September 2008
Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock →
how to add a real separator to the dock
August 2008
Illegal Police Raid on AntiRNC Convergence Space... →
“At 9:15 Friday night, the Saint Paul Police entered all doors of the RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul, MN with guns drawn. The Space serves as a community center and organizing space for the…
Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent... →
Buried in a recent Administration proposal is a sentence that affirms the United States remains in a state of permanent war with al Qaeda and “associated organizations.” If passed by Congress, it…
Birth of a 'Horrible' Fandom →
A brief look at the Big Bang birth of a fandom: the explosion of ‘Dr. Horrible’ fandom in just 47 days. Quite a lot of “more inside” follows. First, there’s the fanfic videos that try to…
We're Going with The Rumor: Sarah Palin is not... →
Sarah’s 4 month old son, Trig, is actually her grandson. Trig’s real mom, suggests the internet underbelly, is Sarah’s teenage daughter, Bristol. Bristol was taken out of school for 4 or 5 months…
SugarSync Sweetens Online Syncing →
In my ongoing efforts to keep up with the latest Mac backup tools, I’ve come across a number of services that promise to automatically synchronize some set of files from your Mac or PC with a server…
Praying for Rain? Be Careful What You Wish For.... →
As Hurricane Gustav barrels toward the Gulf Coast and residents are fleeing in droves, I am reminded of this “humorous” piece put out by Dobson’s Focus on the Family organization last week:
Dilapidated Barn at Sunrise →
jsrcyclist is in Indiana (with only an iPhone) un posted a photo:
Taken on the way to the Louisville Photowalk.
The Case Against Sarah Palin →
Normally VP picks donât matter so much, but in this particular case, due to McCainâs age and health, the choice really matters. She is not ready to be vice president by her own statement. Sheâs…
It Gets Even Weirder →
The Palin pick was weird on its face. Here was a complete neophyte on the national stage, whose past experience was being the mayor of a 9,000 person town and being governor of a state the same…
Why Not McCain-Dole? →
The freakish concentration on abortion in Republican VP vetting, as Ezra says, nixes a whole number of otherwise good choices, and is probably responsible for this catastrophic pick. After all, of…
When You Grow Up... →
“When will we ever have a black president? When will we have a woman president? You think it will ever happen? Can I be president when I grow up?” For decades, every fourth-grader in the country…
Now That’s Gratitude →
The page is in Dutch, but DF reader Rene Brouwer sent the following translation: 27 year old Frisian developer Eric Wijngaard won $275,000 in Google’s Android Developer Challenge for his…
Rumor: Apple, AT&T Working On iPhone Tethering... →
The reason NetShare was so great was that for the first time it was possible for people who don’t hack their iPhone to share its “unlimited” internet capabilities with a laptop in the absence…
Well, It's No Punky Brewster →
A McCain/Palin pairing? I’m sorry, but that’s just… weird. It’s a pairing that seems to be drawn not from politics, but from a 1980’s network sitcom. HE is an ex-POW turned multimillionaire. He…
Just Asking, Part II →
Do you realize that McCain is 22 years older than Palin’s state?
(h/t: Chris Kelly)
Worldwide Photo Walk - 2008 Winners →
Cindy McCain's half sister: 'I'm voting for... →
“I’m voting for Obama,” the Phoenix resident says. “I think his proposals to improve the country are more positive and I’m not a big war believer.”
iDevKit - The Largest iPhone & iPod Touch... →
Bluegrass Band Yonder Mountain String Band and... →
Denver (Colorado), USA - Yonder Mountain String Band, hailing from Nederland, Colorado (forty miles northwest of Denver), will be performing at this year’s Democratic National Convention held…
Apple’s Corporate Food Court O’ Plenty: Reviewed! →
Review of Caffe Mac at the Apple headquarters. Verdict: Way better than a vending machine Snickers.
ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking... →
ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors ABC News has a disturbing report (complete with a video of the incident) where one of their producers, Asa…
International Space Station Windows computers... →
Section: Operating Systems, Windows
The International Space Station has been infiltrated. That’s right, a virus has made it’s way onto the computers of the International Space Station….
Scratch-N-See: Vandalize Your Photos in the Name... →
Small monkeys made August’s Photojojo possible. (Really)
~ Have a cool photo product or site? Reach 210,000 photo fans
We love Josh Poehlein’s photography…
Comments by Mike Cohen — BackType →
Track comments & replies from various websites in one place.
Society In Decline Project: Intrastate Commerce →
Photo set of roadside signs.
WordPress Coda Clips Collection →
Coda clips for wordpress tags & function list.
Chase Jarvis tests drives the Nikon D90 →
“Woot! Today I get to be among the very first to share with you the planet’s newest camera: the much-anticipated Nikon D90. It’s the real deal and I know so because my crew and I spent several weeks…
15 Spectacular Lightning Images →
Our wonderful forum administrator NaturesPixel has put together a brief how to photograph lightning tutorial in our forums that tackles the question. At a little inspiration in your lightning…
MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL →
CurtMonash writes “MapReduce sits at the heart of Google’s data processing — and Yahoo’s, Facebook’s and LinkedIn’s as well. But it’s been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with…
AT&T adds two international data plans for... →
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Following new plans geared to the decidedly less fruity phones in AT&T’s lineup earlier this month, the carrier has announced a pair of…
Steady Growth →
The Slow (Feed)Burn and How Patience Wins on the Web -
No huge swells of change, no massive influxes of traffic. Not very exciting, is it? Just a slow, (surprisingly) steady uphill climb which…
Obama Asks DOJ To Block Terrorist Ad, Investigate... →
The Politico has the story that Barack Obama has appealed to the Department of Justice in his efforts to fight a Republican billionares ads that connect the Democratic candidate to foreign and…
Put My Thing Down, Flip It and Reverse It →
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where George decides to start doing the opposite of whatever his instincts tell him to, and his life starts getting better and better? That’s the general attitude…
Opentape →
Muxtape is down, but Opentape is a free, open-source alternative that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.
The Speech That Started It All →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3mOyuJvX8U
The speech four years ago that ignited Barack Obama’s career.
Seemingly official Nikon D90 pics, specs surface →
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Nikon’s much-anticipated D90 has been popping up all over the place lately, but it hasn’t actually shown its face — in any non-Photoshop…
Laptop Locks: Not Quite So Secure →
Laptop locks have been a required piece of gear in the road warrior’s bag for years, but apparently the traditional Kensington lock isn’t quite as secure as many people have thought. One…
Exercise and the Placebo Effect →
Cleaning hotel rooms is a strenuous business. However, when Alia Crum and Ellen Langer talked to 84 maids, most were under the impression that they did not get enough exercise. Furthermore, when they…
Goodbye, Tris, we miss you already →
Section: iPod + iTunes, iPod touch, iPhone + Communications, iPhone, iPhone SDK & Apps
You may remember my favorite Tetris clone, Tris, that was released in the App Store in the…
Obama's Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them →
We were lost in Boston’s South End, looking for Thayer Street. Street signs are optional around Boston, and the locals didn’t know either the street or our precise destination…
Iceland Locations →
Iceland looks like one of the most beautiful places on earth, a frozen visual representation of Sigur Ros’ music. I want to visit some day.
Fiction writer ordered not to photograph grave of... →
Surely H.P. Lovecraft wouldnât have minded having his headstone photographed by two of his biggest fans. Especially on his birthday.
Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive →
Hugh Pickens writes “Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about an archive designed with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years to serve future generations as a modern Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta…
McCain and His Liquored-Up Father-in-Law →
Interesting history of John McCain and his convicted father-in-law, first printed in 2000.
This story examines the roots of the Hensley fortune and John McCain’s implacable bond to the liquor…
Land of the free, home of the brave →
Unless you’re a dirty stinking muslim. Let’s just be honest…if you want to be a “real” American, you best be a white, born-again christian. Anything else is a terrorist.
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Umm, Sure You Want To Go There J-Pod? →
J-Pod complains that because Biden is doing pretty well financially, Democrats will regret embracing him as an avatar of working classness:
Many are saying Biden’s chief aim will be to…
Solving Sudoku With dpkg →
Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic contained in Debian’s package dependency resolver: solving sudoku puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the…
McCain: “Housing important to you? don’t vote for... →
In January, McCain made it clear that voters who felt the economy was the most important issue shouldn’t vote for him. He’ll understand:
“Even if the economy is the, quote, number one issue,…
Newsweek: The Truth About Obama's Birth... →
FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S….
