WoWAceUpdater
http://www.lsmason.com/software/wowaceupdater
"Makes it easy to keep your Ace add-ons for World of Warcraft up-to-date on Mac OS X."
Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology - Publishing 2.0
http://publishing2.com/2007/12/28/music-recording-industry-will-be-first-traditional-media-industry-to-be-utterly-destroyed-by-digital-technology
"The maxim goes that new technologies don’t kill off old media — radio didn’t kill newspapers, TV didn’t kill radio, etc. But it’s not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"
Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/hierarchical-data-database
"There are two major approaches: the adjacency list model, and the modified preorder tree traversal algorithm. In this article, we'll explore these two methods of saving hierarchical data."
Petopia: Taming Owls for the Horde
http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/tameguide_owl4horde.shtml
"Until you get to level 48, the only Owls available are the ones in the elven starting area. Getting one of those with a Horde character is doable, but will take several hours and a LOT of deaths."
101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19mini.html?ei=5087&em=&en=91ad04fc1d412eba&ex=1198904400
"Here is a collection of party foods that are as easy to eat as they are to make. Each can be produced in 20 minutes or less. Many can be served at room temperature. And none require a plate."
Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args
"So I started thinking about how to make the world's most elaborate album cover," he says, "using the media of today."
DIY obsolete iBook logic board repair :: projects :: geek technique
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/726/diy-obsolete-ibook-logic-board-repair
"You can clearly see the lit Apple-logo while I’m burning tealights on top of the videochip…"
PECL :: Package :: python
http://pecl.php.net/package/python
"This extension allows the Python interpreter to be embedded inside of PHP, allowing for the instantiate and manipulation of Python objects from within PHP."
TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/202
"Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids -- and spells out 5 (and really, he's got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do"
OLPC and the Kindle
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/olpc_and_the_ki.html
"I explored the little OLPC and was quite impressed. I was impressed because it is a fully functional computer, with a screen size a tad larger than the Kindle from Amazon."
Metroblogging San Francisco: BREAKING: Tiger dead, 1 person dead, 2 injured at SF Zoo
http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/2007/12/breaking_tiger_dead_2_people_i.phtml
"A Siberian tiger was shot dead tonight at the San Francisco Zoo after attacking at least three people."
90% Crud: Best Xmas Present
http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/powers_that_be/best_xmas_present.php
"She said yes! We're getting married! I love you Jenny!"
RobertSabuda.com: Everything Pop-Up!
http://robertsabuda.com/everythingpopup/sw_sneak_peek.asp
"He crammed all the best characters into this massive book, and we’ll take a sneak peek at the evolution of one of the most legendary figures in the Star Wars universe"
Star Wars: Expanded Universe | Inside Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy
http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/ref/news20071015.html
"For the Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy, Reinhart took extra care to get the details just right, from obscure characters lurking inside the cantina to the subtle motion of Princess Leia revealing her face from the hood on her white robe dress."
Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter - The online prompter.
http://www.cueprompter.com
"CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed" The Web 2.0 office suite is now complete
DAVID LYNCH SIGNATURE CUP ORGANIC HOUSE ROAST
http://ecomm.davidlynch.com/catalog/coffee_house.php
US$16.27 per 12oz
DAVID LYNCH SIGNATURE CUP
http://davidlynch.com/coffee/main2.html
Coffee. From David Lynch. I wonder if it's best brewed with a percolator, sans fish?
hackety org » This Hack Was Not Properly Planned
http://hackety.org/2007/12/24/thisHackWasNotProperlyPlanned.html
"The Serious Skeleton Has Emerged From His Crypt Of Contemplation And He Has No Funny Bones For You!"
YouTube - World of Warcraft - K'nex + Boring Battleground = K'NEX BOT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylf4lScRk8k
"Sick and tired of playing AV? Want honor while not sitting in front of your computer screen? Grab some K'nex and make yourself an "Honor Bot" today"
Flickr Ransomizr - kentbrewster.com
http://kentbrewster.com/ransomizr
"The result looks just like an old-school ransom note, and may be copied and pasted from here into the page of your choice."
Baconwrapt Scarves
http://www.baconwrapt.com
Craig Barrett - A Talent Contest We're Losing - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122101919.html
"With Congress gridlocked on immigration, it's clear that the next Silicon Valley will not be in the United States."
ksuther.com | Warp
http://www.ksuther.com/warp
"Warp is a preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard."
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber
http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/12/youre-not-avera.html
"In a country where the median HOUSEHOLD income is $48k, the average SF engineer in his late 20s making $130k might want to read a little more about how the rest of the country is split up."
Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/technology/20cluster.html?_r=2&ei=5090&emc=rss&en=7e500d97dbe40606&ex=1355893200&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&partner=rssuserland
"But in general, the nerds with minimal social lives like me are well down in the Valley, and the cool kids with the trendy glasses and Prada shoes who like to go to parties are in San Francisco"
Dolphins speak a contextual language - life - 21 December 2007 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19626354.300-dolphins-speak-a-contextual-language.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
"This communication is highly complex, and it is contextual, so in a sense, it could be termed a language"
bacon-_flowchart.jpg 791×1024 pixels
http://www.beerorkid.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bacon-_flowchart.jpg
Mmm... bacon
ChiliPad keeps your mattress hot, cold - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/21/chilipad-keeps-your-mattress-hot-cold
"If Chili is to be believed, this thing can be set to cool things down to 65°F or warm 'em up to 100°F, and yes, it does come in single- and dual-zone versions."
Jupiter Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Brain
"A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."
Creepypasta - Encyclopedia Dramatica
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Creepypasta
"Creepypasta are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on /b/."
Warren Ellis » God Hates The World
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5361
"The Westboro Baptist Church (that “God Hates Fags” crew from the heart of Jesusland USA) presents their cover “We Are the World,” rewritten and retitled as “God Hates the World.”"
Boffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin
"In the slang of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, boffins are scientists, engineers, and other people who are stereotypically seen as engaged in technical or scientific research"
VespeneGas DOT Com
http://vespenegas.com/rott.html
"This is a port of Rise of the Triad for the Nintendo DS"
TOM WALSH: 3 tech firms to add 532 jobs in state
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071218/COL06/712180393/1002
"ProQuest, a digital repository and provider of scholarly documents from all over the world, now employs 478 people in Michigan. It expects to create 303 jobs during the next five years"
Amazon.co.uk: Matthew R. Balousek's review of Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, medium point, b...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3JWMA4M0C67TF/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
"I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil's own pen"
REVIEW: WINDOWS XP
http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx
"Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop."
WireIt - a Javascript Wiring Library
http://javascript.neyric.com/wireit/index.html
"WireIt is an open-source javascript library, that allows you to create cool wires like Yahoo Pipes."
smitten kitchen
http://www.smittenkitchen.com
A home cooking weblog from a tiny kitchen in New York City, with a focus on simplifying daunting recipes and being fearless in the kitchen.
Project Aon: Main / Home (browse)
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
The Lone Wolf solo-RPG choose your own adventure style books available for free on the web as HTML.
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/12/blog_advice
"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best."
DICEWARS DS
http://dicewars.drunkencoders.com
"ONLINE STRATEGY GAME ON NINTENDO DS IN RISK-LIKE FASHION"
xml2json-xslt - Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt
"xml2json.xslt is a XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to transform arbitrary XML to JSON."
John Resig - I Learned Some Things About jQuery Today
http://ejohn.org/blog/i-learned-some-things-about-jquery-today
"Maybe you should take some time to sit down and actually try to use and work with other libraries, because while you were out bashing and slandering us we were writing rock solid code, sharing, collaborating, and discussing the future of the web."
MooTools An open apology to the authors of jQuery, Prototype and others
http://blog.mootools.net/2007/12/13/an-open-apology-to-the-authors-of-jquery-prototype-and-others
"Olmo is no longer a part of the Mootools development team."
shorl.com - What is Koremutake?
http://shorl.com/koremutake
"a way to express any large number as a sequence of syllables. The general idea is that word-sounding pieces of information are a lot easier to remember than a sequence of digits."
Who Wants a Kindle? | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/article_15751_who-wants-kindle.html
"who the hell reads that much? This ad introduces you to the Kindle's target audience."
Amazon S3: Browser-Based Uploads using POST
http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/proposals/post.html
"To allow developers the ability to upload content via web browsers, Amazon S3 will be releasing POST support by the end of 2007."
about the boot.ini issue - EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog
http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=526
"From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when things don't go according to plan."
mnot’s Web log: Two HTTP Caching Extensions
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2007/12/12/stale
stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error
Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd
"beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service."
: RADIOHEAD STORE : LIMITED EDITION 7 ALBUM USB STICK
http://www.radioheadstore.com/stick.asp?Lng=EN
"Strictly limited edition 4Gb USB stick, shaped in Radiohead’s iconic "bear" image and housed in a bespoke deluxe box."
Joho the Blog: My addiction
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/my_addiction.html
"I myself have been showing disturbing signs of being compulsively human."
24 ways: Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery
http://24ways.org/2007/unobtrusively-mapping-microformats-with-jquery
"Fitting with the principles of unobtrusive JavaScript, we’ll start with a semantically marked up list of restaurants, then use JavaScript to add the map, look up the restaurant locations and plot them as markers."
Mark Bernstein: Flight Paths Grounded
http://markbernstein.org/Dec0701/FlightPathsGrounded.html
"I have no idea exactly what "hotlinking" is. ... I think I may safely claim some expertise in this area — more expertise in the literature, I think, than any US or British judge currently possesses. So the passage is probably nonsense."
InfoQ: A Brief Introduction to REST
http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
"In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate"
Wordpress
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4721
Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad - Advertising Age - News
http://adage.com/article?article_id=122491
"How soon will it be until in addition to the do-not-call list, we'll have a 'do not beam commercial messages into my head' list?"
The Joy of Tech #1043
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1043.html
"Behold... Guitar Hero, Interstate Edition!"
Qlink Reloaded
http://www.quantumlink.tk
Someone reverse-engineered the old Quantum Link (pre-AOL) service and got both classic C64 hardware and modern emulators working with it.
GPS and mapping software help needed | Ask MetaFilter
http://ask.metafilter.com/77535/GPS-and-mapping-software-help-needed
"The feature you are looking for will probably be called "the travelling salesman""
How to Fold an Origami Star (Shuriken) - wikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-an-Origami-Star-(Shuriken)
"You don't have to go to a weapons store to have your very own "ninja star" (also called a shuken or shuriken)"
Twitter / Warren Ellis: @vebelfetzer promise me I w...
http://twitter.com/warrenellis/statuses/479591772
"@vebelfetzer promise me I will never meet Ouchie The Clown"
Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25th Anniversary Celebration - Computer History Museum - Events
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1193702785
"Join us for a well-deserved celebration of this historic demonstration that spawned a tremendous market for home, small business, distributed and networked technology uses."
Commodore 64 still loved after all these years - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html
"For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever."
passage 2
http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/statement.html
"Your interpretation of the game is more important than my intentions. Please play the game before you read this."
issue with the upgrade from classic to premium for xp and older windows os users | EVE Online | EVE Insider
http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=1689&tid=1
"An issue has been discovered whereby Windows XP and older Windows OS users who have upgraded their EVE clients from Classic Graphics Content to Premium Graphics Content have their boot.ini file deleted."
IPR : Irrational Public Radio - Podcast Episode Guide
http://irrationalpublicradio.com/episodeguide.html
"Our free podcast currently consists of 11 episodes, with more in the works."
Back To The Future Flux Capacitor Replica at TFAW.com
http://www.tfaw.com/Profile/Back-To-The-Future-Flux-Capacitor-Replica___311677
"Reproduced with full light effects and adjustable power settings, the Flux Capacitor replica recreates the 1.21 jigowatt-controlling heart of the De Lorean time machine."
ectoplasmosis » Great Inventions of 70’s Science: Wonder Sauna Hot Pants
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2007/12/05/great-inventions-of-70s-science-wonder-sauna-hot-pants
"For when your kielbasa must be served steamed. Reduces waist, tummy, hips and thighs, not to mention sperm count."
Detroit Prosecutor: Videogames Are 'Big Indicator Of Crime' | Game | Life from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/12/prosecutor-kym.html
"A game to me is Candyland, Monopoly, the games we used to play as a child. Scrabble. These are games." Really? Seriously?
ThinkGeek :: Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/8cff
"Each Sonic Screwdriver feels just perfect. It doesn't really do all the cool things in the series (just in case the Cybermen are able to buy them), but it does have lights and sounds straight from the show - and it extends too!"
Programming CouchDB with Javascript - plok
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/108-Programming-CouchDB-with-Javascript.html
"To illustrate how easy and straightforward writing applications for CouchDB is, we are going to build a simple todo-list application in Javascript."
Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net: Library Camp 2008 at Ann Arbor District Library, March 24 2008
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2007/12/library-camp-20.html
"I met with Eli and the team at the AADL about the 2008 Library Camp to be held March 24 in Ann Arbor."
IRSeeK/Bots - Stoppt die Vorratsdatenspeicherung!
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/IRSeeK/Bots
"The following bots have been seen on logged channels (Channel List) and are most likely related to IRSeeK" Okay, that's creepy if they don't openly identify as being from IRSeeK
Brawndo - Case (24)
http://www.drinkbrawndoshop.com/brawndo-case24.aspx
"Get what plants crave... Brawndo. Make your hair bigger. Crush more skulls. Live like a Viking."
Brawndo T-Shirt
http://www.drinkbrawndoshop.com/brawndot-shirt.aspx
"Perfect for weddings, funerals, and skull crushing or metal eating. Naturally you should have a T-Shirt when you drink Brawndo. Everyone will wish they were you."
The "B" Ark: NetHackDS
http://frodo.dyn.gno.org/~brettk/NetHackDS
"The goal of this project is to create a port of NetHack for the DS utilizing the unique features of the DS to create an easy-to-use NetHacking experience." Works on my DS :)
next.yahoo » Blog Archive » Easylistener
http://next.yahoo.net/archives/32/easylistener
"Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds."
How to lose in Alterac Valley - WOW Insider
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/12/02/how-to-lose-in-alterac-valley
"Meanwhile, 20 alliance are teaching Jimmy the limitations of Frost Nova with every pointy or blunt object they can find."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Video game giants in $18bn merger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7123582.stm
"The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry."
Finish the folowing sentence - "I like my women like I like my coffee..."
http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=402
next.yahoo » Blog Archive » Play music on your blog. Easy.
http://next.yahoo.net/archives/42/play-music-on-your-blog-easy
"Easylistener makes it easy to play any page on the web with mp3 links in it"
WWW FAQs: Why do my MP3 files sound bad in Flash Player?
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/chipmunk.html
"lame -b 48 --resample 22.05 mysong.wav mysong.mp3"
Jesus loves 'His Dark Materials' / Shrill Bible-thumpers boycott 'The Golden Compass'; world's children grin devilishly
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/11/30/notes113007.DTL
"Shrill Bible-thumpers boycott 'The Golden Compass'; world's children grin devilishly"