January 2005
32 posts
links for 2005-01-31
CocoViewX - Mac OS X Picture View
(tags: Mac Software)
PostSecret
What’s your secret?
(tags: Cool)
StockIcons.com - Info
(tags: Icons)
IconBuffet : Royalty-Free Stock Stock Icons
(tags: Icons)
links for 2005-01-30
Rose, Kevin
(tags: Blogs)
Markdown Syntax Documentation
(tags: Software)
You’d Hit a Sandwich?
Never underestimate the idiocy of the folks in marketing.
(tags: Funny)
links for 2005-01-29
Harry Fox Agency Licensing Page
Need to secure a mechanical license for a cover recording.
(tags: Music Legal)
Lost in Translation
What does that tattoo really say?
(tags: Funny)
Guide to Springfield
A disturbingly detailed map of where the Simpsons live.
(tags: Cool Television)
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The Bionic Cat
Basie has a chip on his shoulder.
Actually, it’s in his shoulder.
I had to take him to the vet yesterday because the pad on his paw was swollen and bleeding. It seems he has a slight case of plasma cell pododermatitis, for which he was given a prescription for Prednisone and some antibiotics.
Since he was already at the vet’s office, I figured it was a good opportunity to take...
links for 2005-01-28
How To Make a Life Poster with iPhoto
(tags: Photography)
Diaeresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The New Yorker magazine is noted as one of the few sources that still spells ‘coöperate’ with a diaeresis..”
(tags: Language)
Creating Pinky and the Brain
National Geographic has a great news article on animal-human hybrid research. Particularly interesting is the discussion of a Stanford researcher who is developing mice with human brains.
Weissman has already created mice with brains that are about one percent human.
Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he...
links for 2005-01-25
How Richie Havens Plays Guitar
(tags: Guitar)
What's on My Party Shuffle?
Everyone seems to be posting the contents of the “Party Shuffle” playlist that iTunes creates based on their library. I figured I might as well give it a go. Here’s what came up for me:
“Maquiladora” by The Tiny Bell Trio
“The Dead Man - Rondo” by John Zorn
“Hallucinating Pluto” by The B-52’s
“After You’ve...
links for 2005-01-22
Flash Photoblog World Map
A great flash interface for organizing travel photos.
(tags: Flash Photography)
links for 2005-01-20
The Infamous Monty Hall Problem
Should you switch doors or stay?
(tags: Cool Logic)
Sound of a Suckout: Beginner’s Guide to Casino Bonuses
How to take advantage of online casino bonuses for fun and profit.
(tags: Cool)
The Obvious Solution
Bryan Caplan thinks that parents should select the number of children they will have based on microeconomic theory:
Have the number of children that maximizes average utility over your whole lifespan. When you are 30, you might feel like two children is plenty. But once you are 60, you are more likely to prefer ten sons and daughters to keep you company and keep the grandkids coming. A...
links for 2005-01-19
Killing Processes with killer
(tags: UNIX Linux Software)
Articulate
Easily create Flash presentations from PowerPoint.
(tags: PowerPoint)
Notes on Installing CVS
(tags: Versioning)
Using CVS to Manage a Web Site
(tags:...
links for 2005-01-18
Nichelle Nichols Interview
Uhura was going to leave Star Trek, until Dr. Martin Luther King intervened.
(tags: Cool Scifi)
MD5 Checksum Search Database
An interesting way to verify downloads, but what about trust?
(tags: Security P2P)
TKPal TypeKey + PayPal for PHP
Perhaps the simplest...
Name Five Female Composers of the 20th Century
I’m rather amused by the firestorm over some allegedly sexist comments Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers made last Friday at an academic conference.
Schools of law and medicine are now overrun with women, who often compose a majority of the entering student body. The supposed reluctance of women who have children to work 80-hour weeks, which Summers explicitly mentioned, is...
links for 2005-01-17
Postal Experiments
Testing the limits of the US Postal Service.
(tags: Cool)
links for 2005-01-14
Art Spiegelman Interview
In which the genius discusses his work method and In the Shadow of No Towers.
(tags: Comics)
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Felipe Rose, the “American Indian attired vocalist” from the Village People, recently donated the gold record he received for “Y.M.C.A.” to the newly dedicated National Museum of the American Indian.
In other news, Prince Harry is apparently making a go at bringing down what remains of the British monarchy all by himself. Just look at his recent decision to wear a Nazi...
links for 2005-01-12
Will Life Be Worth Living In 2,000AD?
Predictions from a 1961 issue of Weekend Magazine.
(tags: Funny)
Creative CEO Slams iPod Shuffle
A fair point regarding Apple’s new iPod Shuffle, from Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo, as reported on Engadget:
We’re expecting a good fight but they’re coming out with something that’s five generations older. It’s our first generation MuVo One product feature, without display, just have a (shuffle feature). We had that—that’s a four-year-old product. So I...
The Only Reasonable Choice
We just launched a new site over Christmas for my Dad’s financial planning firm back home. If you’re in the Chicago area and in need of Fee-Only financial planning services, be sure to give them a call.
DVForge's GuitarPlug and MicPlug
These small USB audio adapters for connecting to guitars and microphones look pretty cheesy. What can you really expect for $49?
On the other hand, there’s something to be said for doing the analog to digital conversion before the signal can degrade running through analog cabling.
I might have to give these a whirl.
links for 2005-01-10
Sweet Adeline - Tablature
Guitar tab for Elliott Smith’s oeuvre.
(tags: Guitar Tab)
links for 2005-01-09
Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Why not use a version control repository for everything?
(tags: Useful Backup)
Sneak Preview of Right Turns
I just finished listening to the Audio version of film-critic and talk radio host Michael Medved’s new book, Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life.
It’s the standard conversion memoir required of all moderately famous former left-wing activists who have seen the light of conservatism. To that end, it’s marginally more entertaining than similar works...
Camels and Rubber Duckies
Even if you’re not in the business of selling software for a living, you should definitely check out this article on the economics of software pricing. The section on segmentation is particularly interesting.
links for 2005-01-05
Crm4Mac
Not quite ready for prime time, but at least it looks promising.
(tags: Mac Productivity)
Nickelback Sucks
All Things Considered had an especially entertaining segment on yesterday’s show profiling the Nickelback anti-fan who brought the world the classic Internet hit “How You Remind Me of Someday.”
If you haven’t heard the remix, be sure to check it out.
links for 2005-01-04
43 Things
It’s like del.icio.us for your New Year’s resolutions.
(tags: Lifehacks)
Custom Creature Taxidermy Fantasy Mounts
Chimeras, Griffins, and Capricorns. Oh My!
(tags: Cool Art)
Concertino
You can even buy a high-end tube amplifier to match your iPod.
(tags:...
The Illiterates Have Taken Over
Today Slashdot published the most poorly constructed sentence ever written in the history of the English language:
Lots of discussion going on about ‘folksonomies’ — bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own — as used in Del.icio.us and Flickr: Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies; IFTF’s Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no...
I Love the Java Jive and It Loves Me
My better half really went all-out this Christmas and bought me a Nespresso C190 espresso machine.
A few thoughts:
The proprietary capsule system ensures that you won’t screw up the crema by not grounding or tamping the coffee properly. To put it simply, the machine is idiot-proof.
It’s shockingly easy to clean. You basically flip a lever after making an espresso and the used...
links for 2005-01-03
Monster iCruze
I’ve been waiting for this, but does my VW’s stock stereo support M-Bus?
(tags: Audiophile)
links for 2005-01-02
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
This one is a two hour time-suck at minimum.
(tags: Language)