October 2009
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September 2009
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Lawyer for Glenn Beck Parody Site Offers Brilliant... →
My personal favorite from the legal response:
Only an abject imbecile could believe that the domain name would have any connection to the Complainant.
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Force Snow Leopard to Report Hard Drive Capacity... →
Personally I am not a fan of using base 10 for these types of calculations, it is so natural to simply use base 2. This is one battle the marketing team obviously won.
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PC World: Multitasking Is a Big Fat Lie →
Multitasking, as most people understand it, is a myth that has been promulgated by the “technological-industrial complex” to make overly scheduled and stressed-out people feel productive and efficient.
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Brooklyn 1, Westboro Hate Freaks 0 →
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“The monitoring of the Turks picked up contacts with Feith, Wolfowitz, and Perle...”
– The American Conservative — Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
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10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines →
Plenty of great tips that you can scan in just a minute or two. Even if you know some of these concepts you might not be aware of all of them.
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MTA Wants Smart Card In Place By 2014 →
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Mohammed cartoonist to speak at Yale →
Wow I didn’t realize how long ago this was but it was back in 2005 that Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard created an inflammatory violence-inciting depiction of Mohammed with a bomb on his turban.
Fast forward to 2009, Yale University is publishing a book entitled “The Cartoons That Shook The World”. Now the interesting part is that the controversial cartoon was omitted due to...
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Mint.com: The Death of the Newspaper →
Budget help from Mint.com
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The simplest way to concatenate text files in DOS
In the scenario below the assumption is that you’re concatenating all the files in a directory into a CSV file. This isn’t the only possible output and I’m just using this as an example.
copy * output.csv
And that’s it, no for loops or other silliness, it just copies everything together into one file.
I totally helped a woman cross the street at 57 and Lex.
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NYT: Ertugrul Osman, Last Grandson of an Ottoman... →
Wow this is an extremely fascinating story. Had it not been for Ataturk he would be ruling the Ottoman Empire. The crazy part is that he was living in a rent-controlled walk-up in the Upper East Side!
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Palm, you'll never beat Apple if you all you do is... →
You used to be the King Palm, now you’re just pathetic. Just stop it and fade into obscurity where you belong. You don’t deserve the market share because you’re not a leader anymore.
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Neuromarketing - It's like we're in the future →
If marketing is regarded by many as “evil” where does this lie in the spectrum of evilness? I’ve been aware of research that involves eyetracking but this sounds to me like another level entirely.
More on this topic here:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/neurocinema-aims-to-change-the-way-movies-are-made/
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MetroCost, an app for iPhone or iPod touch →
If you’re the type of person that’s into tracking their personal spending and use services like mint.com then you may appreciate an iPhone/iPod Touch application that can help you sort out which is the better deal, the pay per ride or unlimited MetroCard.
I’m a pay per rider myself but I do wonder if switching to unlimited is the better deal.
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If You Need to Work Better, Maybe Try Working Less →
I like an article that challenges the convention of “because that’s the way it is”. There are a lot of things we do “because that’s the way it is” and we should always questions our behavior, tactics, perceived efficiencies, whatever.
I see too many people working until 6:00 PM, 6:30 PM, or later only to have a one hour to 90 minute commute that all but...
Find an Oktoberfest Near You →
Pretty cool Google maps mod that allows you to search for an Oktoberfest in your area.
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter →
Universal Orlando Resort will open ‘The Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ in the spring of 2010. This conceptual map shows what visitors can expect.
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New personal best: 154 (Outback) on #flightcontrol - New Level: 2nd Officer, http://bit.ly/G8QBn
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I’m going to bucket my contacts into two groups: cool and lame. Everyone starts off in the lame group unless proven otherwise.
The Google Unemployment Index: http://bit.ly/qoyaa
Buddhist leader says video games are cathartic →
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Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support →
If you own an iPhone, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile phone, have a Gmail account, and are not using Google Sync, please punch yourself in the face.
Now go download the latest version of Google Sync.
GOPer: If Boys Know Porn Turns Them Gay, They... →
This weekend at a gathering of conservative activists, Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) chief of staff Michael Schwartz argued that “all porn is homosexual porn, because all pornography turns your sexual…
ETFC, $2 a share, gonna happen tomorrow, believe it.
Yalies Have the Best Pizza in the World →
Standard Guests Still Baring it All →
Bicycle and Motorcycle Collide Leaving 2 Dead →
Really Newsweek? Really? →
With recent headlines such as “Is Your Baby Racist” to “The Case for Killing Granny”? Has Newsweek lost it?
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“the master’s tools [would] never dismantle the master’s house.”
– Lorde, Audre, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex,” Literary Theory: An Anthology, Eds. Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 859
Going crazy for tapas at Boqueria on Spring Street. http://bit.ly/2McOUV
NYC's public gaming school enters first semester,... →
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Imagine a world where musicians get paid for 30... →
Ars Technica discusses the possibility of extra licensing fees to be added to downloaded music. Among other things it would include a royalty to be paid for 30 second song previews heard in iTunes. If you don’t use iTunes, this essentially allows you to “try before you buy” allowing you to hear a clip of the song before you plop down your hard earned 99 cents (or more).
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Video: Medical Marijuana Ads Too Dank for ABC,... →
Spore Creature Creator 2-D set free in your... →
Special Event: Frank Lantz – Interim Director, NYU... →
Vendy Award "Rookie" Finalists Announced! →
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Tax havens: Keeping the rich richer whilst... →
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