Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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 […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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 […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Judicial smackdown on slimy RIAA lawyers! Man, I wish I could be this judge.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Test drive a Mac mini - try it for 30 days, return it if you don’t like it
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
NY Times picks up on the Flying Spaghetti Monster - everyone’s new favorite intelligent designer!
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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? - If you add overly restrictive DRM, you risk alienating your customers.
Dance song medley puzzle - can you identify the 41 songs? Answers here
Useful laptop repair ideas - including how to revive a dead battery
I LOVE Fafblog. How do they get such great interview candidates?
Making Firefox handle multiline pasted URLs - You know, like when you copy and paste a link, and there’s a line break in it
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Paul sent me this sweet laser-based flash puzzle. I’m on level 11 at the moment
Thursday, August 25, 2005
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.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Great t-shirt for all you goths out there
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.
Klingon Fairy Tales - irredeemably geeky, but funny nonethless. I heart McSweeney’s.
Flickr API calls needed to make a download script