Archive: Web/Tech
Script: Safari to Twitter 
Web/Tech
·· More from April 2009
A script for sending info about the page you’re currently reading in Safari to Twitter via Twitterific. Put it in the Scripts folder in the Library folder (which is in your user or “home” folder).
Scripts: Omniweb and WebKit to Twitterific
Download omniweb-to-twitter.zip.
Download webkit-to-twitter.zip. This should work for Safari too. Open the script in Script Editor and change ‘WebKit’ to ‘Safari’.
In case you’ve just joined us…
You may want to memorize this “Concise history of silly Internet traditions”, courtesy of Brad Reed at Networkworld.com.
Meanwhile our “mental recession” deepens. (“Mental recession” looks good for becoming a new internet tradition.) It takes a lot to leave a newstalker speechless, but here it is: Freddie Mae’s stock dives, live. Why? Could be all those mental foreclosures in LA and elsewhere.
Script: NetNewsWire to Twitterific
Download nnwtotwitter-script.zip. This is an archive; if it isn’t decompressed automatically, double-clicking should do the trick.
If that’s Greek to you, try some Ink Spots (from the Internet Archive).
iTunes to Twitter
Download currenttracktotwit.scpt.zip. This is a zip archive: double click to decompress.
I contain multitudes
Below are 137 “favicons”. Favicons are the little icons that appear in the location field of your browser window along with the URL of the site you’re looking at. Many sites include a link to a custom icon, which is often a tiny version of the logo of the site or its owner. Icons and the like are supposed to be distinctive. But when there are hundreds of them, they all start to flow together into a graphic stew. I have no idea which sites most of these icons belong to. Do you?
All these icons put me in mind of Plato’s One and Many. It turns out that there are many “problems of the many”. For example: the Problem of Many-in-One; the Problem of One versus Many; the Many-Body Problem; and finally the Many-to-One Routing Problem, which I’m sure has troubled more than one of us. It may be that we have too many One and Many problems—a One-and-Many-Problem Problem, about which these few words are surely enough.
Tag roll with butter
Web/Tech
·· More from November 2007
Blidget
The joys of Web 2.0. Now you can read Philosophical Fortnights in a tiny black box. From Widgetbox. I suppose you could make a whole page of these and read twenty blogs at once. Wouldn’t that be cool?
Logic puzzle
Web/Tech
·· More from August 2007
Last time we asked whether ‘cannot be meaningfully described’ is a meaningful description. Today we consider the following screenshot, a list of tags from Technorati:
‘bez-kategorii’ and ‘nicht-kategorisiert’ both mean (more or less) ‘has no category’. Does ‘has no category’ have a category or not? Maybe Bertrand Arthur William Russell can tell us.