October 31, 2006

Google Bought JotSpot

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html I didn't see that one coming. Congrats to Joe, Grahm, Ken, and others.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

October 30, 2006

Happy Fun Ball!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NERK2qZrY8 I have waited YEARS to see this again! Do not taunt happy fun ball.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

The Pyramid of Internet Piracy

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m303/mrcriminy/?action=view¤t=inetpiracy.png pretty accurate
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Debian on NSLU2

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/ wow. you can run a full-blown Debian on the little slug
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

October 29, 2006

Blogging and Communication (and my final comments about Scoble. I hope)

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2006/10/blogging_and_co.html must... avoid... looking... at... the... accident scene
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 PM

Speak of the Devil

http://hrlori.com/2006/10/28/speak-of-the-devil/ "Apple doesn’t have a blogging policy as management feels that their current communication policy governs blogging."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 PM

World’s Coolest Job Description

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=674 'they told him they wanted him to “Be our Jeff Barr.”'... that is awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 PM

October 28, 2006

DG Terrain Viewer

http://www.dgadv.com/dgtv/ a freeware program to view on 3D digital elevation maps mixed with data acquired with GPS (and links to terrain data sources)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

NOAA/NGDC/MGG-GLOBE Project: Get GLOBE Data, Source Tiles

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/glstiles.html download ~1km resolution map tiles from NOAA
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

What if Housing Prices didn't always go up?

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061030ta_talk_surowiecki "The idea that housing prices have nowhere to go but up is, in other words, a statistical illusion."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Indicators of the Ruby on Rails trend

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/10/27/110/indicators-of-the-ruby-on-rails-trend/ “It’s frighteningly productive.”
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Chuqui vs. Scoble

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2006/10/apple_blogger_c.html This is exactly the problem I have with the "blogging uber alles" crowd. They talk about conversations -- and spend all of their time lecturing.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

Will Yahoo make a deal to buy AOL from Time Warner?

http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/28/magazines/fortune/yahoo.fortune/index.htm?section=money_latest Buy AOL, Sell to MSFT, Merge with eBay, or Stay the Course?
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

A 60 Acre Web of Mystery

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/millions_of_tiny_spiders.htm "Millions of Tiny Spiders Spin Mystery in a British Columbia Clover Field"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Line Rider Videos

http://www.fun-motion.com/news/line-rider-video/ "Someone took Line Rider to bold new levels of insanity" really...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

"I Google'd him on Yahoo"

http://www.feedblog.org/2006/10/i_googled_him_o.html 'When I use Google I'm going to say I "Yahoo'd" it on Google.' Heh
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

October 27, 2006

NSLU2 Linux

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ gotta put me some linux on my new linksys box
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Hitch Corner

http://www.hitchcorner.com/ The best on-line store I've seen for Trailer Hitches, Accessories, and so on
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Story of an amateur cyclist who starts taking various performancing enhancing drugs

http://www.iaaf.org/antidoping/news/Kind=2/newsId=23876.html he gets impressive results in a short amount of time. spooky.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

CNET Prizefight: Internet Explorer 7 vs. Firefox 2

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6656808-1.html?tag=lnav the lizard spanks the softies
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

Strange Statues from Around the World

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18259 there's some crazy shit in there
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

M.B.A.s: The Biggest Cheaters

http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/mbacheat_1.html "Students seeking their masters of business administration degree admit cheating more than any other type of student, from law to liberal arts. "
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

You Do and/or May, In Fact, "Ask" (or "ask")

http://blog.ask.com/2006/10/you_do_andor_ma.html hahahaha ha HA HA HAHA!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

October 26, 2006

Rails Forum / Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum

http://railsforum.com/index.php looks like lots of great rails help to be found here
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Google and the Gradient

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googradient "Google is run like a socialist state. It's citizens are treated extremely well. There's free food, free doctors, free massages, free games, a limited workweek, etc. There are ministries to give projects free promotion and support."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Zillow API Network

http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm Looks pretty well done. Nice job, Zillowites!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Rapper Shows Off His Two Affordable and Practical Vehicles on "MTV Cribs"

http://www.usedwigs.com/weekly_60.html hahaha haha ha ha HA HA HA!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

A beginner's guide to freelancing

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_guid.php lots of good advice for the self-employed out there
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Microsoft has no idea what's going on

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/84-web-developers-microsoft-has-no-idea-whats-going-on "If you’re a web developer, it’s pretty obvious Microsoft isn’t interested in making things any easier for you..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

Google can go shove their lexicographical ‘advice’ up their ass

http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/26/google-can-go-shove-their-lexicographical-advice-up-their-ass/ "But in the end, regardless of whether it’s positive, harmful or somewhat in between for Google, I for one don’t like to be told how to use the English language."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 AM

Googling Google And Searching Yahoo

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061026-081153 "Does anyone but the lawyers care? Probably not."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 AM

October 25, 2006

George W Bush Speechwriter

http://www.actofme.co.uk/bush_speech/bushspeechwriter.html hours and hours of fun. too bad there's not a gallery where we can vote on them
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Write and hear your own presidential speech

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/10/25/107/write-and-hear-your-own-presidential-speech/ oh, man... that's almost as funny as the google blog post about when you can and cannot say "google"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

The Funniest Google Blog Post EVER!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-google.html 'Bad. Very, very bad. You can only "Google" on the Google search engine. If you absolutely must use one of our competitors, please feel free to "search" on Yahoo or any other search engine.'
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

The Best Way to Fight Terrorism Might be to Impeach Bush

http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2006/10/best-way-to-fight-terrorism-might-be.html "To fight terrorism, we need to address the root causes of terrorism. And one of those causes is that the US acts like a dick."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

iSearchBetter - Search for items that qualify for Amazon Prime

http://www.isearchbetter.com/ "I used Amazon Web Services to create a front-end to Amazon that allows anyone to search for only new products that are sold by Amazon and that qualify for Prime (and SuperSaver) shipping."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php one of these days I'll upgrade firefox and this will suddenly become useful
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Prop 83: Sex Offenders is not what it seems. SAY NO!

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/10/24/prop_83_sex_off.html I'd care more about this if I thought about it. Luckily I can outsource that to Danah. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Garmin Blog: FSX vs. G1000

http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/10/prop_spinner_ta_2.html "Just remember when you turn off the computer and go to the hangar to fly your real G1000 equipped aircraft, the G1000 in FSX is not an exact copy to the real G1000. "
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Churchill Club Podcasts

http://www.churchillclub.org/podcasts.jsp it looks like there's some interesting stuff here to listen to
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 AM

Zettabyte Storage zBox

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/10/zettabyte_stora.html "The zBox runs on your local network and automatically backs up data to Amazon S3. Once you commit a zBox and place it on your network, data stored locally will end up safe and secure in S3." Cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Welcome to the new Yahoo! Bookmarks [screencast]

http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/welcome a well done screencast for the new Y! Bookmarks and Toolbar
Posted by jzawodn at 07:25 AM

October 24, 2006

Web-Scaling Syndic8 - Introduction

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=668 Jeff is going to use EC2 and S3 to make Syndic8 scale cheaply. Cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Subterfuge and the art of the demo

http://www.heynorton.org/blog/2006/10/subterfuge_and_.html "They came thousands of miles to watch us send a fax thirty feet. If I recall, we won their business."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

OpenID Specs

http://openid.net/specs/ for your bedtime reading pleasure
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

We're all big babies

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/10/22/svbabies22.xml so read this to learn how to become an adult!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

United States Population Density Image

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17439 good stuff from NASA
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Delicious Bookmarks Extension for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/ A new version is out! Woohoo!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

The Google Myth goes “pop”

http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2006/10/24/the-google-myth-goes-pop/ "The Google Myth is simple: to produce good businesses, hire the best engineers and leave them alone except for occasional priority setting."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

Animated Knots by Grog

http://www.animatedknots.com/ "Animated Knot-Tying for Boating, Climbing, Fishing, Scouting, Search and Rescue, and Arborists"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Comprehensive Flight Training Manual and Knowledge Handbook for Gliders

http://www.gliderbooks.com/ "These books were written specifically for the student pursuing a Private Pilot Certificate with a Glider rating, although they are also a useful aide for preparing for a Commercial or Instructor rating, or for preparing for a Biennial Flight Review."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

The Non-Annoying Terminal Mini How-To & Fun with shopt

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-112348-highlight-bash+wrap.html a bunch of useful little bash tricks
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Do babies dream of being database engineers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvamAW_nSE hahahaha. funny video.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

The Fat Calico blog

http://fatcalico.blogspot.com/ "Well, Fat Calico is a platform for facilitating the rapid propagation of short form audio to mobile devices."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site

http://venturebeat.com/2006/10/23/edgeio-gets-5-million-to-expand-web-20-classifieds-site/#more-2280 "The idea behind Edgeio is audacious because it seeks to do an end-run around the incumbents like Craigslist and others, by letting people bypass them entirely."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

October 23, 2006

Rails Framework Documentation

http://api.rubyonrails.com/ they documented the sht out of rails!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 PM

Why Everyone Loves Google

http://boulter.com/blog/2006/10/23/why-everyone-loves-google/ "Quite simply - everyone is paid to love Google."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

AOL to offer Web API for its IM

http://gigaom.com/2006/10/19/aol-to-offer-web-api-for-its-im/ Those Yahoos better get cracking, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Debian/Ruby Extras - Position on RubyGems

http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html fuck. I need an extra package on debian just to get gem to I can install rails. grrr.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Side Job Track

http://sidejobtrack.com/ "Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

2007 Region 9 Soaring Contest

http://parowan.soaringweb.net/ July 1-7, 2007 in Parowan, UT
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

The Problem of Email

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_problem_of.html "I have over 20,000 messages spread out over 5+ inboxes. This is after I declared defeat 5 months ago, dumped everything into an archive, and started fresh."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

What have all the rich Apple and Pixar folks done with their money?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2006/10/23/what-have-all-the-rich-apple-and-pixar-folks-done-with-their-money/ that's a good question
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

menuism

http://www.menuism.com/ user editable restaurants, menus, reviews. They use Yahoo! BBAuth too!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Real Sharing vs. Fake Sharing

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/real_sharing_vs.html in case you're not sick of sharing
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Alabama candidate campaigns on cleavage

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_fe_st/candidate_s_neckline Her campaign is offering T-shirts and marijuana stash boxes adorned with a photo of her with a plunging neckline and the words: "More of these boobs."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

Isn't it cool when....

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2006/10/isnt-it-cool-when.html "I can honestly say that one of the most rewarding and cool things is when another developer takes something you've done and builds on top of it in ways that you'd never imagined."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

How Borat hoaxed America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6071486.stm it's brilliant and sick... but it's gotta be funny
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

KLINGON PUMPKIN

http://www.positech.co.uk/blog/pumpkin/index.html "Even in the simple act of carving the holiday pumpkin, a true WARRIOR can hone his skills with the Bat'leth! Unfortunately, as human pumpkins are so small we will content ourselves with the more delicate klingon weapon - the daq tahg."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

October 22, 2006

The Swift-Boating of Yahoo!

http://www.upstreamgroup.com/newsletter52.htm "Memo to the business press: Take a breath. The truth is that both Google and Yahoo! are really good companies with smart people and some pretty terrific assets. You do a disservice to both -- and to your readers -- by canonizing one and Swift-Boating th
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

GeoRSS

http://www.georss.org/ Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

Google Earth KML 2.0 Tutorial

http://earth.google.com/kml/kml_tut.html good info for producing KML
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Find a Park

http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm search the national park service (nps) database in a variety of ways (foudn via lifehacker)
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Toilets for Fat People

http://quixoticals.blogspot.com/2006/10/toilets-for-fat-people.html only in america
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

I Hate the News

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews "I think following the news is a waste of time." Agreed.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

October 21, 2006

Generic Names for Soft Drinks (by county)

http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/files/2006/10/popvssodamap.png fascinating, really. I wonder *why* the picture looks like this... don't you?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Sniff The Greatest Sex Drug... Ever

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=1849 "It could be the greatest thing to happen to sex in 50 years. And also, of course, the worst." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Why do Atheists care about Religion?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w4fQA9mt-Mg excellent
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

October 20, 2006

Telemarketer Nightmare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmDMaIK4Oxo&eurl= this is just fucking brilliant!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Stephen Hawking Reportedly to Divorce

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_STEPHEN_HAWKING?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=home.htm Weird. I had no idea he was married.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Fastest street legal car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxfbxGz1u4 2000+ horsepower is just insane
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Halloween display mistaken for real crash

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061020/ids_photos_ts/r2685877712.jpg "Los Angeles police visited the scene after thinking the crash was real. The homeowner is an aircraft mechanic in training and the parts are from a real Gulfstream jet." Hahahhaa.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Why OCRing spam images is useless

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/10/why-ocring-spam-images-is-useless.html "My favourite touch is that it's not the entire image that's transparent, not even the white background, but just those pixels necessary to make the black pixels underneath show through." Wow!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Casual Conversation, R.I.P.

http://www.forbes.com/home/security/2006/10/18/nsa-im-foley-tech-security-cx_bs_1018security.html "We are rapidly turning into a society where our intimate conversations can be saved and made public later. This represents an enormous loss of freedom and liberty..."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Aerobatic Japan in Kakuda: inverted low pass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4pNkq5lQ5Q that takes guts... and lots of practice!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Grumpy Kazakhs invite Borat to "his" land, at last

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061019/od_nm/kazakhstan_borat_dc "Alarmed by the antics of a fictional TV reporter who portrays their country as a nation of horse urine-drinking misogynists, Kazakh authorities have invited the British comedian who plays the character to come and see the truth for himself." Heh
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Backup Using Amazon’s S3

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1147 "The idea that really interests me, though, is of using S3 to back up this website. Yeah, the one you’re looking at right now."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

October 19, 2006

Bill Clinton speaks to GW Univ. about 'common good'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1kr9uQEW9Y&eurl= If only our current president was half this articulate and thoughtful.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

After years of teachers piling it on, there's a new movement to ... Abolish homework

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/ING0FLHNM21.DTL "What it does instead, they contend, is rob children of childhood, play havoc with family life and asphyxiate their natural curiosity. Learning becomes a mind-numbing grind rather than an engaging adventure."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Google 49, Yahoo 0

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/10/google_49_yahoo.html "It is also hard to express how pathetic Yahoo seems in comparison. Only a year ago, the company was firing on all cylinders, gaining market share, innovating, inspiring the same kind of confidence that Google now does."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

A Dangerous New Order

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/opinion/19thu1.html?ex=1318910400&en=d9587f86501794fc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "This nonsense is part of the Republicans’ scare-America-first strategy for the elections."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Daring Fireball: Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2006/10/daring_fireball.html "I long, long ago lost all respect for the capability of the Gartner Group to analyze the high tech industry. Why anyone pays them money for anything, I don't know."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Google Q3 2006 Revenues

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2006/10/19/google-q3-2006-revenues/ "I have to say that I am dumbfounded"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Google Quantifies Its Momentum

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/19/google-quantifies-its-momentum/ "Google’s market share in search has grown 24% over the last year to 50% of the total market. Yahoo! grew 12% to 23% market share and MSN/Live dropped 8% to a 6% market share."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Shocker: Enviga Doesn't Actually Burn Calories

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/soft-drinks/shocker-enviga-doesnt-actually-burn-calories-208357.php "A soft drink that actually burns calories is like a burrito that makes your flatulence smell like bakery fresh cinnamon rolls: the holy grail of science."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Searching Via Internet Explorer 7 & The Battle To Be The Default Search Engine

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061019-101630 "It's difficult to know how a consumer is going to buy a "virgin" machine where the defaults haven't already been decided or influenced by some business deal."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Minimum Radius of Turn

http://selair.selkirk.bc.ca/aerodynamics1/Lift/Min_Radius.html "In this section we will consider how to turn an airplane with the minimum radius of turn (ie how, to turn in the smallest possible area.)"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Attending the Yahoo Influencers event for Panama release

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/10/attending_the_y.html "I was very impressed with a lot of the new features in the new system."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

Top Ten Reasons Why It's (Usually) Better for Top Talent to Stay at Larger Companies

http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2006/09/before-you-pull-rip-cord-top-ten.html "to be fair, before you tender your resignation, please review the following list of reasons why you might be better off where you are"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

October 18, 2006

The Business of Software - Working from home...

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.402425 lots of discusson about how to effectively work from home
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

My Prediction for Google Q3 2006 revenues

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2006/10/18/my-prediction-for-google-q3-2006-revenues/ "I predict that Google will come in at the low side of estimates, if not miss them completely (i.e. 5% or less)."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Nevada to vote on pot shops

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/17/nevada.marijuana.ap/index.html "If it passes November 7, Nevada will be the first state to allow adults to possess up to an ounce of pot that they could buy at government-regulated marijuana shops."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Star Wars Car Sale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLsVgzUDAlQ&NR "Your bakery products are weak, old man!" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Under the Tusken Sun

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eg4PY_lsw_k "The softer side of the sand people of Tatooine."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Internet Explorer 7 optimized for Yahoo!

http://downloads.yahoo.com/internetexplorer/index.php I guess we released ahead of Microsoft. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

When You Pick Your Tools, Pick Those That Can Build Tools

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/10/when_you_pick_your_tools_pick_those_that_can_build_tools.shtml "Programmers should be tool builders. If you’re not building tools to make your life easier, you’re wasting time." Good advice.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Yahoo: Time for a Shake-Up

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/10/yahoo_time_for_.html "A less charitable interpretation, one I've floated before, would be that the company got fat, happy, and lazy." Bingo!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Is Anyone Else Pissed About This?

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/10/is_anyone_else_.html IE7 appears to ignore feed stylesheet, opting instead of imposing Microsoft's idea of what is right. Surprised? I'm not.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Amazon launches answers site

http://overstated.net/2006/10/18/amazon-launches-answers-site well, now... that's interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

BW: Wal-Mart workers walk out - BusinessWeek Online - MSNBC.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305178/ wow, wal-mart sounds like an insane place to work
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Why Everyone You Know Thinks the Same as You

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500913.html many people seem to be talking about this story, but it seems like common sense to me. I must be missing something.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Web 2.0 Thinking Game

http://www.zeldman.com/2006/10/17/web-20-thinking-game/ haahaha... the comments are priceless.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

EasyVMX!: Virtual Machine Creator

http://www.easyvmx.com/ "EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web." Cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:24 PM

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maratb/readings/NoSilverBullet.html a Fred Brooks classic
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details Of Mars, Young And Old

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/D-Gully-highlight.html ooh! nice pictures.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

New MH EDS O2D1 Oxygen Pulse Demand Controller

http://www.verticalmag.com/control/news/templates/?a=2630&z=5 I guess my EDS unit is now officially old. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Yahoo! Announced Panama Launch

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006425.html "Zod explains why Panama took so long to develop. Yahoo bought Overture in 2003. They first had to get their arms around this large system and it was growing like a weed."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

No Turning Back: Panama Goes Live

http://www.traffick.com/2006/10/no-turning-back-panama-goes-live.asp "As of today, the first wave of advertisers are converting over to Yahoo’s new Panama ad system."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

October 17, 2006

Web Numbers: What's Real?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_43/b4006095.htm "Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even Net companies almost flying blind..."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/opinion/17stein.html?ex=1318737600&en=c5709a9fc1e31b3f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "so far, most American officials I’ve interviewed don’t have a clue. That includes not just intelligence and law enforcement officials, but also members of Congress who have important roles overseeing our spy agencies. How can they do their jobs witho
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,1924088,00.html Don't skip the fish--especially if you drink a lot.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

A Cult of Backyard Rocketeers Keeps the Solid Fuel Burning

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/14/science/14rocket.html?_r=3&ei=5094&en=751fe93b37286c62&hp=&ex=1160884800&adxnnl=1&oref=login&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1161060111-vT+Np3XXlgmv8lKc2FZNCg&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin If I needed another expensive hobby, this would be it!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Yahoo! buys AdInterax for undisclosed sum

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/061017/1361771.html?.v=1 hmmm
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

FAQ: What is a variable speed furnace?

http://www.lennox.com/owners/faq.asp?category=2&question=76#cat-2 "The term "variable speed" refers to the furnace's indoor blower motor, which moves at different speeds to precisely control the flow of heated and cooled air throughout your home."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Yahoo! Personalized Sign-In Seal

https://protect.login.yahoo.com/ "Fight password theft with seals you create and add to Yahoo! sign-in pages."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Yahoo goes punk with a Zen twist

http://news.com.com/Yahoo+goes+punk+with+a+Zen+twist/2008-1032_3-6126442.html good Bradley interview with a dumb title
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Yahoo! Makes Strategic Investment in Right Media

http://www.rightmedia.com/content/press-releases/press-release/yahoo-makes-strategic-investment-in-right-media/5,659 iiiiinteresting
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

October 16, 2006

Rails, Streamlined, and DabbleDB

http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/10/rails_streamlined_and_dabbledb.shtml "Not too long ago applications ran on one machine and used custom data formats--if they used data at all. Now most interesting applications are connected to databases and usually online." Good point.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 PM

Bill Murray attends student party, does dishes

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/16/britain.billmurray.ap/index.html nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 PM

Best Outlook error message… ever

http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2006/05/09/best-outlook-error-message-ever/ Ha! It's not just me.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

America's Dumbest Congressmen

http://radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php "when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Who are you calling fat?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6040156.stm "How hard can it really be? The rolls of surplus flesh, the tight waistband, not being able to see your own feet - you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out you're carrying extra pounds."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

A Failure To Be Honest...

http://www.mguerrilla.com/media_guerrilla/2006/10/a_failure_to_be.html "Okay, it's official, transparency is now the universal PR euphemism for honesty."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

Cat starts house fire, dog saves owner

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_on_fe_st/pet_fire yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

This American Life Podcasts

http://thisamericanlife.org/pages/podcasts.html yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Where's Google Going?

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-16-n38.html "Why does Yahoo have all that search market share? And why aren’t we the only ones with cool developers?"
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

CNET TV: Everything old is new again

http://www.heynorton.org/blog/2006/10/cnet_tv_everyth.html "Most notably, we couldn't have anything blue on our desks. Apparently blue clashed with the CNET brand identity."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

Google Blog ping full of spam

http://kalsey.com/blog/2006/10/google_blog_ping_full_of_spam/ "Google’s blog ping service is used by spammers more than anything else." I bet most of 'em use AdSense too.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

101 Sex Tricks to Try Before You Die

http://soundingthetrumpet.blogspot.com/2006/10/100-sex-tricks-to-try-before-you-die.html that's a big list... time to get busy!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Cessna LSA Flies

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/12_42a/briefs/cessna_lsa_flies_193462-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS "Cessna's proof-of-concept entry into the light sport aircraft category flew for the first time last Friday (the 13th). The 33-minute flight originated at McConnell Air Force Base and ended at Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

New: Cover Browser

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-09-n22.html "During the last week I created Cover Browser, a website to explore & search comic book covers." A nice mix of Google and Yahoo APIs behind the scenes too...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

October 15, 2006

Colbert, Steinem and Fonda

http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=JRs9R0x4e5Y feminist apple pie!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

What's Maria Wearing?

http://whatsmariawearing.blogspot.com/ "What's Maria Wearing is dedicated to Maria's on-air wardrobe (good or bad). Give each days new threads a thumbs up or down. Now back to work!" I have a funny story about this that I should tell.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Who Should Buy Yahoo!

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/10/who_should_buy_.html "Microsoft can afford Yahoo! and a combined MSN/Yahoo! would certainly be a stronger competitive player against Google, something that is clearly on Ballmer's mind right now. That seems the most likely deal to me."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

What Is Telstar Logistics?

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/09/what_is_telstar.html "The short answer is that it's a scam for parking illegally in loading zones."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

October 14, 2006

If at First You Don’t Succeed... - My first 300K

http://mindensoaringclub.com/int2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=0 Congrats to Grace on her 300km flights! I expect to see her in contests before long.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 PM

Terry Semel: Cause of Yahoo's Success or Along for the Ride?

http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2006/10/terry-semel-cause-of-yahoos-success-or.html "...as Terry Semel caused the turnaround of Yahoo in the last 5 years? Or would it have happened anyway..."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 PM

Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail to Keep Their Best Talent

http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2006/09/top-ten-reasons-why-large-companies.html "If you want to keep your best people, make sure they're surrounded by other great people."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 PM

Sproose

http://www.sproose.com/ a social search engine, apparently... it's crawling my site like mad right now
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

where things stand...

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2006/10/where_things_st.html "I think it's important for folks in the tech space to keep an eye on WHAT you want to do, and not so much on HOW that has to be done; there's an awful lot of "we need an ajax geek" out there, with job descriptions focusing on tools, not solutions."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

EZ Catch Chicken Harvester

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRwNJxk8LrQ that is shockingly fucked up
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Why I Didn't Get My Driver's License Until I Was Eighteen

http://kentbrewster.com/why-i-didnt-get-my-drivers-license-until-i-was-eighteen "the 1968 International Harvester mail truck rolled backwards down the driveway, across the street, between two parked cars with inches to spare on either side, bumped up over the curb, and set the neighbor's ornamental plum tree on fire"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

pre-election cynicism

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/10/14/preelection_cyn.html "I've met so many people who traffic in knowledge, power, and fame. The problem is that they haven't lived up to my fantasy of what they should be like."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

October 13, 2006

Look Away

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001782.html "I was walking down a long hall at the gym today, and a flusteringly attractive woman was walking toward me..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

San Jose Flight Standards District Office (FSDO)

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/field_offices/fsdo/sanjose/ my local FAA office
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Google Earth (kml & kmz files) buffer overflow

http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1660/exploit.html I guess we'll see a security update coming to Google Earth soon then, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

A TOTALLY AWESOME economics paper

http://www.wesabe.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/12/a-totally-awesome-economics-paper/ heh... there are some good findings in there.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

This American Life to offer free podcast

http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/10/12/this-american-life-to-offer-free-podcast/ it's abot time!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

October 12, 2006

Silicon Solar

http://www.siliconsolar.com/index.php another provider of solar gear
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 PM

Bug 95849 - Lack of Sex is interfering with my ability to triage bugs

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95849#c0 "A little-endian problem, perhaps?" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 PM

Fiber to the home: 'It's insanely better'

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004090 Hey! Where's *my* fiber?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Deep-fried Coca-Cola

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/12/deepfried_cocacola.html what is wrong with the world?!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Marc Canter Amsterdam Tutorial

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/sets/72157594324492208/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

October 11, 2006

Hubble confirms nearest known extrasolar planet

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0610/09hubbleplanet/ hopefully the first of many
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Merlin’s top 5 super-obvious, “no-duh” ways to immediately improve your life

http://www.43folders.com/2006/10/11/5-ways-to-improve/ There are really only 4 tips, but they're good advice anyay
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Microsoft Flight Simulator X Comparison to Reality

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/microsoftflightsimulatorx/video_player.html?id=JnBlxWH65bsFvj_Y impressive
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Sold YHOO Today

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/10/sold_yhoo_today.html "I'd like to buy Yahoo! back because I am a fan of the company and I think its undervalued but I need to see some catalyst and I just don't see it right now."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Yahoo's troubles

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/10/yahoos-troubles.html "Of all the problems at Yahoo, I think the lengthy delays in competing against Google AdWords and AdSense are the worst."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Good Blog Writing Style

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-11-n47.html "Here are some rules for good writing style when you’re blogging."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

October 10, 2006

Yahoo Feels Breath on Neck

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/technology/11yahoo.html?ref=business Saul knows how to write a headline, doesn't he?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM

Ten Questions with YAHOO.ext Author Jack Slocum

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/10/10/ten-questions-slocum/ "Jack Slocum is the author of JackSlocum.com, a blog that focuses on extensions built on top of YUI."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

comScore misinterprets data: MySpace is *NOT* gray

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/10/10/comscore_misint.html what?! confusing metrics? say it isn't so...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Is Youtube the Picasa of Video?

http://www.feedblog.org/2006/10/is_youtube_the_.html "If I were selling out I'd want to go to Yahoo."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 PM

Glassy Metals

http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-04/features/glassy-metals/?page=1 "Harder, stronger, and better--the material of the future" This stuff is pretty amazing!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Typo will cost Michigan county $40K

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010/ap_on_el_st_lo/ballot_typo "Ottawa County will pay about $40,000 to correct an embarrassing typo on its Nov. 7 election ballot: The "L" was left out of "public."" That is awesome.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

SimpleXML processing with PHP

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-simplexml.html a good intro to XML in PHP5
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

How I automated my backups to Amazon S3 using s3sync.

http://blog.eberly.org/2006/10/09/how-automate-your-backup-to-amazon-s3-using-s3sync/ I good walk-thru of using s3sync for backups
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines!

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061010-104958 this bugs the shit out of me too... but I guess we've been guilt of it now and then.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

October 09, 2006

Lightning exits woman's bottom

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.html "A woman has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

BRING YOUR OWN BIG WHEEL

http://www.jonbrumit.com/byobw.html hahahaha. who'd have thought?!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

DIY nuke monitoring: North Korea

http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/10/diy_nuke_monito.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Some thoughts on Youtube and Google

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2006/10/07/some-thoughts-on-youtube-and-google/ "The copyright shit is going to hit the lawsuit fan." Well said.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Open Hack Day - Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Hack_Day wow, we've got a wikipedia page already!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Official Google Blog: About that fake post

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-that-fake-post.html It's impressive to see a company like Google own up to a problem like this. I know some folks who ought to learn from this.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

18 cent Amex purchase I should've stolen

http://brad.livejournal.com/2256060.html "So I think Home Depot lost money. Had I stolen it, they'd only lose the cost of the bolt, but they'd also get to write-off the theft on their taxes!" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Public RV Dump Stations in the US

http://rvcentral.com/dumpsites.htm a handy list
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

RV Dump Stations

http://rvdumps.com/ another good list
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Classical Music's Top 100 Greatest Hits

http://www.kickassclassical.com/ "Rock out with your Bach out." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Trying something new

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2006/10/08/trying-something-new/ including a good list of wordpress bugs
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

Why blogging matters

http://freshelectrons.typepad.com/freshelectrons/2006/10/why_blogging_ma.html written version of a talk that Havi gave recently
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

Foxit Reader 2.0 for Windows

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php apparently a PDF reader that isn't bloated and sucky
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

After Yahoo! Hack Day

http://www.jnolen.org/blog/2006/10/after_yahoo_hac.html "Yahoo needs to be a great technology company, not a second-rate media company, no matter what the folks in Santa Monica may think." Hahahaha!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Flickr Map Icon Greasemonkey Script

http://www.cantoni.org/2006/10/08/flickrmapicon very cool
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

October 08, 2006

Skip the Coffee? What’s Money for, Anyway?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/business/mutfund/08essay.html?em&ex=1160452800&en=def701283bd90c9e&ei=5087%0A "...we put away a fair chunk of change out of every paycheck. So I’m a little tired of hearing this copycat scolding about my coffee."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/11/fired.html "I'd be pounding out some hot code and then the boss would come by and I'd have to quickly switch to Jenna Jameson taking it from behind. I needed quick fingers, but I wasn't quick enough. She kept catching me with Emacs open."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Week in review

http://jayandsilentrob.com/2006/10/07/week-in-review/ "Yahoo was much more then we could have ever expected and I'm sure I will be bragging about it for a long time to come."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

October 07, 2006

Dreaming in Browser Swamp

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/bloggers-block-3-dreaming-in-browser.html there is so much truth to this... it's scary, sad, and funny all at once.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Why I Started Using Amazon S3

http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/10/07/why-i-started-using-amazon-s3/ "It’s the perfect solution for backing up important files (it’s so cheap, why not backup everything?) and sharing files amongst computers."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

What's Wrong with Identity Silos?

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=17427571-171e-4199-80cb-55a278ae699c "If you were Yahoo! or Google, would you wait a few years for a technology that is more difficult for the developers you are targeting to adopt than what you can roll on your own today to meet your needs? If the answer is no, does that make you a "baby ki
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

October 06, 2006

Garmin Mobile 10

http://www.garmin.com/products/garminmobile10/ Garmin is making a bluetooth gps you can pair with a phone, pda, or laptop.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Clean your flat in sixty seconds...

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/10/clean_your_flat_in_si/ hahahahahahaha!!!1
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Daily Show: What Exactly Is President Bush's Job?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEJY6g-Z3nE I have no idea. Neither does the president.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Google Puts Lid on New Products

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google6oct06,0,945092.story?track=mostviewed-homepage "Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has." This article is full of excellent quotes.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

jeep drives across water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcKvA5y8v8 that's just insane.. and very cool
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

A Simple Show of Hands

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/fashion/05hands.html?ei=5090&en=bea56a39274593e9&ex=1317700800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1160161606-x47/OPyIqV5XeUo8QZqtkA "To hold someone’s hand is to offer them affection, protection or comfort. It is a way to communicate that you are off the market."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

What Problem Does Natural Language Search Solve?

http://techdirt.com/articles/20061005/162157.shtml "the problem with natural language search is that it requires everyone to change their behavior" maybe... a lot of people *do* query in natural language and are surprised that it doesn't work!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061005-095006 "Back to Pell's post, he fails to explain how searchers are somehow magically going to go beyond "keywordese" to natural language searching. They aren't using keywordese now because they somehow have been trained to do it."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&list_uids=2299306&cmd=Retrieve&indexed=google best abstract ever!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 AM

Bizarre: It's the dog's Borats

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2006460424,00.html "It is quite simply the most shocking, offensive, tasteless, politically incorrect movie I’ve ever seen. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it is THE most appallingly crude and shocking movie ever made. But it was so deliciously evil I laughed from star
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

When too much is not enough and a little is just right. Google > Yahoo

http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/when-too-much-is-not-enough-and-a-little-is-just-right-google-yahoo/ "I agree and realize that for me it’s the fact that with Google I can get and visually scan *a lot more results* much faster than with normal Yahoo search."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

How we made the BBAuth screencast

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/10/05/101/how-we-made-the-bbauth-screencast/ "All in all, I probably spent close to 2 hours beginning to end producing this screencast, but most of that was learning a few tricks."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Flickr / Yahoo! Mail API beta Photo Postcard Hack

http://tantek.com/log/2006/10.html#d05t1826 "Thanks again Yahoo for throwing an awesome event. We had a blast."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

October 04, 2006

Funny Guy Mo on Yahoo! Hack Day 06

http://pulse2.com/2006/10/03/funny-guy-mo-on-yahoo-hack-day-06/ "Yahoo! is not the company I had expected."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Home to S3

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/10/home_to_s3.html "Jeremy’s posting touches on that it is actually cheaper to do this with S3 but I would have done this even if it was more expensive given that it is just not worth the headache worrying about when your home server will fail next..." Yup.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

For Vista, WGA gets tougher

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=148 wow, Microsoft is playing hardball and will likely end up convincing users they don't need windows at all--just a browser. howfunny is that?
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Personal Backup on Amazon S3

http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2006/10/04/personal-backup-on-amazon-s3/ "My ideal remote-backup soultion would be (a) automatic, (b) unattended, and (c) one that included at least some form ove versioning to keep different versions of modified files."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Are We In a Personal Computer Rut?

http://www.straypackets.com/2006/10/04/are-we-in-a-personal-computer-rut/ "I don’t have any need to run a server at home these days, but I’ve done it. Frankly, it’s more trouble than it’s worth. The world is full of people who will serve your stuff. Let 'em."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

October 03, 2006

Burning Man 2006 in Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/10/burning_man_2006_in.html nice, but I was hoping for something a bit clearer
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 PM

Yahoo! Open Hack Day: how it all came together

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/10/03/yahoo-open-hack-day-how-it-all-came-together/ Chad fills in more of the story around our open hack day
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 PM

War on evolution has a price

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/15663038.htm "How can you teach biotechnology in this country when you don't even accept evolution?"
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

Ruben's Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo a great video showing how you can illustrate sound waves using propane, fire, and some PVC pipe
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

Special Report: Yahoo! Open Hack Day '06

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/yahoo/special-report-yahoo-open-hack-day-06-204584.php "What I loved about the event - and Yahoo! - was the accessibility and sense of fun."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

There was this one time... at nerd camp...

http://www.winonatong.com/archives/2006/09/there_was_this_one_time_at_ner.php "Open hack day promised to be even more fun, and it was! Web developers from all over the world were invited to camp out on Yahoo's campus overnight. Food and caffeine was available pretty much around the clock, and we even got to enjoy a free Beck concer
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

MySQL Tips

http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/readme_mysql.htm a big text file full of MySQL tips
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Top ten geek business myths

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-ten-geek-business-myths.html "No one gives a damn about your idea until you actually succeed and by then it's too late. Even on the off chance that you do manage to stumble across someone who is as excited about your idea as you are, if they have any brains they will join you rather
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Happiness Expert Dan Gilbert on TEDTalks

http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/09/happiness_exper.html# an incredibly interesting talk
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

"Paradox of Choice" author Barry Schwartz on TEDTalks

http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/09/paradox_of_choi.html# another excellent talk
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Yahoo Hack Day '06

http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/yahoo-hackday-06-part1.html "This event was absolutely beyond any of my expectations."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

CNET reports: ISPs aren’t very good at DNS

http://blog.opendns.com/2006/08/17/cnet-reports-isps-arent-very-good-at-dns/ "The report says that Verizon drops 3.14% of all DSL subscribers’ DNS requests." Holy crap, that's bad!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Digg users are dumber than goldfish

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/10/02/digg "So not only can they be trained (goldfish, not Digg users), but according to a recent study, “goldfish memories can last as long as three months.” Which puts them approximately 47 days ahead of the collective memory of Digg."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Bold start-up, Powerset, about to raise $10M to take on Google

http://venturebeat.com/2006/10/02/bold-start-up-powerset-about-to-raise-10m-to-take-on-google/ "Yes, there are many incremental improvements that should be made, but is there anything new that Google’s thousand-odd engineers (or Yahoo’s for that matter) can’t figure out and copy within a few months?" Is that a trick question?!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Moblogging purse takes Hack Day grand prize

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2006/10/02/moblogging-purse-takes-hack-day-grand-prize/ more on the winning hack
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

October 02, 2006

Yahoo Open Hack 06: Saved By Patrick Stewart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416jMJIcJn4 this was incredibly funny in person
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Yahoo! Hack Day on CBS-5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekAu4qj4R5E ah, gotta love YouTube
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

Hackday Roundup

http://mroth.info/blog/2006/10/01/hackday-roundup/ "I think it was somewhere around 3am, while I was making the rounds passing out free Red Bull to appreciative hackers (Leonard and I made a middle of the night run to and buy out an entire store’s inventory), that I realized how much I love working wher
Posted by jzawodn at 06:48 AM

PhishTank

http://www.phishtank.com/ "PhishTank is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, PhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing technology into their applications at no charge."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:48 AM

Yahoo! Open Hack Day Wrapup

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2006/10/02/yahoo-open-hack-day-wrapup/ "In the end, it’s all about the experience, including everything I’ll remember about the event. From giving my first public talk to seeing an awesome show put on by Beck to meeting fantastic people. There will never be another experience like this one
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

Judging the Hack Day entries…

http://salimismail.com/?p=52 "The event was clearly a home run for Yahoo. Opening up their APIs is a smart thing to do and will further wire the company into the infrastructure of the internet."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

VentureBlog: Yahoo Hack Day

http://p6.hostingprod.com/@www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2006/001258.html "Perhaps most interesting to me was the fact that a number of companies sent teams of engineers to Yahoo Hack Day to mash up their own applications with Yahoo's services."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

Yahoo Hack Day is on!

http://getluky.net/2006/09/30/yahoo-hack-day-is-on/ "It can sometimes be tough to work in a corporate environment. But it’s things like Open Hack Day that make me glad that environment is at Yahoo."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

October 01, 2006

Yahoo! BBAuth for blog comment authentication

http://dossy.org/archives/000349.html "I've gone ahead and spent the hour to integrate it into my blog comments system, so now you can authenticate using your Yahoo! ID and leave comments here."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

HackDay: Thoughts on how Yahoo got there and what it all means

http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/2006/10/hackday-thoughts-on-how-yahoo-got.html "The vision of innovation and creativity in the Burning Man, Bar Camp and Hack Day is exactly what (I think) Yahoo is hungry for"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

BBAuth vs. OpenID

http://commented.org/blog/2006/9/30/bbauth-vs-openid.html "Seems a pretty big reason to implement it for the web app developer, especially since it is such an easy API you can integrate it in an hour or two."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Single Sign-On - Will Yahoo’s Attempt Succeed?

http://www.drewmeyersinsights.com/2006/09/30/single-sign-on-will-yahoos-attempt-succeed/ "I hope small & large developers everywhere adopt this so that I can browse around the internet without remembering 15 user names & passwords. Great work Yahoo!!!!"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Yahoo Open Hack - BBAuth meets Flex by Me

http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/09/yahoo-open-hack-bbauth-meets-flex-by.php "When hack day started I was planning to write a Flex UI for Yahoo's new Mail API's. I got as far as the lack of a crossdomain.xml file but in the 2 hours I got BBAuth integrated with Flex."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Using Yahoo!’s BBAuth with Rails

http://metaatem.net/2006/09/29/using-yahoos-bbauth-with-rails "I thought it would be fun to get it working with rails. It could be put into a plugin fairly easily I think. Without further ado, here is how I went about implementing it..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Yahoo! Open Hack Day: [this is good]

http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4106 "I don't think that Yahoo! Open Hack Day could have gone any better. It blew past my personal best-case expectations. The biggest problem is where to take it from here. But that's one of those good problems."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Craigslist founder has no desire to sell site

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6120890.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn "If you're living comfortably, what's the point of having more?"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Yahoo! Developer Day Recap

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/09/30/devday-recap/ "It was a big day for the YUI developer team."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:24 PM

Part 1 of 2: Yahoo’s HackDay06 was Quite Cool

http://blog.zooomr.com/2006/10/01/part-1-of-2-yahoos-hackday06-was-quite-cool/ "Yahoo is an amazing, close family that was gracious enough to open themselves up to over 450 outsiders (including myself) over the last two days from the lowest levels to the very top."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:24 PM

Pre-Assembly Pics of the new HpH 304S Glider

http://www.hph.cz/gallery.php?click=1&zazn=060921-wings&lang=cz# looks like a nice ship so far
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Pre-Assembly Pics of the new HpH 304S Glider

http://www.hph.cz/gallery.php?click=1&zazn=060921-preassembly&lang=cz# it looks like the winglets are LS-8 inspired
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Creative mayhem at Yahoo's first-ever software hack-a-thon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061001/lf_afp/afplifestyleitinternet_061001191056 Good coverage. But it's "URL's Cafe" not "URL Cafe" Don't they get the joke?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Review: Google Reader

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/review-google-reader/ Matt things the company dog food is more tasty than before
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Jelbert GeoTagger records camera heading data »

http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/09/jelbert_geotagg.html "The Jelbert GeoTagger connects to a Garmin Geko 301 GPS device and fits into a DSLR's flash shoe. Every time you take a photo the camera triggers the geotagger, which records the precise position and heading of a camera using the GPS device." Cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

The Thin Pill

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/thin.html "75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a disease – then invented the drugs to cure it."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

brackup is done

http://brad.livejournal.com/2254021.html ooh! I must play witht his.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 AM

DC Input Battery Chargers for 12 volt Lead Acid and SLA Batteries

http://www.powerstream.com/DCC.htm If you need to do DC to DC charging
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

How to explain RSS the Oprah way

http://cravingideas.blogs.com/backinskinnyjeans/2006/09/how_to_explain_.html If you replace "Oprah" with "easy" (amusing, huh?), this makes sense to people who've never paid attention to Oprah
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

GOLEAN Roll! Bars

http://store.kashi.com/golean_rollbars.aspx?SID=1&Category_ID=50&Link_ID=93& These are yummy
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

mod_limitipconn

http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html mod_limitipconn allows web server administrators to limit the number of simultaneous downloads permitted from a single IP address.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Breaking cycles

http://fury.com/article/2206.php "Throwing yourself off balance makes you learn how to regain it faster. Dropping yourself into new situations helps you deal with the unexpected ones."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

A Discussion with danah boyd

http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/speakers/boyd/ filmed at UNC-Chapel Hill
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM