Speedlinking, March 27, 2008

Speedlinking is yet another tool of the lazy blogger. Basically I smash together a bunch of interesting links that I collect every so often, and write a sentence or two about them.

This week’s Speedlinking is being brought to you courtesy of the useful Instapaper website, which I’ve been using to temporarily bookmark the below links.

• Hail, Xenu! Use it to find broken links on your site.
• Drink tea? Here are some useful things to do with those used teabags.
• The Wall Street Journal reports on the many links between Saddam Hussein’s government and terrorism that are discussed in a recently released Pentagon paper. The most interesting thing to me is that terrorism was really Saddam’s only “tool”, because of the sanctions and no fly zones and what not. Unintended consequences and all that.
• The number 6174 is actually pretty awesome.
• If you tinker around with the URL, you can actually increase the quality of playback on YouTube videos. I guess YouTube went ahead and made this an account option too, so you can always default to “HD” if you want.
• ha.ckers.org looks at an interesting method of spamming: exploiting the ability to change email addresses without confirmation.