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This is not safe for your brain.
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What makes a site blogger-unfriendly? I’ve been keeping a list for the past couple of months. These are simple design and deployment mistakes that kept me from picking up a link and reposting it where millions might find it.
All posts by MattK
links for 2008-03-12
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Instant alert firefox plugin for huge deals on sports shit
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Reports of ancient sea serpents might be the result of sightings of ancient whale penises. Page also has a picture of the aformentioned appendage, entirely safe for work, unless you are a whale. In which case, nice waterproof computer!
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bits of a page embedded in your toolbar. why? because ie8 has it. ff 3+ only.
It’s not just vandalism, is it?
Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building.
Sometimes it is much better.
This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for this? How much should he be fined? Why?
links for 2008-03-07
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View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
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library software to organize your stuff: Books, Audio CDs, Movies, & Games (for a start). And it does so beautifully, and at an amazing price ($0 for non-commercial use).
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Trips are rated on speed, ease and comfort.
* Stops
* Duration
* On time rate
* Security Wait Time
* Leg Room
* Aircraft type and age
* Fullness
* Connection Time
* Routing Quality
* Lost bags record
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God bless America! In Saudi Arabia they don’t let bitches drive cars.
links for 2008-03-06
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Did you notice how the terror alerts always seemed to come right when the administration was in trouble? I did.
Rolling Stone shows you the real story behind each terror alert in the last 5 years.
What I read in February
February was evenly split between nonfiction and fiction. I like that, and I think I should keep it that way.
- The Scoreless Thai – Lawrence Block
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon – Garrison Keillor
- How Doctors Think – Jerome Groopman
- DMZ: Public Works – Brian Wood
Of these, The Black Swan and How Doctors Think should be read one after another. They are talking about the same thing in different ways and deal with failures in how we (and our doctors and money managers) think. I found them both fascinating.
links for 2008-02-28
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SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. A haunting live soap opera.
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Awesome paper jewelry
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Where to buy paper jewelry
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quick and dirty online .htaccess generator. Now I don’t have to look it up over and over.
That cat does not exist
I was talking with someone on our ski trip about taking the Garfield comic strip and removing the word bubbles from Garfield as a way to show the true story in the Arbuckle house. Today I found garfield minus garfield, which erases Jon Arbuckle’s hallucinatory cat to show “the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.”
The comic is so much better and makes so much more sense when you know that the cat doesn’t exist.
links for 2008-02-27
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A prank caller based out of Texas that puts out some of the most bizarre and hilarious material ever heard. He uses audio effects that speed up and slow down his voice, disorienting the caller on the other end, even repeating back what they’ve just sai
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That there is a big list of google maps relating to NYC
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RUR (Rails-Undo-Redo) is a rails plugin/gem to make it so easy to implement multi-level undo redo in your Rails application that you better start thinking of better excuses not to implement Undo/Redo (no, seriously, it is going to be a lot easier).
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I want.
A hot spring evaporates minerals over millions of years forming a beehive dome. A hole where the dome hasn’t closed up provides a beam of light to illuminate it. You can scuba dive it for $22.
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Helpdesk software
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This is an open source project to create the best help desk software possible.
We also provide a forum which allows you to contribute to the project by submitting bug fix requests and fixes, requesting features and discussing the software. -
Email based approach.
links for 2008-02-26
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me wanty. And it happens to be so close to where I live.
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Awesome. Tiny little utility that lets you send invoices and manage them for free.
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Holy Crap. This is the ultimate tracking tool.
If you have an aggregator, go to this page, put in your name or whatever, then import this ompl file into your feed reader.
you are done.