Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Election Issues
Ohio election protection activists have won a landmark court battle to preserve the ballots from 2004’s disputed presidential election, and researchers studying those ballots continue to find new evidence that the election was, indeed, stolen. Among other things, large numbers of ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban --May 22, 2001
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause ...
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
Scrums are the most dangerous phase in rugby, since a collapse or inproper engage can lead to a front row player damaging or even breaking his neck.
— Wikipedia
Nice talk about good vs bad agile programming.
Posted in Agile, Development | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Hasselblad to release H3D at Photokina - Engadget
[...] DSLR camera, and comes in two versions, starting at 22 megapixels and ranges as high as 39 megapixels.
Two versions make a range?
Oh, the camera looks cool too, but since it's a Hasselblad, expect it to cost more then the average American makes ...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Flickr
My first photo on Flickr was one in the Transaparent Screen meme, photo number 7,358,479. I can remember them passing 70 million just before Christmas of last year. I noticed that they were approaching 250 million million this morning. That was passed soon afterward.
See Also:
Media Culpa's Entry
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
» Playing Google Videos In Windows Media Player » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel
Despite being an .avi file, a very standard video format, Windows Media Player can’t play it because Google has included in the file a bogus fourcc code in the file that WMP chokes on. ...
Posted in Google, Microsoft, Stupid People | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Stevey's Home Page - A Quick Tour of Ruby
Ruby used to annoy me simply by existing. I first heard about Ruby years ago, in maybe 1997 or 1998, and folks said it was kind of like Perl, but "cleaner", whatever that meant. Ruby fans back then seemed like a ...
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Web Stuff | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Remember Ring 09/15/2006 Never Forget an Anniversary! - Alaska Jewelry
The Remember Ringâ„¢ utilizes patent pending Hot Spotâ„¢ technology to deliver a reminder that it's "That time of the year again!"
24 hours before your special day, the Hot Spot™ on the interior surface of your Remember Ring™ will warm to 120º ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Griper Blade: Remember When Everyone Thought Torture was Evil?
In the US, however, the right seems to have been taken over, to a certain degree, by big torture fans. Oddly, the religious right has weighed in in favor of torture.
I first heard the case of Maher Arar on NPR on the ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Butter Fried Krispy Kreme Donuts | Family Resource (FamilyResource.com)
Several months ago I was visiting my grandmother in Kingsport, TN and discovered the most delicious food ever! I awoke one morning and found her frying a Krispy Kreme donut. My immediate response was, "that's disgusting!" She told me to hold off ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Why Bicycle Shorts are always Black? - Funny Cool Stuff
Why Bicycle Shorts are always Black?
Click through to see the alternative to black.
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World) « chartreuse (BETA)
I’m amused by Paris Hilton.
If Madonna was Marketing 1.0 then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0.
She’s a real life version of what value is and how it is created today.
Every web developer should pay attention to her.
Some ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » “Hotel Minibar†Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened ...
Posted in Hacks, Politics | 2 Comments »