March 31, 2006

50 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your Website

http://scott.heiferman.com/notes/2006/03/50_reasons_why_.html "Because they don't want to generate content, they want better life"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:48 PM

All Things Distributed: A Word on Scalability

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/03/a_word_on_scalability.html 'Often you hear in a discussion “but that doesn’t scale” as the magical word to end an argument.'
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Naked Answers

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/03/naked_answers.html "they appeared shell-shocked that anyone actually had the guts to challenge the golden wonder boys of blogging and not accept their religion instantly."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Up With Grups

http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/16529/ "This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act, and dress like people who are 22 years old."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

March 30, 2006

Philly Plumbers Upset by Waterless Urinals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_on_re_us/philly_unions_urinals "In a city where organized labor is a force to be reckoned with, the plumbers union has been raising a stink about a developer's plans to install 116 waterless, no-flush urinals in what will be Philadelphia's biggest skyscraper."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Browser size hijacking

http://kalsey.com/2006/03/browser_size_hijacking/ this bites me from time to time alos
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

March 29, 2006

Undertaking a Difficult Sales Job

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031501775.html "you begin by noting that The Post has recently been covering the controversy over the sale of port management contracts to an Arab Muslim country. Then, employing a non sequitur of breathtaking proportions, or possibly one of the most tasteless transitio
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Drunk driver saved in court by "Shania Twain" defense

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/29/drunk_driver_saved_i.html damn, that's funny
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Freedom 0

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/14/freedom-0 It’s not about money; it’s about freedom.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

WordPress Plugins Database

http://wp-plugins.net/ featuring the ugliest AdSense I've ever seen
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Are You Ready to Job-Hop?

http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/03/are_you_ready_t.html "It seems that everywhere you look people are ditching their safe, downturn-economy jobs and trying out new gigs." So I've noticed.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/wp-tutorial-your-first-wp-plugin/ a good use of screencasting to show how easy it is to build basic wordpress plugins
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

World's Best Resignation Letter?

http://www.allowe.com/Humor/book/World%20Class%20Resignation.htm it's a classic
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

rsync.net

http://www.rsync.net/ rsync.net provides secure, fault-tolerant, multi-homed data storage for offsite backup, disaster preparedness, remote access and personal use.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

How To Override "Access Denied" and "Sharing Violation" Roadblocks

http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/security_aadcdidabj_hh/ There are a couple of better and easier ways to bypass these errors, kill the desired program, and go on about your business. And amazingly, they're free.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

First Oil ETF

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/03/29/first_oil_etf.html "The American Stock exchange has confirmed that next week it plans to launch the first U.S.-listed oil exchange-trade fund."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

FolderSync

http://www.kalab.com/freeware/foldersync/foldersync.htm "FolderSync is a file compare, diff and synchronization utility. It is a tool to check two different directories for changed or new files. FolderSync can be used to intelligently synchronize the files so that both directories have the same contents."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Get a PBwiki for your Yahoo! Group

http://pbwiki.com/yahoo/ who knew?!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

The tyranny of TV in public

http://www.megnut.com/2006/03/the-tyranny-of-tv-in-public "Can't we have some unmediated time to ourselves anymore? What's wrong with standing in the line at the bank, just spacing out or day-dreaming about stuff?"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

BrainWave Generator

http://www.bwgen.com/index.htm "Just put on the earphones and let BrainWave Generator take you to the state of mind you want."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

March 28, 2006

Why You Too Should Cancel Cable

http://www.columbia.edu/~ip71/w116/2006/03/why-you-too-should-cancel-cable.html 'But eventually, he informed me that I would be added to a special "watch list" of people who cancel cable without an explanation. And with that ominous warning, I was allowed to break free.'
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Census 2000 Gazetteer Files

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html "In response to user requests, we created a Census 2000 gazetteer of counties, county subdivisions (MCDs/CCDs), places and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) for the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

March 27, 2006

Official Google Blog Deleted, Blogger Registers googleblog.blogspot.com

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060328-011003 kick ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

Be worried, be very worried - Mar 26, 2006

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/index.html The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Easy Cookie Hacking

http://shiflett.org/archive/217 "Luckily, with a small collection of common injections, it's easy to perform some mild penetration testing. You can even bookmark them."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

tamperdata

http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/ tamperdata is an extension [for firefox] to track and modify http/https requests
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Managing Mavericks

http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2006/0,4814,108540,00.html "People say they want that person who is truly creative but then force the person into a very structured environment and criticize them for not being process-oriented..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

The oil in your oatmeal

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/26/ING3PHRU681.DTL A lot of fossil fuel goes into producing, packaging and shipping our breakfast
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Universal Encoding Detector

http://chardet.feedparser.org/ Character encoding auto-detection in Python. As smart as your browser. Open source.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

March 26, 2006

Awesome Spellchecker

http://photomatt.net/2006/03/26/awesome-spellchecker/ "We now have inline-spellchecking on WordPress.com, and it will be in core for WordPress 2.1." Very cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

March 25, 2006

Filter RSS with Feed Rinse

http://www.feedrinse.com/ Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren't interested in. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

The Hilton Experience

http://mindensoaringclub.com/int2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=0 an excellent write-up of a week at Hilton's Flyin M Ranch by Gordon Boettger
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Novice cross country in the Sierras by Hans Van Weersch

http://www.geocities.com/weersch/hobbies/soar/ColdSpring.html Hans wrote up his experience landing on Cold Spring Dry Lake a few years ago in a nasty storm
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Bug#177101: apt-get: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

http://lists.debian.org/deity/2003/01/msg00183.html I had this problem too. Google to the rescue!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now.html Ouch!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Taking Stock of Yahoo

http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/taking-stock-of-yahoo/ "The only thing for sure is that in stock terms YHOO is no GOOG, and this is THE key issue for many."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

March 23, 2006

Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060322/us_nm/bars_dc "Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Criticker

http://www.criticker.com/ Rank at least 10 films to build personalized TCIs (Taste Compatibility Indexes) and find the people and critics whose tastes in cinema most closely match yours.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

March 22, 2006

Amazon S3 Library for REST in Perl

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=133&categoryID=47 this opens up so many doors
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST"

http://www.sacredcowdung.com/archives/2006/03/all_things_web.html oh. my. god. I finally looked a THE LIST
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Prince

http://www.princexml.com/ a server-side tool for rendering web pages as PDF
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Meet A Black Person

http://sumeetjain.com/treasures/2006/03/22/meet-a-black-person/ Some parts of the world lack Indians. Others lack people from Pakistan. Aspen, CO happens to lack Black people. The person in this video capitalizes on this fact for an unforgettable short video.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3

http://www.postneo.com/2006/03/22/backing-up-flickr-photos-with-amazon-s3 using 25 lines of code!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Google Page Creator fills with crap

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-page-creator-fills-with-crap.html who didn't see that coming, really?
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study

http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

No tags, no ping server, no problem…

http://blog.edgeio.com/?p=21 edgeio has Instant Add now: "Using Instant Add you can provide us with the URL of any RSS enabled website, well grab the most recent listings, and then you tell us if you want them published on edgeio."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

What's not wrong with eating organic

http://www.megnut.com/2006/03/whats-not-wrong-with-eating-organic "When did eating become so complicated?"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

S3 Rocks!

http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/?p=458 another example of using Amazon's S3 as an on-line backup storage system
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Crashed Linux on an Airbus A330

http://www.flickr.com/photos/milliped/116393699/ as seen on Flickr
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Westward Ho!

http://home.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/west_trip.html Three RV's Travel From Alabama to Arizona and Back
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

Apple employee gets fired for hilarious standup/poetry routine

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/03/19/apple-employee-gets-fired-for-hilarious-standup-poetry-routine/ anyone else think the Apple VP should have been the one fired?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Complete rundown of the Yahoo Publisher Network Terms & Conditions changes

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/03/complete_rundow.html Uhm, why did Jen have to do this? Can't Yahoo explain WHAT changed rather than simply saying "stuff changed, you figure it out..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Web 2.0 Panel at MIX06

http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/03/21/141/ wherein I read from the scared text of Yahoo on stage
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

March 21, 2006

How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf a good presentation from Joshua Bloch at Google
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

March 20, 2006

The Sun Doesn’t Shine on Me

http://joyeur.com/2006/03/20/the-sun-doesnt-shine-on-me "I’ve been trying since July of 2005 [to buy Sun servers]."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

What Is Screencasting

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/11/16/what-is-screencasting.html a nice article by Jon Udell that explains screencasting
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Saving the Mercury News: Could Yahoo Help?

http://bayosphere.com/node/1855 Dan's wondering if Yahoo could rejigger the Merch for the 21st century
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

March 19, 2006

MySQL 5.0: Remarkably Painful

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2006/03/16/mysql-50-remarkably-painful/ jcole runs down what's painful in MySQL 5.0
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Axis Communications - Network cameras

http://www.axis.com/products/video/camera/index.htm Axis offers a wide range of high quality network cameras for securing people and property, remotely monitoring equipment and facilities, and for sending live images and sounds for remote learning, troubleshooting or Web broadcasting.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

How to set up reBlog - killer server side feed reader

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-set-up-reblog-killer-server-side-feed-reader-160825.php a quick tutorial if you'd like to try out reBlog
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Tomcat tribuite - Google Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7069648842128183770 "A tribuite to the F-14 Tomcat, currently serving its last days in the US Navy. The F-14 will be retired from service on September of this year."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

South Park - Scientology Episode

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SSj9gc36Bw8&search=scientology "Dad, Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet!"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

March 17, 2006

Windows Media Encoder 9 Series

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.mspx "Windows Media Encoder 9 Series is a powerful tool for content producers who want to capture audio and video content'
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

Blogging Frustration

http://www.shimonsandler.com/?p=115 "I post and post and post. Don’t get me wrong. I actually enjoy it, have fun doing it, and I learn as I go. But, man, I’m always hoping to get some links."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

March 16, 2006

Megite Technology News

http://www.megite.com/ another memorandum, tailrank, "what's going on now" site
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Raw FAA Sectionals

http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/current/ in TIFF format
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

GlidePlan

http://www.glideplan.com/ Pre flight cross country planning software for the glider pilot.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Yahoo grants CEO 1.3M options

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/060315/1259555.html?.v=1 "the options have a $40.68 exercise price" How'd they come up with that number?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE

http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/ Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:48 AM

Against the Browser's Will: Make Mashups Talk Across Domains

http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/30860/1954?pf=true Dan explains a bunch of stuff using various Y! APIs
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 AM

Mollio CSS/HTML Templates

http://www.mollio.org/ Mollio is a simple set of html/css templates. The aim was to create a set of page templates that use css for layout as well as some sample basic content which has also had some css applied.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

March 15, 2006

Anywhere Map

http://www.anywheremap.com/detail.aspx?ID=23 in flight navigation software that runs on the iPAQ
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

"Dear Japanese People..."

http://jwz.livejournal.com/611263.html hahahahahahahahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Jeremy Zawodny’s WordPress blog

http://jzawodn.wordpress.com/ I'm just kicking the tires here...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

How do I remove a stripped screw?

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/34421 I had nearly the same problem recently. The solution was to let Tom deal with it.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Ex-Apple executives seek tech properties to acquire

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/14104314.htm this still makes my brain feel a little funny
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Why Grammar is the First Casualty of War

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0112-02.htm "With most wars, you can say you've won when the other side is either all dead or surrenders. But how is terrorism going to surrender?"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

AskOxford: Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/?view=uk answers to some trivia questions about the english language
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060315/1133233.shtml WTF?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Workbench: Letter from Dave Winer's Attorney

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2881/letter-dave-winers-attorney help Dave Winer, get sued
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

New people I met At SES

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/archives/2006/03/06/new-people-i-met-at-ses/ Me at Matt Cutts, caught on digital film!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

March 14, 2006

The Myth of Maneuvering Speed

http://www.flyingmag.com/article.asp?section_id=12&article_id=527&print_page=y "It turns out that what pilots knew, or believed that they knew, about the significance of Va in airframe structural certification is incomplete."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Read the numbers on your fruit

http://www.megnut.com/2006/03/read-the-numbers-on-your-fruit "Conventionally grown fruit has four digits; organically grown fruit has five and starts with a nine; genetically engineered has five numbers and starts with an eight"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

25 Things I Hate About Google

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060313-161500 Danny decides to unleash the fury!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S)

http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/ Neat Trick!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

donloeb.com - rss, blogging, and "life" in general

http://donloeb.com/blog/2006/03/14/moving-on/ Don is going form Yahoo to FeedBurner. Congrats!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Amazon S3

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-0779276-6428603?node=16427261 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

March 13, 2006

Why Schools Don’t Educate

http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html "The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators but the abstract logic of the institution o
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Prostitutes get own radio station

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060310/od_nm/brazil_prostitutes_dc "Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Salvador are starting up their own radio station." Kick Ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Google Click-Fraud Settlement VERY Material

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/03/google_clickfra.html Henry Blodget seems kinda pissed at Google for this
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

reBlog

http://reblog.org/ A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published through their
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

AJAX Shoutbox at Jalenack

http://blog.jalenack.com/ajax/ This Wordpress plugin adds live chat functionality to your Wordpress blog. Your visitors can chat with eachother right in your website without refreshing their browsers.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Skydiver in record Channel flight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3112095.stm "An Austrian man has become the first person to skydive across the English Channel." That's hard core!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Naming for Platform Success

http://www.radwin.org/jeske/2006/03/naming_for_platform_success.html "Dear Nokia, It should not be this hard for a consumer who wants to buy into your platform play, to find a phone which is part of the platform."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Maximizing your ROI at Pizza Hut

http://www.start.com.my/blog/maximizing-your-roi-at-pizza-hut/ heh. just look at the pics.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Google Redux Greasemonkey Script

http://buckymatters.com/googleredux/ patching the google homepage to make it less fugly
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Slickr

http://cellardoorsw.com/?page_id=4 a cool flickr screensaver
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Skyvector.com - Online Aeronautical Charts

http://skyvector.com/ another "google maps of aviation" site
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/index.jspa Amazon's new developer community site
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

It's boring to scale with Ruby on Rails

http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000479.html "So the scaling part is solved. What's left is judging whether the economics of it are sensible to you. And that's really a performance issue, not a scalability one."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

March 12, 2006

California Pilots Association

http://www.calpilots.org/html/ and they've even got a [lame] RSS feed. yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Simon vs Shrimp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864T2BKQo_E Simon will never live this down!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

March 11, 2006

Google Buys Writely

http://googlejerk.com/jerkstore/03/11/google-buys-writely/ "WHOOOOOPDEEEEE FUCKING DOOO!"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

The Five Buck Idea

http://blog.acmelab.org/?p=35 "That’s right. You, too, can have a startup. All you need is a five buck idea. And then all that glamour can be yours."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

March 10, 2006

Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm useful for times that I'm lazy
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

National Weather Service Forecast Office Area Forecast Discussion for Monterey Bay

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/productviewnation.php?pil=MTRAFDMTR&version=0 this is the annotated version that I geek out on
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Wall Street is wrong on Yahoo!

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/10/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htm?section=money_latest "The Internet powerhouse may be growing slower than Google now, but it's well positioned for long-term success as a central site on the burgeoning Web."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

March 09, 2006

SynchroEdit

http://synchroedit.com/ "SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Cubicles: The Great Mistake

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/09/magazines/fortune/cubicle_howiwork_fortune/index.htm Even the designer of the cubicle thinks they were maybe a bad idea, as millions of 'Dilberts' would agree.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Search: And the winner is...

http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2006/03/search-and-winner-is.html "Google and Yahoo tied for first place"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

March 08, 2006

Checkmates

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/03/07/checkmates/ a mobile friend finder prototype for eTech built by some of the Yahoo! TechDev folks to play with at eTech
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

March 07, 2006

Attention Full

http://evhead.com/2006/03/attention-full.asp "It should be both easy and socially acceptable to turn your inbox off from non-critical communications from time to time." Agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

NBC's marketing lesson, in 3 acts

http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/viral_videos_ar.html A savvy company would die for the level of free viral marketing that SNL was just beginning to explore and understand, thanks to a 3-minute video clip... But someone somewhere in the network made a decision that killed the distributed network effect.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Research Day: How Much Does An Adult, Male, African Elephant Weight?

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001609.html there's really no way to summarize this link, so just go read it
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Modern Drunkard Magazine Online: Soused Africa

http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/10_04/10-04-soused-africa.htm Throughout southern Africa, people are able to lead the kind of lives that we in the West can only imagine. They drink as much as they like, as often as they like, and no one—save for the odd azungu missionary—will say a word to object.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

March 06, 2006

Flickr Leech

http://www.houserdesign.com/flickr/ impressively simple and useful at the same time
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Looking Busy

http://botulus.net/blog/insights/looking-busy/ "One guy wrote in to talk about how he and four of his buddies managed to take at least one day a week off each. They worked for a big company and it was easy to get lost."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Beale AFB

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/beale.htm Beale is home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, and is also considered by many to be one of the show places of the United States Air Force.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

TreasuryDirect

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/ buy your t-bills online
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

PXN8.COM - Online Photo Editor

http://pxn8.com/ another on-line photo editor, but you can buy this one for your own servers too
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Firefox search plugin for Yahoo! Blog Search

http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/03/firefox-search-plugin-for-yahoo-blog-search/ just in case you're a blog search die-hard
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

March 05, 2006

Pixoh

http://pixoh.com/ "Edit pictures online" a neat hack
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Harper Lee tops librarians' must-read list

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1721526,00.html I'm surprised by how many of these I've read already
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

3 days

http://jpdefillippo.com/blog/2006/03/03/3-days/ "On the upside I never again have to hear the word “blogosphere” in a serious conversation and be forced to keep a straight face."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

"All Marketers are Liars" - Seth Godin speaks at Google

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294 I haven't seen this yet, but am told it's worth watching
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

The Best: Accidental Discoveries

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/start.html?pg=3 is it just me, or are there a lot of drugs on the list?
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Catenema.com: Do NOT Try This at Home!

http://www.catenema.com/cat1.html heh. the cartoons make this even more funny
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Funny Osama-a nice guy that makes you laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7NdKu9pmXU&feature=Views&page=2&t=w&f=b as seen on youtube
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

March 04, 2006

Real Life Simpsons Intro

http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw a great video on YouTube
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 03, 2006

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

ADDS - Aviation Digital Data Service

http://adds.aviationweather.gov/ good weather info from the FAA
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

SDForum Search SIG: The Search for Attention

http://upcoming.org/event/60736/ March 16th 6:30pm @ AOL - Featuring FeedBurner, Memeorandum, Root Markets & Technorati at AOL Building 12 in Mountain View, CA (Thursday, March 16, 2006)
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

The New Publishing Capital?

http://blog.topix.net/archives/000102.html "Well, when I look at Yahoo, I see Vegas. I sign up for free email, read stock quotes and sports scores there for free and maybe even play some fantasy baseball for free."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Conscious Procrastination

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/03/conscious-procrastination/ "Doing little stuff first is one of the most insidious forms of procrastination because it seems like you’re being productive. You rationalize that you have plenty of time to handle the big stuff."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

High Achievers: What Price Are They Paying?

http://school.familyeducation.com/college-preparation/educational-philosophy/37656.html "Over the past two decades, the children I've interviewed have become progressively more packaged for success. They've been advised, scared, and professionally coached into believing that school's only purpose is to get the grades that will gain them admi
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

March 02, 2006

FAA Registry: Jeremy Zawodny

https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/AirmenIndivDetail.asp?uniqid=A2801611 That's my FAA airmen database record.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

The no-framework PHP MVC framework - Rasmus' Toys Page

http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC-framework.html#extended Rasmus is anti-MVC and attacts some fun discussion from those who want more complex PHP stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

March 01, 2006

Macintosh Stories: Make a Mess, Clean it Up!

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Make_a_Mess,_Clean_it_Up!.txt "Burrell may have lost that game and the next few, but it wasn't too long before he was really mastering the machine. Instead of avoiding the tough situations, he'd immediately create them, and immediately start learning how to handle the worst situation
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 PM

How wifi changes the workplace

http://timconverse.com/blog/index.php?/archives/139_How_wifi_changes_the_workplace.html "I've been amused and interested to see how wifi (and other connecting technologies) has changed my working environment."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

United States Patent 7,007,074

http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2006/02/united_states_patent_70070.html Radwin got his patent issued
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Canon EOS 5D Review

http://philip.greenspun.com/photography/canon/eos-5d I don't take enough pictures to justify buying one of these. But if I did...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

John's Background Switcher

http://www.johnsadventures.com/backend/BackgroundSwitcher/ with built-in flickr support
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM