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January 2009

152 bookmarks saved in January 2009

Notional Slurry » Mike Kessler’s Ann Arbor Coworking

http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2009/01/29/mike-kesslers-ann-arbor-coworking
"I think Mike Kessler can actually do this. He’s already overcome the worst barrier to entry we faced when we were exploring a local coworking facility: the tendency to dilute your decisionmaking by being too communitarian. And I have a feeling he might even beat the second-worst barrier to entry: the cost of commercial real estate in downtown Ann Arbor."
#annarbor #awesome #coworking #kessler #michigan
archive.org #11963

Product Review: Unicomp Customizer keyboard « The Story’s Story

http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/product-review-unicomp-customizer-keyboard
"A rash of e-mails regarding and hits to my negative review of the Matias Tactile Pro 2 leads me to write this positive review the Unicomp Customizer, a modern version of the Model M that IBM used to produce. Dan’s Data explains why these “buckling spring” keyboards are so nice"
#hardware #ibm #keyboards #modelm
archive.org #11962

Endurapro

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104wh.html
"The Endurapro 104 has become one of the most popular members of Unicomp's growing family of keyboard products. The Endurapro features an integrated mouse, buckling spring technology and Microsoft Windows keys. The integrated mouse saves desk top space as does the sleek new footprint which is 20% smaller than our conventional keyboards."
#hardware #ibm #keyboards #modelm #want #wishlist
archive.org #11961

An Ode To Clicky Keys : NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99950176
"My All Things Considered story about the Model M keyboard is, of course, shot through with journalistic bias. I am unabashed in my preference for the metallic ring of an old keyboard's spring-loaded keys. I won't apologize for this partiality, but I will try to explain it."
#hardware #ibm #keyboards #modelm #npr
archive.org #11959

iPhone & iPod Touch Now Uses Wi-Fi to Find Location - Cell Phone Digest

http://www.cellphonedigest.net/news/2008/01/iphone_ipod_touch_now_uses_wif.php
"Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), recently announced that Apple is using its technology for the new Wi-Fi location positioning feature in its Maps application on both iPhone and iPod touch. Using WPS, iPhone and iPod touch users can now locate themselves in the popular Maps application with the tap of one button. (See Skyhook Wireless featured in the Macworld Keynote.)"
#apple #iphone #ipod #location #wifi
archive.org #11955

Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Displaying web content in an extension - without security issues

http://adblockplus.org/blog/displaying-web-content-in-an-extension-without-security-issues
"Over the last few years I reported a bunch of security vulnerabilities in various extensions and by far the most common issue was: “Extension Foo allows execution of remote code in privileged context”. Typically, an RSS reader extension would take the content of the RSS feed (HTML code), format it nicely and insert into the extension window. The issue that is overlooked here is that the RSS feed could contain some JavaScript code and it would then execute with the privileges of the extension — meaning for example that it would get full access to the browser (cookies, history etc) and to user’s files. pdp discovered a similar issue in the Firebug extension that uses an HTML-based templating system and forgot to sanitize some input received from the webpage."
#extensions #firefox #mozilla #security
archive.org #11950

Everything You Need to Get Started With CodeIgniter - NETTUTS

http://nettuts.com/tutorials/php/codeigniter-basics
"CodeIgniter is a web application framework for PHP. It enables developers to build web applications faster, and it offers many helpful code libraries and helpers which speed up tedious tasks in PHP. CodeIgniter is based on a modular design; meaning that you can implement specific libraries at your discretion - which adds to the speed of the framework. This tutorial will attempt to show you the basics of setting up the framework, including how to build a basic hello world application that uses the MVC approach. "
#codeigniter #frameworks #php #tutorials #webdev
archive.org #11948

Monkeying with the Lizard Feeder

http://surfmind.com/muzings?cpage=1&p=237#comment-312760
"The call to action is to build on the Lizard Feeder concept with anything from ideas to pixels to code. I hacked up a grease monkey script that weights the data-source checkbox & label on the left according to the volume of flow. This provides a bit of focus + context for the recent stream. The implementation is a minimal, bit-of-an-evening starter kit (MPL) for more interesting creations."
#activitystreams #data #feeds #lizardfeeder #mozilla #visualization
archive.org #11947

Filmmaker Sues Church of Scientology

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&EDATE=&STORY=/www/story/05-11-2004/0002171569
"By January 2002, Offer's life was destroyed, as he was now broke, alone and was left with an unfinished movie. To keep from going under, he undertook his inherent marketing abilities and pitched kitchen vegetable choppers at swap meets. In the span of 5 years, Offer went from owning an enterprise with dozens of sales reps in 1997, to selling on his own in a swap meet. In April of 2002, against all odds, he managed to generate enough money from swap meet sales to launch a successful infomercial campaign for his movie. It is the first movie ever to be marketed in this medium, which propelled DVD sales to almost 100,000 units in the US. Offer is using his proceeds from the sales of the movie to fight the Church in court. Armed with evidence and the passion of obtaining redress for injustice, he has pursued an unrelenting quest to expose the human cruelty and destructive practices committed, still to this day, by the Church of Scientology's leadership helmed by David Miscavage. "
#scientology #shamwow #slapchop #vinceoffer
archive.org #11943

Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid - Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/09/why-stallman-is-wrong-when-he-calls-cloud-computing-stupid.ars
"Stallman's dismissal of cloud computing and call for the categorical rejection of web services is puzzling in light of the potential opportunities created by web technologies and the innovative work that is being done by software freedom advocates to bring openness to the web. Stallman should be using his visibility to promote adoption of the principles embodied in the Franklin Street Statement. Instead he is undermining those efforts by disingenuously dismissing the entire concept of network computing."
#freedom #gnu #open #software #web #webdev
archive.org #11941

The Wonderful World of Web Hooks // Notebook // Kyle Slattery

http://kyleslattery.com/notebook/entries/the-wonderful-world-of-web-hooks
"The aspect that excites me the most is how easy it is to write a web hook. All you need to have is a cheap PHP host and some basic knowledge about handling POST data, and you're ready to go. By shortening the learning curve, web hooks make it possible for more people to build on top of existing platforms, leading to a more connected and interesting internet."
#webdev #webhooks #webservices
archive.org #11935

LARP ALERT

http://maps.google.com/maps?cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&cbp=12,310.45443546675455,,1,10.375837805207798&gl=us&ie=UTF8&iwloc=addr&layer=c&ll=40.458262,-80.007505&oe=UTF-8&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&q=8+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15212&split=0&spn=0.008588,0.01693&t=h&z=16
"8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania 15212 - Google Maps"
#funny #gaming #larps #maps #via:stlhood
archive.org #11932

MotherJones Blog: Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2009/01/11919_executive_order_13233_revoked_obama_bush_sue_me.html
"On his first day in office, President Obama put former president Bush on notice. His administration just released an executive order that will make it difficult for Bush to shield his White House records--and those of former Vice President Dick Cheney--from public scrutiny by invoking the doctrine of executive privilege. Shortly after taking office, Bush handed down his own executive order, amending the Presidential Records Act to give current and past presidents, along with their heirs, veto power over the release of presidential records, which are considered the property of the American people. "
#executiveprivilege #government #obama #politics #transparency
archive.org #11921

Labs/Extensions2 - MozillaWiki

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Extensions2
"Enhancing the browser should be as easy as it is to write a web page. The time between having an idea, and an implementation should be as short as possible: Programming the "hello world" add-on for each of the major add-on types should take less than 5 minutes from start to running in the browser. ... (*) It may seem odd that this is referred to as a manifesto, as it is not hundreds of pages long and has not been written by someone with an unkempt beard and filthy military surplus clothing. We believe in simplicity in all its forms. That is why we are inclined toward brevity. And why we shower"
#extensions #firefox #mozilla
archive.org #11917

Atari's First Building - Where it all started. | None | ATARIGAMES.COM

http://www.atarigames.com/files/9039cf71b1d3795faa64803f6befa427-22.html
Rode past here every day I worked at Yahoo "I lived in Silicon Valley for 30 years, and I passed this intersection all the time. I finally stopped by this week, and got some pictures of the first building Atari occupied. This is the building where Pong was born. It has a small office in the front, with a workshop and roll-up door in the back. It's the office on the corner of the building. 2962 Scott Blvd in Santa Clara."
#atari #california #photos #santaclara
archive.org #11916

Save The Trout Slap! Petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/TROUTS/petition.html
"This petition is for the The Rights Of Universal Trout Slappers or 'TROUTS' for short - There is a strong belief that Khaled Mardam-Bey, author of IRC Client mIRC may actually remove the default trout slap that has been present since 1995. We believe this may actually cause mental damage to the trout. Taking the trout from its mIRC cyber home and putting it back in its natural habitat will unbalance the trouts emotions - we also believe that it may be at danger from other trouts as a foreigner - trouts are collonial animals travelling in large groups, and new trouts to the group may be rejected, especially one with a reputation for slapping. "
#irc #mirc #petitions #trouts
archive.org #11914

Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing | Technologizer

http://technologizer.com/2009/01/19/ataris-1984-touch-tablet-a-retro-unboxing
"The next time you use your shiny new Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS4, think back to a time before time–a time before blends, morphs, heal brushes, and 10-megapixel images. A time like 1984, which, for computer graphics, was darker than the Dark Ages. It was a time when you could buy an $89.95 Atari CX77 Touch Tablet for your Atari 8-bit home computer. Luckily, I bought mine for considerably less last year, although it was still in new, unopened condition. Safely sequestered in the official Vintage Computing and Gaming computer lab, I recently began the task of unpacking the antique peripheral and documenting the process. Here’s an account of the experience."
#atari #hardware #oldschool #retro #tablets
archive.org #11911

Upgrading Tivo With Your MacBook Pro(intel) and VMware's Fusion! | Winged Power Photography

http://www.wingedpower.com/archive/2008/02/upgrading-tivo-your-macbook-prointel-and-vmwares-fusion
"Okay, it's pretty much as involved as most other howto's, but using this method, you can use any Intel Mac computer with USB ports, to perform an upgrade of the Tivo drives, using the Linux-based tools. This means you will be able to make the most of your Tivo drives as well as being able to still surf the new and perform other tasks, during the hours that the drives are upgrading!"
#hacks #mac #osx #tivo #vmware
archive.org #11910

Tivo HD Hard Drive Upgrade (via Virtual Machine) at The Furrygoat Experience

http://www.furrygoat.com/2009/01/20/tivo-hd-hard-drive-upgrade-via-virtual-machine
"So, after doing some research on Google, I came across this fantastic post about Upgrading TiVo With Your Mac and VMWare Fusion. While the article describes the process for Series 1 and Series 2 boxes, I tried it this afternoon with my Series 3, and am happy to report I’m now humming along with 1TB of storage. All thanks to using virtual machines.Boom. I now can store 142 hours of HD, 1241 hours of SD."
#hacks #mac #tivo #vmware
archive.org #11909

Bush Passes Three-Pound Kidney Stone | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_passes_three_pound
Whoa, I missed one from back in November. "President Bush collapsed in the Oval Office after spontaneously expelling a 3-pound kidney stone from his bladder, sources reported Tuesday. According to witnesses, the president was attending his daily Iraq War briefing when he suddenly began shrieking loudly and clutching his abdomen, a mixture of blood and urine pooling rapidly around his feet. Bush was able to maintain consciousness through more than 20 minutes of excruciating pain, even after the jagged, grapefruit-sized crystal aggregation shredded his urethra and dropped from his left pant leg, finally rolling to a stop on the presidential seal in the middle of the Oval Office carpet. Bush is resting comfortably at Bethesda Naval Hospital."
#bush #funny? #politics #theonion
archive.org #11906

President Obama: Living Proof that Family Values Without Religion Build Character | Friendly Atheist by Hemant Mehta

http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/01/19/president-obama-living-proof-that-family-values-without-religion-build-character
"We hear so much these days about how traditional religious family values are necessary for raising moral children who can grow into accomplished adults,” said American Humanist Association Executive Director Roy Speckhardt, father of two. “But we humanists have known for a long, long time that ethical humanist values build character. The number of moral and accomplished humanists is legion. We’ve been honoring the greatest of them every year since 1953 at our annual conferences. Now Barack Obama has given us the opportunity to share this truth with those from around the country who come to our nation’s capital to share in the inauguration experience."
#atheism #humanism #obama #president #religion
archive.org #11902

Copyright Policy | whitehouse.gov

http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright
"Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."
#creativecommons #government #whitehouse
archive.org #11901

Bush Dies Peacefully In His Sleep | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_dies_peacefully_in_his
"George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States of America, passed away painlessly in his sleep Monday night, White House sources confirmed. The 62-year-old Bush was reportedly discovered lying unresponsive in his bed by first lady Laura Bush, a gentle smile still on his lips. "It was as though he knew it was his time to go," said longtime family physician Dr. Harold Ditmas, who pronounced the president dead of natural causes at 7:24 a.m. Plans for Bush's funeral have been postponed indefinitely following an unexpected incident in which the president's corpse was sucked through an Air Force One jet engine."
#bush #funny? #politics #theonion
archive.org #11900

ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
"Don’t blow anything into the Cloud that you don’t have a personal copy of. ... Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. Make fun of these people, and their shitty little Cloud Cities running on low-grade cooking fat and dreams. They will die and they will take your stuff into the hole. Don’t let them. ... Are you paying for these services? No? You are a sucker. You are giving people stuff for free. ... These are parties. And parties are fun and parties and cool and you meet neat people at parties but parties are not a home."
#archiveteam #cloud #hostityourdamnself #ugc #web20
archive.org #11899

Rands In Repose: A Del.icio.us Interview

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/12/03/a_delicious_interview.html
Do you remember the days when del.icio.us had 30k users and rapid feature development? "The original headline for this article hit me last week in a post-Turkey haze… laying on the couch… staring at the ceiling in the living room — “Why Del.icio.us is more important than Google”. Let’s hear it for SENSATIONALISM! Woo-hoo!"
#2004 #delicious #google
archive.org #11897

Op-Ed Columnist - Forgive and Forget? - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/opinion/16krugman.html?_r=2&exprod=permalink&partner=permalink
"And to protect and defend the Constitution, a president must do more than obey the Constitution himself; he must hold those who violate the Constitution accountable. So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime. Consequences aside, that’s not a decision he has the right to make. "
#bush #justice #politics #washington
archive.org #11889

Kensington SlimBlade trackball for the smooth operator - Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/15/kensington-slimblade-trackball-for-the-smooth-operator
"Yep, Kensington is still making desktop trackballs for all of you out there still rocking your original Macworld '92 T-shirts, and its latest model is actually quite attractive -- the SlimBlade trackball features a minimalist low-profile base with four buttons and a ruby red ball. The drivers are equally slick, displaying mode changes on screen in an HUD, letting you know when you've flipped from cursor to media control to view control profiles. Not a bad way to spend $129 if you're into trackballs, we suppose -- and we wholeheartedly support any product whose press release claims it'll turn us into "smooth operators." Video after the break."
#gadgets #kensington #trackballs #want #wishlist
archive.org #11885

Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus Recipe @ CDKitchen.com :: it's what's cooking online!

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/139/Cilantro_Jalapeno_Hummus43042.shtml
"Place garlic in a food processor and process until minced, about 10 seconds. Add beans, lime juice and salt. Process into a puree. With the processor running, slowly add olive oil in a steady stream through the feed tube. Process until mixture thickens, about 1-2 minutes. Add cilantro and jalapeno and pulse throughout, about 10 seconds. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before serving. "
#cooking #food #hummus #jalapeno #recipes
archive.org #11879

ASCII by Jason Scott / Rob Swindell and the Synchronet Museum

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1697
"One thing that’s important to demarcate for Rob over a lot of my other interviewees was that he was one of the few BBS software authors still actively writing and maintaining his software. In fact, he still maintains it to the present day. Add on top of this that he was originally a commercial developer of the software, closed the business, and then turned his product into a totally free one, and you start to see why his perspective was so cool."
#archives #bbs #robswindell #software #synchronet
archive.org #11877

Spider Eggs Hatch In Bush's Brain | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/spider_eggs_hatch_in_bushs
"President Bush collapsed to the floor of the Oval Office during a meeting with advisers when spiderlings hatched from thousands of egg sacs affixed between the hemispheres of his brain, according to a White House memo released Monday. The spiders severed the president's corpus callosum and ate through the motor-control center of the brain, doctors said, causing Bush's body to jerk involuntarily as a scurrying mass of crab spiders emerged from his mouth and crawled down his face. Witnesses confirmed that a number of spiders also discharged from the president's tear ducts. Secret Service agents restrained the president and carried him to the White House medical facility, but doctors said that by the time Bush arrived, the arachnids had already consumed his corneas, pupils, and vitreous humor. Bush is resting comfortably at Bethesda Naval Hospital."
#bush #funny? #politics #spiders #theonion
archive.org #11874

welcome to the ficlets memorial « the ficlets memorial

http://ficlets.ficly.com
"ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial. I will keep this site up as long as I'm able (it's extremely simple and not costing me anything)."
#archives #archiveteam #ficlets #stories #writing
archive.org #11871

Unreality - Ten of the Most Devastating Weapons from NES Games |

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/12/ten-of-the-most-devastating-weapons-from-nes-games
"Obtaining a new, more powerful weapon during the course on an old-school NES game was always a rush. Tough enemies were suddenly wusses, and an upgraded or new weapon leveled the playing field tremendously. It was tough not to take pleasure in the increased body count of your foes. For this article, I’m not writing about standard or default weapons - like, say, Pit’s bow in Kid Icarus - no matter how cool they may be. Instead, here’s a look at ten of the most devastating weapons that one can acquire in games for the original NES."
#gaming #nes #oldschool #retro
archive.org #11869

Caveat Lector » Blog Archive » The DRM Ponzi event horizon

http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/01/12/the-drm-ponzi-event-horizon
"Personally, despite my neverending love affair with the written word, I’m getting tired of owning print books. There, I’ve said it. They take up a whole lot of space, they clutter, and they’re obnoxious to pack (yes, I’ve moved twice in the last five years and that may not be the end of it, how about you?). For my purposes, with most books, ebooks would be far preferable both for one-time and many-time reads… if I could be assured of keeping my many-time reads."
#drm #ebooks #implosions
archive.org #11867

Blue Sky On Mars » Making web development suck less

http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2009/01/05/making-web-development-suck-less
"I’m delighted to say that starting today I am working with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer at Mozilla Labs on web development tools. I’ve been a reader of Ben and Dion’s Ajaxian site for years and I know how much thought they’ve put in to making webdev better, so I’m really excited to be joining their group. And Mozilla looks like a fantastic organization to be a part of."
#mozilla #turbogears #webdev
archive.org #11861

MAKE: Blog: Fractal woodburning reveals hidden aesthetic

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/fractal_woodburning_reveals_hidden.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
"did some experiments last night: wood + saline + high voltage supply + variac = fractal burn patterns. tried different kinds of wood with various effects. unfortunately my recollection of which types of wood are displayed are spotty. will update later. stay tuned for photos of my fractal wood burning coat rack."
#art #electricity #fractals #nature #wood
archive.org #11860

Retro/grade Game Website

http://www.retrogradegame.com
"Retro/Grade is an innovative game that fuses the white knuckle thrills and over the top visuals of a shooter with the broad appeal of a rhythm game. Players are forced to dodge enemy projectiles while positioning the ship to be in the correct place to fire their lasers when their shots come back to them. "
#gaming #rhythm #shmups #shooters #time
archive.org #11856

getluky.net » A Warning About the Real Cost of Microformats

http://getluky.net/2009/01/08/a-warning-about-the-real-cost-of-microformats
"Anyway, here’s the question I want to put into the reader’s mind: should one spend time and effort making a frontend into an informal API through microformats, or to instead spend it on building a fully supported API or data publishing system that exists and operates separately? I think my stance is clear - i’m not against the theory of microformats, but i’m certainly going to differ with anyone who thinks it’s practical."
#apis #data #microformats #web20 #webdev #xhtml
archive.org #11854

ThinkGeek :: Coffee Cup Power Inverter

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/b29e
"The Coffee Cup Power Inverter is a conveniently shaped power source that coverts your car's DC power into two 120-volt AC outlets. Perfect for powering or charging TV's, DVD players, game consoles, cell phones, and other portable electronics. This coffee cup also has a USB charging port providing 500mA of power. The unique coffee cup shape fits nicely in today's auto/boat/truck cup holders, preventing it from moving around inside your vehicle. "
#automotive #gadgets #power
archive.org #11849

Do Tags Work?

http://www.tekka.net/10/tags.html
If you can get past the rambling paragraphs of awkward fun-poking at tags interspersed with library science / web 2.0 / cultural references—as well as a discovery of what, you know, Flickr is all about—there's a well-embellished and obsessively-assembled statistical analysis of tags vs title vs notes in finding photos featuring tourist heel-spinning on the testicles of a bull mosaic in Milan. My impression is that she's missed the point of tags, but I'm having trouble reducing the impression to a critique.
#bulls #didread #essays #heelspins #metadata #milan #obsessions #photos #search #tags #testicles #tl;dr
archive.org #11845

iTunes music: The cost of removing Apple’s copy protection - Apple 2.0

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/07/itunes-music-the-cost-of-removing-apples-copy-protection
"Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techcrunch’s Erick Schonfeld calls it Apple’s “$1.8 billion music tax.”"
#apple #audio #drm #itms #itunes #music
archive.org #11843

WWdN: In Exile: ficlets is going to the land of wind and ghosts. here's how to save your stories.

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/01/ficlets-is-goin.html
"AOL is shutting down Ficlets on January 15, and in their infinite corporate wisdom and understanding of how communities on the Internet work, they're not providing any easy way to archive the stories you've written there beyond advising that you try "copying the text and pasting it into a plain text or Word document." Right. That's going to be really fun and easy for people who have written dozens of Ficlets. [::facepalm::]"
#aol #archiveteam #ficlets #web30 #writing
archive.org #11842

fixfreenode - ZNC

http://en.znc.in/wiki/Fixfreenode
"This module blocks some freenode-specific feature which results in plus (+) and minus (-) signs being displayed in front of every message from a client. "
#freenode #irc #znc
archive.org #11841

Main Page - Archiveteam

http://www.archiveteam.org/Main_Page
"This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides the team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, we also provide lists of software that will assist you in backing up data you control from sites where you currently have no such control. "
#archival #deadpool #hostityourdamnself #shutdowns #teamarchive #web30
archive.org #11840

Single-Engine Cessna Crashes Into Bush | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/single_engine_cessna
Okay, so this one is actually kind of funny. "The Federal Aviation Administration said engine failure was to blame for a pilot losing control of a four-seater Cessna aircraft that crashed head-on into President Bush Thursday. According to the FAA report, the nose of the Cessna 350 impacted with the president's face at 110 mph, instantly killing pilot James Morris, 45. Bush reportedly suffered third-degree burns on 95 percent of his body, a broken spine, 20 shattered ribs, one collapsed lung, a basilar skull fracture, and minor leakage of cerebrospinal fluid"
#bush #funny #funny? #politics #theonion
archive.org #11836

TiVo to iPod command - Private Paste - Pastie

http://pastie.org/private/2quuhiy34v3cv61tdbcfq
"/usr/bin/curl -k --digest -u tivo:`cat ~/.tivodecode_mak` ~/ -c /dev/null TIVO_SOURCE_URL | /usr/local/bin/tivodecode -- - | ffmpeg -y -i - -threads 4 -s 432x320 -aspect 432:320 -r 29.97 -vcodec h264 -g 150 -qmin 24 -b 200k -level 30 -loop 1 -sc_threshold 40 -partp4x4 1 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -refs 2 -qmax 51 -maxrate 1450k -keyint_min 40 -async 50 -acodec libfaac -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128k IPHONE_COMPATIBLE_OUTPUT.mp4"
#commands #conversion #ipod #scripts #shell #tivo #utilities #video
archive.org #11835

Mozilla bugs fixed by lorchard@mozilla.com

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_id=&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&bugidtype=include&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&ctype=atom&email1=lorchard@mozilla.com&email2=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailassigned_to2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailtype1=exact&emailtype2=exact&field-1-0-0=bug_status&field-1-1-0=assigned_to&field0-0-0=noop&keywords=&keywords_type=allwords&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&query_format=advanced&remaction=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&title=Bug+List&type-1-0-0=anyexact&type-1-1-0=anyexact&type0-0-0=noop&value-1-0-0=RESOLVED,VERIFIED,CLOSED&value-1-1-0=lorchard@mozilla.com&value0-0-0=&votes=
My meager contributions so far, quantified
#bugzilla #filetype:rss #link:rel=me #mozilla
archive.org #11834

Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters | Sloshspot Blog

http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/12-31-2008/Hunter-S-Thompson-Motivational-Posters-98
"A man who graciously documented the uncharted depths of the binge unlike any other in history, HST provided us with nuggets of wisdom and encouragement all along the way. So instead of merely sharing a list of my favorite quotes from the author, I have placed them in their proper environment, the pervasive motivational poster."
#gonzo #hst #motivational #posters #quotes #weird
archive.org #11830

Aza’s Thoughts » Write the manual first.

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/write-the-manual-first
"You don’t really know a subject until you’ve had to teach it. In the same way, you don’t really understand your interface until you’ve written a manual explaining how to use it. It can be a frustrating experience. Take for example the two manuals for digital watch and analog watch. The section on setting a digital watch is over a page of dense, difficult explanation. The analog’s is a single sentence: “Pull crown and turn.”"
#design #ui #userexperience #webdev
archive.org #11829

goodnight jumpcut | chopstickproject.com

http://chopstickproject.com/blog?p=546
"yesterday we put jumpcut into a long deep sleep. well sort of. we disabled uploads so you can’t upload any more clips which means you can’t do anymore editing, which is the whole point of the site. you can still watch the videos you’ve created in the past but that’s about it. these are sad times. some of our jumpcut family got laid off last week and now jumpcut is in this sad state. this is what a whole lotta work, a whole lotta fun has become. it’s sad"
#jumpcut #web20rip #yahoo
archive.org #11825

Mozilla chief John Lilly is fired up about making a better Web browser - Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-himi4-2009jan04,0,2452219.story
"Chief executive of Mozilla Corp., maker of the Firefox Web browser, which broke Microsoft Corp.'s hold on the market so that it couldn't dominate the Internet the way it does computer operating systems. About 95% of Web surfers used Microsoft's Internet Explorer in 2004; now 20% use Firefox, and other companies are offering browsers that are smarter and faster than ever before. But don't call it a browser war. "We all want the Web to be good. I am glad for the innovation and all the big brands working on it.""
#lilly #mozilla #web
archive.org #11824

RFC5005 - Feed Paging and Archiving

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc5005.html
"This specification formalizes two types of feeds that can span one or more feed documents; "paged" feeds and "archived" feeds. Additionally, it defines "complete" feeds to cover the case when a single feed document explicitly represents all of the feed's entries."
#atom #http #paging #webdev
archive.org #11821