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Link archive: April 2006

Download Database Version 5

Bookmarked April 28th, 2006 at 2:49 p.m.

"Complete batting and pitching statistics from 1871-2005. Plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, post-season data, and more."

FlightStats: Home

Bookmarked April 27th, 2006 at 1:53 p.m.

Really awesome database of airports, airlines, flights, etc -- 37 million flight records!

National Atlas home page

Bookmarked April 27th, 2006 at 1:34 p.m.

Ross Barkman's Home Page

Bookmarked April 25th, 2006 at 5:28 p.m.

Modem scripts for a whole bunch of mobile phones.

Web 2.1 server-side blink tag demonstration

Bookmarked April 20th, 2006 at 12:47 p.m.

Erik Naggum's now-very famous treatise on why Perl is bad for you (reddit.com)

Bookmarked April 20th, 2006 at 12:35 p.m.

On Perl 6: "Fixing such fundamental syntax problems at this stage of the game is closing the barn door after the cow has gone out, lived a full life, died, and the hinges have rusted."

Speedy on Niagara | The Fridge

Bookmarked April 20th, 2006 at 12:23 p.m.

Ubuntu + Niagara = Crazy Delicious

Google Calendar Data API

Bookmarked April 20th, 2006 at 11:17 a.m.

Hells yeah!

Daring Fireball: Initiative

Bookmarked April 20th, 2006 at 11:05 a.m.

Gruber becomes a full-time blogger. Bravo for him; my t-shit is on its way!

DHTML Spell Checker Demo

Bookmarked April 20th, 2006 at 10:30 a.m.

A really nice (fast, clean) check-spelling-as-you-type JavaScript widget.

Cricket Explained (An American Viewpoint)

Bookmarked April 19th, 2006 at 2:44 p.m.

After reading this, it actually sounds like an interesting game. Whatdayaknow...

Inefficient sort algorithms

Bookmarked April 18th, 2006 at 4:41 p.m.

This paper is the condensation of a discussion of inefficient sorts in the talk.origins newsgroup. The main focus was on a sort suggested by Richard Harter. Although the topic (and much of the discussion) was apparently frivolous it raised real mathematic

Ontario Swine Improvement --- OSI Genetics

Bookmarked April 18th, 2006 at 4:25 p.m.

This is not the OSI you're looking for.

Django: Web Development with Journalists' Deadlines

Bookmarked April 17th, 2006 at 2 p.m.

My OSCON session

Django: Web Development with Journalists' Deadlines

Bookmarked April 17th, 2006 at 1:51 p.m.

My OSCON tutorial

gladwell dot com - the new yorker archive

Bookmarked April 12th, 2006 at 12:30 p.m.

Every article Gladwell's written for the New Yorker (ten years' worth!)

The Ultra Gleeper: a Recommendation Engine for Web Pages

Bookmarked April 12th, 2006 at 9:48 a.m.

Dave Orchard's Blog: WS-SopranosDesperateHousewivesKwisatchHaderach

Bookmarked April 11th, 2006 at 9:06 a.m.

"He will be known as WS-ReliableSecureConversationEventingNotificationMetadataExchangePolicy ResourceTransferTransactionEnumeration."

Experience the First Virtualization Solution for Intel-powered Macs!

Bookmarked April 6th, 2006 at 1:09 p.m.

The first -- of many, let's hope -- virtualization software for OSX-Intel.

First Blue Screen of Death on my Imac Core Duo

Bookmarked April 5th, 2006 at 1:23 p.m.

The *real* reason to run Windows on your Mac!

Attachment Scanner Plugin for Mail.app

Bookmarked April 5th, 2006 at 11:08 a.m.

Notices when you've talked about an attachment but not actually given one.