August 30, 2007

koda - a photoset on Flickr

http://flickr.com/photos/cloughridge/sets/72157594243046558/ because the web was created for pictures of cats
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Netflix pricing disparity

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/08/29/netflix-pricing-disparity/ "Clearly the best deal is the 3-at-a-time plan, but why give the customer a slightly worse deal for each level they go up?"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

The #1 Reason Your Job Sucks (and How to Fix it)

http://johnplaceonline.com/stress-management/the-1-reason-your-job-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/ There's a lot of truth in this...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

August 29, 2007

Body Found In San Jose's Willow Glen Neighborhood

http://www.nbc11.com/news/14003301/detail.html?dl=mainclick this threw off my morning errand plans today!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines

http://searchengineland.com/070827-121805.php "I've had enough of people trying to advance their own personal agendas on the back of an industry that is full of plenty of people who do good work."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

BoingBoing still has lots of ads

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/boingboing-ads2.html indeed it does
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 28, 2007

Yahoo! Pipes: Power Your Own Module

http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/2007/08/13/power-your-own-module/ "The Web Service module POSTs the items in a pipe in JSON format to an external web service. This allows developers to extend the functionality Pipes offers to do whatever they need."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

ProTrails.com

http://www.protrails.com/ "Hiking Trails, Mountain Biking Trails, Animal Tracks, Outdoor Jobs, and Outdoor Photo Galleries"
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Fun with the iPhone accelerometer Archives

http://blog.medallia.com/2007/08/fun_with_the_iphone_accelerome.html that's pretty cool
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Did Someone Say LOLCUTTS…?

http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2007/08/03/did-someone-say-lolcutts/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/08/23/improving-undergraduate-computer-science-education/ some interesting thoughts on how to fix the system
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

August 27, 2007

Crop

http://glassner.com/andrew/cg/research/crop/crop.htm a programming language for crop circles [via joshua]
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

why i didn't move to china

http://james.hotornot.com/2007/08/why-i-didnt-move-to-china_27.html "My niece thinks the sky is supposed to be white by default. That is a problem."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Holding a Program in One's Head

http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html "Your code is your understanding of the problem you're exploring. So it's only when you have your code in your head that you really understand the problem." Yup...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

August 26, 2007

With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad,Anyone Can Get In on the Joke

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118798557326508182.html the WSJ covers lolcats... heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 23, 2007

2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html "Debian once again dominates the desktop Linux landscape, accounting for near half -- 44.6 percent -- of this year's distribution votes." Excellent. Debian rocks.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

New Zealand Gliding Gran Prix Video

http://www.r2.co.nz/20060623/promo-mbr.asx an excellent overview of what they did a few years ago...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

MySQL Proxy

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy "MySQL Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for unlimited uses."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Central Air and Schrodinger's Thermostat

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/08/22/central_air_and.html now that's just funny
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

August 22, 2007

Content-Aware Image Sizing [EN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns that's pretty damned cool
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

August 21, 2007

When windows are not enough

http://gojko.net/2007/08/21/when-windows-are-not-enough "It’s incredible how, for a profession based around telling machines how to perform dull and error-prone tasks instead of humans, so few programmers think about how to automate their own work." Agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Hurricane Dean Approaches Yucatan Peninsula [pic]

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17745 "This image of Hurricane Dean arriving at the Yucatan is a combination of observations from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellites."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

The Smug Little Shit Behind The Latest Internet Phenomenon

http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/the_smug_little_shit_behind heh... The Onion on Zuckerberg.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

August 20, 2007

Backing up Apple //e disks over a serial cable

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/08/20/apple2-backup "I have backed up my Apple //e disks. I’ve been meaning to do this for about 25 years now, and now I’ve done it." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

The Interrupt-Driven Life

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/interruptdriven "Falling in love takes a shockingly huge amount of time!" and other stuff to think about...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/08/18.html "A box that many people can't figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:02 PM

Sam Ruby: Sousveillance

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/20/Sousveillance wherein Sam says smart things about social networks
Posted by jzawodn at 01:02 PM

Some thoughts on Mahalo

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/some_thoughts_on_mahalo.html "No one will ever go to Mahalo directly, just as no one ever went to About.com, dmoz, Tripadvisor, Nextag, IMDB or any other vertical or broad-but-shallow site."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Google Disconnects Grand Central Customers

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/20/google-disconnects-grand-central-customers/ As a commenter says: "This isn’t just evil — it is pointless, lazy, and short-sighted. WTF Google?"
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing)

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/diet-coke-is-99-water-and-that-is-now-a-good-thing/ "According to this CBS News report, which puts soda revenues at $68 billion a year and stagnant, bottled water is now as big a business as soda." Holy shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Aptitude vs Apt-Get

http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/ a case for why you should use aptitude instead of apt on debian and ubuntu boxes
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

The Challenge of Selling Content on the Web – Edgeio, Part Two

http://www.sexywidget.com/my_weblog/2007/08/the-challenge-o.html "Edgeio is ambitious, it’s well designed, and its simplicity masks a robust, turnkey solution for content creators."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Thirteen Blog Clichés

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000834.html this is a really good list
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 19, 2007

King Size Beds Can Be Confusing

http://interiordec.about.com/od/buyingabed/a/a_bedsizes_3.htm a "california king" or "western king" is 4" narrower and taller than a standard king
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

August 18, 2007

Python Documentation

http://docs.python.org/dev/ apparently this has been recently revamped.. and I have to say, it's quite good
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Continuations for Curmudgeons

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2005/04/13/Continuations-for-Curmudgeons good stuff Sam.. I never saw this until last week. I wish I had.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide:Working with Closures

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Working_with_Closures this might come in handy one day
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

August 17, 2007

OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience

http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/08/openid-great-id.html OpenID is a usability nightmare... shock! Shocking, I tell you. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Tripod, by Gitzo and Really Right Stuff

http://regex.info/blog/2007-08-17/547 more than you ever wanted to know about tripods and stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

The software awards scam

http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/ software awards or link scams?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 16, 2007

'We have broken speed of light'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 PM

JavaScript bewilders me

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/javascript-bewilders-me "I obviously don't understand how JavaScript scopes variables and functions. I mean look at that... it's completely tripped out." Heh... me too.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

We Worship MD5, the GOD of HASH

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/md5_tutorial.html some thoughts and reminders on hashing
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

dave's visit to mozilla

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/08/daves_visit_to.html 'I stopped paying attention near the end of the Q&A when Dave said, "You could use my time better than this."' Hahahahahahaha....
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

About That Crashing Stock Market

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/08/about-that-cras.html "I expect that this valuation will eventually revert to the mean, so I expect that one of these days we will see the "start of a bear market" that could take us below the 7700 trough on the DOW in 2002."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

August 15, 2007

YOU HAS NO COVER

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/08/14/you-has-no-cover-on-tps-report/ ON TPS REPORT... lolcats and office space... two great tastes that go great together
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Have You Fallen for these 7 Negative Attitudes Pushed by the Media?

http://johnplaceonline.com/money_management/have-you-fallen-for-these-7-negative-attitudes-pushed-by-the-media/ "Every now and then, their facial expressions hitched in response to some image on the television, but for the most part, they appeared undead."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

August 14, 2007

Debian, Exim, and greylistd

http://www.sir-millar.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/24/work/debian-exim-and-greylistd/ how to remove sender host address if needed
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

PubCon Street Tips: Giving a Kick Ass Presentation With a Hangover

http://www.pubcon.com/blog/index.cgi?mode=viewone&blog=1187123220 there's some good advice in here
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Please don't ever dedicate urinals to me!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/viewPhoto?uname=cmadler&aid=5087424969633218257&iid=5087432185178278850 that would be rather embarasing, don't you think?
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Debian -- greylistd

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/greylistd "This daemon provides a simple greylisting implementation for use with the Exim Mail Transport Agent (MTA), version 4."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Google WiFi a failed experiment in Mountain View.

http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/08/13/google-wifi-a-failed-experiment-in-mountain-view/ "...my conclusion is that it’s a compete and total failure." this is a little surprising to me.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Chart: Search engine satisfaction

http://news.com.com/2300-1011_3-6202355.html?tag=ne.gall.latest hey, someone likes us!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

youparklikeanasshole

http://youparklikeanasshole.com/ "The owner of the vehicle will be informed of their asshole status as well as the proper tips to improve their poor parking techniques." Excellent!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

August 13, 2007

Faceball: your face, our balls

http://faceball.org/ "My loins are damp with excitement. How do I become part of the rapidly growing Faceball community?" Heh...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Hotmail will soon bring you more of your requests, better performance

http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!43573.entry "If you’d rather see your inbox immediately upon login, you have the option to turn off the page of MSN news (called the Today page)." I wish Yahoo Mail offered that feature.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1187 the internet is fast, cpu slow... heh
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

syntaxhighlighter

http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ "SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It's 100% Java Script based and it doesn't care what you have on your server." Kick ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Transmission of tacit knowledge: teaching what we don’t know that we know

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/13/transmission-of-tacit-knowledge-teaching-what-we-dont-know-that-we-know/ "There are all sorts of obvious reasons to narrate the work that we do. By doing so we build reputation, we attract like-minded collaborators, we draw constructive criticism, and we teach what we know."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Viva Las Vegas for Casino Profits

http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/viva-las-vegas-for-casino-profits/ ever wondered how much money those casinos pump into the Nevada economy? Joe's got the numbers...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

OSCON 2007 - Steve Yegge on Branding

http://blip.tv/file/319044/ good talk about why marketing and branding matter--even in open source
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

10 Secrets of a Happy Marriage

http://johnplaceonline.com/relationships/10-secrets-of-a-happy-marriage/ a good list that's missing a few things, such as 'religion' and 'attitude'
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

August 12, 2007

Founders at Work - Demo Day

http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2007/08/demo-day.html " 10 weeks doesn’t seem like much time to make something to show to the nation’s top investors, but Y Combinator’s funding cycles are so concentrated that you get more done than you’d think possible."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 PM

Time Is On Your Side, Yes It Is

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/08/time-is-on-your.html "So, if you are starting a company, prepare for a marathon, not a sprint."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:47 PM

The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition

http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/08/the-enterprise-apple-and-insufficient-ambition.html "The only tools that succeed in an enterprise situation are those which are so compelling that people choose to use them in their free time." Indeed...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 PM

Long Bets

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/12/Long-Bets Sam is one of the smartest people I've ever met in computing. I suspect he's right about most of these...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

August 10, 2007

Hey Google: When Can Matt Cutts Ditch Microsoft PowerPoint?

http://blog.insiderchatter.com/2007/08/10/hey-google-when-can-matt-cutts-ditch-microsoft-powerpoint/ Donna's writing often bugs me, but this title is excellent.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Excel geocoding adventures

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/10/excel-geocoding-adventures/ Jon shows how to use the Yahoo geocoder from Excel. Nifty.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Yahoo Rumor Patrol: MySpace, Nope! Google? Maybe So.

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070810/yahoo-rumor-patrol-myspace-nope-google-maybe-so/ "According to rumors circulating around the company, Yang and other executives at Yahoo are even considering something as massive as offloading some of its search monetization business to rival Google." Now there's an idea...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source

http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2007/08/mysql-takes-another-step-away-from-open-source.html "In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Yahoo president buys $1.1 million in stock

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/10/technology/bc.yahoo.president.reut/ "Yahoo Inc. President Susan Decker purchased about $1.1 million of the Internet company's shares this week just after the stock hit a three-year low."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Vista - Broken Windows

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/broken_windows.html yup, there's a lot truth i there
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

Tension Grows Between MySQL AB and the Open Source Community

http://feedblog.org/2007/08/09/tension-grows-between-mysql-ab-and-the-open-source-community/ "There are a bunch of great patches that really need to make it into MySQL that aren’t making any forward progress."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 09, 2007

Stuff

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html "Every thing you own takes energy away from you. Some give more than they take. Those are the only things worth having." Paul speaks the truth here...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

First Look at Mosh, Nokia’s Social Network

http://mashable.com/2007/08/09/mosh/ "Nokia has created a mobile social networking site called Mosh. There’s an online and mobile component for this social network, giving you cross-platform access for networking and media-sharing."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Chuqui on my Millionaires post...

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2007/08/millionaires-gr.html "I know a lot more people who "made it" and got divorced than I do people who focussed on life and family and may not vacation in fiji, but they still have each other and a nice life."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

defective yeti: Announcement

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/002186.html "I like taco salad because you get to eat tacos and say you ate salad." Agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/fashion/09STEAK.html?8dpc "Restaurateurs and veterans of the dating scene say that for many women, meat is no longer murder. Instead, meat is strategy." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Cessna Hawk XP pilot report pilot report

http://www.pilotfriend.com/aircraft%20performance/Cessna/hawk_xp_pirep.htm a decent review of the 172XP
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

CTO Makeover in Second Life

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/cto_makeovers_in_second_life "...we took the money we were otherwise spending on launch events in luxury hotels, and moved it to improve the global web experience." An excellent move, in my opinion...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

MySQL Community split officially a failure

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/08/09/mysql-community-split-officially-a-failure/ "MySQL fundamentally misunderstands their community..."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Blows Against the Empire

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/08/08/Blows-Against-the-Empire "I’ll be honest, I’d thought that MS-Office on the desktop was going to be a central feature of the ecosystem for as far forward as I could see. But maybe not." Times are a changing, no?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Weirdest Thing I have ever seen

http://forums.clubrsx.com/showpost.php?s=05e01137e19c8f05c7fbcc6ea286f9f1&p=14501280&postcount=1 that is pretty amusing
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

A blind man wanders into an all girls biker bar

http://dotnetsamplechapters.blogspot.com/2007/08/blind-man-wanders-into-all-girls-biker.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Sun Enters the Commodity Silicon Business

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/sun_enters_the_commodity_silicon "...the open market is bigger than any internal one." Indeed!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

August 08, 2007

Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070808/tc_pcworld/135686 "The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer's site and handed it over to another person." Holy shit, that's funny! I thought this was a headline from The Onion at first...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Kobayashi Maru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru "Kobayashi Maru is the name of a Class III Neutronic Fuel Carrier in a training exercise in the Star Trek fictional universe." Heh. Wikipedia has pages on everything... everything, I tell you!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Zend Framework GData API Client

http://framework.zend.com/download/gdata/ The Zend Google Data Client provides a PHP 5 component to execute queries and commands against the Google Data APIs.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

music of the spheres

http://jnagal.livejournal.com/64356.html?view=180068#t180068 "The $18 ticket included the jazz concert by Kurt Ribak Trio, an astronomy lecture on big bang and origin of the universe, viewing of a ring nebula through the old 36 inch telescope, and a commemorative coffee mug..."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Sneak Peak: Multiplayer Desktop Tower Defense

http://macapper.com/2007/08/08/multiplayer-desktop-tower-defense-your-favorite-new-timewaster/ oh no!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

August 07, 2007

Ransomizr: a Flickr Ransom Note Generator

http://kentbrewster.com/flickr-ransomizr another fun javascript hack from kent
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? Store

http://icanhascheezburger.com/store/ I HAZ ORDERD TSHIRT!!!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

August 06, 2007

On Leaving SixApart

http://brad.livejournal.com/2334177.html Brad is leaving SixApart... I guess I shouldn't be too surprised...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Google Search API for research

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-search-api-for-research.html "The Google Search API -- which, after deteriorating badly, was shut down about a year ago -- has been reborn in a version only available to researchers..."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Solaris, HOW-TO, It works... Really...

http://krow.livejournal.com/541082.html "I wonder if Apple could buy Sun. They could provide lessons in UNIX development and direction."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:02 PM

The 11 startups actually crawling the web

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/the_11_startups_actually_crawl.html "If there really are 100 search engine startups, shouldn't we be seeing more activity from them?" Yes.. we should.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:02 PM

Grumman American AA-5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_American_AA-5 maybe one of these would make a fun commuting plane?
Posted by jzawodn at 02:02 PM

Plane & Pilot Magazine | Tonry’s Tiger

http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/content/2005/aug/tonrys_tiger.html some opinions on the Grumman Tiger
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Medibuntu - Community Ubuntu Documentation

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu "Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc)."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

JavaScript Map API comparison

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2007/08/map-api-comparison.html "Yahoo! offered the fastest performance, the smallest total download, and the smallest memory footprint in my tests."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Windows Vista First Impressions

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/08/04/windows-vista-first-impressions/ "During a lot of system administration tasks, bizarre dialog boxes pop up demanding extra administrator rights, even though the machine only has one user, which was configured without a password."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Should Yahoo Buy Facebook? The Non-Glib Answer.

http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/04/should-yahoo-buy-facebook-the-non-glib-answer/ "...at a place like Yahoo there is probably an enormous amount of corporate inertia to do risky things."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Magnesium Citrate

http://regex.info/blog/2007-08-07/536 "I drank the whole bottle of the sour lemony stuff, then a large glass of water, and waited. Four hours later, it made itself known during a short but entirely effective trip to the bathroom."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix

http://boulter.com/yhoovgoog/ Jeff put this together after having a kid? WTF?!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

A Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix

http://boulter.com/blog/2007/08/05/a-yahoogoogle-competitive-product-matrix/ "I did an inventory of all the significant Yahoo and Google sites, found some data on their performance relative to each other. The results were very surprising in some cases."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

WordPress, AtomPub, and PHP5

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/03/WordPress-AtomPub-and-PHP5 "Looks like I’m being recruited into the WordPress QA department."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

Let’s not and say we did

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/08/01/lolwreck "Many things go well with narcotics, but ffmpeg is not one of them."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 AM

August 05, 2007

Screw the “A-List”, give me authentic people

http://21cdb.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/screw-the-a-list-give-me-authentic-people/ 'If we’re all supposed to care about the “long tail” and the whole world having a voice, why are we even debating the existence of an “A-list”?'
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

August 03, 2007

Bear Stearns: Yahoo Must Form A Social Networking Strategy

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/03/bear-stearns-yahoo-must-form-a-social-networking-strategy/ "Somewhere down the road it might be Facebook buying Yahoo, not the other way around." That would be awesome in a Silicon Valley sort of way...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Google teasing too many lions?

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-teasing-too-many-lions.html "Google is teasing too many lions. These media and telco companies are massive. They are not beyond using market power to crush those they do not like." Heh. Maybe.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:02 PM

The World is Scary

http://gregcohn.com/blog/business-models/2007/08/the-world-is-scary/ "It never ceases to amaze me how much vapidity is for sale in airport newsstands..." Try watching the airport television someday. I bet that hasn't changed in ages...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

elevator camera obscura

http://joshua.schachter.org/2007/07/elevator.html "I'd like to thank the tender ministrations of the Northern California Kidney Stone Center and the resulting painkillers for allowing me spend a happy afternoon attempting to capture the effect."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

PropertyShark - Real Estate Maps, Foreclosures, Property Reports and Comparables

http://www.propertyshark.com/ lots of interesting detail... too bad the coverage isn't better
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Ka-Ching! (Amazon FPS)

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/08/pay-me-now-or-p.html "We've taken all that we know about dealing with credit cards, bank accounts, fraud checking and customer service and wrapped it all up into one convenient package."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Ohloh, the open source network

http://www.ohloh.net/ "Ohloh is a resource for open source intelligence on thousands of open source projects...."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Yahoo!'s bet on Hadoop

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/yahoos_bet_on_h.html "One of the most important announcements at Oscon last week was Yahoo!'s commitment to support Hadoop."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Perl is Dead. Long live Perl.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/perl_is_dead_long_live_perl.html "If Perl is dead, then it is by far the most vital, active and useful deceased programming language I have ever come across."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 AM

Sex, lies and prostitution redux

http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/allmenareliars/archives/2007/07/sex_lies_and_prostitution_redu.html "Earlier this year I visited a prostitute for one obvious, practical reason and another less so: I'm sick of lying to women."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Dilbert on Open Source

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007018331803.gif heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 02, 2007

Yelp API Released

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/02/yelp-api-released/ interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Search API | Yelp for Developers

http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/search_api looks like they're off to a good start
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Chef Moz

http://chefmoz.org/ part of the open directory project that's specific to getting yourself some food
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

August 01, 2007

300A A/P

http://www.avionicswest.com/articles/300A.htm interesting notes on the 300A auto-pilot
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM