I'm using DarwinPorts to install the UNIXy stuff like Apache 2, Python 2.4, and MySQL 5. I looked at Fink, since that's the one I'd heard of long before I had the Mac, but as they say in their currently newest news entry:

Fink on the Intel platform is still considered "beta" quality, and a number of packages (particularly packages in the "unstable" tree) either do not compile, or compile but do not run. Work to improve this situation is ongoing.

Installing Apache was cake, but MySQL has been a headache. First I had to figure out I needed the +server "variant" to get the Launch Services script for actually running mysqld. (Getting that installed--making sure the +server build was "activated" and the previous wasn't--was another stolen night, but I'll cop to that.) Now I just get the Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' error as if it's not running, which I guess it isn't, despite there being some weird root process with "mysql5" in the name.

Oh, that's the problem from farther in the thread. I guess it'll have the same solution, too, as "set up the main database" is the next step in this "MAMP" guide. That guide's a lot more helpful, in fact; I'm sorry I only found it just now searching for that email thread.

Also, anti-props to everyone who thought it was OK to leave .turd_mysql5 files in the empty directories port created. I don't want your shit (npi) on my computer.

1. Polar Opposites
2. Dark Center of the Universe
3. Float On
4. Ocean Breathes Salty
5. Trailer Trash
6. Gravity Rides Everything
7. Interstate 8
8. A Different City
9. World at Large
10. 3rd Planet

That is, completely different except for track 9. (Amazon has swapped 10 and 5 in CMH's listing, which puts Trailer Trash in the right place.)

I hope this helps the roughly zero people who would have bought this CD and not noticed.

At this point it's obvious that Landmarker never caught on. There are three good reasons to name out of hand:

1. No advertising push. I didn't lift a finger to tell people about it or explain why it was awesome, as it was just a cool idea of Cienna Rand's that I tossed together as a mod_perl app with a few web service glue toys.
2. The concepts and design are easy for a web hipster audience, not the general Second Life audience. It's more at home with Flickr and other Web 2.0 services than the dominant example of a hit third-party service for Second Life residents, Snapzilla. The folks at Linden Lab who thought it was great obviously got it, but they're in that demographic. (That was also before the Webmap API and slurl, so I guess that's what they found cool, as that's what they implemented.)
3. No in-world interface. While Cienna (and I) hacked up a pretty good HUD prototype (as soon as HUDs arrived in SL--I had built Landmarker before then), I never published it. Without the HUD, the site is a pain to use.

The people who understand the value of web landmark bookmarking are the people who, as in #2, probably already find value in general web bookmarking. These people would be (roughly) just as happy with an in-game tool to post to an existing bookmarking site--and I would be happy too, because then I could give Landmarker a proper burial.

So here's slurlmarker.

slurlmarker is just the HUD component from #3 above. Instead of building URLs to Landmarker, it builds slurl links and posts them to del.icio.us. It prefills the title and a few tags, like slurlmarker, so you can see all the "slurlmarked" links here. It also adds special secondlife:region: tags, the page for which the "View Places Nearby" button loads up.

Lyre Calliope showed some interest in Landmarker, so I dropped a version of slurlmarker off to her. After some suggestions, she passed a copy to some friends at the Electric Sheep Company, including Satchmo Prototype with whom I spoke briefly and who wrote a nice blog post about slurlmarker.

You can get your own copy from the vendor pictured above at Taco (213, 217). The slurlmarker HUD is full perms and open source. Here are a few starting ideas if you want to hack with it:

• Fix the clunky way the HUD learns your del.icio.us username. (The first time you try to use it, it asks you to say your username on a randomly selected channel. It remembers it until the script is reset.)
• Reproduce Landmarker by mapping the feed of slurlmarked locations.
• Use the new llHTTPRequest LSL function to view or map the feed of nearby locations in-world.

Hope you find this fun and/or useful.

This is what passes for fun around here.

tell application "iTunes"
    set i to 1
    set total to the number of current playlist's tracks
    repeat with tr in current playlist's tracks
        set tr's track number to i
        set tr's track count to total
        set i to (i + 1)
    end repeat
end tell

You have to be playing something in that playlist for this to actually work. Otherwise I guess it starts numbering the tracks in your entire library (if the current song was selected from the "Library" view).

I actually wanted:

tell application "iTunes"
    repeat with bw in browser windows
        set pl to bw's view
        set i to 1
        set total to the number of pl's tracks
        repeat with tr in pl's tracks
            set tr's track number to i
            set tr's track count to total
            set i to (i + 1)
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell