October 31, 2007

Recent Earthquakes - Info for event nc51189819

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51189819.htm a 3.7 magnitude shock I just felt a few minutes back... the USGS web site rocks
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

$200 Ubuntu Linux PC Now Available at Wal-Mart

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html ""It's almost like a Google PC," Liu says, pointing to the desktop's rack of pre-configured links to all of Google's online applications."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Excellent Response to a Pissed Off Woman

http://www.advicegoddess.com/ag-column-archives/2007/10/marrying_the_ha.html about treating her husband poorly
Posted by jzawodn at 04:02 PM

Sudi King Visits UK; Band Plays Imerial March [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD38SQ8srXw heh... I love the Darth Vader message here. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

best of craigslist : RE: 40's and dating

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/den/446210922.html heh... good craigslist stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Fossil Record Reveals Elusive Jellyfish More Than 500 Million Years Old

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030211210.htm damn, that's old!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

October 30, 2007

In 1969, a Missouri teenager died of HIV, having never left the country or received a blood transfusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R. fascinating...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

How Tibetans Enjoy the High Life: Scientific American

http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=ED53255A-E7F2-99DF-36FFDF78DD9F2F36&chanID=sa003 "The Tibetans increase their blood flow by producing prodigious amounts of nitric oxide in the linings of the blood vessels."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

October 29, 2007

Cleared for Lunching: The $100 Hamburger

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/travel/escapes/26burger.html?ex=1194062400&en=303802c1b49f04be&ei=5070&emc=eta1 a semi-fluffy write up about folks who fly to airports for food on the weekends
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

DejaVu fonts

http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page recommended by Nelson
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

This is how I now spend Friday nights

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/this-is-how-i-now-spend-friday-nights/ "If anything, it makes me realize that I’m getting old. In twenty years, I’ll probably be blogging about Matlock The Musical: On Ice. This concerns me."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

layers of disappointment

http://trainedmonkey.com/2007/10/27/layers_of_disappointment "i am amazed that an http-based mail protocol hasn’t replaced it" me too!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Airbus Industrie Airbus A380-841 Cockpit

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0957790 Awesome setup, really
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

October 28, 2007

After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/business/28invent.html?_r=1&ex=1351224000&en=955c89f9ae788cd4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin A story about Max and James in the NYT
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

October 25, 2007

Garmin Blog: Roger's Runway: Clarifying WAAS Approaches

http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/10/rogers-runway-c.html understanding the various annunciations on the GNS430/530 units
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Weird Hitchiking Sex Story

http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/10778386.html Man gets picked up by woman, "she" asks for oral sex, he complies and discovers that she's a he too! Yikes.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

October 24, 2007

The Great Pizza Orientation Test

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000707.php heh
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

The World of Star Wars

http://starwars.yahoo.com/ it looks very, very Star Wars
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

October 23, 2007

Jeremy Zawodny - Mahalo

http://www.mahalo.com/Jeremy_Zawodny Mahalo has an interesting approach to pages about people... hmm.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

EO Newsroom: New Images - Fires in Southern California

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17808 some impressive imagery from NASA
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Understanding The Time Value Of Money

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/082703.asp an easy to understand explanation of how money and time are related when compounding interest are involved
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Mapping The Southern California Fires

http://searchengineland.com/071023-111626.php Danny pulls together a bunch of mashups that show the firest
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071023/tc_pcworld/138693;_ylt=AgHsq_0EfmCeOMoySL62dFIDW7oF "If you're considering upgrading to Vista, you should maintain a healthy amount of skepticism about the prospects of your current hardware or software continuing to work properly." yikes
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Flickr: Explore everyone's geotagged photos on a Map

http://www.flickr.com/map/?&q=fire%20-gummy&fLat=33.963366&fLon=-118.39691&zl=9&min_taken_date=2007-10-20%2000:00:00 nice
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

October 22, 2007

10 Really Useful Flickr Userscripts

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/10-really-useful-flickr-userscripts/ I see a few in here I should try
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

What I learned about timeshares, and you can, too

http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-timeshares-and-you-can-too/1496 Alex does a good job deconstructing the typical timeshare pitch
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Los Angeles Times 10-22-07 Fires

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=117631292961056724014.00043d0e9ca465cefeeed&ll=35.960223,-117.443848&spn=4.827737,8.876953&z=7 a nice google maps mashup
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

October 20, 2007

Chicken and Cashew Stir-Fry Recipe

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/238402 a good recipe we made on Friday night
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

October 19, 2007

StartupLA: Building the LA Entrepreneurs’ Community

http://www.startuplaevent.com/ "StartupLA is a new conference committed to building the startup community in Los Angeles."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

MT-Enclosures: A Movable Type Plugin

http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/mtenclosures/#install useful for doing podcasts and stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

OSI approves Microsoft licenses

http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/16/osi-approves-microsoft-licenses/ next up: the end of the world... heh :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

October 18, 2007

LOLCat Bible = infinite entertainment

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/10/18/lolcat_bible.html "I don't know why this gives me infinite amounts of pleasure, but it really does. There's something absolutely amazing about webfolk engaged in a collective action project to translate the bible into cat pidgin."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

LOLCat Bible Translation Project

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Danah is right... this shit is hilarious!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

hpsetdisp.pl

http://kovaya.com/perl/show.cgi?program=hpsetdisp.pl "Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display." Heh. I did this years ago at Yahoo too.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201764,00.asp "Laptop users will also be pleased to see improved support for display systems." Kick Ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

ddrescue

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

High Performance Web Sites

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/high_performance_websites.html "I also want to give a shout-out to Yahoo! here for sharing their knowledge, earned through hard experience running one of the world's largest web sites."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

October 17, 2007

Cranky Geeks: Episode 86

http://www.crankygeeks.com/2007/10/episode_86_google_alludes_to_s.php in which I get to be a guest and talk about robot sex in japan (among other things)
Posted by jzawodn at 05:47 PM

Swearing at work 'good for business'

http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/16/workplace_language_probe/ no shit... :-) heh
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Hack Day @ Yahoo! [video]

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1312521 wherein I interview hackers at yahoo
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

October 16, 2007

Yahoo Heats Up in Search Ad Race As Google Levels Off

http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3627312 "The researchers found third quarter spending on Yahoo’s percentage of media spend increased 7.8 percent over the prior quarter. SearchIgnite and RBC noted spending on Google for the same period increased only 0.8 percent."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

View topic - [TRAILHEAD] Trinstod

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21550&sid=f653078201271a7aa963ea14830c2abf in which I am part of some strange conspiracy theory!!!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

flolcatr - generative lolcats ftw!!1

http://flolcatr.com/ an amusing hack done for Yahoo's University Hack Day
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

AI egghead: Human-robot humping, marriage by 2050

http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/15/human_robot_jigjig_n_marriage_2050_sez_egghead/ "They're both basically masturbation machines, and suggesting an analogy to same-sex relationships between two human beings seems fairly ridiculous, not to say offensive."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Yahoo holds Open Hack Day in India

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/08/Yahoo-holds-Open-Hack-Day-in-India_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/08/Yahoo-holds-Open-Hack-Day-in-India_1.html "Applications displayed at the event included YaHealer, an application that allows doctors to share photos of a brain scan over two Yahoo widgets"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

October 15, 2007

Dear Adobe…get your shit together

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2007/10/14/dear-adobeget-your-shit-together/ "When you release public APIs…they’re out. You don’t get to push the magic “recall” button anytime you like with a public API, not even during your Beta period."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Building community is hard

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/10/15/195/building-community-is-hard/ "...it could also be that the secret sauce inside the Craig Newmarks, Stewart Butterfields and Jimmy Waleses of the world is much more complicated and nuanced than anyone realizes."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Dynamic Periodic Table

http://www.dayah.com/periodic/?lang=en cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

The day I joined a website looking for no strings sex

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=486933&in_page_id=1879 an interesting and disturbing story
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

October 14, 2007

Gmail Storage Ticks Upward, Lags Yahoo, AOL

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/10/12/gmail-storage-ticks-upward-lags-yahoo-aol "If storage is really an issue for email, Gmail is at best the third choice for people today."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Assignments, Week 6: Oct. 10 to Oct. 16

http://introtodigitalage.com/?p=53 wow, my blog is required reading for this class at Johns Hopkins University... who knew?!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Cool Tool: Strida Folding Bike

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001969.php interesting... I wonder how well it fits in an airplane
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

October 13, 2007

Drink Lots Of Water

http://blog.megacity.org/archives/2007/10/drink-lots-of-w/ "And avoid having kidney stones like the damned plague....." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

October 12, 2007

WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/?profanity "The WTFPL renders this task trivial: it allows everything and has no additional restrictions. How could life be easier? You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

In India, a $2,500 Pace Car

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/business/worldbusiness/12cars.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin I want one as a commuter car!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:01 PM

Small Car towing caravan crashes [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfZ1N56qjY this video always cracks me up
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

Shiny and New: Emacs 22

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/06/shiny-and-new-emacs-22.html with fancy new regexp stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

October 11, 2007

Confirmed: Yahoo expanding to Microsoft's backyard

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/123503.asp "Yahoo has signed a lease for 115,000 square feet in Bellevue's One Twelfth @ Twelfth complex. The space, to be occupied in stages over the next year, would give Yahoo enough room for 500 to 600 employees."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Did some company buy another today?

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/did-some-company-buy-another-today hahahaha... Russell points out one of the reasons I think that many tech bloggers (and sometimes techmeme itself) suck
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 PM

Desktop Tower Defense - The 100 [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QdAU4o7NZ4 inspiration...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

October 10, 2007

Some VMware images

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ a bunch of basic unix/linux/freebsd vmware images that are barebones and easy to tweak
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

http://jquery.com/ "jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Cessna Makes Emergency Landing on Warehouse Roof

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/CessnaEmergencyLanding_WarehouseRoof_196108-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS now that's a spot landing!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Univeristy Hack Day - Yahoo! Video

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1266410 the promo video shown at university hack days
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Fairly realistic flying car offered for 2009 delivery

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/transition_flying_car_quite_realistic/ I want one!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

October 09, 2007

Why I Hate Mission Statements

http://getluky.net/2007/10/04/why-i-hate-mission-statements/ right on... me too
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 PM

Can Your Personal Blog Hurt Your Career?

http://www.yellowhousehosting.com/resources/2007/10/01/can-your-personal-blog-hurt-your-career/ stuff to think about
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

October 08, 2007

10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job

http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/10-things-every-programmer-should-know-for-their-first-job/ most of this applies to non-programmers as well
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Bush: 'I make a lot of decisions'

http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/259307.html my god, that man sounds like an idiot in public... who lets him do that?
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Yahoo! Mail Google Gadget

http://unclehulka.com/ryan/blog/archives/2007/10/04/yahoo-mail-google-gadget/ "I wrote a Yahoo! Mail Google Gadget."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Ryan's Yahoo! Mail Google Gadget

http://ymail.unclehulka.com/googlegadget/ add yahoo mail to your google home page
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

(85) Operations Rules to Live By

http://jprall.vox.com/library/post/85-operations-rules-to-live-by.html there is much truth in that post
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Pitts vs RV4 Dogfight and Formation Aerobatics [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm2L8iN7WVw kick ass! that looks like some fun flying
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

October 04, 2007

An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today

http://www.joethepeacock.com/2007/10/unordered-list-of-thoughts-i-had-during.php hahahahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Adding an Extra Room for the Sky

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/garden/04observatories.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin "Dr. Motta and his wife, Joyce, are among a growing number of Americans incorporating observatories into new or existing homes." Kick. Ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/10/04/if-wishes-were-iphones "I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want." Well said. Very well said!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Key + Data

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/10/03/Key-Data "What do dynamo, memcached, Berkley DB, and couchdb have in common with each other, and in many ways with other structures like my hard drive or your mail or the www?"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Wired Science Video: Paul Kedrosky

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/89-paul_kedrosky_video_.html a quick chat about what's Paul's investing in and excited about
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Crustless bread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustless_bread Jesus... Wikipedia has pages for *everything* these days
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

October 03, 2007

Putting Yahoo's new search to the test

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/03/magazines/fortune/yahoosearch.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote "Yahoo's new Search Assist is a strong feature and one that could save minutes off of everyday searches because the suggestions tend to be highly relevant."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Airbus Lands With Parking Brake Set

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/AirbusLandsWithParkingBrakeSet_196259-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS whoops!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

October 02, 2007

On Labour, Ipsos MORI and the TPS...

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/10/on_labour_ipsos_mori/ "I have a long-standing grudge against direct marketers, which basically comes down to my desire to live uninterrupted in my own home without having people ringing me up, coming around my house or stuff crap through my doors twenty-four hours a day."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/technology/01feed.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "The company, FriendFeed, is the brainchild of Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, two of the programmers who built Google Maps."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Jeremy Zawodny - FriendFeed

http://friendfeed.com/jzawodn my friendfeed feed... a nice aggregation of stuff I do on various sites
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Dell MD3000 - Great DAS DB Storage

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/10/01/dell-md3000-great-das-db-storage/ interesting stuff...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Jeremy on the Bungee Line

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/10/jeremy_on_the_b.html "A week or so ago I spent some time on the phone chatting with Ted and Alex about a whole bunch of stuff: Yahoo! APIs, Zimbra, Maps, Hack Day, and more."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Uncle Frank's BBQ Restaurant & Catering, 2135 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA on Yahoo! Local

http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=31403069 I'm told that they make excellent BBQ here
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

October 01, 2007

A Funny Social Networking Moment

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1211 heh... indeed!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

The Joy of Public Speaking

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/publicspeaking "Giving a talk via videoconference is a painful thing. First, your disembodied head is looming six feet tall over a room of people." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Aaron Swartz: How to Get a Job Like Mine

http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget "Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

BuyMyBrokeniPod.com

http://buymybrokenipod.com/ "Turn Your Broken, Used or New iPod or iPhone Into Cash: Quick, Easy, Top Dollar, Touch, Classic, Video, Photo, Nano, Mini, iPod, Eco Environmentally Friendly..."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

The FAA’s Regulatory & Guidance Library

http://rgl.faa.gov/ "The FAA’s Regulatory & Guidance Library (RGL) contains many aviation regulatory, certification and safety information documents." You can get ADs via email here.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

It's Finally Official: eBay's Skype Has Bombed

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/its-finally-off.html "eBay should immediately sell what's left of Skype to Yahoo, Microsoft, or Google, all companies that offer portfolios of communications services that Skype might actually benefit from being a part of..." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

NASA - Astronaut Recruitment

http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/recruit.html "NASA is now accepting applications for its 2009 astronaut class. The agency is looking for a few men and women who want to fulfill their dreams and be a part of the next generation of explorers."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM