November 30, 2007

NoScript

http://noscript.net/ "this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site)."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Air Chart Systems VFR Sectional Books

http://www.airchart.com/Pages/ac_vfr_sectional.html because who wants to buy all those individual maps, anyway?
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Harmony Project home page

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/ "The Harmony system is a generic framework for reconciling disconnected updates to heterogeneous, replicated XML data."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP - Lawyers - Sue H. Yoo

http://www.sullivanandcromwell.com/lawyers/detail.aspx?attorney=140 a lawyer named "sue you"! heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071129/full/news.2007.312.html "Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves." Biology is cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

About blogs on the Kindle

http://evhead.com/2007/11/about-blogs-on-kindle.asp "Stuff isn't free just because you're not reminded of the costs incrementally." Agreed!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

November 29, 2007

UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database

http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/coord_database.html over 1550 airfoils!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Microsoft SharedView Beta

http://www.connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94 via jon udell
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Adventures in $40 eyeglasses

http://www.43folders.com/2007/11/29/adventures-40-eyeglasses "For far too long, glasses have been expensive." No shit.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Facebook | Yahoo! Developer Network group

http://bgsu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7432033833 "A place where we can meet other members, learn things and share ways to use Yahoo!'s tools and data services"
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Please do not port software to Windows!

http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ I think this is a stupid argument
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

On Hiring a MySQL DBA/Architect

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/10/29/on-hiring-a-mysql-dba-architect/ good advice there
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&print=true "More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life" interesting.. but not too surprising.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

November 28, 2007

WBT-201 GPS and Linux

http://www.daria.co.uk/gps a config tool that appears to suck less than the windows version
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Amazon S3: Browser-Based Uploads using POST

http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/proposals/post.html a proposal to let amazon s3 handle uploads via POST
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

November 27, 2007

Space Station Over the Ionian Sea

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071127.html "Last August, the Space Shuttle Endeavour crew captured this shot of the International Space Station (ISS) against the backdrop of Planet Earth." Nice!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Virgin America tunes up with YSlow

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/26/virgin_america_open_source/ it's good to see larger organizations putting yslow to use
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/scalable_hosting_s3 a good look at using S3 for hosting images and media
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

November 26, 2007

PowerFolder

http://www.powerfolder.com/ PowerFolder is a Secure, Open Source, Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Tool. Easily share, backup, synchronize and access files over the Internet or in LAN
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 PM

BeInSync

http://www.beinsync.com/ One-stop, simple and automatic solution for all your valuable data. Incorporates integrated online backup,
Posted by jzawodn at 11:47 PM

Why Guinness tastes better in Ireland

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/11/22/why-guiness-tastes-better-in-ireland/ interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

WTF: Adobe Reader 8

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/26/wtf-adobe-reader-8 "It is getting dark. You are likely to be eaten by a competitor."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Cheney experiences irregular heartbeat

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_irregular_heartbeat "Cheney has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant a defibrillator six years ago." Holy Shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

American Airlines Worldwide Reservations Phone Numbers

http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/utility/internationalReservationsPhoneContact.jsp here's how to call them on the phone
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Man vs. Nature

http://pashasadri.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/man-vs-nature/ "In general, we seem to be locked into a cycle of creating technologies to solve problems created by our previously created technologies." So true...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Yahoo! Is All Over Facebook

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/11/yahoo_is_all_ov.html lots of yahoo stuff that can appear on facebook
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

several useful patches for cmd.exe

http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/misc/patching-cmdexe.html that's sort of impressive, in a very geeky sort of way
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Cancelling Facebook

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/cancelling-facebook.html I should do that too...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

In Which Tom Boyd Punches my Wife in the Face - kentbrewster.com

http://kentbrewster.com/tom-boyd-punched-my-wife-in-the-face/ WHAT. THE. FUCK?!?!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe

http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/ 'Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter."'
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

November 20, 2007

1GB write-once SanDisk memory cards to cost $5.99?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/1gb-write-once-sandisk-memory-cards-to-cost-5-99/ that would be kinda cool
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 AM

Rich Acuff's Palo Alto Airport (KPAO) page

http://www.dr-amy.com/rich/flying/kpao.html a nice overview of flying in and out of palo alto airport
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 AM

November 18, 2007

Yahoo turns up heat on European units

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8fffcd8-95fe-11dc-b7ec-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1 hmmm
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 PM

You're Not Attractive

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/odd-numbers/2007/11/18/youre-not-attractive heh... interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

November 17, 2007

Canonical to Provide Optimized Ubuntu OS Layer for VMware Virtual Appliances | Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-jeos that's pretty damned cool if you ask me
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 AM

November 16, 2007

Disappearing Gmail messages baffle users

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/11/14/Disappearing-Gmail-messages-baffle-users_1.html "A review of the Gmail Help forum reveals that reports of lost messages have become more common in the past year with a higher volume of complaints occurring since July." yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOEbAZJTTk wow, there's a lot of cheese and fabricated enthusiasm in that video... it's kinda spooky. and what's with the fake "campfire" theme? Is "Campfire One" supposed to remind me of Spaceship One or something??? yikes
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Get to Know Phil Windley

http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2007/11/16/get-to-know-phil-windley/ Doug likes our video...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

I'm on YDN Theater

http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/11/im_on_ydn_theater.shtml Phil's pimpin' our video... excellent!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:24 PM

Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters

http://live.psu.edu/story/27310 they needed a study to figure that out?
Posted by jzawodn at 12:47 AM

Workforce 30 In. Base Cabinet

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&productId=100372345 I need one of these... Damned OSH doesn't stock 'em either.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 AM

November 15, 2007

FOX News Porn

http://foxnewsporn.com/ that. is. awesome. and sad too
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Planet V12n

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/planet/v12n/ "The Planet's Conversation on Virtualization"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 AM

November 14, 2007

Inbox 2.0 Makes Me Sad

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/14/inbox-20-makes-me-sad/ "it is absurd for Yahoo to keep launching new social networking products, almost monthly, without what appears to be any sort of high level strategic vision" yeah... sad.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

Google acquisition of DoubleClick rejected for now - International Herald Tribune

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/13/technology/webgoogle.php "European Commission competition authorities refused Tuesday to approve Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, the Internet advertising company, and ordered a further review of the deal that could last till March."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

my long lost handwriting

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/11/13/my_long_lost_ha.html "I can't remember the last time that I wrote a letter by hand. The only thing that I know how to do with a pen these days is underline sentences in books, add 20% tips to credit card receipts, and scrawl my illegible signature."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

November 13, 2007

Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/inbox-20-yahoo-and-google-to-turn-e-mail-into-a-social-network/ hmm... could be.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way)

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/11/installing-mysql-on-ubuntu holy shit, that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:24 PM

GPhone Announced, Morons

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/introgphone "Google isn't coming out with a phone, they're releasing an open phone operating system. When asked what the point of this is, they suddenly get very vague. Just like always."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:24 PM

The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=492804&in_page_id=1811 heh... that's just funny
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

pckeyboard.com

http://www.pckeyboard.com/ they sell designs of the original IBM "clickey" keyboard that I love so much
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Ahead of the Bell: Yahoo Upgraded

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071113/yahoo_ahead_of_the_bell.html?.v=1 uhm, yay!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

November 12, 2007

Outgoing

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2007/11/12/outgoing.shtml Andy is leaving Yahoo... best of luck!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

November 09, 2007

Defrag Conference: Zawodny refines the Defrag focus

http://osakasteve.com/2007/11/08/defrag-conference-zawodny-refines-the-defrag-focus/ "When it came time to ask someone to refine the idea behind the Defrag conference, Jeremy Zawodny (Yahoo) was tapped to provide an explanation."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:24 PM

Overheard at Defrag

http://kentbrewster.com/overheard-at-defrag/ kent pulled together a pretty good list of quotes
Posted by jzawodn at 06:24 PM

Geek theater

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/11/08/geek-theater/ "We’ve produced everything from technical presentations to developer partner showcases to how-to screencasts."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

November 07, 2007

Eee PC Tips: A crash course in Linux

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/06/eee-pc-tips-a-crash-course-in-linux/ looks like an interesting toy
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

November 02, 2007

Management changes at Powerset

http://www.barneypell.com/archives/2007/11/management_chan.html hmmm...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Everex Readies Sub-$300 Linux Notebooks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071102/tc_pcworld/139196 intesting... another use of Ubuntu and/or GOS
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Gates Building Directions

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/keller/gates-map.html how to get to the CS department at standford
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

FAIL

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/01/fail-3/ hahahaah
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Powerset Looking for a New CEO

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/02/powerset-looking-for-a-new-ceo/ uh oh... this doesn't look good
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

November 01, 2007

Domicile (law)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domicile_(law) I'd never heard the term before, but Wikipedia knew it. Time to donate to the fundraising, I guess...
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

World's Smallest Radio Fits in the Palm of the Hand . . . of an Ant

http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110566 "Single carbon nanotube is fully functional radio, receiving music over standard radio bandwidth" Cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

HD DVD players hit $99 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9809165-1.html holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Superfast Laser Turns Virus Into Rubble

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/11/laser_virus "A physicist and his biologist son destroyed a common virus using a superfast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells. The discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure." Cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Does Google 2008 = Microsoft 1998?

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/does-google-2008-microsoft-1998/ yes and no, apparently
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Google Transforms into Microsoft of Old

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/CommentView.aspx?guid=8d0d6031-c8a8-4d42-aa18-adc6c164a8a7#commentstart hmmm....
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

Source: Colbert to file for S.C. Democratic primary

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/31/colbert.sc/index.html?section=cnn_latest "The source familiar with Colbert's strategy said he will use his satirical candidacy to promote his home state, as he did during the recent speech in Columbia in which he extolled the virtues of Palmetto State peaches over Georgia's."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Everex gPC TC2502 Computer With Linux

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/technology/personaltech/01computer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin It's tempting to get one of these... and put Ubuntu on it. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 PM

Quake calls jammed cell phone networks

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/01/BAK6T4681.DTL yup... we noticed this too
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM