October 2007
higher intellect :: information at the speed of... →
Oct 31st
britt: I’m waiting for an IDE to do better than adequate. (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 31st
britt: Ugh, I hate it when i write two versions of a sentence in my head and then it comes out as a little of each. (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 31st
britt: @marcusramberg Yeah me too, but it just doesn’t do a few things I want when I do JAVA mostly a TestNG runner. (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 31st
Stream Music from your iPhone to iTunes with... →
Filed under: iPod Family, iTunes, iPhone Mike Ter Louw has brilliantly managed to port mt-daapd, the Firefly Media Server, to iPhone. Firefly makes use of your iPhone’s built in mDNS/Bonjour media service to stream audio to iTunes. Any iTunes. The one running on your home computer. The one running on a friend’s computer. Wherever. Stream from your iPhone to a quality audio system....
Oct 31st
Graphomaniac Art In Kharkov →
Via EnglishRussia: One Russian guy in Kharkov, Ukraine preferred was obsessed with some idea which he tried to express in writing on any flat surface he met. All his flat carried his scriptures, the local lobbies and walls of houses also had not stayed untouched. Many photos, all amazing:
Oct 31st
Eye-Fi » A Wireless Memory Card? →
Oct 31st
Irrational Exuberance: Getting started with Shoes... →
Oct 31st
Nine Inch Nails Frontman Was a Member of OiNK →
The driving force behind the Nine Inch Nails isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too, I’m not gonna say I don’t” he said. Now Trent has gone public and admitted where he did a lot of sharing - OiNK. In an interview with New York Entertainment he sent his clearest pro-sharing stance yet. When asked what he thought about...
Oct 31st
Limotrack: "We Need an APC Pick-Up!" →
The tank limo trend in the U.K. continues apace with the “Limotrack,” a converted BV206 Full-Tracked Articulated Personnel Carrier that will carry your drunken friends in style at speeds up to 35MPH. Inside its been retrofitted with a drinks cooler, a sound system, and a freak-out-your-date smoke machine. It is also supposedly amphibious, so if the party gets boring in London you...
Oct 31st
PC stripper helps spam to spread →
According to BBC, a virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image. The scrambled text images come from sites which use them to stop computers automatically signing up for accounts that can be put to illegal use. By getting people...
Oct 31st
britt: Just got done helping friends shoot a 30 second horror movie for Halloween. (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 31st
IP as a Joke: Bring the suit in a virtual court... →
Here is another IP as a Joke item. Nate Anderson reports that a player in the virtual world game Second Life had “her Nomine-branded avatar skins allegedly ripped off by another user who has been selling counterfeit copies for his own profit.” She has now gone to court for violation of her copyright link here. Since the skins can be sold to others for “virtual” Linden...
Oct 31st
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-30T21:56:00 →
Fiancé proposed theme.
Oct 31st
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-30T21:56:00 →
Oct 31st
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-30T21:56:00 →
by Pisco_Bandito aka joshsommers on Flickr
Oct 31st
Obama promises Net Neutrality law →
Barack Obama has promised that he will deliver a law mandating Net Neutrality if he’s elected: Affixing his signature to federal Net neutrality rules would be high on the list during his first year in the Oval Office, the junior senator from Illinois said during an interactive forum Monday afternoon with the popular contender put on by MTV and MySpace at Coe College in Iowa… He...
Oct 30th
britt: I have travelled back in time to 1997. Heed my missives from the past. (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 30th
britt: @mario Here is a post on how to make any drive owrk with Time Machine http://urltea.com/1xn6 maybe this + Jungle disk? (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 30th
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-29T21:36:00 →
Oct 30th
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-29T21:29:00 →
Oct 30th
Bush fundraiser linked to crashed drug plane →
Remember the strange circumstances surrounding the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan last month? There’s more. According to Mad Cow Morning News, the plane was once owned by ultra-rich Bush supporter Stephen Adams. (In July, the Federal Election Commission filed suit against Adams on charges that he “failed to report and include proper...
Oct 29th
Oct 29th
Ruby Document Database →
Oct 29th
Best Buy won't refund "hard drive" that turned out... →
The Consumerist’s Meghann Marco sez, “Reader Sam ordered a hard drive from Best Buy. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles.” Best Buy won’t give him a refund, saying that he needs to take it up with the manufacturer. I got into my car, raced back to Best Buy and voiced my complaint. The employee and assistant manager were more than willing to help, saying that it...
Oct 29th
pocket-cheat-sheet - Microformats →
Oct 29th
[from entangledstate] pocket-cheat-sheet -... →
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Oct 29th
AppSnapp: Jailbreak your iPhone from a web page →
Oct 29th
Toronto Star runs paid "anti-counterfeiting" ad as... →
The Toronto Star ran a huge advertising section promoting “anti-counterfeiting legislation” that attacks Canada’s generic drugs and serves as a back door for DRM laws and Draconian copyright penalties — but they ran it as news, even though they were “sponsored” by the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.The claims in the “article” were one-sided and...
Oct 29th
britt: Pancakes in a can! http://tinyurl.com/2lnfok (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 26th
Oct 26th
Protesting prostitutes sew mouths shut →
Bolivian prostitutes on a hunger strike have sewn their mouths shut as part of a protest against the governmental shut-down of brothels and bars in El Alto’s red light district. From Reuters: “We are fighting for the right to work and for our families’ survival,” Lily Cortez, leader of the El Alto Association of Nighttime Workers, told local television. “Tomorrow...
Oct 26th
britt: Now utilizing next key locking (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 26th
It’s about time: ‘Batter Blaster’ pancakes in a... →
Oh hell yes. I loves me some pancakes but I hate all the preparation time and cleaning involved. Pancake batter dispensed using a patent-pending process similar to how Cheez Whiz is dispensed from an aerosol can? Patent pending?! It’s gotta be good! Batter Blaster is all organic and requires refrigeration, which I think is a good thing because it may have come off as a little weird to some...
Oct 26th
Holy shit! Rumsfeld charged with torture! →
Oh, wait, in France. Still, though! Oh, Tonyyyyyyyy….it’s just a matter of tiiiiiiime….
Oct 26th
britt: Just acquired http://tinyurl.com/3y9oco and http://tinyurl.com/3dd3qf (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 26th
Keyboard shortcuts during Mac OS X startup - The... →
Oct 26th
How to make any drive work with Time Machine →
Oct 26th
Icthyoid Alien →
Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean like no other, as it does not just live in its host but actually replaces part of the it. First it attaches itself at the base of the tongue of the chosen fish, with the claws on its front three pairs of legs, and begins to extract blood. As the parasite grows, less and less blood is able to reach the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies and dies,...
Oct 26th
TSA: Americans need GOVERNMENT permission 72 hrs... →
Now the Bush administration wants to take away the American people’s freedom to travel within their own country by airplane. Not content with an 80,000 “no fly” list, a subset of a 500,000-750,000 “watch list,” the Bush administration’s Transport Security Administration has proposed new rules that will require Americans to get government permission 72 hours in...
Oct 26th
Goodbye Old Rifle, You Won't Find Another Fool... →
My Pervy Muji Rubber-Covered Page Layout Book and page layout grids It’s funny what you can find yourself getting sentimental about; today I finally filled the Pervy Muji Rubber-Covered Page Layout Book that I started back in January 2003. That was a momentous time for me; Scarlet Traces had been serialised in The Megazine and was about to be reprinted by Dark Horse, I was working on XTNCT...
Oct 26th
AT&T logo improvement →
AT&T took an active role in helping the NSA break the law by wiretapping the whole Internet, without a warrant, particularized suspicion, or moral compunction. Here’s a suggested logo-revision from an anonymous reader — remember, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day: Wiretapping, Treason and Plot! JPEG Link
Oct 26th
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #429 →
Ape Lad posted a photo:
Oct 26th
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-25T16:46:00 →
Oct 25th
Oct 25th
britt: Dammit, why doesn’t my gmail account have imap yet? (via Twitter / britt)
Oct 25th
CrunchBase →
Oct 25th
UK Considers Forcing ISPs To Block File Sharing →
Following the recent UK shutdowns of OiNK and tv-links, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, is now threatening to regulate ISPs if they don’t stop file sharing. Unfortunately, Lord Triesman seems a bit confused both about technology and economics here — which is disappointing, as his thoughts on regulations would impact both...
Oct 25th
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-24T23:02:00 →
Little Joe from Franklin Park Zoo in Boston
Oct 25th
riotclitshave @ 2007-10-24T23:02:00 →
Oct 25th