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Monthly Archives: August 2005

Mini-lavishness @ Kabuto

The other day, Sean mentioned to me that his favorite sushi place in SF, Kabuto was closing soon and “we had to go.” Now, I’m not the kind of guy who’s going to hear something like that and, you know, not go.
So, last night, Sean, MJ, and I hit Kabuto in its last week […]

Neural Updates

In the interests of keeping all of the readers of my blog happy (i.e. my Mom, and the other two… Hi Mom!), I have spruced up a couple things around here.
First, If you don’t want all the goodness that Neuralgraffiti has to offer, I’ve added links to feeds of just the links posts and just […]

Judicial smackdown on slimy RIAA lawyers!

Judicial smackdown on slimy RIAA lawyers! Man, I wish I could be this judge.

Kepler’s closes

Kepler’s closes - this is sad, it was a great independent bookstore that I used to go to all the time when I lived in Menlo Park. Damn Amazon.

Google Talk and the IM Wars to Come

Google Talk and the IM Wars to Come - some interesting thoughts here, speculations on Google as a disruptive force in the fairly staid IM market

Test drive a Mac mini

Test drive a Mac mini - try it for 30 days, return it if you don’t like it

NY Times picks up on the Flying Spaghetti Monster

NY Times picks up on the Flying Spaghetti Monster - everyone’s new favorite intelligent designer!

White people find things, black people loot things

White people find things; Black people loot things - fair and balanced coverage from your news media. [more here, and here]

Is there an ideal level of piracy for a content industry?

Is there an ideal level of piracy for a content industry? - If you add overly restrictive DRM, you risk alienating your customers.

Dance song medley puzzle

Dance song medley puzzle - can you identify the 41 songs? Answers here

Useful laptop repair ideas

Useful laptop repair ideas - including how to revive a dead battery

I LOVE Fafblog

I LOVE Fafblog. How do they get such great interview candidates?

Making Firefox handle multiline pasted URLs

Making Firefox handle multiline pasted URLs - You know, like when you copy and paste a link, and there’s a line break in it

Paul sent me this fun laser-based flash puzzle

Paul sent me this sweet laser-based flash puzzle. I’m on level 11 at the moment

The fight for municipal broadband mirrors the fight for public electrical utilities

The fight for municipal broadband mirrors the fight for public electrical utilities. Or to put it another way, utility tried to legislate monopolies in 1907 too.

Great t-shirt for all you goths out there

Great t-shirt for all you goths out there

Reading Blogs for Fun and Profit

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several people ask me about blogs and RSS and syndication, etc. so I’ve decided to write up a simple primer on how to get started with this stuff. If you’re wondering why John calls me the internet superhero, or how I know the bulk of Stupid Internet […]

News like this makes me happy to live in California.

News like this makes me happy to live in California.

Klingon Fairy Tales - irredeemably geeky, but funny nonethless. I heart McSweeney’s.

Klingon Fairy Tales - irredeemably geeky, but funny nonethless. I heart McSweeney’s.

Flickr API calls needed to make a download script

Flickr API calls needed to make a download script