Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 05 (January 29, 2007)

Stupid Comics

For almost fifty years publishers like IPC and DC Thompson were cranking out weekly titles with names like Tammy, Judy, Mandy, and of course Bunty, the first British girl's comic.

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker

Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task. There's plenty of software that tackles this sort of thing for a price, but as a lover of open source

Espacios publicitarios - a photoset on Flickr
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Shrinkwrap Licenses: An Epidemic Of Lawsuits Waiting To Happen - Cory Doctorow
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Anybody who bothered to read a clickwrap or shrinkwrap agreement would never install any software, click on any link on the Web, open an account with anyone, or even shop at many retail stores. The terms of these agreements are onerous and ridiculous. We

Playing With Wire » Why Gentoo Shouldn’t be on Your Server
The Wifi Liberator

An open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to "liberate" pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access.

Interview with flOw composer Austin Wintory

One of the most innovative casual games of 2006, flOw, is breathtaking both as a game and as a work of art. The concept, the environment, the gameplay, and of course the music all come together to create an atmosphere that feels immeasurably deep to the s

'Miserable failure' Bush rehabilitated as Google steps in to defuse the Googlebombs | Guardian Unlimited Technology
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The company is allowing concerns about its public image to influence the search results it dishes up. The upshot in this case may be salubrious, but what kind of precedent is being set here?