--- title: links for 2006-12-20 date: 2006-12-20T05:30:05Z modified: 2006-12-20T05:30:05Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/12/19/links-for-2006-12-20/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1269 categories: - Links timestamp: 2006-12-20T05:30:05Z tags: - Links --- - [Userscript.org and Amazon S3](http://overstimulate.com/articles/2006/11/19/userscripts-and-s3.html) fascinating: S3, not just EC2, as a legit web host – for the Greasemonkey script repository, no less (tags: [via:Awsblog](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Awsblog) [S3](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/S3) [Amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Amazon) [EC2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/EC2) [Greasemonkey](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Greasemonkey) [userscripts.org](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/userscripts.org) [hosting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hosting) [case](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/case) [study](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/study)) - [Surviving Grady: Have You Seen This Man?](http://www.survivinggrady.com/2006/12/have-you-seen-this-man.html) “That said, I believe that just as Spider Man’s body eventually rejected that black symbiote suit, Nixon’s body would probably repel the Yankee jersey.” – if there is a god, Nixon will not sign w/ the Yankees (tags: [RedSox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedSox) [Nixon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Nixon) [Yankees](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Yankees)) - [Bob Sutor: Open Blog | My 2006 BOBBY Awards](http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1302) cool – i got an award from Bob – much appreciated, sir (tags: [BOBBY](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/BOBBY) [Sutor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sutor) [awards](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/awards) [2006](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/2006) [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk)) - [GNOME Foundation Elections – Preliminary results | FootNotes](http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2829) (preliminary) congrats to Glynn and Jeff and the other GNOME foundation election winners (tags: [Foster](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Foster) [Waugh](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Waugh) [GNOME](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GNOME) [foundation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/foundation) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [governance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/governance)) - [Mac Mojo : Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast.](http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2006/12/05/converters-coming-free-and-fairly-fast.aspx) “There will be a delta between general availability of Win Office (January) and converters from MacBU (expected late March/early April.” – hadn’t seen this version of the story (tags: [Mac](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mac) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [Office](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Office) [Open](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Open) [XML](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/XML) [formats](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/formats)) - [Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Dangerous Roads in the World](http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html) wow – these things are crazy (tags: [via:Bree](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Bree) [roads](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/roads) [pictures](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pictures) [travel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/travel) [Russia](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Russia) [China](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/China) [dangerous](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dangerous) [scenery](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scenery)) - [christof’s blog: Settled in Hong Kong](http://blog4chris.blogspot.com/2006/12/settled-in-hong-kong.html) wow – christof moved to Hong Kong, at least for a month; good luck over there sir (tags: [HongKong](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/HongKong) [Wittig](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Wittig) [db4objects](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/db4objects) [move](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/move)) - [snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Balderdash](http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=568) “I call bullshit. Trends are just pointing in a different direction.” – i concur (tags: [REST](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/REST) [APIs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/APIs) [open](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/open) [data](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/data) [GData](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GData) [WS-\*](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WS-*)) - [Quoderat » Beginning of the end for open web data APIs?](http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/12/18/beginning-of-the-end-for-open-web-data-apis/) everyone and their mother is pointing here; i’d be willing to buy the sky is falling bit more if i saw hard numbers proving that making open data available was a losing proposition economically – plus, we need to ask who’s using this? (tags: [ajax](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ajax) [api](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/api) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [mashups](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mashups) [opensearch](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensearch) [search](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/search) [service](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/service) [soap](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/soap) [rest](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rest))