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The Brand Box: New York Times Wants to Censor and Influence

2008-07-31T12:12:00.001-07:00

Blogger Amber Naslund shares her experience with the New York Times Style Section and how they asked her to re-write her letter to the editor.Shared with Flock - The Social Web Browserhttp://flock.com

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How To Tweak Your Wordpress Theme On The Fly

2008-06-10T06:55:00.001-07:00

A nice looking blog with some good content about changes that are more drastic and need to be tested before implementing them.

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All Thumbs Are Not Created Equal

2007-12-01T21:46:00.001-08:00

"Any one looking to learn more about social networking and bookmarking really needs to subscribe to this blog. Well written clear and concise, this blog is maintained by someone who knows what she is talking about!"

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5 Reasons Why You Might Not Want to be a Top Stumbler | SU Comments

2007-11-27T20:29:00.001-08:00

A year or so ago, I was totally focused on becoming Top Stumbler. I was in the third position, behind two veteran stumblers, Wiggy (who has since left StumbleUpon) and Starspirit (who has been one of the very top stumblers as long as I have been on SU).

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Your Widget May Be Keeping A Piece Of Your Commission Pie

2007-11-25T22:13:00.001-08:00

I never thought to check my blog widgets to see if they were taking part of my profits. "From the source code:Author Note: My AssociateID will be automatically inserted 10% of the time. Feel free to disable this.*/"

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Dress Up Hillary

2007-11-05T18:34:00.001-08:00

Too funny! Choose from a variety of outfits and have fun playing paperdolls with Hillary Clinton.

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Using RSS with StumbleUpon

2007-10-03T23:40:00.001-07:00

If you have many friends on StumbleUpon, using the RSS links can make keeping up with their posts a LOT easier. Here are simple instructions on how to set it up.

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Digg Arc History

2007-10-01T19:33:00.001-07:00

A visual diary of the creation of the Digg Arc.

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Adding a comments section to StumbleUpon

2007-09-29T22:14:00.001-07:00

An old post, but still relevant since StumbleUpon has yet to add comments to a user's main page. Here is a fairly simple hack to create a comment section on an SU post.

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SWAPATORIUM: Spiky Star

2005-12-14T08:07:00.000-08:00

SWAPATORIUM: Spiky Star

APOD: 2001 March 1 - Maximum Sun

2005-09-10T20:04:00.000-07:00

APOD: 2001 March 1 - Maximum Sun

ScreenGrab (0.5!)

2005-09-10T19:43:00.000-07:00

ScreenGrab (0.5!): ScreenGrab (0.5!)

A little while ago I wrote an extension to do screen grabs using Firefox.

It’s been waiting for me to have some motivation to do anything with it, but I’ve fixed it up and it now grabs frames and works with any OS that Java and Firefox are on (I hope).
It has a few issues but it works pretty well.

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images

2005-08-08T07:07:00.000-07:00

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images

Outsource your job to earn more! - The Times of India

2005-08-06T12:14:00.000-07:00

Outsource your job to earn more! - The Times of India:

Says a programmer on Slashdot.org who outsourced his job: "About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 out of the $67,000 I get. He's happy to have the work. I'm happy that I have to work only 90 minutes a day just supervising the code. My employer thinks I'm telecommuting. Now I'm considering getting a second job and doing the same thing."

Smarter techies are working for three to four companies at the same time, outsourcing all the coding and just supervising them for few hours a day. This way they are able to earn four to five time more than what they used to.

This is called the principle of 'comparative advantage', whereby you concentrate on you core strengths outsourcing the non competitive areas.

Things that are not in the U.S. Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

2005-08-04T20:38:00.000-07:00

Things that are not in the U.S. Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

The Submarine

2005-08-04T16:25:00.000-07:00

The Submarine:A good flatterer doesn't lie, but tells his victim selective truths (what a nice color your eyes are). Good PR firms use the same strategy: they give reporters stories that are true, but whose truth favors their clients.

For example, our PR firm often pitched stories about how the Web let small merchants compete with big ones. This was perfectly true. But the reason reporters ended up writing stories about this particular truth, rather than some other one, was that small merchants were our target market, and we were paying the piper.

Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes

2005-08-04T14:49:00.000-07:00

Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes:

In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company:

The common belief is that when you're building a software company, the goal is to find a neat idea that solves some problem which hasn't been solved before, implement it, and make a fortune. We'll call this the build-a-better-mousetrap belief. But the real goal for software companies should be converting capital into software that works.

For the last five years I've been testing that theory in the real world.

How to Be a Leader in Your Field

2005-08-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

How to Be a Leader in Your Field

Crayola� Creativity Central : Fireworks Spectacular

2005-07-30T23:43:00.000-07:00

Crayola� Creativity Central : Fireworks Spectacular

Tadpole

2005-07-30T19:51:00.000-07:00

Tadpole

Birthdays and Words of the Famous and Infamous

2005-07-27T16:45:00.000-07:00

Born Today

The Art of William Whitaker

2005-07-27T06:05:00.000-07:00

The Art of William Whitaker

Art of William Whitaker

2005-07-27T05:43:00.000-07:00

Art of William Whitaker

Optical Illusions 2 - Test your perception� with these vision tricks - deception by drawings

2005-07-27T05:18:00.000-07:00

Optical Illusions 2 - Test your perception� with these vision tricks - deception by drawings

Mushroom Life

2005-07-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

Mushroom Life: "A Mushroom perspective on John Conway's Game of Life:
1) Click on grid to sprout mushrooms.
2) Click Start button to begin life process.

Mushrooms follow these rules:
For each generation,
a mushroom with 1 or 0 neighbor dies (loneliness),
a mushroom with 4 or more neighbors dies (overcrowding),
a mushroom with 2 or 3 neighbors survives (stability),
an empty space with 3 neighbors sprouts a new mushroom (birth).

Try these patterns:"

Blogthings - You Are 40% Weird

2005-07-26T22:08:00.000-07:00

Blogthings

You Are 40% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird...
But too damn weird to do anything about it!

How Weird Are You?

Sky News : Clinton Offered 40 Goats For Daughter

2005-07-25T23:40:00.000-07:00

Sky News : Clinton Offered 40 Goats For Daughter: "40 GOATS TO BUY CHELSEA
Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official.

Mr Clinton was offered the deal on a recent trip to Kenya.

He was offered the animals as a traditional African way of getting a father to give away his daughter's hand in marriage.

The dowry is a very generous one by the country's own standards.

Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Mr Clinton through Kenya's Foreign Minister.

He said: 'Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding.

'I would have invited South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu to preside at the ceremony.'

The councillor gave the names of the former Kenyan president Daniel Arap-Moi and two of his college mates as character references.

Mr Chepkurgor also said he was also impressed by Mr Clinton's wife, Hillary, for standing by Mr Clinton during the Monica Lewinksy scandal.

He said Mrs Clinton acted like a 'like an African woman'."

The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

2005-07-25T23:37:00.000-07:00

The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products: "The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products
ACCEPT NO IMITATIONS
ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ('Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935') to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence.
For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services featured in Warner Bros. cartoons (made by the original studio from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog."

Dilbert.com - DNRC

2005-07-25T23:22:00.000-07:00

Dilbert.com - DNRC: "Here now, some quotes from Induhviduals, submitted by DNRC field operatives. Apparently the most confusing concepts for Induhviduals are anything involving body parts, beverages, food, or animals.

'There's more than one way to cut the cheese.'

'I know these streets like the back of my head.'

'When push comes to shove, that's when the dollar meets the road.'

'Tomorrow at this time…it will be Wednesday.'

'I would like a pie-in-the-eye estimate.'

'The smell of indifference was deafening.'

'Oh, that will be a cake in the woods.'

'She'll chew you up and down, and spit you out like a bad habit.'

'He's living off the fat of my sweat!'

'I heard that out of the corner of my eye.' "

Lessons

2005-07-23T19:33:00.000-07:00

Guitar Lessons

Avoider

2005-07-23T18:56:00.000-07:00

OneMoreLevel.com : "Try to keep your mouse cursor safe for as long as possible!"

TotL.net Human Virus Scanner

2005-07-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

Human Virus Scanner: "How to use the scanner

* Each page of the scanner contains a grid of simple gray images
* Highlight the images you recognise by clicking on them
* Once you've marked all the images you recognise, move on by pressing Next
* After you complete the last page the system will automatically assess your exposure to currently known memetic viruses and suggest remedial actions"

Self-Annihilating Sentences

2005-07-19T06:37:00.000-07:00

Self-Annihilating Sentences --- S. Gorn

This book fills a much-needed gap.
Oh, the majesty of French Justice, which forbids rich and poor, alike, to sleep on park benches! ---Anatole France
Way down deep he's shallow.
I feel a lot more like I do now than I did when I came in.
You don't think so, eh? That's your trouble! You don't think!
You have the distinction of being the only one who is not exceptional.
The main trouble with impossibility is that it is never total.
I am going to be healthy if it kills me.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry is called John.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
The trouble with you is that there's nothing wrong with you.
Just because I have nothing to say is no reason why you shouldn't listen.
The last time I took advice, it only worked because I changed it.
The last time I saw him, he wasn't there.
I gave you an unlimited budget, and you have already exceeded it!
Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts.
Hips on shoulders, place! -- As you were! Can't be done; hips down!
Ignore this sign.
It pays to buy things you dislike. They last much longer.
No man can die properly without experience.

And my favorite: I have become more optimistic and now believe that things could get worse.

Money Origami

2005-07-14T15:49:00.000-07:00

Money Origami: "Folding paper money (or 'money origami') is my one true creative output. My best original designs include spiders, eyeglasses, sailboats, and framed portraits. I got started in high school when I learned how to make a ring out of a dollar bill. I generally make these items to leave as tips. A friend of mine keeps telling me 'You should write a book...you could make a lot of money.' My slogan is: 'Everyone is good at something. Me, I'm good at spending money.'"

_It's a Wonderful Life

2005-07-14T15:27:00.000-07:00

in 30 seconds with bunnies.

Spin the color wheel

2005-07-09T19:16:00.000-07:00

Colours on the web - color theory and color matching: "Are you about to give up? Just can't find the right colours for your page?
Well, here is the solution for you!
Just Spin the colour wheel and get a selection of three random colours.
The colour wheel randomizes among some 16 million colours. And since each spin produces three different colours, that gives endless combinations. (or 2 to the power of 70 or so, which is a very large number). Enough to keep anyone busy for a while. "

Mike's Virtual Drums

2005-07-05T15:58:00.000-07:00

You've got to see this!

Curveball

2005-07-03T11:31:00.000-07:00

Another fun game

Lost in Translation

2005-07-03T10:52:00.000-07:00

Lost in Translation: "What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages? The authors of the Systran translation software probably never intended this application of their program. As of September 2003, translation software is almost good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, barely readable approximations in another. But the software is not equipped for 10 consecutive translations of the same piece of text. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of 'Telephone'? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained. Try it for yourself!"

How long can you keep the soccer ball in the air?

2005-07-03T10:48:00.000-07:00

This is addictive...

What will you look like in 40 years? Try this to see...

2005-07-02T14:41:00.000-07:00

If Only Life Was As Predictable: "What will you look like in 40 years?

Using our powers of prediction we can show you what you and your friends will look like in the future"

Imagination Cubed

2005-07-02T09:51:00.000-07:00

Invite your friends and draw a picture

Bored

2005-07-01T18:59:00.000-07:00

boredmeeting.swf

Tao Te Ching

2005-06-30T23:10:00.000-07:00

Chapter 9: "Better stop short than fill to the brim.
Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow.
Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.

The Merck Manual Online

2005-06-30T05:07:00.000-07:00

Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical products company.:
They publish several books, which they offer free on-line.

"Patients & Caregivers
The Merck Manual--Second Home Edition
The world's best-selling home
medical reference
Available online
Available online in other languages

The Merck Manual of Health and Aging
A comprehensive guide to the changes and challenges of aging
Available online

Healthcare Professionals
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
The world's most widely used medical textbook
Available online
Available online in other languages

The Merck Manual of Geriatrics
A comprehensive review of geriatric medicine and care of the elderly
Available online
Available online in other languages

Chemists
The Merck Index
A one-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals
Sample content available for free. Complete online version requires subscription.

Veterinarians
The Merck Veterinary Manual
A comprehensive, reliable source of information on all aspects of animal healthcare
Available online"

Human Body and Mind

2005-06-27T06:00:00.000-07:00

BBC - Science & Nature: "Use your skills...

* Senses challenge
* Organs game
* Skeleton game
* Muscle game
* Nervous system game"

Sleep Walker Wakes Up And Falls Off Roof

2005-06-26T22:40:00.000-07:00

Bizarre News: "June 25, 2005, 9:10:33
A sleepwalking German fell off his roof after waking up mid-wander - and losing his balance.

Thomas Manninger climbed out of a first-floor window, shimmied up a drainpipe and managed to walk across the roof of his house, before falling 20 feet to the ground when he woke up and realised where he was.

The 39-year-old said he had often woken up in different parts of the house after sleepwalking, but this was the first time he had ended up on the roof. He said: 'I must have been having a very strange dream.'
A police spokesman said: 'The only thing that saved him was the fact that he fell onto a lawn that was still soggy from the rain.'

Mr Manninger was taken to hospital, where doctors said he had a few bruises but no broken bones.

He has now been booked into a specialist sleep laboratory in Frankfurt for a course of therapy."

The Surrealist Compliment Generator

2005-06-26T22:31:00.000-07:00

Generate

Make your own kalidescope

2005-06-26T18:50:00.000-07:00

Drawtoy vs Byokal

SimilarMinds.com

2005-06-23T10:32:00.000-07:00

Test Results: "Jung Test Results

Introverted (I) 52.78% Extroverted (E) 47.22%
Intuitive (N) 72.97% Sensing (S) 27.03%
Thinking (T) 61.29% Feeling (F) 38.71%
Perceiving (P) 80.65% Judging (J) 19.35%

Your type is: INTP

INTP - 'Architect'. Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population."

Penguin Swing

2005-06-18T08:31:00.000-07:00

Feel like batting some penguins? What do you get when you combine a polarbear, a bat and penguins? Penguin swing. :)

Pain Relief Network

2005-06-13T20:37:00.000-07:00

Pain Relief Network"Law enforcement is clamping down on doctors who prescribe high doses of the most powerful and dangerous pain killers. Is this protecting patients - or hurting them?

As Siobhan Reynolds, president of the patient advocacy group the Pain Relief Network sees it, chronic pain sufferers know what has worked for them in the past and they should be allowed to risk addiction if they so choose. ''Pain,'' says Reynolds, ''is an opioid deficiency syndrome.'' The idea of doctors debating whether to prescribe opioids is as absurd to her as ''diabetes specialists arguing about whether or not to use insulin.''

Our Drugs Do Not Work On Most Patients

2005-06-12T02:43:00.000-07:00

Glaxo Chief: "A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them."

Academy Award-Nominated "Autism Is A World" to Premiere on CNN

2005-06-01T17:23:00.000-07:00

Cure Autism Now: "For 26 years, Sue Rubin has been on an extraordinary journey. Her unusual behavior led to a diagnosis of autism when she was four. She was believed to be retarded until age 13. But then a new communication technique gave Sue the ability to connect with the world. Now, she is a junior in college with a top IQ, a tireless disabled-rights activist, and an articulate guide into a complex disorder."

Guess-the-google launcher

2005-06-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

by Grant Robinson

All Your Base Rhapsody

2005-06-01T13:45:00.000-07:00

This is too funny!

My Favorite Artist

2005-06-01T13:28:00.000-07:00

M.C.Escher

" To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am"

" I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days"

" So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen"

The Spike Milligan Tribute Site

2005-05-31T19:41:00.000-07:00

www.spikemilligan.co.uk:
"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky;
I left my shoes and socks there - I wonder if they're dry?

Spike Milligan"

I Can't Stop Thinking!

2005-05-28T21:07:00.000-07:00

#6 Great cartoon about filesharing.

Bumperball

2005-05-27T21:42:00.000-07:00

Fun game

LEAP YEAR

2005-05-26T22:11:00.000-07:00

February 29: "The original Roman 355 day calendar had an extra 22-day month every few years
to maintain the correct seasonal changes. By the time Julius Caesar took
reign, the seasons no longer occurred during the same months they once had.
Panicking, he remedied this in 44 B.C. by tossing the extra month and adding
the extra day to a few months instead. He threw in a month in honor of
himself (Julius-- July) and died a happy man having solved the calendar woes.
Not quite. Still creating seasonal confusion, the calendar was again changed,
first from an extra day every 3 years, to one every 4 years in 8 A.D. It was
then finally perfected with some complicated logic by Pope Gregory XIII in
1582 (who predicted Easter and Christmas would eventually fall on top of each
other without his divine intervention). He determined that Leap Day should
fall on any year divisible by 4 but not 100 (except when the year is
divisible by 400), setting up a calendar nearly identical to that of Mother
Nature. Thus, today our year is 365.2425 days, off from our solar year by
.00031, or one day's error over 4,000 years. "

Turn a drawing into a work of art

2005-05-26T15:06:00.000-07:00

Scribbler

A Day of Mourning

2005-05-25T22:00:00.000-07:00

Papers, Please!: "Sensenbrenner ID Graphic
National ID Legislation Passes

Tuesday May 10th 2005 is the day that future historians will note as The Day America Changed. On this date, the Senate of the United States of America passed legislation that will bring about a national ID card. President G. W. Bush is expected to sign the bill on May 12th 2005. The national ID card scheme will take three years to implement."

No! No! No! No! No! This is all wrong! We are supposed to be living in a FREE society!!!

Apple de-socializes iTunes

2005-05-25T21:03:00.000-07:00

The Register: "Bit by bit, Apple is tightening the DRM noose, reducing the amount of freedom its own customers enjoy. Last year, the company cut the number of times users could burn a playlist from ten to seven. This time, Apple has chosen to cripple one of its coolest and most socially beneficial technologies - Rendezvous.

Apple actually applied the restriction two months ago, but the passage of time hasn't made it any sweeter. In iTunes, Rendezvous allows users on the same subnet to share their music - although this is limited to streaming only. But the most recent version of iTunes, 4.7.1, restricts that streaming capability even further, and users aren't happy, as this support discussion shows. It used to support five simultaneous listeners, but now iTunes only permits five listeners a day.

Of course, Apple has its defenders, as it always will. 'No one is forcing anyone to upgrade,' fumes one 'henryblackman' at the MacNN forum, irked that someone should should disturb his digital bliss. But they did - and using a security scare to foist an upgrade on users that's really a downgrade is, well how shall we put it - familiar?

Let's have a quick reality check.

If you opened up iTunes, turned up the volume really loud on your Mac, and hit Play, you could 'stream' to five people within earshot. And no one would bust down the door, except possibly the neighbors. Certainly not the RIAA's paramilitaries.

Now fast forward to the 'digital music revolution'. The revolution is really about lower marginal costs for the producers - which is turning out to mean higher profits, as the price hasn't come down. For us, it means we get less for our faith - in this case, certainly much less than what old fashioned, speaker to ear, analog sound waves can give us.

Once again, 'digital' is proving to be a synonym for 'crap'."

Common sense?

2005-05-25T20:51:00.000-07:00

"
Via Blogged IT News:On yahoo’s music help site. they have described how to get around DRM so that you can listen to music purchased through yahoo on an iPod.

[…]

Buy and download your burnable song from Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Burn it to a CD
Import the song from the CD using the Yahoo! Music Engine (Yahoo! Music Engine imports in MP3 as the default format. AAC encoding is available as well.)
That newly imported song will be in MP3 format and now you can upload it to your iPod.”

[…]

So here’s my question, if they are telling you to take your protected music and unprotect it, why don’t they just sell it that way in the first place?

Good question."

Philosophical Quotes

2005-05-25T15:32:00.000-07:00

Welcome to The Quote Garden!
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

Digital Copyrights

2005-05-25T14:25:00.000-07:00

:: LAPTOP Magazine: "TiVo is currently exploiting a gap that exists between the Sony-Betamax decision and the DMCA. It is what is often referred to as 'the analog hole.' It means that you can have fair use of any video as long as it is in analog form." Go TiVo!!!

elgooG

2005-05-24T15:26:00.000-07:00

(: !siht ees ot tog evah uoY

Kiss your old SSN goodbye

2005-05-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

Tech News on ZDNetYes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! This is the right track to be on.

Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC

2005-05-23T21:12:00.000-07:00

MakeZine.com: "Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) have become a necessary luxury over the last several years. Millions of people rely on these devices to pause and rewind live television, and to keep track of broadcast schedules and record programs for them. Many consider them just as essential to their daily lives as their cell phones.

Several months ago, I finally became sufficiently jealous of the millions of DVR owners to motivate me to put a DVR in my own living room. But I wanted something more versatile than a normal TiVo, ReplayTV, or Ultimate TV system. I envisioned an all-purpose media server that would function as a full DVR, but would also work as a music server and play console games. It would have an easy remote-control interface, just like a commercial DVR, and a way to program it through the internet. Finally, I wanted to avoid the monthly fees that many DVR owners pay to keep their machines' schedules up-to-date."

The Constitution of the United States of America

2005-05-23T13:45:00.000-07:00

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

InternetFrog.com

2005-05-23T04:46:00.000-07:00

Test Your Connection Speed

Battle On, Dude!

2005-05-23T04:28:00.000-07:00

Adventure Quest RPG: "AdventureQuest is a free, lunch-break-sized RPG that you can play daily using your web browser. We are adding new things every week! Join us in shaping the direction of this campy yet addictive role playing game. Create a free account and play!"

Banned Books Online

2005-05-21T10:37:00.000-07:00

The Online Books Page presents :
"Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page. (See that page for over 20,000 more online books!)"

This is pretty kewl!

2005-05-05T09:29:00.000-07:00

Movie and Music Fonts

For when you have some time on your hands

2005-05-05T09:26:00.000-07:00

free plans for a wide variety of unique projects

Three Cheers for Mom

2005-05-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

What should Mom's salary be?

Turn Off Your Television

2005-05-02T07:59:00.000-07:00

WHAT ARE YOU DOING??: "The average American watches 4.5 hours of television every day. You sleep for eight hours. You get up and work for eight hours. Come home, eat some dinner and turn on the television. A few hours later you're getting sleepy. Time for bed."

Capitalism and Cows

2005-05-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

"TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM -- You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead."

The Phineas T. Manbottle Library of Arcane Knowledge and Questionable Humor

Random Quote

2005-05-01T11:17:00.000-07:00

"'Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.'
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy"

Michelangelo

2005-05-01T09:48:00.000-07:00

This comes from dangling from the ceiling–
I'm goitered like a Lombard cat
(or wherever else their throats grow fat)–
it's my belly that's beyond concealing,
it hands beneath my chin like peeling.
My beard points skyward, I seem a bat
upon its back, I've breasts and splat!
On my face the paint's congealing.

Loins concertina'd in my gut,
I drop an arse as counterweight
and move without the help of eyes.

Like a skinned martyr I abut
on air, and, wrinkled, show my fat.
Bow-like, I strain toward the skies.

No wonder then I size
things crookedly; I'm on all fours.
Bent blowpipes send their darts off-course.

Defend my labor's cause,
good Giovanni, from all strictures:
I live in hell and paint its pictures.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Pascal's Penses

2005-04-30T22:39:00.000-07:00

Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don’t speak."

Ozymandius

2005-04-30T14:51:00.000-07:00

"I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whos frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandius, king of kings:
Look on my words, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Artists On Stealing

2005-04-30T14:42:00.000-07:00

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

TS Eliot

My purpose in reading has ever secretly been not to come and judge but to come and steal.

John Updike

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

Copy anyone but never copy yourself.

Pablo Picasso

I only steal from the best people.

Michael Caine

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own...will be obliged to imitate himself.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

Louis Armstrong

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

Useful Information

2005-04-30T12:10:00.000-07:00

Fatwallet Magazines Thread: "Here's a no charge toll-free service called OneSwitch which will switch all your magazines for free in one phone call. I did it with like 10 of mine when I moved. The phone # is: 1-800-235-6263."

Unique idea

2005-04-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

Draw a pig personality test
Determine some facts about your personality by drawing a pig.

Can you believe your eyes?

2005-04-29T12:38:00.000-07:00

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

Riddle me this

2005-04-29T04:05:00.000-07:00

The Tree Riddle: "This multiple riddle dates from the 19th. century. To solve it completely, you are required to identify 65 names of trees.
Even we don't know all the answers. Where we do know (or think we know) we have provided hyperlinks. Click on a link if you want to see the answer. Text that is written in red indicates that we don't know the answer."

A giant magnifying glass and tiny people =

2005-04-29T03:15:00.000-07:00

Ant City

The Worst Jobs in History

2005-04-28T23:24:00.000-07:00

The history we are taught usually features the lives and times of the great and the good, of the haves and not the have-nots. But the famous aristocrats and monarchs could not have existed without the battalions of minions who performed the tasks that were beneath their masters.

In this website, we take you on a journey through 2,000 years of British history and the worst jobs of each era.

Interesting Reading

2005-04-28T22:27:00.000-07:00

The Straight Dope Front Page

In Just-

2005-04-28T22:11:00.000-07:00

spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
e.e. cummings

Time for Art

2005-04-28T20:38:00.000-07:00

Viewing Japanese Prints

"Illustrated essays on the artists, designs, and techniques of traditional and modern Japanese woodblock prints"

Flash Ad Targetting and Profiling

2005-04-28T20:35:00.000-07:00

This is a VGMusic Public Service Announcement.:

"Recently, it has come to my attention that Macromedia Flash ads can store information on ones computer even if you have cookies disabled. This is one of the reasons that Flash ads are becoming more popular.

Macromedia wrote an article on how to disable this, but it's dry and boring. Here's the solution:

To stop sites from storing information on your computer: Go to the Global Storage settings page, move the slider all the way to the left, then click the Never Ask Again checkbox.

To remove existing content stored using Flash: Go to the Web Storage settings page, then click the Delete All Sites button.

This has been a VGMusic Public Service Announcement."

Pascal's Penses

2005-04-28T11:42:00.000-07:00

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."

Standing on my soapbox

2005-04-28T11:18:00.000-07:00

A step in the right direction: "An RIAA attempt to force two universities to hand over the identities of college students bit the dust when Judge Russell A. Eliason of the US District Court in Greensboro, North Carolina, agreed with the students that the subpoenas violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)."

Good News

2005-04-28T11:15:00.000-07:00

p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site: "ISPs won't be forced to reveal the identities of Internet subscribers accused of music piracy to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) - or anyone else.

The news, a crushing blow to the RIAA in its intimidation campaign against alleged p2p copyright violators, comes with today's appeals court decision to strike down a lower-court ruling that supported subpoenas issued under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)."

Ways to fight back against the music companies

2005-04-28T10:55:00.000-07:00

Bring CDs to a library: "It sounds almost insane, but if the major labels could, they would probably try to ban libraries. Maybe you're upset that the major record labels are suing families. Or maybe you just got an iPod and you want to do something useful with all those CDs. Either way, bringing your CD collection down to the local library is easy, legal, and a genuinely nice thing to do."

Human Virus Scanner

2005-04-27T22:45:00.000-07:00

What viruses are you suffering from?

WORDCOUNT

2005-04-27T22:21:00.000-07:00

Tracking the Way We Use Language