Posted Mar 23, 2009
why does babbledog think i have bad breath?
in Health Tip: If You Have Bad Breath
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todd underwoodabout me:
A curious sort, mostly harmless. I work for Renesys, the company that makes this site.
Recent Responses by todd
in Health Tip: If You Have Bad Breath
Posted Jan 09, 2009
porridge? is that oatmeal? or something with coarser grain?
in Why porridge could help improve the health of diabetics
Posted Nov 26, 2008
i'm positive the happiness index is suffering these days
in Gross Happiness Index
Posted Oct 30, 2008
if they only have 35 calories they cannot be any good.
in 35 Calorie Pumpkin Cookies
Posted Oct 07, 2008
interesting results here. wondering how this thing is going to turn out, but i'm sick and tired of this election and just want it to be over.
in CNN/Time: Obama Makes Gains In NC, OH, WI, IN, NH
Posted Sep 30, 2008
in puerto rico we call this a 'chiste mongo' (bad joke? cheesy joke?)
in joke of the week
Posted Sep 29, 2008
http://electoral-vote.com has the best mapping of many, many polls onto the electoral vote map.
in Obama increases lead over McCain slightly since debate
Posted Sep 28, 2008
credit unions have been awesome for a long time but they also have serious scale problems. they don't operate their own ATM networks, they dont' have great websites, etc. etc. they need to have a better-funded national association that does that kind of stuff for them to compete directly with national-scale banks
in Why Choose a Credit Union Over a Bank [Banking]
Posted Sep 26, 2008
heh. all the way up to 20 mpg. what a joke.
in Lincoln bumps up fuel economy on Navigator
Posted Sep 26, 2008
this is like the wild, wild west. holy cow. what the hell is going on?
in Senate Republicans block economic stimulus bill
Posted Sep 26, 2008
facebook is a design catastrophe due to how it grew up (and how caranky and inflexibile its user base is). it's almost impossible to find anything on facebook under either design.
in Facebook Users: You Get Until Next Week To Complain About The New Design
Posted Sep 25, 2008
this phone look sgreat on functionality, but nowhere near as 'slick' and 'sleek' as the iphone. in fact, it's downright thick and clunky in comparison. looks more like HTC's windows mobile phones. i don't see this being a serious consumer competition to start with
in T-Mobile uncaps data plan ahead of Google phone - Yahoo! News
Posted Sep 25, 2008
weird that mccain has been *so* untrustworthy that people would trust the junior senator from illinois more with this catastrophe than the experienced senior senator from arizona. mccain has *really* messed with his own credibility to get to this place.
in Obama surges during the market crisis.
Posted Sep 24, 2008
this is incoherent, jim. user-generated content complaining about user-generated content. and badly written. :-)
in Better -- Merlin Mann
Posted Sep 24, 2008
'how to eat fried worms' was one of my favorite books
in Mill Creek librarian keeps word, eats worms
Posted Sep 23, 2008
where were you when i needed my new house in pittsburgh cleaned!??!?!
in Move In/Out Cleaning Service
Posted Sep 22, 2008
cindyhewy: this item is posted on seattle.craigslist.org. you should click the title link and contact the seller over there. i don't think they're reading messages here.
in Vera Bradley RARE zebra pattern backpack (Poulsbo) $30
Posted Sep 22, 2008
so we all normally ignore these stories, because they are uncomfortable (and mostly propagated by conspiracy nuts). but this is the army times.
in Army Ready to Enforce Martial Law in USA Starting October 1st
Posted Sep 21, 2008
we are going v. v. deep down the rabbit hole. there's no way to figure out where it ends.
in Financial Crisis Legislation May Give Government Veto Power over Management Decisions at Financial Institutions
Posted Sep 21, 2008
i love the failblog. most of it is rehashed, but occasionally i'll see something new there.
in failblog
Posted Sep 21, 2008
*this* is why equipment-specific training and qualifications exist. because this crew clearly had no idea what the hell they were doing with this plane. if they had training and passed it, i would blame the training program.
in Etihad Airways FAIL
Posted Sep 21, 2008
leave it to the NY Post to put Marlon Brando up there in the graphic. Subtle. Nice.
in ALMOST ARMAGEDDON - New York Post
Posted Sep 19, 2008
it *is* pretty suspicious that she said she smoked weed but didn't like it. :-)
in The Ballad of Sarah Palin
Posted Sep 19, 2008
i'm not positive that the weird PR around this won't outweigh the value of any money they raise.
in Members of the Dead to play fundraiser for Obama (AP)
Posted Sep 19, 2008
the new york times is on a multi-year kick to find new visualization tools. they're doing a nice job of it.
in A Year of Heavy Losses (via NY Times)
Posted Sep 19, 2008
*this* is what gives the US it's weird and unrepresentative national politic (we are a prochoice nation with anti-choice laws; we favor withdrawal from iraq nationally but not int he congress or presidency; we support equal rights for gays in civil matters nationally by population, but not in law).
in Population of various states projected onto New York City map
Posted Sep 19, 2008
let's all jointly buy all the bad debt and spread it all over the whole country, rather than trying to concentrate it a bit in the hands of the f*ckwits who made this mess.
in Paulson, Bernanke Seek Support for an Agency to Buy Bad Debt
Posted Sep 18, 2008
this crisis creates real credibility problems for the US economy. empire is over. people simply won't trust us anymore in the same way.
in Crisis Exposes Flaws in U.S. Economy, Tarnishes Image
Posted Sep 18, 2008
all that being said, i still think that the new interface is somewhat better.
in Facebook confidently faces design change backlash
Posted Sep 18, 2008
all the time. sometimes i reread books because i have genuinely forgotten what they were about, or some of the details of theme, plot and development. Other times I reread books because I remember a state of mind they provoked or a way that they made me feel and I want to recreate that.
in Open Question: Do You Re-Read Books?
Posted Sep 18, 2008
This is a big, big deal. The only way the wheels are keeping on this thing is that the treasury can keep borrowing money at amazingly great rates. if that stops because people doubt the federal government's commitment to repay or the value of the dollars repaid (due to inflation) the economy will go into a sudden and deep depression.
in S&P says pressure building on U.S. AAA rating
Posted Sep 18, 2008
i *hate* that you have to register in advance in most states. it's really hard to get used to. in new hampshire (where i used to live) you could do same-day registration and vote in any primary as long as you were registered as an independent.
in Do You Want To Vote For Change? Make Sure To Get Registered First!
Posted Sep 18, 2008
this is really, really not going well. a coworker was asking earlier what people thought individuals should do to protect their assets, families, and livelihoods. there was no good answer forthcoming from any of us. any of you know?
in Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump
Posted Sep 17, 2008
Mishi: that he's not a muslim (not that there's anything wrong with that) :-)
in Letterman: Top 10 Interesting Facts about Barack Obama
Posted Sep 11, 2008
decent quick summary of the fashion sources of various retail chains.
in A Cheat Sheet for Chain Stores
Posted Sep 11, 2008
i'll grab the first episode and see how it seems. this violates my rule of only watching shows that have two full seasons in the can, though. i am sick and tired of studios cancelling stuff i like just as i'm getting into it. now *that* would be a problem worth fixing.
in On the Fringe Of Another X-Files
Posted Sep 10, 2008
omg. this sounds disgusting. or delicious. actually for me it oscillates between the two. :-) i could do without the sausage, but the tomato gravy sounds fascinating.
in Creamed Tomatoes Aka Tomato Gravy
Posted Sep 10, 2008
this conversation is getting more and more intriguing to those of us following along at home.
in Cary Grant's daughter gives birth to ... Cary Benjamin Grant
Posted Sep 10, 2008
the point of this discussion seems to be as follows: traffic data and mapping data can come at a cost of advertising: sell Point of Interest (POI) placement to gas stations and restaurants and hotels and the like. these businesses will be featured more prominently and users will get free traffic data. what's not to love?
in Garmin's Free Lifetime Traffic Alerts Come at a Price
Posted Sep 10, 2008
jhota: understood. in general, i agree. the problems are when other people's choices overlap with *my* safety. modern society creates lots of that and it causes problems for any minarchist or libertarian who wants to be consistent.
in Should teachers be allowed to carry guns?
Posted Sep 10, 2008
Also, I didn't realize it when I posted this, but Harvey Milk was killed on Nov 27, 1978, almost exactly 30 years before the movie's opening date.
in Milk, The Movie, Opening Nov 26, 2008
Posted Sep 10, 2008
It seems weird to "support" the liquidity crisis :-) . Mostly it's just an expression of interest.
in Liquidity Crisis
Posted Sep 10, 2008
Lehman does not look like it will survive this. I'm not an expert at all, but I don't see an easy way out. Creating a separate "bad bank" to get the bad stuff off their balance sheet is fine, but who the hell is going to capitalize that bank?
in Lehman Takes Huge Loss, Does Nothing
Posted Sep 10, 2008
prescient, jim cowie, posted 2 months ago!
in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Insolvent; Await Government Bailout
Posted Sep 10, 2008
This is what seems to be happening. The unsurprising result is that Palin has a *lot* of dirt about her. Troopergate is a problem for sure. Trying to get a man fired by abusing her government office. The fact that she was *for* the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Claiming government money to pay her for living in her own home... All of those are going to cause her problems. The thing i worry about is that there are *so* many scandals about Palin that people will start to disbelieve them.
in Democrats drill…for dirt
Posted Sep 10, 2008
who doesn't hate bulgaria? :-)
in Slovakia's women's ice hockey pummels Bulgaria 82-0
Posted Sep 10, 2008
Maudhuit: this was posted over on seattle craigslist. you should click the link through to contact the original poster. they probably aren't following the conversation here.
in Lots of Stampin' Up! For Sale (Bothell/Mill Creek)
Posted Sep 08, 2008
i'm not sure that a single NFL quarterback having a knee injury is really comparable to the president of the US getting assassinated, colby. hyperbole, much? dude, it's just a game.
in Patriots QB Brady hurt in opening win over Chiefs
Posted Sep 08, 2008
This is a big, big deal. It's funny that it was during a sharp uptick in prices. I guess system load knows not whether prices are up or down, just that the volume is too high to handle. :-)
in London halts trading after shares surge on US bailout
Posted Sep 08, 2008
what makes him so bad?
in Tim Kant and Dean Mosher to face one another in Fairhope, Alabama runoff
Posted Sep 07, 2008
that last fact alone is startling: as much mortgage-backed securities as the entire national debt. and this is after bush and congress have been spending like drunken sailors. there appears to be no real end to this nightmare.
in US Treasury Nationalizes Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Posted Sep 07, 2008
stony8: this story was posted over on craigslist. you should talk to the poster there.
in Painting (South Austin)
Posted Sep 06, 2008
i agree with you, though, chuck, the iphone is *not* open.
in Blog: Apple tries open-source defence in ad case
Posted Sep 06, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/05/google.mediabusiness has the whole story of google's 10th, 11th or 13th birthday, celebrated now. or something. :-)
in Google's movable 10th birthday, celebrated
Posted Sep 05, 2008
oh, that's kind of interesting. i *just* saw my neighbor carrying one out to the car with her dad. there is definitely a market for this, although maybe not 1,000,000 of them.
in One Laptop signs up with Amazon
Posted Sep 03, 2008
are you interested in this article? are you in canada?
in Canada's Government Supports Local Community Organization Delivering Real Action on the Environment
Posted Sep 03, 2008
she's inexperienced and unprepared, i get it. she's a bit of a reglious nut. i get that, too. but none of these revelations seemed "terrifying" to me. this was clearly a bad pick by mccain, though.
in 8 More Shocking Revelations About Sarah Palin | Election 2008 | AlterNet
Posted Sep 03, 2008
it is sheer poetry. god bless america.
in Cheeky George Bush works up a sweat getting to know the women's volleyball team
Posted Sep 03, 2008
with all the craziness about google chrome, it's interesting to find some concrete comments from real users. this one is my favorite, though. i would think that it would be pretty fast to hang on facebook, but what do i know? :-)
in Chrome in the wild
Posted Sep 02, 2008
obama's response was pure political poetry. *first* he demanded that the press stop covering the issue (by making a statement about it, he almost required the press to cover the issue longer by quoting him and then by describing the issue he was talking about). but in doing so he made himself look good. *then* he commented on the fact that his mother was 18 when he was born. making himself look sympathetic and more human. finally he slammed the mccain camp for insinuating that he had anything to do with the story breaking. this guy has clearly not read the "roll over and play dumb" democratic field politics handbook.
in Veep Candidate Palin’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant
Posted Sep 02, 2008
all of these craigslist postings seem to just be spam for fling.com, a porn site. all of them include some URL that goes to that. shockingly enough, Ben Marsh, it may be true that Jade isn't a "real" woman that is risque and wants you. so sad.
in Risque Jade (austin) 29yr
Posted Sep 01, 2008
that blog posting has some cool visualizations of gustav hitting the us gulf coast.
in Hurricane Gustav Hits Louisiana's Internet
Posted Sep 01, 2008
every labor day i get as many of my closest friends and family together as i can. and then i complain as loudly as possible about how fricking *stupid* it is that americans celebrate labor day in september, rather than may 1, the day everyone else celebrates workers. sigh.
in What's your Labor Day tradition?
Posted Sep 01, 2008
natalikei: just as i mentioned with the previous poster, you really should head over to the original craigslist posting and contact the poster there. they may not be reading chat about this over here.
in We need your help- Egg donor (San Antonio)
Posted Sep 01, 2008
that looks like a ton of fun. seems like a kid could cause a lot of damage with that. :-)
in KIDS PLAYGROUND RIDE ON BACKHOE (MSP) $89
Posted Aug 28, 2008
that's just cruel. but the 'mccain is too old to be president' meme is certainly gaining traction
in Daily Kos: McCain's birth certificate
Posted Aug 28, 2008
and if you go do the 'java girls' search, you get: "Sexpresso with Gourmet Espresso beans and sexy Baristas - Java Girlsfine gourmet espresso and fun & sexy girls to serve you. Featuring Sexy Costume Themes with a different theme 7 days a week." awesome
in Google: Are you kidding me?
Posted Aug 28, 2008
fortunately, i have loads of olympics stuff left to watch. cause this convention is horrible.
in DNC: I already miss the Olympics
Posted Aug 28, 2008
i cannot believe the clueless quality of mccain's campaign staff. did he so alienate all of the spanish speakers that no one knew what this song was about? shocking! a reggaeton song that's about *sex*. who could have guessed?
in “A ella le gusta la gasolina. Dame mas gasolina.”
Posted Aug 28, 2008
speeches at conventions positive?!?!? shocking. sigh.
in Presidential Party Conventions Speeches Mostly Positive, Says Benoit
Posted Aug 28, 2008
mininut: this was posted on boston.craigslist.com. you should probably click the title link and head over there to contact the poster. they might not be reading chat here.
in Dollhouse Miniatures Magazine (21 back issues) (Brookline) $2
Posted Aug 26, 2008
this is shocking and surprising. who would have thought that brits would be unruly tourists. i'm not even sure i believe this.
in Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe - NYTimes.com
Posted Aug 26, 2008
that's the trick, isn't it: to get coupons for stuff you were going to buy anyway. that seems difficult.
in Thrift
Posted Aug 24, 2008
as this thread becomes one of the most popular threads of all time on babbledog, one starts to wonder: why? sure, the urge for sex is powerful and for many (lonely, isolated) men on computers, the illusion of easy, consequence-free sex is even more powerful. but the internet is *swimming* in such information/illusion/fantasy. so why come to babbledog to find it?
in glamorous natalie hungry to have no strings sex - w4m
Posted Aug 24, 2008
the real story here is how syndication and resyndication might just give *me* a headache. this story is babbledog->topix->propeller.com->idiggweed.com where the story is mysteriously missing. four levels of indirection and no payoff. thanks, syndication!
in Programming: You're Doing It Completely Wrong
Posted Aug 24, 2008
xavier: i remain unconvinced. whether the ad was considered racist in spain or not, it was a racist ad. mocking exaggerated physical differences certainly qualifies as racist behavior. it reduces a whole group of other people to "different" or "other", which is one of the key characteristics of racist behavior. xavier: many people also believe that "oriental" is not racist in english. they are also wrong, just as i think you are. "oriental" also means "eastern" in english, but it has historically been used to gloss over the differences among all of the peoples from palestine to the philipines. as such, it is part of the sames strategy of reinforcing "otherness".
in Lithuanian basketball players or bull fighters…
Posted Aug 22, 2008
it bugged me that it was so clearly just a "viral" marketing video paid for by samsung.
in Samsung Omnia Unboxing Beats Apple To The Core
Posted Aug 22, 2008
I don't understand the linked article: "Almost any publisher can now add a Buzz Up button to its Web site, Yahoo said. If a Web site doesn't have a button, users can also submit a link to the content via Yahoo." Was there previously some restriction on who could submit content to buzz or add a buzz up button? why? that seems crazy.This headline could be rewritten as "Yahoo fixes obvious foolish weakness in its Buzz application".
in Yahoo opens Digg rival to all publishers
Posted Aug 21, 2008
somehow i missed that brad fitzpatrick went to work for google. i guess he just didn't dig working at 6 apart after they bought livejournal.
in One Year.
Posted Aug 21, 2008
Also, looking into this i just found: http://www.treadmill-desk.com/2007/06/anders-burvall.html which is an interestingly detailed design and implemenation.
in The Treadmill Desk: Exercise for the Sake of Hacking
Posted Aug 20, 2008
this is a bizarre (and hopefully untrue) story. it is true that facebook has a massive audience but is struggling to turn that into anything like a massive amount of money.
in Mormons to buy facebook?
Posted Aug 20, 2008
busted by the Baidu cache would be a more accurate headline. Clearly this is blatant fraud by the Chinese Olympic committee.
in China Olympic Committee Busted by Google Cache?
Posted Aug 20, 2008
i'm confused by this posting because i saw this presentation over a week ago on the internet. was it supposed to be secret?
in MBTA Court Documents from the "Subway Hack"
Posted Aug 20, 2008
this is only going to cause *more* confusion. which bags? with nothing else in them? so where do you put your camera and camera charger and ethernet cable and headphones and paper notebook and pens and keys and business cards and *all* the other crap you carry in your laptop bag now. yet another expected display of incompetence from the TSA. security theater evolves and endures and no one is any safer.
in Starting today, TSA will let you leave your laptop in certain bags when going through airport screening
Posted Aug 19, 2008
to be honest, i'm not a big chocolate fan, either. sorry, pinky!
in InstaCake: Make a single-serving cake in a few minutes
Posted Aug 19, 2008
looks like it's heading south of $4 even in seattle. jim's prediction of $4 nationwide by june, back below $3 by september is looking shockingly prescient right now.
in Gas at $5.00 in the U.S. - betting pool open
Posted Aug 19, 2008
this is so, so sensible. a 21 drinking age with an 18 join-the-army and vote age never made any fricking sense. end it, finally.
in College presidents seek drinking age debate
Posted Aug 19, 2008
jessica: that's just naive. the MBTA has been caught with a crappy system and it will be very expensive to fix. the natural (and cost-effective) reaction is to shoot the messenger and burn the message. problem solved. this is just the legal version of how one accomplishes that. of course, it won't work because the exploits and analysis will leak out (or someone else will redo the same analysis) because the problems are there and will not go away. but for the bureaucrat who staves off that day even for a little while with a bit of legal maneuvering, call it a win.
in MIT student defends MBTA hacking research
Posted Aug 19, 2008
what will they do with their newfound power? i suspect we are one, short-but-powerful step from dominion by the penguins. i, for one, welcome our new flightless avian overlords!
in the latest Norwegian knight... is a penguin.
Posted Aug 18, 2008
the LED technology is supposed to be brighter, more even, use less energy and last longer, right? sounds like a win to me.
in RUMOR: Apple prepping new LED-backlit Cinema Displays
Posted Aug 18, 2008
ok, but aside from that. i mean, come on! everyone has their downsides. :-)
in 300-pound violent boy unwanted on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Posted Aug 18, 2008
i also really disagree with the "attend in person" strategy. it's almost impossible to get tickets to almost anything. the only way to really watch the olympics is to download (or stream from nbc.com) the stuff you want to see.
in Are we losing perspective by only seeing the best?
Posted Aug 12, 2008
i don't love legos. and now i will run and hide from the wrath of chuck.
in Question of the Day: Do You Say "Lego" or "Legos?" [Question Of The Day]
Posted Aug 06, 2008
i'm heading to vancouver, b.c. on sunday. i'll sort this thing out and report back. :-)
in Sixth human foot found in Pacific Northwest
Posted Aug 06, 2008
i love the olympics, but this olympics is a tragedy. china's ridiculous polution problems, crazy restrictions on reporters and athletes, the algae in the ocean all make china fundamentally unsuited to host the olympics. the IOC should *never* have approved china's bid.
in Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Posted Aug 05, 2008
what the hell kind of a rule is that? is this just a scheme to make the interminable baseball games actually come to an end? it'll never work. the essence of baseball is boredom. this ruins everything!
in Olympic Baseball's Wacky New 11th Inning Rule
Posted Aug 01, 2008
this just seems like annoying spam. wth is cheerypal ?
in CherryPal For Everyone
Posted Aug 01, 2008
smckenzie23: i frequently have to google up your political references. i guess i just don't spend enough time reading about american politics.
in What's the best diaper rash cream if you have reeeeeaaally bad diaper rash?
Posted Jul 31, 2008
i can't believe that the IOC is caving to stupid china internet/reporter censorship after they repeatedly promised to not pull this kind of crap. i am personally in favor of them cancelling the olympics at this point.
in IOC admits internet censorship deal with china
Posted Jul 31, 2008
this is the first really substantive good news about alzheimer's in a long time. it's hard not to get over optimistic, but this looks so, so promising.
in Methylene Blue: Miracle Alzheimer's drug?
Posted Jul 30, 2008
seems like a lot of the web is that way. that's why i love that two of my credit cards (bank of amercia and citibank) both offer one-time use credit card numbers in an automated system. cuts down on the worry.
in (www.cnbbiz.com)supply 2008 sunglasses,prada,gucci,POLICE,LV,D&G
Posted Jul 28, 2008
amanda: joke and all, but heart disease is the biggest killer of american women, so it's not just a man's problem.
in Blogging’s Glass Ceiling - NYTimes.com
Posted Jul 28, 2008
in all seriousness, democracy is hard. dumb people (all of us) vote for candidates based on our prejudices and fears as opposed to their (our) best judgment about who is honest, and who can lead the country. democracy is hard. let's go shopping. :-)
in World writes open letter to McCain
Posted Jul 28, 2008
i've watched hulu before. it's good for people who can't be bothered to just download stuff with bittorrent. the network at panera this morning isn't good enough for me to catch up on my "smarter than a 5th grader", though. :-)
in Kiss a couple of hours good bye...
Posted Jul 28, 2008
digg can't catch a break. the story implies that there was either (1) a serious technology/IP problem or (2) a serious cultural mismatch in the team. (2) doesn't seem unlikely since google are hardcore geeks and digg founders are technically savvy but more much media-oriented than technology-oriented. i don't know what (1) would be.
in Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”
Posted Jul 28, 2008
it's only slightly beyond the language that was actually on dawson's creek. and i *loved* dawson's creek. y'all will hate me but i wish this show were real. i would watch it.
in PBS falls on hard times
Posted Jul 28, 2008
seems like a natural outcome of the critical mass ethos which highlights the existing conflicts between bikes and cars in most cities. i'm not sure what a better method might be. cities seem unwilling to promote safe biking commute infrastructure and motorists are angry and entitled and dangerous. CM is still needed, therefore.
in Critical Mass Mess
Posted Jul 27, 2008
iphones are great. they're going to be even better when they get tactile response technology (sometimes called 'buttons'). :-)
in Babbledog t-shirt spotted at Apple Store opening!
Posted Jul 18, 2008
the watchmen truly is one of the great graphic novels of all time. and the movie *looks* at first glance to capture a lot of what is great about the look and feel and vision of the novel. what worries me more is the deeper texture of the story--the concern about vigilante/freedom/fascism/safety issues and the way that we all struggle with tradeoffs among them. our political climate is ripe for such a story, but movies are bad at making textured, difficult characters and stories.
in Here is the ‘WATCHMAN’ TRAILER! - GeekTyrant
Posted Jul 18, 2008
i thought profit was step 3. this really needs to be streamlined.
in Step one: torture foreigners. Step two: torture your own citizens, but only the criminals. Step three: widen the definition of 'criminal' to include "hostile intentions" toward the state.
Posted Jul 15, 2008
terrible UI but very nice machine animations if you can find them.
in Kinematic Models for Design (Geometry of Pure Motion)
Posted Jul 15, 2008
I read that this list was leaked. Does anyone have a reference to the FDIC problem list of likely-to-fail banks?
in Back in business: IndyMac reopens Monday - CNN.com
Posted Jul 15, 2008
arkansan: what don't they get? that this goes too far for satire? that this will be damaging to obama because americans actually think obama is a terrorist or a muslim or something?
in Obama slams Muslim portrayal - Mike Allen - Politico.com
Posted Jul 15, 2008
"war of northern agression" my ass.
in i don't expect anyone but me to get this, but it's brilliant.
Posted Jul 15, 2008
colby: price will probably go *down* given the exchange rate. :-)
in Anheuser-Busch no longer American owned. What are we gonna sell next? Freedom?
Posted Jul 15, 2008
i guess i'm just not a radiohead fan. this song is seriously boring and that overwhelms the value of a gimmicky music video + gimmicky online release.
in Google -- Yes, Google -- Premiers Radiohead's 'House of Cards'
Posted Jul 10, 2008
i cannot, for the life of me, figure out why people watch golf on TV. at least when you play it you get to walk around and be frustrated. when you watch it on tv, you're just frustrated at home on the couch. (insert joke about teenagers dating here)
in Woods will become world's first billionaire athlete by 2010
Posted Jul 10, 2008
i guess i don't understand why it's a problem.
in Hairy hybrid: Half grizzly, half polar bear
Posted Jul 10, 2008
i thought this was going to be left-wing anti-mccain kookiness. instead i get a well-reasoned, sensible, intelligible legal argument why mccain just was not a natural born citizen and cannot be president legally. they even acknowledge that due to politics that an inelibible candidate might become president anyway, but that does not change the law. it's interesting to see the contradiction with lawrence tribe's opinion.
in Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship
Posted Jul 10, 2008
i was hoping to download this now that i missed it, but i can't find a good torrent. anyone?
in Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns
Posted Jul 09, 2008
i must just be ignorant. i don't understand how any of this invalidates the 'no ex-post-facto law' part of the constitution.
in Senate Joins House in Caving to White House Immunity Demands
Posted Jul 07, 2008
oh, interesting. i did think that that was turned off a long time ago. it was a weird business model for sprint. i wonder how this dovetails with sprint's odd dalliance with 802.16 (wimax)
in Sprint Broadband Direct Goes Offline July 31 - Service you thought died long ago finally does...
Posted Jul 07, 2008
i have to admit that i am baffled by the whole "speculation driving prices" meme. it's incoherent on its face. speculators take contracts that have risk based on price moves. if they are right they make money. if they are wrong, they lose money. the provide valuable indicators of risk in the market. russ nelson did an excellent write-up of this issue years ago.
in Let's Tell the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Where to Go
Posted Jul 03, 2008
I have been running gentoox with mythtv on my xbox for a few years. i'm interested to see what i might do with this distro. the main issue is: i'd love to see this work on my xbox. probably not going to happen. :-(
in See what LinuxMCE can do for you.
Posted Jul 03, 2008
jessica: no. they sent out reports about it but they have not arrived yet. :-)
in Real Snail Mail
Posted Jul 03, 2008
or just for some?
in "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." YouTube error
Posted Jul 03, 2008
chuck: doesn't nvidia have closed source drivers? ati has been a bit crap but amd bought them and they recently announced a completely open source driver (no binary firmware anything) that they contracted suse (novell) to write for them. that's not available yet, but it is v. interesting.
in I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog)
Posted Jul 01, 2008
jessica: why does that make a difference? why did the guy have to go outside at all?
in Want to get away with shooting 2 people because you think they are doing something wrong?? Move to Texas!
Posted Jul 01, 2008
this is actually interesting. for those who don't read french: teleatlas and google entered into a 5 year deal that gives google the right to use the teleatlas geographic information, but licenses *back* to teleatlas the geographic modifications that googles users produce. google has been rapidly rolling out the ability of people to 'mark-up' maps with information about points of interest and with personal photos taken at various sites. now all of this will be licensed back to teleatlas. wikimaps are clearly the future. this centralized stuff is not tenable.
in Accord strat gique entre Google et TeleAtlas (TomTom)
Posted Jul 01, 2008
no soy borinquen, pero fui criado en puerto rico (de familia norteamericana y argentina)
in The Evolution of Fear
Posted Jul 01, 2008
the clinton camp have been ranting about conspiracies this whole primary season. it's so annoying.
in Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers - New York Times
Posted Jul 01, 2008
what a bizarre and intriguing idea. now i want to see the documentary. baseball never really caught on outside of the US, japan and parts of the caribbean. it's interesting to think about why that is and whether baseball makes any sense at all in israel.
in Holy Land Hardball
Posted Jun 30, 2008
tornado lover: you still alive?
in When Tornadoes Attack: What a Tornado Taught Me About Our Stupid Obsession With Gadgets (And Why We Still Love Them)
Posted Jun 30, 2008
They went through 50 prototypes. This has got to be good.
in The Brown Corporation
Posted Jun 30, 2008
gothicnation79: what?!?! if you think that there really are women with teeth in their vaginas you may need to do a little bit more biology and anatomy reading. either that, or i'd like to see a reference cited to support your claim that this is real.
in Myth of 'Vagina Dentata' Becomes Horror Film
Posted Jun 30, 2008
i've never seen this before. at first glance it's beautiful and compelling.
in Mr. Fooster – Travelling on a Whim celebrates its launch at Art of Navigation in San Francisco!
Posted Jun 30, 2008
quebec's system is very different from the rest of canada's, chuck. overall, the canadian system works very well and *much* better than the US system. the quebequois system did, indeed, have a prohibition against all private health insurance that was struck down by the canadian supreme court last year. since then it has been getting better, too.
in Second Thoughts About Socialism
Posted Jun 28, 2008
things are going to be so great when we have no idea what valid domain names are. reminds me of the clownpenis.fart skit on saturday night live.
in New Rules Could Mean Hundreds of New Domains
Posted Jun 27, 2008
The evidence of the failures of the justice system seem to be adding up. When the republican governor of illinois pardoned all death row prisoners you know that the system itself is indefensible.
in Artificial brain predicts death-row executions
Posted Jun 27, 2008
yeah. dirty sanchez. that's what we all come to babbledog for.
in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Orgy : Sexual hypocrisy and the Internet.
Posted Jun 27, 2008
i think this is a terrible idea. it's going to make the internet dramatically more difficult to use for most users and increasee the power of google, as users give up completely on trying to remember domain names other than a select few.
in Internet overhaul wins approval
Posted Jun 27, 2008
this story about civet coffee makes the rounds every year or so. i'm not sure why it's such a compelling idea, but clearly it is.
in Weasel Coffee
Posted Jun 27, 2008
you're not a kindle or sony reader fan?
in Dual-Screen Ebook Developed, Navigates in Real Page-Turn Style [Ebooks]
Posted Jun 25, 2008
Laura Esquivel wrote a truly mediocre book a while ago called La ley del amor that included a CD of opera music. It wasn't just that the book was kind of bad. it was that the music was weirdly disconnected and irrelevant to the story. Also the music was opera, a genre of which I am not fond.
in Neal Stephenson's new book, Anathem, will come with a CD of music.
Posted Jun 25, 2008
intersting. i wonder why this "bump" from winning the primaries has taken so long to show up in the polling.
in Who Do You Believe: CW Or The Polls? Obama By 12 in The LA Times Poll
Posted Jun 25, 2008
We've been waiting for this to happen for some time. It's painfully obvious that the only reason for google to do the analytics product is that they wanted the http logs of all those sites. And this is probably only the first product that they're going to build with them.
in Google Sells Your Analytics Data (finally)
Posted Jun 25, 2008
heh. what is the connection between the segway and medical marijuana? i don't think i'd like to ride a segway stoned.
in NY Assembly Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
Posted Jun 25, 2008
totally worth watching. the cop one is the funnier of the two: "people are inherently stupid."
in Don't Talk To The Police
Posted Jun 24, 2008
chuck: anytime someone says that i'm thinking something through too hard, my reaction is usually that they're not thinking about it hard enough. :-) this is about art. and what's the basis for the art? a tag cloud. and what is a tag cloud? a really, really bad user interface design practice that is confusing and hard to use. the art is *designed* to evoke reactions based on the idea of tag clouds. so it is totally appropriate for amand and me to talk about our reactions to tag clouds.
in Cryptonomicon via tag cloud
Posted Jun 24, 2008
mabrown: the article fails to deliver. in the end they decide that the idea isn't that feasible at all.
in Victoria's Circuit: Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion
Posted Jun 23, 2008
did this guy go through with it? i read about this a while ago and never saw the end of the story.
in Markets in everything: lives for sale
Posted Jun 23, 2008
It's not that god was mad so he sent floods. It's that he is merciful so he sent volunteers and made the floods end. Clearly.
in Midwest Worshippers Hear Good News: River Cresting
Posted Jun 22, 2008
this is actually a nice writeup of citizenship laws in the context of another stupid internet rumor. the meta question is: 'are human beings just too stupid to use the internet?' since we seem to just believe any crap we read on it, it's possible that the memes have won. they have created a meme propagation facility without precedent and the truth doesn't matter any more. cable news is a joke compared to the internet's ability to spread lies.
in Native Son
Posted Jun 21, 2008
questions: 1) why would anyone buy any telco in this day and age?; 2) why would they do it in a *leveraged* transaction? 3) *especially* why would a teachers' pension fund buy a telco in a leveraged transaction; 4) in Canadia? that is all. :-)
in Canadian court lets pension fund buy Bell Canada
Posted Jun 21, 2008
what qualifies this as "odd news"? this probably happens 5000x per day across the US.
in Ex-cook pleads guilty to putting hair in steak (AP)
Posted Jun 21, 2008
Interesting history of the andre the giant and obey giant art phenomena of the 90s. And it's also a really well done documentation of what looks like an obvious case of plagerism.
in Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Posted Jun 20, 2008
yeah, i'm not sure. in particular, the thing that people *really* use flash for is streaming video (youtube, et. al.). i don't see how srpoutcore does that. http://vaughanknight.com/blog/2008/06/sproutcore-vs-silverlight-vs-f.html even says "Sproutcore might have some shiny features out of the box, but true open standards are already being offered in many forms, including Google's GWT. How one would do video streaming via Javascript starts to hurt my brain."
in Apple looks to SproutCore to kill Flash
Posted Jun 20, 2008
What do babbledoggers say? Do y'all care if we drop support for IE6?
in Movement in the death of old browsers and IE 6
Posted Jun 20, 2008
is this the third sign of the coming apocalypse?
in Cubs, White Sox putting Chicago on top
Posted Jun 20, 2008
I just finished listening to the audiobook of Oscar Wao. It was, quite possibly, the best book i've ever read. It has a particular and hilarious mix of "modern decent literature", latino magical realism, sci fi themes, historial fiction, and modern urban experience. I hear that even non-spanish speakers have loved it, in spite of how much spanish is in the book. Also notable: i believe this book will be the definitve historical novel on the subject of trujillo, the infamous dictator of the dominican republic. and on that subject, the novel is devastating.
in Authors@Google: Junot Díaz
Posted Jun 20, 2008
arkansan: that may be where we diverge. i thought that one was funny, too :-). but i have family from the southern midwest and south ('bama, arkansas, the state of misery, KY) so i guess i would find it funny. they're probably all cousins. :-)
in 6th foot found on B.C. south coast
Posted Jun 20, 2008
the answer of the article: "it depends". shocking. i should really go into the personal financial advice business. i think i could do a really nice job.
in Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Before You Retire?
Posted Jun 20, 2008
I love the related link: "should you pay off your mortgage before you retire." mostly babbledog has really good related links, but sometimes they are hilariously bad. was it the "off" (as in the foot was cut off, the mortgage was paid off ?) i supposed we'll never know.
in The Canadian Severed Foot Mystery
Posted Jun 20, 2008
that's a funny typo. :-)
in Mother pleads not guilty in cyber-bullying suicide test case
Posted Jun 19, 2008
I found absolutely nothing new in this piece.
in A little bit of Google's secret sauce
Posted Jun 19, 2008
Nice to see a picture of what the cars actually look like. It's funny they're using a prius in this case.
in Google Street View Car Stopped By Police
Posted Jun 19, 2008
neat idea, Ren.
in Carnegie Mellon system estimates geographic location of photos
Posted Jun 19, 2008
ac: problem with what? i don't have a problem at all. i was just curious. i know almost nothing about archicad and am surprised to constantly see so many people finding this post.
in ArchiCAD 12 - Sneak Preview
Posted Jun 18, 2008
i predict this will be a very short-lived cause. What more is there to say? stinkhorns are scary, stinky things.
in No Stinkhorns
Posted Jun 18, 2008
this has a very chuck norris feel about it. i'm looking forward to what else people can do with it.
in Rumors the Obama campaign shouldn't try to correct.
Posted Jun 18, 2008
I don't really know why i think it is awesome. I just do. Sulu is gay and getting married. I feel really good about the way that things are going in this respect in the US. I will admit now that I *totally* underestimated the importance of legalizing gay marriage. I thought it was kind of dumb and I was totally wrong.
in Sulu to Marry His Boyfriend
Posted Jun 18, 2008
Ummm. Ummm. OK. You have now reached the end of the Internet. There's nothing more to see here.
in Little Girl Defines YouTube
Posted Jun 18, 2008
this is fascinating. computer security people all deride security through obscurity, but they frequently ignore the fact that it works really, really well. it cannot save you against a concerted attacker, but it can prevent a concerted attacker from focusing on you in the first place.
in Security through obscurity
Posted Jun 18, 2008
i'm starting to think this makes sense, given some of the other names that have been floated.
in Why Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as veep
Posted Jun 18, 2008
race is more textured and more complicated on a global basis than one might expect.
in S Africa Chinese want black rights
Posted Jun 18, 2008
13 things i learned about reading american sports coverage: it's jingoistic. From the lead: "Europeans are weenies. The play of Gasol, Vujacic and Rachmoninov was softer than John Tomase's muffin tops. Collectively they played like the kind of worthless, slimy Eurotrash that only gets aggressive with drunken American tourist chicks. They showed all the willingness to help out defensively that their countries showed in Bosnia."
in 13 Things I Learned From the Celtics Championship
Posted Jun 18, 2008
chuck: you should take the badass recommendations system from babbledog and bolt it onto reddit.
in Reddit releases source code?
Posted Jun 18, 2008
I *hate* it when people get 1970s art deco confused with 1930s art deco. It's just such a classless mistake to make.
in Mark Simonson notes that the period typography in the Indiana Jones...
Posted Jun 18, 2008
Only unedited mail headers will suffice. This is clearly just another instance of the Obama campaign exagerating his credentials. Now we're supposed to believe that he is some kind of a computer genius, too? Sending email by himself without help in the middle of the night. Come on! It's just not credible.
in Barack Obama Can Use a Computer
Posted Jun 18, 2008
Gore is just the guy to say "elections matter". :-)
in In Endorsing Obama, Gore Says, "Elections Matter"
Posted Jun 17, 2008
Quoting wikipedia: "In October 2002, Hagel voted in favor of authorizing the use of military force against Iraq."
in And Obama's veep is ... a Republican?
Posted Jun 17, 2008
nice. classy. seriously, though, it will be interesting to see if the obama camp has the kind of manipulative, devious, backstabbingness that seems to be required for modern politics. the clintons certainly do.
in Obama hires Patti Solis Doyle
Posted Jun 17, 2008
and the complaint is that he should have wanted to be ordinary? i don't even understand what some of the complaints about politicians are these days.
in The Trains, The Trains
Posted Jun 16, 2008
zimbabwe is a catastrophe in progress and it's getting insufficient coverage in the US-based media.
in Manipulation of Poll Result Under Way
Posted Jun 16, 2008
obama as a feminist. nice spin. not clear that he's not.
in Obama as the feminist son.
Posted Jun 16, 2008
In this election, "different" == "black" and is code to bring out the racism in white people. the flag lapel thingy, the focus on his middle name, the reverend wright stuff was all about that. unlike previous politicians in a similar situation (jess jackson, e.g.), obama has been extremely successful at convincing white voters that he is not completely different from them.
in Mitchell Bard: The Media Is Already Demonizing Obama as Being Different
Posted Jun 16, 2008
"i am not in favor of privatizing social security but i would like younger workers to be able to put a few of their tax dollars into an account with their name on it." heh. a private account? :-)i do worry that we will never find a way to get out of this retirement/pension mess. it's clear that the benefits are not sustainable given current population trends (people living longer, the size of the baby boom generation compared to the younger generations after them). so without a significant reduction in benefits or increase in taxes, it just ain't gonna happen.
in John McCain ...
Posted Jun 16, 2008
david, i could almost agree with that. but i'm just not a fan of manufactured holidays, i guess.
in What's the best thing to do for Dad on Father's Day?
Posted Jun 16, 2008
that video is wonderful.
in Why isn't the media reporting the fact that John McCain called his wife the c-word?
Posted Jun 16, 2008
sam brownback is appearing lots of places recently. i heard him talking about his appology to native peoples bill recently. and now this. i see more coverage of brownback now than when he was running for president. any theories about what could be going on here?
in Brownback: We Depend on Dads
Posted Jun 15, 2008
even swimming is getting easier for muslim women. the new style is head-to-ankle body covering and long sleeves because the new synthetics have lower resistance then skin. women obviously wear swim caps, so i think except for the most extreme societies (those that require full face covering), this should work.
in Saudi women vie for Olympic rights
Posted Jun 14, 2008
i'm sharing this story with the 'internet memes' cause. support the internet meme cause!.
in Things that are younger than John McCain
Posted Jun 13, 2008
$500 ethernet cable? why are audiophiles so stupid.
in The World's most expensive Ethernet cable?
Posted Jun 13, 2008
i'm pretty cranky about the way that people have cross-contaminated my veggies with all their animal-based bacteria. veggies would be safer if they'd keep the poop off of them!
in Rooting Out the Rotten Tomatoes
Posted Jun 13, 2008
nokia 6310i for those who don't want to bother to click through to the site.
in Best mobile phone ever made
Posted Jun 12, 2008
my (somewhat evil) friend jason's comment: "do you think the school would have minded if they had had a fake columbine?"
in School defends drunken driving hoax - CNN.com
Posted Jun 12, 2008
"A 15-year-old has been charged as an adult for bringing a gun to his Southeast Side elementary school on Monday. " wth?!? 15 year old in *elementary* school.
in Eighth-grader charged as adult for bringing gun to school
Posted Jun 12, 2008
Yeah, looks really reasonable, chuck. nice find!
in Is your mechanic telling you the truth?
Posted Jun 12, 2008
Hulk Woman vs "I got a crush on Obama" lass. It's really quite wonderful to have pure spoof, now that we don't have to watch the Democratic Primary anymore
in McCain Gets Hulking Girl to Do Battle With Obama Girl
Posted Jun 12, 2008
Moving the center of politics to the midwest is powerful and interesting. Never before have we seen such a move away from the coasts' role as political/economic leaders of the country.
in Obama moves DNC operations to Chicago
Posted Jun 11, 2008
this story is wonderful and rich. the battle inside a rational economist between reason and sentimentality. i laughed. i cried. love it. thumbs up. :-)
in How to Get Hannah Montana Tickets (Freakonomics-style)
Posted Jun 11, 2008
why do we have to go to china to get our football on the web? why do advertisers not see this as just one more distribution medium, especially for live events where the adverts aren't easily avoided?
in Live European Cup Soccer
Posted Jun 11, 2008
david, yeah, even with air travel i came out below average. weird, eh? i guess i just don't travel that much. or these estimator tools aren't that great.
in Compute your carbon footprint
Posted Jun 11, 2008
the brits are obsessive about pint size and fullness. pints in britain are marked with a special seal indicating that they are manufactured to contain 20 imperial fluid ounces (568ml). beer inspectors (i kid you not) roam the country with rulers, ordering rounds and then measuring whether the head on the beer is disallowably large or not. the guy in this article who says that brewers want 1 1/2 inches (almost 4cm!) of foam is full of crap.
in A Pint-Size Problem
Posted Jun 11, 2008
jerry: that post came to babbledog from craigslist san diego and it was over two months ago. my guess is that the seller already sold that some time ago (and wouldn't want to ship it to colorado). sorry!
in GRAVE DIGGER 12 VOLT POWER WHEELS RIDE ON CAR (SAN ELIJO HILLS) $100
Posted Jun 11, 2008
thinker: newstin does look interesting. the news in different languages is cool, but the navigation all stays english, so i don't think this is going to catch on much.
in Newstin - Global Social News Platform
Posted Jun 10, 2008
Or rather: "Oz is a multi-paradigm language that is designed for advanced, concurrent, networked, soft real-time, and reactive applications."
in Tutorial of Oz
Posted Jun 10, 2008
well, clearly it buys them the information about who is getting what information from what sites and putting it where.
in Google Has an RSS Embedding Tool
Posted Jun 10, 2008
i have seen this same clip used to make fun of other subjects. i wonder if this is a proto meme. i haven't yet figured out the source of the clip.
in Hillary's Downfall
Posted Jun 10, 2008
Well, that is progress. Now if only they would turn on bash by default and ship with the necessary gnu tools.
in "What Is a Linux Guy Doing at Sun"
Posted Jun 10, 2008
i totally agree, jhota.
in MacRumors.com : Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 Keynote Live Coverage
Posted Jun 10, 2008
seriously cool. this is a really nice web interface to a very complicated data exploration problem. programming to the linux kernel is tough and this would make it easier.
in The Interactive Linux Kernel Map
Posted Jun 10, 2008
i haven't used fedora in a long time. is it as annoying as it always was? :-) i got frustrated by the 'upgrade every 6 months' character of it. that's useless for servers. centos on the server makes way more sense, to me.
in Upgraded to Fedora 9 and Samba broke.
Posted Jun 09, 2008
i'd like to see this updated to include more information about kernel development outside of the US and western europe.
in A Tale of Four Kernels
Posted Jun 09, 2008
So, I guess he did it, after all. Weird to think about a high-profile kernel programmer killing his wife. I wonder what happens to Reiserfs now.
in Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina's Body
Posted Jun 09, 2008
amanda: in a fit of hilarity, i read that as "librarians", too. so i was trying to think about what country librarians would be tortured in.
in Liberians tell stories of torture, pain to special commission
Posted Jun 08, 2008
i don't atually know anyone from Penza Russia. Anyone else?
in Reply to I Love PINK..
Posted Jun 08, 2008
i'm hoping you trade longer life for steadily decreasing cognitive function. that way i can be old but not really know it. score!
in Red Wine Straight from Fountain of Youth
Posted Jun 07, 2008
what an awesome story of science
in Heartwarming Family Tradition Illustrates Heart Wrenching Global Trend
Posted Jun 07, 2008
a better link at the associated press tells the story: "Water distorted preflight readings in three of the plane's 24 sensors, making the aircraft's control computer force the B-2 to pitch up on takeoff, resulting in a stall and subsequent crash."
in B2 Stealth Bomber Crashes Video
Posted Jun 06, 2008
this is clearly the better thread about the $100 hamburger. the other thread is nonsense.
in $100 Hamburger Bites the Big One
Posted Jun 06, 2008
more than half of what is funny about these comments is how painfully british they are. :-)
in spEak You’re bRanes
Posted Jun 05, 2008
this just points out how badly unrepresentative alexa's sampling is.
in Left-right asymmetry in the online world?
Posted Jun 05, 2008
we should submit this page to reddit so that we can get people to reddit up a babbledog link of a asylum inclusion of a revision3 story about an asylum homage to bacon. then maybe someone can digg that.
in Asylum Gives Props to Rev3 Giving a Shout-Out to Asylum's Collection of Bacon Pictures
Posted Jun 05, 2008
tiger's right. no one watches hockey anymore. :-)
in Penguins steal amazing victory from Detroit in triple overtime
Posted Jun 05, 2008
mccain has his work cut out for him. perhaps turd blossom can help him out.
in TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless
Posted Jun 05, 2008
OTOH, youtube cannot be expected to try to figure out who is the copyright owner in all cases.
in Radiohead to Prince: Hey, that's OUR song
Posted Jun 04, 2008
I really enjoy the smug mug blog. they do so much writing about the amazon infrastructure, challenges and approaches, that it's the best resource for someone curious about using ec2 or s3.
in SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)
Posted Jun 04, 2008
They are divorced from reality, but they have legitimate beef and if you were on the other side, you would be cranky. media coverage of and influence of all campaigns is troublesome. the coverage of the campaign is always all about the race and never about the substance which is interesting.
in HillaryClinton.com - blogHillary
Posted Jun 02, 2008
i thought this was going to be the gun or the woman flashing her boobs, but this is much funnier than either.
in Weirdest google maps image I've ever seen. What do you think??
Posted Jun 02, 2008
Dustin: I haven't used newsgator. is it worth trying out? what do you like about it?
in Integration with RSSMountain.com
Posted Jun 01, 2008
That's wacky, for sure. My guess is that such a pregnancy would never have gone to full term in an environment with better prenatal screening. The medical care in the Northern Territory of Australia must not have been very good.
in Miracle Baby
Posted Jun 01, 2008
This story is still poorly understood by technical people that I talk to. The attitude seems to be: Manning is a good guy and wasn't doing anything wrong. That misses the point badly. If it were not manning and it were a bad guy, no one *still* would have noticed and they could have done really, really bad things. No one is watching this stuff closely enough.
in Renesys Blog: Securing the Root
Posted May 30, 2008
This thing is frickin fantastic. Anyone who was ever an Iggy Pop fan will love every page of this thing.
in Iggy Pop Concert Rider
Posted May 30, 2008
and the shy bladder syndrome link. that one's on target. so to speak.
in The Lady Urinal with a Splash of Gold
Posted May 30, 2008
it's a nice ad and his spanish is pretty good for an english speaker.
in Barack Obama To Puerto Rico: I'm Mexican, Too! [Campaign Ads]
Posted May 30, 2008
cross platform. or more specifically, it's a vulnerability in the flash VM that works on IE/FF and on windows/linux/mac/everything is my understanding. cool, eh?
in Flash 0-day vulnerability
Posted May 28, 2008
we're trying it out for a couple of days to get some data and then we'll probably roll back to think about it for a while
in What do you think of the new babbledog landing page?
Posted May 28, 2008
weird. i wasn't able to source that definition in any of the online dictionaries i looked at. i need better online dictionaries, clearly.
in RoyalTournament.org
Posted May 27, 2008
it's amazing to me just how little coverage hockey gets these days. run-of-the-mill baseball games are getting more coverage than the stanley cup. did they kill the league with the strike and the skipped season? did the fans go away never to return?
in The 2008 Stanley Cup
Posted May 27, 2008
heh. i'm not getting one mostly because... i don't have a wii. :-)
in the ad for the Wii Fit that Nintendo wisely rejected...
Posted May 24, 2008
how the hell do you hit a building in montana with a plane? the place is empty! this is a spectacular failure.
in Plane crashes into Mont. building, kills pilot
Posted May 24, 2008
this is the best comment about this incident: "Hillary says all kinds of crazy things and that's why people don't like her." heh.
in Waiting For Somebody To Get Shot Is Not A Campaign Strategy
Posted May 23, 2008
i've been watching this become a broader meme from the jezebel site. it's rare to see a spreading meme on the internet that is substanceful and positive, but this is one of them.
in The Rise of Bodysnarking
Posted May 23, 2008
although ostensibly about the democratic primary, this article has the best, concise history of puerto rico for a north american audience i've ever read.
in Puerto Rico’s Moment in the Sun
Posted May 22, 2008
nice thinko there, colby. a thinko is more interesting than a typo because it reveals normally hidden mental structure.
in David Cook wins American Idol
Posted May 22, 2008
my coworker, earl, has a $10k bicycle built partially out of titanium. this will cause its value to plummet down to $9.2k.
in New Process Could Cause Titanium Price To Tumble
Posted May 22, 2008
those ads always seemed so dumb to me. the service requires that you *not* purposefully disclose your SSN to anyone and yet, the dude did. so moronic.
in Fraud-prevention pitchman becomes ID theft victim - CNN.com
Posted May 22, 2008
*snorts* coffee out his nose. this may not be as funny to those of you who haven't spent time in puerto rico, the dominican republic and new york. there are hilarious rivalries between boricuas (puerto ricans) and quisqueyas (dominicans), exacerbated by the fact that puerto rico is part of the US and its citizens have US passports, whereas dominicans have to take crappy boats to mayaguez and fake their accents to catch flights to new york. dominicans tend to be blacker, too, and shadism is a real thing in latin america. this is a wonderfully rich smear campaign.
in Obama: Too Dominican [The Campaign]
Posted May 22, 2008
It really does seem sort of around-ass-to-get-to-elbow. on the other hand, it's certainly true that bridge/interface technologies like twitter make implementation and integration much easier.
in Software: Using Twitter for Home Automation
Posted May 22, 2008
The Things younger than john mccain blog proves that this meme is powerful. Mccain is really, really old and it's going to be a serious issue in the election.
in Did McCain screw himself when he promoted speedy adoption of HDTV?
Posted May 21, 2008
where do you get a projector with decent resolution for sub-$300, gregg (given the cost of other components, like cables and a screen would be ~$100 or more)?
in TG Daily - Samsung demos 82” 2160p HDTV
Posted May 21, 2008
i don't understand why the debian maintainers didn't try to push their patch upstream for *two* years. You don't maintain a local patch to security-critical software for any amount of time without getting it thoroughly vetted by experts in that software. this is a major failure for debian, in my view.
in Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco
Posted May 21, 2008
(i don't speak or read any korean but google translates (badly) lots of languages into english.
in 김인호돼지박사 한국형우주관 응^응=응 우주화시대 응원해주세요
Posted May 21, 2008
truly creepy pictures. but compelling as hell.
in Man + Animal = "Manimals" = Eerie Portraits
Posted May 21, 2008
barcamp boston sounds like it was a lot of fun. i'm sorry i missed it.
in At Least One Librarian Attended BarCamp …
Posted May 21, 2008
wow! what a geogeous photograph of a georgous man. Here is a detailed account of Bowie's arrest on marijuana charges in Rochester, NY in 1976.
in David Bowie Mugshot
Posted May 21, 2008
sure, that's a facile (and probably not innaccurate) explanation. but people are *buying* macs over $1k and they're really not buying many wintel machines over $1k. remember also: this includes *gaming* machines (which are 100% windows boxes). so the stat is even more impressive.
in NPD: Apple corners premium market; Apple’s market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
Posted May 20, 2008
when will clinton drop out? seriously. this is getting painful and stupid.
in Obama to reach delegate milestone today (AP)
Posted May 20, 2008
best quote from that article amanda linked to: "“I wish you would come at this with a little bit of reality,” said Sen. Rick Olseen, DFL-Harris. “If you don’t want people to have sex until they’re 35 or 40, just say so.” " heh
in How do you fix a broken school district?
Posted May 20, 2008
dammit. i'm supposed to be a royals fan, having gone to high school in kansas city. still, a no-hitter is cool.
in Jon Lester No Hits the KC Royals.
Posted May 20, 2008
There is clearly more backstory here than is being discussed publicly. I don't understand (1) why ICANN didn't get the existing L-root address/prefix from bill manning when they took it over; (2) why bill would actually provide *answers* to dns queries to the old L-root address when he says he's just studying how many people are asking.
in Ghosts of Root Servers Past--ICANN Responds
Posted May 19, 2008
over at the renesys blog, bill manning says that the reason to operate a name server at the site is to collect data for DITL-2008. seems plausible, but still disconcerting.
in Identity Theft Hits the Root Name Servers
Posted May 19, 2008
This surprised me. Obama may actually be able to carry off his image of a 'post-racial' candidate if he can get Byrd's endorsement
in Incredibly Racist Senator Endorses Obama [Exalted Cyclops]
Posted May 19, 2008
but do you *want* to be in touch with them, gregg? the people i went to college with don't really like me that much.
in What the hell is the point of Facebook?
Posted May 19, 2008
Heh. Obama raises the libertarian, southern ire in Jim.
in Obama: An End to All-You-Can-Eat?
Posted May 19, 2008
(unless, of course, they agree to a revenue sharing arrangement (also spelled "B R I B E") with us.)
in Facebook CEO Wants to Talk With Google on Friend Connect
Posted May 18, 2008
why is this a headphone debate and not a helicopter debate, though?
in Death spurs headphone debate
Posted May 18, 2008
jim: m thoughts exactly: insects of some sort. although with mumified flesh, maybe not.
in Blue whale, buried since 1987, exhumed in eastern Canada for move to Vancouver museum
Posted May 18, 2008
I commented on this very same article in another babbledog thread.
in A tale of four kernels
Posted May 18, 2008
I heard this interview. It was great. She talked about how a whole generation of women athletes are now growing up with the idea that they *can* be professional players. This just wasn't true 20 years ago. Progress happens. Slowly, but the times, they are a changin.
in Candace Parker, top WNBA pick, goes to the Los Angeles Sparks
Posted May 16, 2008
i can't keep track. is this the 'beautiful' guy or some other dude? :-) what's so special about the bold? small screen, same form factor as previous blackberries. doesn't look like an iphone killer to me.
in John Mayer secures a BlackBerry Bold, makes world envious - Engadget
Posted May 16, 2008
gay icon on icon action. hot.
in California Supreme Court overturns law preventing same-sex couples from marrying
Posted May 16, 2008
Birth of a new trend! They'll all be wearing this at the prom.
in Jay's Caption of the Week Contest
Posted May 16, 2008
It's unclear to me whether three barrels of dead monkeys are more or less fun than a single barrel. hrm. math is hard. let's go vote.
in Hillary Is Too Boring to Be President
Posted May 16, 2008
how can there *possibly* be inconsistencies? jim: you much just be misunderstanding.
in Reward of reciting Surah Ikhlaas 3 times equal to whole Quran?
Posted May 16, 2008
this would be a catastrophe for new hampshire. new hampshire has precious few advantages over massachussets other than our low tax structure. this would result in long-term economic damage to NH. the good news is, it's never going to happen. massachussans *love* them some taxes.
in Activists push to repeal Massachusetts state income tax
Posted May 16, 2008
i don't think that this can possibly be true. but it's intriguing to consider.
in Huckabee reenters the race?!?!
Posted May 16, 2008
this is really impressive and cool. i love cases where people take tons of old, wonderful material and put it online. what a set of riches!
in Gramophone archive going online
Posted May 15, 2008
I'm troubled by the way that Google treats their employees like children. They try to exchange the infantilizing atmosphere of college for an infantilizing relationship with an employer. It's exploitative. I'm all in favor of a more relaxed workplace, but given Google's profits and their salaries, I'd say there's a misalignment somewhere.
in Profile of Google's Cambridge, MA, office
Posted May 15, 2008
for those who cannot tell that jim is being sarcastic: it's clearly impossible and this was an obviously fraudulent election.
in Myanmar new constitution ratified - People's Daily Online
Posted May 15, 2008
woohoo. polar bears are listed as "threatened" because their habitat is rapidly disappearing. the administration has cautioned, though, that this is *not* to be used to actually protect their habitat by taking any action on global climate change (which is the main cause of their habitat disappearing).
in Polar bears to be protected species (AP)
Posted May 15, 2008
i cannot make this, sadly. i will never be able to go to a barcamp, it seems. i'm thinking about going to pod camp pittsburgh in the fall.
in BarCamp Boston
Posted May 14, 2008
the last time i was in turkey i was *shocked* at the degree of hero worship they give to ataturk. it is an attitude without parallel in american or european attitudes towards our historical heroes. they jailed a politician for chewing gum at a ceremony for ataturk because they said that that was disrespectful to him. this attitude and set of beliefs is so profound and broad across turkish culture that i do not believe youtube will be able to effectively operate in turkey as long as there is a single video criticizing this turkish national hero.
in The Cat-and-Mouse Game in the Turkish Cyberspace
Posted May 14, 2008
yeah, i don't understand it, either. but i don't have a wii.
in WiiWare goes live today!
Posted May 14, 2008
this event was fantastic. brady had some really interesting things to say about the challenges faced by news gathering and distributing organizations.
in Meet NHPR's Brady Carlson during WebNOB, Tuesday (5/13), Jillian's in Manchester, 6-8 p
Posted May 13, 2008
Two things worth noting here: 1) I still find it shocking that white people will admit to their racism on national tv. clearly we haven't come as far as one might hope;
2) damn these people are fat. we are becoming a seriously fat country and wv is leading the vanguard.
in West Virginia Voters Speak Out
Posted May 13, 2008
This is interesting, given our previous discussion about whether it is good, or bad, for Obama that the race continues. It's surprising (to me) that a majority of democrats seem to think that the race is good for their eventual nominee.
in ABC/Wash. Post Poll: 64% of Dems Say Hillary Should Stay in Race
Posted May 13, 2008
when a man is not free to wear a banana-hammock at the beach, none of us is free!
in Florida Man Ticketed For Wearing Speedo On Beach
Posted May 13, 2008
Race is interesting in this primary, and fascinating that it has played more strongly than gender.
in Clinton Backers Predicting 90-10 West Virginia Blowout
Posted May 12, 2008
i hear that, smckenzie: i, too, am sick of this primary. god, let it be over.
in Bill Clinton earns a "Monica"
Posted May 12, 2008
kinda funny. a little long. i did just find a stack of several hundred 5 1/4" floppies the other day as i was packing up the house.
in Retrolutionize the way you tranfer data
Posted May 12, 2008
processing is v. v. cool but it needs a non-common-noun name. it will never google well.
in Javascript and Processing (visualization language)
Posted May 12, 2008
how does hillary clinton understand the needs of working class women? she's a wealthy politician. not that there's anything wrong with that.
in Quitters Never Win
Posted May 10, 2008
I wonder: is the reluctance to take this seriously really about oil and gas leases, or is it rather about the way in which that might require an acknowledgement that global warming is a reality and that the reduction in habitat for polar bears is a direct result of global warming.
in Urgent Call for Action -- Tell the Bush Administration to Protect the Polar Bear
Posted May 10, 2008
i thought this story was about the musical by andrew lloyd weber. i'm so confused.
in Avery youngest player to commit to Cats
Posted May 10, 2008
this is actually interesting. the idea of taking my facebook profile to other websites is not stupid. the question is, though: what will those websites actually do with it?
in Facebook Developers Blog: Introducing Facebook Connect"
Posted May 09, 2008
the s3fs link provides code
in Re: What is the Easiest Way to Map s3 to linux system?
Posted May 09, 2008
There have certainly been a lot of changes in the way that cars are serviced in the past decade or two, and not all of them for the good. It's nice that computers can (usually) tell technicians what is wrong (or at least what the car thinks is wrong), but occasionally, you really need some expertise and some brain power. Those two aspects are in short supply in the automotive service industry these days.
in ELCO Chevrolet acquires Moore Automotive Cadillac franchise
Posted May 09, 2008
a nice article about Godwin in which the history of Godwin's Law is discussed.
in Meatless Like Me : Vegetarian Myths, Debunked
Posted May 08, 2008
yeah, i'm with amanda here. the macroecological and macroeconomic arguments against participating in the meat industry are compelling. no small-scale, individual examples can overwhelm the evidence that the meat industry is bad for all of us.
in The best way to help animals may be to eat them (Dish)
Posted May 08, 2008
why do we care whether people *think* that we're in a recession? i understand why we care about consumer confidence and how much money people are spending and planning to spend. but whether we are in a recession is a subject for economists. not the popular opinion.
in It's a recession to 4 out of 5 Americans
Posted May 07, 2008
Squabbling is what makes america great! I really do think that people who complain about such things should be required to suggest some way that a dissimilar group of 300m people *should* decide things. I have no idea what else we could be doing, other than not doing this at all (dictatorship, oligopoly, radical local succession into homogeneous tiny groups, etc).
in Electoral Projections Done Right: North Carolina Prediction: Obama by Double Digits
Posted May 06, 2008
colby: did you do check or direct deposit for pay/refund of your taxes?
in Crazy ways people are spending their stimulus checks
Posted May 06, 2008
i can't believe they validated these laptops. this is *not* good for venezuela
in Interpol Confirms Authenticity Of Raul Reyes's Computer Files
Posted May 05, 2008
Finally, an apple story that's not about the Cupertino-based company.
in New apple to be released commercially from 2009
Posted May 05, 2008
the IRS dropped direct deposit over a week early, so these dates are already wrong, jim.
in Find Out The Date You'll Get Your Stimulus Refund
Posted May 05, 2008
well, msft has claimed that they will not attempt this, according to the letter that ballmer sent yang.
in Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal
Posted May 04, 2008
tagged it with the hillary sticker. :-)
in Filly Eight Belles breaks down after 2nd-place Derby finish
Posted May 04, 2008
this is pretty cool.
in Twitter Statistics with Yahoo Pipes and the Google Chart API
Posted May 03, 2008
This is pretty stunning, given how common cholinergic side-effects are in drugs.
in Common drugs hasten decline in elderly
Posted May 03, 2008
She seems confused about the relationship between students and teachers and seemed shocked by students who would dare to question her authority or knowledge.
in Dartmouth Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her
Posted May 03, 2008
i think they're saying there's a pattern to it and that that pattern is obscure.
in the Kraken botnet, analyzed
Posted May 02, 2008
these are genius. my coworkers will attest that i actually did just LOL at one of these. they are very, very wrong.
in Wrong Cards
Posted May 02, 2008
this was amusing the first time i saw it, but it's still funny.
in Life Would be Very Strange if Facebook Interaction Was Real World
Posted May 02, 2008
market tapped at 10k users who can actually get their hands on a google apps account?
in Google Apps Hacks Is Out
Posted May 02, 2008
i care. i care more than ever now that they tell me i shouldn't care. dammit i hate (i.e.: love) gossip.
in Roger Clemens and his planeloads of women
Posted May 02, 2008
the sexual harrassment is "walked around naked and used crude comments"?! that's pretty weak.
in Ex-nanny to sue Rob Lowe's wife
Posted May 02, 2008
and now we learn that this picture isn't even the ugly babies! i *demand* to see pictures of these babies to see just how ugly they are!
in Man sues wife for making ugly baby
Posted May 02, 2008
jim's making a serious point, though, about the slipperiness of it all. it's difficult to tell what the "purpose" of speech is. this is why speech is protected in the US mostly without regard to its intent (commercial, artistic, political, personal, etc.). to do otherwise risks putting the government in too much control of expression.in general: europeans are afraid of corporations and americans are afraid of governments.
in Scandinavian split on sexist ads
Posted May 01, 2008
Arkansan: agreed. this seems incredibly unlikely. that's what makes it such a perfect rumor!
in Hilary Clinton is the New Ralph Nader?
Posted May 01, 2008
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/gastips.asp
in Some tips to help you save a buck or two at the gas pumps!
Posted May 01, 2008
I'm not sure how this will play. There's an apple store version for full price but you get it cheaper from ATT? Is this recognition that apple will basically sell unlocked or unlockable versions? Will Apple sell them unlocked?
in Report: AT&T to subsidize next-gen Apple iPhone by $200, cutting price to $199
Posted May 01, 2008
has anyone else looked at the evidence here? is it crap or is there something there?
in Facebook - the CIA conspiracy -
Posted Apr 30, 2008
"From a broad perspective, this situation marks a loss for Obama, who has generally been in the lead over Clinton for the last month," the pollster concluded. But Gallup also notes that Clinton hasn't been able to move into a significant lead over Obama.
in Election Notebook: Clinton creeps ahead of Obama in nationwide poll
Posted Apr 30, 2008
Sound analysis. It'd be interesting to see *why* clicks drop off after the third page view substantially. Is it that people template ads in the same places/shapes and viewers stop seeing them? Is it that the site content becomes more interesting? Is there any way to change that? Should we change that?
in Attention is greater than Retention for social websites
Posted Apr 30, 2008
mabrown: not a long time in terms of evolution, though, right? 1k years? 5k? how long? and how much of that footware was actually built of a stiff, thick sole (which seems to be the problem).
in How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take
Posted Apr 30, 2008
He's a "natural born Citizen" (ignoring the weird capitalization and the incorrect lack of a hyphen in the compound modifier "natural-born"). You can be born a US citizen if you are born to American parents regardless of where you are born. I know this because I am a natural-born US Citizen born in Togo.
in President McCain
Posted Apr 30, 2008
this summer gas price thing is dumb dumb dumb. the administration cost, the ridiculous timing of it all, all for a few measly bucks saved for something that *should* be expensive.
in Bush says no magic wand to lower fuel prices (Reuters)
Posted Apr 30, 2008
ummm. where? this is unlikely to be interesting to most users of this site, especially if we can't figure out where the hell it is. based on npa-nxx i'm going to go ahead and guess wisconsin (centuria telephone co).
in 2001 Volks Wagon Jetta - Excellent Condition In & Out !
Posted Apr 30, 2008
we scrape lots of content from lots of places. :-)
in 1997 Chrysler LHS - Leather - Only 97K - Beautiful ! (MN / WI Border) $4790
Posted Apr 29, 2008
yep. see the comments above about juries asking questions.
in Hans Reiser, Open Source Developer, Found Guilty of Murder
Posted Apr 29, 2008
*fantastic* idea! insurers are paying way less than "usual and customary" rates that the uninsured and underinsured are supposed to pay.
in Patients Can Get $100 to Reveal Hospital Bills
Posted Apr 29, 2008
hint: it's time for clinton to drop out NOW. sigh. this is getting really old.
in Dean says Clinton or Obama will know when to drop out (AP)
Posted Apr 29, 2008
i was impressed with the detail in the photo. it doesn't look composited but i can't figure out just how they got the dog to do that at the right time.
in Pointalism or Photoism
Posted Apr 29, 2008
the problem is that $4/gal just isn't that much compared to the depreciation of the capital cost of a car. the IRS estimates the average total cost per mile to operate a car is $0.445 . at $4/gal of gas the gas costs $0.0625 (or 14% of the total cost). even if it doubles to $8/gal it only adds another 14% to the total cost to operate a car.
in Good for You, Bad for the Economy
Posted Apr 28, 2008
Having just done this (selling a house in this market--well, it's under contract anyway), I have to say that the only advice that really matters is: price reasonably. The market is slow but not dead. Everything has a price that will attract multiple buyers. The only people in truly bad shape are those that refinanced within an inch of their life and now are underwater and can't afford to sell (which is a lesson to everyone about how to treat the equity in homes).
in How to make a home sale in the midst of a meltdown
Posted Apr 27, 2008
OK, y'all's comments finally made me read the essay, despite a deep antagonism towards Shirky. I'm sorry to have to report, it is good. But there's a cop-out:"And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option. "
Nonsense. He wasn't forced into not being productive, and constructing the valid use of time only with respect to the information media is silly.
in Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Posted Apr 26, 2008
i *knew* twitter was good for something
in Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail - CNN.com
Posted Apr 26, 2008
some men wish that the only plausible libertarian candidate ever (ron paul) weren't a christian nutjob. :-(
in Can McCain Win Over Women Voters?
Posted Apr 26, 2008
i'm so out of the loop. now i have to figure out who megan fox is.
in Megan Fox Is The Sexiest Woman - The Proof!
Posted Apr 26, 2008
i will ask my partner beth. she is an ob/gyn. she's sure to be able to answer this question, david.
in Menstrual blood - a valuable source of multipotential stem cells?
Posted Apr 25, 2008
i have not met anyone who prefers vista to XP. the biggest problem is that microsoft made a *huge* bet on the importance of digital rights management (DRM) and built it into every level their entire OS at the expense of architecture, features, device support, and sanity. and now they are paying the price. idiots.
in Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP
Posted Apr 25, 2008
looks interesting.
in Bruce Willis is Shooting a Scifi Movie Right Now in Woburn...
Posted Apr 25, 2008
yeah, i'm with you. it's not nearly as funny as this LOLcat, for example.
in White kitteh takes knapsack. Moves to suburbs. More at 8!
Posted Apr 24, 2008
notgneiss: i.e. "people are stupid and spend money on dumb stuff. film at 11." :-)
in Astrology Fails To Predict That It Is Crap
Posted Apr 24, 2008
obama's whole strategy has been to win delegates, not popular vote. isn't this exactly what he did in delaware, too? in NH he flat out lost the popular vote and *won* the delegate count by one. same thing in TX.
in Pennsylvania Primary Election Results - Election Guide 2008 - Results - The New York Times
Posted Apr 24, 2008
i loved this the first time it came out. i still love it.
in Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
Posted Apr 24, 2008
smckenzie23: really? i have tried to watch "news" on tv many times. it's just an oxymoron. there's no news there and no point in watching.
in Best Election Night Results
Posted Apr 24, 2008
i don't understand uverse. it is separately installed service to the house that uses coax cable inside the house? and that coax is already connected to comcast's network?
in Comcast: AT&T's U-Verse is messing with our network
Posted Apr 23, 2008
I still worry about the latent racism (and sexism) that is playing out here. If a significant majority of white men vote for mccain, simply because he's a white guy and they are uncomfortable with anything else, that's going to be very difficult to overcome.
in Andrew Sullivan: Karl Rove Wins the Pennsylvania Primary
Posted Apr 23, 2008
jim: do you have evidence that a significant number of republicans registered as democrats in PA? i know it happened in OH and in TX due to the Rush Limbaugh promotion of that strategy, but i haven't read about it in PA
in Competitive race in Pennsylvania - CNN.com
Posted Apr 23, 2008
So early results are in and I posted some over here.
in Pennsylvania Registered Dems: By The Numbers
Posted Apr 22, 2008
"Pennsylvania has a city at one end and a city at the other. In the middle lies a vast windswept desert where people drive around their junkmobiles and hold battles in Thunderdomes." Sometimes referred to as "Pennsyltucky". No offense intended to Kentucky. :-)
in Five Easy Steps To Predicting Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania Analysis]
Posted Apr 22, 2008
"As far as the Democratic side, the only clear trend the polls seem to agree on is that the candidates' names are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama." nice.
in Election prediction
Posted Apr 22, 2008
This story reeks of synthesis: there's just too great a similarity to Romeo and Juliet. Can it possibly be true?
in Localization Problems: A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail
Posted Apr 22, 2008
I have me -> jhota -> jhota's dad -> jhota's dad's prof -> von braun -> hitler. not very good. :-)
in Two degrees of Adolf Hitler. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Posted Apr 22, 2008
Didn't Drudge predict an 10+% Clinton win two days ago? Isn't he always right?
in RealClearPolitics: Pennsylvania Democratic Primary
Posted Apr 21, 2008
Campgains are moving into the modern age. Finally. This is where real cyber warfare training starts.
in Obama site hacked, redirects clicks to Clinton's site
Posted Apr 21, 2008
sigh. if this thing continues, i may kill myself.
in Drudge calls PA for Hillary
Posted Apr 21, 2008
better than kylie minogue, though? i suspect not!
in NPR explores Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Posted Apr 21, 2008
"Clown feet" is nice, BostonWriter. they are appealing to some parents because fo the simplicity of putting on/off and cleaning, much like the flip flops that i grew up with (in tropical climes). still, they are dorky looking and, apparently, smelly.
in Fads: The Crocs Fad Is Over?! Profits Down, Will Close 1 Factory
Posted Apr 21, 2008
wow. i think the "buzz" is still deafening. in fact, i think we may have become deaf to it.
in John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Tech-sector buzz goes silent
Posted Apr 19, 2008
this is fantastic. i didn't appreciate just how cool an idea, and implementation, this was until i saw the video. it's way beyond either arm wrestling or tetris. this is true synergy where the new whole is much larger than the sum of its parts!
in The next bar sensation - Tresling
Posted Apr 18, 2008
this is the best rickroll EVAR, though.
in Exploring the mystery behind the reflection in Dick Cheney's glasses
Posted Apr 18, 2008
In related news, the sun will circle the earth and come up at some time tomorrow morning, local time for you.
in Novell CEO: Linux for the Consumer Desktop Will Take Years (PC World)
Posted Apr 18, 2008
"Reich acknowledged that he and Hillary had gone to see the Antonioni film Blowup, during which Hillary wanted popcorn with a lot of butter. "A lot of butter. Significant? You be the judge," Reich wrote in his blog."
in Robert Reich's Blog
Posted Apr 18, 2008
the revenue possibilities from the iphone being rolled out into a asian markets in general and india in particular are staggering. apple is a company to watch, for sure.the real question is whether apple can get the right price points and margins from their device in less affluent markets.
in Report: Apple iPhone to debut in India debut in September
Posted Apr 18, 2008
fantastic stuff. "second generation traffic calming"
in Hey Shimon! (or anyone with random knowledge about intersection planning)
Posted Apr 18, 2008
"At home, Mr Lyalin had some sausage from the fridge and lay down to sleep, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper says. " Because after you've been stabbed and taken a bus home, the next thing you need is some goddamned sausage. duh.
in you know, i think you've got a knife in your back.
Posted Apr 18, 2008
because they are duped into believing in the old, dated, property-based institution of marriage?!?!?! free yourselves! :-)
in Blogger proposes inside girlfriend's video game
Posted Apr 18, 2008
my local paper will print it next week some time.
in Senior Project: "I better get an A, is all I'm saying"
Posted Apr 17, 2008
there was a theory floating out there that bill had lost his marbles. is there any truth to it? he used to have an incredibly sharp sense of politics and now he's actively undermining his wife's campaign with gaffes like this. maybe he doesn't want her to be president?
in Bill Clinton: Obama does better with younger voters because they're not as smart
Posted Apr 17, 2008
"Entire debate revolves around who will do more to promote faggotry, negritude, zionism, criminality, Israel, etc. A showstopper for sure." clearly.
in Democrat Debate On ABC Tonight
Posted Apr 17, 2008
This debate looks like it was horrible. I'm annoyed at the 10min youtube limit and trying to find it online in full so i don't have to skip around. anyone got a link?
in Quotes from the Democratic debate (AP)
Posted Apr 17, 2008
beth's comment, which i endorse heartily: the only reason we could possibly care about this "news" item would be if she had killed, cooked and eaten her dog. this would be news. nothing else will suffice. can someone pls fact check this story and make sure that that didn't happen? kthx.
in Martha Stewart's dog dies - CNN.com
Posted Apr 17, 2008
The race, class and celebrity implications of endorsement are fascinating to me. Bruce Springsteen is a wealthy, white, rock star whose fans are mostly middle and working class white people. It's hard to think about how this plays.
in 'The Boss' backs Obama
Posted Apr 17, 2008
streaming player keeps crapping out on me. sad. is there a transcript anywhere?
in Tim Robbins great controversial NAB speech.
Posted Apr 17, 2008
most american teenagers can already get booze at 18. they want it lowered to 16 so that they can get it from their older sibs when they're 13. duh.
in Most teenagers want legal drinking age lowered to 16
Posted Apr 17, 2008
spectrum licenses will begin to seem as quaint as 20th century intellectual property right law is starting to.
in Google "gamed" spectrum auction? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted Apr 16, 2008
Things are not looking good for our first woman president. The bitterness just doesn't seem to have legs.
in Hillary Deathwatch: The "bitter" flap fails to ignite.
Posted Apr 16, 2008
and he is *still* on the US Govt's terror watch list. Because he's a terrorist. duh.
in "The greatest technology in the history of humanity is community."
Posted Apr 16, 2008
jessica: moxie is like an expensive car. you should never drink it if you want to go back to drinking regular soda. just don't do it.
in I've got Moxie!
Posted Apr 15, 2008
some things don't need blogging. much less metabloging, jessica. :-)
in Post Mortem -- "The Blog About the End of the Story"
Posted Apr 15, 2008
let me make a suggestion to you people: stop making and spending money. then you won't even have to file.
in Finished your taxes?
Posted Apr 12, 2008
jhota: you rush limbaugh fan you. dittohead.
in An extra helping of Star Wars with your nerdcore rap.
Posted Apr 11, 2008
looney lefties combine common contentious causes.
in Zombie Chronicles the Olympic Torch Relay in SF
Posted Apr 11, 2008
this story is haunting me! as a philosophy major in college, i have seen this story from at least 5 different sources! it's solid, though. training in philosophy is, in large part, training in careful thinking and argumentation. that's useful in a huge variety of circumstances.
in The life examined
Posted Apr 11, 2008
endorsing torture is not just wrong--it's dangerously stupid, like so much of the rest of the actions of this insane administration.
in Condi Must Go
Posted Apr 11, 2008
i suspect it's because i have no friends and no one thinks i'm cool enough to "follow"
in "Why i deleted my twitter account"
Posted Apr 10, 2008
this was a *great* event and i'd like to thank everyone who showed up for coming. tom was a fantastic speaker and the beer didn't hurt my feelings one bit. i'm looking forward to another event next month.
in Join us Tuesday, 4/8, at Jillian's in Manchester, NH, to discuss growing an API-based developer community!
Posted Apr 10, 2008
mksmith: we're not convinced that 'babbledog' is the best name for this website or this set of ideas. but it's what we've got right now. mistyping the name is one of many problems with it. :-)
in Mistyping Babbledog
Posted Apr 09, 2008
dammit. the front page of babbledog cut that off at "$36" for me and i thought i found a good deal :-)
in Looking for an OLPC?
Posted Apr 09, 2008
although traceroutes are suspect, but the application is pretty neat. go google maps.
in Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in Real-Time
Posted Apr 09, 2008
so how is it going to do that?
in Intel to release anti-theft technology for laptops (Macworld.com)
Posted Apr 09, 2008
this writeup is weak. what is the vertical resolution of the XO? is it >480 lines? what is intel doing wrong with their laptops? why is the OLPC/XO better? i *think* i know some of the answers to that, but would like to see what nic neg has to say.
in Negroponte talks about Classmate 2, other low-cost laptops
Posted Apr 08, 2008
i completely agree. i just re-watched "Razor" in preparation for the final season. gripping. painful, at times. and incredibly deep in character.
in Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica": A primer
Posted Apr 07, 2008
Adobe AIR for linux. good. alpha? bad. no source? bad. it's a start, i guess.
in Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops Air for Linux (LinuxWorld)
Posted Apr 07, 2008
dude! the hedgehog died. that sucks.
in no! please! don't hit me with that... hedgehog?
Posted Apr 07, 2008
I'm not good at valuing companies, but why is this not the "right price"? It's a substantial premium for a mismanaged, floundering entertainment consortium on the web. Yahoo has a nice brand and some great infrastructure, but its recent ventures have been failures. yahoo social network, anyone? ad network with good placement?
in Yahoo not opposed to Microsoft deal at right price (Reuters)
Posted Apr 07, 2008
google has a *terrible* reputation in the "customer service" arena, even to it's core customers--advertisers. it's not clear how they would be able to compete with amazon as an "Advanced Hosting Provider" which is really what we're talking about here. i think it's neat that amazon has changed the game enough that this is even conceivable.
in Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Posted Apr 06, 2008
I totally agree. sigh. Education in this country is nonsense and horrible. Private school is only occasionally better. sigh. only solution: don't have kids.
in A New Trial of Motherhood: Keeping Up With the Diagnoses
Posted Apr 05, 2008
That's crazy talk! Are you insulting China or undermining China's national authority?!?!? :-)
in Exclusive: Chinese police kill eight after opening fire on monks and Tibet protesters - Times Online
Posted Apr 05, 2008
why so few gifts in 2002? Bad year? only $9m in revenue.
in TaxProf Blog: Clinton Releases 2001-2006 Tax Returns
Posted Apr 05, 2008
this system could not get any stupider, any less transparent, and more annoying.
in Some superdelegates more super than rest (AP)
Posted Apr 05, 2008
the punchline is: Bill clinton is actually dead.
in Bill Clinton Goes Crazy With Superdelegates Watching [Ha Ha, His Legacy Is Ruined]
Posted Apr 05, 2008
seriously, it is starting to look as though that's the case. as if windows vista will be an ugly, bad stepping stone to something better that will be largely forgotten by future generations.the problem is that we are still going to be stuck with microsoft's *insane* DRM-driven driver model that causes most of vista's problems in the first place. that won't be easy to fix ever.
in Bill Gates Says Next Windows Coming Next Year or So [Windows]
Posted Apr 05, 2008
ain't no bulldozers fixing thos cities yet.
in As owners default, lenders move in
Posted Apr 05, 2008
james: blind people can't drive. i don't think that they're volvo's target market. your comments are surprisingly offensive to blind people everywhere.
in Marketers Use Hypnosis to Mine Deep Thoughts
Posted Apr 05, 2008
Still, this is sad. corruption in developing communities is depressing. there's so little to go around and corruption makes it worse.
in Navajo Nation likely to lose Internet service
Posted Apr 04, 2008
This is good. so far, i've had v. v. good results with ff3b4. it's extremely promising.i'm curious to see what happens with the built-in sqlite functionality.
in Official Release of Firefox 3.0 Beta 5
Posted Apr 02, 2008
sorry, that's creepy. maybe amazing and motivational. but also kind of creepy.
in Dustin Carter
Posted Apr 01, 2008
Meg Ryan for veep!
in eBay CEO Meg Ryan steps down; denies run for California Governor -- WikiWire
Posted Apr 01, 2008
this is a pretty big deal. it's surprising that IBM did this. even more surprising that they got caught.
in Homeland Security bans IBM indefinitely from US Federal Contracts
Posted Apr 01, 2008
So I actually watched it. It is propaganda, but I'm fascinated by Europe's inability to accommodate immigration and the role of new Islamic immigrants to europe. so watching the film was like amateur anthropology.
in Fitna (فتنة)
Posted Mar 31, 2008
was this this tjx (tj maxx) breach?
in Hannaford credit card theft update: malware installed in 300 stores. How?!
Posted Mar 30, 2008
that is horrible. it makes you think about all kinds of cyber-realworld hybrid attacks.
in Griefers Attack Epilepsy Forum
Posted Mar 29, 2008
the taser stuff is frustrating. on the one hand, an alternative to *shooting* people is great. on the other hand, it it's used as an alternative to *talking* to them, not so great.
in As Taser Use Increases The RCMP Redact Details
Posted Mar 28, 2008
I definitely want one of these. The problem is that i already get in trouble for tapping and drumming too much aroung the house. Annoys the people who live with me.
in Drum Table: Perfect Accompaniment for Drinking Songs
Posted Mar 28, 2008
"If this is happening in the relatively safe conditions in the US, how are these laptops going to fare in the harsh conditions they were supposedly designed for?" What makes us think that the US has "relatively safe" conditions? With the recent loss of individual liberties and the coming onset of a depression, things don't see "relatively safe" here at all!
in Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily [Laptops]
Posted Mar 28, 2008
I'm of two minds here. The building owners did suffer a substantial loss. If they can demonstrate that someone else's negligence caused that loss, then they should get paid. On the other hand, it seems unlikely or difficult to prove that the TSA or the airlines, or the airport or anyone else exercised a degree of negligence necessary to make them culpable. Of course, I'm not a lawyer. Or a terrorist. Or an airline owner. Or a building owner. Or the TSA.
in I have little faith in human nature
Posted Mar 28, 2008
This is at least in part in response to the pressure that google put on cell phone companies from two perspectives. 1) google added 'open access' as a requirement for the most recently completed bandwidth auction. 2) google's android mobile operating system raises the bar for open access by creating an open platform. this will be interestin to watch.
in Cell phone service providers consider opening up service
Posted Mar 28, 2008
diesel, wheat flower and canola oil. eat my dust.
in Cupcake Cutthroats: muffin-shaped electric art cars gone wild.
Posted Mar 28, 2008
i just don't get the vans thing. but i'm a notoriously bad dresser.
in USC Vans - I want them!
Posted Mar 28, 2008
Puerto Rican politicians just cannot get out of their own way. It's hard to see how the island will ever get ahead
in PR governor, four Philadelphians charged | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/27/2008
Posted Mar 28, 2008
nipples are obviously dangerous weapons. duh.
in Alert: Nipple Rings a Danger at Airports
Posted Mar 27, 2008
In particular, I'm interested in the somewhat-cheesy trope in the show of the social networking site and the way in which the actual site attempts to mirror that. And the claim that they're getting content for the second season from the site. I haven't spent enough time on http://quarterlife.com/ yet to figure out whether there's a real, active, creative community there, yet.
in quarterlife -- is it tv or is it internet
Posted Mar 27, 2008
taxes here are worse than most people think, given state and federal taxes combined.
in "THE DOW IS CRASHING" -- Do you agree?
Posted Mar 27, 2008
it's just weird to me that with plentiful availability of EVDO and HSDPA, apple picked a dumb, desperate partner like ATT and a slow network like EDGE.
in Analyst: Apple Places Order for 10 Million 3-G iPhones
Posted Mar 26, 2008
this is actually surprisingly accurate. "Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities." and "Computers not only keep track of money, they make spending it easier. TV-telephone shopping is common. To shop, you simply press the numbered code of a giant shopping center."One thing that's good to know: in the future sexism will be alive and well: "Other conveniences ease kitchenwork. The housewife simply determines in advance her menus for the week, then slips prepackaged meals into the freezer and lets the automatic food utility do the rest."
in Life in the Future
Posted Mar 26, 2008
certainly seems likely.
in so, uh, the manufacturer of the cheapest car in the world is now... Jaguar?
Posted Mar 26, 2008
this lady might well be a loon. i'm just saying she's not wrong about standing up to government attempts to ban incandescent bulbs.
in Bachmann is pro-choice on bulbs
Posted Mar 26, 2008
i disagree that that is what personalization means. i also disagree that such a fairly recent verbbing should have a 'traditional' meaning. your friends don't shake you up at all. they give you what you expect from them. they do not vary significantly from you, because that is why they are your friends. they give you the illusion of novelty without the discomfort that might accompany true novelty.
in Tom Curley, Associate Press CEO tells it like it is .. in 2004
Posted Mar 26, 2008
"Who needs a bulletproof vest, when you got excess skin!" hilarious.
in Chef Prudhomme takes a bullet, shrugs it off
Posted Mar 25, 2008
i was just thinking to myself that we needed more alpha testers
in How To Design A Boardgame
Posted Mar 25, 2008
here it was a nice, family chat and jessica goes and starts talking about hos.
in the myth of buying local?
Posted Mar 25, 2008
2) why anyone would think this is a bad thing. search within a site has been there for a long time. it's good. why are people upset?
in No. 1 in Google may not be enough
Posted Mar 25, 2008
Classic american psychology: in a recession? here's great stuff to buy!!! worse yet, some of these suggestions include things from the ridiculous (a new car to save some $$ on gas) to the sublime (all new underwewar). We are screwed. totally screwed.
in Ten purchases you can make that will banish the economic blues
Posted Mar 25, 2008
five minutes?!?!? colby, you must have really gotten into it. :-)
in The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag
Posted Mar 25, 2008
mksmith: cool. thanks for the links. it's nice to know we're not at the very very bottom in the US.
in Lagging Broadband in U.S. Damages Economy
Posted Mar 22, 2008
one of these days i will grow up and be as witty as jim.
in UPMC names interim transplant chief - Pittsburgh Business Times:
Posted Mar 22, 2008
ummm. yeah. if you're attending a birth (as any involved party) and you're typing at a keyboard... you're doing something wrong. try again.
in Life In a Shoe » Amazing baby stories
Posted Mar 21, 2008
This is seriously cool but 802.11 is not a great link layer. Not sure why it makes sense. Just the cost? Why not 802.16 (wimax)? or some CDMA thingy?
in Intel touts long-distance WiFi for rural areas
Posted Mar 21, 2008
bugs in the nose are gross. trust me.
in The Creepy Ad Campaign for Stella Espresso Coffee
Posted Mar 21, 2008
"sir. sir! i'm going to have to ask you to sit on your hands. yes. your hands. sit on them. yes, sir." another working doing tech support at an ISP in the late 90s.
in Things you hear at work
Posted Mar 20, 2008
this story is fascinating. and not in a good way. the story and our interest in it say nothing good about humanity. nothing at all.
in Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet charged
Posted Mar 20, 2008
mabrown: why? have you tried a kindle? or the sony reader? what's better about books than those?
in Instead of Donating, Queens School Dumps Books
Posted Mar 20, 2008
it's a funny idea but badly executed. it's just not that funny or clear. is the issue that linux just gets new stuff for free because of the open source? and that that somehow makes it keep up with the trends? weak message. classic bad novell marketing.
in Your Linux is Ready
Posted Mar 20, 2008
mr rogers was from pittsburgh, where i am moving shortly. yay for mr rogers. if only i had a cardigan. i was knitting a cardigan once several years ago, but i decided that i already had too many problems with other people believing i was gay (not that there's anything wrong with that; it just increases communication overhead) so i decided not to finish it.
in Wear a sweater for Fred Rogers on Thursday, March 20!
Posted Mar 20, 2008
oh! so sad! i can't watch it. no quicktime plugin. hrm. maybe i really do need to get a mac.
in babbledog on SXSW For Newbies
Posted Mar 20, 2008
this seems to be confirmed (or at least not falsified) by the fact that it is also not christmas.
in WikiAnswers - When is the first day of spring?
Posted Mar 20, 2008
When people start to say things like 'platform', beware: miscommunication usually follows. In what way are firefox (which is an application and a browser) and facebook (which is a website and a dataset and api) competitive "platforms". this is nonsense doublespeak.
in Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox
Posted Mar 19, 2008
heh. yep. ff3.0 seems to really not suck. it's much faster and more stable than ff2.0 for me already.
in Holy crap!
Posted Mar 19, 2008
if i recall correctly, one exception was the prius. they were worried about the durability of some of the systems given how new it was. i think that advice still stands, but i cannot recall.
in Say No to Extended Warranties for Cars
Posted Mar 19, 2008
i'm really excited about FF3.0 and the integrated sqllite database. i think it will make for some really exciting applications
in Best Browser Beta
Posted Mar 19, 2008
Gotcha. i know nothing about this, jhota. it's clear you do.
in Costs soar for Marine One fleet
Posted Mar 18, 2008
friendfeed does a few things that we're trying to do on babbledog really well. but mostly i find it confusing and annoying. can anyone else figure out what the hell you're supposed to do with it? what if you don't have any friends there?
in FriendFeed gets interesting
Posted Mar 18, 2008
most people with PhDs aren't that practical. (i'm looking nervously around at my coworkers now) :-) .
in The Incredible Hulk Hulk-out List
Posted Mar 16, 2008
I wish i had paid attention in goofy wallstreet jargon class: "Had the Fed delayed, many traders believe Wall Street would have plunged through resistance levels risking a full-fledged crash." what the hell does *that* mean?
in Bear Stearns exposed as a bank saddled with toxic sub-prime debt - Telegraph
Posted Mar 15, 2008
Jim: and it shows up when people comment on it. like this :-)
in Lesbians kiss deeply
Posted Mar 13, 2008
People are much weirder than we think. That's another interesting finding here. I think we often project ourselves onto other people. But that paints a very inaccurate picture. We are far, far more different from each other than I believe most of us appreciate.
in Sheriff: Woman spent 2 years sitting on boyfriend’s toilet
Posted Mar 13, 2008
Patents make me so sad. The examiners have no expertise or interest in the fields over which they are awarding patents.
in Patent on secure transmission of syslog messages?
Posted Mar 13, 2008
's an interesting other discussion about why people invest in restaurants
in Your Waiter Tonight... Will Be the Chef
Posted Mar 12, 2008
I'm pretty sure I'm on unsupervised probation right now.
in "Gilligan, I baked you some brownies"
Posted Mar 11, 2008
depressing. i don't have a quicktime plugin in my browser. gotta get that sorted at some point.
in Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit
Posted Mar 11, 2008
Indeed, Polar, he should have. I don't actually understand why he didn't. Unwillingness to admit that he's not going to keep his job?
in Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
Posted Mar 11, 2008
chuck: this is unsurprising, though. no real developer would still be using a G4/PPC. it's been a coupla years since they were sold new, right?
in Live from Apple's iPhone SDK press conference
Posted Mar 11, 2008
There are many aspects of modern japanese society that I simply cannot understand. This weird obsession with maids is just one of them. Maid cafe opens in toronto - this is just surprising and bizarre to me.
in French Maid Skirt PC Case is Otaku Heaven
Posted Mar 11, 2008
I studied biology in Kansas. I know of what you speak.
in Jellyfish in the Chesapeake
Posted Mar 11, 2008
Is Linux just not going to be mainstream? Maybe that's just fine.
in Wal-Mart is pulling plug on in-store gPC "experiment"
Posted Mar 11, 2008
Best quote: "I watched, transfixed, as she took the 3 a.m. call...and I was afraid...very afraid. Suddenly, I realized the last thing this country needs is that woman anywhere near a phone. I don't care if it's 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don't want her talking to Putin, I don't want her talking to Kim Jong II, I don't want her talking to my nephew."
in Larry David on Hillary
Posted Mar 11, 2008
So, it looks like 12% of Novell's gross revenue is Linux. On the one hand, that's kind of cool because it means that one company is able to do substantial revenue ($28m) on Linux. On the other hand, 10+ years after availability, a single bit player is still doing <15% of its gross revenue from Linux. And they're the ones who are trying.
in Novell Grows Its Linux Business
Posted Mar 11, 2008
Don't diss the midwest, hoss! (I went to high school very, very close to nebraska)
in Ben Franklin's Satirical Call for "Daylight Saving" in 1784
Posted Mar 10, 2008
he's an interesting character because he is *not* charismatic at all. and yet, he's still successful.
in Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote
Posted Mar 10, 2008
Heh. I'm generally not a fan of the mac, and even this seems like a bad use of them. That tp is *way* low to the floor!
in Mac SE gutted, converted into toilet paper dispenser
Posted Mar 10, 2008
The punchline to that is: "Well, in REST, a message sender has to know the receiver’s address, there’s no global data, the receiver has to be waiting for the message, and the receiver will typically dispatch on its contents. Just like Erlang." I'm still thinking about what that means.
in Hard Problems
Posted Mar 09, 2008
Great literature must be false, dammit! Otherwise how can it purport to elucidate such great and universal truths. This is a scandal without equal, verily.
in Margaret B. Jones is not alone: Kafka was a Fake!
Posted Mar 09, 2008
aaaaarrrggggh! the article is only available to paying subscribers. what's the punchline? what are the subtle signals?
in Audio cellphone display lets you yap and talk
Posted Mar 09, 2008
The interesting thing will be whether this kind of fundraising can continue, or whether democrats will lose their interest once the general election gets started.
in Obama raises $55 million in February
Posted Mar 09, 2008
Collaboration may be natural for the under-20 crowd but it is not uniformly well-executed. Lots of younger (and older) people think that they're collaborating, when really they're just wasting time and pissing off their coworkers.
in Henry Jenkins: How can we test collaboration?
Posted Mar 09, 2008
given a $15B valuation for facebook, this is chump change to someone like microsoft. their cash doesn't do them any good if they're just earning 5.05% on it down at the E*Trade and not building any competitive value.
in Microsoft And Google Bidding For Digg?
Posted Mar 08, 2008
It certainly doesn't look like a hoax. abc.go.com not known for their fabulous sense of humo(u)r. ok, also not known for reporting skill and accuracy. :-)
in Iceman on Everest: 'It Was Easy'
Posted Mar 08, 2008
marketing is hard. public relations is ridiculously hard.
in Stalkerish Buzz-Building Effort Gets an F - Advertising Age
Posted Mar 08, 2008
That is a great story, though, notgneiss.
in SMS language sparks off unusually spelt baby names trend!
Posted Mar 07, 2008
a vibrating dildo you say?!?!?! what a wonderful idea! :-)
in Tactile Wand concept aims to aid the visually impaired
Posted Mar 07, 2008
governing is hard. let's run for president.
in Being a senator not a ‘high priority’ for McCain.
Posted Mar 07, 2008
And in related links to the right: "Which Celebrity to Endorse Male Genital Odors Removal Cream? Who will be the New Face of NodorO™?" How is that not great?
in Trimethylaminuria - fish odor syndrome
Posted Mar 07, 2008
the library of the future is virtual. there will be no places that are like libraries of today. which is both great and a shame. it's great because physical books are a pain in the ass and it will be great when they're gone. but it's terrible because these places are *beautiful* and i hate to think that we will not have beautiful spaces to work/think/read in just because we don't need a place to shove the books.
in The future architecture of libraries
Posted Mar 07, 2008
Huge and difficult position to be undertaking now. The politics are difficult--every country that needs this has horrible corruption problems. The economics are tough, too: intel's classmate is competing aggressively. I'll be *very* interested to see who takes on this job.
in Head Of "One Laptop Per Child" Wants New Chief Executive
Posted Mar 07, 2008
the right answer is to refuse to buy any of them until stupid format battles settle out
in Future Shop offers trade-in credit for HD DVD players, will donate old decks to charity.
Posted Mar 07, 2008
also: "“There is also a bit of backlash against the conservative names like Jack, Ella and Olivia, he added. " ummm. "Olivia" as a *traditional name? wtf? olivia only became popular in the 1990s. It's not traditional.
in Texting generation carrying spelling habits to birth certificates?
Posted Mar 07, 2008
Also, the iphone is so ridiculously underpowered form the cpu perspective, that heavy graphics apps are likely to cause it trouble.
in Silverlight for iPhone next? Not quite, says Ballmer
Posted Mar 07, 2008
People seem very sensitive. I can't tell if this is just ridiculous overreaction or if there's something to it. I know that the scandinavians so not love each other (something about wars and Sweden trying to take over everyone else), but this just seems like borrowing trouble.
in Do IKEA names discriminate against Danish cities?
Posted Mar 07, 2008
what the hell! why can i not get sub-0.26?!?!?!
in Shoot sheep with darts--for science
Posted Mar 07, 2008
is "bombing" a bit strong? i thought it was like an M80 or smaller. not really a 'bomb', eh?
in CNN: Images of the Times Square blast
Posted Mar 06, 2008
Heh. Now there's an app that I could get behind.
in Will your grandmother really get an iphone?
Posted Mar 06, 2008
james: yeah, but it would be much thicker if they did that. they're obsessed with the thin thing.
in Apple goes after RIM/Blackberry market!
Posted Mar 06, 2008
that's what i'm saying
in Padded lampposts for distracted texters being tested in London
Posted Mar 06, 2008
sacrilige, winter! love and rockets better than bauhaus?!?!?!? nonsense. in the flat fields. bela lugosi's dead. come on!
in Bauhaus: Godfathers of Goth Regroup
Posted Mar 05, 2008
i don't understand why you think it's well-crafted, jim. is it just that she's honest about the fact that men (including her husband) obviously do no housework?
in Michelle Obama's Speech at Women For Obama Luncheon
Posted Mar 05, 2008
non-dairy "cheese" is horrible. i say that as a former vegan. :-)
in Kosher Cheeseburger: Sacrilicious or Sacrilegious?
Posted Mar 05, 2008
that's really very nice. censorship is hard. let's go shopping.
in The Count Censored
Posted Mar 05, 2008
heh. colby knows i don't know the football (i've since found out). so i was never a fan of D&D because i thought that it crushed a lot of more interesting role playing systems. oh well.
in Failed His Final Saving Throw
Posted Mar 04, 2008
Why is a JavaOne Summary 'more like this'?!?!?! is java such torture? oh, you silly babbledoggers.
in Torture has never been so fun!
Posted Mar 04, 2008
y'all are silly. there are some very basic techniques for correcting for what you eat for breakfast, socio-economic status, lifestyle choices (like exercise) and so on.
in Teens Who Eat Breakfast Daily Eat Healthier Diets Than Those Who Skip Breakfast
Posted Mar 02, 2008
i read 'burn' as 'bum'. memo to self: do not put butter or honey on yer bum.
in Reality Check: Can honey soothe a burn?
Posted Mar 02, 2008
the link is worth following just to see the diagram of the invention that is being used against apple. it's hilarious.
in Apple sued over iPhone caller ID
Posted Mar 02, 2008
I was really, really sceptical, until i saw this trailer. wow. robert downey jr frickin nails it. amazing. going to want to see it.
in The Full Iron Man Trailer!
Posted Mar 01, 2008
This is really interesting stuff. creepy, but interesting. aol began the breakdown of physical world/computer by linking up AIM with SMS. twitter did it via the web with a better interface. now this is the more effective (less kludgey than twitter) feedbackloop.
in 'Friend locator' could become next craze for social networkers (AFP)
Posted Feb 29, 2008
linked in jumped the shark? billg not known for coolness.
in Bill Gates Links Up With LinkedIn
Posted Feb 29, 2008
Something wonderful about our world. That it could include bizarre breast massage robots.
in Bizarre Breast Massage Robot Ready to Bust Out
Posted Feb 29, 2008
I still do not understand pownce. what the heck is the point of that application?
in Valleyspeak: Leah Culver tries to coin a catchphrase
Posted Feb 29, 2008
Sigh. This is, unfortunately, a lie.
in Pakistan Denies Causing Global YouTube Outage
Posted Feb 29, 2008
AT first, I thought this was not a big deal. Now, I'm not so sure. $45m ?!?!?! This may be a fairly significant problem for Limelight.
in Akamai Prevails in Patent Litigation:
Posted Feb 29, 2008
http://babbledog.com/thread/5c29c4d04e8c4cff8863716b6c63a3b7/
in I eat Econo, or do I?
Posted Feb 29, 2008
there is something curiously out of whack when a country that prides itself on individual liberties imprisons just so many people.
in Welcome to Prison Nation
Posted Feb 29, 2008
This is part of what is so fascinating about google. they have two competing cultures of openness and secrecy to the point of paranoia. the openness is in their bones: open source code (they use and sometimes release), open protocols, open standards. the secrecy seethes from within as well--they are paranoid freaks convinced that microsoft or yahoo or someone is about to eat their lunch.
in Google's Schmidt talks (about nothing you care about)
Posted Feb 29, 2008
bacon is the enemy of the vegetablearian. every single thing that is *almost* veggie is not because of bacon. 3 out of 4 world religions (who all ban pork) cannot be wrong. :-)
in Bacon makes everything better
Posted Feb 29, 2008
They could really get you to buy stuff, i'll bet. I notice this when i end up watching ads on tv occasionally while traveling (hotel or plane). it's all garbage designed to make us all feel bad about ourselves and buy more crap. really concerning.
in Free cell phones from Google?
Posted Feb 29, 2008
Yep. fantastic explanation. astonishing how many obvious things these guys are missing. collaboration and groupthink are closer than we might think.
in Psychologist Might Win Netflix Prize
Posted Feb 28, 2008
ah! i get it now. i thought you got a different, secret fortune. so wait, it *is* the next century. do we get to live on the moon now?
in Best. Fortune. Ever.
Posted Feb 28, 2008
Best quote: "[Astute readers may notice that I myself am an old, fat, white guy. Have I been tempted to put down roots here on a Bahamas out island? The answer is “no”. People are friendly, the beach is lovely, the snorkeling is interesting, and Internet service seems to be fast, reliable, and widely available. On the other hand, it is hot and humid for most of the year and fresh fruit and vegetables are pretty much unavailable at any price.]"
in Bahamas Real Estate
Posted Feb 28, 2008
Intentionally belligerent is nice. :-) Under the heading of "population is destiny" my favorite statistic in this area is that 24% of all babies born in the US last year were born to Spanish-speaking mothers. Huge parts of the US are now effectively bilingual and some are dominant-Spanish. I can understand that that makes some English-speakers uncomfortable, but them's the facts.
in "Hillary, Hillary Clinton" vs. "¡Viva Obama!'
Posted Feb 28, 2008
dull. he consumes a lot more than everyone. he takes up more space. famous people call him. we get it.
in Humor: A Day In the Life of a Superdelegate
Posted Feb 28, 2008
So Garfield is actually a terrible comic. I looked at this with *very* low expectations. It's amazing how wonderful, refreshing and funny it is without the stupid fat cat. It makes me think more about the actual creative process. How did Garfield *with* the stupid cat become part of popular culture when this one is so much better?
in garfield minus garfield
Posted Feb 28, 2008
Has anyone seen the actual video? i'd love to see a link.
in Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban
Posted Feb 28, 2008
zfs is the most astonishingly great filesystem/blockstoragemanager ever. it's a shame that sun is taking so long to get to the point where you can boot from it.
in ZFS as a Root File System
Posted Feb 28, 2008
I just like the fact that there's a whole blog for white people. so that you can keep track of what they like and what they don't. In case you run into any of them.
in Stuff White People Like
Posted Feb 28, 2008
I'll admit: that's an extremely wacky thing to say.
in William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82
Posted Feb 27, 2008
weird? i'd say *cool*. hehe.
in xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Posted Feb 27, 2008
i think the argument is about nader pushing obama to the left and something about huckabee staying in (the mysterious 5th canidate) and pushing mccain to the right. not sure, though
in Does Nader '08 Mean Bloomberg '08, Too?
Posted Feb 27, 2008
It's also suprising that mormons are equal in number to jews now.
in Snapshot of Religion in the United States
Posted Feb 27, 2008
This is actually fairly interesting. Some similar ideas to babbledog, but without the automatic personaliztion.
in Yahoo Puts the 'Buzz' in Social News, Launches Digg Competitor
Posted Feb 27, 2008
David: what's comforting about it? just that he's not huckabee?
in Top Ten Reasons John McCain Should Not Become President
Posted Feb 27, 2008
heh. jim: i said that already. babbledog needs better history.
in Bush-McCain McCaption Contest
Posted Feb 27, 2008
Well, it seems surprising to me. All of the previous research (hippie conspiracy theorists notwithstanding) seem to show that high fructose corn sweetener is no more dangerous than anything else. The problem is sugar in general, not the particular kind of sugar. I'm interested to see whether this sweetener is really specifically bad or it's just that kids are eating too much sugar, getting fat, and developing type-2 diabetes.
in Soft Drink Sweetener Linked to Diabetes in Kids
Posted Feb 27, 2008
I'm interested in the way in which the coverage of this event seems to have been more clueful than most tech coverage.
in Pakistan Breaks the InterTubes
Posted Feb 27, 2008
Finally. But the nonsense continues. Pakistan telecom still claims that they had nothing to do with the worldwide outage and that it was some other provider somewhere else.
in Pakistan Lifts Curbs on YouTube
Posted Feb 26, 2008
That's a hilarious chart. I'm sure we can find ways to get Babbledog off the air for more than 6 hours per month.
in Social Network Downtime
Posted Feb 26, 2008
yeah, it's so fantastically clear.
in How Subprime (doesn't) Work - A Google Docs Presentation
Posted Feb 26, 2008
On the subject of epilepsy: when i was getting off the train in england on my first day arriving at Cambridge, a man had a seizure crossing the street. i went to help him but couldn't call for help because i didn't actually know how to dial 999 or 112 in the UK. he turned out to be fine. fast forward to christmastime that same year, i'm on a train ride back from london, and the *same* guy across the aisle from me, starts having another seizure. that time he had a harder time coming to, but i was able to tell the conductor that i was pretty sure he lived in cambridge, given that i'd seen him have seizures there before. :-)
in Woman, 44, Dies on Plane With 2 Empty Oxygen Tanks
Posted Feb 26, 2008
there's no way that kid got cast in later starwars movie.
in How ubiquitous is "2 girls 1 cup"
Posted Feb 26, 2008
Either that or the Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma" (you know it's serious) :-)
in Emo scientists? That was my first thought, anyway. "Darkest Material Ever"
Posted Feb 25, 2008
Nadar: an egomaniac for the 21st century! Yay!
in Obama, Clinton Agree: Nader must Die
Posted Feb 25, 2008
I will commit to reading any book / any story that has the phrase 'pygmy love queen' in it. especially where said love queen is a sadist. good times. good times.
in "I was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen" (and other books you need to add to your reading list)
Posted Feb 25, 2008
so, notgneiss, what you're saying is that the NYT is part of the axis of malware evil?
in Russia overtakes China as the world's highest producer of malware and viruses
Posted Feb 25, 2008
hilarious. but why twitter? and why facebook? how about nothing?
in Social pruning
Posted Feb 25, 2008
Interesting critique of the other wikipedia article i posted.
in Wikipedia And Digg Are Exactly As They Seem, Damn It [Debunker]
Posted Feb 25, 2008
javascript always strikes me as a huge pile of fail. i don't think it has to be. it's not a bad language in principle. but the implementations are unstandardized crap. and the language spec sucks.
in How JavaScript Timers Work
Posted Feb 24, 2008
I'll be filing suit against James and Marguerite Driessen for violating this business methods patent shortly
in Apple, Starbucks sued over iTunes promotion cards
Posted Feb 24, 2008
From the article: "A rundown on what works and what doesn't: 1. Castration. Don't be a wuss. A real man does what it takes to get results." OK, from my avatar you can tell i'm a bald man. i guess it's too late to get castrated, though. dammit. missed my chance.
in 25-May-2007
Posted Feb 24, 2008
The designs are *incredible*. I'm mostly sceptical of design, but when you see it well done, it is truly impressive.
in Project Runway Iceland?
Posted Feb 24, 2008
It's fairly suprising that no airport in Russia already has three runways. It's not a particularly large number of an airport, as notgneiss points out.
in 3rd Runway to Appear in Sheremetyevo Airport
Posted Feb 23, 2008
Un-frickin-believable. What the hell business does SCO actually have? The intellectual property claims are laughable, obviously. And their Unix is a really great Unix... for 1992. Sigh.
in SCO is back
Posted Feb 22, 2008
no offense to the "wii" but it just makes me think of peeing every time (i need to take a wee).
in Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display
Posted Feb 22, 2008
"I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers. Mmmmmmmmmm."
in Jay's Caption Contest
Posted Feb 22, 2008
Although this sounds neat, if we're going to start talking about stuff that could be operations "within 25 years", this is not even close to the most impressive thing I'd like to hear about.
in Reaction Engines' A2 supersonic jet could easily humble the Concorde
Posted Feb 22, 2008
The sad thing is that some prosecutors actually believe this, I am certain.
in Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Crack-Dealing Terrorists, and Murderers Too!
Posted Feb 22, 2008
"Student Focused" should be lower-case and hyphenated. Lower case because A) we don't speak German so nouns are not upper-cased, and B) because "Focused" isn't even a noun. Hyphenated because "student-focused" is a compound modifier. They do not intend to remain "student" and "focused" separately. I think you're pretty well screwed, Jim. :-)
in Concord Monitor - Only 1 in 4 proficient in math
Posted Feb 22, 2008
those patterns are *wonderful* though. i long for the days of plaid that cheesy.
in Sears 1973 - James Lileks
Posted Feb 22, 2008
well, intel have been pretty much jackasses for months (over a year). they've been trying to sell classmate PCs and sabotaging OLPC at every step. this was inevitable.
in A marriage of convenience broken: OLPC and Intel
Posted Feb 21, 2008
but not for $35-40k
in Car Talk: It may be best to unload SUV that brings out your inner beast
Posted Feb 21, 2008
notgneiss: who is the Academia Inglesa internacional? and whence does their authority derive?
in "Prepend"
Posted Feb 21, 2008
heh. winter is whipping out the latin all over babbledog. c.f. http://babbledog.com/thread/0f6df9ad3c11434b964fb2f0d797688a/
in And that name, Coco, what is the origin?
Posted Feb 20, 2008
you will never get the confidence that the application is actually working
in Automate/Test web sites with Zope's testbrowser
Posted Feb 20, 2008
creepy. sad. it's weird to figure out how this got to this point. i don't know that senator clinton is fundamentally misguided. i just know that she's gone horribly wrong.
in Hillary's Weird Speech In El Paso [What Happens In Virginia And Maryland And Dc Stays In Virginia And Maryland And Dc]
Posted Feb 19, 2008
i hadn't seen hexbugs ( http://www.vexlabs.com/vex-robotics-hexbug.shtml ) before. they look really cool. what have you done with them?
in Hexbugs Get a Plot Point on Knight Rider
Posted Feb 19, 2008
that's really a disappointing turn in the development of electronic books.
in Books: Will Customers Pay-Per-Chapter?
Posted Feb 18, 2008
yeah. i wish i could spend money on consumer gear. cause then i would do this. or somethign like it.
in iRiver's Multimedia Unit2 has Everything We Could Want, Including Apple-esque UI
Posted Feb 18, 2008
And the only people who really love him have heard him speak on tv or in person. that is the making of a demogogue and it worries me.
in Clinton, Obama prepare for battle in Wisconsin (Reuters)
Posted Feb 18, 2008
interesting. my partner probably wants a pearl or pearl2 this summer. what will be better about pearl2? got a reference/link BBFly ?
in If You Have BlackBerry Curve 8320 (Queens)
Posted Feb 18, 2008
i must admit that i am unimpressed by the iphone. other phone manufacturers seem to have discovered this wacky, cool new technology that provides data entry with active tactile feedback (sometimes called a "button" :-). apple seems not to have figured this out.
in Would BB service work with iPhone?
Posted Feb 18, 2008
jhota: indeed. but the sad thing here is that when/if the dems lose in november, they will attribute it to the fact that their candidate was a woman or a black man rather than to their own sad ineptness. and that will be a major setback.
in Democrats' fate in the hands of the super delegates
Posted Feb 18, 2008
I'm still trying to figure out why it was blocked in the first place.
in Wikileaks.org under injunction - Wikileaks
Posted Feb 18, 2008
:-( makes me sad in the winter to see beautiful, tropical beaches.
in Calabria, Med Sea
Posted Feb 17, 2008
that's confusing
in t-mobile blackberry pearl for sale dirt cheap (jamaica queens) $70
Posted Feb 15, 2008
david: i've been thinking about this recently. it's such a cool data store that lots of things (non realtime replication, in particular) could be done with it. is there libgit.so or something?
in git beyond version control
Posted Feb 15, 2008
whoa. goofy, but really cool.
in My car can go underwater too, and it didn't cost $1.6 million.
Posted Feb 15, 2008
i don't understand elmo. it may be because i am too old and he post-dates my sesame street experience.
in The next big Elmo Christmas present?
Posted Feb 15, 2008
I would never read babbledog at work. That would be WRONG.
in Log off and get to work
Posted Feb 15, 2008
sometimes, people just tell you too much. and you wish they hadn't. well, happy valentine's day, folx.
in Fall in love with Babbledog!
Posted Feb 11, 2008
That's a depressing comment, but I basically agree with it. Sigh.
in Microsoft is Stupid, Apple is Not
Posted Feb 08, 2008
this is actually really cool. the beginnings of geolocational art. only virtual, but still. similar to stuff in william gibson's most recent book: "Spook Country"
in YouTube Layer in Google Earth Updating Daily
Posted Feb 08, 2008
yep. the vcs is just one, early applicaiton. there's lot of other cool stuff you could do with that.
in GIT is a PITA
Posted Feb 07, 2008
i wish that we could get a new launch platform, though. this one is old and dangerous.
in Atlantis lifts off!
Posted Feb 07, 2008
Not sure I believe the dichotomy. I often need to clarify a problem before i can work towards an effective solution.
in One of Two People:
Posted Feb 07, 2008
Is your skin transparent? Do you see demons? Do you know what a demon is? :-)
in Demonology
Posted Feb 07, 2008
this article is actually really nice. thoughtful and useful for parents. be warned, though: it's actually about adolescent sex. prudish americans will be horrified. people looking for prurience will be disatsified, too, though.
in The Parenting Lease
Posted Feb 07, 2008
i just don't have time to pick stocks and worry about the details.
in Want a Hot Financial Tip?
Posted Feb 07, 2008
single bad study that has been repudiated. sigh. i hope herd immunity holds up.
in 08-Jun-2007
Posted Feb 07, 2008
This is something near and dear to my heart. I have 529 plans for the two girls (which is great because other family can invest in them, too if they want to, which sometimes they do). But I may have shortchanged retirement savings a result for the past few years. This is an excellent post.
in 529 Plan - The Worst Thing You Can Do for Your Child Ok, I realize I am being a bit harsh. In fact, I love the 529 plan. I discuss and recommend them for my clients on a daily basis. However, 529 plans are becoming so popular today that parents are starting to forgo their Retirement plans, emergency funds, and other important goals, just to help their children through school. A 529 plan is a college (and only college) savings account that is established by Section 529 in the tax code. It basically allows you to invest after-tax dollars in a fund that grows tax deferred and allows you to take the money free from taxes if used for qualified post-high school education costs. It is a great deal if you are almost 100% sure that it will get used. Parents: please get started saving for college right away, if you have the resources. By resources, I mean that you have done or are in the process of doing the following: 1. Have 3-6 months of living expenses in a liquid savings account 2. Have paid off all high interest credit cards 3. Are on track to have enough money invested for your retirement 4. Have a proper life insurance and disability plan in place 5. Have health insurance that will allow you to cover any and all medical expenses with your cash flow or emergency fund. 6. Have worked with an estate planning attorney to implement your wills, Powers of attorneys, and Living Will. If you are saving for your kid's education before taking care of these necessities, you are taking a huge risk. There are so many opportunities to get funding for college. There are student loans, other financial aid, they can work during college. Who knows, your kids may not even go to college. The next time you see your children; ask them the following question to see what the answer will be: "Would you rather pay for your own college and later visit your parents in their summer home in the Hamptons, or we can pay your college expenses and later move in with you. Easy answer. Take care of yourselves first.
Posted Feb 07, 2008
yeah, i read a really good article about how git is actually a better-unix-than-unix concept
in Let's Play: Use Mercurial, you Git!
Posted Feb 06, 2008
interesting. he's now over 50% with the continued counting showing him taking a majority of delegates on super tuesday.
in WSJ Political Market
Posted Feb 06, 2008
just not convinced that annie hall was a very good movie. i tied to enjoy it and couldn't figure out what it was about or why i should care.
in The Results Are In: Recast Annie Hall | Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Annie Hall | BuzzSugar - Movies, TV, Music.
Posted Feb 06, 2008
heh. t'weren't me, but i wish it were.
in Man convicted of sending penis photo by phone
Posted Feb 06, 2008
it's just fascinating to see a monolith break up.
in Liberal evangelical: Gays being stoned means getting high
Posted Feb 06, 2008
we're not really any closer to a decision, though, right? clinton wins in NY and CA put her still ahead on delegates (with the superdelegates that are so controversial) but not by much, and neither of them even 1/2way to a win.
in Obama wins most states, most delegates.
Posted Feb 06, 2008
so when the guy says "this makes my abs feel great" i hear something different than "abs". probably just a dirty mind.
in The Hawaii Chair: Hilarious Alternative to the Treadmill Desk [video]
Posted Feb 06, 2008
Jeez. long night and no clarity on the dem side. the republican side seems much clearer now.
in Super Tuesday on Babbledog
Posted Feb 05, 2008
much younger bush with much impaired abilities
in Eight years was not enough: best bushisms video
Posted Feb 05, 2008
oh cowie, you cynical, cynical bastard, you.
in Clinton, Obama battle for Super Tuesday delegates
Posted Feb 05, 2008
it's a depressing bunch of candidates in both parties.
in Super Tuesday on Babbledog!
Posted Feb 04, 2008
We really need that feature of "this is adult" in the user-submitted content. :-/
in NO PORN! -> Redtube.com hacked!
Posted Feb 03, 2008
we should absolutely do this for babbledog. just as soon as we verify that the site works on iphones. :-)
in Apple Touch Icon - like a favicon for the iPhone
Posted Feb 02, 2008
this is horrible and wonderful. it looks really, really unsafe. And fun. What is Red Green?
in Have you every seen a redneck rollercoaster?
Posted Feb 02, 2008
astonishingly stupid, though, about the checks. i'll agree
in Wesley Snipes acquitted of federal tax fraud
Posted Feb 01, 2008
you cannot make stuff like this up.
in Chocolates no longer shaped like testes--endocrinologists in uproar
Posted Feb 01, 2008
alright, i watched the video. she's pretty much dead right. i've been following this issue for a while and got the flyer to which she refers during the NH primary. clinton is a slippery campaigner, no question. principled campaigns don't seem to work that well against the neo cons, though.
in National Organization for Women: ex-pres endorses Obama.
Posted Feb 01, 2008
wtf? how can the income gap be growing. sigh.
in In other news, sucks to be us...
Posted Jan 31, 2008
I thought everyone already knew this. yeah, in old houses you should never use hot water for drinking. even in newer houses, it's not really worth the risk.
in Hot Water from the Tap Contains More Lead
Posted Jan 31, 2008
i found it here on babbledog, actually, but i didn't like the automatically created thread so i made a new one.
in Vaginal Ejaculation Disorder
Posted Jan 31, 2008
That's not a pats link, is it? It looks just like a superbowl logo.
in Super Bowl XLII Patriots Vs. Giants Phoenix, AZ 2/3/2008
Posted Jan 31, 2008
i'm watching 'Rebus' (a scottish detective show) in another window and hoping it will give me inspiration
in Joke of the Day
Posted Jan 31, 2008
Did dennis kucinich really say he saw an alien?
in Parade of the Losers at Cup O Politics
Posted Jan 30, 2008
understanding that some socialist niceties are gone and life is harder for the young-uns now.
in Are you living in fear of Britain's teenagers?
Posted Jan 30, 2008
Not sure I agree. Small with 3rd row, which is cool, but not great gas mileage. I wish they had a hybrid version of this.
in Best car ever
Posted Jan 30, 2008
Yeah, there's no real urgency to this. Sea level will rise but not instantaneously. But this is definitely something worth pursuing. Further study is needed, for sure.
in Crazy idea for stopping rise of sea levels: pump water inland, bury it in dead aquifers
Posted Jan 30, 2008
lucy liu is good in it for sure. and the rest of the characters and actors are compelling and textured.
in Cashmere Mafia
Posted Jan 30, 2008
(Especially since no one uses APML data for anything)
in Digg Joins the DataPortability Project
Posted Jan 29, 2008
I love that fake gal! So glad that plane didn't crash into her concert.
in Hannah Montana
Posted Jan 25, 2008
I don't think that was very likely to work out well for him.
in Hijacker Attempts to Crash Plane Into Hannah Montana Concert
Posted Jan 23, 2008
An excellent point. I get annoyed with people who are obsessed with "blogging" as if it is a new (or even interesting) phenomenon. People get fired for saying things in their capacity as employees of a company that are contrary to the interests of that company.
in Fired For Blogging? Not Exactly...
Posted Jan 23, 2008
i guess i'm not surprised that he overdosed. hollywood tends to have that effect on people.
in Heath Ledger Found Dead
Posted Jan 22, 2008
with zero client install, so kind of nice.
in My Eyes Are Up HERE, Mrs. Clinton...
Posted Jan 22, 2008
Does anyone actually use trendio.com? jim: i know you're fascinated by market economies as the metaphor for all price-to-value determination, but i'm not convinced they are determined by websites.
in LIVE MARKET DISCUSSION: Tuesday, January 22
Posted Jan 22, 2008
Any bionicle slave that fetched me hazelnut would be in the scrapheap before i finished the cup. of course, i would never finish the cup. because it's hazelnut. :-)
in GET ME SOME COFFEE, BIONICLE SLAVE!
Posted Jan 19, 2008
ok. i'll admit, the article is pretty cool. the guy is a bit of an obsessive (with the carefully lined up pieces everywhere), but the results speak for themselves.
in How to build your own LEGO geodesic dome
Posted Jan 19, 2008
worth all this hub bub. i must be missing something
in Directors Guild, studios reach contract deal (Reuters)
Posted Jan 17, 2008
this is something we work on at renesys (although we seem to have a healthy and useful amount of ego in our staff irc channels :-). i must admit i don't really know how the ceo might feel about it.
in Checking your Virtual Ego at the Door
Posted Jan 16, 2008
that's still a damned site less convenient than just letting people replace the batter.
in Apple unveils world's thinnest notebook computer (AFP)
Posted Jan 16, 2008
that's one hot ride. jebuz. it's wacky to me that the trucks catch fire after sitting turned off for so long. the article says that its a switch that overheats, but i don't understand how that can happen after the car has been sitting for 5 hours.
in New F150 Erupts in Flames as Ford Truck Fires Rage On
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Paul Newman, 1925-2008 - RIP
According to press releases from his his charitable organizations, Newman's Own Foundation and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, Paul Newman died Friday at age 83 at his long-time home in Westport, Connecticut, and with his passing, more has been lost ...more
Posted Sep 27, 2008
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Hurricane Kyle Headed Towards New England
This is a long hurricane season and it seems not to be finishing any time soon. Hurricane Kyle is headed towards New England to make landfall some time on Monday. Right now it's tracking significantly East of Boston, but that could easily change.
Posted Sep 26, 2008
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T-Mobile uncaps data plan ahead of Google phone - Yahoo! News
In advance of the new Google phone, T-Mobile USA has changed the wording of the user agreement for its wireless data network and no longer claims the right to slow surfing to a crawl once a subscriber goes over a monthly usage limit.
The ...more
The ...more
Posted Sep 25, 2008
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All Things China Related: "China Won't Loan to U.S. Banks" Story Untrue
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported on March 25 that domestic Chinese banks had been told to stop lending to U.S. financial institutions to shield the country from the unfolding financial crisis. ("Mainland lenders ordered to halt interbank ...more
Posted Sep 25, 2008
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China banks told to halt lending to US banks-SCMP
Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
Posted Sep 25, 2008
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Buffett move helps mood as focus on bailout
Billionaire investor Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will invest $5 billion in Goldman, a major boost for the Wall Street bank whose shares fell 50 percent from their 2007 record high in this month's market turmoil.
Posted Sep 24, 2008
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US May Follow Japan Into A Decade of Deflation and Recession
When Japan's real estate bubble burst, leaving a trail of bad real estate loans, officials flooded the economy with cash only to see banks hoard the money instead of lending it out. The result has been a series of recessions and persistent deflation ...more
Posted Sep 22, 2008
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Paulson, Bernanke Seek Support for an Agency to Buy Bad Debt
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will seek support from Congress for an agency to buy bad debt to address the deepening credit crisis, a Democratic lawmaker said.
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Morgan Stanley in Talks with CIC
Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest independent U.S. securities firm, may sell a larger stake to China Investment Corp. and is in talks about a possible merger with Wachovia Corp., a person familiar with the matter said.
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Crisis Exposes Flaws in U.S. Economy, Tarnishes Image
he rapid-fire rescues of financial firms may end up tarnishing America's free-market reputation as the moves expose defects in the U.S. economy, undermining its standing with foreign buyers of the dollar and U.S. Treasury securities.
The ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Bank of Scotland faces its end
This was the blackest day in Scottish banking. An appalling day of shock, confusion and disbelief.
Many this morning will still be aghast at the speed of the bank's share collapse. Anger and a reckoning will come later. Today, the fate ...more
Many this morning will still be aghast at the speed of the bank's share collapse. Anger and a reckoning will come later. Today, the fate ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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McCain Clueless About Spanish Prime Minister
"During an interview in Miami earlier this week with Spanish-language station Union Radio, a reporter asked McCain whether, if elected, he would receive Zapatero in the White House. McCain answered, "Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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S&P says pressure building on U.S. AAA rating
Pressure is building on the pristine "AAA" rating of the United States after a federal bailout of American International Group Inc, the chairman of Standard & Poor's sovereign ratings committee said on Wednesday.
The $85 billion ...more
The $85 billion ...more
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump
The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 450 points on Wednesday as one of the most stunning government bailouts in American history failed to stem the runaway fears engulfing the global financial system.
Posted Sep 18, 2008
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Lehman, WaMu tumble at market open on capital fear
Lehman shares were down 41 percent at $4.32 a day after the bank disappointed investors by failing to announced any definitive deals to raise desperately needed capital. Goldman Sachs, according to theflyonthewall.com, cut its Lehman rating from ...more
Posted Sep 11, 2008
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YouTube - Row Row Fight the Power!
Weird Internet meme taking over 4chan today. Intersection of this song and the firing up of the LHC, so something about the end of the world. Wander over to the 4chan imageboard random ...more
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Paul rejects McCain's plea for endorsement - Yahoo! News
Ron Paul says he rejected John McCain's appeal for his endorsement.
At a news conference Wednesday, Paul said he received a surprise call from McCain's campaign on Tuesday asking for his endorsement. Paul turned them down.
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At a news conference Wednesday, Paul said he received a surprise call from McCain's campaign on Tuesday asking for his endorsement. Paul turned them down.
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Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Lehman Takes Huge Loss, Does Nothing
Lehman Brothers released its critical Q3 earnings and strategic plan: a huge writedown and lots of options. The real news is that, after seven months of crisis management, Lehman is still evaluating half a dozen options...and consummating none of ...more
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Slovakia's women's ice hockey pummels Bulgaria 82-0
"With more goals than minutes in the game, Slovakia's women's ice hockey team claimed an amazing 82-0 victory over Bulgaria in Olympic qualifying."
How can this be an Olympic qualifying event? Is this true? old? WTF?
How can this be an Olympic qualifying event? Is this true? old? WTF?
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Lehman sinks as much as 40 percent on capital worry
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc shares sank as much as 40 percent Tuesday on concern that talks on a possible investment from Korea Development Bank had broken down and that the fourth-largest Wall Street investment bank would be unable to raise needed ...more
Posted Sep 09, 2008
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Milk, The Movie, Opening Nov 26, 2008
Milk is a dramatization of the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the world, according to Time Magazine. The trailer is amazing and really makes me want to see the movie.
Posted Sep 08, 2008
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Google celebrates its 10th birthday in September - or does it?
One day this month will mark Google's official 10th birthday. The company will probably celebrate with a blog post and a special logo and we'll see a slew of articles about how much they've accomplished in those 10 years. A few publications couldn't ...more
Posted Sep 06, 2008
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Affordable, Powerful Electric Scooters Coming Soon
PowerGenix has developed a nickel zinc (NiZn) battery that has 35 percent higher power and energy density than a nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery (used in hybrid vehicles), but is half the cost of a lithium-ion battery.
This is great ...more
This is great ...more
Posted Sep 03, 2008
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Veep Candidate Palin’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant
"The 17-year-old daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate, is five months pregnant, the governor announced today, adding a new element of tumult to a Republican convention that had already been disrupted by Hurricane Gustav."
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Posted Sep 02, 2008
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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion
In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the ...more
Posted Aug 01, 2008
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Shorts Crack the Code
The bare ankle migrated from country-club Saturdays to meeting-room Mondays and suddenly men, whether shod in wingtips or loafers, were widely seen without socks. Now it appears that, after some stops and starts in recent seasons, the men of the ...more
Posted Aug 01, 2008
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Valley News newspaper misspells name on front page
No media organization can claim to be immune from spelling mistakes, but a local paper in the United States may have set a new standard for most glaring typo. Oh Valley News: you have hit a new low.
Posted Jul 24, 2008
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Learn a new city: five easy steps
Perhaps the best life hack I’ve ever been involved with. It solves that basic problem that anyone who moves to a new town has: where the heck is the $X here (for values of $X to include (”dentist”, “zoo”, “mechanic”, “Thai place”, “cheap beer” and so ...more
Posted Jul 24, 2008
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Reiser reveals body's location in exchange for lighter sentence
Convicted killer Hans Reiser led police Monday to what he said was the body of his wife in the Oakland hills, just two days before he was to be sentenced for first-degree murder, authorities said.
Posted Jul 08, 2008
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MiniMe's Close Call after Bathtub 'Sexcapade'
Actor Verne Troyer almost drowned when his ex-girlfriend tried to spice up their love life with a romantic bath.
Aspiring actress Ranae Shrider, who stars in a recently leaked sex tape with Troyer, wanted to surprise the diminutive actor ...more
Aspiring actress Ranae Shrider, who stars in a recently leaked sex tape with Troyer, wanted to surprise the diminutive actor ...more
Posted Jul 07, 2008
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Contact Lense Displays - Your life will be flashed before your eyes
Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small ...more
Posted Jul 07, 2008
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Microsoft Released Office Formats
Microsoft Corp. today announced today that they would post Version 1.0 releases of technical documentation for Microsoft protocols built into Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007; posting ...more
Posted Jul 01, 2008
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Algae Threatens Olympic Sailing
"With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algal bloom choking the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic ...more
Posted Jun 30, 2008
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Algae Threatens Olympic Sailing - NYTimes.com
With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algal bloom choking the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic ...more
Posted Jun 30, 2008
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Rent-a-Dildo.com - How It Works
"You can keep each toy for as long as you want. There are no late fees, only a monthly subscription fee: $19 for one toy out at a time, $29.99 for two toys, and $49.99 for the Golden Dildo plan with three toys out and priority to receive new, unused ...more
Posted Jun 30, 2008
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Comcast and Cisco Successfully Trial 100G Router Interfaces - Rustvalley
Those of you who aren’t network geeks might not care but the core of the Internet has been crumbling for a while now. The basic problem is that the ratio of network speed at the edge compared to network speed at the core has been growing far too ...more
Posted Jun 30, 2008
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N. Korea destroys nuclear reactor tower
North Korea on Friday destroyed a water cooling tower at a facility where officials acknowledge they extracted plutonium to build nuclear weapons, CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour reported from the scene.
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Posted Jun 27, 2008
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Wall-E is Clever, Sophisticated and Charming
Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again. In "Wall-E," following the sublime culinary slapstick of "Ratatouille," Pixar and director/writer Andrew Stanton -- officially the studio's ninth employee way back when -- have spun a whimsical ...more
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