Link Log

Links to recently discovered resources posted to del.icio.us.

• Mark Pilgrim's vision of an Atom Store "I'm writing Greasemonkey scripts to parse all the known microformats. ... It's coming. Within weeks, not years. All the data is out there; people are publishing this stuff anyway."
• 146 Reasons Why Sugar Is Ruining Your Health Sugar makes the baby Jesus cry.
• Identity2.0 - OSCON Presentation Fantastic. Dick Hardt. CEO, Sxip Identity.
• Computer Science Study Guides - SparkNotes Trees, search, recursion, etc.
• In the Public Interest CC-licensed book on Canadian copyright law.
• Nikon SLR History Lots and lots of images.
• And they wonder why we hate DRM A now-familiar story. Note to record labels: DRM-protected CDs might as well have a sticker on them that says "Don't Buy Me." Because, you know, I won't buy them.
• Mind the Gaps - Intelligent design as an answer to all life's great conundrums In my view the god-of-the-gaps point isn't being hammered hard enough. Money quote: "Years from now, we'll all lie in our hospital beds while ID-trained doctors hold our hands and assure us that we are merely dying of God."
• The dangers of Gerin Oil Best thing I've read all week.
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has sold 17,000+ copies of their self-released album And they're making about eight times more per sale than they would with a studio. Poor, poor middleman.
• Beatles-sounding songs? | Ask MetaFilter A great idea for a mixed CD.
• Donate $100 to Katrina victims, get a phone call from Brian Wilson And he'll match your contribution, too.
• Amit's Thoughts: The Singularity is Not Near Well-argued criticism of Kurzweil.
• Wikipedia edits Esquire "The article will presumably run in the November 2005 issue."
• Q: Would your band pay The O.C.? Lou Barlow: "I would do nearly anything for money at this point."