One of the important things that takes a concept to implementation is necessity. Not to rehash that tired old “Necessity is the mother of invention” phrase, but it’s sort of like that with technology. Lots of people say “why would I ever need to take pictures with my cellphone? or videos? Why would I need [...]
Archive for August, 2008
The truth about Georgia
Michael Totten has a very indepth article about Georgia, Ossetia, and Russia on his website. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/08/the-truth-about-1.php Give that the US is involved, and will probably continue to be involved in the future – this make for long but important reading. Maybe read it a couple times.
Conky
Screwed around with Conky a while ago, finally got it sorta back to how I like it. Still need to figure out how to grab CPU and MB temps – but almost there.
PageOnce
One of the apps that I’m seriously considering running is PageOnce. It seems pretty brilliant – the only issue is that you’re giving all your data and passwords off to a 3rd party and hoping they don’t get hacked.
On bad web design
There’s a concept of graceful degradation in webdesign, but Toyota apparently is having none of it. Pretty much any request from a device that doesn’t run flash (or doesn’t allow it at large) gets you a message like this. Not sure what the common is – but I doubt that a high brand/high asset investment [...]
HR 5843
Because a bad drug war hurts us all, wastes our money, incarcerates our citizens, and prevents us from focusing on the real threats and concerns of our nation. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5843/show
CASH Music – Deerhoof
They’re releasing their new single as sheet music and inviting people to cover it and share their own version of it. How brilliant.
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