April 2008
Arkansas school has an 11-year-old IT department... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Seeing as our high school network hijinks pretty much led to semi-permanent suspension, our barren hearts were actually warmed by the story of 11-year-old…
Why it sucks to be friends with Jason Calacanis. →
Don’t add Calacanis as a friend on Facebook
March 2008
Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills →
(Clinton’s financial advisor lives here) We mentioned this issue before, and it seems to have only gotten worse. I’d imagine in the unlikely event that Senator Clinton manages to win…
Adobe Joins Linux Foundation, Develops AIR for... →
2muchcoffeeman writes “Adobe announced Monday that it is joining the Linux Foundation and alpha-released a Linux version of its new Adobe Internet Runtime environment, which allows Internet-enable…
The impending storm over McCain's POW record? →
In 1973, John McCain wrote an extensive article about his account as a POW in Vietnam. In that article he stated that he told his captors “O.K., I’ll give you military information if you will take…
Why the RIAA Really Hates Downloads →
wtansill recommends the saga of Jeff Price, who traveled from successful small record label owner to successful Internet-era music distributor. His piece describes clearly what the major record…
Lennon and McCartney Reunite →
Lennon and McCartney’s Studio Reunion. On March 28, 1974, John Lennon was in a Burbank studio producing Harry Nilsson’s “Pussy Cats” album when Paul McCartney dropped in. The room froze and…
What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content «... →
WordPress 2.5 →
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file…
ASUS Eee PC desktop finally revealed? →
Filed under: Desktops
We’ve all been waiting to see what ASUS’s Eee PC desktop would turn out to look like, and HotHardware is claiming these shots are the real deal. Yeah, we know,…
Kaos vs Control →
Rush Limbaugh may be facing indictment for a fifth-degree felony after encouraging Republican voters to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton (“Operation Chaos”), but if you hurry you…
McKinnon Confirms He'll Leave McCain if Obama Wins →
The National Journal runs an interesting interview with GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon who says he still leave Sen. John McCain’s campaign if Sen. Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination. …
Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline →
Amy Bennett writes “A recent poll of about 12,000 US business decision-makers by market researcher CoreBrand found that Microsoft’s brand power has taken a dive over the past four years. According to…
Teflon or Krazy Glue? →
Matt Bai: “Why do some political missteps haunt their candidates forever, while
others are easily put to rest? John Kerry saying he voted for the war
before he voted against it, or Howard Dean…
NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista... →
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about…
I {entity} Unicode →
These are available as bumper stickers and t-shirts:
Here’s my rhetorical question to you: why is this funny?
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely,…
OLPC News: OLPC XO Hacks: Overclocking an XO... →
Directions on how to overclock your XO laptop using software only
The OLPC XO gets overclocked, loses its innocence →
Filed under: Laptops
It’s safe to assume that if you’re using one of OLPC’s XO laptops, you’re not exactly a speed demon. Still, you probably wouldn’t mind squeezing a little more…
The Acid3 Test →
Test your web browser.
Adobe Photoshop Express — Flash-Based Web App →
Flash-based web app for basic photo editing and online storage — up to 2 GB for free. “Beta”, of course. Here’s an example gallery from Andy Ihnatko, who was beta-testing it before it went…
Life during wartime →
In 1759, Ben Franklin may or may not have written “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” There’s some dispute over…
.Mac for the iPhone? →
An interesting new idea, .Mac for the iPhone, check it out over at iAppblog!
The Coming Digital Presidency →
Ranjit Mathoda writes “Marc Andreeson, the cofounder of Netscape, met Senator Barack Obama in early 2007. Mr. Andreeson recalls, “In particular, the Senator was personally interested in the rise of…
i'm on wired's game|life today →
Wired.com’s game|life blog does a feature where they ask someone from the gaming community two questions, one about the gaming industry, and one about something that’s completely random. …
The age of the anti-Cassandra - Paul Krugman →
Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who have been wrong about everything â but are still, mysteriously, treated as men of wisdom, whose judgments should be believed. Those who were…
The Age of the Anti-Cassandra →
Paul Krugman: Cassandra had the gift of prophecy — she saw, correctly, what was coming — but was under a curse: nobody would believe her. Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who…
The Arthur C. Clarke Gamma Ray Burst →
Larry Sessions, a columnist for Earth & Sky, has suggested in his blog that the gamma-ray event whose radiation reached us a few hours before Arthur C. Clarke died, and which occurred 7.5 billion…
Do We Need An Obama Doctrine? →
Spencer Ackerman’s article on the “Obama Doctrine” is quite good at exploring what actually makes Obama different and gets at why I think Obama is a much better candidate than Clinton on the…
Quickies for Debugging →
Useful Cocoa debugging tips for GDB.
Voyageur: Canada's Guitar →
Imagine a guitar constructed from a country’s history. Recently named Voyageur, the Six String Nation guitar is just that: Canada’s Guitar. The brainchild of broadcaster Jowi Taylor,…
Alastair Crooke: The naive armchair warriors are... →
Calls for the west to use force to restore its values in the face of radical Islam reveal a profound detachment from reality
A Long, Slow Defeat →
A must-read piece by David Brooks today: “Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near.”
Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? →
This classic Eric Lippert post describes, in excruciating, painful detail, exactly how much work it takes to add a single ChangeLightBulbWindowHandleEx function to a codebase at Microsoft:
…
The Death of Windows XP →
bsk_cw writes “Although many Windows users intend to hold onto their copies of XP until it is pried from their cold, dead fingers, Microsoft fully intends to phase out the OS in favor of Vista. If…
Composite Iraq photo →
From Nico Pitney, this mosaic of photos of Americans who’ve fallen in Iraq. In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would…
UN World Autism Day: Team Vico releases Shadow... →
The US group, Team Vico is set to release a CD of original music and rock and roll themes called ‘Shadow Shines’ to mark the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day. World Autism Awareness…
Rock Band moshes over to Wii on June 22nd →
Filed under: Gaming
Although PlayStation 2 / 3 and Xbox 360 owners have been living the dream for months, Wii owners can finally circle a date on their calender to undoubtedly be sick:…
The pain →
Superdelegates, in all of their deliberations, must certainly be considering the following:
The Clinton campaign claims that Hillary’s win in Ohio and her lead in Pennsylvania signal that she…
97 percent of US death toll came after 'Mission... →
and there’s no end in sight.
Presidential Data Breach →
Who Breached: US Department of State Number Affected: 3 Information breached: Passport records (including SSNs) How: insider breach
The passport records for three presidential candidates…
4,000 →
hilzoy summarizes the significance of this morbid milestone most elegantly. It’s a testament to the grievousness of the crime committed on March 19, 2003 that this isn’t even the worst of the…
Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5 →
Jeff recommends Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat’s story from a community meeting with Northwest border control agents. Seems their monitoring for dirty bombs from the median of Interstate 5…
Dems Prove They Can Do Rovian Dirty Tricks Against... →
Did you see Brian DiPalma’s The Untouchables? There’s a great scene with Sean Connery as the tough Irish cop Jim Malone challenging do-gooder Elliot Ness to recognize that to take down Al Capone,…
Real ID as a wedge issue →
It’s just beyond me why more Congressional Democrats have not seized upon Real ID as an issue that could split the Republican party down the middle. From almost every perspective, the 2005 Real…
Calculating the Date of Easter →
The God Plays Dice blog has an entertaining post on how the date of Easter is calculated. Wikipedia has all the messy details of course, but the blog makes a good introduction to the topic. “Easter…
iPhone App Store pictures leaked? →
Section: Apple, Applications, iPhone SDK, Communications, iPhone, Wireless
Could that be the forthcoming iPhone App Store? TUAW and design site Monster and Friends have both…
WOW, You’re a MORON! →
This kid robbed my house, this is the story so far.
What’s Online: The Thin Skin of Apple Fans →
Introducing even a hint of negativity into a review or article will bring down the wrath of Apple’s most fanatical fans.
So, What Do People Think About "So?" →
Last week when it was pointed out to Dick Cheney that two-thirds of Americans believe that the war in Iraq is not worth fighting, Cheney’s reply perfectly encapsulated this administration’s…
