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Bookmarks for March 23, 2026

March, 19-21: God is a comedian – by No1
This is an absolutely wild account of geopolitics over the last few days/weeks. Nothing untrue, just a reasonable accounting of the ongoing stupidity, in a way that for all it's just shatteringly depressing, does at least make me laugh.

Tags: economics, humor, war
MuPDF: The ultimate library for managing PDF documents
How in god's name have I not run across this before? Irrelevant to most people, but I suspect it's going to change my working life.

Tags: software, pdf

dompdf – The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
I think I'm going to need a HTML->PDF converter for a project in the next month or two, and I won't be able to use my usual one. So I'll probably wind up using this.

Tags: php, tools, html, pdf
Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' | UK news | guardian.co.uk
I'm going to want this to refer to at some point in the next while. Also: for fucks sake! Inster standard ranting here.

Tags: security, photography, police, civil_liberties, terrorism, civil_liberties

Tabbloid
Well, this is going to make my little auto-printing app a lot simpler. Set up a fistful of RSS feeds, get them delivered as a formatted newspaper thing in PDF form overnight. Aces!

Tags: rss, publishing, papernet, pdf, web2.0, web2.0

Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now…

Tags: photography, uk, terrorism, omnibologist
YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.

Tags: video, animation, russia, pooh
TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.

Tags: security, osx, sysadmin
firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!

Tags: firefox, osx, plugin, pdf
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!

Tags: humor, mcsweeneys, literature