// Internet Duct Tape

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).

• [CODE] DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
  • High geek alert on this one. Not for non-programmers.
  • (programming, dna, science, algorithms)
  • (ds9a.nl, 479 saves, 33 inbound links, 11 diggs)
• [XBOX360] TVersity
  • Another program for streaming divx to xbox360
  • (streaming, media, server, xbox360)
  • (tversity.com, 429 saves, 100 inbound links, 16 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
  • might be a good idea to give one of these a try when the blog well is dry
  • (blogging, writing, tips, inspiration)
  • (problogger.net, 289 saves, 8 diggs)
• [CODE] Choosing a Distributed Version Control System
  • And here I am wishing we could move to subversion of cvs/rcs
  • (versioncontrol, subversion, git, svn, programming, mercurial)
  • (dribin.org, 226 saves)
• [CODE] The Cults of Programming
  • where do you fit in?
  • (programming, culture, funny, development, code)
  • (mikeash.com, 57 saves, 3 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [BROWSER] How to make an Internet Explorer voodoo doll
  • so you can stick pins in it when IE drives you crazy
  • (IE, geek, humor, craft)
  • (chigarden.com, 47 saves, 1 diggs)
• [XBOX360] Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player
  • Streaming DivX to XBOX360
  • (xbox360)
  • (paininthetech.com, 45 saves, 3 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [PRESENTATIONS] HTML Slidy
  • Framework for doing presentations in HTML instead of powerpoint.
  • (presentation, slide, webdesign)
  • (w3.org, 42 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [FATBLOGGING] Weight Loss: New Year’s weight loss hacks
  • A few tips from lifehacker
  • (health, diet, lifehacker)
  • (lifehacker.com, 33 saves, 40 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [MOVIES] Chart Shows Most Post-Apocalyptic Movie Of All Time
  • The most post-apocalyptic movie award goes to…
  • (movies, scifi, apocalypse)
  • (io9.com, 15 saves)
• [WORDS] The trashing of zen: a rant
  • On the dilution of the word Zen
  • (zen, language)
  • (scottberkun.com, 7 saves, 5 inbound links)
• [BLOG] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Goodbye Dead Trees!
  • I’ve used that title before. Print reporter on switching to online publishing only.
  • (media, journalism, blogging)
  • (kara.allthingsd.com, 7 saves, 27 inbound links)
• [MOVIES] 15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
  • More geek movies to look forward to in 2008
  • (geek, movies)
  • (io9.com, 6 saves, 6 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [RSS] New Year’s Resolution: Keeping Head Above Water With RSS Feeds
  • Tips for managing too many RSS feeds
  • (rss, feeds)
  • (smoothspan.wordpress.com, 4 saves)
• [BLOGGING] Why It Is Better To Network With Non Probloggers
  • You can build a bigger relationship with “smaller” bloggers
  • (blogging, relationships)
  • (bloggingmix.com, 2 saves, 3 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Making Social Software for Real People
  • quote: The reward must be in the using of the thing.
  • (delicious, jonudell, socialsoftware)
  • (web1979.com, 2 saves)
• [RAILS] TechCrunch Comments About Zed Shaw
  • Such a great followup to Zed Shaw’s rant
  • (zedshaw, rails)
  • (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
• [GAMERS] The first and last Portal craft of ‘08: Custom Companion Cube tissue box cover
  • Companion cube, I love you.
  • (portal, gamers)
  • (destructoid.com)
• [MOVIES] Ten Most Anticipated Geek Films of 2008
  • To look forward to
  • (geek, movies)
  • (bigtmac68.wordpress.com, 7 diggs)
• [COPYRIGHT] The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
  • Anecdote by David Pogue on how the latest generation sees nothing wrong with copying
  • (copyright, law, ethics, morality)
  • (nytimes.com, 41 inbound links)

Legend

• saves - number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
• inbound links - number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
• diggs - number of people who dugg on http://digg.com

This Week at Internet Duct Tape

• Book Review: Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
  • The thesis behind the book is simple: if you look at the popular media culture over time it is becoming more and more complex. There have always been avant garde examples that wove complex stories but over time the same techniques are used in mainstream pop culture. IE: It is becoming common place…
• Fat Blogging 101 - Weight Loss Tips
  • 21 tips for losing weight in the New Year
• Best of Feeds - 14 links - security, gmail, google, testing, dns
  • gmail, google, security

This Week at IDT Labs

• [WORDPRESS] Category Resizer v1.0
  • WordPress Category Resizer 2008/01/02 - v1.0 - BUGFIX: newer versions of WordPress.com broke this script - BUGFIX: will run on any WordPress install, not just WordPress.com - BUGFIX: now works when you have less than three categories - added automatic update check - Tested with WordPress.com…
• [WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja v0.5
  • Comment Ninja v0.5 2008/01/02 - 0.5 don’t display comment ninja in mass-edit mode, since it doesn’t work on that mode wordpress.com added avatars to the comment display and they were being sent in emails on multi-author blogs it grays out the comments you can’t edit IDT Labs is a…

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