One of the million, billion grains of sand in the desert | dooce ® Interesting commentary about death, wrt to a set of portraits taken of people before and after death. I like it, but I’ve never been freaked out by this sort of thing. Death is just a part of life (specifically, the end of it). 🙂 World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King “New Hero Class Revealed: Bard” LOL. Now this is an April Fools joke I like.
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer This is mean. Reminds me of Stephenson’s “Snow Crash.” Chris Blattman’s Blog: Holy evaluation I’ve been surprised lately by some people around me like this… people you never expected to “get it.” jwz – Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! “Because their lawyers determined that, because mcom.com is ten years old and four letters long, they could make several hundred thousand dollars by simply putting it on the market and selling it to a spammer!” AOL is a bunch of tools.
YouTube – Hillary Clinton’s New Video Game: 3AM Call of Duty “Because it takes a village to take a village.” LOL. Slow Cooker Carnitas – Allrecipes I love cooking in my crock pot. (tags: recipes)
Google Street View Car Driver Heh, we get to see the driver of the Google Street View car, talking to a Excelsior Springs, MO cop. I’m stoked that Madison is in the Street View now. What’s A Vacation? I usually do the “spend time away” and “go dark weekend” when I need a break. Blinkenlights.nl “Ever wanted to see Star Wars in Telnet?” Holy crap, this is cool.
Rick Rolled to child porn = you’re a pedophile, says FBI This is total BS. I’m not arguing for child porn or anything, I’m just arguing for common sense. We have too many cops in the U.S. and they’re all trained to see everybody as a criminal. jwz – new lampshadey robot overlords will smother you in your sleep. This is art I like — a lamp that knits its own lampshade. Reminds me of the AI in Gibson’s “Count Zero” that built Cornell-like boxes. John Sequeira’s Weblog “I saw some married people in the cafe the other day and something seemed wrong.” If you read Paul Graham’s essay “You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss” this is a great …
YouTube – Danny Boy If you haven’t seen this it’s worth the two minutes, IMHO. It’s the Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker singing “Danny Boy.” LOL. TidBITS Networking: AirPort Update Adds Archive for Time Capsule, External Mounted Drives for AirPort Extreme Yay! You can now mirror the Airport disks over USB. Well, archive, not mirror, per se. But still good. Simplicity Good cartoon that pretty much sums up why people hate most apps and web sites. Inspectd.com – Training Tools for Traders This is addicting — they show you a stock chart and you guess if it goes up or down. inessential.com: ‘Page-in-a-page design’ More discussion about the size of web pages, as it pertains to blogs. rc3.org — The …
Night Sky Friendly Outdoor Lighting Specialists » Italian Waste… in Utah? Italian nuclear waste? No thanks, we have enough already. Gotta love the profiteers at EnergySolutions. furbo.org · Vote for virtualization Mac OS virtualization would be pretty cool. Top 5 reasons why “The customer is Always Right” is wrong Good stuff here. Bad customers piss me off, too, and as someone who tries hard to be a good customer I enjoy seeing a company deal with the bad customers appropriately.
How a German wartime flying ace discovered he shot down his hero | the Mail on Sunday “If I had known it was Saint-Exupery, I would never have shot him down. I loved his books.” War sucks.
Peep Show LOL, I love “I Can Has Cheezburger?” (totally safe for work BTW). Turnip that stirred panic was message to attorney | The Journal Gazette A. This is ridiculous. B. Screw them for naming their bomb robot ‘Bob.’ Bobs are not your slaves, people. Find a new name to beat up on. Royal Pingdom » Apache dominates the top 100 websites, IIS still far behind Are we still so bored that we care about the top web servers? My advice: quit being a lemming and run the web server that is sufficiently reliable and feature-rich for your needs. TPM Election Central | Obama’s Speech Also An Indictment Of Our Political Discourse The fact that Obama just gave a speech …
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site Good stuff here. A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home | Zen Habits This is pretty interesting. I’ve been kicking around the idea of moving just about everything I own into one of my bedrooms, and only pulling out what I need when I need it. Then, in six months, throwing the rest away. Dolphin saves two beached whales | Science Blog I’m beginning to think there’s something more to dolphins…