Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y "all of them" heh

How Do Locks Lock?

http://www.moserware.com/2008/09/how-do-locks-lock.html a good read

High Availability MySQL: SHOW QUERY PLANS

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/09/show-query-plans.html WANT!

Stellarium

http://stellarium.org/ "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer." It appears to totally kick ass too.

SNL Spoofs Palin/Couric Interview

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/28/snl-spoofs-palincouric-interview/ wow, that's really funny!

The Geek Stuff » Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons - Software for Geeks #3

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/08/turbocharge-putty-with-12-powerful-add-ons-software-for-geeks-3/ definitely some useful stuff in here for putty users

Found Footage: Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant Video, Swimsuit Competition

http://waxy.org/2008/09/sarah_palin_1984_miss_alaska_pageant_video_swimsuit_competition/ excellent!

Strange Tail Wheel Endorsement Day

http://vaibhav.livejournal.com/239444.html that was, indeed, an odd day

Hot technologies I care about - Sep ‘08

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/09/17/hot-technologies-i-care-about-sep-08/ Don's got a great list of tech here

Serious Fricken Bureaucracy

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Serious-Fricken-Bureaucracy.aspx that is awesome!

Palin Accepted $25,000 in Gifts, Alaska Records Show

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/25/ST2008092504011.html "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows."

Failin' Palin. - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/25/failin-palin.html wow, she's kind of an idiot for not just admitting she said something dumb earlier

Synergy

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ "With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers." It's cross-platform x2vnc, sort of.

Input Director

http://www.inputdirector.com/ it's like x2vnc except for windows hosts. excellent!

Patch for running emacs as a daemon

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/103368 kick ass

protobuf-perlxs - Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-perlxs/ it sounds fast too

Let's Play "WALLSTREET BAILOUT" The Rules Are... Rep Kapture [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds from my home town, no less!

Oracle Enters the AWS Cloud

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/09/hello-oracle.html wow, that's kind of a big deal

Lehman Brothers (Must sell ASAP)

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bfs/841206401.html heh

dan le sac VS scroobius pip "Thou Shalt always Kill" [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4 this is strangely entertaining

Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/code-reuse-in-google-chrome-browser/ that's a good chunk of open source in there

Four Tweaks for Using Linux with Solid State Drives

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/ some good tips here

Getting a Working C/C++ Development Environment for Developing Drizzle

http://jpipes.com/index.php?/archives/248-Getting-a-Working-CC++-Development-Environment-for-Developing-Drizzle.html Jay put it all together here

Google Releases More Patches for MySQL

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-releases-more-patches-for-mysql.html good SMP and InnoDB stuff in here!

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/dziuba_chrome/ "It renders HTML and interprets Javascript, you know, like every fucking browser made since 1995. It's also got Google Gears built in. Great. I'll alert Tim Berners-Lee." heh.

Aviation Video: F-16 Dead Stick Landing

http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/SUPERGT/3384/ a very well executed one

Your tax dollars at work

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/09/08/your-tax-dollars-at-work/ "An ordinary company might put up a “come back later page” with the same information as in this one-page letter. The federal government, however, can afford to send every possible user of the web site a hardcopy note in the U.S. mail."

Reduce Power Usage with PowerTOP | Tombuntu

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/09/reduce-power-usage-with-powertop/ interesting results on my T61

INNODB FREEZE

http://feedblog.org/2008/09/07/innodb-freeze/ "I want mysqlhotcopy semantics for InnoDB."

Solr tutorial

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html "This document covers the basics of running Solr using an example schema, and some sample data. "

Open Source Search Engine Rodeo: Solr v. Sphinx v. MySQL-FT

http://aicoder.blogspot.com/2008/08/open-source-search-engine-rodeo-solr-v.html didn't dig very deep but this is a useful data point anyway

Yahoo: How Open When You Compete With Others?

http://searchengineland.com/080912-135842.php 'I'm weary of "Open" somehow being magic fairy dust that if sprinkled on a problem is something companies hope makes everything better.'

Two Guys Pretend To Make-Out Behind CNN Reporter [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lnFTpoSalk ha!

Porno Party

http://blog.joerogan.net/archives/101 NSFW but REALLY funny

Inside Obama's Emails

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_in_photos/inside_obamas_emails hahahahahahahaha!

Your tax dollars at work

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/09/08/your-tax-dollars-at-work/ "An ordinary company might put up a “come back later page” with the same information as in this one-page letter. The federal government, however, can afford to send every possible user of the web site a hardcopy note in the U.S. mail."

Aviation Video: F-16 Dead Stick Landing

http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/SUPERGT/3384/ a very well executed one

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/dziuba_chrome/ "It renders HTML and interprets Javascript, you know, like every fucking browser made since 1995. It's also got Google Gears built in. Great. I'll alert Tim Berners-Lee." heh.

Google Releases More Patches for MySQL

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-releases-more-patches-for-mysql.html good SMP and InnoDB stuff in here!

Getting a Working C/C++ Development Environment for Developing Drizzle

http://jpipes.com/index.php?/archives/248-Getting-a-Working-CC++-Development-Environment-for-Developing-Drizzle.html Jay put it all together here

Four Tweaks for Using Linux with Solid State Drives

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/ some good tips here

Deleting Your Work, Starting over is good for the soul...

http://krow.livejournal.com/608110.html "It felt good to delete yesterday's tree and start over again. More often then not this is a best practice :)"

Maximum Number of open files and file descriptors in Linux

http://www.techiesabode.com/article/read_article_w.php?article_id=2 how to check in the /proc filesystem and tweak if need be

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1459?ijkey=425457f110f8db584617b87a1eace92eaa39ff02 "Parachutes reduce the risk of injury after gravitational challenge, but their effectiveness has not been proved with randomised controlled trials"

Appearing to enjoy Classical Music

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/09/01/108-appearing-to-enjoy-classical-music/ "Though white people do not actually listen to classical music, they like to believe that they are the type of people who would enjoy it."

Mutex contention in MySQL

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/08/mutex-contention-in-mysql.html Mark is doing some interesting digging

Create a Bootable USB Drive or Memory Card

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/27/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-or-memory-card/ well that's pretty easy

The cloud's Chrome lining

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/09/the_clouds_chro.php Nick sums up my thoughts nicely....

Jon Stewart and Colbert Mock Sarah Palin Choice [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aj2w0OdiIM heh

Upgrading VirtualBox and Virtualizing the Ubuntu 8.10 Alphas

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/06/upgrading-virtualbox-and-virtualizing-the-ubuntu-810-alphas/ stuff to play with

Create an Encrypted Private Directory with eCryptfs

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/07/create-an-encrypted-private-directory-with-ecryptfs/ might be a good place to stash your mozilla prefs and stuff