- 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 /.
- WWW::Mechanize::Examples
- hiptopSync – for OS X
- Danger Developer Wiki: user data calls – pimsync via XML-RPC
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.
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
via ch’s ramblings
- PC Gamer interview: Half-Life 2 – interesting interview w/ Valve’s Doug Lombardi on how various game elements emerged from user testing, derived behaviors (physics, ai)
- EOS 10D 2.0.0 Firmware – getcha firmware right heah
- Reboot an iPod
- Hercules USB DJ Console Reviewed – whoa, looks cool; wonder how well it’d work for video?
- Yahoo Groups: LAVA, Los Angeles area Video Artists – site soon @ la-va.org
- The Best Page in the Universe – via Intellectual Whores (hmm, Ladder Theory)
- Apple previews Java 3D, Advanced Imaging APIs
- Q: What’s a good halloween costume that will get lots of attention? – definitely NSFW, not for the prudish
- Zimran on Longhorn/WinFX
- check out rc3.org for continuing good stuff
- Sony news: 20,000 layoffs, including 7,000 in Japan, 25% 3rd quarter drops, not as bad as the 98% plunge last quarter
- Linux Media Arts – LMA is building its entire product line of broadcasting and film software and hardware products to be optimized on the AMD OPTERON and ATHLON 64 bit processor technologies.
- Cinelerra – will need to give it a spin sometime (see also Kino, etc)
- Voicemail: don’t phone home – from Telepocalypse, Telecom strategy in the age of end-to-end networks
- Everything in Moderation – Creative ways to manage online communities and user-generated content. Wow, times are good when you find a new blog dedicated to an area of interest
- 1-800-Annoy me now – 12 ways to get out of recorded-message hell and get a live customer service rep. A CNN/Money article that’s useful, wow, thanks boingboing
- Mac DVD software: iRipDVD, DVDibbler, D-Vision, OXEx
- Setting the Record Straight: An Analysis of the Justice Department’s PATRIOT Act Website
I did my first Panther install last night. First thing I noticed, bootups are significantly faster, going from three or four times slower than my PC to probably 2x faster. Also, the Panther upgrade CDs I had required a previous OS X install… As the 2x800MHz system I was upgrading was running Gentoo, this presented a problem. I was about to break out the Jaguar CDs (tedium), but the Netboot servers that we (USC ISD) run came in supa-handy. Hoo-ray.
(Originally, this Quicksilver machine was running OS X server as our workgroup file server. This caused no end of problems, and I inherited it and threw Gentoo on it. Better, but Linux PPC definitely has some issues; I just got a replacement IBM x335 running Debian in our rack set up, using this machine now for editing while my 12″ PB is in the shop. Having 135GB of 10K SCSI-2 RAID-0 goodness is definitely good fun)
- 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