Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/28/facebook-hires-mozilla-exec-mike-schroepfer-as-director-of-engineering
"Schrep, as he is known, headed up the engineering team within Mozilla responsible for Firefox."
Bug 448604 – Can't get out of Whistler
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448604
"Someone should do something about the rocks on the road."
NOVINT - The Novint Falcon
http://home.novint.com/products/novint_falcon.php
"The Novint Falcon lets you control a game in three dimensions, and also lets you feel high-fidelity three-dimensional force feedback. The Falcon controller moves right and left, forwards and backwards, like a mouse, but also moves up and down."
Bus dodges massive rock slide on B.C. coastal highway
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/30/bc-highway-rockslide-whistler.html?ref=rss
"'I can't believe I am alive,' says passenger after bus evades rockfall by seconds"
Rockslide to close Whistler highway for 5 days: minister
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/30/bc-porteau-cove-rockslide-reaction.html
"Reopening the highway between Whistler and Vancouver could take five days after a massive rockslide, B.C. Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon said on Wednesday."
Rock slide closes Vancouver to Whistler route
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/30/bc-highway-rockslide-whistler.html
"A cliff has collapsed onto the Sea to Sky Highway, closing the route between Vancouver and Whistler for at least 24 hours."
Universal USB Power Data Link Cable for PSP Nintendo DS Lite iPod,PSP USB Power Cable,Nintendo DS Lite USB cable
http://www.sourcingmap.com/universal-usb-power-data-link-cable-for-psp-nintendo-lite-ipod-p-16431.html
"USB 2.0 transfer data from your computer to the iPod. Recharge your PSP,NDS,NDS Lite,iPod"
Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax, PHP: New on Wrox First Wikis
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2008/07/new-on-wrox-first-wikis.html
"And on Professional JavaScript Frameworks, we've got 7 chapters out of the 39 planned. so far we're focusing on YUI (2 chapters), Dojo (3 chapters), and MooTools (2 chapters). Soon, we'll start adding jQuery, Prototype, and ExtJS chapters soon too."
Grand jury indicts Alaska senator - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/29/stevens.indictment
"Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens was charged Tuesday with making false statements after a wide-ranging probe into ties between an energy company and lawmakers in his home state, according to a federal indictment."
Bear with me while you sleep at Whistler… | The Rumbling Edge
http://www.rumblingedge.com/2008/07/29/bear-with-me-while-you-sleep-at-whistler
"Just after 5.30am on Tuesday 29 July, outside Westin Resort & Spa while most were sleeping, feeling safe and sound…"
P8TCH | Commando Nerd Patches for iPhone Scanning
http://www.p8tch.com
"Think of it as a TinyURL you can wear. Each two-by-four-inch, velcro-backed twill p8tch has a Mysterious Commando Design on the top, and a QRCode on the bottom"
Founders Breakfast Stout - Founders Brewing Company - Beer Advocate
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/11757
jQuery Sparklines
http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline
"This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript. "
Wireless Ypsi at the Brewers Beer Fest || Wireless Ypsi || We Are Connecting Ypsilanti
http://wireless.ypsi.com/blog?p=45
Wow. I didn't realize there was wifi at the Beer Fest! "But heck, we didn’t mind. Free beer and Free Internet, could it get any better? We don’t think so."
Learning from King and Whedon, and getting out of the ghetto | J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son: OBSIDIAN (Current Shows)
http://jchutchins.net/site/2008/07/26/learning-from-king-and-whedon-and-getting-out-of-the-ghetto
"You’re never just a blogger, or a podcaster, or a YouTube Director. If we mentally adhere to these labels, we willfully paint ourselves into creative corners. If the fumes don’t kill you, the frustration will."
Police: Man Stole Miami-Dade Buses, Drove Them On Routes - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
http://www.news4jax.com/news/16970491/detail.html
Open Web Foundation
http://openwebfoundation.org
"The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications. Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal wi
IDIOT TOYS: Tech news for the bored: Rare early 1980s product display photographs
http://www.idiottoys.com/2008/07/rare-early-1980s-product-display.html
"Today's product holders have it easy. Computers were 10 times heavier in the 1980s, leading to rampant drug abuse from the Eastern Bloc holders and numerous injuries. Just look at the suspiciously wide jaws on this lot. "
MINE
http://mine.myxer.com
"MINE is your one-stop shop for entertainment news, crazy rumors, Internet memes, whimsical news bites, music, gossip … you name it."
ZombieHarmony - One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies
http://www.zombieharmony.com
"ZombieHarmony is for zombies only. We advise signing up for ZombieHarmony only if you lack a pulse, have limited motor skills, or feel an intense desire to feast on human beings. We are not responsible for lost or ingested loved ones. If you go on a date
Le Bistro Montage - Southeast Portland - Portland, OR
http://www.yelp.com/biz/le-bistro-montage-portland#hrid:g_eprxwNKyU3UJbpK-t5Mg
"I'd rather set myself on fire than eat at this dump again."
joshua's blog: beyond rest
http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/07/beyond-rest.html
"In some ways this is slightly more elegant than the XMPP solution as neither side has to maintain a dedicated long-running process. ... There are a number of people on inexpensive service providers who have at best web scripting hosting and not much else
Wireless Ypsilanti brings free Wi-Fi to downtown, looks to expand coverage
http://www.metromodemedia.com/devnews/wirelessypsi0051.aspx
"Wireless Ypsi, which began in January, provides wireless Internet at speeds of about 1.5 megabytes or about the speed of DSL or T1 connections. The company, which is run more like a non-profit, uses Meraki technology to connect Internet hot spots at loca
Wireless Ypsi || We Are Connecting Ypsilanti
http://wireless.ypsi.com
"The network is a built on a sustainable model that will allow for relatively simple maintenance and encourage its expansion and growth. By using the cost-effective Meraki network technology, the system applies the latest wireless mesh networks that share
Lystrosaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lystrosaurus
"Lystrosaurus (meaning 'shovel lizard', pronunciation in IPA: /ˌlɪstrɒˈsɔrəs/) was a genus of Late Permian and Early Triassic Period dicynodont therapsids, which lived around 250 million years ago in what is now Antarctica, India and South Africa."
lakedc_pcmupstream.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://808hi.com/audio/lakedc_pcmupstream.mp3
"V.92 PCM upstream handshake mp3 audio"
Matt McAlister » Chad Dickerson to join Etsy in New York
http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2008/07/22/232/chad-dickerson-to-join-etsy-in-new-york
"Unfortunately, this is a loss for Yahoo! who needs forward-thinking leaders like Chad who can make things happen. Retention must be top of mind at Yahoo! before key institutional knowledge slips out the door and forces people to rethink things that have
J!NX : Dr. Horrible Fan T-Shirt - Clothing for Gamers & Geeks
http://www.jinx.com/drhorrible/dr_horrible_fan.html
"Dr. Horrible is the best! I mean, the worst! You know what I'm getting at..."
John Resig - JavaScript Micro-Templating
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-micro-templating
"It's a super-simple templating function that is fast, caches quickly, and is easy to use. I have a couple tricks that I use to make it real fun to mess with."
Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue | InfoWorld | News | July 18, 2008 | By Paul Venezia
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?A=/article/08/07/18/30FE-sf-network-lockout_2.html&R=printThis
"An inside source reveals details of missteps and misunderstandings in the curious case of Terry Childs, network kidnapper"
Prototype Identica Badge - kentbrewster.com
http://kentbrewster.com/identica-badge
"Personally I'm thrilled by the idea and encouraged by its execution so far, and have been poking cautiously at Laconica for the past couple of weeks, hoping to contribute in whatever way I can. Here's a prototype badge, based on Laconica's RSS feeds and
Rouge Roastery
https://rougeroastery.com
deusx23 splatterspree - Bungie.net : Bungie Online : Halo 3 Game Details
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=624678421&player=deusx23
a game wherein I won, having gotten 20 of 25 kills thanks to relentless Ghost splatters
ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » Leeching Geo Location
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061209/leeching-geo-location
"With something like this it becomes trivial to leech this information without actually having to build a IP to Geo tool yourself. Since it’s in JavaScript instead of a dynamically constructed image you can either overwrite the document.write function w
Amazon.com - Wish List
http://www.amazon.com/gp/wishlist/get-button/ref=amb_link_7140962_1?pf_rd_i=wishlist-owner-view&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=413637501&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=1001
"It's the essential tool for adding items from any website to your Amazon Wish Lists."
Samsung TL9 | Uncrate
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/digital-cameras/samsung-tl9
"what sets The Samsung TL9 ($280) apart from other cameras is MP3/PMP capability and two awesome empty/full analog gauges that track remaining battery life and memory capacity."
25smkj8.jpg (JPEG Image, 768x1024 pixels) - Scaled (72%)
http://i34.tinypic.com/25smkj8.jpg
"PLEASE STOP PEEING IN THE SINK THANK YOU FACILITIES"
Yahoo! Image Search Results for facepalm
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=facepalm
RasterWeb! » OpenMicroBlogging
http://rasterweb.net/raster/2008/07/17/openmicroblogging
"It’s not that I want to see Twitter die, or go away, or fail… and I don’t just want identi.ca to replace Twitter. That’s not the idea. "
hip: Summary
http://hg.toolness.com/hip
"Humane Imperative Parser (HIP), a simple testbed for playing around with linguistic command-line ideas."
Pasties, Pasties Everywhere - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/pasties-pasties-everywhere
"Well, The Economist was not wrong but I sure was. Many readers informed me that a pasty (pl.: pasties) is a small Cornish pie often filled with meat and vegetables."
Teapot - Talk:List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_HTTP_status_codes#Teapot
"Tsk! Status code "418 I'm a teapot" shouldn't be removed, it's from a real actual IETF blessed RFC. Albeit in the fine tradition of April 1st RFC"
RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324#section-2.3.2
"418 I'm a teapot ... Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. "
There Are No Walls in the House of Jearl - Mystery DVD #136
http://jearl.livejournal.com/65152.html#cutid1
"You don't wanna know how many meta-review ideas I thought up and rejected before giving up and just rambling it to death. One involved sending The Core out on a date with Deep Blue Sea. It wasn't pretty."
Deathwatch: Flagship Studios' bankruptcy a cautionary tale for startups
http://valleywag.com/5025607/flagship-studios-bankruptcy-a-cautionary-tale-for-startups
"The company, founded by CEO Bill Roper, formerly of the Starcraft team at Blizzard North, leveraged the intellectual property rights for its two games, Hellgate: London and Mythos, as collateral in order to secure loans to keep the company afloat."
The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation | InjuryBoard Los Angeles
http://losangeles.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/the-subprime-mess-and-phil-gramm-an-experiment-in-deregulation.aspx?googleid=242468
"In 1999, former Senator Phil Gramm (who is, incidentally, Senator John McCain's economic adviser and cochairs his presidential campaign) set out to completely gut the Glass-Steagall Act, and did so successfully,"
Alex Faaborg - » The Graphical Keyboard User Interface
http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/07/05/the-graphical-keyboard-user-interface
"user interfaces that exist in the riven between command line interfaces and graphical user interfaces"
Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality at Toolness
http://www.toolness.com/wp?p=54
"Our new project attempts to alleviate all of these problems by allowing end-users to apply textual commands, or verbs, to whatever they’re looking at."
A fond farewell- - Mythos Beta Forums
http://forums.mythos.com/showthread.php?t=20722
"I can't speak at any real length about our immediate plans just yet - but let's say that we hope to have you back up and Beta testing for us in one way or another sometime soon."
t-shirts | Kawaii Not: the webcomic for cute gone bad!
http://www.kawaiinot.com/kawaiinottshirts.php
"i feel a little bit stabbity today"
Michigan Brewers Guild
http://michiganbrewersguild.org/events.asp
"The Michigan Brewers Guild’s Summer Beer Festival is a showcase event featuring well over 200 beers from more than 30 Michigan breweries. "
DEFENDER of the favicon | Mathieu 'p01' Henri | July 2008
http://www.p01.org/releases/DHTML_contests/files/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon
"The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs."
Beck - Loser - SoundManager 2 Demo: Play MP3 links on a page, "page as playlist" style
http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/page-player/xbm-test.html
"Experimental dynamic XBM test, favicon "VU meter""
google hut
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%84%E2%96%88%E2%96%84%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%93%E2%96%92%E2%96%91%E2%96%92+%E2%96%91%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%84%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%84%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92+%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%93%E2%96%92%E2%96%93%E2%96%92%E2%96%93%E2%96%92+%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%93%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%84%E2%96%92%E2%96%91%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92%E2%96%92+%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%93%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88
drawing with funky characters on Google
Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » World of Warcraft:Nitpicks
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale?p=1740
"Despite the fun this game has to offer, it is not without its eccentricities and frustrations. This list is long. This is not because the game is rife with idiocy (at least, not more than other games) but simply because the game is so immense."
Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu
"Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service."
Maple Grilled Tempeh Recipe - 101 Cookbooks
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/maple-grilled-tempeh-recipe.html
"The salty sweet marinade really worked its way into the tempeh. The heat from the grill added a nice touch of caramelization. It worked beautifully alongside the grilled mushroom, served on top of the earthy quinoa."
TopatoCo: Do The Robot T-Shirt
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=QW&Product_Code=BOH-DOTHEROBOT&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO
TopatoCo: Posterchild's I'd Hit That Shirt
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=QW&Product_Code=QW-PC-HIT&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO
"This excellent shirt is inspired by Posterchild's famous Mario Block Project. It includes a saucy slogan that's sure to impress."
TopatoCo: Is Being a Whale Awesome Shirt
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Category_Code=QW&Product_Code=QW-WHALE&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO
"Hah hah, sweet! This is a great shirt for anyone who has ever played an adventure game. Plus, oh man, you've been turned into a whale! Is it awesome? (Y/N)"
snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Telecommuting
http://www.snellspace.com/wp?p=966
"Not only do I telecommute, but my boss and department are back in Boston while I’m still out here in the Central San Joaquin Valley in California where I’ve got five generations of family living within a 30 mile radius. Right now, I just couldn’t i
Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer
http://www.atariarchives.org/adventure
"by Tim Hartnell, published 1983"
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Why dying is forbidden in the Arctic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7501691.stm
"The town's small graveyard stopped accepting newcomers 70 years ago, after it was discovered that the bodies were failing to decompose."
Frederic Sebton: Mamebook cocktail
http://fsebton.blogspot.com/2008/02/mamebook-cocktail.html
"I went to IKEA today and picked up a RAMVIK sideboard to turn the Mamebook into a proper Cocktail Cabinet."
Living In A Garbage Truck - angelia's Car Blog
http://www.loqu.com/living-in-a-garbage-truck/blogs/angelia-1290
The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) - Commodore 64 music for the masses
http://hvsc.c64.org
Conserving an Ancient Art of Music: Making SID Tunes Editable - SpringerLink - Book Chapter
http://www.springerlink.com/content/chuqyybpguvjmxq7
"This paper describes our approach for editing PSID files. PSID is a sound format that allows the original Commodore 64 synthesizer music to be played on modern computers and thus conserves a music subculture of the eighties."
destroyhimrobots.wav (audio/x-wav Object)
http://www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/destroyhimrobots.wav
anothervisitor.wav (audio/x-wav Object)
http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/anothervisitor.wav
Craig Maloney » Disgusted with Detroit
http://decafbad.net/2008/07/11/disgusted-with-detroit#comment-19204
"Detroit deserves to be a thriving metropolis, but instead we get idiots who are motivated by self-interest rather than building up Detroit."
Coprolite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=178954264&oldid=176986369&title=Coprolite
"IT"S POOP! FOSSILIZED POOP!!!!!!!!!!"
Pickerel Tournament
http://www.algonaclions.org/PickerelTournament.html
"2007 Algonac Lions Pickerel Tournament" Fun fact: My grampa still holds the title for largest pickerel caught, back in 1973. I think it was 9 pounds.
City of Algonac - Official Website
http://www.algonac-mi.gov/services
"The population of the City of Algonac is 4,706" Huh, what do you know - my home town has a web site.
saggychart0709.jpg (JPEG Image, 550x506 pixels)
http://www.freep.com/uploads/images/2008/07/saggychart0709.jpg
"It's a crime to wear saggy pants in Flint"
Bloggers We Want To See In Bikinis: Xeni Jardin - Urlesque
http://www.urlesque.com/2008/07/08/bloggers-we-want-to-see-in-bikinis-xeni-jardin
"still fascinated by mystery porn with rectal crankshafts, so maybe instead of a bikini, just a really uncomfortable thong"
How to Abuse Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Massacre video and other Video Games videos at 5min
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Abuse-Rollercoaster-Tycoon-3-Massacre-7017249
Open Source Microblogging: OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 21 - 25, 2008, Portland, Oregon
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4857
"Hear Identi.ca’s story from its creator and find out how Identi.ca changed the microblogging game overnight."
MASTERMIND: Curtis Sullivan
http://www.concentratemedia.com/features/MM-CurtisSullivanVaultOfMidnight0016.aspx
"Even though our financials were immaculate they just didn't 'get' what a comic shop was and so they wouldn't rent to us. We tried to rent the Wizzywig location near State Street (now closed) but they told us they didn't want 'our kind of business.'"
I had that idea years ago! - (37signals)
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1122-i-had-that-idea-years-ago
"Ideas on their own are just not that important. It’s incredibly rare that someone comes up with an idea so unique, so protectable that the success story writes itself. Most ideas are nothing without execution."
Warren Ellis » The Patchwork Years
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6068
"Wouldn’t it be nice if we could stand up now and say, okay, these are the post-curation years?"
stanlemon.net : jgrowl
http://stanlemon.net/projects/jgrowl.html
"jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X's Growl Framework works."
WisCon - The World's Leading Feminist Science Fiction Convention
http://www.wiscon.info
"WisCon encourages discussion and debate of ideas relating to feminism, gender, race and class. WisCon welcomes writers, editors and artists whose work explores these themes as well as their many fans"
MAKE: Blog: Commodore 64 LAN party
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/07/commodore_64_lan_party.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
"The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."
Whiz Kids (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(TV_series)
"The show was about the adventures of a group of teenagers who worked as amateur computer experts and detectives. The series was inspired by the movie WarGames."
swissmiss: Air fork one
http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/01/air-fork-one.html
Flickr Find: Macintosh on Nintendo DS - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/06/flickr-find-macintosh-on-nintendo-ds
"While browsing Flickr this afternoon, we came across a shot of a Nintendo DS running Macintosh System 6 in emulation on reader Ken Fager's Flickr stream."
PvPonline » Archive » Interlude: The Adventures of LOLBAT
http://www.pvponline.com/2008/06/30/interlude-the-adventures-of-lolbat
"DAMN YOU LOLBAT AND YOUR INTERNET CULTURE BRAND OF JUSTICE!"
Download details: IE App Compat VHD
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en
Check this page every few months, since it seems they release new versions with the expiration time bumped forward. "VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE on Windows XP SP2"
It is easy to miss the point of Identi.ca : Socialwrite.com
http://socialwrite.com/2008/07/02/it-is-easy-to-miss-the-point-of-identica
"What we need is for Microblogging to shift from being a closed world owned by one company to an open, standards based medium that does not risk dying if a single entity dies, either technically or financially."
Why FriendFeed is growing faster than Twitter (Scripting News)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/06/whyFriendfeedIsGrowingFast.html
"It's all part of one cosmos (not a mere sphere), and there will come a day (I hope) when it all is unified, otherwise we're forever going to be chasing our news from place to place as it gets replicated in ever more awkward ways."
Why are geeks often atheist? | Shuzak.com
http://m4th.com/Articles/Why-are-geeks-often-atheists.php
"It might make sense to think that many such geeks simply find something as simple as a creator an overly simplistic explanation for something so elegant."
Anarchogeek: Good Bye To The Purple Mothership: Leaving Yahoo
http://www.anarchogeek.com/2008/7/6/good-bye-to-the-purple-mothership-leaving-yahoo
"Working with, or rather for Yahoo, was not so great. It was a constant painful struggle"
WWJ Newsradio 950 - EPrize Lets Folks Go, But CEO Says It's Not A Layoff
http://www.wwj.com/EPrize-Lets-Folks-Go--But-CEO-Says-It-s-Not-A-Layo/2518901
Ouch. Company's fine, but these people suck? Kinda brutal to say. "We let go a handful of people, under 20, and it was performance related mainly"
Movies and Television Wav Central: Price Is Right Audio Sound Files Clips Database
http://www.wavcentral.com/tv/price_is_right3.html
"Price Is Right Sound Files [38 Found]"
The Price is Right, loser horns
http://www.wavcentral.com/sounds/televis/price_is_right/tpirhorns.mp3
Amazon.com: Big Beautiful Sky: MP3 Downloads: Venus Hum
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Beautiful-Sky/dp/B000W1MA4G/ref=dm_ap_alb6?ie=UTF8&qid=1215212217&sr=102-3
Amazon.com: Songs For Superheroes: MP3 Downloads: Venus Hum
http://www.amazon.com/Songs-For-Superheroes/dp/B000S59C1U/ref=dm_ap_alb5?ie=UTF8&qid=1215212217&sr=102-3
Re: [PLUG] Possible Perl Question
http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2008-02/msg00265.html
"mtfnpy stands for "mtfnpy totally fucking now pwns you". It was recently something of a meme in a small part of the online Perl community. No, I don't know why. "
SharedSSH - Mercurial
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/SharedSSH
"This page describes how to create such repositories accessible via a shared ssh account without needing to give full shell access to other people. "
Converting The Repos | .: SNH Homepage :.
http://ww2.samhart.com/node/50
"Finally, I tried hgsvn, and it worked like a charm."
Laser Tattoo - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, life - BBQ PDQ Contest Entry
http://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Tattoo
"As long as you don't think about the fact that the small wisp of smoke trailing the light, is actually vaporized skin, everything will be fine."
Why Less Is More And How To Unlock the Web
http://mashable.com/2008/06/29/less-is-more-unlock-the-web
"Determine a basic need -> Create a service that satisfies it in the simplest way possible -> Open it up. "
innocentchild's Messages
http://valleywag.com/people/innocentchild
Best, horribly vulgar, funniest comments on Valleywag evar.
Man Killed In Ride On Steamroller - News Story - KIRO Seattle
http://www.kirotv.com/news/16630719/detail.html
"Two 17-year-old boys and Wydur apparently entered the construction site and started up the piece of equipment. Police said the teens may have been drinking."
PHP-IRC, Modular PHP5 based IRC Bot
http://phpbots.org
"PHP-IRC is a modular IRC bot written in PHP5 with a combination of object based/oriented programming."
Radiolab » Earworms
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/06/17/earworms
"First, we asked you to tell us what song gets stuck in your head. Then, we asked you how you got it out. Finally, we made a podcast."
Spheres of Chaos
http://www.spheresofchaos.com/index.php
"Imagine a world where instead of using his experiences with LSD to become an evangelist of therapeutic psychadelia, Timothy Leary had instead opted to learn assembler and program low-budget shmups for pc-download."
shock: social science fiction
http://glyphpress.com/shock
"Shock: Social Science Fiction is a fiction game of culture and future shock"
ThinkGeek :: Pico USB Flash Drive
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/a6d9
"Barely bigger than the tip of your pinky, and less than 4mm thick, it's positively small. The polished chrome finish is certainly shiny, but at 8 gigabytes, it's redonkulously teeny!"
disambiguity - » Some unformed thoughts on Ambient Intimacy for the next generation
http://www.disambiguity.com/some-unformed-thoughts-on-ambient-intimacy-for-the-next-generation
"For example, assuming that within the next few years, more and more people will have a social presence online, my little guy will have no real excuse to ‘lost contact’ with anyone he makes contact with."
Prism:Bundles - MDC
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Prism:Bundles
"In addition to passing simple command line parameters, Prism can use a zipped bundle package to install a webapp."
'Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill' by Live Science - RichardDawkins.net
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2761,n,n
Right Wing Watch: The Dangers of Auto-Replace
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/06/the_dangers_of_1.html
"automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard"
Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Convert ICNS files with sips
http://www.macworld.com/article/60156/2007/09/sipsicns.html
"sips -s format png Dictionary.icns --out ~/Desktop/Dictionary_icon.png "
Hostin: It's Naked Cowboy, 1; naked M&M, 0 - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/01/naked.cowboy/index.html?eref=rss_latest
"plausibly argues that consumers would believe that the M&M Cowboy characters were promoting a product rather than merely parodying The Naked Cowboy, and that viewers would believe that The Naked Cowboy had endorsed M&Ms"
The 11 Best Foods You Arent Eating - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/the-11-best-foods-you-arent-eating/index.html
"Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren’t."
Eric Staller's Conference Bike!
http://www.conferencebike.com
Saw one of these trundling across the lawn at Google. Totally odd.
The Chemistry Set » How I Lost My S#?! at the Apple Store
http://www.chemsetcomics.com/vulture-gulch-other-stories/other-stories/how-i-lost-my-s-at-the-apple-store
Guy can't read a manual; can't find a Torx driver; can't Google for it; freaks when the Apple Genius Bar charges a $30 stupidity tax; and is amazed that things come from Taiwan. It's somehow Apple's fault, and worth drawing a comic to bitch about it.