February 28, 2007

Google Introduces Traffic Info to Maps

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/02/28/google-introduces-traffic-info-to-maps/ "...it seems as though Google is playing a bit of catch-up with Yahoo! Maps. Yahoo’s mapping service has displayed live traffic information for quite some time already."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Pilot error cited in fatal 2005 crash of tour glider

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070228/NEWS01/702280400/1190/NEWS a sad story of what happens when you only shoot for the minimum requirements
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 27, 2007

Are You There God? It's Me, Monica

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200601/oral-sex "Somehow these girls have developed the indifferent attitude toward performing oral sex that one would associate with bitter, long-married women or streetwalkers."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Dexter Walks

http://www.paulgraham.com/anybots.html "This Valentine's Day I saw one of the most exciting things I've seen in my life: Trevor Blackwell's robot finally walked. Dexter is, as far as we know, the first dynamically balancing biped robot..."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html "A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Life-Long Computer Skills

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/computer-skills.html "The problem, of course, is in tying education too tightly to specific software applications."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Community Doesn't Scale: Why k5 Is Perpetually Dying

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/2/25/184721/191 "In short, gentle kurons, we must *troll harder*." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 26, 2007

This is for you.

http://jwz.livejournal.com/742057.html jwz really finds the gems
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Yahoo’s Terry Semel: Call For His Head

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/26/yahoos-terry-semel-call-for-his-head/ "What incentive is there to do better when you already are making $110 million a year???" Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Yahoo!: Time for Plan B

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070226/27938_id.html "I have finalized our proposed "Plan B" for Yahoo! and it was delivered to Yahoo!'s Corporate Secretary Friday morning. We've submitted the necessary paperwork to present it at the May annual meeting of shareholders as nine points of business to be brough
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Panama Puts Yahoo Back in the Race

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070226_665895.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index "Yahoo's pit stop will prove to be a sound--if somewhat belated--strategic move, and there's no doubt the company will see revenue improvements before the year is over."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

So Beautiful, So Disturbing

http://chalain.livejournal.com/43015.html Windows Vista is like being married to a hot chick who occasionally grabs you by the throat to ask for permission.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

comScore Data Show Yahoo!’s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1222 imagine that... better ad ranking yields higher CTR. what grand revelation will come next?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4452 "Just a small change like that in hundreds of millions of clicks is going to be a huge opportunity to make Yahoo money."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

The problem with forced rank

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/09/problem-with-forced-rank.html "I suspect that the initial gains is because the forced rank is used at first to fire employees who should have been nudged out of the company a long time ago... further gains are lost to damage to morale and team cohesion."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Methods for the social archiving of mailing lists...

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/02/on_bots_and_social_en/ Tom is doing what Tom does best: thinking out interesting stuff online
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 25, 2007

Pretty Emacs

http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs/ How to get antialiased emacs in ubuntu... kick ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

HOWTO: Install GNU Emacs with antialiasing

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=126023 build it yourself in a few easy steps
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Yahoo Pipes Support in Dojo

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=603 "And no, you don’t have to download YUI to get at this stuff…it’s all pure Dojo. We make it easier to work with Yahoo’s services than Yahoo does."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Mandatory Service Bulletin on Superior Cylinders

http://www.superiorairparts.com/sb0601/ it looks like our engine will be safe, however
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 23, 2007

Aviation Database Update for Garmin GPS

http://shop.garmin.com/aviation/databases/ For some reason, Garmin doesn't link this page from the obvious pages on their site
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2524524540025172110&q=google+techtalk+mysql Jay Pipes gave a talk at Google about a year ago. This reminds me of some old talks I used to do but nicely updated (of course) for newer stuff.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

MyBlogLog Snafu, Identity and Resurrection

http://www.caterina.net/archive/001042.html "I think he crossed the line from white hat to black hat when posting the identities of several community members. I think banning was the right thing to do, even without a Terms of Service to cover their ass."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Serving YUI Files from Yahoo! Servers

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/ kick ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Upcoming.org Suggestion Board

http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=upcoming tell 'em what you want (digg-style)
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

A magazine I would love to read

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/02/23/143/a-magazine-i-would-love-to-read/ I, for one, would also like to read this Magazine 2.0
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Microsoft's Vista-Live Strategy Already Impacting Google

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_vista_live_impacting_google.php "The reason why Yahoo seems unaffected is obvious. Yahoo is not in direct competition with Microsoft - they could even be considered allies." If only it was that simple...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Amazon.com: Yahoo! for Dummies

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764507621 heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Parent Hacks

http://www.parenthacks.com/ "Real-world parenting tips from real parents" who knew?
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Are Google Apps Customers Real?

http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/02/are_google_apps.html "Why pretend GE is a customer when it's really just testing it out? That feels misleading to me and - dare I say it? - just a little bit evil."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

February 22, 2007

The Firefox computer

http://toni.schneidersf.com/2007/02/09/the-firefox-computer/ "The only thing I care about is that they run Firefox. That’s because my digital day is currently spent in the following apps: WordPress, Yahoo Mail, Bloglines, 30boxes and Google. And they all run perfectly well in Firefox."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market

http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/02/feedburners_view_of_the_feed_m.php "My Yahoo!, which does not render the feed content but shows headlines that click back to the publisher's site, is by far the largest driver of traffic back to publisher sites, accounting for more than half of all feed-based clicks."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

February 21, 2007

Truly social profiles

http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/187_Truly_social_profiles.html "I always thought it would be cooler to get your actual friends to reveal stuff about you -- and call bullshit on you if necessary. Not only would it be less trite, but you might actually end up getting some fresh insight into yourself and why people like
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

February 20, 2007

DebianHosting - Debian Wiki

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianHosting "Several hosting providers can have a dedicated Debian server or services on a Debian server up and running for you within a matter of minutes, hours or days. This page is here to list providers of such services."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

edgeio launches Classified Boards

http://blog.edgeio.com/?p=62 "...launched edgeio Classified Boards (http://marketplaces.edgeio.com) a service enabling bloggers and website owners to add their own classified section to their site" congrats to Keith and the edgeio gang
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures

http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813 agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Google class at UW CS

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-class-at-uw-cs.html "Christophe Bisciglia is directing a "Google 101" class in the Computer Science department at University of Washington."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong

http://storagemojo.com/?p=383 "After these two papers neither disk drive or array businesses will ever be the same. Storage is very conservative, so don’t expect overnight change, but these papers will accelerate the consumerization of large-scale storage."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

A Straw Holder for Spraycans

http://toolmonger.com/2007/02/19/reader-finds-a-straw-holder-for-spraycans/ kick ass
Posted by jzawodn at 08:24 AM

Middle America vs Silicon Valley, or "crap i forgot my password"

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/02/silicon_valley_.html 'forgive me if i remain a bit disillusioned that OpenID is a panacea to all of the problems noted above, or if i'm skeptical the average user suffers from "social networking fatigue".'
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Weekend spamtacular -- what the heck happened and how we're fixing it

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/weekend_spamtac.html "who ever said jackasses made sense?"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

McMaster-Carr

http://www.mcmaster.com/ you can buy every imaginable part from these guys
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

February 19, 2007

Please delete my AOL OpenID

http://connectid.blogspot.com/2007/02/please-delete-my-aol-openid.html "I did not ask for, and nor do I want, an OpenID from AOL."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Getting To HarrisRanch Inn & Restaurant

http://www.harrisranch.com/gettinghere.php "For your convenience, Harris Ranch has a 2,800 foot landing strip that is paved and lighted along the south side of the main complex. Self-serve 100 LL Aviation Fuel is available 24 hours a day."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

February 18, 2007

Follow the bible?

http://unixgirl.com/humor/bible1.html "...Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?" Gotta love this stuff.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Yahoo: Is Project Panama Taking Dollars from Google?

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070218/27342_id.html?.v=1 "RBC Capital’s Jordan Rohan Friday increased his price target on Yahoo"
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Classism at Google

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googclassism "It's a load of corporate baloney - the 400-person company that I started at has become a nightmare that has eaten my soul. God help the users."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Crackers & Cookies

http://hooda-thunkit.blogspot.com/2007/02/crackers-cookies.html 'The "Fat" Police have ruined all of the commercial baker’s crackers and cookies, and I’m mad as hell about it!' Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

February 17, 2007

Getting good performance out of USB hard drives in Linux

http://marc.abramowitz.info/archives/2007/02/17/getting-good-performance-out-of-usb-hard-drives-in-linux/ a handy tip
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

reddicious

http://reddicious.com/ a reddit and delicious mashiup. cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

The VentureOne

http://www.flytheroad.com/ "Fly the Road" I want one of these. Right. Now. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

what happened to digg?

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/02/what_happened_t.html "for whatever reason, the maturity and behavior of the average Digger has evolved into, well, something resembling a middle school lunch room" no shit...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 16, 2007

Slipping the surly bonds of earth

http://braden.weblogger.com/poetry/SlippingSurlyBonds I like the FAA Supplement at the end.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

NetApp Meets Monopoly and SimCity

http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/ThinkingOutLoud/?permalink=NetApp-Meets-Monopoly-and-SimCity.html "We could have spent hours on stage with PowerPoint slides explaining our beliefs in gory detail, but we thought that letting people play a computerized business simulation of NetApp would give them a much more visceral understanding of the strategy."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Faux Fuck Buddy Needed

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/52396992.html "Help me exact my revenge on my loud-sex-having-yet-sharing-a-common-wall roommates. Heh
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17185299/?GT1=9033 Holy Crap. I'm amazed that she survived.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media: Podcasts

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/about/podcast/ Holy Crap. You can get "The News from Lake Wobegon" as a podcast now.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Barack Obama's Flickr Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/ this looks legit
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

February 15, 2007

Why Digg Failed

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/2/14/131127/709#en1 heh
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Jerry Giving Stanford $75 million...

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=4532 "Yahoo! Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged to give Stanford University $75 million to enhance interdisciplinary programs."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

New Yahoo Site Threatens Digg

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/02/15/new-yahoo-site-threatens-digg No it doesn't. Please explain the mythical "threat" or stop writing dumb headlines.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Thinking on Your Feet

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=898 "Its like he has a broken task scheduler, a bad threading model, or there’s not enough RAM, or random interrrupts are constantly firing. Perhaps he’s computing Pi in the background; I just don’t know." Excellent rant on Bush.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Google testing JUMBO checkout icons.

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2007/02/13/google-testing-jumbo-checkout-icons/ "Desperate for money? or desperate for checkout signups? probably both."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Yahoo Launches Digg-Like Suggestion Site

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/15/yahoo-launches-digg-like-suggestion-site/ "It’s an excellent way for Yahoo to gauge the popularity of suggestions, and is in no way competitive with Digg. It’s simply a compliment to the efficiency of the Digg model. I’m siding with Yahoo on this one."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Director Goes Goo Goo for Yahoo

http://biz.yahoo.com/barrons/070214/sb117145835978008498_id.html?.v=2 "Last Friday, Edward Kozel spent $595,200 to buy 20,000 shares of Yahoo on the open market at per-share prices from $29.70 to $29.82, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Tuesday."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

February 14, 2007

It takes two to Tango

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/02/14/it-takes-two-to-tango/ someone grab the popcorn, 'cause this show is gonna be amusing (watch the comments rolling in)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/feature/horseshoes-and-hand-grenades-joel-johnson-returnsto-spank-us-all-for-supporting-crap-236310.php this is the best rant I've read in a long, long, long time. you must read it too. right. now.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

As they hit middle age, Silicon Valley executives who had put romance on hold ask experts for help in finding a match

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/14/MNGEVO4DQH1.DTL interesting to see how this story came out...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

YouTunes: An Example Yahoo! Pipe

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/youtunes_an_exa.html "The end result is an RSS feed which links to YouTube videos of the iTunes top 10."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes

http://lifehacker.com/software/feeds/geek-to-live--create-your-master-feed-with-yahoo-pipes-235726.php "Instead of going here there and everywhere to see all the content you create on the web, combine it all into one master feed using with the newly-launched Yahoo! Pipes."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges

http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/80 "I'd like to start by running through my thoughts on writing cleaner (or improving current) JavaScript badges..."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

A Day In Paradise » Google as our Cult...

http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2007/02/14/google-as-our-cult.html heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

All Things Distributed: On the Reliability of Hard Disks

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/on_the_reliability_of_hard_dis.html "Both papers report disk failure rates in the 6%-10% range: in a datacenter with about 100,000 disks you will need to replace up to between 6,000 and 10,000 disks per year." Ouch.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Vasectomy: $400. Speechless look on her face: priceless.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/274495936.html This is a most excellent tale...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Whoops! [pics]

http://peretfamily.netfirms.com/peretfamily.com/media/text/howthefuck.html some of these are classics
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Smart Guys Date in Parallel

http://www.bitquabit.com/2007/02/14/smart-guys-date-in-parallel/ "Because we’re dating in parallel, we compensate automatically for higher resistance. Even though Lisa clearly is just not putting out, the result isn’t the massive slow-down we saw before, but instead results in conservation of energy, as you expend
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

February 13, 2007

API Reference for RMX Direct

http://api.yieldmanager.com/doc/ take control of your advertising
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Facebook's little digital gift

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/02/13/facebooks_littl.html "Valentine's Day is all about pronouncing your relationship to loved ones (and those you obsess over) in the witness of others."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Technorati Search, via Yahoo! Pipes

http://kentbrewster.com/technorati-search-via-yahoo-pipes "To the right of this paragraph is something Yahoo! has yet to release: a blog search function that returns results in JSON format, wrapped in the callback of your choice."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes

http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/02/12/5-cool-ways-to-use-yahoo-pipes/ check 'em out
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Google - Please please please support email aliases!

http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/02/13/google-please-please-please-support-email-aliases/ "I, like many people, have more than one email address. One for work, one for home. It’s nice to keep them separate. I’m sure you know what I mean." Duh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

The Failure of We (the) Media

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/02/the_failure_of_we_the_media.html "The problem is that the hopes that Dan Gillmor raised for the media industry in his book -- which kicked off this whole business -- have largely failed." Ouch.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Top paraglider attacked by eagles

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/top-paraglider-attacked-by-eagles/2007/02/02/1169919511496.html "Britain's top female paraglider has cheated death after being attacked by a pair of "screeching" wild eagles while competition flying in Australia." Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

xterms and 256 colors

http://taha-family.com/blog/2007/02/12/xterms-and-256-colors/ that's a handy trick to know about
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Identity vs. Membership

http://blogs.concedere.net:8080/blog/discipline/web/?permalink=Identity-vs-Membership.html "There's no such thing as 'identity' ... and it's very wrong to try to continue to speak of this fictional entity that's exists independently of any context. Rather the concept of membership better captures both the nature of the problem and the solution.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The largest drain hole in the world

http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2007/02/largest-drain-hole-ever.html Oh. My. God. They actually refer to it as a "glory hole." Ha ha ha hahahahaha.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll

http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/index2.html "More young people are putting more personal information out in public than any older person ever would--and yet they seem mysteriously healthy and normal, save for an entirely different definition of privacy."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Sarah Silverman's "A Very Convenient Truth" [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMliLih1jsY "Global warming needs our help!" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ "The Inverse Power of Praise"... a good article from New York Magazine
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Will Widgets Hit A Mainstream Wall Just Like RSS?

http://publishing2.com/2007/02/12/will-widgets-hit-a-mainstream-wall-just-like-rss/ That's a interesting question. It's very possible.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

February 12, 2007

About a week ago, here's what Boston actually thought. [video]

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1741589 oh, man.... that's funny. I hope people in boston feel evern more dumb now.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Is It Time To Swap? [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6JLFKHb5eI hahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Yahoo! Mail Beta meets Yahoo! Messenger

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2007/02/12/yahoo-mail-beta-meets-yahoo-messenger/ the screencast does a good job of showing it off
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

The 170-day Weekend

http://goldtoe.net/2007/02/170-day-weekend.html "...the truth is you can quit your job without starting another one a week later. This seemed impossible to me but it's true."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Tim Bray on Microsoft

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/11/Microsoft "I’ve never liked Microsoft, but now I realize how much energy they used to inject into the ecosystem, because it’s not there any more and I miss it."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

February 11, 2007

Piping Hot: Are VoIP bloggers really original?

http://corporaterat.blogspot.com/2007/02/piping-hot-are-voip-bloggers-really.html "I applaud the Yahoo team for coming out with such a great tool to let users apply diverse data into a personalized flow. Raw Data becomes useful information, only when you provide the right means to personalize them." Nce use of Y! Pipes!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

A Lesson In Ditching?

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Lesson_In_Ditching_194440-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS "Yazid managed to get out of the aircraft just as the plane hit." Over water, at least!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

On Barack Obama and Blackness...

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/02/11/on-barack-obama-and-blackness/ '...what really made me chuckle was her insistence in referring to him as "African African American", as though the term "African American" is reserved for the “real” blacks in America.'
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Yahoo Pipes: A User’s Guide

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3659226 "Yahoo Pipes is an interactive tool that enables you to combine many data feeds, like RSS, into a single aggregate. Pipes offers an intuitive visual programming field that lets you filter, remix, and mash-up these feeds to your heart’s content."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Friday Fanboy Followup: RC Flying Simulators

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/02/friday_fanboy_f.html "We just got the RealFlight Simulator and it's fantastic. First, it's terrific fun--better than almost any videogame. Second, it looks amazing. Third, it's a great way to try different airplanes, helicopters and sailplanes at no cost, which will satisfy a
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Abe Froman Ferris Bueller White T-Shirt

http://www.cultclassicts.com/cgi-bin/shirt.cgi/cultclassicts/cultclassicts.23365206 I want to be the Sausage King of Chicago!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

5 Dysfunctional Attributes of Good Engineers

http://boulter.com/blog/2007/02/10/5-dysfunctional-attributes-of-good-engineers/ "Recently I was thinking that a lot of the traits that make them great are borderline dysfunctional. Perhaps all good engineers are savants?"
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

February 10, 2007

Gantry

http://www.usegantry.org/ "A Perl web application framework for Apache/mod_perl, CGI and Fast-CGI. Object oriented design allows for a pragmatic, modular approach to URL dispatching. Supports MVC and initiates rapid development, offering an organized coding scheme for web applicat
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Blog Archive » 363 tons of $100 bills.

http://dylan.tweney.com/2007/02/09/363-tons-of-100-bills/ "363 tons of $100 bills were flown to Iraq under Paul Bremer’s watch. That’s $12 billion in cash. And he has no idea where it went..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

MyBlogLog Hiring Community Manager & Engineers

http://www.psem-sc.com/271/mybloglog-hiring-community-manager-engineers/ "MyBlogLog is on fire right now and I'm excited to see exactly who will become their talking head and which new tools they launch this Spring & Summer."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 09, 2007

Why women fall for 'Mr Average'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6345623.stm "High-flying men are not as attractive to women looking for love as those with an average job, scientists say."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

The Inner-Platform Effect - The Daily WTF

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect.aspx "The Inner-Platform Effect is a result of designing a system to be so customizable that it ends becoming a poor replica of the platform it was designed with."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM

Powerset "Natural-Language Search" to Threaten Google? Please.

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/02/powerset_to_thr.html "Except for some fringe fanatics who will always defect to the cool new thing, Google's user base has no idea whether its search results are any better than the competition's--and doesn't care."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM

Yahoo Pipes Inaugurates The Recombinant Web

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004570 "Yahoo deserves credit for recognizing where the Web is headed and providing the first mass-market platform to get there."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Prototype in scriptaculous wiki

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype "Prototype is a Java Script framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Its development is driven heavily by the Ruby on Rails framework, but it can be used in any environment."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Code Igniter

http://www.codeigniter.com/ "Code Igniter is an Application Development Framework - a toolkit - for people who build web sites using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Victoria's Bed & Breakfast

http://utahretreat.com/ I'm told this is a great place to stay in Parowan, UT so will try it out this year for the glider safari.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Yahoo Pipes - What It Means for Google Earth/Maps - See Earthify

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/yahoo_pipes_what_it.html people are just starting to grok the potential of pipes...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

dMarc Founders Leave Google, Complain About Kool-Aid Taste

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/09/dmarc_founders.html "So much for people who thought dMarc was going to be a surprise kicker to Google earnings this year. Ain't gonna happen."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

February 08, 2007

Blog CMS Generator Breakdown

http://www.feedblog.org/2007/02/blog_cms_genera.html the data is a little surprising--to me at least
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Yahoo (Nerd Crack) Pipes

http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/02/08/yahoo-nerd-crack-pipes/ "I stayed up until around 4 this morning playing with Yahoo Pipes, trying to get my head around it, and after getting to work this morning (at 8am, yay) I found myself thinking about ways I could use it..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

China adds jet fighter that rivals world best

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/08/news/fighter.php?page=1 and from the looks of it, they were inspired by the F-16
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

On Free Advice and Its Worth

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=356 "I’m a loud mouthed blogger who considers himself an expert on whatever is coming out of my mouth at the moment."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Google vs Yahoo

http://www.v7n.com/forums/google-forum/48003-google-vs-yahoo.html "I have been advertising with Google Adwords and Yahoo sponsored search for a while now. Over the last two days my Yahoo traffic has surged. I'm getting more than 3 times my average clicks."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Comparing Frameworks

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/11/10/Comparing-Frameworks the chart alone is worth looking ta
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

about those walled gardens

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/02/05/about_those_wal.html "We're living with the complications of no walls online. Determining context is really really hard."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

February 07, 2007

Pipes: Rewire the web

http://pipes.yahoo.com/ "Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Chatting with Irene Au, by Jeffrey Veen

http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000961.html bits about design, Netsape, Yahoo!, and Google
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Is this ... Googley?

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003347.php It is decidedly not Googley
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

You are coming to a sad realization... Cancel or Allow? [video]

http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-security_480x376.mov hahahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

February 06, 2007

Yahoo and Microsoft Indexing Blogs Poorly

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20070205YahooandMicrosoftIndexingBlogsPoorly.html someone has managed to confuse "indexing" and "ranking" again
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Script For Escaping Verizon Contracts Without Fee, Based On Text Message Rate Raises

http://consumerist.com/consumer/readers/script-for-escaping-verizon-contracts-without-fee-based-on-text-message-rate-raises-234164.php phone companies are EVIL
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Microsoft & OpenID

http://brad.livejournal.com/2287909.html "So Bill Gates just announced earlier this morning that Microsoft is supporting OpenID..."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

February 05, 2007

Why you should be using disambiguated URLs

http://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/4/urls/ agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

The Windows Live SDK and Passport Opens Up

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=36544f84-b1c0-458c-ac17-f7fccffd4a45 "Seriously though, I'd been watching Yahoo! and Google's forays with BBAuth and Google Account Authentication with some jealousy so it is with a lot of gladness that I welcome this move."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Physics, Speed, and Psychology : What Works and What Doesn't in Software, and Why

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6012805118276576079 A Google Speaker Series talk by Adam Bosworth, well worth watching--or at least listening to.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Left Pattern

http://www.leftpattern.net/ lots of fun flying videos--many are local
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

mailredirect

http://mailredirect.mozdev.org/index.html "The mailredirect extension for Mozilla Thunderbird (version 0.7 and above) and Mozilla Mail client adds ability to redirect one or more mails to one or more recipients. "
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Facebook – Smart or Stupid?

http://gigaom.com/2007/02/05/facebook-smart-or-stupid/ "In other words, Facebook is looking at a foggy fiscal future, and needs to make some tough decisions."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

February 04, 2007

Google Search History

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/googleSearchHistory.html "Did you know that for years Google has been keeping a record of every search you do?"
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Google the Spy?

http://leaptag.typepad.com/leaptag_by_yoriwa/2007/02/google_the_spy.html "I cannot begin to express how violated I felt. He had access to all my searches which could potentially reveal a lot about me. I had no idea what he now knew."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Web Application Security Blogs

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070204/web-application-security-blogs/ a pretty good collection of 'em all in once place
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Intelligent Warming

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001867.html ha ha ha ha ha HAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

How To: Stadium Seating for Superbowl Sunday

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/02/04/how-to-stadium-seating-for-superbowl-sunday/#comment-103502 Paul and friends built a futon platform to get stadium style seating for the superbowl. Anyone from Make Magazine gonna grab the plans from them? :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Programmers Don't Like to Code

http://rentzsch.com/notes/programmersDontLikeToCode "Programmers don’t like coding, they like problem solving." Bingo!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

February 03, 2007

Jedi in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi I was surprised at the comprehensiveness of this aricle... but I really shouldn't have been
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Looking for Gift Certificates for Glider Rides?

http://www.glidersailplanerides.com/ here's a place to find 'em
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

CryoPID - A Process Freezer for Linux

http://cryopid.berlios.de/ "CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file. This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on another machine." Kick Ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Campbell Field Airport 9VG Eastern Shore Virginia

http://www.campbellfieldairport.com/ this place looks like a blast to fly to... too bad it's so far away...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Will Panama Deliver for Yahoo?

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2007/02/02/will-panama-deliver-for-yahoo/ Amr's take on why Panama helps yahoo...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

February 02, 2007

NPR's Fresh Air Podcast

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=7060034 yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

MyBlogLog uber-user for long-term relationship

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/seeking_myblogl.html MyBlogLog needs a community manager... know anyone?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

February 01, 2007

Police Chief Writes Himself Ticket

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/10880034/detail.html awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Rejected iPod Engravings

http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/articles/rejectedengraving/ there are some good bumper stickers in this list :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

The MyBlogLog Blog: Just so there's no confusion...

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/just_so_theres_.html "MyBlogLog WILL be moving to Yahoo IDs for login purposes in the next couple of months. As soon as possible, actually. I'm going to post this on a weekly basis so that it sinks in."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

The Official ImgBurn Website

http://www.imgburn.com/ "ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to erase / format your rewritable media!"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=418 "I have verified that I can create a sound file that can wake Vista speech recognition, open Windows Explorer, delete the documents folder, and then empty the trash." Ahh, windows "security" at work.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Do you want my clicks or my attention?

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/02/01/140/do-you-want-my-clicks-or-my-attention/ "There was a collective 'ouch' when InfoWorld lost Jon Udell to Microsoft." (look at the chart he has)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

TechBurnOrati

http://kalsey.com/2007/02/techburnorati/ "When I saw a preview of Technorati’s new WTF feature, the first thing I told Dave Sifry was the logo looked an awful lot like FeedBurner’s." I'm not the only one to notice? Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Google users confirm, Yahoo! better than sex

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000401.html that made me laugh
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Pneumatic Tennis Ball Launcher, Potato Gun, Spud Cannon, etc.

http://www.duke.edu/~jwc13/spud if I ever get the time, I'm building one of these
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

New servers for WordPress.com

http://barry.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/new-servers-for-wordpresscom/ "Over the past few weeks, I have been doing lots of testing and seemingly endless negotiation with various hosting companies."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM