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May 01, 2006
Daily Kos: Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!)
Daily Kos: Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!): "Stephen Colbert's brilliant monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner".
Update from SFGate
April 28, 2006
Vonage VoIP Forum - Equipment Recommendations
Vonage VoIP Forum - Equipment Recommendations: "WRT54G or a WRT54GS, those are excellent choices provided you didn't get the newer V5 hardware. If your serial number starts in CDFB for the 'G' or CGN7 for the 'GS', then you have a 'v5' that cannot accept aftermarket firmware. I recommend exchanging that for the WRT54GL router (the 'L' stands for 'Linux'), which accepts aftermarket firmware. From there, it's a matter of getting it all set up right: http://vonage.nmhoy.net/wrt54gl.html"
How to talk to a person at vonage
about getting a previously activated device authorized: Vonage VoIP Forum - Bought 2 WRTP54G's: Both have "Invalid" MAC's: "Call Customer Care either first thing in the AM or very late at night, direct towards billing queues(so you get NJ), ask for transfer to Tier 2, and have tech enter ticket for adding device to account. Provide th MAC, s/n, retail partner, and you should be set."
Vonage VoIP Forum - VOIP, Asterisk & LAN setup
Asterisk voicemodem cards: link: "First, Digium's X100P never really was a Digium product. It is just a fax modem PCI card. Any fax modem PCI card with the Ambient MD3200 chipset on it will work with Asterisk and the Zaptel wcfxo driver. Digium just bought those in bulk and sold them as X100P. The modems are typically available for 8 USD or so. In other words, what you paid Digium for was mostly support. However, the MD3200 chipset is being phased out. Intel acquired Ambient a few years ago and replaced the MD3200 chipset with a newer smaller version called the Intel 537 chipset. In principle, fax modem PCI cards with the Intel 537 chipset could also be used with Asterisk, but this requires some adjustments in the Zaptel wcfxo driver."
April 26, 2006
America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study - Yahoo! News
America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study - Yahoo! News: "America may still think of itself as the land of opportunity, but the chances of living a rags-to-riches life are a lot lower than elsewhere in the world"
Digital Audio Access Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Digital Audio Access Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) is the protocol used by Apple's iTunes 4.0 digital audio player to share music across a network or the Internet. Apple has not officially released a protocol description, but it has been reverse-engineered to a sufficient degree that reimplementations of the protocol for non-iTunes platforms have been possible. In fact, a DAAP server is simply a specialized HTTP server which sends song list and requested songs to clients." Maybe my Prismiq box could mount a remote share and execute a DAAP client to connect to remote music?
April 21, 2006
Tilting at Windmills
Tilting at Windmills: "The problem now, as one wind-power executive puts it, is BANANAism: 'Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.' Still, energy projects don't even have to be viable to spark opposition:...There's a lot of earnest, even bipartisan talk nowadays about the need for clean, emissions-free energy. But are we really ready, politically, to build any new energy sources at all?"
Get all ant targets
I can never remember 'ant -v -projecthelp' to get all targets (public and internal)
April 18, 2006
Look Mom, No Application Servers, Look...MOM! @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL
Yakov Fain makes a good case for choosing the simplest technology that's appropriate for the problem: @JDJ
April 14, 2006
Vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets | Science Blog
Vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets | Science Blog: "'We say that however close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet. It doesn't have to be all the way to the extreme end of vegan. If you simply cut down from two burgers a week to one, you've already made a substantial difference.'"
April 13, 2006
The slow-motion trap | Salon.com
The slow-motion trap | Salon.com: "Inside the administration, the breakdown of the national security process has produced a vacuum filled by dogmatic fixations that become more rigid as reality increasingly fails to cooperate. But the conceit that executive fiat can substitute for fact has not sustained the illusion of omnipotence. The precipitating event of the investigation of the Bush White House -- Wilson's disclosure about his Niger mission -- was an effort by a lifelong Foreign Service officer to set the record straight and force a debate on the reasons for going to war. Wilson stood for the public discussion that had been suppressed. The Bush White House's 'concerted action' against him therefore involved an attempt to poison the wellsprings of democracy."
April 12, 2006
Everingham Rotating House - Gallery
Everingham Rotating House - Gallery: "The Rotating House™ rotates a full 360� around a central core of plumbing and electricals. Computer- controlled rotation gives you complete control over your view..."
config.trim_on_minimize - The little known FireFox memory "saver" - Aaron Tiensivu's Blog
config.trim_on_minimize - The little known FireFox memory "saver" - Aaron Tiensivu's Blog: "config.trim_on_minimize - The little known FireFox memory 'saver'"
April 11, 2006
Spherical Tree Houses
Link: "Free Spirit Spheres can be hung from the trees as shown, making a tree house. They can also be hung from any other solid objects or placed in cradles on the ground. There are four attachment points on the top of each sphere and another four anchor points on the bottom. Each of the attachment points is strong enough to carry the weight of the entire sphere and contents. "
April 04, 2006
ThinkGeek :: Buzzaire - Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler
ThinkGeek :: Buzzaire - Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler.
"Buzzaire is, quite simply, a caffeine inhaler. One squeeze, one inhale, and you've just rushed 150mg of caffeine into your blood stream."
April 03, 2006
March 31, 2006
Study fails to show healing power of prayer - Yahoo! News
Study fails to show healing power of prayer - Yahoo! News: "A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had any impact, researchers said Thursday."
March 30, 2006
The Emperor Has No Votes
Inspired by this
Once upon a time, things were peaceful at Castle Dale. Every few years, just before Election Day, the people would gather in Ward houses to find out whom they should vote for. And every year, Bishops across the land would gently remind the faithful that there wasn’t really a CHOICE to make, just a correct answer to indicate. And the people were happy, confident that their votes would be counted equally when sending off their representatives with super-majorities.
Then one day a swindler arrived from the far off land of Diebold, promising that their magical machines could offer the most magnificent elections ever seen. Not only were there no messy ballots to keep track of, but the machines had the added virtue of keeping their votes invisible to anyone stupid or faithless enough to doubt them. “What a splendid idea, and what a useful device” the emperors’ thought. “If we had such a machine, we could know at once which of our people is too faithless or independent for his post. Not wanting to appear quaint, and ever mindful of the need to appear progressive, the emperors gave the men from Diebold 27 million gold coins, and they promptly returned with their magical new machines.
Over the months, one elections official after another began to look at the new machines. They didn’t know how the machines worked, and even when they tried to look closely, they still couldn’t see the votes. But no one wanted to appear stupid or faithless, so they all said “these machines truly are magnificent!” Until one day, a simple and honest official named Bruce went to work to prepare for the upcoming elections. Bruce had been doing his job for most of his life, and he loved sorting out a contested primary, so he thought it strange that his shiny new machine seemed to have an old memory. Bruce was confused, but he didn’t want to appear faithless, so he quietly summoned patriots from a distant land that could help him understand his machine.
News of the patriots’ arrival spread quickly, and the men from Diebold swooped back to Castle Dale. They reminded the emperors that only those with the digital Urim and Thummim could look at the machines without sin. So they were whisked away for exorcism, and Bruce was made to stand day and night before the inquisition until he resigned his post.
Eventually Bruce returned to his job, his skepticism washed clean with home teaching, and Castle Dale returned to normal. At last, (primary) Election Day arrived. The people finally got to see the new machines, and even push their shiny buttons. The polls closed, and the men from Diabold came to peek into the magical boxes. People gasped when it was announce that LaDell Smith had defeated LaVron Smith, even though LaDell jr. had returned home early from his mission. A few people even started to wonder if their votes had really counted, but Bruce’s kids were still having a hard time in seminary, so the skeptics kept their concerns to themselves.
Once upon a time, things were peaceful at Castle Dale. The people were happy, and they still are, fairly confident that their emperors magical machines from Diebold will count some of the votes when sending off their ‘representatives’ with super majorities.
March 24, 2006
AVR Butterfly MP3
AVR Butterfly MP3: "The main goal of this project is to create an open design for a portable MP3 player, in both hardware and software. The secondary goal of this project is to make it as simple to construct, and as cheap, as possible."
March 21, 2006
Little Red Schoolhouse
Little Red Schoolhouse: About: "Teachers tell us about children showing up the first day of school without any supplies. Dressed in inadequate or ragged clothing, they often avoid school activities because they are embarrassed to be seen. Not having paper to take notes, or crayons to contribute to the class pool, may seem small, but to kids who are already struggling, having the basic supplies and clean, decent clothing can make a HUGE difference!"
March 16, 2006
A Tight Squeeze: The Making Of Accordion Hero
Gamasutra - Schadenfreudian Slips Postmortem - "A Tight Squeeze: The Making Of Accordion Hero
Our beautiful Black Forest region is known for fine cuckoo clocks, delicious cake, and accordion music (most of you will probably only be familiar with the cake). Like wearing socks with our sandals, accordion music is part of being German. Most of us here at Schadenfreude Interactive studied accordion as children, playing in the school band, at the local beergarten, and on streetcorners at night in return for spare pfennigs (at least this is what Lothar did, as his parents were very neglectful). Our sound engineer, Alex Voll mit Aalen, is a professional accordion player who has toured with The Titisee-Neustadt Children's Orchestra, Ratte-Salat, and Bavarian-Turner Overdrive. Plus, everyone knows that accordion players get all the girls (I assume this would hold for the ladies as well, as accordion playing calls attention to the bosom in a delightful manner). We wanted to bring this experience to gamers everywhere."
March 15, 2006
Edge: WHY GORDIAN SOFTWARE HAS CONVINCED ME TO BELIEVE IN THE REALITY OF CATS AND APPLES
From Edge: "Wouldn't it be nicer to have a computer that's almost completely reliable almost all the time, as opposed to one that can be hypothetically perfectly accurate, in some hypothetical ideal world other than our own, but in reality is prone to sudden, unpredictable, and often catastrophic failure in actual use?"
March 08, 2006
Simple Skype VoIP analog adapter
GRYNX � Simple Skype VoIP analog adapter: "It’s a very cheap Skype/VoIP interface to your wired or wireless phone."
March 07, 2006
reputation economies
The Escapist - Game Design in the Transfigured World: "new reputation economies will pervasively reshape culture as dramatically as the invention of money. Entirely novel kinds of human interaction will spawn new social classes, power structures and lifestyles. Reputation economies will be abstractions of relationships, in the same way that money abstracts material wealth and labor."
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