May 31, 2006

18 Days of Reckless Computing

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/start.html?pg=6 "What kind of idiot buys a computer and willingly – even eagerly – exposes it to all the malware and viruses he can? Me."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

On becoming a company evangelist

http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/on_becoming_an_.html some good, if obvious, advice in here
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Video: Joe Hewitt Talks About FireBug

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/05/30/hewitt-firebug/ "Joe stopped by Yahoo! last week to talk to the Y! frontend engineering community about FireBug. He was kind enough to let us capture the talk on video, and we’re pleased to share the core part of his talk with you here."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

May 30, 2006

Customizer 104/105 Black Keyboard

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html It's like an IBM Model M "clicky" keyboard
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Don't Try This at Home

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry.html "But not every suburban household boasts its own particle accelerator."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

A family of 4 — but no car

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003023972_carless28e.html "The Petersons don't drive. They haven't since 1987. No one in the family has a driver's license. At 17 and 20 years old, the Peterson kids have never been behind the wheel."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Trex

http://www.trex.com/ "Trex decking and railing products are made from a unique combination of reclaimed wood and plastic, giving you the best qualities of both materials."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

ThinkWiki - Linux ThinkPad Wiki

http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki "This is ThinkWiki, the Wiki Web for ThinkPad users. Here you find anything you need to install your favourite Linux distribution on your ThinkPad." (via mark pilgrim)
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Recently Unearthed E-Mail Reveals What Life Was Like In 1995

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48970 "According to Caspari, the find indicates that people from that era spoke a much earlier form of e-mail language alien to our own, employing the full spellings of most words, and lacking the versatility and advanced expression of smiley-face or frowny-fac
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Dan Aykroyd takes UFOs out for a spin

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060530/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_aykroyd "Dan Aykroyd has a new video on the market, but the ex-conehead and one-time ghost-buster says he's not the star. The UFOs are."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Sinking of the Oriskany

http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm The Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier, was sunk 24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., on May 17 to form an artificial reef. The sinking of the 888-foot ship took 37 minutes. (via nelson)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

An Open Letter to Michael Pollan

http://www.wholefoods.com/blogs/jm/archives/2006/05/an_open_letter_1.html John Mackey (Whole Foods CEO and co-founder) responds to Michael Pollan’s book: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Fantazy Land - Egypt

http://www.themeparkreview.com/fantazyland/fantazyland.htm "The Worst Theme Park in the World" It's really that bad.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Amazing R/C airplane demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94 it really is impressive
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

The 8 Minute Big O

http://clerks2.com/trainwreck/?p=79 Clerks 2 got an 8 minute standing ovation. Wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

May 28, 2006

FAST FOOD NATION Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99n9BveKns The Big One
Posted by jzawodn at 12:24 PM

Theo Finished His Book!

http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/59-The-End-Has-Come.html "The truth is that scalable design is a frame of mind. It is about using an understanding of the points of contention and where pressures will sit on various components and applying good engineering practices to shift (or eliminate) those stresses."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:24 PM

Hiller Aviation Museum and Institute

http://hiller.org/ I should go check this place out someday
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

May 27, 2006

Doomed! The impending tragedy of the crow who mothered a kitten

http://www.luckykazoo.com/media/2005/05/doomed-impending-tragedy-of-crow-who.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

May 19, 2006

Tetris in JavaScript

http://www.dustindiaz.com/basement/tetris.html it had to happen sooner or later
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

May 13, 2006

My 150km Glider Flight on 5/13/06

http://www2.onlinecontest.org/olcphp/2006/ausw_fluginfo.php?ref3=22738&ueb=N&olc=olc-usa&spr=en&dclp=d1d67e47c50f973f78a49aa34f8a45da I flew from Minden to the nothern and southern extremes of the Pine Nuts.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

May 11, 2006

Are Smart People Overrated?

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm the talent myth
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Reno NWS Area Forecast Discussion

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/productviewnation.php?pil=REVAFDREV&version=0 more goodness from the National Weather Service
Posted by jzawodn at 10:48 AM

National Weather Service - Reno, NV

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/ this will be quite useful starting on Saturday
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

AIM Pages - AOL breaking down the Walled Garden

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/aim_pages_aol_b.php "It currently features modules like delicious, netflix and youtube - but there's a whole lot more to come!"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 10, 2006

You're Rich? Terrific. Now Pay Up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/business/yourmoney/07every.html?ex=1304654400&en=dd31af8036e2f403&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "It's not about oil. It's about fairness."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:48 PM

New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48199 hahahahaha...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Improv Everywhere

http://www.improveverywhere.com/home.php "we cause scenes"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Man buys fighter jet, wants refund

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060509/od_nm/china_plane_dc "A Chinese businessman who bought a Russian fighter jet online wants his money back after finding it could not be shipped to China" Shipped? Why not fly it?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Federal Aviation Administration - Aviation Handbooks and Manuals

http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/ some useful free publications from the FAA
Posted by jzawodn at 06:25 PM

Google's community search

http://bambi.blogs.com/bambi_francisco/2006/05/googles_communi.html "all day Google's WiFi network failed to work"
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Google Press Day

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/05/10/google_press_da.html "Stare in shock and awe as the company announces whizzy new revenue-less and incomplete products & services."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

May 09, 2006

Google insider selling so massive it makes the Drudge Report:

http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/fuckedgoogle/2006/05/google_insider_.html "Google insider sales and the taxes they paid on those sales account for 12% of the total increase in the entire state of California's tax receipt growth." Uhm, holy shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

The Oil Fix Congress Won't Touch

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1191252,00.html?promoid=rss_top "Gasp. Tell Americans to drive less? Though a fractional reduction in driving across the country would dramatically reduce demand and prices"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:25 PM

Winggrids

http://www.winggrid.ch/Geranos.htm Replace wingspan with Winggrids and get similar performance with better handling. Crazy looking!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Airlines Try Smarter Boarding

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70689-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "For cash-strapped airlines, improving the boarding process has become more than a customer service issue."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:48 PM

Sex Leads to Boy's Suspension

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=4154105 "Ryan Biggar, 16, and his 17-year-old girlfriend had permission to leave Middle Creek High School for an off-campus program. When their event was canceled for the day, they were caught having sex in the girl's home."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

The Four-Day Week Challenge

http://alistapart.com/articles/fourdayweek a 4 day work week would rock my world!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Long-term backup

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/05/08/backup there's some good advice accumulating there
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 08, 2006

Yahoo Is Unleashing a New Way to Turn Ad Clicks Into Ka-Ching - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/technology/08yahoo.html?ex=1147752000&en=7bc69ad3b19a6672&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY I have a theme song in mind for this one...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Hoodwinking the censors

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1146865816987&call_pageid=968332188492 Hacktivism is the melding of hacking and social or political activism. Hacktivists have a common enemy, Villeneuve once wrote in The Hacktivist, an online magazine he founded: "the repressive use of laws and technologies by private corporations and govern
Posted by jzawodn at 03:30 PM

Philips Bodygroom

http://www.shaveeverywhere.com/ why isn't more advertising this funny?
Posted by jzawodn at 03:28 PM

How I Work

http://krow.livejournal.com/422408.html "IM works only because the people around me respect my time. "
Posted by jzawodn at 03:26 PM

Full throttle with the Blue Angels

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/extra/blueangels/ journalist rides with Blue Angles, passes out 3 times, has a blast.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:25 PM

Digg This Button On Your Own Site

http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2006/05/digg_this_button_on_your_own_s_1.html Nice job, Alex
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Am I scared of Google Calendar?

http://jkanstyle.infogami.com/blog/scared "I can honestly say that the answer is no." He's apparently not scared of comment spam either.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Airport would ground gliders

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_3793981 it looks like the airport in Jean, NV could be replaced by something much, much larger one day...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:26 PM

A VC: SiteAdvisor

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/05/site_advisor.html SiteAdvisor looks lke a good idea in these days of l AdSense powered link farms and phising
Posted by jzawodn at 12:25 PM

How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide

http://www.kuro5hin.org/# "This is my personal account of curing my asthma and hayfever by deliberately infesting myself with the intestinal parasite hookworm."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

May 06, 2006

LinuxAdvocate.org - Linux information, advocacy, reviews and tips for everyone.

http://linuxadvocate.org/articles.php?p=1 pretty well done
Posted by jzawodn at 03:25 PM

Pretty Planet

http://www.mrdeckard.com/links/Pretty_Planet.htm some excellent earth shots
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Former Disney Dancer Named Playmate of The Year

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12080453&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews "A former Walt Disney World dancer who used to dress up as Cinderella and Snow White was named Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year on Thursday."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

You can not possibly imagine how bad I smell today

http://regex.info/blog/2006-05-06/187 "Relaxing now in my office, I realize that I can still feel it oozing from my pores. And yes, my eyes. My eyes are still oozing garlic."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:27 AM

3,738 Mothers Set Breast-Feeding Record

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_fe_st/mass_breast_feeding "Nearly 4,000 mothers set a world record this week for the largest number of women simultaneously breast-feeding their babies in the same place, organizers said." Why knew anyone tracked this?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:25 AM

BigTable: A Distributed Structured Storage System

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7278544055668715642&q=bigtable "In this lecture at the University of Washington, Google's Jeff Dean discusses the Bigtable content storage system used in google's backend."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

May 05, 2006

It's hard out there for a virgin...

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-05-05T133331Z_01_L05623117_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-VIRGINS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R1-MostViewed-1 "A brothel has become the first in Berlin to offer special deals for virgins with prostitutes trained in the delicate art of catering for customers who have never had sex, a German newspaper reported Friday."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Matrin Hellman's Soaring Site

http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/soaring.html He fliess a Stemme out of Hayward, often visting Minden and the Sierras
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

A Lack of Basic Text Formatting Skills

http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/5258 the list of 11 items matches my experience too
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 PM

Writing a plugin for MT

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/plugin-tut a very basic guide to building an MT plugin
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Microsoft QnA Enters Crowded Market

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/05/microsoft-qna-enters-crowded-market/ "Live.com has announced the upcoming launch of QnA, and a few screen shots have been conveniently leaked as well..."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:25 PM

Here we are - Windows Live QnA!

http://spaces.msn.com/liveqna/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!162.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart#permalink "OOPS! We hadn’t planned to talk about this yet but some Web pages went live overnight and well, we decided we might as well turn on the blog and give you the straight scoop."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

A car that could save the planet--fast

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/04/technology/business2_wrightspeed/ "In the first matchup, the X1 crushed the Ferrari in an eighth-mile sprint and then in the quarter-mile, winning by two car lengths."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:25 PM

Sex Toys Tax-Deductible in Australia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060505/ap_on_fe_st/australia_sex_tax they're so much more open-minded down south
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Windows Live QnA Beta - Microsoft's Answer To Google & Yahoo Answers

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060505-093318 typical microsoft: copycats
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

MySQLForge

http://forge.mysql.com/ a collection of mysql toys and tidbits
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

May 04, 2006

Loose Change 2nd Edition

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801 conspiracy theory about what really happened on 9/11.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

May 03, 2006

US mothers deserve $134,121 in salary

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12052842&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

MySpace reinvented email

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/04/29/48/myspace-reinvented-email/ hmm... could be.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

The Counterattack On Google

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_19/b3983079.htm "Sifting through paperwork, number crunchers at rival Yahoo! Inc. were stunned to realize just how much more profit Google generated, compared with Yahoo, from its system of selling ads on Web searches."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Microsoft may aim for Yahoo! acquisition, report says

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/03/technology/microsoft_yahoo/index.htm let's migrate Yahoo to Windows... just like HotMail
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

May 01, 2006

Google/Microsoft: Careful What You Whine For

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/05/googlemicrosft_.html "First, hats off to Google for keeping a straight face while complaining about this."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Star Fleet Vegas - a photoset on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62591660@N00/sets/1630926 some good pics from Vegas last fall
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Bad Blogger

http://www.itsbeach.com/blog/2006/04/bad_blogger.html "The lack of true ownership and the inability to make decisions can kill any product or idea."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

On Being a Press Expert

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/05/01/on_being_a_pres.html "American press competition does not produce better articles, but instead encourages scary articles that will entice readers to read more." Duh.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Hyperlink 2.0

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/70666/ShowPost.aspx "But the problem with this method in Web 2.0 is that people don't use logs anymore; they use blogs, and everyone knows that blogs are a pretty stupid way of tracking web traffic."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Yahoo 360: The Blog Ghost Town

http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/04/yahoo_360_the_b.html "It's like Geo Cities all over again." yup.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Yahoo Tech Not Really A Threat to CNet

http://gigaom.com/2006/04/30/yahoo-tech-not-really-a-threat-to-cnet/ "I somehow get the feeling that it resembles one big advertorial." Me too. Sad, isn't it?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:24 PM

Google Dumped by Amazon's Alexa for MSN Live: Google Dump #1

http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2006/04/google-dumped-by-amazons-alexa-for-msn.html holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM