yoz's bookmarks

• Smokescreen |
  Astonishing Flash runtime written as a pure Javascript library, with support (so far) for much of Flash 8, including streaming sound, sound effects and basic ActionScript; just use it as a wrapper in the page around an existing SWF, and it'll work on many non-Flash browsers, including Mobile Safari.
• thinklinkr | Welcome to thinklinkr
  At last, a realtime-collaborative outliner! Lots of keyboard shortcuts, but otherwise a little light on features if you're looking for, say, OmniOutliner. (via lmorchard)
• Six Degrees of Black Sabbath #6dobs
  Connects any two artists through band members, collaborations and cover versions. Try Aphex Twin to Dean Martin for an example, then boggle at the Top and Most Strongly Connected Artists lists. (via douglas wolk)
• What happened at the end of Flesh and Stone was sexual assault: Q&A « Reconcile
  Remarkably thought-provoking piece about the recent Dr Who episode, born out of arguments in feminist fandom. (via liz henry)
• Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian
  Supposedly the first "official" evidence of Israeli nukes: Meeting minutes from 1975, declassified by the post-apartheid SA govt, show Shimon Peres (then defence minister) offering PW Botha conventional, chemical and nuclear warheads (via glyn moody)
• Securing Web Extensibility (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
  Great exploration of the different models for extending the web on the client side, including permission prompts and the differences between the Chrome and Jetpack extension models. (Jetpack's middleware bundling feature is very intriguing.)
• HTML5 Security Cheatsheet
  Far, far too many ways of injecting and executing Javascript in badly-formed HTML/CSS, with a list of supporting browsers for each.
• websdr.org
  "A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously." Wonderfully low-fi directory of WebSDR servers around the world (currently only ten of them, mostly in Europe)
• Cog - Development
  The best and slowest-developed audio player on Mac OS (v0.07 came out three years ago) has an even better version in the nightly (read: six months old) builds
• 'Sports From Hell' by Rick Reilly book excerpt - ESPN
  "Okay kids, today's activity is to go down to your local Pizza Hut, have the oven set for 261°F and insert your body into it. [...] Now do it for 10 minutes or more, and that's what it's like to compete in quite possibly the world's dumbest sport: the Sauna World Championships." (via lil linden)