fools' credit card tips and tricks. right now, my total credit card balance is... $0.00.
The Betrayal of History: read why jay leno has such an easy time picking up morons off the street
dpr has links to eos-d30 samples. these shots are pretty darn smooth...
the new nautilus screenshots are bitchin
this ac comment of doing contract / consulting work is darn intersesting. also completely blasts the programming interview exposed book. fwiw, in none of the job interviews i've had have i had to do coding problems.
How To Bless your TiVo. if i weren't earmarking my cash for video/photo equipment, i'd probably get a tivo.
neato completo: classifying music with fractals
cool flash (zip of projector files) from yugop. i got a chance to go through it last night. i especially like twist, and the mouse composition...
The Zompist Phrasebook has me rolling. not quite as amusing, but not bad is the latest distortion.
ZDNet: DVD group: stop wearing the code you wrote after reverse-engineering our trade secrets, which are not legally protected if discovered independently!
oh wait, i'm wearing one right now. jeepers! i hope they don't sue me.
clueless vs not clueless. more info
actually, i should rephrase that, according to the actual stats, you can see that fred moody is lying (or incompetent) in accruing his (meaningless) statistics.
mccain uncensored is a lot more satisfying than what actually happened.
weighted web server share (finally not /.ed)
lunch break reading: U2 Stirring Their Souls in the Studio
"One of the only problems we've had," says Bono, "is that when you put the band in the room with no shenanigans or trickery, they tend to sound a bit like U2." "Who would have thought that'd be a problem when we started out?" mutters Larry Mullen Jr.
on the cans: ferry corsten, smooove like buttah.
interesting, i didn't realize that although arsdigita compensates well, that they make you sign a they make you sign a very broad, 2 yr non-compete. that quite bluntly sucks. ad doesn't pay quite enough to justify signing away two years of your professional career. as if being forced to program tcl isn't bad enough.
other intersting stuff on their process pages. these were forbidden for a while, but i guess they're back online now.
luckily, there's a "casual" agreement that you can sign. your stocks don't vest, but you aren't hogtied until you decide you want to be. (from the confidentiality page)
all this research was kicked off from the Good things aD has done lately thread in the web/db forum.
google is smart: web load balancing
cool, tobey maguire is cast as spidey. much better choice than wes bentley (another name being tossed around for a time) imo. the bonus is that he buffed up and really looks the part and of course, he's got the whole nerd thing down.
eagle_grinder's history lesson:
Conversation between Big Media and their programmer consultant, circa 1990
Big time Author / MPAA bigwig / RIAA fatcat:
"We'll produce digital material if and only if it is protected by the first amendment and copyright law."
Programmer:
Sounds good. But isn't it hypocritical that YOUR media, when changed into 1's and 0's, is protected, but MY media, which, in the form of .h, .c, .java files, and binary executables, ISN'T protected?
But that would also mean that the digital algorithm used to encrypt your format ISN'T protected, meaning anyone can flat out copy it and distribute it. Rampant piracy wound ensue.
Big time Author / MPAA bigwig / RIAA fatcat:
You're right. All digital media should be protected.
Programmer:
In that case, The "hackers" will just reverse engineer your algorithm under fair use and as before, distribute it.
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Did anyone guess what the industry fatcats said next?
If you said "Buy legislation that eliminates fair use from digital media" You've correctly identified the DMCA! BOB, TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON!
monty python mozilla joke:
/.: Bring out your dead! /.: Bring out your dead! /.: Bring out your dead! SUCK: Here's one -- ninety thousand banner reads. MOZILLA: I'm not dead! /.: What? SUCK: Nothing -- here's my ninety thousand banner reads. MOZILLA: I'm not dead! /.: Here -- he says he's not dead! SUCK: Yes, he is. MOZILLA: I'm not! /.: He isn't. SUCK: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. MOZILLA: I'm getting better! SUCK: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment. /.: Oh, we can't take him like that -- it's against regulations. MOZILLA: I don't want to go in the cart! SUCK: Oh, don't be such a baby. /.: We can't take him... MOZILLA: I feel fine! SUCK: Oh, do us a favor... /.: We can't. SUCK: Well, can you hang around a couple of months? He won't be long.
it's soo... evil. i like it! The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook
the using css as debug tool article is pretty neat as well, although admittedly it doesn't do much for the browsers that really have problems, and that don't support css.
sure it's getting bad press, but mozilla isn't doing that badly. plus, despite how much i enjoy greg knauss' writing, i have to say that some of the stuff he cites as bloatware and unnecessary is not. i do agree that because of it's componentized nature, focus should have been shifted more to working on core features and then extending upon that with point release upgrades.
is the usps offering free email for national residents a good thing? no mention in the msnbc article on how they're gonna split up subdomains to make it all work. too bad the usps doesn't have the foresight to set up a digital certificate or registered/encrypted mail mail type thing. that would actually be useful.
plus, maybe this will push the issue of how invasive and stupid current digital rights (searches through hard drives, reading emails, etc) vs paper are.
or, perhaps, as tebriel suggests, perhaps this means that that my email will now [b]e bent, broken, bruised and battered as well as 3 days late?
funky golden orb heatsinks. these seem to cool as well as the best of 'em while being a bit quieter and being really cool looking (not that you're going to see your cpu heatsink that much if you have you're cover on).
.i've never seen the smoke test before.
i wasn't impressed too much by adam pollina's old stuff, but the new work he did (movie concept art) for generation last is pretty stylin.
a search for his name brought up a mention in the swipe of the week. amazing how much jim lee gets ripped off (and not just copied, but straight out traced on).
