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."
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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
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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."
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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."
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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
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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."
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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)
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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
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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."
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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.
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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"
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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"
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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!
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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...
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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!
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11:46 AM