November 30, 2006

Microsoft Officially Announces Vista and Office 07 - Web Briefly Mentioned

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_vista_office07_launch.php hmmm
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Yahoo’s Big Win

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/30/yahoos-big-win/ "This wasn’t a war, it was a massacre, and a case study in why all this “Web 2.0 stuff” actually has legs when applied properly."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Time for Google to Try Links

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/11/time_for_google.html "Okay, but is the problem really that there are too many products--or that users don't want to bother (or can't remember) to search for them?"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

November 29, 2006

Blogs - why listen to the man when you can listen to the guy sticking it to the man?

http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/blogs-why-listen-to-the-man-when-you-can-listen-to-the-guy-sticking-it-to-the-man/ I guess that makes me the guy sticking it to the man... heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=208 heh... unit testing for C! as if.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55807 "Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

SecureApt - Debian Wiki

http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt all about the new keys and secure packages and stuff that I'll have to deal with someday soon
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Google Display Advertising Network

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003133.php the first rule of the Google Display Advertising Network is that you do not discuss the Google Display Advertising Network with anyone!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

mixd. 445566.

http://mixd.yahoo.com/ "It's easy to create mobile text groups and to share your mobile pix and videos with your friends."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Scientific proof that we all need love

http://www.paulstips.com/brainbox/pt/home.nsf/link/27062006-Scientific-proof-that-we-all-need-love "No matter how abusive the evil mothers were, the baby monkeys always came back and displayed affection towards them."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Adieu to Google Answers

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html Google Answers shutting down. Only had 800 users in 4 years. It's good to see 'em cutting their losses.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

November 28, 2006

“The Porn Myth”

http://www.neurobashing.com/21cdb/2006/11/28/the-porn-myth/ "Not one 50’s housewife ever had a little too much cooking sherry and took a load on the face for fun." I just knew that post would get people all... excited. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/11/28/performance-research-part-1/ Tenni Theurer starts to talk about how we look at web site performance
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side

http://sv411.blogspot.com/2006/11/jotspot-google-merger-shows-its-ugly.html "Honestly we could have never imagined the non-lubricated rape that has taken place to the partners and customers. Really ZERO consideration was made to the partners and customers with the customer being the real looser here." Yow!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Performance Air Service, Inc.

http://www.performanceairservice.com/ local furnace repair shop -- hopefully they can make my posessed furance work right
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Lennox G61V Variable Speed Gas Furnace

http://www.lennox.com/products/specs.asp?model=G61V If I need a replacement, this may be it.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Kevin Smith's iTunes Playlist

http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=293 Apparently his text was too much for iTunes to handle, so he blogged it instead. Excellent. He's got some good tracks on there too. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

November 27, 2006

7 out of 8 ain't bad...

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/aus/192659778.html "You know what's missing from my pizza? A WHOLE FUCKING SLICE!!!" Wow. It's as if Derek wrote this post. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 PM

In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html?ex=1322197200&en=0cf877b05b918674&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss in which Ben Stein looks at how much less relative tax is paid by the rich
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

The Best Response to Microsoft's Shrinking Share of Search

http://selberg.org/ "Well, what did anyone really expect?"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

Google Has My Credit Card Number Now

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003129.php As John says: Sorry Google, but mark this one in your metadata as "abandoned cart."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Google Properties to Appear #1 in all SERPs

http://seoblackhat.com/2006/11/21/google-serps/ "I’m not so sure I welcome our new Robot Overlords anymore."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

November 26, 2006

a crotch noogie done with the foot

http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/packaging-that-makes-you-say-ouch-eww-mmh/ WTF?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

perfect comfort

http://mathowie.vox.com/library/post/perfect-comfort.html "If Jesus wore pants, they'd be microfiber lounge pants."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

IACRA

http://acra.faa.gov/iacra/ FAA's "Integrated Airman Certification and/or Rating Application" system
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Zune is a piece of shit

http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/001204.html "Microsoft's Zune may be the thing that makes it obvious that Microsoft has crappy products..."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

November 25, 2006

The skill that separates

http://www.jobdig.com/articles/273/The_skill_that_separates.html "What impressed me was that when he asked a question, he waited for the answer. He not only listened, he made me feel like I was the only person in the room."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

http://www.camstudio.org/ "CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Planespotters.net

http://www.plane-spotters.net/ Aviation Photos, Production Lists and more
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

FlightAware - Free Flight Tracker - IFR Flight Status, Tracking, History, Maps

http://flightaware.com/ "FlightAware is a free flight tracker that will change what you think about live flight tracking and aviation data."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

The Prettiest Images

http://thefairest.info/top.html there are some good photos in there
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

HomeAway

http://www.homeaway.com/ "the world's most complete marketplace for vacation rentals" including Vacation Rentals, Vacation Accommodations, Condo Rentals
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

November 24, 2006

Come off it, folks: how many paedophiles can there be?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/09/do0901.xml "Are we really saying that any time an adult male finds himself sitting next to someone under 16, he must expect to be hustled from his seat before the suspicious eyes of the entire cabin?"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

The Windows Shutdown crapfest

http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html "So that nets us a conservative estimate of 24 people involved in this feature. Also each team of 8 was separated by 6 layers of management, so let's add them in too, giving us ... 41 total people with a voice in this feature."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

November 23, 2006

Gravitas-Off Match and Re-Match

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_0xiEhkZJu4 Stephen Colbert and Stone Philips play against each other
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Just say “no” to TV. Do it for your country.

http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=562 many of the comments ring true with my experience of no TV for almost 3 years too
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Caution Is Advised!

http://www.avalon5.com/index.php/archives/745 Best Sign. Ever. (almost)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 PM

Christmas peep show

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20813345-2,00.html when the display window animals get out of hand...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Cogmap -- Yahoo

http://www.cogmap.com/chart.php?id=123 that's pretty cool! an org chart for yahoo that anyone can edit.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

The Emperor Has No Clothes

http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~ghoseb/esr.html ESR, the "hacker" that everyone loves to hate.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:24 PM

Google dominates, MSN Search sinks

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-dominates-msn-search-sinks.html "It really is remarkable how badly Microsoft is doing against Google."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 AM

Sector Wrap: Internet Search Shares Gain

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061122/internet_sector_wrap.html?.v=1 '"We think Yahoo could be one of the best performing large caps for 2007," analyst Rob Sanderson said in a note to investors.'
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 AM

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)

http://writingenglish.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/the-25-funniest-analogies-collected-by-high-school-english-teachers/ "He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Sex Advice from a Dungeons and Dragons Player

http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/11/22/sex-advice-from-a-dungeons-and-dragons-player/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Yahoo! "buy," target price raised

http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_1428802.html "The target price has been raised from $31 to $34."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

November 22, 2006

Search Popularity Stats, Sliced & Diced

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061122-111956 "Basically, NetRatings shows status quo. Google and Yahoo keep ticking along at the same levels. So does Ask. AOL hangs in roughly the same general range. It's Microsoft Windows Live (MSN on the chart) that catches my eye most with consistent decline."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Bush Screws the Country (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAL3ceozbRQ but very, very amusing. heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

November 21, 2006

MySQL AB :: MySQL GUI Tools Downloads

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html 'MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0 is available under the MySQL AB "dual licensing" model. Under this model, users may choose to use MySQL products under the free software/opensource GNU General Public License (commonly known as the "GPL") or under a commerc
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 PM

Your Bi-Lingual Kitty

http://www.petcentric.com/article.aspx?C=1&OID=61&CMP=EMC-PETC-September06news "Meowing is not part of this language. Meow-ese, it would seem, is a language developed exclusively for humans."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

Google Pulls Click-to-Call

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/21/google-pulls-click-to-call/ "...using it to make the local Republican party office call the local porn store..." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

e - The Collaborative Text Editor for Windows

http://e-texteditor.com/index.html looks rather interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Innovation and learning to love destruction

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/innovation-and-learning-to-love.html "Old products never die, but they should. To innovate, it is not enough to love creation. We must also love destruction."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

Generate Simple Bar Charts From a MySQL Prompt

http://www.squarebits.com/blog/2006/11/generate_simple.html this reminds me of an Excel trick I once saw...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

How to Fix Yahoo: Fortune (and I) Weigh In

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/11/how_to_fix_yaho.html "Bottom line? No deals required. Just get the darn cash-register working."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

mail.yahoo.net

http://mail.yahoo.net/ WTF is this?!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

What Do Yahoo Employees Think of the "Peanut Butter Manifesto"?

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=4b25fb0d-84dc-4582-a2a6-31917c67d233 "A couple of us were chatting about the memo at lunch yesterday and I realized that if I was a Yahoo! employee my spider sense would be tingling like mad."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 AM

Yumio's Take on the Peanut Butter Manifesto

http://yumio.net/blog/2006/11/21/yahoos-brad-garlinghouses-peanut-butter-manifesto/ "My bet would be that in 6 months, a frustrated Brad Garlinghouse is going to be joining a startup…."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

Answers.com Integrates Yahoo Answers Into Content

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061121-093849 I didn't see *that* coming
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

November 20, 2006

ExpertGPS

http://www.expertgps.com/default.asp "ExpertGPS displays your waypoints, routes, and tracks on USGS topo maps and aerial photos."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

SaltedHashLoginGenerator in Ruby on Rails

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/SaltedHashLoginGenerator "A generator based on the LoginGenerator by TobiasLuetke. This generator adds ActionMailer support for changed and forgotten passwords, as well as account verification via a registration email with a custom URL sent to the user’s registered address."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

RubyOnRails on Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails how to get the basic stuff installed on ubuntu
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Geting Really Started with Ruby on Rails

http://slidewheel.com/deck/show/12/ a nice little presentation that's like most of the other quick intros for rails
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

MapLib.net

http://maplib.net/ "MapLib.net turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map in a really simple way."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Flickr: Camera Finder

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ very cool! camera stats breakdown on Flickr photos
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Can Yahoo! and Local Papers Save Each Other?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/20/can-yahoo-and-local-papers-save-each-other/ "out there in the real world, it’s still the go-to site in ways that Google is not. My middle-class, middle-American in-laws use Yahoo! daily. They rarely use Google."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

AboutAirportParking.com

http://www.aboutairportparking.com/ "Search, Map and Review over 400 airport parking lots across the US!" Kick Ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Why can't Johnny download?

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/11/20.html#a1565 "Programmers do this naturally, because programmers know the difference between transmission of data by value and transmission of data by reference. But almost nobody else does."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

San Francisco: Silicon Valley's Ghetto

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sfghetto "neither the City nor the Valley really feel real"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

November 19, 2006

9 Billion-Year-Old ‘Dark Energy’ Reported

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/science/space/17dark.html?ref=science "Dark energy makes us nervous." No shit.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/20/technology/20yahoo.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1164001329-Vjp2BbIIEZhEScgqN4e1Xw "A consortium of seven newspaper chains ... is announcing a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that the wary newspaper business is increasingly willing to shake hands with the technology companies they
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Maturity

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/11/maturity.html "While the Internet may be far from mature, many of the leading businesses on the Internet are starting to be."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Screw all of this Yahoo bashing

http://blog.tabblo.com/index.php/2006/11/19/screw-all-of-this-yahoo-bashing/ "Before everyone declares Yahoo dead and irrelevant, we at Tabblo figured we’d throw a little support behind the company that has given us a whole bunch of help in getting this whole thing going."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

AirTab

http://www.airtab.com/ "Airtabs are small, efficient air flow streamliners that are the first practical solution for reducing drag at the back of large vehicles and the tractor/trailer gap."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:24 PM

November 18, 2006

Yahoo! Peanut Butter?

http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2006/11/18/yahoo-peanut-butter/ "Everyone knows that Flickr and Delicious are tiny compared to the competing Yahoo! properties. But they are undisputed #1 in their respective spaces in influential mindshare."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

An Open Letter to Jerry Yang and David Filo

http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2006/11/open-letter-to-jerry-yang-and-david.html "Susan Decker should be Yahoo!'s next CEO."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Yahoo's "Peanut Butter" Memo Calls for Big Headcount Cuts

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/11/18/yahoos_peanut_b.html hmmm
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

November 17, 2006

Why SOAP Sucks

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/whySoapSucks.html "...let me say now I'd never choose to use SOAP and WSDL again. I was wrong..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

November 16, 2006

Kansas man shoots himself in groin

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_fe_st/groin_shot "gimme all your money, or I'll blow my testicle off!!!" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

SWFUpload

http://labb.dev.mammon.se/swfupload/ "Upload files via flash to get the flash-upload dialog goodness." Open Source. Excellent.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

Search Engine Land

http://searchengineland.com/ "News About Search Engines & Search Marketing" aka, Danny Sullivan's new thing
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Downdraft blamed for glider crash

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3863391a6407,00.html ouch :-(
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

The S stands for Simple

http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/ a funny-as-hell dialog about how SOAP is "simple"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

WEBMASTERWORLD vs. Web 2.0 Summit

http://blog.topix.net/archives/000124.html Chris has an excellent comparison of PubCon and Web 2.0
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

HMPassphrase

http://projects.heavymeta.org/HMPassphrase/wiki/Description "HMPassphrase is an anti-spam plugin for Movable Type." Sure beats having to hack the perl myself.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

An open letter to someone here at work who used the bathroom too loud

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/an-open-letter-to-someone-here-at-work-who-used-the-bathroom-too-loud/ "...can you at least HIDE YOUR badge so I don’t have to know who exactly is taking a dump next to me?"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

It heats. It powers. Is it the future of home energy?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1114/p01s02-usec.html "Residential 'micro-combined-heat-and-power' units are efficient furnaces that create electricity."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

November 15, 2006

Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html "The purpose of this experiment is to see how emacs can work alone over a linux kernel." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Storm Chasing Photos

http://flickr.com/photos/digicana/sets/72157594345151045/ a very cool photoset on flickr
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

ElasticLive - Hershey's Kisses

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/11/elasticlive_her.html a great hack and a business to boot. nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

System76, Linux Hardware for Everyone

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/11/system76.html "For years I've been seeking the Nirvana of a company that would ship me professional, high-quality, Linux-only hardware."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

system76: Linux Laptops, Linux Desktops, Linux Servers

http://system76.com/ nice looking machines, running ubuntu
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Office Space the Drama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlA-OsT25mw I love all these office space remixes
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

KFC's logo first to be seen from space

http://michaelcastellon.blogspot.com/2006/11/kfcs-logo-first-to-be-seen-from-space.html all hail the advertising industry (*sigh*)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

November 14, 2006

Yahoo! Research Berkeley blog

http://www.yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/ "A blog about what's happening at Yahoo! Research Berkeley as we dig into the latest in social, context-aware and media reseach."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks

http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/11/how_two_hours_c.html yup
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Review: Enterto Spamless Email

http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/11/14/review-enterto-spamless-email/ Paul smacks 'em down but gets paid for the review. Gotta love it.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme

http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/zune-marketplaces-absurd-pricing-scheme/ "So, this horrible system has been put in place (according to Microsoft’s logic) to make life easier for less than 1 million people."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Jeff Barr FAQ

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?page_id=683 heh... everyone needs their very own FAQ!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

PhpBB's Casino Links

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-11-14-n18.html what?!?! people *sell* links. I've never heard of such a thing!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

The Existential Terror of San Francisco

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sfterror "The whole city feels like some sort of movie set; oversized and fake. Every time I go out I worry that I might miss my mark or fumble my lines and on the rare occasions that I do, I am mercilessly excoriated by the city officials."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Ruthless enough for a startup?

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/ruthless-enough-for-startup.html "It appears the ideal startup will give away something that used to cost money for free (preferably copyright material and porn), use other people's content and resources, appeal to the baser human instincts (especially vanity and sex), and spam massive e
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

I am a “Manchild”

http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=286 "I’ve already got a bit of experience feeling inferior all the time (shit - I’ve got a lifetime of experience in that department, to be honest)."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Polish Exchange Student in US: My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,448350,00.html "When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to America on a student exchange, he found himself trapped in a host family of Christian fundamentalists."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Simpsons do Army Recruitment

http://alternet.org/blogs/video/44292/ now that's funny
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Installing the Zune... sucked

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the-zune-sucked/ Microsoft is amazing, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

November 13, 2006

Eyeglasses Stores are for Suckers

http://3mew.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/eyeglasses-stores-are-for-suckers/ how to buy eyeglasses online and spend way less cash
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Thoughts on the State of Search

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/11/thoughts_on_the.html "I do wonder where the next search innovations are going to come from, and I'm surprised to find that Google isn't the obvious answer to that question anymore."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/fueling_the_network_effect Jonathon's take on why they opened up the source to java...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

Yahoo! University Hack Day Success!!!

http://njoubert.blogspot.com/2006/11/yahoo-university-hack-day-success.html "My hack involved a lot of screen scraping - until Yahoo! releases their Calendar API"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:48 AM

The Passion-Industrial Complex

http://www.dervala.net/archives/000866.html "I like my work. I’m good at it. I try hard. When did that stop being enough? When did it have to be my Passion?"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 AM

November 12, 2006

Case Study: Digg Versus Google News Traffic

http://daggle.com/061110-002040.html complete with a long tail graph!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

The Meaning of Borat

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/borat "Borat goes somewhere and does exactly what you're not supposed to do. In doing so, he points out the absurdity of our cultural assumptions and then documents exactly the punishments inflicted for violating them."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:48 PM

There's something (crappy) about Borat...

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/11/theres_something_crap/ "I don't understand the reviews. I don't understand how anyone can look at that film in its totality and describe it as a cerebral job of political satire that forces you to think."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

Robot Theatre: "Royale With Cheese"

http://www.glyphjockey.com/2006/08/robot-theatre-royale-with-cheese.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

Web 2.0 + 1

http://earlystagevc.typepad.com/earlystagevc/2006/11/web_20_1.html "For the most part I felt like it was a waste of time (and $2500)."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 PM

Ridester

http://www.ridester.com/# The dependable way to rideshare between cities in the USA
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Amazon S3: Show me the money

http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2006/11/10/amazon-s3-show-me-the-money/ "I expect our savings from Amazon S3 to be well over $1M in 2007, maybe as high as $2M."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Skeptic founder Michael Shermer on TEDTalks

http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/11/skeptic_founder.html# "Skeptic Magazine founder Michael Shermer takes us on a hilarious romp through the strange claims we humans put forth as truth..."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: San Jose area

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm there are a couple of historic gliderports on the list
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 AM

Does constant exposure to advertising screw up our heads and lives?

http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=726 "Americans are professional buyers and horders of things they don’t need."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

November 11, 2006

Georgetown Zoning Law Says House Has Too Many Residents - Residents Form New Religion to Satisfy Zoning Law

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111001978.html this reminds me of Old School
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 PM

LiveATC.Net

http://www.liveatc.net/ Bringing You Live Air Traffic Control Communications
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 PM

Search Engine Optimization And The Commodification of Social Relationships

http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001082.html as the lines between advertising and blogging continue to blur
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Yahoo VP: Blogging Service May Get Makeover

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127818-pg,1-RSS,RSS/article.html it's about time!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

November 10, 2006

Speedbandits

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W63xoQE_OOg Denmark is a beautiful country.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 PM

Web 2.0 Summit Wrap-up

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_summit_wrap-up.php "Last year there were a lot more developers and designers running around, this year the crowd was overwhelmingly from the media and business worlds."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 PM

MySQL Camp Google Notes

http://photomatt.net/2006/11/10/mysql-camp-google-notes/#comment-263133 "Googlers saying how they used MySQL internal to Google."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 PM

Homemade Roller Coaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41ZUQng4p8&eurl= nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Caucasian Club creates imbroglio

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030922-115056-2744r.htm "Freshman Lisa McClelland gathered about 250 signatures from students and adults to start a club at Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., that would focus attention on European heritage and history." Good for her!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

The Zune Brick

http://www.jebriggs.com/php/wordpress/?p=222 "I’d love to see the internal Microsoft memos choosing brown as a featured color for a new consumer device. Or choosing not to make it usable as an external hard drive. Or..."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:48 AM

The Truth Comes Out: Oracle Bought InnoDB Without a Clue

http://oraclewatch.eweek.com/blogs/oracle/archive/2006/04/26/9318.aspx "Imagining Oracle as a ditzy shopper makes the company seem, well, a lot more cuddly"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Joel on the evils of software development performance metrics

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/10b.html "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony

http://www.symfony-project.com/weblog/2006/10/28/yahoo-bookmarks-uses-symfony.html yay for open source and yahoo
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 AM

Thunderbird Help: Tips & Tricks

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips a ton of useful shit to tweak in tbird
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

Breakfast cheese toast

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001809.html it sure beats grilled chesse at 6am, doesn't it? :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 AM

Spam has won

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/spamOverload.html "My spamassassin setup clearly no longer works. What can I do?"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:25 AM

November 09, 2006

Office Space redone as a Thriller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGNs7QMeV7E It's fucking brilliant. And funny too.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D: The comparative review »

http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/11/microsoft_virtu.html "he skinny: it's better in some regards than Google Earth, and worse in more important ways. That's nevertheless a good showing for a first iteration of a virtual globe."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 PM

Luscombe-Silvaire Aircraft Company

http://www.luscombe-silvaire.com/default.asp Wow! They've released an LSA-8 model that's designed for Light Sport. It has flaps and night lights too.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Sam Ruby: Tamarin

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/11/09/Tamarin "why not port some of these same languages to a runtime which actually was designed for a dynamic language?" an excellent question...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

John Battelle interviews Yahoo's David Filo and Bradley Horowitz at Web2.0

http://www.barneypell.com/archives/2006/11/john_battelle_i.html Barney's notes from the talk
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

The most optimistic person is the one who complains the most

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2006/11/09/the-most-optimistic-person-is-the-one-who-complains-the-most/ "The complainer believes that people actually might care." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

One never knows when a homosexual is about

http://www.glumbert.com/media/fifties at least I can claim I wasn't alive when this stuff was made
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

Statistician Peter Donnelly on TEDTalks

http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/11/statistician_pe.html# an excellent demonstration of how easily we can misinterpret numbers
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Stanford University: Campus Maps

http://www.stanford.edu/search/maps/ they've got a good variety of useful maps
Posted by jzawodn at 12:26 PM

Is Google Checkout a Dud?

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2006/11/is_google_check.html "the reason Google is making Checkout free is not that it wants to finish eviscerating PayPal, but that Checkout has been an unqualified disaster"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

FCKGW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCKGW "FCKGW are the first five characters of the CD key that is most commonly used with illegitimate copies of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system." Heh. Fuck GW. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

November 08, 2006

Google Continues to Cool; Everyone Looking for That Youtube Thing

http://blog.compete.com/index.php/2006/11/08/search-market-share-google-youtube-yahoo-msn-dogpile/ compete.com is showing off their search metrics, it seems... we'll see how this all plays out.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:24 AM

Republicans Blame Election Losses On Democrats

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55018 hahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54916 "...not just a handful of Naderites with spastic colons or loser kids with no taste buds whose parents want them to grow up to be boring milquetoasts afraid to have any fun. And don't think we haven't forgotten you either, office workers on snack breaks a
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

Other reasons not to post

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/other-reasons-not-to-post/ yup
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

November 07, 2006

Unisys Weather: NAM Model Forecasts

http://weather.unisys.com/nam/ "This is a set of contour plots using data from the NAM model."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:47 PM

what i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/11/07/what_i_mean_whe.html "Email is not gone but it is dead in the sense that it is no longer a site of deep emotional passion. People still have accounts, just like they still have mailboxes. But their place for sociable communication is elsewhere."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ one of the most amusing pogramming books you'll ever read
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Web AIM

http://developer.aim.com/webaim "Web AIM provides standards-based APIs to access the Buddy List feature, the sending and receiving of IMs, rich presence information, and more. We’ve even provided a few widgets that use the Web AIM APIs to help you get started."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

firefox, rss, xsl - from anger to apathy

http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/11/07/firefox-rss-xsl-from-anger-to-apathy "Brilliant: I’ll just add that to the body of obscure CSS hacks and bug workarounds that’ll someday make me give up web development for raising sheep. Thanks a million, guys."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

Blogging Faux Pas

http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/11/07/blogging-faux-pas/ "Jeremy Zawodny could change his background to migraine-inducing black, change the logo to some hideous dripping blood goth design, make the text lime green with hot pink links..." I am SO doing that! :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

White House Caught Doctoring Mission Accomplished Video

http://www.brainshrub.com/doctoring-mission-accomplished-video "how the Bush Administration is attempting to alter history"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 AM

November 06, 2006

Pronto condoms - the best way to get it on

http://www.prontocondoms.co.za/ "The PRONTO condom can be applied in a few seconds." Is "applied" really the best word for that?
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

My expanded role at Yahoo!

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2006/11/06/my-expanded-role-at-yahoo/ "as of today I am officially a Yahoo! Mail Beta evangelist" nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Join us for the Movable Type Hack-a-thon

http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/weblog/2006/11/mt_hackaton_2006.html "join us for the first ever, Global Movable Type Hack-a-thon on Tuesday, November 14th"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 AM

Deceiving Pictures

http://media.skoopy.com/misc/deceiving_pictures/ hahahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

November 05, 2006

Powerset gets $12.5M at whopper valuation, to go after search holy grail

http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/05/powerset-gets-125m-at-whopper-valuation-to-go-after-search-holy-grail/ congrats to them on closing series A funding
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 PM

The game was simple: Name the stupidest thing you have ever done. One answer was peculiar: "Shot a guy in the head."

http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-19/116263840380120.xml&coll=3 I love dumb criminals. They crack me up.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

REST Web Services

http://www.crummy.com/writing/REST-Web-Services/ a book by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby that I'm very much looking forward to
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Google Earth Download

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html get the latest
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

VMware Converter 3.0 Beta

http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/converter/ point it at a real computer and it creates an VMWare image to match... very cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Pat Healy's Flying Adventures

http://www.pathealy.com/flyingadventures/flying.htm He's taken that Scout to some pretty amazing places
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Bay Area Map

http://www.sfgate.com/traveler/graphics/maps/sfbay_std.gif this is the most readable online bay are map I've seen... I refer to it quite often.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Spaceship designer Burt Rutan on TEDTalks

http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/10/spaceship_desig.html# "legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the U.S government-funded space program for stagnating" and does a damned fine job of it
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

Modified twin-fuselaged L-13 "Blanik"

http://discovery.ot.lt/cfair97/images/misc04.htm That had to be a bit tricky to fly...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

Amberjack: Site Tour Creator

http://amberjack.org/ " Amberjack is a lightweight Open Source library, enabling webmasters to create cool site tours." A nice complement to screencasting.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:24 PM

Resizable Form Fields for Firefox

http://justinsomnia.org/2006/10/resizeable-form-fields-for-firefox/ it's even better than the resizable textarea!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Pac-Man Chart

http://themot.org/gallery/d/58721-1/pacmanchart.png heh
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Go Panama!

http://boulter.com/blog/2006/11/03/go-panama/ "Comparing the 17 days before and after the Panama upgrade, my revenue went up 114%! That’s more than double what I was making before."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

The Parable of the Two Programmers

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html a classic story about building software
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Fake Progress Bar

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/fakebar.html hahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

November 04, 2006

Frequently Asked Questions - The Church Of Google

http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/faq.html uh... I'm backing away slowly...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

November 03, 2006

Diebold is center stage in the voting machines controversy - November 13, 2006

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393084/index.htm "... Then roll out your product without adequate testing. Don't hire enough skilled people. When people notice problems, deny, obfuscate and ignore. Finally, blame your critics when it all blows up in your face."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

The peak-end rule

http://overstated.net/2006/10/31/the-peak-end-rule "If you’re planning any trips soon, make sure to end on a high note, because you will be the one telling the stories."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Firefox 2.0 breaks client-side XSL for RSS and Atom feeds

http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/11/02/firefox-20-breaks-client-side-xsl-for-rss-and-atom-feeds those bastards! I bet they killed Kenny too.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:47 PM

Evangelical leader says he bought meth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_on_re_us/haggard_sex_allegations "Rev. Ted Haggard admitted Friday he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute. But the influential Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man." Riiiight.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Yahoo! Autos Feedback Center

http://feedback.yahoo.com/ digg-style feedback and bug reports on Yahoo
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

suckage explained

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/10/28/suckage_explain.html I know that feeling all too well... :-(
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Use the Yahoo! Sign In to join - it’s easy as pie

http://menuism.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/use-the-yahoo-sign-in-to-join-its-easy-as-pie/ "If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve added the ability to sign up and log into Menuism with your Yahoo! account."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

How Low Will Bush Go?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201596.html?referrer=reddit "If Democrats manage to take control of one or both houses of Congress on Tuesday, the reason will be that voters were not adequately roused into a state of heart-pounding, knee-knocking, teeth-chattering fear."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

When confronted with evidence, a Republican congressman grabs it and refuses to give it back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwh-OCFCOTc heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

help wanted: del.icio.us is hiring again

http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/11/help_wanted.html get your dream job
Posted by jzawodn at 01:24 PM

Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/articles/Nine_Things_Developers_Want_More_Than_Money.aspx "Many of the developers I know have been programming since they were in junior high."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

Zen and the Art of Blogging

http://ypnblog.com/blog/2006/11/02/zen-and-the-art-of-blogging/ my article is up on ypnblog now... and it has a much better tittle than I'd have used
Posted by jzawodn at 07:24 AM

Please Stop Splicing Your Feed

http://www.wdr1.com/blog/archives/000898.html "In Internet-land, this combination of feeds into one is called splicing... In Bill-land, it’s called fucking annoying." Amen to that!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 AM

November 02, 2006

The Comcast HD DVR Is Simply, Terribly Awful

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003055.php "Good Lord, it doth suck. The interface is simply abominable."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Vista, the five year old’s OS

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2006/11/01/vista-the-five-year-olds-os/ Wherein Matt asks: Is there an “expert mode” in Vista I can set so I’m not treated like this is my first computer the next time I use it?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Working Backwards

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backwards.html "Once we have gone through the process of creating the press release, faq, mockups, and user manuals, it is amazing how much clearer it is what you are planning to build." That doesn't sound backwards at all.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

November 01, 2006

Gmail with different attachment icons

http://userstyles.org/style/show/226 "See from your inbox what kind of attachment an email has."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

Get your green on

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2006/11/01/get-your-green-on/ we apparently have a ton of green stuff on Yahoo! Autos these days
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM