- Feedbag error 17 in AIM means you’ve hit the 150 user contact limit? – had a problem adding users for a while, just got a useful error to google w/ in iChatAV
- Neil Gaiman Responds – excellent /. interview
- German crowned world beard champion
- Problems in infinite decision theory – the devil offers you to get out of Hell w/ a flip of the coin…
- text/plain – Mozilla Firebird extension that converts text urls/emails to links (nice)
- QuirksMode – sure you’ve probably seen it already, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention ppk’s new all-in-one site redesign
- Microsoft to use IBM chips in next Xbox – stranger things have happened I suppose – more info on /.
Author: lhl
via ch’s ramblings
If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he’d have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then . . . ignore them. It’s a pretty safe bet that they won’t be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.
See also: McBurners
Wrote a little php script last night that uses Danger’s pimsync XML-RPC API to grab hiptop info (contacts, events, tasks, notes). Unfortunately this is only works against my dev acount (boo-urns). Back to LWP/Mech for screen-scraping.
- WWW::Mechanize::Examples
- hiptopSync – for OS X
- Danger Developer Wiki: user data calls – pimsync via XML-RPC
I’ve long thought about programming some airtime usage calculators. There’s some out there (DialStat, Comet, Treo Call Log), but it’d probably be a worthwhile learning experience to program my own.
Capturing entire tapes certainly makes the whole process easier. Much faster to go back and subclip online than shuttling tape back and forth.
- Ordered to Love – teen-age girls forced to submit in secret nazi mating camps; my new desktop image
- Oh yeah! – see mefi discussion, photo in yahoo news (fwiw, it doesn’t appear to be overly photomanipulated – be sure to take a look at the MPEG on Sea Sheperd page )
- HotelChatter – Rusty’s new site; reviewing hotels
- Long Wait for Taste of Home
Hoping to capitalize on this phenomenon, the chain opened restaurants in Los Angeles and Houston last year. The first outlet in Los Angeles did $1 million of business its first seven weeks, the company said. Barahona said she expects $1 million in sales after five weeks.
Hmm, looks like there’s one at Olympic and Union. That’s really close, will have to check it out sometime.
- Friendster Spurns Google – interesting…
- Pumpkin Carving DRM
- Inside Fox News. Charlie Reina, employed by Fox News from 1997 to 2003, tells it like it is.
- Better iTunes handling of M3U playlists – haven’t figure out why iTunes handles m3us (especially streaming ones) so badly; I’ll take WinAMP over iTunes any day