Fighting Link Spam in the trenches
(from DieSpammersDie on Tools to Make Tools)
The Problem
Because FeedMeLinks has a decent Google Page-Rank and a deliberately low barrier to entry, “link spammers” have discovered the site and are posting hundred of almost identical URLs to the site in order to promote other online properties. This disturbs users and dillutes the value of the site […]
which unix commands do you use the most?
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort
from lifehacker
Sock Puppets
guidelines from jason calacanis
on playing nice within online social systems:
Don’t create multiple accounts (sockpuppets) and vote for your own stories.
[love this one — ed.]
Please be involved in the […] community outside of promoting your own sites. Vote for other stories, submit other news stories, and post comments on other news stories.
Don’t group vote.
Put where you […]
Like a bird chirping, with a much higher pitch
———- Forwarded message ———- From: evan cordes Date: Sep 21, 2006 3:54 PM Subject: Re: your ride is here the contextual ads in gmail [for this message] are all “white noise machine”, “heal your damaged ear” and, “mosquito ringtones.”
wwwwrrrrrrrppp! chrp!
E
> ———- Forwarded message ———- > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > Date: […]
My hotel room sounds like tape hiss
I wonder if i’m being gassed. zzz…
Like living with a deranged alley cat
Off she would go in the evenings, dressed to kill: a gauzy antique top embroidered with the iridescent wing cases of exotic beetles, which she had found somewhere in the King’s Road; a pair of scuffed-up black German lederhosen complete with the ornamental metal belt known as a charivari; high inlaid boots of various coloured […]
Why the Blackberry 8700 is weak, part II
No bundled feed reader for
RSS/Atom feeds. (Yes, i have BerryBloglines. Yes, it blows.)
No Bluetooth File Transfer support. This seems odd, since the 8700 “supports” blootoof, but i guess they don’t mean “supports” as in, “you can transfer files with it.”
The Web browser incurs HTTP 406 errors! (Yes, 406! 406!!!). This seems to be caused by […]
new patch for Blosxom to preserve dates over time.
first, install rael’s entries_index plugin.
then, install the codeswami patch: /downloads/codeswami-blosxom-date-patch.diff
(view a Pastie of the patch : http://pastie.caboo.se/10772
if you’re not familiar with unix patch files, you can apply this one with patch -p1 codeswami-blosxom-date-patch.diff
voila! now, the dates in your URLs don’t jump around when you go back to fix a typo in an old post.
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What do you mix into brown rice?
—–Original Message—–
From: jm3;
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:07 AM
To: AW
Subject: What do you mix into brown rice?
> I cooked a batch last night, really chewy and good, and
> I mixed in a ramen soup pack — I’m a master chef.
Food hacker.
The Truth About the Blackberry 8700 - The Blacker the ‘Berry…
…the fewer the options.
I spent about six months with a RIM BlackBerry phone/pager and barely lived to tell the tale. This is my story.
Archaic ringtones. No MP3 support — This is a harsh awakening if you’re migrating from a Nokia, as I was.
No syncing with OS X machines, without purchasing buggy, third-party shareware
Connection Amnesia […]