January 2008
36 posts
TripIt is awesome →
I’m going to have to try this out wth the next trip I take. It sounds like a really cool idea for managing travel information
ECCO New York Bicycle Toe Mens Dress Shoes →
Nice looking shoe
Pabst of Yore - beer can peg board tool holder →
Reading this made me think of Kevin
Instapaper →
Wow, what a great service. This will stop me from having to email links to myself, keep tabs open, or tag them in del.icio.us. I’ve tagged articles before in del.icio.us to make sure I read them at some point, even if I never do. This service looks lik
Georgetown Partners calls A La Carte a "fairytail" →
Barracuda defends open-source antivirus from... →
Please pirate my Sundance film. - By Tim Wu -... →
The article discusses how small indie films typically don’t end up on the pirate sites. Basically, the only movies that get pirated are the big blockbusters. This means that the studios have already made a bunch of money on the movie before it gets pira
Half Million Private MySpace Photos Show Up in... →
Ruh-oh Shaggy
Bit Twiddling Hacks →
Not sure if I’d ever need any of these “hacks”, but it seemed like a crazy-nice reference to keep around.
A VRM approach to managing Twitter and Dopplr... →
Interesting idea from the Doc
"To Do Widget" brings iCal, Mail To Dos to the... →
Pretty cool widget idea. Now if it there was a service to sync the calendar store data to some online service like Remember The Milk.
remodeling for geeks: Door Stops and Drywall... →
Interesting looking blog discussing home repair for geeks. This tutorial covers drywall patching, which I’ve never been very good at. I’m going to need to attempt it again in the next few months to patch up some bad holes in the kitchen. [via Doc Searls
Haircut
I got a pretty good haircut this past Saturday. Would it be weird to snap a pic of it on my camera to show future barbers?
Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps →
NYTimes article on polictical writters that are twittering away. I’m following John Dickerson and Ana Marie Cox. [via Daring Fireball]
Finally, the public beta programme begins! →
A beta program for the new Real World Haskell book coming out soon from O’Reilly (not Bill). It is interesting because it is free as in beer. I remember tellling a prof of mine back in 2003 that I couldn’t imagine any real-world uses for Haskell. The prof couldn’t provide any instances of a “real world use”, but he did say though that is good to learn differents...
Sleaze In Nevada? →
An account of some Clinton dirty tricks in the Nevada caucus.
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
Pretty neat application used to create a sort of mini-app for hosting web apps. Even does dock badges for unread mail. Too bad it needs Leopard.
No Limit
I was driving home from work last and listening to Hip-Hop Nation on Sirius. After listening to the end of a Nas song, the DJ announced that they were going to play the most request song of the day — Master P’s seminal classic “Make ‘em say uh”. I thought I had slipped through a time warp to 1998 or something. Were there really that many people in 2008 requesting...
Stallman doing the Soulja Boy dance →
I thought FSJ was joking, but after watching the video it does look like Stallman. I don’t know why is holding a laptop while he dances.
MacBook Air Haters: Suck My Dick →
An article with a delightful title from Wil Shipley. It summed up how I felt after reading seeing this article Digg.
“Be careful, coffee isn’t like alcohol, it’s addictive.”
– Tracy Jordan
Technology Review: "You Don't Understand Our... →
A great article on TV network news written by someone that worked on Dateline for 9 years. It is scary that all the fears you have about the behind-the-scenes going ons with network news turned out to be true. I really liked the sections on 6-Sigma at N
What is reCAPTCHA? →
Wow, this sounds really cool. Instead of those crazy CAPTCHAs that most sites use to determine if you are a computer, it uses CAPTCHs that resulted from a word that an OCR program could not determine. The feedback is then used to correct the digitized
In praise of lazy →
The Sound of Young America: Podcast: The Wire's... →
Jesse interviews the actors that play Bubbles and Bunk from The Wire.
Must have run out of quarters...
I was walking Obie this afternoon and we were stopped at a light waiting to cross the street. Kiddy-corner from us was a guy yelling in the parking lot of the laundry-mat. My reactions were (in order): He must be yelling at someone (couldn’t see anyone yelling back) He must be on a bluetooth headset (couldn’t see anything in his ears) He must just be a crazy guy yelling at nobody.So...
Reversing Everything: Hacking the Kindle part 3:... →
Seems like there is some pretty interesting stuff under the hood of the kindle.
Ron Paul: For President Of Azeroth! →
Now there are Ron Paul rallies in World of Warcraft.
Media: Zero Punctuation on Super Mario Galaxy →
Another funny Zero Punctuation review. This time it is for Super Mario Galaxy.
The Angriest Man In Television →
Background story on David Simon and The Wire.
The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air... →
Great summary of the current absurdities surrounding airport security.
Raspberry Mega Scones Recipe - 101 Cookbooks →
Looks really tasty.