• google blog search. will it be any good?
• the new revolution controller. *blinks*
• with their powers combined, bell and rogers are going in on a national wireless network
• the G4 CEO was fired. Thank GOD. Maybe it'll stop hogging all the suck.
• A King of Fighters anime, due for December. Blue Mary _and_ Mai? Woo!
• an older Vampire character creation tool, named Saulot
• reference for all sorts of D20 systems, straight from the WoC

Deterministic Wikipedia Link

• Chronogram a Modern Mathematical Value.

• Cookin' with Kelly Gruber. Cooking tips from the 3rd baseman.
• Kenora cares not for Ontario?
• ....whoa! Penny Arcade CCG! (with art from some non PA sources, like applegeeks)
• Whoops. Kittens survive Fedex
• penis
• Trogdor, the movie
• The new Nintendo controller
• peter mansbridge and the cbcs, a band?
• people i want to punch in the face. with a knife
• LCDProc, a Linux daemon for an LCD display
• Intimate Settlers, a 2 player variation
• Xen VM software to split up and monitor servers
• Free, 3D Settlers/Seafarers online, S3D Connector
• conversion tool for Long/Lat from Deg/Min/Sec to Decimal
• Ext2 for windows
• Using PS2 controllers to controll missiles
• Controlling a surveillance drone. With a PS2 controller
• New Logitech mice and keyboards...I like the LCD screen. It screams CODE ME !
• second life. I've probably posted this before. I just keep thinking it's a cool idea.
• Christopher Walken for President 2008. What's next, Steve Jobs for CA Governor?
• why I'm doomed to be unemployed: lab-grown meat
• CCNA Lab Manual, free (and legally)
• social engineering fundamentals. Kevin?
• 403 = alexander graham bell parkway?
• Pi contains a lot of sub-sequences of numbers. Find stuff in pi.
• Engadget on noise cancellation headphones
• the LifeStraw, a cheap usable water purification straw
• Obey gravity. It's the law!
• information on SQL Injections
• cities in Ontario are having live caching hunts. Camera + GPS + Northern Wilderness == fun!
• pubsub syntax for those nice pubsub feeds
• The Nightmare before Christmas branded iPod
• and an evangelion-themed player

Deterministic Wikipedia Link

• Podcasting, because old technology in new ways is what I live for.

• justcurio.us, randomized esoteric questions
• shopdropping, because traditional soup labels are boring
• banana apocalypse?
• Cory (of BoingBoing)'s new novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Where's Travis?
• migration from Ximian Evolution to mozilla Thunderbird
• an interesting caffeine faq
• the Death Star subwoofer
• Butternutsquash. Webcomic: funny sexual themes, and it's based in Toronto
• Kuro5hin's fractals 101
• computational art, both cool and unique
• hillside flickr photos
• a review of the NHL rule changes
• Don Cherry no longer on tape delay
• an awesome T-Shirt, I (entity) unicode
• the Gaim Development book, a walkthrough of the open source project
• Neon Genesis Evangelion to air on Adult Swim
• what's new in gnome 2.12
• from DEF CON, the kegbot project
• a steganographic method using babelfish and other automated translators
• sin city 2 is in production
• some fun photos, six-to-one
• planning your radio travelling route from the CBC

Deterministic Wikipedia Link

• History of Scotland, A rich and full history of the country.

• a fairly large database of UPCs
• Gibson's God's Little Toys, on remixing
• go dennis
• how we speak. Canadian English
• and a little more on how we speak, eh, and peculiarities
• a secure operating system, with the intention of being more or less error free
• white wolf what are you doing?
• having a sysadmin that doesn't know his elbow from his ass, priceless
• an open letter to the kansas school board on creationism
• a good linux distribution chooser
• chinese people caught in the act
• torontonian val kilmer
• cats, in mid-air
• nintendo power comics, from the older issues

• Wikibooks, a nice collection of information of books
• Similarly, Wikiquote
• A huge collection of comic book covers
• The NYTimes writes Microsoft in talks to buy....Claria?
• Joel Spolsky's The Best Software Writing I, a collection of good writings about software.
• Windows Search, The Silliest UI. I hate the dog too.
• Pronto, what I've always wanted from a car in the near future

Deterministic Wikipedia Link

• Ambient music All about ambient music, it's history and genres. Rather in depth.

• Pirates of Silicon Valley is now available on DVD
• a cool hack idea, 110v power outlets in the car
• the coolest cellphone ever, rotary meet cellular
• Sony's concept UI, a nifty mix of physical and GUI interface with physical glass tiles.
• In case you've been living under a rock, it was announced that Apple is going to run on x86. So, in the end, does this change anything? Not really. Though it may mean cheaper Apple systems, and may mean I can kill time beating OS X into submission on my non-Apple x86 :)
• Uncyclopedia, the name says it all. Rather funny.
• Flickr tag, thoughtlessacts
• XMMS finally puts out a GTK2 version. It's only 3 years to late.
• mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet, handy to have around
• The Hypertext d20, just as advertised.
• The Star Wars Encyclopedia, more than you ever need to know about Star Wars
• Torontonians won't be caught with their pants down. It's good to know
• A what are they thinking moment, sequel to Sixteen Candles planned, with non other than Molly Ringwald

Entirely Deterministic Wikipedia Article

• Bit Rot, the idea that things just don't work after a while.

whew. Finally. Sorry about the lack of updating recently. I'll fix that in the future.