Lacrimae Rerum » On abortion~
http://skatje.com/?p=101
"As for my opinion, while an embryo is alive, it’s not a separate life. It’s the mother’s life."
YouTube - DDR: Amazing five year old kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=uysU7cTgk5c
"A five year old youth demonstrates some positively astounding moves on a dancemat."
CAPTAIN POWER AND THE SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE
http://www.captainpower.com
"Captain Jonathan Power and a devoted band of freedom fighters are all that stands between Dread and the final destruction of mankind."
Scary Bible Quotes, NIV
http://home.earthlink.net/~owl233/biblequotes.htm
"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."
bits bytes pixels & sprites » Archives » Otaku Envy: SimCity DS in Japan
http://www.bitsbytespixelssprites.com/blog/2006/12/30/simcity-ds-in-japan
"For any of you out there waiting to get your SimCity jones on with your DS, it looks like you’ll either have to get importing or keep waiting."
..: JOURNAL CHRETIEN [Ex-atheist and Ex-evolutionist Design Board Game] :..
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?article5086=
"“Intelligent Design versus Evolution” is a new board game that was designed by actor Kirk Cameron and best-selling author Ray Comfort, to help fight against the what they maintain is the brainwashing of an entire generation."
Pharyngula: Irony Alert! Kirk Cameron explains his new board game
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/irony_alert_kirk_cameron_expla.php
"It's hard to believe, but there is more information on the absurd board game designed by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort."
Welcoming startups into Yahoo's fold / Web portal works to integrate the companies it has acquired
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/24/YAHOO.TMP
"Users get very passionate about the tools they use. If you change them and alter them radically, they get upset. We want to only make steps that make sense for everybody."
Creating a server side del.icio.us badge with PHP - Ed Eliot
http://www.ejeliot.com/view-entry.php#post-comment
"As it's implemented in JavaScript it does have one or two accessibility drawbacks as well as being hard to integrate with my page theming system. This prompted me to investigate the feasibility of writing a server side version."
Quarter gobblers are broken on XBLA [update 2] - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/30/quarter-gobblers-are-broken-on-xbla
"What made the game so fun was the fact that your money was always at stake. A mistake meant that you had to reach into your pocket and insert more money."
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: Top 10 wireless Internet cafes in Ann Arbor for 2006
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2006/12/top_10_wireless.html
"Here's a list of the top 10 places in Ann Arbor to go with a laptop and get some work done."
Ryan Tomayko - Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!)
http://tomayko.com/weblog/2006/12/30/digg-scares-me
"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprietor of this system is frankly terrified by you people."
YouTube - Banana suit fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUGdBJLBlAg
"this guy puts rubbing alcohol and lights himself on fire"
Putfile - Halo 70
http://media.putfile.com/Halo--70
Back and to the left - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_and_to_the_left
""Back and to the left" is a phrase originating from the 1991 Oliver Stone movie JFK about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States."
eBay: Über 90 Telespielkonsolen (Coleco,Magnavox,Nintendo...) (Artikel 270071947985 endet 08.01.07 19:15:00 MEZ)
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem=&item=270071947985&ru=http://search.ebay.de:80/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=270071947985&fvi=1
GIMME. (please) "You have here the possibility to get over 90 classical tv-consoles with accessories in one auction."
Vienna
http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php
"Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system."
KGS Go Server
http://www.gokgs.com
"On the KGS Go Server you can play go (known as wei-chi in Chinese and baduk in Korean) against people from all over the world."
Red Sweater Blog - Macintendo Family Values
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/244/macintendo-family-values
"We are prepared to accept criticism for the relative lack of features our products possess, because we know that focusing on the functionality will ultimately astound our customers, generating insurmountable brand loyalty."
Cult of Mac - Learn New Humility: Play "Go" On Your Mac
http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2006/12/learn_new_humil.html
"It's sort of like playing a really evil version of Othello that requires the use of more strategies and gambits than chess."
The Frosty Mug Revolution: A Semantic Solution for Presenting NSFW Content
http://pj.doland.org/archives/041577.php
"there are several problematic issues that might make us question our decision to use the REL attribute as a means of indicating that content is “not suitable for work”"
Information philanthropy at FactoryCity
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/information-philanthropy
"It occurs to me that perhaps in the information economy, quality information, links and good ideas really are useful and valuable surrogates in place of donating money"
Why PUT and DELETE?
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/why_put_and_delete.html
"In this interview, Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses the true meaning of PUT and DELETE."
Code Craft » Blog Archive » Freedom languages
http://codecraft.info/index.php/archives/20
"Freedom languages are those languages that put the individual programmer at the center of their philosophical world."
Edwards Turns to Non-Tradtional Campaign Model - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801000.html?nav=rss_email/components
"By throwing out the old rules, he hopes his second bid for the White House will be more successful than the first."
SoldierTech: The DREAD Weapon System
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_DREAD,,00.html
"No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash -- just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power."
Wired News: Computer Warming a Privacy Risk
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72375-0.html?tw=rss.index
"A security researcher has a devised a novel attack on online anonymity systems in which he literally takes a computer's temperature over the internet."
I like to watch. | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57336
"the Ultimate Motherlode of Music Video (11,500 of them, or your money back!), alphabetized for your viewing pleasure."
The Frosty Mug Revolution: Genius Grant Please, or The NSFW HTML Attribute
http://pj.doland.org/archives/041571.php
'I am now proposing a new attribute: rel=”nsfw”'
Arizona Coffee » Caffeine Curve
http://www.arizona-coffee.com/2006/caffeine-curve
I tend to bounce somewhere between the 4 and 5 cup area of the chart
Query parsing in JavaScript :: semicomplete.com - open source adventures
http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/search-query-parsing-in-javascript.html?source=rss20
"The parse_query function will return a dictionary of query terms. Values are lists."
a valid, semantic, and imageless tree from britta to you
http://jeweledplatypus.org/xmas.html
"happy post-xmas tree"
Why piracy is still more common than legal video downloads
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061227-8500.html
"P2P clearly gives you more bang for your buck"
The History of Computer Role-Playing Games Part I: The Early Years (1980-1983) | Armchair Arcade
http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1081
"Welcome, brave adventurer, to the first of my in-depth feature articles exploring the history of our favorite computer game genre: The Computer Role-Playing Game, or the CRPG."
Enter the Jabberwock - Campfire of the Vanities
http://www.enterthejabberwock.com/?p=133
"In this, the first of the Chick Dissections, Jack illustrates his ignorance of RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons much better than he does his comics."
Synchronicity Squad: Minneapolis Teapot Exploration: Introduction
http://www.actionsquad.org/crawlspace1.html
"Teapots happen."
Boing Boing: Tree-griefer mauls holiday display, stagedives Xmas (video)
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/26/treegriefer_mauls_ho.html
"BoingBoing does not condone tree-griefing, or the destruction of other people's holiday property."
Keith Devens - Weblog: On Semantics - December 26, 2006
http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2006/Dec/26/semantics
"Please. As if bar has any more "semantic meaning" [1] than "foo": "bar". Symbols have meaning when some agent imparts meaning to them."
Oh dear lord! Bees! - The Awful Forums
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176
"I was chillin at my sister's house when we looked out back and noticed a swarm of honeybees congregating on their swingset."
NewsForge | Asterisk on OpenWrt
http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/1727256
"I installed Asterisk on OpenWrt White Russian RC4 on a Linksys WRT54GS wireless router."
The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/11/atheists_the_ne.html
"I think that in an election cycle or two you will see an atheist business leader emerge as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name will be Bill Gates."
The Daily WTF - The Call of Codethulhu
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/108136.aspx
"Eventually, one's mind will become permanently intertwined with the very code base of Codethulhu, joining countless others, and will be forever tormented by its endless diabolic cycle of decompilation/recompilation."
NightBeforeWintervale.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://media.worldofwarcraft.com/xmas06/NightBeforeWintervale.mp3
Pharyngula: Objectively anti-Christmas - It's Celine Dion doing AC/DC
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/objectively_antichristmas.php
"And here I've been using Cthulhu as a signifier for incomprehensibly monstrous alien horrors. There's a new standard."
lawnchairman.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://www.3e.org/best-of/lawnchairman.mp3
Lawn chair + weather balloons + moron = darwin award nominee
As You Were: Jem and the Holograms/Le Tigre Mashup
http://www.hwaethwugu.com/blog/archives/2006/12/22/jem_and_the_hologramsle_tigre_mashup
"Jem and the Holograms/Le Tigre Mashup"
Open Source Personal Proxy Servers Written In Java .: Manageability :.
http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-personal-proxy-servers-written-in-java/view
"Here's a short list of personal proxy servers written in open source java:"
YouTube - Baby Got Book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=BqmNbBz7RiA
Is there a word in German for that squicked out feeling I get when I see an awkward Christian repurposing of something from pop culture?
Ryan Tomayko - Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord
http://naeblis.cx/weblog/2006/12/23/parallels-makes-ie-suck-less
"The bad news is that after about ten minutes of running with both VMs open, I started to smell burning electronics."
Tagometer - The RSS Blog
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss?guid=20061222171749
"Wow, this is the coolest thing to hit the blogosophere since blogs. With one line of javascript code or a feedburner burner, you can now put this really cool widget (image below) on your blog entries."
Amazon.com: USB Trackball Numeric Keypad/Desktop Calculator, 12-Digit Display (CNM0009B001): Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Trackball-Numeric-Calculator-12-Digit-CNM0009B001/dp/B000KIECDS/sr=1-153/qid=1166852731/ref=sr_1_153/103-4714946-7791025?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
Is it just me, or is this one of the most random desk gadgets? A calculator, which doubles as a numeric keypad with a built-in USB trackball, and flash storage.
Tagometer Thingy
http://www.douglasthrift.net/blog/archives/2006/12/tagometer_thing.html
"Woo! Now I can see that nobody saves my blog entries in del.icio.us; I'm special!"
A Consuming Experience: Delicious Tagometer howto: manual mode customisation, code
http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2006/12/delicious-tagometer-howto-manual-mode.html
"This is an introduction and tutorial, with code and customisation howto, for the new "Tagometer"button or badge launched yesterday by social bookmarking service Del.icio.us."
The Fishbowl: 'Just' is a Four-Letter Word
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/10/07/just_is_a_fourletter_word
"‘Just’ is quite rightly included amongst the C2 wiki list of Alarm Bell Phrases."
URI and IRI Templates, Oy | 2006-12-22 | BitWorking
http://bitworking.org/news/URI_and_IRI_Templates__Oy
"When I first started looking at URI templates I was surprised no one had written a specifiction for them yet. It seemed so simple, "just" add {name} to the URI and then substitute with a value at a later time."
How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/openid
"Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password?"
URI Templates
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-00.txt
"URI Templates are strings that can be transformed into URIs after embedded variables are substituted. This document defines the structure and syntax of URI Templates."
SEWDORKY - Menu of Donuts
http://www.sewdorky.com/menu.htm
"all our donuts are handstitched for ultimate freshness"
CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6 - Welcome to the MSDN Library
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp
"This document describes the enhanced support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later."
Internet Explorer and the CSS box model | 456 Berea Street
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/internet_explorer_and_the_css_box_model
"One of the differences between Internet Explorer and standards compliant Web browsers that cause a lot of trouble for CSS beginners is the CSS box model."
Running from Camera
http://runningfromcamera.blogspot.com
"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can."
Ivan Uzunov Blog - Blog Archive - del.icio.us Tagometer Badge WP Plugin
http://www.ivanuzunov.net/delicious-tagometer-badge-wp-plugin
"This Word Press Plugin adds del.icio.us Tagometer Badge into your blog. The badge can be added in the side bar or after each post or page. "
Catalog Search Cloud | Ann Arbor District Library
http://www.aadl.org/searchcloud
"This cloud represents the popularity of searches against the AADL catalog."
Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day - Blog Archive - Adding Del.icio.us to Wordpress Blogs
http://ycoolthing.com/archives/232/adding-delicious-to-wordpress-blogs
"Set manual mode so that we can have multiple badges"
Delicious Sings The Badges Song
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061221DeliciousSingsTheBadgesSong.html
"the minds behind the Delicious bookmarking service go for the even more obscure Internet culture with their badges badges badges badges BOOKMARKS BOOKMARKS homage. "
Samba developer resigns from Novell
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061221-8481.html
"The Microsoft patent agreement has put [Novell developers] outside the community and there is no positive aspect to that fact, and no way to make it so"
Atari Founder Adapts Chuck 'E' Cheese For Hotties
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2076200,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
"LOS ANGELES, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Lovelorn video gamers who are better with consoles than conversation, have a new venue—a restaurant where each table has touchscreens for ordering food and for playing a variety of social games."
Google retreats back to Web 1.0 | Software as services | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS?p=258
"Put bluntly, it confirms Google's abject failure to monetize its API except by the indirect mechanism of contextual advertising."
Anil Dash: How to kill a personality
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/12/22/how_to_kill_a_p
"what I see right now is the depressing reality that everybody can be completely reasonable, and the end result is that nobody is allowed to show the most engaging, interesting and unique parts of their personality."
YouTube - WOW Snowball Rac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?mode=related&search=&v=ds2F2XJUGKA
Combination race / snowball fight in WoW. Awesomesauce.
Tiny Animals On Fingers - a photoset on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/specklet/sets/72157594204828139
This is a security exploit of the brain's cuteness center.
xkcd - The tribulations of Bill Nye
http://xkcd.com/c200.html
Bill Nye, the disgruntled hungry science guy
Would You Drink a Nog-a-sake? | yumsugar
http://yumsugar.com/87946
"if you want to try it at home (and if you do let me know about it), it's one part eggnog, three parts sake. Drink up!"
Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec
http://www.willitblend.com
"Extreme blending depends on the capabilities of the machine being used. Tasks that may be extreme for some machines are, quite frankly, simple tasks for Blendtec blenders. "
SNL - D*** in a box (Uncensored) - Google Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7237386708820492666
"Hilarious video from SNL featuring Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake..."
ongoing - JSON and XML
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/12/21/JSON
"Use XML - If you want to provide general-purpose data that the receiver might want to do unforeseen weird and crazy things with, ... or if the data is potentially long-lived (as in, more than seconds) XML is the way to go."
The B-List: I can't believe it's not XML!
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/12/21/i-cant-believe-its-not-xml
"The answer is that JSON works because most people don’t really need all that overhead, and because it’s often possible to do really complex things with really simple formats."
sebspeakerwg2im2.jpg (JPEG Image, 996x1852 pixels)
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/2716/sebspeakerwg2im2.jpg
While not as bad as the MORE DOTS MORE DOTS guy, it's pretty damn funny.
web2_0.gif (GIF Image, 124x160 pixels)
http://www.helpfarm.com/images/rightclickers/web2_0.gif
web 2.0 makes me want to punch babies
Ajax Blog » Del.icio.us Widget Released
http://www.ajax-blog.com/delicious-widget-released.html
del.icio.us: tagometer: badges badges badges badges BOOKMARKS BOOKMARKS
http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/12/the_new_and_tag.html
"I'm happy to ... introduce a new version of the usual social bookmarking button that we're dubbing the 'Tagometer"
Preview of the del.icio.us publisher api (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/12/preview_of_the.html
"The del.icio.us team gave me a preview of a new service for publishers that is really interesting."
Giles Bowkett: What If There Are No Gods?
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-if-there-are-no-gods.html
"Say further that the only difference between a company running Seaside, a company running Rails, and a company running PHP is that the Seaside company has huge balls, the Rails company has some balls, and the PHP company has no balls at all."
Amazon.com: Playing with Fire: Music: Kevin Federline
http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Fire-Kevin-Federline/dp/tags-on-product/B000IU3YLY/ref=tag_dp_ct_sa/002-3394238-1285634
Check the 'user-generated' tags: "talentless (28) garbage (18) idiot (17) laughable (16) music to make you long for the sweet release of death (15) hack (13) crap (12) loser (10) terrible (8) clown (7) aka vogon poetry (6)"
Overweight man sues Air France over seat row - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/od_nm/france_obese_flight_dc
There's tolerance and sensitivity, and then there's me squashed into the middle seat. "Let's be objective. This man is fat ... He barely fits on the courtroom chair. How could he sit in an airplane?"
Weak security in our daily lives@Everything2.com
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1520430
"Right now, I am going to give you a sequence of minimal length that, when you enter it into a car's numeric keypad, is guaranteed to unlock the doors of said car. It is exactly 3129 keypresses long, which should take you around 20 minutes to go through."
WP: U.S. not winning war in Iraq, Bush says - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16275638
"President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against
Reality check: 95 percent of Americans had premarital sex - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/19/premarital.sex.ap
"More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past."
Shelley The Republican : The Freedom Blog ? Linux: A European threat to our computers
http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/20/linux-a-european-threat-to-our-computers-by-tristan.aspx
This has got to be a parody site. "Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney."
How Many Condoms at Once?
http://www.myscienceproject.org/condoms.html
I think the most disturbing thing is the part with the hacksaw and the dildo.
Snowfall - A screensaver for Mac OS X
http://www.alittlebitofnothingleft.net/snowfall
DerekAllard.com : Conditionally Sticky Sidebar
http://www.derekallard.com/blog/post/conditionally-sticky-sidebar
"the dark-grey sidebar scrolls with you just until the banner and menu are off the page, and then locks itself into position or "sticks". When you scroll back to the top, if the menu and/or banner need to be seen again, the sidebar politely resumes its no
Quoderat ? Beginning of the end for open web data APIs?
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/12/18/beginning-of-the-end-for-open-web-data-apis
"Another victory for REST over WS-*? Nope — Google doesn’t have a REST API to replace it."
Moving Through Matter with Buckaroo Banzai
http://www.geekazon.com/banzai/index.html
"The most important contribution of "Buckaroo Banzai" is to demonstrate that there is a very important role for imaginative science to play in imaginative science fiction."
Laughing Squid ? Adventure
http://laughingsquid.com/adventure
"I literally spent days playing this one, which is pretty amazing to think of, considering how basic it seems now."
Caveat Lector ? The Moment
http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2006/12/19/the-moment
::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon ? If you see a parade, get in front of it…
http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/12/18/if-you-see-a-parade-get-in-front-of-it
"So, there you go…if you see a parade, get in front of it. That is what being part of the community you serve is all about."
Star-Telegram | 12/18/2006 | Desperation in the White House
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/16255290.htm
"Cheney understood all of it, and he bears much of the responsibility for what's gone on in Washington and in Iraq for the last six years. Keep a sharp eye on him. Desperate men do desperate things."
O'Reilly Radar Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/google_depreciates_SOAP_API.html
This is the real unfortunate bit in the Google Search SOAP API going away: "The AJAX Search API is not a replacement for the SOAP API."
Google SOAP Search API
http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch
"As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead."
Steve: Developing on the Edge - The end of SOAP
http://www.1060.org/blogxter/entry?publicid=4B4C0B46DC743154ECB68300531D6A04&token=
"Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out"
Laughing Squid - Atari 2600: Pitfall, Berzerk & Venture
http://laughingsquid.com/atari-2600-pitfall-berzerk-venture
"I recently came across these awesome 1982 video demos of Pitfall, Berzerk and Venture, three classic Atari 2600 games that I spent an absurd amount of time playing in the early 80’s."
ETags: This stuff matters | 2006-12-19 | BitWorking
http://bitworking.org/news/ETags__This_stuff_matters
"This turns a regular GET into a "conditional" GET (wonder twin powers activate)."
A List Apart: Articles: Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/switchymclayout
"CSS-based liquid layout has proven successful during the reign of 800-pixel to 1024-pixel screens, but as we use a wider range of devices to access the web, we need more powerful and flexible ways of managing layout."
Professor Richard Dawkins Speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten Regarding Santa Claus, December 2, 2006. Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Short Imagined Monologues
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/18richarddawkins.html
"Together we should be working toward a point in the not-so-distant future where the words "Santa Claus" or "Kris Kringle" or "Father Christmas" create the same response as fingernails on a chalkboard."
Nelson's Weblog: tech / googleSearchAPI
http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/googleSearchAPI.html
"I just learned that two weeks ago Google officially put the SOAP search API on end of life status."
YouTube - Transport Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aRhRNeSpUg
"Watch this robot with human looking legs walk over anything!"
You cannot rely on JavaScript being available. Period. | 456 Berea Street
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/you_cannot_rely_on_javascript_being_available_period
"Have you forgotten about, never heard of, or never cared about the terms progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, and Hijax?"
Freemont Troll
http://www.melomel.com/pics_seavan/photos/photo_41.html
"The troll under the Freemont bridge - he eats VW Beetles."
WoW Forums - Roll Hacks - 3/21/05
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=8BA10C834CD3613AD79EA5DE2935F656?sid=1&topicId=10271177
"In summary, there are no known roll hacks. We will continue to monitor and investigate these issues."
An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/weekinreview/17kennedy.html?ei=5124&en=613c09c2527c7c39&ex=157680000&exprod=permalink&partner=permalink
"So, understanding full well that the phrase retains zero religious significance, I unhesitatingly wish everyone a Merry Christmas."
Grand Canyon's Glass Walkway to Open Next March
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061215-skywalk.html
"This is what's going to feed our tribe."
Businesspundit: How To Network: For Introverts
http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/how_to_network_for_introverts.php
"If I spend an evening at a social function with people I don't know or don't like, I get home and feel like I've spent all day at the ocean. It's that fighting-the-waves and drained-by-the-sun kind of tired."
Warren Ellis - LISTENER
http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/76550.html
"I just sold my second novel to HarperCollins in New York. It’s called LISTENER. And those of you who were reading my first LJ, back in 2003ish, saw LISTENER in its first iteration as an experimental handful of early chapters."
Genshi Guide - Genshi - Trac
http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/index.html
"Genshi is a Python library that provides an integrated set of components for parsing, generating, and processing HTML, XML or other textual content for output generation on the web."
Daily Kos: You
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/17/144245/36
You might not be the Time person of the year. "Oops."
phpMyID
http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID
"phpMyID is a single user IdP, or "Identity Provider" for the OpenID framework."
subwiki.tigris.org
http://subwiki.tigris.org
"SubWiki, a Wiki that uses Subversion for its data repository."
The Sneeze - O Holy Crap
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000570.php
"The holidays are built on tradition, which means it's time for us to gather around the yule log and listen to that insane rendition of O Holy Night."
Violent Acres ? Archives ? Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture
http://www.violentacres.com/archives/59/two-phrases-that-destroyed-american-culture
"‘The Customer is Always Right’ ... until we banish that phrase from American culture forever, I suggest we quit looking the other way when people behave like scumbags."
Features : Radar Online : Worst Toys - Pray for Coal
http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/toys.php
Coffee nerds! | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57014
"Is it possible to make truly excellent coffee or even espresso at home?"
365 tomorrows ? Space Walk
http://www.365tomorrows.com/12/15/space-walk
"I wonder if survival is different for some people, like we evolved from different apes. Some people panic, scream and run while some people just turn off and sublimate."