GreaseMonkey and Trackback Spam Removal
Wow. I can’t believe it took me this long to check out GreaseMonkey. This Firefox add-in, which provides the ability to apply little bits of DHTML to pages on your browser on the fly, changes everything.
Case in point: trackback spam on Manila. There’s currently no way short of manually checking every checkbox in a list [...]
Congrats, part 2: OPML
Congrats to Dave Winer for shipping OPML 1.0, the outlining format that’s also a blogging tool. I’ll be playing with it and posting thoughts in the familiarly named space over here.
Congrats, part 1: Konfabulator
CNet: Konfabulous. Looks like Yahoo went shopping and bought themselves some widgets. Very very cool. Congrats to Arlo and his team, and congrats to Yahoo, who now arguably have a hand in the game for the post-browser, post-operating system desktop.
More reviews-as-shopping-lists
It’s dangerous for me to read uao’s Sunday Morning Playlist reviews of musical styles on Blogcritics. I always end up with a long shopping list. True especially for a pair of playlists I found today: Paisley Underground and Jangle Pop. Any playlist featuring Opal and Guadalcanal Diary gets my attention, and the rest of the [...]
Cowboy Junkies: Early 21st Century Blues
The Cowboy Junkies started their career with an album of covers and haven’t done another such compilation since. Until now: their Early 21st Century Blues, originally available only from their website but being released by Rounder next month, features covers of anti-war songs in the Junkies’s trademark laconic style. If you’re like most listeners, this [...]
