NetApp – Storage Nuts & Bolts: NetApp ESX Host Utilities vCenter Plugin OMFG, this looks sweet. Amazon.com: No Line On The Horizon: MP3 Downloads: U2 $4 for the new U2 disc? Awesome. Cool Tools: Kahtoola Microspikes I need to get some of these. Badly.
Will Law – Blog » How to install SBC/ATT Yahoo DSL without the install CD in 5 easy steps This guy is my savior. It's been a three week saga to get DSL working at home again after a billing snafu got it disconnected, just to be foiled by some idiot tech who insists I need the setup CD. I don't need the CD, I just need my account set up, but he didn't want to do that with me. AT&T sucks.
The Bacon Explosion – Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog. – NYTimes.com A friend made this for the Super Bowl, I need to find out how it went. I wonder if it'd work in a slow cooker… grilling in mid-winter is sorta cold. Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma | Science Blog "Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light." Anthropomorphizing the nanospheres by saying that they 'find' melanoma is ridiculous, and is the sort of inaccuracy that contributes to the decline of our general science knowledge. This isn't some weird version of the movie Innerspace, they just created a compound that …
U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices The DOE spreadsheet with historical data is great for figuring out my out-of-pocket expenses related to all the driving I do for my non-profit theater company. I can look up the weeks we were running and compute it for my tax returns.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com Excellent photos, excellent article.
YouTube – The Count Censored ROFL — selectively censoring the Count from Sesame Street. Safe for work. Quantum teleportation between distant matter qubits | Science Blog I wonder when we'll get ansibles. 🙂 This is pretty cool, transmitting data via quantum entanglement over a meter with 90% precision.
The Survivor – December 1, 2004 Seems like Carol Bartz is a good pick for Yahoo. Plus she's a UW CS grad, rock on.
Ideal conference badge OMFG yes, put people's names on BOTH FREAKING SIDES OF THE CONFERENCE BADGE. I hate it when people have turned-around name tags. I usually put a second name tag on the back of mine, but then again I'm an attention whore like that. Opti-2 "Opti-2 is a specialized two-cycle, single mix ratio lubricant engineered for use in all two-cycle engines, regardless of brand, model, or mix ratio." Mixed per gallon, and includes fuel stabilizer. Going to get some of this tonight for my stuff. Authorities: Fake-emergency pilot under securities probe – CNN.com A) This guy wasted a lot of people's time looking for him. B) He apparently didn't know that air traffic control would dispatch military jets …
Weekend Project: Reduce Your Bills by Just Asking "Your tone is critical. Most of the people you will talk to spend all day dealing with irrational and irate customers. Soft spoken curiosity about the negotiable nature of the current price will be met with a much more pleasant response than hostility and complaints about how #*$&%@! expensive everything is." This is the single best point in this article, and it works almost globally. With customer service folks getting mad is rarely going to advance your cause. People Find "How-To" Videos Boring Yeah, because they never get to the point. I usually need one specific piece of information and I don't want to watch someone yammer on and on.
Drm: Removing DRM from an iTunes Purchase Costs 30 Cents Amen. I suspect this is Apple staving off some lawsuits, but I'm still a fan.