Archive for January, 2009

People who keep finding find-assist in their browsers…

by @ Saturday, January 31st, 2009. Filed under Misc

It is an intentional attempt to capitalize on typos and confused people by presenting a page with paid links prioritized among ’search results’. If you’re using Verizon DNS servers (198.6.x.x) then you want to read this:
Note that this Functionality may affect non-browser applications that rely on receiving an NXDOMAIN or other error message. [...]

Stupid mod_security

by @ Friday, January 30th, 2009. Filed under Security

Mod_Security, I don’t know why I keep you. Every time something breaks, it’s your fault. I guess I feel you have some vague sort of prophylactic value for my server – expecially since it’s hard for me to keep on top of all of the virtual hosts and domains I’m running… but damn, you’re always [...]

DataLiberationFront – google-blog-converters-appengine – Powering Google Blog Converters – Google Code

by @ Saturday, January 17th, 2009. Filed under Misc

Google Data Liberation team – I thought that company was done impressing me.
DataLiberationFront
Powering Google Blog Converters
The Goals of the Data Liberation Front:
* Liberate data across web services.
* Make that data portable across cooperating web services.
* Allow users to own their own data which [...]

Google reader really needs an anti-dupes feature

by @ Saturday, January 17th, 2009. Filed under Misc

They’ve already got it for web searches – but it’s annoying to see the same content pop up three or four times in a row from different sources.

Top Songs of 2008 / The Hype Machine

by @ Tuesday, January 13th, 2009. Filed under Music

Lots of great tracks.
Top Songs of 2008 / The Hype Machine.

Salon.com – Why is Marijuana Illegal?

by @ Thursday, January 8th, 2009. Filed under Misc

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the [...]

Jay Leno’s maglev generator

by @ Wednesday, January 7th, 2009. Filed under Misc

7-color laser pointer awesomeness

by @ Monday, January 5th, 2009. Filed under Misc

7 Colour Handheld Laser Projector
Coolest part is he packaged the whole thing up into a form factor that looks like a light saber.

eMedia Rant: reduced value = bad business model

by @ Monday, January 5th, 2009. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Books, Stories, etc, Technology

I unexpectedly received a Kindle for Christmas. Did I want one – sure! E-Ink, long battery life, always on Sprint EVDO, limited web browsing – it’s a totally cool concept. But with it’s $360 price at or above the cost of a little netbook/subnote – it’s hard to justify. But free is a great price, [...]

Vodka Dosing by ‘Genetics’ and ‘Stony_Corals’ – Reefkeeping.com

by @ Sunday, January 4th, 2009. Filed under Fishtank/Reef

While looking at the last awesome Tank of the Month, I saw the owner had been dosing it with vodka daily. That sounded interestined ehough that I wanted to read more and found this..

The addition of vodka/ethanol is thought to increase bacterial biomass. For this, vodka addition would result in bacterial growth and reproduction. During [...]

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