September 2009
smf(5) FAQ at OpenSolaris.org →
nuff said
Creating OpenSolaris Package : Primer | Java.net →
nuff said
Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing) →
I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched. I’m a few days away from quitting it forever. Pretty much every blog I read tweets the titles of their posts along with a link. Better yet, the…
Aziz Ansari Interview on NPR: All Things... →
chaj:
npr and aziz - two of my fav things
Aziz Ansari Interview on NPR: All Things Considered
I’m very proud to be the only person in the history of NPR to spend a significant amount of…
By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain,,, →
We will be able to upload the human brain to a computer, capturing “a person’s entire personality, memory, skills and history,” by the end of the 2030s; humans and non-biological machines will then…
Free BlackBerry Tour Themes →
nuff said
Joy Division - Transmission (Live Peel Session)... →
chaj:
man so weird. I’ve had this tune in my head for the last few days.
Joy Division - Transmission (Live Peel Session)
Just got the amazing Joy Division Peel Session LP from Turntable…
63 Building Mega-Pranked →
A video titled “URBAN HACK ATTACK EPISODE 1″, uploaded to the Japanese site Livedoor, shows hackers perpetrating an enormous prank on the 63 building.
What a well-placed $20 gets you →
Tom Chiarella took a stack of $20 bills with him to New York City just to see what he could get by offering them to the right people at the right time. Turns out, quite a bit. I probably linked…
Cracking The Brain's Numerical Code: Researchers... →
By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen, or how many dots a person has been presented…
Google News Timeline →
Browse visually through the news of time period (month, day, year) Click on “add more queries” to control the content sources displayed. Filter by date, or do a search. Unfortunately only goes back…
macosxhints.com - 10.5: Disable Spotlight... →
the real deal - instructions in comments
Slashdot Linux Story | OpenSolaris vs. Linux, For... →
nuff said
Y Combinator →
vc that hosts hacker news
Company Political Contributions →
Click on a logo to sort all companies in that sector by party contributions, then click again for pop-up details. I love this both because I like the object oriented use of the logos, and the data…
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac on September... →
chaj:
yo yo yo
Filed under: Accessories, Enterprise, Software
Even though the iPhone, in its several iterations, is most likely the smartphone of choice for the discerning…
Company Political Contributions →
Click on a logo to sort all companies in that sector by party contributions, then click again for pop-up details. I love this both because I like the object oriented use of the logos, and the data…
I’m pretty sure the look in that kid’s eye says... →
I’m pretty sure the look in that kid’s eye says he’s going to the dark side…
CDJ 2000 and 900 Release + Photos + Links →
Dawn of a New Species
Today Pioneer have released two new CDJs which are set to be the new industry standard.
CDJ 2000: Promo Video Pioneer Promo €1799
Available in November
McDonald's "Free Coffee Ambient" →
I’d like to thank Shai for making us aware of this insanity. VIA Direct Daily As part of a national campaign promoting McDonald’s restaurants, a downtown Vancouver lamppost became…
10 Photography Pet Peeves We'd Throw Down a Black... →
good list. i agree with most of em’
Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No... →
Two weeks ago I detailed how to build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, start to finish, with a little Terminal work. If you’re not comfortable with command-line hacking, you can now…
Glasses, Gloves Simulate Geriatric Impairments →
Photo: Lauren Pond for the WSJ
Wall Street Journal writes about a sensitivity training that puts marketers in the old peoples’ shoes, literally: “Before walking into a Walgreens…
Report: 6% of Kids Addicted to Internet →
Original article.
6 out of 100 fourth-graders, over 34,000 in total, have an internet addiction serious enough to call for counseling and treatment, and 15% of elementary, middle, and high…
New York Loves Canon →
chaj:
talk about influence
New York and Canon sitting in a tree…………
Text from PDN
Canon U.S.A. persuaded the state of New York to spend $8 million in taxpayer money to widen a road that…
BlackBerry Tour facing 50% return rate?... →
chaj:
I just went into the verizon store for this exact problem yesterday
Electronista: BlackBerry Tour facing 50% return rate? — The BlackBerry Tour is suffering from a…
World Debut: The MINI Speedster Concept →
Shared by blanka
looks edible
This morning MINI takes the wraps off of the widely anticipated Speedster concept. As we broke last year, the Speedster (and the coupe) concepts are…
Myna: Garage Band in Your Web Browser →
chaj:
sick
Aviary is already well-established as an online image editing suite, but today the company is expanding its creative reach and bringing multi-track audio editing…
Make Yourself Presentable →
My first time speaking professionally in public was back in 2005 at the first An Event Apart in Philadelphia. While not my first time speaking in front of a big audience, it was the first time I…
Suburbified New York →
“Based on the New York Times ‘Living In‘ columns from the past ten years, this map uses color-coding to represent publication dates and provides a list of common phrases that describe the…
Agostinelli & Bombace Release 8-Point Plan to... →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Matthew Jordan Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (973) 714-6115 ‘Reforms are Overdue and Needed to Protect Tax Dollars’
Ridgewood, NJ – Today the…
Food Assistance on the Rise →
GOOD magazine, in collaboration with Gavin Potenza, takes a look at food assistance over the past several months.
Since November 2008, there’s been an increase in the number of…
Creating Flash Charts From Google Spreadsheets -... →
fusion using google charts api
Read news fast with Google Fast Flip (Krishna... →
Krishna Bharat / The Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip — One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A…
Google Fast Flip →
news thumbnailer - quick reading
Best Savings Option for Education? | Ask... →
nuff said
Five Best Virtual-Desktop Managers →
Long before multiple monitors were popular (or financially feasible), there were virtual desktops—applications that allow you to swap your entire workspace with another for easy…
Most-Read Naver Articles of the Week — September... →
It just hit me today that the end of the year is fast approaching. If only I had time to really crack down on my remaining years’ to-do list.
Anyway, here are the top 20 in society.
1. …
Ridgewood Schools find the Rosetta Stone →
chaj:
woh
Ridgewood Schools are replacing three elementary school Spanish teachers with Rosetta Stone an interactive computer program that cost $70,000, is less than half their combined…
Ten Dimensions? →
chaj:
5th and above are utterly fascinating and mind boggling
Something a little different: a visualization of the 10 dimensions currently postulated by physics:
SHPS Portal - spending accounts →
flexible spending account
How Google Taught Me to Cache and Cash-In | High... →
nuff said
Unemployment running out for Jerseyans →
From the Record:
Unemployment benefits about to run out for thousands
An estimated 33,000 New Jerseyans will receive their final unemployment check Friday, and the state estimates that…
Free Report: Google Analytics for Photographers →
Photographers who market themselves online can take advantage of a bunch of free tools to learn how people use their Web sites. Web traffic isn’t everything, but knowing how people use…
OWC announces portable, bus-powered external SSD... →
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Odds and ends
I’m pretty paranoid about making sure that backups are done on all of my Macs. That’s why I carry a small Western Digital…
Oracle To Increase Investment In SPARC and Solaris →
An anonymous reader writes “The Slashdot community has recently questioned what Oracle will do with Sun hardware if and when Oracle’s acquisition of Sun closes. And it seems that speculation about…
What Visualization Tool/Software Should You Use? –... →
how to infograph … ize
Inkscape. Draw Freely. →
open source vector graphics editor - illustrator alternative
HistoryShots - Information Graphics - History... →
cool prints n’ posters
inudge.net - Nudge →
online sequencer … cool