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.
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Reflecting on the photography from Hurricane Katrina.
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Following up on my own rant…
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OUTER. SPACE. NEAT.
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Oh, come on.
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Report from the congressional research service.
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For the Mac Office suite.
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Ooo. This is really good.
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Nifty. Goes beyond recognizing when the iPhone recognizes a flip, and gets right to the raw numbers.
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“Do not wage war unless it is absolutely, positively the last ditch effort for survival.”
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This is the next LTS release, but there will probably need to be one or two more before Tsiolkovsky gets upgraded…
29 August 2007
links for 2007-08-29
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Dirty title, good article.
28 August 2007
links for 2007-08-28
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Now if I could just focus quicker in Manual mode…
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Pretty darn good, too.
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How to eliminate it.
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Black, with logo. iKilt?
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“If you start with nothing, you’re forced to think about everything.”
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The Handbook, intended for the use of judge advocates, describes tactics and techniques for the practice of operational law. Along the way, it provides a useful survey of the laws of war, human rights law, prisoner detainment policy, the use of contracto
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Changes hidden preferences on the Mac. (Many of these I’ve already changed via Terminal commands.)
25 August 2007
links for 2007-08-25
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Add it to the (increasingly long) list of reasons I don’t watch movies in the theater.
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September 4th. You better believe Trip will be there.
24 August 2007
links for 2007-08-24
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Apparently, it was not true. I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you.
23 August 2007
links for 2007-08-23
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Oh my. This is how to build a desk.
20 August 2007
links for 2007-08-20
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New installer.app automates the process of putting third-party apps on the iPhone.
18 August 2007
links for 2007-08-18
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Quicksilver script that updates about everything. Neat.
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Dear lord. Am I really considering this? I really am. Please, lord, guide me out of this wilderness.
17 August 2007
links for 2007-08-17
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August edition of the gardening newsletter.
15 August 2007
links for 2007-08-15
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Nice. Prefer it over the new, Human-Interface-Guidelines-noncompliant official one.
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Because typing like a mad scientist in front of your huge displays is much cooler if you do it with only one hand.
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Some really nice ones in here.
12 August 2007
links for 2007-08-12
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“I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can’t afford a front yard full of old cars. It wasn’t always this way.”
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Analysis of the news coverage re: the recent baby video/dvd study.
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Destop wallpaper goodness.
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After losing 7 hours to my lawn this weekend, yeah, I’m considering a robot.
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In /etc/hostconfig: SPOTLIGHT=-NO-, then mdutil -i off / ; mdutil -E /.
10 August 2007
links for 2007-08-10
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It’s really fast… like a ninja.
9 August 2007
links for 2007-08-09
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Change /etc/hostconfig SPOTLIGHT value from ON… to OFF. Easy peasy.
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Comments section contains some good ideas for what .Mac should be. I’m waffling… will have to see how iLife ‘08 is when it arrives.
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iMovie ‘08 will not run on my G4 Powerbook, so I will continue to use ‘05 instead. Of course, I don’t actually use iMovie ‘05 right now…
21 July 2007
links for 2007-07-21
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“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
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Suprisingly (or not) good advice from Scott Adams.
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On The Truth, and why information doesn’t quite flow as smoothly between Microsoft Mac applications as you might wish.
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Includes UI guidelines for the iPhone’s viewport.
19 July 2007
links for 2007-07-19
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An overview of the Laws of Software Development. Which Laws? ALL OF THEM.
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Parses inbound emails and drops them into Backpack. Nice.
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On SSL and VPN features of the iPhone
11 July 2007
links for 2007-07-11
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Where Jason tries to figure out when a portion of software and application development started to truly hate its users.
6 July 2007
links for 2007-07-06
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Remotely control your Mac through your iPhone. Would I kid a kidder? (Via DF.)
4 July 2007
links for 2007-07-04 (iPhone edition)
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Hacking the internals of the iPhone.
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Where he shares with you “the solution to one of the most annoying things, if not THE most annoying thing, about typing on the iPhone.”
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Good overview of the (non-iPhoto) ways of getting photos onto the phone. I’m really happy at how it lets me take my best work with me - and how I can leave it on my desk as a very nice digital picture frame.
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Thank goodness.
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You just have to deactivate it quickly. (See the dev wiki, too.)
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Tog’s review (a study in delight.)
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Good roundup of features.
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Good use of an existing, simple web service to provide a new iPhone app. (It’s what we’ve come to expect from 37 signals.)
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In depth, great points.
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Comments section is really good.
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I’ve been pretty much glued to DF all week for iPhone news.
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I think this is the one I want. (Hint, hint.)
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I’m actually having this problem, too: I get prompted for my mail password on my Mac, and then the server refuses to accept it. (I confirmed others are having this problem on the server, too. I suspect multiple connection issues.)
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Online iPhone RSS reader at reader.mac.com. (Only works on an iPhone, but calls up the safari RSS reader when you enter a feed. Suggestion: use the Google Reader RSS feed.)
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AIM web client for the iPhone.
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Sized for the iPhone. (There, now you have a game on the phone for when you’re bored.)
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Find gas prices on your iPhone.
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Mobile Twitter site. If they put it in a sans-serif font, I’d swear twitter was made for the iPhone. (I’m spending entirely too much time on twitter these days.)
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A little hacky, but streamlines the Google Reader interface for the iPhone.
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More games for the iPhone.
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Site devoted to new iPhone applications.
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Hmmm. I think this is for those who keep cluttered bookmarks. (You sync your Safari bookmarks with your iPhone, which is a very nice touch.)
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(While not actually part of del.icio.us, this is nicely done.)
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Okay, can we stop talking about how EDGE sucks now? SOME OF US BARELY HAVE CELL SERVICE. Stop waving your 3G around!
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A game of reflexes.
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iPhone flickr browser.
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Holy moly, CRM tools on the iPhone? Okay, NOW we’ve gone too far.
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On the iPhone/Exchange integration problem. I remember when blackberries were forbidden, too — until the right executive got one. Then BES got installed in a hurry.
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On *my* wishlist? A terminal or SSH client for the iPhone. This one requires some python on the remote server, but it’s a start.
21 June 2007
links for 2007-06-21
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Rules governing the water use in our county. (Cheat sheet for me: W/F/Sun, before 9 and after 5)
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‘”Maybe” is one option too many. As a best practice, we should dispense with it, just as we should replace five-star rating systems with four-star ones.’
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Nine steps to turning around a company. Nice.
19 June 2007
links for 2007-06-19
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Glass surface, too. via Daring Fireball.
18 June 2007
links for 2007-06-18
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More Twitter Applescripts, this one for iTunes.
15 June 2007
links for 2007-06-15
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Terminal and plist versions.
14 June 2007
links for 2007-06-14
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One of the better “hide your charger” hacks I’ve seen.
12 June 2007
links for 2007-06-12
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Why windows takes so long to load.
10 June 2007
links for 2007-06-10
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Good collection of collections. Meta-collecting, mmmm.
9 June 2007
links for 2007-06-09
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“Somebody notify Greenpeace.”
7 June 2007
links for 2007-06-07
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On not keeping a schedule, lists, and productivity porn.
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Using rsync, of course. What else?
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Learn about counterfeiting, goods of the trades, wills, rare sheep, and kitchens.
5 June 2007
links for 2007-06-05
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Home of the drobo. Silly name, great idea.
4 June 2007
links for 2007-06-04
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A paper on string theory uses a word from The Simpsons. (“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” — Lisa Simpson.)
3 June 2007
links for 2007-06-03
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Just installed, works great. Oh my, look out, Twitter.
1 June 2007
links for 2007-06-01
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I missed “abstemious” and “jejune.” Damnit.
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What do you call 4’ thick walls? How about, “a good start?”
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Graphing the Gallup data.
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(Hint: it’s not the AMD.)
31 May 2007
links for 2007-05-31
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Python wrapper around HandbrakeCLI.
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Same underpinnings, for good or ill.
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Well said.
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d.light designs aims to eradicate kerosene lamps.
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Surprisingly funny, and even touching.
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Understanding our sleek wiki masters.
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Google Reader + Google Gears = no network latency. Nice.
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“If you encounter an aggressive lion, stare him down. But not a leopard; avoid his gaze at all costs. In both cases, back away slowly; don’t run.”
30 May 2007
links for 2007-05-30
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just create one itty bitty file.
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There should really be a checklist.
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Several very good reports from the congressional research service, including a historical overview of enemy combatant’s rights and the NRC’s building plans.
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Neat.
29 May 2007
links for 2007-05-29
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Scaling. Heh.
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From Boing Boing.
26 May 2007
links for 2007-05-26
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Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout
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Set up a python script to run with cron.
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25 days to rebuild a maze.
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Funny, I’d just started doing this this weekend. Odd how the internet works.
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Funny, they actually enforce water use here. Good news/bad news.
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But despite all that, it was still a good weekend. Nothing like having 65k visitors to your neighborhood.
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How walh replaced Brett. No, really.
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Some days, the jokes just write themselves.
25 May 2007
links for 2007-05-25
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Interesting collection of research on self-image, memory and forgetting.
24 May 2007
links for 2007-05-24
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Find the best FM stations for your iPod transmitter. Good idea, but have to check the execution.
23 May 2007
links for 2007-05-23
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All it needs is a Leatherman.
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Can you put an entire listmania list on your wishlist?
22 May 2007
links for 2007-05-22
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Bridezilla revisited.
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Good overview of what’s inside.
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Out soon. Good job, guys!
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From MSFTextrememakeover, a reason for spending $6 billion on a company.
19 May 2007
links for 2007-05-19
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Tax district proposal might be necessary to get the funds. (10+ inches of rain in a day broke the dam near my house.)
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The 90-day partner cycle is the system’s greatest weakness.
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Me likey. I may not like the new Jettas, but the GTIs are doin’ okay.
18 May 2007
links for 2007-05-18
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View your screen like you were color blind. (NOW I get why my dad likes sculpture.)
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Overview of the screencapture utility.
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A collection of apps for jaiku, including some mobile clients.
17 May 2007
links for 2007-05-17
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I *hate* it when it does that.
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BC FTW!
10 May 2007
links for 2007-05-10
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Really interesting bio: “When baboons hunt together they’d love to get as much meat as possible, but they’re not very good at it. The baboon is a much more successful hunter when he hunts by himself than when he hunts in a group because they screw up eve
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How to turn off that nagging naggy screen. Presto!
9 May 2007
links for 2007-05-09
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“To make it easy, this Sunday we’re making Fog Creek Copilot absolutely free. No strings attached. Just go to https://www.copilot.com on Sunday, get a free pass, and we’ll email your mom a link she can click on to download the helper application. It’s
4 May 2007
links for 2007-05-04
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Did you know the firm behind Year Zero was also behind the Zune? It’s the product, people.
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Probably the final version of the reset.css template.
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“This is my new favorite building. It’s some kind of crazy Akira technology that dropped from orbit last year.”
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High, wispy clouds are moving south. Via kottke.
1 May 2007
links for 2007-05-01
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An interesting take on the Ctrl-Shift-V trap I may have gotten myself into.
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“Or to put it slightly differently, they used to provide you with the tools you needed to hear recorded music. Now they charge you for permission to use tools you already have, that they did not provide, that in fact you paid someone else for. “
30 April 2007
links for 2007-04-30
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On solving Tsiolkovsky’s swap issues.
27 April 2007
links for 2007-04-27
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“What you need is a holy Sanjaya kind of anger that doesn’t stop until you’ve accomplished the job, today and all the days that come after that, until the end of your life, and that’s how you know you changed the world.”
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lsof -i | grep LISTEN, of course!
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“The MacGyver Badge: In which the recipient has demonstrated that his/her science communciation prowess was handy in simplifying a potentially challenging scenario.”
26 April 2007
links for 2007-04-26
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I’m in yr X, Ying your Z.
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Radar! Songbirds! Hitchcock!
25 April 2007
links for 2007-04-25
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Good overview of remote storage solutions, among other things. The GE contract will certainly help Mozy’s infrastructure.
22 April 2007
links for 2007-04-22
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Several different methods and graphs. Neat!
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Slow down and focus. Or was it focus and speed up? I forget.
21 April 2007
links for 2007-04-21
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“People had more money, and in the cities at least, more goods were available, including candles and lamps. People began staying up later with the better lighting, and many of them didn’t have to get up so early in the morning anymore.”
20 April 2007
links for 2007-04-20
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“There’s a simple rule of thumb: Every ten minutes of commuting results in ten per cent fewer social connections. Commuting is connected to social isolation, which causes unhappiness.”
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(In other words, it’s not real.)
19 April 2007
links for 2007-04-19
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Uses about 3-4 watts more than a black screen.
15 April 2007
links for 2007-04-15
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I live in a town without billboards. It’s really quite nice.
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It is very likely there will be numbers used instead of words.
14 April 2007
links for 2007-04-14
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The Comeback Kid, Star Turtles, and self-righting polyhedrals.
13 April 2007
links for 2007-04-13
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Sometimes, you need the screen to go blank quickly. Other times, not so much.
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This comes close to my reaction to The Da VInci Code, too.
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Bringing things back to normal with CSS.
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It’s loaded with matches and Peeps. Oh, yes.
11 April 2007
links for 2007-04-11
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Take note and use the sample letter.
10 April 2007
links for 2007-04-10
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It’s always nice to see this in print.
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NOT Everest.
8 April 2007
links for 2007-04-08
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“Below are some key quotes that outline how anyone can become the dancin’-est, truckin’-est, surfin’-est tough guy on the block. How to be, in essence, “The Swayze.”“
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So *that’s* how they do it.
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“Hello. My name is David Byrne, and I’m going to do an introduction to PowerPoint.”
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I recently called this, “be the duck.”
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Not of fan of GTD, the cult. But a fan of 37Signals.
7 April 2007
links for 2007-04-07
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“Goog-411 can be accessed by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411.”
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Stories by Miranda July, told on the top of appliances. No, really. Click through to the end. There will be oatmeal.
5 April 2007
links for 2007-04-05
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Some recently updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
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“Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two minutes.” Probably time to move to WPA.
4 April 2007
links for 2007-04-04
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Jury’s still out on the effects. Methodology is important here.
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“MOE = 1/sqrt(N) where N is the number of survey responses.”
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The lens list is impressive.
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Each apartment also gets its own apple tree.
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Unqualified recipies. Wing selection is paramount.
3 April 2007
links for 2007-04-03
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I too am surprised at how detailed this entry is.
2 April 2007
links for 2007-04-02
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Many, many, MANY takeoffs of the SimpleBits logo. I love 4/1.
1 April 2007
links for 2007-04-01
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extra senses, anyone?
31 March 2007
links for 2007-03-31
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“Williamsburg and Virginia Beach were among the top 10 localities participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count, which was held for four days in February.”
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How-to construct a pegboard underdesk system. Very neat.
30 March 2007
links for 2007-03-30
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“If you’re going to be idling for more than TEN SECONDS, they’ve discovered, you’ll save gas by shutting off your engine. Ten seconds?! For goodness sakes! Stoplights can take up to two minutes!”
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From the Congressional Research Service, March 26, 2007.
29 March 2007
links for 2007-03-29
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A look at where MSFT stands now (03-2007).
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“Nassau Street between Francis Street and Newport Avenue is slated to close late today through the mid-afternoon Thursday so crew members can spread sand on the street to give it a more 18th-century look.”
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On the redesign of the Dairy Queen logo. Why, dear lord, why?
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Odd. Catal Huyuk and David Rice in the same article? Oh wait, this IS from 1994.
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Unfortunately, only 11 of them. But you can get CrustyBurgers.
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Congratulations to Matt on his work getting published in this Jimi Hendrix anthology!
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Pay attention to the Planet Argon screens.
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Photos from the steinhart aquarium.
28 March 2007
links for 2007-03-28
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After they sent us House Sparrows, is turnabout fair play?
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For customizing iPhoto HTML output.
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I think we’re safe… until Moore’s Law catches up to us.
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“They are virtually indestructable, which is good, because the object of their existence is to knock other planes out of the sky.”
27 March 2007
links for 2007-03-27
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On the rise (and rise, and rise) of the Mail-like interface on OS X applications
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Software to reskin all of OS X to use mail.app’s look.
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking…”
25 March 2007
links for 2007-03-25
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On what really happened to Kreutz’s BBQ in Lockhart.
24 March 2007
links for 2007-03-24
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Basically, move your .gnupg directory to the thumbdrive.
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Note to self: move funds out of ING Direct. Investigate etrade account.
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I particularly like the one about the fine line between hobbies and mental illness.
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No reason.
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On rechargable batteries for digital cameras.
23 March 2007
links for 2007-03-23
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On the portrayal of working mothers in journalism through the last 60 years.
21 March 2007
links for 2007-03-21
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On turning around when leaving the interstate. No, really.
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Transcript of Jon Stewart’s interview of Kermit the Frog.
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Elmo: Red Menace? Or not?
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Includes some old favorites (like disabling the dashboard.)
19 March 2007
links for 2007-03-19
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OpenWRT solutions for your Linux router.
18 March 2007
links for 2007-03-18
17 March 2007
links for 2007-03-17
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Puts the currently playing iTunes song’s album art in the Dock. Plugin.
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I think this is in my web log, but not in my bookmarks. Now with My Little Minions!
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Offline Flickr management / uploading tool. After recent builds of jUploadr moved to Java 1.4, time to find something new. Already has iPhoto integration.
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From the latest Peeple Magazine. No, I didn’t mistype that.
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I think I’m actually with Kathy on this one.
16 March 2007
links for 2007-03-16
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Checklist for customer service surveys.
15 March 2007
links for 2007-03-15
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“It’s easy to regret your awkward conversations but hard to regret the ones you didn’t have.”
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Research on how people read pages. Whitespace, thoughtful layout, avoid images that don’t contribute.
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I think the title says it all.
14 March 2007
links for 2007-03-14
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Remove OS X localization files, free up space.
13 March 2007
links for 2007-03-13
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This one goes out to an old friend who needs help in climbing the Google pagerank ladder on some very specific search terms.
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On the length of life, and time.
12 March 2007
links for 2007-03-12
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Apparently Trip LOVES this skit. Who knew?
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(Basically, axe the originals for edited photos.)
10 March 2007
links for 2007-03-10
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Terminal hack to speed up the UI.
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“The Photographer’s Right: A Downloadable Flyer Explaining Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography”
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Output is a shell script with commented-out rm commands. Nice.
9 March 2007
links for 2007-03-09
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Includes script to initate backup upon drive mount.
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I love this line: “As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4.”
8 March 2007
links for 2007-03-08
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Lord knows, it’s about time.
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Star Trek: Voyager, to be precise.
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On the use of the Golden Ratio in music. Video game music, to be exact.
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Oldie but a goodie.
7 March 2007
links for 2007-03-07
6 March 2007
links for 2007-03-06
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They also considered dropping Office for Mac as a bargaining tool. And they punched a clown!
5 March 2007
links for 2007-03-05
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More in-depth explanation on the SQLite vacuum.
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On the growing movement to keep kids playing outside.
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On “stranger danger” etc.. Also from Boing Boing. (as above.)
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Advice on how to handle dromeosaurids.
3 March 2007
links for 2007-03-03
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Where Jim gets his blog censored for profanity, in the best way possible.
2 March 2007
links for 2007-03-02
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(Yes, they’re about horses.)
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Post address book cards to the internet. Mac only.
1 March 2007
links for 2007-03-01
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On treatment of customers, pre- and post- sale.
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You’ll notice how many widgets are running on this site right now.
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From Digital Photography School.
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One letter, one symbol. Can be done in any typeface.
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Who is geekier than thou?
28 February 2007
links for 2007-02-28
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Latest album is now available for free. Gutsy move.
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Too… many… jokes…
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Is anyone _really_ suprised? I mean, c’mon.
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No browser required.
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Going down?
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Definitely worth the full read.
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On finding the Autumn desktop picture (one of my favorites, too.)
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I think I may go for the exercise ball, actually.
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Top to bottom, left-to-right. Good advice.
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From IBM, with an obvious agenda.
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Discontinued incase bags, sleeves and whatnot.
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Splat = Ruins. Truth is almost always better than fiction.
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It’s ⌘, in case I forget again.
27 February 2007
links for 2007-02-27
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Toyota’s obsessive culture that got them where they are today.
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“What if instead of ME going to fetch the BEER, the BEER came to ME?”
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Nice. Verra nice.
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(In original german.)
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Not only does it lower the price point of a device, it lowers the support cost for Dell. Why was this so hard to do?
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People are selfish taggers. And I like to breathe air.
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Elevated cabinets, added to the wish list.
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YAH’s already been in to have hers replaced, YJM is this week.
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Holy moly! And all this time I thought it was Google Reader and all the AJAXy crud. Now that I’ve finally gotten off the Safari RSS reader, perhaps it’s time to go back to Camino. Or Lynx. Lynx is WAY fast.
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On implementing and deploying FileVault across an enterprise.
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On why Safari remains the preferred Mac browser, and why Camino matters.
26 February 2007
links for 2007-02-26
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Great work by Stuck In Customs.
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The Go Fug Yourself girls liveblog the oscars. Far better than actually watching it.
25 February 2007
links for 2007-02-25
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Hardwood floor cleaners.
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Ars Technica review.
24 February 2007
links for 2007-02-24
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Presentation from 2005 that includes overview of S/MIME, PGP, GPG, MacGPG with focus on Mail.app.
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If rsync ain’t your thing.
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One of these years, they’ll get it right (probably when they take the $1 bill out of circulation, methinks.)
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On the use of pmset.
23 February 2007
links for 2007-02-23
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On how *not* to build a presentation deck.
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From Joel on Software. Good advice.
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“Three cheers for the organization that says, “In order to keep prices low and traffic moving, we’re unable to discuss our policies with you. We’re very sorry if this inconveniences you.” It’s far better than the charade that so many large companies go th
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Real-time representation of the earth on your desktop. Free.
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If only it weren’t neon yellow rubber.
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Via Jim.
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(Requires X11, of course)
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Presentation from 2005 that includes overview of S/MIME, PGP, GPG, MacGPG with focus on Mail.app.
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If rsync ain’t your thing.
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One of these years, they’ll get it right (probably when they take the $1 bill out of circulation, methinks.)
22 February 2007
links for 2007-02-22
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Significance of each number. Kelly, do not miss this!
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Make your own cable shorteners.
19 February 2007
links for 2007-02-20
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Quicksilver-lite for Windows. Replacement for RocketDock and AppRocket and the QuickLaunch bar and the Start menu and …
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Ease into Mac development.
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Using OS X to generate new passwords every week.
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Skyy + snow + exercise ball
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Edmund’s first take on the Spyder.
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