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Eugenia’s Rants and Thoughts » Blog Archive » Create Blu-Ray video in plain DVDs for free “The funny thing is that 80% of both these methods are identical for both HD architectures…” Comment of the Day: “Google Docs is Chock Full of Fail” – ReadWriteWeb “Open a Google doc. Paste an image. That’s right, you can’t.” Props to the commenter for laying smack down on that post. MS Office, in my opinion, is hands-down the best office suite out there. It’s just that cheapskates don’t like to pay for anything. Cognitive Daily: The anatomy of an illusion — and what it tells us about the visual system “It appears that the holes are changing in an opposite pattern — when …

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THE MINIMALIST; Let the Oven Do All the Work – New York Times “IF you buy a big pork shoulder and take your time, as you should, the classic Puerto Rican pork roast called pernil can take you nearly all day. The last time I roasted a large one it was in the oven for seven hours.” Me too! (tags: recipes) Venture Capital Wear » You Know What They Say Funny shirts, I just wish they didn’t charge $100 for them. I’d go for the one that says “Your Mom is not a valid test market.” Lessig ’08 – Change Congress. Oh, hell yes. Politicians that might give a damn about issues the rest of us care about? NO WAY! …

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The Old New Thing : What’s with all those spam ping-bots? “The way to get the attention of the spammers is to hit them in the pocketbook.” I plan to start doing this with the spam blogs I’m getting trackbacks from. Steve: Developing on the Edge – SPOF: Single Point of Failure “How do you know you have a SPOF? Oh, you always have one. How do you find it? You don’t: it finds you. And on Friday, it found Amazon Web Services” Good take on this. People need to realize that with big services no big problem is easy to find or fix.

(Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers | Graphics | Smashing Magazine (tags: wallpaper) » wallpapers (tags: wallpaper) Pruned: Fluorescent Field “…the project involved over a thousand fluorescent bulbs planted underneath high voltage AC transmission lines. Unwired, the bulbs drew energy from the surrounding electromagnetic radiation and lit up, making for what must have been a marvelous sight.” How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability “Facing exponential growth they spent about 3 months building a new log processing system using Hadoop (an open-source implementation of Google File System and MapReduce), Lucene and Solr.” Seth’s Blog: Stressed “Does it promise to reduce stress, but end up causing more?” Service Untitled » Communities as Parties – customer …

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Button mushrooms contain as much anti-oxidants as expensive ones | Science Blog Proving once again that expensive != good for you. Mmm fungus. MyFox Washington DC | Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks Nice headline. 🙂 Schneier on Security: Fourth Undersea Cable Failure in Middle East I’ve been following this, I agree with Schneier that it’s a big coincidence. It probably isn’t terribly hard to disrupt these cables despite them being underwater. Just drop something on them (anchor) or use welding supplies to melt a hole in them. B&H Photo Video Pro Audio – The Mother of all Telephotos “From midtown Manhattan we were able to read the street signs on the corner of JFK Boulevard East and 43rd St. …

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Dell suit reveals lucrative trade in domain names – Network World A million bucks a month in ad revenue on those domains? I’m in the wrong business… (well, given the suit maybe I’m not, but still). Floating Rubbish Dump ‘Bigger Than US’ :: DivePhotoGuide.com – The Underwater Photo & Video Portal “It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.” Why aren’t we banning more plastic? Royal Pingdom » Old Mac server survives Digg and just keeps on ticking “Maybe all hosting companies should host on Mac servers?” I’d like to ask this guy how often he patches. No downtime? Oh, that’s easy — he never …

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Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool LOL, was just talking about this with a friend. I am thinking about switching to Flickr (tired of Gallery being a pile), but I think I’ll just wait until this MS thing shakes out.

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere “Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station.” Heh, this is art I like to see. ChipLog » Blog Archive » INPUT: REASON • OUTPUT: PLEASURE A FORTRAN game? Heh, good find. Puppy Bowl IV : Animal Planet OMFG, my girlfriend turned this on during half time and it was funny. I liked the camera in the water dish. YMNTD vs. Gary Larson “I’d like to point out that a whole new generation of people…are trying to experience Larson’s cartoons. Sending out blanket legal threats and attempting to control every scrap of his work may doom his work …

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I Drink Your Milkshake! I Drink It Up! – All Discussions I think the people around me are tired of hearing this now… Maybe I can get a couple more plays in before they kill me… All my base are belong to Daniel Day-Lewis… SOA Facts “One person successfully described SOA completely, and immediately died.” LOL.