June 30, 2006

Tobias at Adorama won't sell lenses to Indians

http://kalyan.livejournal.com/209418.html Kalyan wanted to spend $5k on a high-end lens and they wouldn't take his money. Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Nylon Hand Truck

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001286.php everyone needs a good hand truck
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

June 29, 2006

Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions

http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/06/28/wrapping-text-with-regular-expressions/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

SMTP Relay Checker

http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtprc "SmtpRC is a fully configurable, multithreaded open mail relay scanner. It supports scanning of IP blocks, and can print the results to a Web page. It is intended for Systems Administrators to check IP blocks under their control."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Jason Douglas Joins RSS Advisory Board

http://www.rssboard.org/news/54/jason-douglas-joins-rss-advisory-board yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Wow, Vic Gundotra leaves Microsoft for Google

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/wow-vic-gundotra-leaves-microsoft/ fascinating news
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 28, 2006

Real Social Networks

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/28/Social-Networks "Why do we need computers to help us with this?" We don't.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Google Desktop Gadget Designer

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-06-28.html#n58 "Google is now offering you a development environment for creating Google Gadgets." Interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Inside Yahoo!

http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/06/27/inside-yahoo/ "Yahoo! interns are part of a project that makes an impact and people on the internet will get to see their work..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Why the name Renkoo

http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/167_Why_the_name_Renkoo.html "Get over your bad Atlantic self and learn a few kanji -- it'll come in handy for the rest of your life."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 27, 2006

New Coke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke way more than you ever wanted to know about New Coke. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

The Yahoo Developer Network and the Yahoo User Interface Library (book excerpt)

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/06/27/heilmann-excerpt/ nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Going I-N-T-L with the satellite imagery

http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2006/06/27/going-i-n-t-l-with-the-satellite-imagery/ Yahoo! Maps just got a ton of international satelite images
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Let's Talk About Customization

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/06/27/648269.aspx "If we really optimized for the 99.7% case (98% + (85% of 2%)), why are we hearing so much about this issue? Because 0.3% of the 450 million paid Office customers still represents 1.35 million people."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Reflections on my last student loan payment

http://mathowie.vox.com/library/post/reflections-on-my-last-student-loan-payment.html "FUCK YOU SALLIE FUCKING MAE IN YOUR SORRY ASS AND I HOPE YOU CHOKE ON YOUR OWN VOMIT AND DIE ALONE FESTERING FOR WEEKS AS THE MAGGOTS DESCEND ON YOUR STINKING CARCASS."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Inquirer != Enquirer

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2006/06/23/inquirer-enquirer/ "Let’s face it, if GMail hadn’t come out swinging with 1GB we’d all still be stuck with 10MB mailboxes."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

June 26, 2006

Matt Cutts Doll

http://cartoondollemporium.com/mattcutts.html build your own Matt Cutts!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Mount an .ISO file without burning a disk

http://lifehacker.com/software/virtual-disk/mount-an-iso-file-without-burning-a-disk-180124.php for windows
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Condom truck strikes rig from behind

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2006/06/26/1654618.html an accurate and amusing headline
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Calacanis on Calacanis

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/06/26/calacanis_on_ca.html "The trouble with reading anything about Jason Calacanis is that it's so darn hard to get past the feeling that he is looking over your virtual shoulder and really, really enjoying knowing that you are reading about him."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Slammin'

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001708.html "We can't raise the minimum wage in this country, but the minimum serving size of Sprite just goes up and up and up."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Yahoo Messenger 8 without Ads

http://daydream.wordpress.com/2006/06/22/yahoo-messenger-8-without-ads/ woohoo! That ad was really pissing me off.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Voicemail Sucks

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1802540,00.html "Voicemail is spectacularly inefficient and I hate it, so please don't leave me a message when you call" Agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 23, 2006

Silk Icons

http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ "Silk" is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

A Comcast Technician Sleeping on my Couch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7b5gzqU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fgadgets%2Fhome-entertainment%2Fcomcast-tech-falls-asleep-on-guys-couch-182440.php heh. it's just what you think it is.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 22, 2006

SimplePie

http://simplepie.org/ "SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

code.sixapart.com

http://code.sixapart.com/ "Welcome to Six Apart Code, our home for our many open source projects."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Meeting Cloud

http://www.gnr8.biz/product_info.php?products_id=81 "Portable inflatable meeting room in white rip resistant nylon. Includes a silent fan which inflates the entire room in three minutes and keeps it inflated for as long as required."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Enjoy Yahoo! Music Unlimited on Linux

http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2006/06/22/enjoy-yahoo-music-unlimited-on-linux/ with the help of VMWare
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 21, 2006

The Spelling Check is Complete

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/06/14/629189.aspx the importance of annoying dialog boxes
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Shaking Out Photo-Sharing

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/06/21/shaking_out_pho.html "The photo sharing market is considerably different from how it seems if you only paid attention to blogosphere chattering."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Net Neutrality: This is serious

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144 "When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ a very cool video on youtube
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Files Are Not for Sharing

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/files_are_not_for_sharing/index.html hahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

My Cat, The Poop Coach

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/40641 apparently all cats are just crazy
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Time to quit?

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06/time_to_quit.html "The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. Go. Switch. Challenge yourself; get yourself a raise and a promotion. You owe it to your career and your skills."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

David Koresh: The Videogame

http://blog.megacity.org/archives/002207.php "Taking on the role of a whacked out nutjob who thought he was Jesus Christ looked like a lot of fun."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

June 20, 2006

george washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9y5ayeeb4 an amusing little youtube video
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

A takedown request from This American Life

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/06/20.html#a1472 or "PRI doesn't understand copyright..."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Growth guru not feeling lucky with Google

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/20/technology/google_bear/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote ouch!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

June 19, 2006

Mother duck makes annual traffic-stopping trip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060616/od_nm/duck_dc A mother duck brought traffic in central Dublin to a standstill for an annual event Friday as she marched her seven ducklings to a pond for their first swim.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Broken Windows Theory

http://blogs.msdn.com/philipsu/archive/2006/06/14/631438.aspx "Vista. The term stirs the imagination to conceive of beautiful possibilities just around the corner. And 'just around the corner' is what Windows Vista has been, and has remained, for the past two years."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Office 2007 is the Bravest Upgrade Ever

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/06/19/office_2007_is_ "By radically changing the user interface in Office 2007, Microsoft made the riskiest bet in the history of commercial software. And I think they're going to win the bet."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Five things you didn't know you could do with Yahoo!

http://lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/technophilia-five-things-you-didn't-know-you-could-do-with-yahoo--181479.php why not pick more oscure stuff?
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

June 18, 2006

I Haven't Forgotten, And We Will Never Forget.

http://www.gedikian.com/2004/10/i-havent-forgotten-and-we-will-never.html "There was no way we could fight it forever. We would all soon be broken, irrespective of our contributions and our devotion to what we truly loved."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

WMDecode

http://www.biblet.freeserve.co.uk/ get attachments from winmail.dat files on Windows
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Small victories, or How I learned to shop at companies that hire people, not robots

http://btrott.typepad.com/typepad/2006/06/small_victories.html "Which is really the point of it all: Costco has made a point of hiring people who can think, who are empowered to take action & make decisions, and who actually care about customers."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Accidentally Closed

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/06/18/Accidentally-Closed "Openness is not a binary quantity. Some things are intentionally open. Some things are intentionally closed. But more often, some things are accidentally open. Or accidentally closed."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

June 16, 2006

Why Ballmer should leave Microsoft

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/15/technology/business2_workingtech_0615/ a useful article with a misleading title
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

What Ozzie Can Do for Microsoft

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060616_493563.htm " Expect the new software czar to nudge Microsoft toward open standards support without radically changing the company's core business"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

InFlight USB Power Unit uses audio jack to give you juice

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/inflight-usb-power-unit-uses-audio-jack-to-give-you-juice/ A clever idea!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

GeoTag Photos with Picasa and Google Earth

http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/06/picasa_google_e.html very nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition

http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm "The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

New Role for Bill in July 2008

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=205005 channel 9 video
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

June 15, 2006

Publish and Share a My Yahoo! Page

http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/create_content_package?.a=create cool, you can aggregate and share stuff for other my yahoo users
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Gmail attachment reminder v2.2

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2419 "This reminds you to attach a file to your Gmail if it appears that you have not, based on whether you have the word attach(ed, ment, etc) in the body." Need this for Thunderbird too!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Accelerating OpenSSH connections with ControlMaster

http://tips.linux.com/tips/06/05/19/145227.shtml?tid=100 oh, good... I used to have to do this the hard way.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Michael Fitzgerald's blogging guidelines

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/06/cio_blogging.shtml good, simple, and sensible
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Netscape's news scrape

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/06/netscapes-news-scrape.html Greg looks at the new Netscape news beta thingy
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

IT Conversations: Podcast Academy

http://www.itconversations.com/series/podcastacademy.html I'm sitting in Podcast Academy #3 right now
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Research Analyst/Intern Position at TechCrunch

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=224 this would be a kick-ass job
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

June 14, 2006

SSH Proxy Command

http://zippo.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html "connect.c is the simple relaying command to make network connection via SOCKS and https proxy. It is mainly intended to be used as proxy command of OpenSSH."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060612/od_nm/germany_accident_dc "A 440 pound German man discovered that being overweight can be good for your health -- if you get run over by a car."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

A few thoughts on journalism

http://www2.jeffcroft.com/2006/jun/13/few-thoughts-journalism/ peach on!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Vista Torrents, Bandwidth, Scalability, and Amazon S3

http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/?p=516 Jeff nicely explains why BitTorrent is so useful for large-scale software distribution and why Aamzon's S3 could be part of that too
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

The Rumors of our death are only slightly exaggerated. (pubsub.com)

http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2006/06/the_rumors_of_o.html pubsub is caught up in a shareholder battle
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Wi-Fi in the Park

http://blog.travelpost.com/2006/06/12/wi-fi-in-the-park/ this is so wrong on the one hand, but it's so useful on the other
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

No Privacy for Picasa Web Albums

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-06-14-n63.html "What’s happening here is that Google divides albums into 'public' and 'unlisted.' But 'unlisted' just means that there will be no link from the Picasa frontpage. It doesn’t mean that users won’t be able to see the album..."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

AusDilecce Extensions for Thunderbird

http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/#ext15 a good collection of useful extensions for mozilla thunderbird
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

June 13, 2006

Why (and how) the online ad model needs to change

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/06/13/63/why-and-how-the-online-ad-model-needs-to-change/ "How can it be that we have an ad model that is considered wildly successful when a campaign or ad unit gets a click-through rate of 1%?"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

South Lake Tahoe Airport (TVL) Closed to Night Operations

http://www.calpilots.org/html/article.php?sid=1351 "The City of South Lake Tahoe is blaming the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency for a decision by Caltrans on Friday to suspend night operations at the Lake Tahoe Airport by June 16."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Scoble & PodTech

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/12/Scoble I got the spam too.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

WikiCalc screencast

http://www.socialtext.com/screencasts/wikicalc1/ very slick implementatation of a lightweight spreadsheet in a wiki
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

simplybill

http://www.simplybill.com/ "Simplybill brings simple invoice management to all. Instead of wrestling with overly complex accounting software or trying to mash-up a spreadsheet into some sort of design, begin sending attractive invoices in minutes."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

June 12, 2006

Happy Birthday, Google Earth

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/happy-birthday-google-earth.html new version, lots of cool uprades
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Recommendations for cooks

http://www.hughes-family.org/wordpress/2006/06/09/recommendations-for-cooks/ Craig shares his cookbook recommendations
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

House Prices in America

http://www.globalinsight.com/gcpath/1Q2006report.pdf 1st quarter 2006 data included!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

June 11, 2006

Calorie Counter and Diet Tracking, Nutrition Data, Water Consumption

http://www.thedailyplate.com/ a very well done and easy to use dieting site
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Rare counting ability induced by temporarily switching off brain region

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2006/06/rare-counting-ability-induced-by.html "The researchers think that by temporarily inhibiting activity in the left anterior temporal cortex, the TMS allowed the brain’s number estimator to act on raw sensory data, without it having already been automatically grouped together into patterns or
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

CA DMV: How to renew your driver license in person

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dl/dl_info.htm#RENEW Mine expired a few days ago. Whoops.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Kitty vs Frontrow, Round 1

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/kitty-vs-frontrow-round-1-178998.php it's too damned cute not to watch!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

June 10, 2006

Robert Scoble is Leaving Microsoft

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/06/microsofts_top.php I just got a phone call about this too...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Highest Paying Search Terms

http://www.cwire.org/highest-paying-search-terms/ for all your spamming needs
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

No thanks, no Target card today

http://troubledamerican.blogspot.com/2006/06/no-thanks-no-target-card-today.html "That sort of psychological manipulation may work on Japanese or Chinese people, but not on the lightning fast mental capacity of an American."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Jack the cat chases black bear up tree

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060610/ap_on_fe_st/cat_scares_bear;_ylt=Atats41REkFGTZaACp5dWZEDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhxNDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M- "A black bear picked the wrong yard for a jaunt, running into a territorial tabby who ran the furry beast up a tree — twice."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Extended Statusbar

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1433/ A Firefox Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Just Do It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztydt9TZIYQ&eurl= "and shut the fuck up"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

HOWTO make the perfect fruit salad and get laid

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/09/fruit-salad-recipe but the comments make it clear the your choice of apple really matters!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

June 08, 2006

Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension

http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/06/07/tweak-firefoxs-password-saver-without-an-extension/ kick ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Google Browser Sync

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/index.html I had a feeling this was coming.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/small-companies-google-adsense-is-the-future/ that's a big AdSense check
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Better off with Donuts and a Big Mac

http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/06/better_off_with.html "I'm suprised to see that I'm better off choosing a custard-filled Boston Kreme than a plain bagel (or even worse a poppyseed). How can that be?" Pastries are a harsh mistress.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

comScore breakdown of Technorati traffic

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/06/comscore-technorati.html "Of those people visiting Technorati.com in April, 29.6 percent arrived at the site via MySpace.com. Similarly, 26.6 percent of those leaving the site immediately went to MySpace.com."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

California Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency

http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/map2.cfm?CurrentPageID=1&State=CA&RE=1&EE=1 There are many!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Property Tax Exemption for Solar Systems (California)

http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=CA25F&state=CA&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1 I should look into this
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Total primary energy supply: Land area requirements

http://www.loster.com/ml/solar_land_area/ "Solar power systems installed in the areas defined by the dark disks could provide a little more than the world's current total primary energy demand (assuming a conversion efficiency of 8 %)."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=33514 uh oh... the internet will, once again, melt
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Are microformats just bad metadata?

http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/06/07/are-microformats-just-bad-metadata/ "If a field was ever crying out in desperate need of a few good librarians, this is surely it."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

June 06, 2006

Playing with Google Spreadsheets

http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/06/playing-with-google-spreadsheets/ "I imported Jeremy Zawodny’s weight tracker spreadsheet to try it out." Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Blogger Relations, Two Tips

http://www.mguerrilla.com/media_guerrilla/2006/06/blogger_relatio.html "You could argue that 99% of blog pitches gone bad are because too many PR people subscribe to the universal opt-in philosophy, where the audience is presumed interested until they state otherwise."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

$45 Emergency Menu for 4 to 6

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm from the Hillbilly Housewife
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Used-Car Pre-Purchase Checklist

http://autos.msn.com/advice/articles/aischecklist.aspx lots of good tibits to watch for when buying a used car
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Panoramas of the World

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2006/06/06/panoramas-of-the-world/ some nice pics in there
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

Planet Yahoo! (Totally unofficial, you understand.)

http://planetyahoo.zottmann.org/ it's pretty much just what you think it is
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Four Steps to a Bargain on Wheels

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/millionaire/5177 some good advice
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Put off Firefox 1.5's "Unresponsive script" dialogue

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox/put-off-firefox-15s-unresponsive-script-dialogue-162574.php thank god... I've been meaning to fix this for months!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

The Daily Delta

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/aws-delta/ "Personalized Full Web RSS Feeds. The Web that matters to you."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Doing The Blogger Diet

http://daggle.com/060606-185616.html "Feeling inspired by Chris Pirillo and now Jeremy Zawodny both blogging about their weight loss experiences, I'm going to redouble my efforts to follow the same sensible advice."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

How to Run up a Wall and Flip - WikiHow

http://www.wikihow.com/Run-up-a-Wall-and-Flip "Have you ever seen an action hero star or video game character run towards a wall, take a few steps on it, and flip backwards? Did you silently wish to yourself that you could do the same?" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Inside Google Spreadsheets

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-06-06-n86.html "You’ll notice Google put a focus on sharing and multi-user editing. You can invite others to your document, you can chat with them, and edit along with them on the same document, at the same time." Very cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Movable Type 3.3 Beta is here

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2006/06/movable_type_33_beta_begins.html oooh!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

June 05, 2006

POKE 53281,0 POKE 53280,0

http://www.hughes-family.org/wordpress/2006/06/05/memory-is-really-really-weird/ hey, I know what that does too!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/ kick ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress

http://www.webmonkey.com//templates/print_template.htmlt?meta=/webmonkey/06/22/index3a_meta.html there are some factual inaccuracies here, but not a bad article
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Wikia

http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia "Welcome to Wikia, a collection of communities with websites that you can edit. You can start a new Wikia in any language today, or explore, browse, and edit an existing one from the list below."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

17-car sorta-pileup on the 101 (and I was in it!)

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/06/05/17-car-sorta-pileup-on-the-101-and-i-was-in-it/ ouch!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

June 04, 2006

MIT Students Make Boat Out Of Gatorade Bottles

http://www.xanga.com/fallenkiwi/489249083/glory.html and then row it across the river...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

People over 30 should be dead

http://www.w-uh.com/articles/030709-people_over_30.html "Doesn't it kind of make you want to run through the house with scissors?"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Clipboard-Save-As

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1478/ "This extension is useful when you have an URL in your clipboard poiting to a file (for example, a movie clip) you want to save to your harddrive."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Cheat Sheets for the YUI Utilities

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/06/02/yui-utilities-cheat-sheets/ "the YUI development team has begun drafting some cheat sheets that give you a one-page dashboard of documentation for each of the library’s components."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14733625.htm "That snake resides in Ohio now," he said.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

What's going on with my Gmail cursor?

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/39501 "About a week ago, my gmail cursor seemed to have developed a vestigal limb..." I was wondering about that too!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html "The binary-search bug applies equally to mergesort, and to other divide-and-conquer algorithms. If you have any code that implements one of these algorithms, fix it now before it blows up."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

lockrun

http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html Run cron job with overrun protection
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

June 03, 2006

Feeling a Bit Dapper

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/06/03/Feeling-a-Bit-Dapper "What hadn’t occurred to me is that I had a functional Ubuntu system available to me--even during the install."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Does Anybody Cook at Home Anymore?

http://hooda-thunkit.blogspot.com/2006/06/does-anybody-cook-at-home-anymore.html "I once worked with a fellow who ate out for every meal." And it was very expensive, it seems!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Earth to Google PR

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/06/03.html#a1461 "Never mind. I only have one question at this point. What planet are you living on?"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

June 02, 2006

Tenacious D - KG's Butt Baby

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=0udP-LzDhp8 the. most. fucked. up. video. of. all. time. I KID YOU NOT!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

The boa eats a kangaroo!!!

http://www.laurel-travel.ru/kreo/kenga.html holy shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Yahoo CEO gets millions of stock options in return for pay cut

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/02062006/2/ztechnology-yahoo-ceo-gets-millions-stock-options-return-pay-cut.html "Terry Semel's annual salary will be reduced to $1 US through 2008 in exchange for millions of company stock options that will give its chief executive an opportunity to build upon the $429-million-US windfall that he has reaped during the past three year
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

When the bough breaks

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks "But as I stood in the Apple store last weekend and drooled over the beautiful, beautiful hardware, all I could think was how much work it would take to twiddle with the default settings, install third-party software, and hide all the commercial tie-ins s
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Flight in 1903

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm26.html On December 17, 1903, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio realized one of humanity’s wildest dreams: For 12 seconds they were possessed of true flight. Before the day ended, Orville and Wilbur Wright would keep their wood-wire-and-cloth Flyer aloft for 59 s
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Pop-up Potpourri: June Bugs

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/75718.aspx more good stuff from The Daily WTF
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Most aggressive promotion on Google’s frontpage.

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2006/06/01/most-aggressive-promotion-on-googles-frontpage/ wow, they're getting way paraoid now
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Building Scalable Web Sites

http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/?p=511 "Everyone who plans to build (or has already built) a busy, dynamic site needs to invest the $20 or so to buy this book."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

June is Yahoo! T-Shirt Month

http://boulter.com/blog/2006/06/01/june-is-yahoo-t-shirt-month/ "I’ve decided to try to wear a different Yahoo! t-shirt every workday for the month of June." Jeff cracks me up.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Book Preview: I, Woz

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/05/gina_smith_the_.html "Instead, the book takes you inside the mind of someone who was truly instrumental in one of the great revolutions of our time. After reading it, I was even more proud of having worked for Apple."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

June 01, 2006

MySQL: Workers in 25 countries with no HQ

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/31/magazines/fortune/mysql_greatteams_fortune/index.htm a brief write-up on how MySQL manages a worldwide team of 320+ workers
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM