Chipping the web – tribes, disciples, eggs, months, and angry men
November 29th, 2006 7:06:46 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Randy exposes a Ford dealership in Toronto for posting anonymous comments favorable to the dealership on Randy’s critical blog post. Apparently they didn’t realize that Randy could look up their IP. “Anonymity” and “the web” can’t be accurately used in the same sentence without a negation.
UnSpun, a community ranking site, is the first Rails application on Amazon.com. I like a few things about this list of best programming languages:
#1 = Ruby (my fave)
#7 = Lisp (of which I am still in awe)
#22 = Synergy/DE (which I helped design/develop)
TDavid says that Firefox 2 still has memory leaks. Since upgrading to version 2, I haven’t had to close it to free up memory at all, and in version 1.5 that was a regular activity. Could be all those extensions, er I mean add-ons, TD. Although after an initial startup size of about 23MB, it does use up to between 180-200MB on my system after opening and closing a few tabs. But then it seems to level off.
Megite answers my question about the images they extract for their site.
Vaspers the Grate once again develops a comment he left here into a thought-provoking, almost poetic post. Nice to be the sketch-pad for such creativity.
Signs you spend too much time in the blogosphere (SF edition). excerpt:
You meet new people, and really resent the lack of an ‘About’ page attached to their forehead.
Happy Blogday, Kiltak! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the plug, MP! Congrats on getting moved to mpschulze.net.
And also thanks to Cori Schlegel for linking to my FeedBurner redirection hack for WordPress.
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UnSpun is such a creative, clean simple product. I really like it.
37 Signals UnSpun
Yes, David, UnSpun seems very responsive and natural. That Amazon would allow a Rails app on their servers says a lot to me about Rails and scalability.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
I found your feedburner redirect hack intriguing, especially insofar as both IE7 and FF2.0 seem to break the simple mod_rewrite/htaccess method I use to ensure that subscribers to my feed use my url. Instead of a plugin I simply use an htaccess file to redirect clients hitting my feeds (both rss types and the Atom 0.3 that are part of wordpress’s core) to the appropriate feedburner feed so that if I ever moved away from feedburner for feed stats I wouldn’t abandon any sibscribers. The problem is that FF2.0 and IE7′s Live Bookmark type services display the feed in the browser when the user clicks the feed icon in the address/toolbar, and the user selects a subscrition option from there. Since the browser displays the feed, it follows the redirect to the endpoint, so what people are subscribing to is the feedburner URL, which is exactly what I don’t want.
Ouch, cori. Yes, my hack would work around that, because there is no client redirect. It just pumps content from the other site.