Link list for today

• Apache HTTP DoS tool released
• iPhone SQLite Encryption With SQLCipher
• BWToolkit 1.2
• The new Task Queue API on Google App Engine
• Business Week: The Next Google?
• LucidDB
• The Accidental Diet
• Fleur Hong Kong flower shop
  
• Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
• Starting Up, One Year Later: The Downward Spiral
• 香港統計資料 - 統計表 - salary of Hong Kong IT workers compared to other industry

Link list for today

• Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System
• Python Queue interface for AMQP
• Apache CXF- An ultimate web service open source framework : Lets start learning
• Fast rounded corners in Photoshop: I don't do good graphic design, but now at least i know something
• New cool list of Linux must-have programs: surprisingly useful list!
• New Phrack issue: a lot of Mac OS X hack stuff
• Too Small to Fail
• Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects
• A Python Script to Automatically Extract Excerpts From Articles
• celery - Distributed Task Queue for Django

Link List for Today

1. Video: Tele Atlas' photorealistic city models to aid navigation, terrorism
2. How To Convert Any Video File Format Under Linux: seriously the new Handbrake on Mac is lot easier to use, but a commandline ffmpeg is always nice
3. D-Link router captcha broken
4. django-imagekit: looks real nice for image resize in Django!
5. Scaling Memcached: 500,000+ Operations/Second with a Single-Socket UltraSPARC T2
6. "I Did It For You All...": On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's 'Computer' magazine... good joke...
7. Webmonkey: Facebook Opens Up to OpenID
8. NYTimes: QUESTIONS FOR MYRON SCHOLES - Crash Course
9. Reverse Geocoding using MySQL GIS
10. Love’s Labors and Costs

Link list for today

1. PR Lies Destroy Your Understanding of How Business Really Works. - With Owen Byrne
2. Freshbooks Adds Tool to Online Billing Service and Building Network of Contractors
3. Tim Ferris Workout
   
4. ThingDB
5. WaitLess: Non-fancy LED display bus tracker.
6. HornetsEye
7. Nitrogen: Erlang web framework. This sounds fun after Django.
8. TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40+ languages to TED.com: wondering what's their interface for typing in captions
9. UFO sighted over Afghanistan: maybe the Predator C?
10. "Auction Site" Swoopo got $44800 for a $2500 computer. See comments for explanation
11. Terms of Services on video sharing sites
12. Old Chinese Hack Tool Used for New Tricks
    

Link list for today

1. When Offshoring Your Development Team Means Buying a Boat
2. Code Project: Build an Ncurses UI with Python: very very cool!!! ncurse in python!
3. Simple Python ctypes Example
4. Python Google Analytics Client: How to use it and how to help make it better
5. Corporate Blogs: It's The PageRank, Stupid
6. The Stock Market Story
7. Do It Yourself Biohacking
8. The Five Deadly Sins of Project Management
9. Tapestry for Nonbelievers
10. How to build an iPhone application in 20 minutes
11. PySmell: textmate/vim bundle for Python
    

Link list for today

1. Google Analytics API Launched!
2. Google O3D
3. jsPDF: client/server _Javascript_ PDF library
4. Open Font Library
5. Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond Engagement
6. What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started
7. Solidworks Student Design Kit
8. Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone
9. CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star
10. PBS Launches Video Portal with Full-Length Programming
11. IceTV wins landmark case against Nine Network in High Court
12. GM DEFAULTS (GM)
13. BBC: Simulated brain closer to thought
14. Big Entertainment Wants to Party Like It's 1996
15. What San Francisco/Silicon Valley can learn from the Twittering company: Zappos
    

Link list for today

1. Seth Godin: How to make money with SEO
2. IBM The rsync family: rsync tutorial. Good comparison with the GUIs.
   
3. Wired: PIN Crackers Nab Holy Grail of Bank Card Security
4. Potrace
5. ForeignPolicy: 10 easy steps to writing the scariest cyberwarfare article ever
6. Inside the precision hack
7. How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
   
8. Paul Graham's The 10 Secrets of Selling Online
9. Autodesk to build AutoCAD for Mac
10. CNN Money: Warren Buffett takes charge: on BYD
    
11. Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple: a tech support person from Apple advised me to not exceed 4.5 meg of data per 5 minutes of activities
12. Biggest porn site on the web YouPorn powered by Perl/Catalyst (top 50 in alexa) : via Reddit
    
    

Link list for today

1. Facebook Char Architecture: We chose to simulate the impact of many real users hitting many machines by means of a “dark launch” period in which Facebook pages would make connections to the chat servers, query for presence information and simulate message sends without a single UI element drawn on the page.
2. MIRAI株式会社
3. The Next Revolution and Alternate Storage Propositions
   

Link list for today

1. file2.ws: interesting one click content poster
   
2. NYTimes: Keeping up with being kept: interesting dating site business model
3. SDTimes: Someone Figured Out How to Step Up in VMware: scary stuff
4. Times: Get Rich Slow: Paul Graham's stuff is now mainstream. Good to see cheap startup idea beats out finding VC money.
5. How to recognise a good programmer
6. 42 Questions Every Freelancer Should Ask Their Clients
7. Sort Algorithm Animations: saw a similiar one back in Turbo Pascal 7.0!! Good to see a Flash version.
8. Sex, Lies, and Software Development
9. Django Best Practices
10. concept device: gps fitted inhalers
11. Rough Type: Google in the middle
12. 工聯會開班授facebook溝通技巧
13. Wired: Secret Law of Flying Could Inspire Better Robots
14. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips
15. The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans : from Venture Chronicles and Phatdat
    

Link list for today

1. The dark side of Dubai
2. How the Internet Got Its Rules: RFC story
3. Digibarn: Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981)
4. Video: Django’s Adrian Holovaty Shows Off EveryBlock’s Guts

Link list for today

1. New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!
2. Man Burnt to Death by Exploding PC (direct link to the Times of India)
3. Nine Inch Nails made an iPhone app
4. Google Voice for iPhone and iPod Touch Coming Soon
5. A faint sound of applause
6. From Bubble to Depression?

Link list for today

1. William K Black - Systematic Ponzi Scheme - "The best way to rob a bank is to run one" (pbs.org)
2. Dubai: How not to build a city
3. Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace: A Market Analysis
   
4. THE WAR NERD: THIS IS HOW THE CARRIERS WILL DIE (UPDATED VERSION): maybe that's why there's the giant Boeing 747 with laser
5. Sleep May Prepare You for Tomorrow by Dissolving Today’s Neural Connections
6. Web Site Makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters

Link list for today

1. Palm Pre at Web 2.0 Expo
2. Amazon Elastic MapReduce
3. Stanford Course On How To Build iPhone Apps Will Soon Be Available On The iPhone
4. GalleryView - A jQuery Content Gallery Plugin
5. Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
6. Reversing Tooth Decay
7. Design to Sell
8. Python on Tiny Embedded Wireless Devices with Synapse SNAP: upload script over the air?!

Link list for today

1. The Right Way to Make a Dropdown Menu
2. Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
3. Dr. Rodgers' Testimony: High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies?
4. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome exercises that really work
5. Google uncloaks once-secret server
6. Subprime millionaire
7. Frocessing
   

Link list for today

1. 黎三萬自白書: 人怕出名豬怕肥...
   
2. Can design save the newspaper? Jacek Utko on TED.com
3. The Oil Drum: Electric cars are coming to Europe
4. Engadget: China Unicom still not confirmed as Chinese iPhone provider: Chinese law banning WiFi use in mobile phones; and Unicom's insistence on installing its own software on the iPhone, including some sort of *gasp* non-iTunes media player
5. iPhone Pirating App Attacks Rival Pirate App Store: if my next iPhone app gets pirated, it would be a badge of honor...
6. Dell 24-inch monitor for $209
7. AirCoaster iPhone App Turns The Stock Market Into A Scary Ride

Link list for today

1. My Manhattan Project
2. The Wider View: Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years
   
3. Google 香港財經現正推出，歡迎試用！
4. How my start-up failed: read this condom keychain story last year. Good to revisit
5. Skype for iPhone (iTunes link)
   
6. 癮香港：3HK M1n1Bus 狡猾軟件？

Link list for today

1. Wired: Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Gadget Startups
2. How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
   
3. Welcome to America, the World's Scariest Emerging Market
4. Review of 3D Engines for the iPhone
5. Is China the New America?
   

Link list for today

1. College Prestige Lies
2. Why Django
3. Interesting Twitter server admin application
4. Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet
5. Great tower defense game on iPhone: I like the touch concept on a 3D sphere instead of a 2D one
6. Duck Duck Go Architecture
7. FedEx crash at Narita: direct link to the bounce video
8. Nothing to lose
9. Skype for Asterisk
10. Commandline-fu: learn a new "mtr" command, which is ping + traceroute combined
    

Update: Narita Crash video

Adamo, salespitch for the macbook air

Very cheesy TV spot. Try to stick an Italian? designer to look chic. The people using the notebook look like faking it.

Link list for today

1. The oddities of being a scientist-programmer
2. Improving Running Components at Twitter
3. Wired Blog: SXSW: Objectified Teaches Us 'You Are What You Own'