ITworld.com - A rush of codd to the hand
http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/nlsebizdcodd061128
"Some of the best managed content I have ever seen sits on a Unix file system and some of the worst managed content I have ever seen sits in a big honking, breathtakingly expensive, relational database."
I Park Like An Idiot - You suck at parking! Let the world know it!
http://www.iparklikeanidiot.com
Need to keep a supply of these in the glove box
George F. Will - Already Too Busy for Civility - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901267.html
Will seriously wasted an entire column grousing about Jim Webb's impolite behavior toward the president and an imprecise use of language? Seriously?
IP: Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn [ I second
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200009/msg00052.html
"We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolvin
Day 1 (Sam Harris): Why Are Atheists So Angry? | Jewcy.com
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/monday_why_are_atheists_so_angry_sam_harris
"Sam Harris and Dennis Prager inaugurate Jewcy’s “Big Question” series by arguing this very question."
BobHarris.com - Pudu
http://www.bobharris.com/content/blogcategory/70/99
"This site's mascot, the pudu (actual species name: pudu pudu) is the world's tiniest deer, a two-foot-tall little ungulate with big wide eyes and a body that resembles a Vienna sausage balanced on four wobbly toothpicks."
Daily Kos: San Francisco Values
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/28/15421/031
"Since O'Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area."
Al Jazeera English - Kim to lose iPod privileges
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1891BC5-6D0C-4983-A153-C5DED87FE281.htm
"Kim Jong-il is to have his access to iPods and other desirable gadgets cut off as part of US efforts to target sanctions directly at the North Korean leader and his power base."
Official Google Blog: Adieu to Google Answers
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html
"Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here."
A Firefox installation with a ton of extensions on display
http://suprfile.com/get.php?filename=/FFscreenshot.png&get=1&id=1f3uvrb&vcode=qqcqdrc5j
Catching a wave in Silicon Valley: JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side
http://sv411.blogspot.com/2006/11/jotspot-google-merger-shows-its-ugly.html
"My question to Google (and the JotSpot people) is how can you treat your customers, some of which have been there from the beginning so poorly?"
GameSetWatch - @ Play: Hack Hacks
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/11/_play_hack_hacks.php
"Nethack patches are fairly numerous in general."
ARC: ARC - RDF and SPARQL for PHP developers
http://arc.web-semantics.org
"a lightweight, SPARQL-enabled RDF system for mainstream Web projects. It is written in PHP and has been optimized for shared (or otherwise performance- or privilege-limited) Web environments."
Mirage Swift Mask Parts
http://www.cpapplus.com/CPAP_Mask_Parts/Mirage_Swift/Mirage_Swift_Parts.html
I need me a new nasal barrel sleeve.
0xDECAFBAD - painfully metalicious
http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/11/28/painfully-metalicious
"I’m also happy that del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes to normalize this situation." How meta is this now?
The Proof is in the Pudding: 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding = 1,215,000 miles
http://www.flyertalk.com/pudding
"Isn't it strange to think that the million-miler sitting next to you in first class got there solely by buying chocolate pudding?"
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft Zune Review
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/zune.asp
"The bottom line is that Microsoft should have waited until it had a more compelling product to sell. I can't imagine what they were thinking."
Slashing your smoking may not help your health - health - 28 November 2006 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?feedId=online-news_rss20&id=dn10672
"Smokers who believe they can avoid fatal disease by slashing the number of cigarettes they smoke each day are sorely mistaken, according to a new study which suggests the only safe way to escape the risk is to quit."
YouTube - Flaming Tennis Ball Into Leaves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3t5T27Qxig
"We shot a flaming tennis ball with a catapault into a large pile of leaves soaked in gasoline. Enjoy."
Revenge is a dish best served with cheese | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56546
"You are an asteroid that has seen many of your brethren decimated by the evil spaceship in the original Asteroid's game. The loss of your rock-fellows has hurt and scarred you deeply. Your rocky heart has ached for vengenance."
Listening Post - Creative Commons' License Revision Would Render Zune Noncompliant
http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/11/new_language_fr.html
"When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the right granted to them
YouTube - Leet speak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1cyNigny8
"horrible tv report on speaking in leet"
Nintendo Says You Need To Be In Shape To Play The Wii - Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/nintendo-says-you-need-to-be-in-shape-to-play-the-wii-217268.php
"It's Wii-Day 8 and gamers around the country are simultaneously discovering one thing: they're wildly out of shape."
XSL Flickr
http://norman.walsh.name/2005/projects/xslflickr
"XSL Flickr is a library of templates that allow XSLT (1.0 or 2.0) stylesheets to access the Flickr Services API."
A Wii Workout: When Videogames Hurt - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116441076273232312-3nPirhZn20_L2P7m_ROtFUkh6yA_20071124.html
Wimps.
blog.josephhall.com
http://blog.josephhall.com/2006/11/firefox-cookies.html
"So there you have it, a plate of beautiful Firefox cookies, perfect for any holiday or geek party."
Why does the fashion industry thrive in spite of rampant IP "piracy"?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061124-8283.html
"In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designs—or rather, because of this lack, the authors argue—the fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"
akirlu: Zed's Dead: A Transatlantic Writing Essay
http://akirlu.livejournal.com/100247.html
"This started out as a rant about British writers writing American characters and not getting the idiom right."
Damn Interesting - Outer Space Exposure
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=741
"Though an unprotected human would not long survive in the clutches of outer space, it is remarkable that survival times can be measured in minutes rather than seconds, and that one could endure such an inhospitable environment for almost two minutes with
Under The Sun: Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work
http://underthesunz.blogspot.com/2006/11/top-20-replies-by-programmers-to.html
"There is something funky in your data."
Linkwalla: PHP/XML link blog
http://linkwalla.benbrophy.com
"Build a list of links through a simple AJAX web interface, published via HTML and RSS. Sort of a mini-blog for links. Written in PHP5 and runs off XML files - no database needed."
Ben Brophy’s Linkwalla adds xFolk support at FactoryCity
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/11/26/ben-brophys-linkwalla-adds-xfolk-support
"Ben Brophy’s databaseless personal link aggregator, Linkwalla, has recently been upgraded to v0.9.7. Aside from Flickr and Ma.gnolia integration, the output is now marked up in the xFolk microformat."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko :: Avoid the loony Zune
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/147048,CST-FIN-Andy23.article
'"What are the things that users want and Apple refuses to provide?" Microsoft's colossal blunder was to knock the user out of that question and put the music industry in its place.'
Escaping the JavaScript call stack with setTimeout at Blogature
http://blog.thinkature.com/index.php/2006/11/26/escaping-the-javascript-call-stack-with-settimeout
"What happens when we call something using setTimeout with a delay of 0 is that the JavaScript engine notices that it’s busy (with whatever task called setTimeout) and queues the setTimeout code for execution immediately after the current call stack clo
Stupid htaccess Tricks - Perishable Press
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks
tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog - Firefox 2 Feed Support
http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/10/05/firefox_2_feed_support.php
"where publishers include an XSLT declaration - especially where that XSLT is superior to Firefox 2’s own - they should pass it through. (Same goes for IE7.)"
Paul Baker's Blog: HOWTO Disable Firefox 2's Feed Preview
http://paulbaker.net/blog/archives/2006/10/howto_disable_firefox_2s_feed_preview.html
"I'm not sure why Firefox doesn't detect when a stylesheet is used with the feed and then turn off the preview automatically to let the stylesheet show through like they do with the ordinary XML pretty-printing feature."
Help Wanted: Starwood Seeks Chief Beer Officer
http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003407982
"The Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide brand will launch an executive search starting today for someone with brew eloquence and a rich knowledge of beer as part of its Best Brew program."
YouTube - Bullet Dodging 6 years old brain damaged/autistic girl
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tA0JkJtWexE
"Ashley has developped "special" abilities since her accident which has damage some important parts of her brain."
Mircoformats and portable social network
http://www.glennjones.net/Post/820/Mircoformatsandportablesocialnetwork.htm
"What we need is not only a way to prefill social networking information, but also to dynamically and automatically transfer data between systems."
snellspace.com - Blog Archive - Content Sniffing Sucks
http://www.snellspace.com/wp?p=530
"No, I don’t want to subscribe to a PHP template used to generate Atom feeds, thank you very much." (Snicker)
YouTube - Disk Drop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=&v=yISqCAnROh8
"Fun with an old hard drive. Took the platters out of many hard drives and put them into one drive. Spin it up to speed and give it a nudge, then watch the fun."
phpDocumentor: The complete documentation solution for PHP
http://www.phpdoc.org
"phpDocumentor, sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php language."
Ray Kurzweil: Computers Will Extend Human Lifespan - VARBusiness
http://www.varbusiness.com/sections/news/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=195800050&cid=VARBusinessNews
"In just 15 years, we'll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever. At least that's the prediction of author and futurist Ray Kurzweil."
Edgar Gonzalez weblog ? Emulating the OLPC XO on a Mac (OSX)
http://www.edgargonzalez.com/2006/11/21/emulating-the-olpc-xo-on-a-mac-osx
"on emulating the One Laptop Per Child operating system, here there are the 3 steps for doing it on a mac running osx."
Pyro—Chat around the Campfire
http://www.karppinen.fi/pyro
"Pyro demonstrates a new breed of applications we call site-specific browsers—apps that are about making a browser-based application better with client-side technology while keeping the user interface intact"
How to Respond to Conservatives — Rockridge Institute
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/howtorespond/view
"Progressive values are the best of traditional American values. Stand up for your values with dignity and strength. You are a true patriot because of your values."
[this is aaronland] Bake me a painting
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/09/28/bake#pytwitter
"BLARGH! What fucking part of making "Internet" devices without a built-in XML parser doesn't Nokia understand..."
Wired 14.12: Commercial Break
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/tahoe.html
"In a risky experiment, Chevrolet asked Web users to make their own video spots for the Tahoe. A case study in customer generated advertising."
Around Azeroth: Dancing Troll village - WOW Insider
http://www.wowinsider.com/2006/11/21/around-azeroth-dancing-troll-village
"why would Blizzard make such an elaborate and unique area if the only real way to interact with it was via a few seconds' flyover on certain flight paths?"
YouTube - Picard's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?mode=related&search=&v=G8Tm5tQltTQ
"A song dedicated to captain Jean Luc Picard" Hahaha. This kicks so much ass.
YouTube - Patrick Stewart Alphabet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNKyoRudOQ
" Patrick Stewart is awesome"
Your Mom's Basement: GALACTUS IS COMING!
http://www.yourmomsbasement.com/archives/2006/11/galactus_is_com.html
"YMB's crack investigative team has unearthed the long rumored, but never confirmed, collaboration from 1983 between Marvel's Chairman Emeritus Stan Lee and religious comic tract creator Jack Chick."
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - What Do Yahoo Employees Think of the "Peanut Butter Manifesto"?
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=4b25fb0d-84dc-4582-a2a6-31917c67d233
"didn't Garlinghouse's group purchase OddPost 2.5 years ago and yet still hasn't figured out how to integrate the offering into Yahoo! Mail besides making a molasses slow Web-mail experience that is still in beta"
The Spreadsheet as Mashup Fabric | 2006-11-20 | BitWorking
http://bitworking.org/news/The_Spreadsheet_as_Mashup_Fabric
"I believe an online spreadsheet is an excellent starting point for building a mashup fabric: a document into which a range of online services can be combined."
its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap
http://iatiat.ytmnd.com
The Flicker Fusion Factor
http://pages.cthome.net/rwinkler/fff.htm
"When we get behind the wheel of a car, we may think we gain a bird's power of flight, but actually we are poor, pathetic imitators of birds."
The Awful Forums - Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2183346
"Be warned: Sweaty hands faulty Wiimote wrist strap = broken ass TV." Ah hahahahahaha
franklinmint.fm: UserUnfriendly
http://www.franklinmint.fm/blog/archives/000921.html
"In an interesting turn of events, FeedBurner has decided to serve HTML to Safari, IE7, and Firefox 2 when you click a little checkbox."
User-generated content embarrasses Michael Arrington - Valleywag
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/red-herrington/usergenerated-content-embarrasses-michael-arrington-215845.php
"An embarrassing moment, today, for Michael Arrington, at the >play digital media conference at Berkeley, when he called up a web page of comments deriding the panel he was moderating."
La Paloma Mexican Restaurant: Home Page
http://lapaloma.citysearch.com/page/nux4/Home_Page.html
"exciting new and traditional Mexican dishes since 1977."
Etsy :: Nintendo Mini Starter Set
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5006473
"This starter kit is a perfect gift any Nintendo lover would adore and includes miniature versions of the following"
Main Page - Wiili
http://www.wiili.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
"WiiLi is a live Linux CD that makes the Nintendo Wii boot into a full Linux Desktop without the need of a mod chip or hardware modification.."
Atom 1.0 for WordPress
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/wordpress-atom-1.0
"The plugin replaces all WordPress feeds. RSS will no longer be available, and Atom 1.0 will be served at most of the generated URLs that previously served RSS."
house of warwick ? Steve’s Hummus
http://houseofwarwick.com/?page_id=18
"After buying hummus for years in the store, it took Alton Brown and a food processor to get me out of the store for good."
mod_asis - Apache HTTP Server
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_asis.html
"This module provides the handler send-as-is which causes Apache to send the document without adding most of the usual HTTP headers."
sitemaps.org - Protocol
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
"This document describes the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol."
me, 2.0: garlic meatballs
http://monkey.org/~jose/blog/viewpage.php?page=garlic_meatballs
yum meatballs garlic
ASCII by Jason Scott: The Phone Stories: VOICEMAIL
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000269.html
"I remember the grey day, I remember the rain drizzling across the street and against the booth when I realized my box, my little teenage piece of the phone system, was gone forever."
Project Azeroth - A World of Warcraft Translation Wiki
http://projectazeroth.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/LanguageAnnex
"Each Race speaks an individual language. The correlation is as follows"
Rush Limbaugh fakes stupidity. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2152195
"Take it from me. Rush Limbaugh wants you to think he's a dumbass, a pea-brain, an absolute yutz. It's a con job. Don't fall for it."
instructables : Tv-B-Gone Hat
http://www.instructables.com/id/EPPWR0XGYFEP287YQW
"This is a hat with integrated Tv-B-Gone and a couple added features such as rapid fire mode which will turn off (and on) the most common tvs more frequently and constant on mode which will repeat the off codes for all tvs indefinately. "
How-To: Turn a standard Xbox 360 video cable into a VGA cable for make benefit your wallet - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/14/how-to-turn-a-standard-xbox-360-video-cable-into-a-vga-cable-fo
"In this How-To we'll describe how you can turn your existing Xbox 360 video cable into a "multi-out" device capable of VGA." Man. For the effort and damage potential, I'd buy the premade cable.
celtx - Overview
http://www.celtx.com/overview.html
"Celtx is software for making media - film, video, theatre, and animation."
Bill de h?ra: IM Grid
http://www.dehora.net/journal/2006/11/here_we_go_again_1.html
"5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."
Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple
http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple
"Dev: So it’s simple? SG: Simple as Sunday, my friend."
The Dilbert Blog: Small Pleasures
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/11/small_pleasures.html
"And I like writing this blog post today because I know it will remind you of your own small pleasures. Take a deep breath. Release that knot in your back. Wiggle your feet. Enjoy your day."
W3C DOM tests - createDocumentFragment()
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/tests/docfrag.html
"Hello I am a document fragment"
Ma.gnolia Blog: JSON, HTML, and Microformats. Oh, My!
http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/11/14/json-html-and-microformats-oh-my
"These feeds are bare-bones Microformatted html documents with support for looking at our bookmarks in several different ways: as plain bookmarks in xFolk, as blog entries in hAtom, as reviews in hReview, and as all of the above combined."
Jason Harwig - Javascript Particle Engine
http://www.nearinfinity.com/blogs/page/jharwig?entry=javascript_particle_engine
"I think I've written a particle engine in almost every language I've used for an extended period of time."
Polish Exchange Student in US: My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,448350,00.html
"I would never have expected my host family to welcome me at the airport, wielding a Bible, and saying, 'Child, our Lord sent you half-way around the world to bring you to us.'"
Do Not Power Down This Machine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbisson/298158460
"The first web server"
Programmer's Font (inactive project)
http://www.arcavia.com/Software/ProgFont
"This font is made for clarity at small resolutions ... We need to re-engineer the alphabet so that it will be clear at extremely small sizes."
Cocoa Source Code - A Simple HTTP Server
http://culturedcode.com/cocoa
"SimpleHTTPServer listens to port 50000, uses the path of the request-URL to construct a new URL by inserting "http://" at the beginning, loads this new URL and renders its contents to a PDF file."
MacDevCenter.com -- How to Write a Cocoa Web Server
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/11/14/how-to-write-a-cocoa-web-server.html
"there are some rather useful ... Cocoa classes that are most helpful for writing a web server. In this article I will show you what they are and how to use them."
Boing Boing: Girl hypnotizes and dresses up lizards
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/13/girl_hypnotizes_and_.html
"Lily Capehart is a 10-year-old girl from Florida who like to "hypnotize" wild South Florida anole lizards and dress them up."
ripping up the pavement | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56287
"Skate Bording Girls. Disclaimers: flash clip, uncanny nudity."
ToastyFrog.com : Site - Metroidvania
http://www.toastyfrog.com/toastywiki/index.php/Site/Metroidvania
""Metroidvania" is a stupid word for a wonderful thing. It's basically a really terrible neologism that describes a videogame genre which combines 2D side-scrolling action with free-roaming exploration and progressive skill and item collection to enable f
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Symphony_of_the_Night
"Symphony of the Night was a massive critical success, and still maintains a large internet fanbase as well as status as a collector's item. It is considered by many to be the best of the Castlevania series"
Tom Morris: Opath - a tool to popularise a concept
http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2006/11/11#opathAToolToPopulariseAConcept
"You want to include an OPML node inside your outline. The problem is that you want to get just one node from an outline and include it. Here's where Opath comes in."
Scripting News: 11/11/2006 - Anchors in OPML
http://www.scripting.com/2006/11/11.html#anchorsInOpml
"I suggest using the created attribute, which provides a unique ID down to the second. Of course this would fail if you create more than one node in a second, but I find that's a limit I can live with."
How to Give a Cat an Injection - WikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Give-a-Cat-an-Injection
"Ever had to give a cat an injection at home, for feline diabetes, maybe? Here's how to do it painlessly... both for you and the cat!"
Is a burrito a sandwich? Judge says no - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061110/ap_on_fe_st/burrito_or_sandwich_2
"I know of no chef or culinary historian who would call a burrito a sandwich. Indeed, the notion would be absurd to any credible chef or culinary historian."
The most confusing ad on television. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2153173/fr/rss
"I admit that, even as I write, a select group of you is no doubt waking (or is it wanking?) to the charms of Erin Esurance."
Unspace - Endless Pageless: No More Next Page
http://unspace.ca/discover/pageless
"Using Ajax we can dynamically fetch more results and append them to the bottom of the page, as the user approaches the end of the content they have already read."
Zend Technologies - PHP 5 In Depth - XML in PHP 5 - What's New?
http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading18
"One of the latest features added to the XSLT extension is the ability to call any PHP function from within an XSLT stylesheet. While XML/XSLT purists will certainly dislike this.., it can be very useful in some special cases."
Brass Goggles on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikest/293949366/in/photostream
"Black rubber, brass, distressed leather, dichroic glass, and ten screws. Finally finished 'em."
err.the_blog.find_by_title('Me and uFormats')
http://errtheblog.com/post/37
"Remember when everyone realized that HTTP was really good at what it did and since we already knew it, we should just use it and stop going crazy with proprietary / complex / lesser known protocols?"
Don’t Forget to Plant It! - Tails Scripts
http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03/tails-scripts
"A Tails Scripts is a piece of JavaScript that allows you to perform certain actions on the microformats found on a web page."
Don’t Forget to Plant It! - Tails Firefox Extension 0.3
http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03
"The Tails Firefox Extension allows you to view microformats embedded on a web page, and perform customizable actions on the microformats via Tails Scripts."
Solved: the perfect way to cut a cake - 06 November 2006 - New Scientist Tech
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?feedId=online-news_rss20&id=dn10452
"involve asking guests to tell the cake-cutter how they value different parts of the cake. For example, one guest may prefer chocolate, another may prefer marzipan."
Simon Willison: Tamarin
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2006/11/09/tamarin
"With a high performance open-source VM like Tamarin available, maybe more developers will start to re-examine JavaScript's role outside the browser."
Voter smashes touch-screen machine in Allentown : The Morning Call Online
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-smashedmachine1107-cn,0,1574203.story?coll=all-news-hed
"A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said
Urban Dictionary: wolfbagging
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wolfbagging
"The art of making your lover puke while indulging in a spot of anal sex."
Game|Life - Eliza Begins Her Unholy Expectorations
http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/eliza_begins_he.html
"you’re a filthy, shitweaseling cheater and don’t care who knows it. Everything. Send it all. I can see into your brains."
Cat and Girl - Deus ex Machina Hoodie
http://catandgirl.com/store/deus.php
"From Cat versus Problem Solving - if you squint you could mistake it for political commentary."
tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog ‽ Resume as a wiki
http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/10/03/resume_as_a_wiki.php
"Yes, the irony of a guy who once worked for the premiere wiki software company just now realizing the benefits of using a wiki in this case is, well… let’s not go any further. I get it, OK?"
NOMASK.COM
http://www.nomask.com
Looks like an interesting CPAP interface. "No annoying cpap mask straps or cpap headgear for sleep apnea cpap patients. End the nightly torture of CPAP with our exclusive 'no mask' headgear."
Hybrid Images @ MIT
http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybridimage.htm
"Hybrid images change interpretation as a function of viewing distance."
When confronted with evidence, a Republican congressman grabs it and refuses to give it back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwh-OCFCOTc
I guess he never heard of a photocopier.
EJ - The only JavaScript library you’ll ever need - Robert’s talk
http://www.robertnyman.com/2006/11/07/ej-the-only-javascript-library-youll-ever-need
"EJ consists of functions that I use all the time and they make writing JavaScript go faster and the result is being able to do work more efficiently."
values of n - the peeps behind values of n
http://www.valuesofn.com/peeps.html
"Our team is fortified by a brilliant, dedicated group of contractors, go-to experts, and barn-raisers."
... for Some Value of "Magic": Stackless Python Continues to Amaze
http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2006/11/stackless-python-continues-to-amaze.html
"Let me repeat that, just in case you missed it: resuming pickled tasklets across architectures is easy."
TEH INTERNETS - a photoset on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goopymart/sets/72157594362502502
"you can use these for your blogs or what have you! ( with credit of course...heh)"
Facebook | Share Partners
http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php
Aging Tabs | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3542
"Makes unused tabs fade with age and highlights the selected tab."
Sexual Tension Unbearable Between 15-Year-Old, Rest Of World | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54876
"Palm Bay High School freshman Keith Ness said the overwhelming sexual tension he experiences daily between himself and roughly 3.65 billion other people on earth has become "almost more than [he] can handle.""
A few things I hate—and one thing I love—about the Playstation 3. - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2152794/fr/rss
"For Sony, there's only one downside: Lair made me even more excited to get my hands on a Nintendo Wii."
YouTube - They're Made Out Of Meat
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE
"Awesome short film. Philosophy of Mind FTW!"
They're Made Out of Meat
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
Kids covering Rush | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56041
"The true spirit of radio. It is hard to do Geddy Lee justice, but nothing is going to stop kids from trying. Some results better than others."
Thinkature (whiteboard with serious 2D graphics)
http://thinkature.com