May 2008
The Great Dub-Dub-Dub Debate →
Pop quiz, hotshot. Which one is the superior Uniform Resource Locator?
www.fakeplasticrock.com
or
fakeplasticrock.com
This is one of those intractable problems. Global wars have…
April 2008
Music Videos of Africa - Clips Africains →
Huge collection of African music videos
with comb & razor: Fela SHOUTS!!! →
nice video clip & mp3 download
BlueRope » Blog Archive » Source List View... →
If you want to have add/remove/resize controls at the bottom of a source list view (like the ones in Mail and so many other nice-looking applications), hereâs at least one method of getting them
Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video →
Okay, so we’ve been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we’ve formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action. We haven’t really…
WatchJimi Mbaye
21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs | 10e20 Blog →
Composition tips
Religion makes the stupid, part #32498 →
So a girl dies of undiagnosed diabetic ketoacidosis because her parents decided to play mumbly-peg with the magic man in the sky instead of doing like God told them and helping themselves…to…
Next-gen Toyota Prius: bigger, stronger, more... →
Filed under: Transportation
We already know that Toyota has an eye to the future with the Prius, likely switching up the batteries and adding a plug-in option, but now we’ve got…
Video: OQO hacked to run Leopard, now world's... →
Filed under: Handhelds
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/This_is_now_world_s_smallest_Mac_OQO_hacked_to_run_Leopard'; While greeted with heaps of initial skepticism, forum…
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday →
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… $100 REWARD FOR ANSWERS I’m just a poor, confused American voter still trying to figure out this whole Pastor Hagee controversy. Here’s what I’ve figured out from…
★ Big Fan →
After reading this morning’s blurb on the egregious fan noise in Psystar’s supposed Mac clones, my friend Cabel Sasser emailed with a story, including documentary video footage, regarding Apple’s…
Ten things I hate about Windows and love about my... →
Section: Apple, Software + Apps, iLife, iWork, Third-Party, Productivity, Utilities, Mac + Computers, Software, Operating Systems, Leopard, OS-X, Tiger, Windows, …
TextMate (Ruby) Tricks →
John Muchow of Mac Developer Tips recently posted a screencast showing a neat way to debug your Ruby code. Speaking of the Ruby bundle, Ciarán Walsh has a post about the design philosophy…
Do you seek to live a "more abundant life?" →
Mark Taibbi goes undercover in one of pastor John Hagee’s “Encounter” weekends. Yes, the Hagee who recently endorsed John McCain. Published in Rolling Stone, and a part of Taibbi’s forthcoming…
Laura Berg American Hero →
Whoa, sounds like Ms. Berg deserves the plaudits she’s received.
The PEN American Center, the literary organization committed to free expression, is honoring an American most people in this…
Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More →
eldavojohn writes “You may be familiar with Donald Knuth from his famous Art of Computer Programming books but he’s also the father of TeX and, arguably, one of the founders of open source. There’s…
Youtube - J.C. - Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World... →
Johnny Clegg - Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World Montreal Jazz Fest 30.6.2004 (5/9) “For my son and all the children of his generation who will have to deal wilh all…
TypeRacer →
An addictive time waster
10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy... →
Here’s a three-step process to create a Time Machine backup on a network-attached storage (NAS) unit.
Create a sparsebundle image on your local system. I’m not sure of the reason why, but I…
Charles Krauthammer: Dishonest Hypocrite →
When you consider the competition Charles Krauthammer was up against, penning the most dishonest op-ed in today’s Washington Post was no mean feat, but he did it. It’s amazing really. In an…
Video: James Cramer on Apple →
He’s bullish on Apple because they’re completely dominating the mindshare of teenagers and young adults. I think he’s right — both that this is a tremendous strength for Apple, and that it’s being…
Rands In Repose: Saving Seconds →
The mouse, while incredibly useful as a casual means of interacting with a computer, is not a productivity tool, because when you use a mouse you sometimes miss and missing isnât productive.
Hillary LeMay →
Hillary Clinton apparently lives in a world in which saying that an Iranian attack on Israel would provoke “massive retaliation” and “total obliteration” is not a threat of nuclear reprisal. She…
Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh →
Microsoft’s fans are delivered to the promised land.
For three years now I’ve wondered “what is Ray Ozzie up to?” And with this announcement you see just why he’s Microsoft’s CTO. Yeah, there…
Can An Intellectual Be President? →
Not can a “smart person” be president, but an intellectual. There’s a difference. Bill Clinton attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, but no one would have pegged the McDonald’s-munching Clinton as…
Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes | Life,... →
Ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on how to fix them.
Propaganda War: The "Mind Game" →
Yesterday the New York Times carried an in-depth, documented report on a propaganda war that has been waged against the American people for more than five years. To understand the scope of the…
PayPal welcomes Safari back into the fold →
Section: Apple, Apple News, Software + Apps, Web
PayPal was considering blocking Safari users from accessing their website due to security risks that the browser has a few days ago….
Dwindling In Unbelief: The Passover Plot -- God's... →
Today is Passover, a religious festival celebrating the mass murder of every non-Jewish “firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.” And the murderer is God himself.
Karl Rove and the Flag Pin →
Lisa DePaulo interviews the Dark Lord, Karl Rove. One topic that piqued my interest was the slam on Obama for not wearing a flag pin. Some have speculated as to why this particular…
Perceptive →
Although I, like everyone else, thought ABC’s debate moderation was pretty shamtastic, I also think that this attempt to eliminate gotcha questioning could easily backfire. Because McCain has…
Matt Gemmell » Cocoa Source Code →
Useful utility classes
Teh Skid Productions →
Creating a badge in Photoshop
Bitter Voters For Barack Obama →
After weeks of artificial controversies it would have been nice for ABC to take the high ground and give us a night on the issues. But did they? No.
Muxtape With Coverflow Using Fluid →
Muxtape: social webapp for sharing music playlists. Fluid: Mac desktop app for creating site-specific browsers with coverflow browsing.Put em together, and here’s what you get. Hawt!
Sketchy pictures of new MacBook, MacBook Pro, and... →
Filed under: Cellphones, Laptops
Whoops! Apple’s gone and leaked its brand new aluminum MacBook and redesigned MacBook Pros to the interblogs. Yeah, it seems old Jobsy has really…
Popular Mechanics: Macs Faster than PCs →
Popular Mechanics has pitted Macs against mostly comparable PCs and found that Macs are faster than PCs, both in terms of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" vs. Vista, and even when both are running…
Microsoft's Vista promo video just a "spoof" →
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Turns out Microsoft’s unfathomably horrendous Vista SP1 promo video that turned up yesterday was just one great big spoof — a spoof Redmond…
‘Rockin’ Our Sales’ →
This embarrassingly bad internal Microsoft video extolling the virtues of Vista in the enterprise has been linked all over the place today. If you haven’t bitten the bullet and watched it yet, you…
Flickr Code →
Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community
Fight Splogs - Wired How-To Wiki →
“Splogs,” or spam blogs, are one of the methods spammers have adopted to manipulate the blogosphere for profit. The phenomenon started getting really bad in 2005, when Google’s blog-hosting service,…
film music | mobygratis.com →
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
How to fight splogs →
At first glance, it seems like a regular blog. But look closer and you’ll see there’s something very odd about the blog’s content: It’s very familiar. Too familiar.
Ishmael Khaldi →
Ishmael Khaldi’s story about growing up as a shepherd and becoming an educated world traveller and how he is helping his people make the transition from a traditional nomadic society to a…
GamePark's GP2X F-200 handheld gets reviewed →
Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
We know, most of you even remotely interested in the F-200 either already own one (and you’re playing it right now, aren’t you? Don’t lie.) or are…
Techno →
Alert Thingy: A desktop app for FriendFeed.com →
A Twitterrific-style desktop app.
Woz On Young People And iPhone Development →
Tech Ticker’s Andy Kessler sat down with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently to discuss innovation being done by young people in America today. Among the subjects talked about were…
Robert Reich on Bitterness and the Press →
In response to the fuss over whether it was elitist of Barack Obama to observe that some people are bitter that their jobs have been eliminated and replaced, former Clinton labor secretary Robert…
