October 30, 2010

Craigslist headquarters moving to downtown S.F.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/29/BUA01G3LNI.DTL new office
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

October 19, 2010

Google Static Maps API - Google Code

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ for when you just want a map as an image without any fancy javascript stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

October 15, 2010

Aspersa User's Manual - The ioprofile tool

http://aspersa.googlecode.com/svn/html/ioprofile.html ioprofile looks like quite the handy tool
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

get rxvt-unicode with 256 color support on Ubuntu

http://scie.nti.st/2008/10/13/get-rxvt-unicode-with-256-color-support-on-ubunut it's tempting to try this
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

October 11, 2010

BBC News - Virgin Galactic's spaceship makes solo flight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11511604 kick ass
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 AM

Too much TV psychologically harms children: study

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101011/wl_uk_afp/healthmindchildrentelevisioncomputer;_ylt=AisAkBOSRh1bDehj1sRz9bqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpZWljODZuBHBvcwMzNgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDdG9vbXVjaHR2cHN5 no shit
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

October 09, 2010

chmod -x chmod

http://www.slideshare.net/cog/chmod-x-chmod a bunch of great hacks for fixing a broken chmod
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

October 06, 2010

CyanogenMod | Android Community Rom based on FroYo.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ ooh, I could put this on my droid for lots of extra features.. tempting
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Hijacking HTTP traffic on your home subnet using ARP and iptables - System administration and software blog

http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/09/hijacking-http-traffic-on-your-home-subnet-using-arp-and-iptables/ fun with ARP and proxying
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Hacker News | Good, freely-available textbooks in machine learning

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736675 looks like a pretty good list (and discussion)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

October 05, 2010

Cellphones and Texting Give Us So Many Ways to Relay the Message That We're Going to Be Late That We No Longer Feel Guilty About It

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526471179963214.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editorsPicks_1 this is a very real problem
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

October 03, 2010

Doug's Domain :: C172 DIY Tire Replacement

http://www.dvatp.com/aviation/maintenance/tire_replacement/ a good step-by-step howto that applies to a variety of airplanes
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM