July 2008
Con-artist convinces town he's a super Fed who... →
Yoder sez, “Bill Jakob, a former trucking company owner with law enforcement experience, spent ‘several months’ pretending to be a federal agent in the town of Gerald, MO. Jakob apparently spent his…
The unary ampersand in Ruby →
Dead Media Beat: The Giant Monster Snail that eats... →
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/04/is_the_pace_of_change_really_such_a_shock/ (((Yes, the pace of change is a shock. Every day there are people 90 years
old who look at their sunken, mortal…
“Untraining The Brain”: Meditation and Executive... →
“In a fascinating review of the cognitive neuroscience of attention, authors Raz and Buhle note that most research on attention focuses on defining situations in which it is no longer required to…
The Netgear Open Source Router [Stuff We Like] →
The Netgear Open Source Router is aimed specifically at running third-party, open-source firmwares like previously mentioned Tomato or DD-WRT. We’ve covered installing these firmwares on…
OpenStreetMap →
10 of the Biggest Platform Development Mistakes →
Just like with golf, technology is as much about ensuring that your bad hits are recoverable as it is ensuring that you make great ones. We’re all going to have failures in our careers but avoiding…
eBay Has To Pay $63m Because A French Court... →
A few weeks ago, we pointed out that a French court had made a very bad ruling, blaming eBay for actions of its users. The case involved the sale of counterfeit goods from LVMH. Rather than…
June 2008
Homophobic news site changes athlete Tyson Gay to... →
The funny people who run the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site are so frightened of gays that they’ve set up a filter to change every instance of the word “gay” to “homosexual.”
Overview — Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails /... →
James A. Owen - Wilfred Owen →
Further information on James A. Owen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Owen
Further information on Wilfred Owen: oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/owen/
Mystery Molecule Leads To Quantum Discovery →
The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.
In a Nature Physics journal paper…
Chad Hurley: How We Did It « NewTeeVee →
UsingMac - Terminal Sings Songs →
osascript -e ‘say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to…
Patent Battles Make It That Much More Difficult To... →
The problem with the view that patents should be given out for every little improvement (most of which would have come about naturally thanks to market demand) is that you end up with “patent…
Bono Apologizes for Paul McGuinness →
Earlier this month, Stan described U2 manager Paul McGuinness as a “walking contradiction, ranting and raving to no end, blaming everyone for the music industry’s troubles, and once again…
RFC 1149 (rfc1149) - Standard for the transmission... →
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarily useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not…
Why Compulsory Licenses Are Bad: A Look At The... →
When discussing things like patents and copyright, oftentimes someone suggests that “compulsory licensing” is a solution that solves all the problems. I tend to have serious problems with…
Carrier Pigeons Bringing Contraband into Prisons →
In Brazil. I think this is the first security vulnerability found in RFC 1149: “Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.” Deep packet inspection seems to be the only way…
Newly Independent Pop Band McFly Gives Away Free... →
Last month we wrote about the British pop band McFly, who had announced that it was ditching its record label, because the label wasn’t interested in experimenting with new ways to get music to…
Tempo →
Designing devices to be remotely overridden is a... →
Bruce Schneier’s new Wired column discusses the growing trend to designing devices so that other people can shut them down against your will — the movie theater can mute your phone, OnStar can shut…
xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel →
Lingon by Peter Borg →
A free an open source tool for managing launchd scripts.
Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to... →
macosxhints.com - How to access Time Machine files... →
Do Half Of Americans Really Want The Gov't To... →
You can prove almost anything you want with surveys if you word them correctly. Remember a couple months ago, when we were discussing a study that suggested people in China were “happy” with the…
mq: Open Message Queue : Open Source Java Message... →
Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage →
MacGourmet - Recipe Software for Mac OS X →
rubyphunk - Hello world: Introducing RSpactor →
RSpactor is a little command line tool to automatically run your changed specs (much like autotest). As you may expect, it concentrates on the use of RSpec. It was especially designed to use…
Make your own IM bot in Ruby, and interface it... →
Don't Blame Rick752 For Blocking Ads; Blame Those... →
The Washington Post is profiling the semi-anonymous Rick752, a mid-50s guy in upstate NY who puts together and maintains EasyList, an extremely popular list that powers the popular AdBlock Firefox…
Designing devices to be remotely overridden is a... →
Bruce Schneier’s new Wired column discusses the growing trend to designing devices so that other people can shut them down against your will — the movie theater can mute your phone, OnStar can shut…
Senators Not Thrilled About Laptop Searches At The... →
It would appear that the EFF’s efforts to get Congress to look into laptop searches at the border has worked. This is over the question of whether or not it’s legal, with no suspicion of…
Epic Alex :: Web Design →
Relay: Ajax Directory Manager →
Congress Must Investigate Privacy Violations at... →
This morning, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien testified in a Senate hearing on laptop searches and other privacy violations faced by Americans at the U.S. border. Lee’s testimony [PDF]…