del.icio.us

New Year, New You: How to Travel the World with (or without) Kids in 2008 | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss “Safe is a term that really means, ‘a level of risk that I’m comfortable with.’” Amen. Bill Clinton: iPhone User – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) “why didn’t he snag his old buddy an iPhone himself? Or, as Ioffe writes, at least a prerelease 3G version.” Probably because Mr. Clinton wanted a WORKING PHONE, not some dev model. Not everybody is as interested in tech oneupsmanship as techies are. Startup Math: 1 + 1 = 1/2 « FoundRead I’ve often commented that having a new person on staff is like having a -1 additional people on board, at …

Read More

Delivery By EULA – The Daily WTF The Quiznos search is the funniest. Lights Off for the Apple iPhone I cannot wait for February, so that I can get some games on my iPhone. I want to play this, but I’m not going to hack my phone just for it…

QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Wow, the QuickBooks update deletes everything off your desktop? Bad news. Coudal Partners – Booking Bands People are mashing up book names and band names. Also makes me want to put chalkboards in bathrooms everywhere. Actor Tries to Trademark ‘N’ Word Since I was born I’ve been told, by people of all races and colors, that this word is derogatory and evil. Not to mention us white guys can’t use it. As such I’m glad it isn’t being allowed by the Patent & Trademark Office. Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger “If you spend a little time searching before you post, you …

Read More

The Old New Thing : The compatibility constraints of your side effects: Beeping “Why does the Welcome screen beep if you hit the space bar after the computer has finished starting up?” A bug, as it turns out, which ended up being a feature.

Windows Tip: Put Windows Media Player in Party Mode Party mode, where it locks itself so people can’t alter the playlist. You know why WinAMP and iTunes don’t have this? BECAUSE YOU CAN LOCK THE CONSOLE OF THE PC. OPENhulu – Hulu Embeds for EVERYONE Heh, that didn’t take long. Because I couldn’t say it on the phone | dooce ® Heather Armstrong writing about what she went through when she stopped taking her medications. It takes a lot of guts and experience to write stuff like this. It takes more to tell someone, which is what she was writing about in the first place.

YouTube – Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote Pretty cool. I might have to get myself a Wii Remote. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: We’ve prepared a tutorial for eWeek hacks I hate bloggers and journalists who just lift press releases as content on their own sites. Same goes for documentation. A lot of this is going on in the virtualization community lately.

Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home Lifehacker – Still on the fence about Windows Vista? I am not on the fence about Vista. It still sucks. I’m going to try Windows Server 2008 on my desktops in January. If it isn’t any better I’m going back to XP or switching to Macs. Good: Amazon Sends “Best Customer Service E-mail I’ve Ever Received” LOL. This is what happens when humans respond and not customer service drones. All parties won, in their own ways. (via Seth Godin) Shibboleth – Doris Salcedo – Art – New York Times Neat art, but what a bunch of whiny pansies who can’t handle an obstacle. How do these people manage to walk down …

Read More

TheMishMash.com: 9 Telltale Signs You’re Probably an A-hole Somewhat NSFW. Top 10 Craziest Star Wars Tattoos – The Force in the Flesh “One of the most common questions we’re asked is, ‘Have you ever seen any Jar Jar tattoos?’ And the answer is yes. Yes we have. And it’s by far the toughest tattoo anyone could ever get.”

Airbag – Fail. “After six years big business still has no idea what do with this blog thing.” – via Daring Fireball.

The Daily Coyote Raising a coyote… interesting. May I take your order? OMFG, ROFL (via Jeremy Zawodny) Seth’s Blog: Ham for Channukah ROFL, oops. MW-Blog » Blog Archive » TOR exit-node doing MITM attacks Yeah, the TOR network is not safe at all. Dynamite that prompted evacuation was fake I’m glad they evacuated a square mile of people. I mean, the explosion would have taken out a city block, tops…