Relaxation, at last

The uncommonly shitty weather we’re having is a nice reason to lounge about and catch up on world news (not all of it good, as usual) and mailing-list traffic (some unread counts were nearing four digits, which is never a good thing).

I’ve also started tinkering with newspipe again, mostly fixing a few formatting and MIME type issues that made Thunderbird choke. Ricardo tells me that a new release should be out this weekend, so if you’re not a CVS head, check it out tomorrow or so.

So you’re one of the few who actually care about not slashdotting sites? Well, drop these four lines of PHP somewhere - it will rewrite absolute links from the Slashdot homepage (it misses a few, but it was a five-minute hack) and preserve the rest of the page content:

$szBuffer = file_get_contents("http://slashdot.org");
$szBuffer = preg_replace('"http://(.+)(/(.+)|)"'SUm',
                         '"http://$1.nyud.net:8090$2"', $szBuffer);
$szBuffer = str_replace("</HEAD>", '<base href="http://slashdot.org/"></HEAD>', $szBuffer);
echo $szBuffer;

Another tack is to code your own HTTP proxy and simply Coralize anything with a slashdot.org referrer, but, honestly, why bother?

Christopher Whipple dropped me a note mentioning Rate My Network Diagram - it wasn’t yesterday’s moment of Zen, but it’s definetly today’s twitch click.

My favourite has to be the DVD sneakernet - by far the most bandwidth on a single link yet…

Via pfig, the coolest audio blogging trick ever: a script that manipulates byte ranges to proxy selected snippets out of MP3 files.