Monday, November 07, 2005

Microsoft to Release Just One Patch Tuesday, by Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News. 9:03:45 AM    comment []

Best New and Useful Blog Nomination. For oh-so-many reasons, it’s Lane Lawley’s I So Want One blog of recommendations of toys for tweens, just in time for Christmas. How freaking cool is this? I don’t have enough fingers to count the ways! (And heads up on the Fly line of products; I saw them at Target last week and was mightily intrigued!) Background info here and here. Brent’s gonna love this one. [The Shifted Librarian] 6:35:42 AM    comment []

FBI Pushing Patriot Act Powers. As the Patriot Act comes up for renewal, lawmakers react to a Washington Post report of the FBI's use -- and possible abuse -- of the law to gain access to private phone and financial records of ordinary citizens. [Wired News] 6:35:33 AM    comment []

PATRIOT Act secret-superwarrants use is up 10,000 percent If movies lasted as long as games, they'd cost $13 billion Broadcast Flag hearings: watch congresscritters commit career suicide [bOing bOing] 6:34:42 AM    comment []

Imagine, Make It Real in Fab Lab. Advocates of MIT's Fabrication Labs think the programs could generate a revolution in do-it-yourself design and manufacturing for small communities all over the world using readily available materials. [Wired News] 6:34:21 AM    comment []

An Evolutionist's Evolution. It may seem that the American Museum of Natural History is cruising for controversy in presenting a comprehensive exhibition on Darwin's life and theories. By GLENN COLLINS. [NYT > Science] 6:33:29 AM    comment []

Greasemonkeying with Google Video and YouTube. From: http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/archives/2005/11/greased_google.php One of the frustrating things about websites that use Flash video is that they rarely provide links to let you download the video files for offline viewing or transcoding/syncing to portable devices like the Sony PSP, video iPod, or Creative Zen Vision. Case and point: Google Video and YouTube. Neither of these websites allow you to download the video files. This type of lock-down is soooo Web 1.0. I decided to dive into Greasemonkey and create a couple scripts to expose download links on Google Video and YouTube webpages: Google Video Getter YouTube To Me To install these scripts you will need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox. After installing Greasemonkey, relaunch Firefox, then right-click the links above and select "Install User Script." Now whenever you browse to a Google Video or YouTube webpage, you will see a prominent download link at the top. Welcome to Web 2.0 where the user is in control of the experience. [unmediated] 6:25:28 AM    comment []