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October 2004

188 bookmarks saved in October 2004

Playlist: Joining the Mob

http://playlistmag.com/features/2004/10/musicmobs
Another music recommendation service, except this one requires an XML upload, which seems much less convenient than Audioscrobbler
#music
archive.org #3609

ABC News: Harvard Plans Major Engineering Expansion

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312&id=208344
"Harvard University is planning a major expansion of its engineering program, including a 67 percent increase in the size of the faculty and the possible establishment of a separate school." Hmm.. wonder if I could get in at Harvard, and if I really would
#school
archive.org #3605

Mayor's family cashes in on charity

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/foundation29e_20041029.htm
"More than $395,000 of the $717,000 the foundation raised in 2002 and 2003 ... was paid to Ayanna Kilpatrick, the mayor's sister, first lady Carlita Kilpatrick and Lisa Cylar Miller." I wish I worked in a city run by grownups.
#detroit
archive.org #3601

Wired News: You Broke It, You Fix It

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65510,00.html
"The iMac G5 is completely user serviceable." Huh, that's either pretty cool, or pretty slick of apple to trick customers into self-servicing :) Personally, I like that the hood isn't welded completely shut.
#apple
archive.org #3593

Good Bad Attitude

http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
"It would be ironic if, as hackers fear, recent measures intended to protect national security and intellectual property turned out to be a missile aimed right at what makes America successful."
archive.org #3589

Rio Audio : Rio Karma 20GB Player

http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=261
"...Docking Station with RCA Line-out and Ethernet Connectivity..." Ethernet?! On the player's dock?! Need to read some more - this can't possibly be as cool as it could be.
#gadgets
archive.org #3583

ABC News: Australians Said a Bigger Terror Target

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312&id=201242
"Foreign Minister Alexander Downer conceded Wednesday that the Iraq conflict may have increased the threat of Australians becoming a terror target, supporting a claim by the country's top spy." Yup, thanks Team Bush. World's a safer place since we gave
#bush #war
archive.org #3579

Head Crash!

http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html
"That's odd, I've never seen see through platters before." Wow. Head crash so bad it wiped he magnetic substrate right off all the platters.
#hardware #odd
archive.org #3575

Word Soup: Sinclair Broadcasting

http://www.wordsoup.com/word/archives/001609.html
Very nice: "There's way too much attention given to "undecided voters". Do we give a shit what those people standing aimlessly in the supermarket aisle are doing? No. We just want them out of our way. They can't pick a Jello flavor much less a candidate."
#politics
archive.org #3558

RollingStone.com: Politics- Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?has-player=true%3C/a%3E&has-player=true&has-player=true&rnd=1098394261180&rnd=1098457510181&rnd=1098458383191
"That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House." I love this man.
#politics
archive.org #3557

Terra Nova: Pay (Not) to Play

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2003/09/fun_fame_fortun.html
"One might hypothesize that the trade in virtual assets amounts to a game design flaw." This is why I never got hooked on EverQuest
#gaming
archive.org #3525

Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/04/MNGM393GPK1.DTL
'"I think," he said, "we need to get off this planet, because I'm afraid we're going to destroy it."' Ironic, coming from an antimatter weapons researcher.
#tech #war
archive.org #3522

Retro TV themes

http://www.vandegrift.net/evert/retro.html
Wow. There are a lot on here that I never heard of. And I'm frightened by how many I know by heart.
#tv
archive.org #3511

Gizmodo : Hello Kitty AirStream RV

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/hello-kitty-airstream-rv-023013.php
So I've had this running threat / joke with my girlfriend for awhile now that I want to get an RV when I retire and see all 50 states. Pack it with gadgets. She hates the idea. Until now...
#hellokitty #sanrio
archive.org #3504

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_10_03_dish_archive.html#109712378787119776
"how can an administration be re-elected after so patently misjudging the two most important aspects of the central issue in front of us?"
#bush #politics
archive.org #3502

QDB: Quote #406366

http://bash.org/?406366=
"I have no girlfriend, no money, I live at home and work at Taco Bell, but my domains don't expire until 2014 and DAMN IT FEELS GOOD!"
#funny
archive.org #3499

Daring Fireball: Some Joke

http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/some_joke
"If Microsoft plans to build home entertainment systems that are designed to please entertainment industry executives, I don’t see how they expect their products to appeal to actual people."
#MSFT #apple
archive.org #3497

Open Laszlo

http://openlaszlo.org
"Laszlo is an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web" Hmm, open source Laszlo versus very expensive Flex. This should be interesting
#flash #programming #webdev #xml
archive.org #3488

zoom

http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm
Okay. Now this is one scary piece of flash. Continuous zooming scene of surrealist art. It's like a ride Willy Wonka's and Clive Barker's love child would produce.
#flash
archive.org #3487

JET-man project

http://www.yves-rossy.com/en/jetman.php
'Following the “Flying Man” project, the logical “next step” was to accomplish the secret dream of being able to fly like Superman or the Rocketeer'
#odd
archive.org #3482

Cycling '74: Soundflower

http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower.html
"Soundflower is a MacOS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications."
#osx
archive.org #3479

PilotSQL

http://www.hares.net/scott/sql.htm
"PilotSQL is the first and only SQL (Structured Query Language) database for the PalmOS" Wow, another SQLite port to Palm.
#mobile #palm #treo
archive.org #3473

Gravity Monkey - red | blue

http://www.gravitymonkey.com/gravity/monkey/redblue
"red | blue (pronounced 'red or blue') is a free Java™ app that figures out where you stand, or perhaps more accurately, where you are standing in our politically polarized country."
#java #mobile
archive.org #3461

Withdrawal on the Agenda

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/10/10_500.html
"You can train someone to fire a gun or wield a baton, but you can't train him to be loyal. You can't train him not to see the obvious. You can't train him to be the Iraqi of your dreams."
#politics #war
archive.org #3459

Debating Dubya

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/09/09_526.html
"As John Kerry and George W. Bush get down to business in their series of three debates, it's worth taking a look back at the 2000 debates for a reminder of the positions Bush took in his three contests with Al Gore."
#bush #politics
archive.org #3453

Killer hamster ices owner

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/30/killer_hamster
"A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports."
#odd
archive.org #3436