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Rudy Rucker in the Guestbar

Rudy Rucker in the Guestbar 08/02/2004 09:03 PM
I'm really pleased to have Rudy Rucker as our guest blogger. He's my favorite author. I first met him at a Mondo 2000 party in 1985 in Berkeley, California. He read from his book, Wetware, and brought with him a little cardboard device he made that folded and unfolded, and as I recall, was supposed to be a shadow of a 4-dimensional cube.

Rudy also wrote a regular column for the print edition of bOING bOING. His story about going to Portugal with Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna was fantastic. (Do you have it on your hard disk, Rudy? It would be great to share with everyone.) If you've never had the pleasure of reading Rudy's work, you're in for a treat. Both his fiction and non-fiction is awe-inspiring, accessible, and funny. Welcome, Rudy!

Todd Lappin takes over the Guestbar!

Todd Lappin takes over the Guestbar! 11/05/2003 01:19 PM
A warm thank you to Jason Scott for his wonderful secret histories of the online world! Now we welcome Todd Lappin to the Guestbar. I met Todd more than a decade ago when we were both interned in UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, he's been my advocate, editor, and collaborator at Wired and Business 2.0, helping bring some of my favorite work into print. A renaissance man, Todd can also be spotted tooling around San Francisco in his fully-outfitted Telstar Logistics company vehicle. Indeed, Telstar Logistics is the only firm I trust for my supply chain needs.

nevermind

nevermind 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
The book is barely born and the author is retreating: O'Neill retreats from his claim about the war. Wow.

There's a movie in your pants, uh,
jeans, er...nevermind

There's a movie in your pants, uh,
jeans, er...nevermind 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
The first mention of the sequence GATTACA in the human genome is 14109 characters in. It will be several decades before science is able to...

Nevermind - Hamdi wasn't so bad after
all. By Dahlia Lithwick

Nevermind - Hamdi wasn't so bad after
all. By Dahlia Lithwick 09/24/2004 05:37 PM
What does John Ashcroft think Hamdi will do back in Saudi Arabia? Open a Krispy Kreme franchise and give speeches about the wonders of American democracy? .. bypassing them is a really, really bad idea .. Dahlia Lithwick notes

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Nevermind broadband -- many First
Americans don't have phone service

Nevermind broadband -- many First
Americans don't have phone service 04/10/2004 01:59 PM
Comments from an NPR listener who heard a segment I did for "Day to Day" on the president's promise to make broadband accessible to all Americans by the year 2007. Eric Martin says:

Phone penetration on reservations just passed the 50% mark within this decade and even where there are phone lines on US reservations a lot of them are old copper lines that can't handle dial-up. So before Bush goes and gets the rest of the country hooked up with high speed, he should make sure that all Americans, including Native Americans, have basic phone service. John Edwards wasn't lying when he was talking about two Americas.

There are some interesting stats on the lack of phone penetration in "Indian Country" on this FCC website.

Nevermind chocolates, survey says people
give passwords away for nothing.

Nevermind chocolates, survey says people
give passwords away for nothing. 04/20/2004 08:36 AM
Boingboing reader R.I. Pienaar says:

I noticed this BoingBoing post about people swapping passwords for chocolate. Here is another article from January along the same lines -- except no offers for anything, and 90% of people still gave passwords.

Link. The BBC now has more on the choco-password connection, here.

"Nevermind the Pollacks" author Neal
Pollack calls the bl0g quits

"Nevermind the Pollacks" author Neal
Pollack calls the bl0g quits 11/13/2003 03:59 PM
Writer Neal Pollack, who penned this scathing comeback to a less-than-flattering New York Times review earlier this week, has decided to shut down his popular weblog. Link (thanks, Invi sible Cowgirl)

Asses, Fact Checked

Asses, Fact Checked 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
I think the media inaccuracy witch hunt is reaching its zenith. (Or perhaps its nadir.) Brian Williams is being slammed for saying that there are no black members of the of the Senate, and that it's a bigger problem than there being no black television news anchors on the major...

RE: Mac OS X vulnerabilities ['Virus
checked"]

RE: Mac OS X vulnerabilities ['Virus
checked"] 10/29/2003 01:36 PM
graham.coles_at_retail-logic.com (Oct 29 2003)

Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities ['Virus
checked"]

Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities ['Virus
checked"] 10/29/2003 02:42 PM
Adam Shostack (Oct 29 2003)

Bush gets checked and balanced

Bush gets checked and balanced 06/29/2004 08:43 AM
The Supreme Court rules against indefinitely locking up detainees -- and deals a mortal blow to the president's vision of his own limitless power.

Bankrupt? Now you can be checked out
online

Bankrupt? Now you can be checked out
online 07/02/2004 01:24 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 2 2004 6:05AM GMT

Cricket: Australia checked

Cricket: Australia checked 07/10/2004 01:08 AM
Sri Lanka spinner Upul Chandana takes five wickets as Australia are all out for 517 in their first innings.

Changes in bus routes can be checked
online

Changes in bus routes can be checked
online 07/26/2004 05:46 AM
Azcentral.com - Mon Jul 26, 09:18 am GMT

iPod Killers, On Your Mark, Get Set,
Checked!

iPod Killers, On Your Mark, Get Set,
Checked! 04/06/2005 05:11 AM

All the "iPod killers" out there promises more features than iPod: Here's a list of features not found on iPods. FM radio, check. Support for Microsoft music rental service, check. Microphone, check.

Hey guys, how about giving us new functions, rather than just a checklist? How about TiVo-like time-shifting of local radio programming? How about Amazon-like music and podcast recommendations based on what I like to listen? How about Newton-like personal assistant based on my dictation?

Not checked yet.

Clinton Spurs Men to Get Hearts Checked
(AP)

Clinton Spurs Men to Get Hearts Checked
(AP) 09/11/2004 05:27 AM
AP - As former President Bill Clinton checked out of the hospital where he had bypass surgery, people across the nation were rushing to hospitals, seeking to have their own hearts checked out.

"fact-checked the Iraqi bl0gger"

"fact-checked the Iraqi bl0gger" 03/20/2003 08:52 PM

Creating an RSS feed of the books you
have checked out of the library

Creating an RSS feed of the books you
have checked out of the library 08/30/2004 07:23 PM
Creating an RSS feed of the books you have checked out of the library

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How to get to BoingBoing - megnut.com

How to get to BoingBoing - megnut.com 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
Meg found Boingboing .. megnut

megnut.com/weblogs/007538.asp
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BoingBoing goes three columns

BoingBoing goes three columns 06/20/2004 05:18 AM

A New Boing Boing.

I'm proud to say that Boing Boing has launched a new design, one that incorporates sponsors and a cleaner look. I was down visiting with Danny Hillis today (man, talk about mind blowing) and I was very happy to hear that he reads Boing Boing regularly. My role with Boing Boing is the equivalent of "band manager" - I helped them round up the wonderful sponsors - Wired, Google (Blogger), and O'Reilly - and work out the details of how they can take the site to the next phase of it's ongoing evolution ("brain candy for happy mutants since 1988!"). Take a look!...

[John Battelle]

- Me too.

Foreign Airlines Checked for Terror
Risks, Report Says

Foreign Airlines Checked for Terror
Risks, Report Says 12/24/2003 04:08 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 3:41AM ET

FBI Checked Las Vegas Hotel Lists in
Terror Alert

FBI Checked Las Vegas Hotel Lists in
Terror Alert 01/04/2004 04:38 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 3:36PM ET

"Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net"

"Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net" 11/01/2003 03:09 PM

Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net

Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
As you may have noticed, we're in the middle of an extended outage. We've got a new server up and running (with lots of new posts), but the DNS is going to take a day or two. In the meantime, http://216.126.84.59/ is your friend. Link

BoingBoing stats under construction

BoingBoing stats under construction 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: A quick housekeeping note: We're taking our web stats offline for a bit, while we dig into some technical considerations about what data is reported, and how -- to ensure maximum accuracy and clarity. We'll make them public again when that's complete.

Happy holidays from BoingBoing.

Happy holidays from BoingBoing. 12/25/2004 04:53 PM
Xeni Jardin:

Props for BoingBoing from PC Magazine

Props for BoingBoing from PC Magazine 01/02/2004 09:48 PM
Gareth Branwyn says:

"BoingBoing was named Top Blog in the December issue of PC Magazine (Top Ten Blogs). Unfortunately, they list [the site URL incorrectly] as boingboing.COM."

Meta BoingBoing network

Meta BoingBoing network 04/14/2004 05:04 PM

BoingBoing tribe on tribe.net hits 700 members. The Boingboing affinity group on tribe.net, created last year by a group of readers, just welcomed its 700th member. Link [Boing Boing]

For a fan club and a way to rate support in teh community - having 700 memebrs is pretty coolio.

I just wish there was a way to:

- break all those adoring fans up into meaningful clusters

- that when folks join Clubs, Tribes or Groups - they participate and not just lurk

- that there be some inter-connection between ALL these networks out there - so a 'meta-BoingBoing network' could exist.

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Gill says,

Someone has posted a script for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extension that lets you add your own Javascript code to any website, to remove ads or add features: Link) that automatically removes any post by Xeni when viewing BoingBoing."

Link< /a>. Of course, if you're not reading my posts you're gonna miss this one. D'oh!

Update: Jesse Andrews, the fellow who wrote this de-Xeni script, would appear to be busted. :-) Chad Hurley, who identifies himself as Mr. Andrews' employer, says:

Hi Xeni,

Just a note about Mr. Andrews and his "de-Xeni" plugin - We’ve caught him looking at far worse things than your "over the top" posts. Why he has picked you to filter, one may never know, but I have an idea for a plugin. Maybe I will add it to the Grease Monkey requests. It’s really simple. When Jesse opens Firefox, it directs Jesse to a folder on my server called, "Things Jesse needs to do today before the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 5"! Just an idea.

Keep on keepin' on,

Chad

this clever send-up of boingboing

this clever send-up of boingboing 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
BoringBoring

hanasiana.com/boringboring
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Comment dit-on "BoingBoing" en Francais?

Comment dit-on "BoingBoing" en Francais? 07/21/2004 11:29 PM
BoingBoing reader, Rocket Scientist, and honorary Eas t Texas conspiracy correspondent Charles says, "I was in Paris two weeks ago, and saw this production. Sure, there's an extra E, but it's close." Link< /a> to full-size image.

Fix for URL Spoofing Security
Vulnerability Checked in to Mozilla
Trunk and 1.6 Branch

Fix for URL Spoofing Security
Vulnerability Checked in to Mozilla
Trunk and 1.6 Branch 01/07/2004 07:08 PM

BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you
can too!

BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you
can too! 04/13/2004 04:40 AM

Tonight, BoingBoing added in a new feature that allows you to to find "Other blogs commenting on this post" for each post. It is an ingenious use of the Technorati search functionality embedded inside of the Movable Type template that BoingBoing uses. This is a great way for a site to provide a distributed commenting system that incorporates transparency and accountability - to comment on BoingBoing, you just post something that links to BoingBoing, and you'll show up in the "Other blogs commenting on this post" page. It also discourages spammers and tolls, because all comments must be posted on the commenter's blog, and those posts are accountable - even if you want to remain anonymous, the commenting blog can now itself be commented upon, ad infinitum.

Here's how you can add it to your own Movable Type weblog template:

1) Edit your blog
2) Click on "Templates"
3) Click on "Main Index"
4) Somewhere imbetween the <$MTEntries$> and the <$/MTEntries> tags, add this to your template:

<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&sub=mtcosmos& url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Technorati Cosmos">Other blogs commenting on this post</a>

5) Click on "Save"
6) Click on "Rebuild Site"

I just added it to this blog. Here's a link to the template for Sifry's Alerts main index page. Give it a go, and let me know how it works for you!

IE + Moz/Firefox use tied among
BoingBoing readers

IE + Moz/Firefox use tied among
BoingBoing readers 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing's sysadmin extraordinare Ken Snider says, "IE has only a 1.6% lead on Moz/Firefox for BB readers now on BoingBoing.net. Check out the stats: Link. Add up Moz and Firefox. And if you include the 1.6% from netscape, which also uses the Gecko rendering engine (so is the same as Moz/FF really), they're exactly tied."

November: IE 38%, FF 30.6%, Moz 5%, Netscape 1.8%
October: IE 38.2%, FF 28.6%, Moz 5.6%, Netscape, 1.9%
Going back 6 months (June): IE: 41%, FF 12.7%, Moz: 7.4%, Netscape: 2.2%

Reader Frank Hecker says,

Two points re your post regarding Mozilla/Firefox use by BoingBoing readers. First, "Netscape" in your statistics may include Netscape Navigator 4.x (or earlier). If so, then it's not strictly speaking correct to count all of the 1.6% Netscape share toward the total percentage share for Gecko-based browser; you should count only the Netscape 6 and 7 share.

Second, note that Camino is also a Gecko-based browser, so its 0.2% share should be added to the figures for Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape 6/7.

With these corrections, the Gecko-based browser share based on the current statistics (Link) is something between 35.9% and 37.5% depending on the relative breakdown of Netscape Navigator 4.x or earlier vs. Netscape 6 and 7. (31.1% Firefox + 4.6% Mozilla + 0.2% Camino + 0-1.6% Netscape.) Given that MSIE is at 36.9% I think it's fair to call this a virtual tie.

BB Sysadmin Ken sez: "This page shows the full breakdown, by browser version: Link."

BoingBoing traffic stats are back

BoingBoing traffic stats are back 01/04/2005 08:56 PM
Xeni Jardin: Here's a note from John Battelle, affectionately known as Boing Boing's "band manager."

Earlier in the month we took Boing Boing's live stats page down ( link). As we noted in our post, we wanted to grok what the program was reporting, and make sure that whatever we posted was clear and understandable.

Well, the stats are back up (link), and you may notice that we've not done much to them. There's a good reason for this - we prefer to post our stats pretty much as reported by AWStats, the log file analysis program we use. We considered filtering those numbers in any number of ways, but always ended up at the same place - statistics are subject to interpretation and judgment, whereas data is data. We prefer to give you the data, and let you do with it what you want.

We did learn a few interesting things about how awstats works, and we did make one minor tweak to the reporting process. First, of the columns you see, only the first one - "Unique Visitors," and the last two "Hits" and "Bandwidth" can be taken at face value. "Unique Visitors" counts unique IP addresses that are hitting the site, so it's a fairly accurate count of actual humans reading Boing Boing. (If anything, its count is a bit low, as it does not account for sites like AOL which may have one IP address for thousands of unique users.) The "Hits" and "Bandwidth" columns count just about anything that moves on the site, so they are fine measurements of how "busy" the site is. But the other two columns - "Pages" and "Number of Visits" - are more difficult to understand. They are AWStats' best guess as to how many total visits a site gets, as well as how many pages are actually viewed by those visitors. These columns have always disregarded image and video files, but because a lot of our traffic comes from RSS readers, they are certainly inflated by some amount.

But how much? It's anyone's guess. We're working with Feedburner (link), among others, to figure that out, but until we know, we prefer not to hazard one of our own. What we do know is that those middle columns had been inflated by php files recently added to the site by advertisements, so we filtered those out.

We hope that posting these stats will be one small step toward the blogosphere working out the moving target of "standards" for measuring traffic to blogs - Mark Fletcher of Bloglines has done some good preliminary work (link) along those lines. As we learn more, we'll keep you posted.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Checked Build
Network Installation Package

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Checked Build
Network Installation Package 08/10/2004 05:30 PM

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian
confusion

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian
confusion 01/01/2004 02:38 PM
Sina Ahmadian points us to the FarsiWeb Project, and corrects my sloppy references to lanugage in Iran on recent posts (1, 2) about blogosphere reaction to the Bam earthquake (now said to have taken 50,000 lives):

I noticed that you have used the word "Farsi" (instead of "Persian") as English equivalent of our language in your web site. I would like to point out that FARSI (which is originally PARSI) is the native name of our language and PERSIAN is its English equivalent; as the native name of German language is 'Deutsch', but we never use 'Deutsch' in place of 'German' in English; or native term of Greek Language is "Ellinika" and always in English we say 'Greek' language, not 'Ellinika' language.

The titles of dictionaries written by several great Persian scholars (eg. Prof. Moein, Prof. Aryanpour, Prof. Baateni, etc.) are "English-Persian Dictionary" not "English-Farsi Dictionary". And the official institution "Farhangestan" (the Academy of Persian language and literature, in Tehran) in an announcement has rejected the use of the word 'Farsi' instead of 'Persian' in English.

According to Dr. Hossein Sameie (visiting linguistics professor of Emory University in Atlanta), "PERSIAN, alongside the name of a language, may be used, as an adjective, for the other aspects of our history and culture. For example, we can speak about 'Persian Literature', 'Persian Gulf', 'Persian Carpet', 'Persian Food'; this way, 'Persian' may be a common concept and function as a link between all aspects of Iranian [Persian] life, including language. 'Farsi' does not have such a characteristic..." And finally, all international brocasting centres (eg. BBC, VOA, DW, etc.) have "Persian Service" not "Farsi Service" -- BBC, VOA, DW, Radio Free Europe, etc.

Thank you, Sina!

Special BoingBoing report: Live from
SpaceShip One

Special BoingBoing report: Live from
SpaceShip One 06/17/2004 09:49 AM
Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One is scheduled to launch America's first Non-Government, privately funded manned space flight next Monday. Alan Radecki, part of the ground crew stationed at Mojave, is penning pre-flight updates and countdown info. Former BoingBoing guestblogger Todd Lappin has arranged for those first-person accounts to be blogged here.

Background: Link to Mojave airport site with launch info. Link to Rutan's press release on the June 21 launch. Link to Rutan's FAQ. And finally, Alan's first update follows:

Starting today, I plan on sending out a daily update on the activities surrounding the SpaceShipOne launch.

The flight is scheduled to commence at 0630 Monday 6/21, however that is dependent on weather. Should there be a weather delay, such as winds, the folks at Scaled plan on waiting and launching as soon as the weather permits, even if it stretches to the next day.

The public will enter the airport from the main Airport Blvd entrance off of Hwy 58. The airport will open at 3am, but it is pretty much assumed around here that there will be so many people showing up that the roads will be clogged. RVs will be permitted in the day before, with reservations (661/824-2433). I know that there's already 89 coming, some of whom are NASA folks who are bringing a band and everything. Regular vehicles will be charged $10 entrance fee (to help mitigate the huge cost of security that the airport has to bear), and I can't remember the RV cost...check mojaveairport.com for details. Don't try to avoid the traffic by coming in the back entrances...these are for VIPs with passes and tenants with ID badges.

There will be a TFR, and only aircraft with PPR numbers will be permitted into the airspace, starting on Saturday, I believe. Again, see mojaveairport.com for details. If you don't make it onto the airport, you'll still see the firing...it'll be visible for miles. (...) I'll be here starting Sunday afternoon, sleeping in the Mercy quarters. -- Alan

(Thanks, Todd Lappin!)
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