del.icio.us links.
(part of brett's logjam.)
13 December 2007
links for 2007-12-13
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“Uncomfortably-warm space acne.”
11 December 2007
links for 2007-12-11
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Available online (legitimately.)
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Must. Find. Bootleg.
6 December 2007
links for 2007-12-06
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“This is the story of how that momentary success turned into one of the most sustained and costly defeats the United States has ever suffered. It is the story of how the most powerful country on Earth, sensing a pinata, swung to hit it and missed.”
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Introduction to monitoring protocol on OS X.
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Effort, not talent.
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Great pictures of the VLA.
4 December 2007
links for 2007-12-04
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Yes, exactly.
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Not that HTML 4 needs it…
2 December 2007
links for 2007-12-02
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I think not; my toddler prefers the old school. (Via Cubicle17.)
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Oh yes. Milk, where does it come from?
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“Watch a basketball game. The odds are at least two of those people on the floor are mentally ill. Look around your house; if everybody else there seems okay, it’s you.”
25 November 2007
links for 2007-11-25
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Interesting look at WWII camouflage efforts to trick the Nazis. (Oooh! Godwin’s law on my own blog!)
17 November 2007
links for 2007-11-17
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Eh, nevermind. Bunkum. This is why peer review is important.
16 November 2007
links for 2007-11-16
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Interview with Jacques Barzun, 100 years old.
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Strengthening Leopard’s firewall with ipfw.
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It’s called “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything,” based on E8 math. Sweet!
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Lisi’s publication.
15 November 2007
links for 2007-11-15
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Avoid Dual_EC_DRBG at all costs.
14 November 2007
links for 2007-11-14
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Good (albeit short) interview with Randall Munroe of xkcd.
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“The received view is that the conservative christians have taken over the Republican Party. I think the reverse happened. The right wing of the Republican Party has taken over the church.”
13 November 2007
links for 2007-11-13
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“This is a clear violation of net neutrality: Verizon is interfering with the behavior of the DNS protocol, in order to drive traffic to its own search site.”
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“(S)o we’ll support Xen, and Oracle on Linux, but not Oracle on Xen. Please don’t think too hard about that one. It makes our heads hurt!”
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It groups by app, not task. Oops.
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Table of various fast food stuffs.
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Take the metro, people.
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“Colbert won’t be one of the names in the hat, they said. He’s not a registered voter in the city.”
11 November 2007
links for 2007-11-11
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Hidden Leopard Time Machine feature. (Hidden on the client OS, that is.)
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“The best part is Tom Petty looking like he’s thinking, “Jesus get this guy off the stage,” while George Harrison’s son is giving the ‘Dude! It’s Prince! This is so rad!” face. I’m with George Jr..”
9 November 2007
links for 2007-11-09
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“A Ruby script that will read your iPhone’s call log and will copy the calls into an iCal calendar of your choosing, with a description and the caller’s name, if available.”
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Oh my, yes.
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Interesting overview of the entire Delta system.
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CRS report on the current situation for the US Congress.
8 November 2007
links for 2007-11-08
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Unsurprising, really.
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Always get railroads, never utilities.
6 November 2007
links for 2007-11-06
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Via Conor: “Still, there is reason to be sceptical of the picture I have drawn: it implies that a secret and highly ambitious plan turned out just the way its devisers foresaw…”
3 November 2007
links for 2007-11-03
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On how to make money in a commodities market, or, why spy with your little eye.
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On YUPP fliers. No, it’s not what you think.
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On how to get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. (Too bad no one listens?)
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$94 billion in lost revenue. $16 billion in lost taxes? I’m only surprised it’s not worse.
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On the WGA strike.
30 October 2007
links for 2007-10-30
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Contains the gem: “defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock” to make the Dock look nice.
29 October 2007
links for 2007-10-29
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On the suddenly bright Comet Holmes.
28 October 2007
links for 2007-10-28
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Excellent prints. Not your usual office fare.
27 October 2007
links for 2007-10-27
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Another great one from Mike Lee.
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Excellent overview of all the new features.
26 October 2007
links for 2007-10-26
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Good look at what’s to come with Leopard.
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“Let me get this straight. You were a French pimp?” “No. Absolutely not. I was an American pimp living in Paris.”
25 October 2007
links for 2007-10-25
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“AT&T Wireless filed paperwork on Wednesday to erect a 120-foot cell tower at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post site on Jesters Lane in the Five Forks area.” It may be too far away to do much good, but it might take some of the strain off the tower that
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Google maps of the local towers.
24 October 2007
links for 2007-10-24
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As the 10.5 Leopard release looms, a reminder that no matter where you put it, the Dock sucks. (Once you go Quicksilver, you never go back.)
23 October 2007
links for 2007-10-23
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An appreciation of the Shatnerian genius.
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Incredible pictures of the Black Lake tornado.
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On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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They’re blocking Lotus Notes. LOTUS NOTES. Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
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“Randy Moss’ elbow by itself is better 75% of the receivers in the league. Right now, the Jaguars are trying to put together a trade offer for the elbow.”
21 October 2007
links for 2007-10-21
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“Today’s word is “labyrinthine.” Keep it in mind.” JWZ on how to legally put music online.
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“I’ve decided to start putting together a weekly mixtape: a cassette-tape-sized chunk of music that I enjoy, and that you should enjoy too. Some will be new, some old.”
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There are more World of Warcraft players in the US than farmers. I must go lie down now.
17 October 2007
links for 2007-10-17
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Site of various free and non-free LOGO downloads.
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Someone who loves his pens as much as I do. (Pity my handwriting continues to deteriorate.)
14 October 2007
links for 2007-10-14
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Bill Waterston on Charles Schultz.
13 October 2007
links for 2007-10-13
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“Run. Run, damn you.”
11 October 2007
links for 2007-10-11
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“The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of the royal class.”
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“Yet “adverb” is the one grammatical category that Ose forgot to include in his list! As it happens, most expletives aren’t genuine adverbs, either.”
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On the impending use of ZFS in OS X.
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I see the dancer going clockwise. I have to look away and watch in my peripheral vision to make her go counter-clockwise.
10 October 2007
links for 2007-10-10
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Why not to leave the laptop on carpet.
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Non-profit to stop pesky catalogs.
8 October 2007
links for 2007-10-08
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“If you don’t get a 404, you’ll get a Save As… dialog or the SAME GOD DAMN QUICKTIME BAR FROM 1995. OMFG. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS ALL WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED IN 15 YEARS ON THE WEB? It makes me insane.”
4 October 2007
links for 2007-10-04
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“To be in the forest with no other distraction around and see the Great Gray hunt is an experience one always remembers.”
2 October 2007
links for 2007-10-02
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The “9/11 has made us stupid” essay. Read it now, if you haven’t already.
1 October 2007
links for 2007-10-01
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“The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.”
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Good introduction for new users from Princeton.
29 September 2007
links for 2007-09-29
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First time itenerary.
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Grand Illumniation time is coming up!
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Great list.
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Unfortunately, no lock codes available. Isn’t that against FCC regs? Oh, it is? Oh…
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This reminds me of several jokes, all at once.
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Good summary of the new update.
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“Those aren’t expensive reproduction whitewalls, those are whitewalls. That 1966 Mustang in St. Louis is nice and shiny not because someone spent $5,000 on a new paint job, but because someone just spent $5,000 on a new Ford.”
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Oh boy. Here come the SHA-1 attacks.
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Setting up SSH proxies on a mac.
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“Let that be a lesson to you: never upgrade.”
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First match is up. Well played, (with Marker Felt, to boot!)
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“Our customer base is growing. Our revenues are growing. Our customer satisfaction is growing. Our product offering is growing. Our integration options are growing. This is the kind of growth we want.”
27 September 2007
links for 2007-09-27
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Dr. Jay Parkinson M.D. emailed in to tell me about his new medical practice in Williamsburg. He’s got no office (housecalls only), takes appointment requests via SMS, email, or IM, handles some follow-ups over video chat, and specializes in the 18-40 age
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On the transition to Clearview from Highway Gothic. (Have I linked to this before? I sure hope so.)
23 September 2007
links for 2007-09-23
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“When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars…, along with a 3x5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for
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“If people are honking, flashing their lights and shaking their fists at you perhaps you should reevaluate some of your driving habits.”
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“Consumers hate their mobile phones because they are just too darn hard to use. At least they were until Apple introduced the iPhone.”
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I may not call it Photowalking, but it’s what I do on Saturday mornings downtown.
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I received this same recommendation — to see the film ONCE — from a friend whose judgement on such matters I trust implicitly. So, you should probably go see it too.
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“One of the dirty little secrets — or rather, dirty huge non-secrets — of Wall Street is that public company accounting has been diverging further and further from cash accounting — which is to say, reality — over time.”
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“All it takes is a visionary who wants to solve, in a single stroke, many of America’s geopolitical and environmental problems.”
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“Those Iranians need to learn from the American example. In this country, if the clear majority of the public opposes the continuation of a war, our leaders will tell us we’re terrorist-humping idiots and do whatever they damn well please. They might even
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Some really great artwork in here.
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Beauty through repetition? Or repetition of beauty? Or just a cartload of iPods?
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The cornering is nice. Leaping over the curb? Priceless.
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“It’s the extra $5 billion that gives this story legs.” As an aside, would it freakin’ kill Wired to add the article title into their <title> tags?
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“It’s the nature of things that a miracle, observed often enough, loses its power to astound. Yet the miraculous core remains. I’m grateful that these fresh sets of eyes were there to remind me of that power.”
22 September 2007
links for 2007-09-22
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Mostly because you can. (Gnome only. What happened to KDE, anyway?)
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“God, dad, am I going to turn stupid when I grow up too?”
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You may not know the “Amen Brother” drum loop by name, but you’ve heard it hundreds or thousands of times.
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Screw the train, let’s walk.
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I have one of these cell phone boosters. Good information about the antenna here.
20 September 2007
links for 2007-09-20
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“That 900 pounds is then put back in the vehicle in the form of extra armor where the truck most needs it: in areas that will protect it from roadside bombs.”
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I admit, I picked the wrong one to win this test.
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Automation is a wonderful thing when you’re administering 60+ servers.
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Quite an excellent Mac resource. Nicely done.
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Shell scripting for iPhoto.
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`Montag is one of the latest typefaces from Jeremy Dooley of the Insigne Type Foundry. This is a very modern, fresh-looking, rounded san-serif, that has even been described as “gloopy”.`
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“What does it feel like to be back? It feels great, but it hurts, too.”
19 September 2007
links for 2007-09-19
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“This was one football operation beating the other one into the ground.”
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Call today.
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“To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States.”
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On taking the keychain with you.
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Excellent overview of the Keychain in OSX.
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“When the water sommelier comes over, I reach for my gun.”
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“allows you to visually monitor your internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time.”
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“The experience of using my Nokia compared to the iPhone is comparable to using PC DOS compared to Mac OS X. The former is painfully functional but never helpful, while the latter is delightful and simple.”
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“Within days, he had the salt water in the test tube burning like a candle, as long as it was exposed to radio frequencies.”
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It’s here!
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“Substitute “Google Gmail” with “Lotus 1-2-3”. The NewSDK will be the second coming of Microsoft Windows; this is exactly how Lotus lost control of the spreadsheet market.”
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Beware clarity that follows confusion.
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CTHULHU FHTAGN CHEEZBURGER
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I just bought a NAS. People have hacked it. Thank you, internet people!
18 September 2007
links for 2007-09-18
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“Chambers filed the suit to make a point that the state constitution allows lawsuits to be filed for any reason.”
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Wonderful infographic. No, really.
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Good overview, and some surprising new uses. (Secure notes? Nice.)
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Good advice.
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“Ever since Boot Camp appeared on the scene, there have been several comments about Macs being better Windows machines than Windows machines. The weird thing is it’s actually true.”
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“A man jogging through a San Antonio, Texas suburb was attacked by an owl. It apparently flew into his head three times and badly scratched him up.”
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Very sad news. He was 58, and his work was unfinished.
17 September 2007
links for 2007-09-17
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“ard users will be able to automatically contribute up to 1 percent of their purchases toward emissions offsets. Customers will have the choice to donate all of their rewards or receive half in cash.”
16 September 2007
links for 2007-09-16
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“Plus, we can’t, as a citizenry, shut up and cheer.”
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by Isaac Asimov.
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Keeps the important bits off the table. Nice.
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“Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well a
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The first 10 are truly great.
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“Recently, however, network security researchers discovered DLLs (dynamic link libraries) within Windows XP and Vista systems receiving updates despite the Automatic Update application being disabled. “
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I particularly like the YOUR AD HERE brainstorming session.
13 September 2007
links for 2007-09-13
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PhotoRec is all sorts of awesome file recovery.
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GSM forwarding codes.
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One little twiddle. Nice.
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Software, not hardware.
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Guess what I have to replace on YAH?
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On the Dollar Auction and Iraq.
11 September 2007
links for 2007-09-11
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I guess I wasn’t the only one frustrated with MT’s iPhone screen.
10 September 2007
links for 2007-09-10
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Source of the Standard Creepiness Factor for age-appropriate dating.
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Get a magnifying glass. Neat.
9 September 2007
links for 2007-09-09
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Enough documentation to get started.
8 September 2007
links for 2007-09-08
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Excellent overview of her life and works.
7 September 2007
links for 2007-09-07
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How to set up templates in MarsEdit. I actually like the simplicity of the default templates, but … well, that’s not really a surprise, now is it.
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DO NOT JAILBREAK STOP WAIT FOR NEW INSTALLERS STOP AVOID ENEMY FIRE STOP
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Another great one: “Your $40 does not buy you even the smallest right to abuse me. That you get to abuse me at all is simply generosity on my part. I’ll give you your money back, but I will not take your shit.”
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Research is ongoing, but looks promising for understanding CCD.
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“After hearing (or reading) story after story, I was amazed by how closely these people had come to know the departed. Whereas I play the game for recreation, it had become their full-time community.”
6 September 2007
links for 2007-09-06
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Sesame Street appears to be the only thing that’s still worth watching.
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(A third of the way up.)
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Having bought two iPhones (one of which is now $200 cheaper, another of which is discontinued), I will try all five avenues and report which works best.
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Ha. Needs an update to Tiger, though.
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Out now.
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“Who knows. Maybe Apple does have some plan to make it up to us. I hope they don’t think the ability to buy music over WiFi is it.”
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Sadness compounded.
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Good comparison to other phone price cuts.
5 September 2007
links for 2007-09-05
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(It’s not the iPhone.)
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Great simple how-to.
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Removes crap from your PC. FINALLY TRUTH IN ADVERTISING.
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“His goal is to create a rigorously scientific work of sf that turns kids onto sf.”
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“But as it turns out, even something as seemingly mundane as a Mac app can have a few marginally interesting, if not truly nerdy, stories of its own.”
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“n November 6, 2005 the Tatmadaw military government surprised the world when it announced it had moved the capital to an empty tract of farmland 230km north of colonial capital Rangoon. No one knows exactly why.”
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In the new century, no one will walk… hey, wait a minute…
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On radical honesty.
4 September 2007
links for 2007-09-04
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Anything but boring. “These are not stupid people. And they are not un-greedy. Which means their desire for more money and more control and more freedom will lead them to apply their energy into figuring out how to get out of the plantation the TV networks have created for them. They will break free. Mark my words.”
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“Love the passive voice.”
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Word 5.1a WAS the best version Microsoft ever shipped.
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“You were too beautiful for this digital world.”
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“To be honest, most of my pictures suck. The saving grace of that admission is that most of your pictures suck, too.”
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Just released. I continue to be on the fence, but I think I may fall to one side or the other now.
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I once had a conversation with several Trilogy developers where we all admitted that the first thing we learned how to code was a D&D application. (This is a bit better than our first attempts.)
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The comments thread is especially interesting.
2 September 2007
links for 2007-09-02
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Passed from projector to Mac to projector to Mac…
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“I’ve yet to see any other comments on the Dock being used on the side of the screen. This may be because those who’ve tried it have been stricken instantly with vertigo and had to go lie down for a bit. “
1 September 2007
links for 2007-09-01
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“After the first 10 minutes Jason was shouting at the TV to “make the freaking plane cold! 50 degrees! Snakes are cold-blooded!”
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Drag and drop ringtones to the iPhone, without having to jailbreak it. Nice.
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“is film examines a 150-year-old cross in France, a Stonehenge-like structure in Georgia and Masonic connections in Washington, D.C. It concludes at DIA, where Weidner shows the capstone located in the terminal’s Great Hall — a name that’s no accident, s
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How to kill meetings.
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$5 an episode? I don’t think so, and neither did Apple. As I believe the kids these days say, dude, NBC got pwned.
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Wow.
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One of the 10 most influential moments on TV.
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How to anonymize your traffic.
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Includes a very good Remove Duplicates… script. (When did I get to 44k email messages?)
31 August 2007
links for 2007-08-31
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When Tutter is annoyed or upset about something, he will sometimes start shouting names of cheeses as if they were epithets. Another favorite saying of Tutter’s is “Oh, hickory dickory!”
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Edward Gorey does Star Trek.
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Zoom in, and in, and in, and in..
30 August 2007
links for 2007-08-30
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On talking under the lights.
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Another excellent one from Marc.
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Owls like talking on cell phones. Who knew?
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Nicely done.
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A fast scanner, a fast shredder, and an email account to bind them.
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Glad to see that while PINE has stopped, it lives on as Alpine. Watch this page for new releases.
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Okay, I finally get it. This is some good software here.