03/29/05

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Several links to Malasian bloggers and aggregators.

"There was however a small tsunami observed on the Cocos tide gage."

No reports of a tsunami, "everything is calm" in Banda Aceh near the epicenter and "most people have returned to their homes" there.

jimray : Closer to Mario - Not so much a mashup, more like cleverly laying one track on top of the other, but still well done [also via rentzsch]

jimray : AlterNet: DeLay's dirty dozen - Tom DeLay is one evil motherfucker [via mathowie]

kayodeok : Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition - "This book was written to provide a single reference for network administration in a Linux environment. Beginners and experienced users alike should find the information they need to cover ...

jkottke : Bloggers in Malaysia are covering the earthquake - Several links to Malasian bloggers and aggregators.

jimray : Mashed Living - For all yer mashup needs [via rentzsch]

uhh, whoops!

that's a good use for the segway

Dojo is an Open Source effort by an invited set of contributors to create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers.

emacs bindings for firefox

this is where I'll be staying (with 2 others) during Wave Camp in April

The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part I: Joel Spolsky is running a series of articles about the development of FogBugz 4.0. I haven't even read the first installment, but the fourth paragraph contains a hysterically damning description of the RFP process. ...

Afghan entrepreneurs find profit in technology: In 2002, there were 1,000 people in the entire country that had been on the Internet. Today, this country of 29 million has more than 662,500 people using mobile phones, reports the GSM Association, ...

A mall developer sicced his lawyers on a man who started a website to praise a new mall. He says: "Since I possess very limited resources with which to defend myself from this legal onslaught, I decided that my best option was to make use of that gre ...

That's a reference to the semi-compatibility of the Bluetooth connection between my phone, a Treo 650, and my new Prius. It took a workaround simply to get the car and phone to recognize each other at all. Naturally, neither PalmOne nor Toyota has t ...

The hottest trend in file sharing.

Do not weep for Jesus who died on the cross is now alive and RISEN! Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the 3rd day! The Lamb of God who came to take away the Sins of the earth! Today is Easter and we remember that after Jesus died for our sins he ...

ChuckOp writes " front-page article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer states: "The University of Washington associate professor has embarked on a one-man mission to persuade the Redmond company to improve the grammar-checking function in its pop ...

twitter writes "BBC author Paul Rubens tried out amateur computer repair and wrote about it. All of the software was for Windows, and he finds what most of us do: "Most of the problems I've been called to look at have been caused by viruses and spywa ...

Bill Hamm writes "DB is carrying a deep interview with Jonathan Rentzsch, who created an open source technology to allow other developers to inject their code into any running process to alter its functions and written papers for IBM to program the P ...

Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that William Shatner recently pitched an 'Academy' show to Paramount. The series would feature teen versions of the Classic Star Trek characters Kirk, Spock and McCoy, and be set at Starfleet Academy. The studio t ...

chiagoo writes "You may remember that 70% of the time, people will reveal their passwords for chocolate. Well, at this year's Infosecurity Europe, it was revealed that 92% of the 200 attendees surveyed would gladly trade enough information to steal t ...

John Conner writes "With a fairly simple routine, you can model evolution with Lego Mindstorms. In this hackaday experiment, robots were created that could mate, evolve, and become extinct. Similar technology could be used in real applications for de ...

A major earthquake struck late Monday off the west coast of Indonesia, and police said hundreds of people may have been killed in collapsed buildings. Thousands panicked in countries across the Indian Ocean as tsunami warnings were posted.

The judge in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial ruled Monday that the prosecution may present testimony about past allegations against the pop star involving five boys, including two who reached multimillion-dollar civil settlements with the s ...

Described by her father as weak and emaciated, Terri Schiavo clung to life Monday as police stepped up security outside her hospice room and protesters praying for last-minute intervention by the government kept vigil.

The Pentagon is awarding $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned "trauma pod" designed to use robots to perform full scalpel-and-stitch surgeries on wounded soldiers in battlefield conditions.

Sony Corp. has been ordered to pay $90.7 million and halt U.S. sales of PlayStation consoles for infringing on the patents of a company that develops and licenses touch-feedback technology to enhance video game realism.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 25 (HealthDay News) -- Canadian researchers say they've found a way to help 'finger' men with physically aggressive personalities.

A major earthquake struck late Monday off the west coast of Indonesia, and a local government official said 296 people were killed in collapsed buildings. Thousands panicked in countries across the Indian Ocean as tsunami warnings were posted.

Reuters - A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported.

Reuters - An Italian woman whose angry husband refused for seven years to have sex with her was awarded divorce damages by Italy's high court.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit a small island off Indonesia's Sumatra late on Monday, killing dozens of people, but fears across Asia of another huge tsunami soon receded, residents and officials said.

I have received the following comments on posts from my Pop Life blog. Though they're ostensibly aimed at the celebrities I discuss on the blog, I prefer to think they're aimed at me. Hey Baby!! I love you sooo much.I love your music, your style, and ...

Sorry, Maciej, but I am unable to assist in your Macropatronage effort. Fortunately, I have a very good excuse....

I drove the hundred miles (160 kilometers) down to St. Louis from my home in Springfield, Illinois last Saturday, and I couldn't believe how much traffic there was on I-55. Almost all of the cars had out of state license plates. Before 9-11, 9 out ...

A major quake hits the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, three months after last year's tsunami.

Consumerpedia is Wikipedia for products. It’s in .00000001 alpha, the site says, but it seems usable, albeit empty. (I put in a review of Thinkpad X40, just to try it out.) The Help page highlights its tools for constructing a hierchical folkso ...

xo.typepad.com/ blog/ 2005/ 03/ zoominfo.html Give your ego a boost by doing a search on Zoominfo. Zoominfo is a summarization search engine that finds useful information about people on the Web. There are currently over 25 million summaries listed b ...

avc.blogs.com/ a_vc/ 2005/ 03/ we_vs_they.html OM Malik didn't like my we company thing.He thinks all companies are "by definition" they companies.I don't think so.The world is changing.  Technology is empowering the consumer like no g ...

And speaking of sexy androids, have you ever stopped to consider the fact that robots have feelings too? We've been too busy trying to teach our mechanical assistants here at Fleshbot Central to write about celebrity nipple slips for us, but Jason a ...

Google links to news about today's Sumatra earthquake. It's a magnitude 8.7, only slightly lower than the earthquake which caused the devastating Tsunami the end of last year. While several people have been killed, according to the U.S. Geologica ... ...

Steve Baldwin is the author of Netslaves 2.0: Tales of Surviving the Great Tech Gold Rush. In the mid-90s, he was working on Time-Warner's Pathfinder. A successful site which, like many, is dead today. Steve in his museum of e-failures and blog p ... ...

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Progress on learning to cook like a proper human being has been slow because I've been so busy the past month or so. But baby steps are better than no steps at all and in the past weeks, I've tackled cheeseburgers and pancakes. (Ok, you can stop snic ...

It's been almost two years since the Star Wars Kid video, but the tributes keep coming. Tonight, "Arrested Development" featured an obvious SWK homage. In a flashback, the family stumbles on a tape-recording of George Michael, the teenage son of Ja ...

As long as we're on the subject of Lovecraft, did you know that his works had inspired a role-playing game, a cute plush toy, a breakfast cereal, and a number of blasphemously bad films (flash, sound)? The best, though, is the unspeakably evil mus ...

Mustache March is a silly little idea/ project where every guy at a company grows a mustache during March, they take photos, then at the end of the month a BBQ fundraiser is thrown with proceeds going to a charity. A side benefit is that the month of ...

H.P. Lovecraft meets Bil Keane via, via

The Birdhouse Man of Berkeley builds birdhouses from scrap wood, license plates, doorknobs, and other assorted items. SFGate article.

Somerby:So how about it? Is there something "exceptional about the blogs" when it comes to slander, misstatement and error? Is it true that newspapers "have done the same thing?" As the discussion progressed, Andrew Sullivan seemed to say tha ...

just go read...(thanks to filkertom)

Three very different Flash games are popular at the moment: Squares, Ray Ray, and what people wither call "escape" or "prison break", but what we think is in fact called...

Rolling Stone describes Maya Arulpragasam's music as "the sound of jump-rope rhymes in a war zone." Under the rap moniker M.I.A., Maya blends "Push it" era Salt N' Peppa with...

A 911 call is made when a woman frantically can't get the level of service she'd like from a Burger King drive-thru. A firm scolding thusly ensues. We need this...

MSNBC.com has launched a special earthquake eyewitness weblog written by readers that bolsters its coverage of the massive quake that struck Indonesia today with on-the-ground reports. They also have an entire section of their site for citizen journa ...

Just in case you can't get to sleep and you left your copy of Beowulf at school, here are four lengthy articles that summarize my POV on citizen marketing, blogging and PR. iMedia Connection has transcribed a session I led...

MarketingVOX: "General James Cartwright, the man in charge of America's nuclear arms, has a blog, according to a defense industry publication that summarized reports and commentary from military blogs. And he wants his sprawling command to read ...

Bloggers in Malaysia report on today's earthquake.

BlogPulse conversation tracker via Tim Jarrett via Steve Rubel.

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.... Kofi is depressed. ....

This week, I'm going to be running a five-part behind-the-scenes look at the development of FogBugz 4.0. Each morning I'll post a new installment. Today, in The Road To FogBugz 4.0 Part I, I'll talk about a couple of major features we added after ...

Hiring Until now we've been hiring rarely and quietly, but lately our sales are so strong we can't quite keep up. My old theory of hiring was to post a job listing on Monster or Craigslist and then sort through the massive pile of unqualified appl ...

Reason is a popular real-time sound synthesis and sampling software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequen ...

along same fault line, but no reports of tsunami activity yet  

a full API, tagging, e-mail/ SMS reminders, and support for personal events! I hope everyone likes the changes  

$20 cheap; used for loading homebrew demos and code onto the DS  

clock face photos for every minute of the hour  

reminds me of this classic McSweeney's list  

this makes sense for serious sellers  

they're making very smart moves, and they're wooing the geek crowd back  

David Pescovitz: It would take quite a few departed housepets to cover a Smart Car. Hopefully it's "fun fur." Link (Thanks, Margaret Marks!)

Cory Doctorow: The old Russian embassy to Thailand sits vacant and derelict in Bangkok. This photo-tour is a room-by-room crawl through its rusting bones, including the s33krit metal-lined dungeons! Link (Thanks, Jit!)

Cory Doctorow: Mitch sez, "SciFi.com is distributing MP3 files that you listen to while watching episodes of "Stargate: Atlantis" with the sound muted. Download the files to your MP3 player, bring the player into the living room, get comfortable, and ...

I'm off to Taiwan today. Tonight I'm giving a talk at the TW Blogger BoF and tomorrow morning I'm giving a talk at the TWNIC Annual Seminar. I haven't been to Taiwan for over 20 years so I'm looking forward to visiting, albeit briefly. Comment - Tra ...

Further evidence of the penetration of blogs into mainstream culture: Blog Sticky Notes Courtesy of my lovely daughter Leah....

Details are out on the next Unreal Tournament game. The as yet unnamed game will feature 11 weapons, include voice controlled AI players, a global rating system and Onslaught, Death Match, Team Death Match, Capture the Flag and Conquest. Conquest...

Looks like the next Lara Croft game will be called Tomb Raider Legends. Eidos took down their Angel of Death site and replaced it with a coming soon page. The page's title, that thing that appears at the top of...

Pi10k: "Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence." ... via MonkeyFilter Salary Clock: Enter your salary to check your earnings in real time. ... via

(Three Mile Island)

Spring cleaning and all that: 1. Don't forget to check out the details for: Seth's Blog: Please come to a seminar in my office. 2. Sign up for an RSS reader. You can check all your blogs at once just...

Rija posted a photo:

"Mefeedia has inconspicuously turned into Flickr for video, at least in terms of tag usage. Several of us that use Mefeedia are putting out a call for people to add videos with the tag "gates", in honor of Christo and Jean Claude's Central Park exhib ...

The entertainment industry goes head to head against file-sharing services at the Supreme Court this week. Some fear the Grokster case could have a devastating effect on development of new technologies. By Katie Dean.