Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2007-12-03

• Amazon.co.uk: Rainbows End: Books: Vernor Vinge
  Ways in which I’m reading Rainbows End, in order of time actually spent reading: 1) online, in the E61’s mobile browser, 2) in a Firefox window, 3) in hard copy.
  (tags: vernorvinge rainbowsend sf fiction book amazon uk online reading publishing hardsf)
• Fade to black | MetaFilter
  How to archive our moving picture heritage in a way that will remain accessible?
  (tags: askmefi paramount archive movie movingpicture digital raid)
• ACAP - flawed and broken from the start? - currybetdotnet - 2 December, 2007
  Martin Belam on ACAP.
  (tags: acap martinbelam currybet contentaccess robots.txt indexing content publishers)
• Gossip of the Sewing Circle | MetaFilter
  I haven’t read this yet.
  (tags: nytimes gossipgirl gossip women history london via:mefi)
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Two Worlds Collide
  On the ActiBlizzard. Everyone’s thinking what EA’s going to do.
  (tags: ea activision blizzard vivendi merger gaming business)
• Google crowdsources malicious website detection to combat search poisoning
  This is one of those headlines that would be utterly incomprehensible to anyone about 15 years ago.
  (tags: headline neologisms language culture futureshock)
• Slashdot | Publishers Seek Change in Search Result Content
  Slashdot on ACAP. Also accidentally includes a first-hand story about the first spider to follow the robots.txt protocol.
  (tags: slashdot acap publishers access content robots.txt)
• Slashdot | Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community
  IRSeeK is apparently using anonymised TOR access to IRC, masquerading as mIRC clients, using human-like nicks and logging everything. Not cool.
  (tags: irseek techcrunch slashdot logging privacy anonymity irc freenode tor)
• Six Apart sells off LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  Huh. Wonder if they made any money on that one.
  (tags: livejournal lj sixapart socialsoftware sale acquisition sup russian)
• Bale takes on ‘Terminator’ - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
  Bale’s probably going to play John Connor in the Terminator series reboot. I don’t understand why the Terminator series needs rebooting, but there you go. More shiny, I suppose.
  (tags: terminator variety casting johnconnor christianbale warnerbros reboot franchise mcg)
• Six Apart - News and Events: Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal
  Six Apart press release about LiveJournal Inc and SUP
  (tags: lj liverjournal sixapart sup russian blogging russia)
• Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet | I Am Seb
  Ugh, Siemens.
  (tags: siemens bbc business corporate infrastructure perl rails outsourcing operations internet enterprise)
• Channel 4 axes TV schools programmes | Media | The Guardian
  The great experiment. Time to watch the reaction.
  (tags: c4 education interactive tv teenagers online alicetaylor mattlocke janeywalker channel4)