Was thinking about making a mirror yesterday, and sure enough, the I Found Some Of Your Life blog is gone. Taken down preemptively with an apology. The concept, discussion, and fallout is all fascinating.

Azure Ray – New Resolution (TPS Mix) – a great mix from the single. Also, this Good Life EP has some amazing tracks (can you tell I just got a shipment from Saddle Creek?).

Hmm, so I Found Some Of Your Life made it to a /. story. The blog admin removed the post in the comments of that one post about the identity of one of the people in a picture (that I linked to earlier). That seems rather unsporting. Here’s the direct link of the photo of Lindsey (Herrel?) for posterity.

• Guardian Unlimited: Far graver than Vietnam – Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale
• Unqualified Offerings: The Wrong Way to Remake Hogan’s Heroes – re-enlist or get SENT TO IRAQ (see also: Report: Soldiers say they are being threatened with Iraq duty
• SEPTEMBER 11: WHAT YOU “OUGHT NOT TO KNOW” DOCUMENT 199-I AND THE FBI’S WORDS TO CHILL THE SOUL – see also: Has someone been sitting on the FBI? (2001-11-6)
  

  On November 9, 2001, when you could still choke on the dust in the air near Ground Zero, BBC Television received a call in London from a top-level US intelligence agent. He was not happy. Shortly after George W. Bush took office, he told us reluctantly, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI, “were told to back off the Saudis.”

The new idea: rip BIN/CUEs into incoming folder. Encode at night on cron (replaygain to HQ VBR MP3 and M4A) and zip up the image files in archive folder), rsync nightly.

• CDemu for Linux – a kernel module that allows mounting bin/iso files in Linux
• Audio CD Archiving on Linux – step-by-step of using cdrdao and Flac
• [Flac-users] CD -> FLAC -> CD – same thing but in script form
• Single file audio CD backup Howto – using Matroska containers. A bit esoteric
• Re: CD archival best practices? – interesting thread on flac-users
• flac2mp3.pl – nice little perl script
• FAAC – LGPL AAC encoder

• Outfoxed: Ruper Murdoch’s War on Journalism is Deep Discount DVD‘s #1 bestseller right now. (only $5.99, and free shipping)
• Are ye ready for Talk Like A Pirate Day 2004? – Avast, tis near that time o’ year again. Don’t forget to download some movies or music in celebration!
• I Found Some Of Your Life – Explanation: You are unknown to me. Your camera’s memory card was in a taxi; I have it now. I am going to post one of your pictures each day. I will also narrate as if I were you. Maybe you will come here and reclaim this piece of your life. — Interestingly enough, this week, a web sleuth found the identity of one of the people in the pictures. Apparently, half the fun will be letting the “actors” find the site on their own.
• Seniors Rule – collection of senior high school photos found on the web
• Postal Service Album Keeps On Delivering
  

  After “Against All Odds,” the group’s next video will be for Give Up’s “Silhouettes,” which will be helmed by “Napoleon Dynamite” writer/director Jared Hess.

  “He talks exactly like all the characters in the movie,” Gibbard said. “He’s like, ‘Dude, I’ve got a sweet concept for the video.’ “

Ooh, neat flash interface (mouse over the faces). Very clever. [via boris]

Who knew? Windows XP doesn’t Blue Screen very much because it automatically reboots on lockup. See Control Panel -> System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery for settin the options and C:WINDOWSMinidump for the timestamped dump files.

Metadata that could be extracted from emails:

• email addresses sent to
• addresses cc’d on messages
• message thread length
• message length
• thread response time
• response time of day
• receive time of day
• when it was read
• unread time
• content analysis
• content/participant correlation

There is more that could be gotten with address books (address books should also pool w/ feed aggregators, IM conversations

On the other end, email2kb tools are a good idea, especially for capturing project documentation and tracking ticket/task status.

See also:

• IBM Remail
• IBM History Flow
• MSR: Social Computing Group
• MSR: Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering