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No matter his sincerely humble demeanor, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg’s business card exposes his inner geek star. It reads:
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You gotta be more than a... 
No matter his sincerely humble demeanor, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg’s business card exposes his inner geek star. It reads:
Go to Google
Type Matt
Press “I’m feeling lucky”
You gotta be more than a little bit rock-n-roll to have a business card like that and that’s how I see these guys – punk stars of the geek set. I say guys because that's who I see around me—I’m often one of two or three women at a gathering (most of which are listed on Upcoming, another geek star's creation). I say punk because these young 'uns don’t like the old rules and love open source and code on the fly and hate anything that stinks of artifice or exclusivity. In fact, they’d never put themselves in a grouping like this and I won't be able to avoid the flack.
Some may hate being called out (like Greasemonkey creator Aaron Boodman—he’ll never answer my emails now). Some—like Drupal specialist and Civic Space co-founder Neil Drumm—will barely notice this post. Others—like Andy Smith—welcome their “stardom” with an ironic embrace. Andy’s quick to tell me who trims his fancy shag and what girl asked him out when, but he also toils over a Help Wanted ad for Flock so the applicant understands the nuances of the job. This is just a small sample of geek stars—check their blogrolls for a never-ending universe of innovative people. In case you think this is all too techy for you, if you use Flickr, you should thank Cal. To make sure my post is buzzword compliant, I’ll have to mention Web 2.0. They are the crux of it, whatever it is.
So yes, I read their feeds because even when they’re writing a Mozilla extension to help search for porn, they are tearing apart and recreating the Internet this very moment. Pay attention.
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Editor's Note: Irina Slutsky, formerly of Red Herring, is an indie journalist and vlogger, and is West Coast Editor at toptensources.com. To satisfy the public's growing appetite for user-generated multimedia, Irina and Webzine co-founder Eddie Codel report from deep inside Internet Bubble 2.0 for Geek Entertainment TV.
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Microsoft has announced interesting new security features that will be in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. They are following other browsers such as Firefox on some issues, and taking bold new steps on others.
IE8 Security Part I: DEP/NX Memory Protection
IE8 Security Part II: ActiveX Improvements
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Hot off the news that 37signals is removing support for IE6 in their products I thought it would be interesting to look at the stats from WordPress.com as an update to my previous post just under a year ago. Is it reasonable to drop support for IE6 in a mainstream app?
These stats cover Jan 1 [...]
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Last week, John Resig created a Twitter Quick Reply bookmarklet. I wanted to make replying even faster, so I created a Greasemonkey script that adds a reply box to each tweet. If you follow a Twitter feed and reply frequently, this script could save you some time.
My script uses several advanced Gecko features. [...]
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Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day. It’s an honor to have such a supportive community, and things like this are very much appreciated.
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Aza Raskin's Algorithm Ink is really neat. Hand Spirals and Kishkush balabush create beautiful pictures with just a little bit of code, while Underground and Morse Code Forever look like real things. Algorithm Ink can even be tricked into performing pure animation, as shown by my example Gears.
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Django File Uploads (via). Nearly two years in the making, Django’s file upload capacity has received a major (and backwards incompatible) upgrade. Previously, files were uploaded by default in to RAM—now, files larger than 2.5MB are streamed to a temporary file and extensive hooks are provided to customise where they...
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Poking new holes with Flash Crossdomain Policy File. This is an old article from 2006 which describes the crossdomain.xml hidden in a GIF exploit I referred to in an earlier post (scroll down to the appendix for an example). As far as I know the Flash Player’s crossdomain.xml parser has been tightened up since.
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“Digital Manners Policies” is a marketing term. Let’s call this what it really is: Selective Device Jamming. It’s not polite, it’s dangerous. It won’t make anyone more secure—or more polite. - Bruce Schneier
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Whitespace Sensitivity. Amusingly, Ruby is actually far more sensitive about whitespace than Python is.
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Delighting with Data. Tom Taylor’s full transcript and slides for his recent talk at Oxford Geek Night—talks about Twitter bots, wikinear, iamnear.net and various other small but neat data repurposing projects.