December 2007
94 posts
[SOCIAL] Social Networks: Stop Designing Out The... →
[LIBRARY] Threatened by the Internet? Music Biz... →
So true, I use the library at least twice a month.
how to enjoy Doctor Who: don’t watch the Russell T. Davies episodes… ugh… such a bad writer
7 Tips to Optimize Windows XP for Playing the... →
The Witcher has some of the most notorious load times ever seen in PC gaming. But there are several simple steps you can follow to make the game playable without having to sit beside your computer playing Nintendo DS waiting for the level to load.
7 Tips to Optimize Windows XP for Gaming — Playing... →
[GMAIL] Collective effort restores David Airey.com →
More of David Airey’s loss of control over his domain name.
[LEARNING] Get Educated. →
links to several online learning resources
The Wii, officially hacked! →
Someone was able to start Homebrew in Wii-Mode. They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were able to create a Wii ‘game’ that ran their own code. (video in link + more)
[MUSIC] David Byrne's Survival Strategies for... →
The history and future of the recording industry
[MEME] Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer... →
Possibly the best headline of 2007
[PIRACY] Disasters of Commerce: HDCP →
The HD-DVD / Blu-ray copyright protection schemes can break your hardware permanently
looking at freeware continuous integration systems… why do they all produce reports that look like ass? ugly ass, at that.
[GMAIL] Creating a Backup for Your Google Account →
How to create a second gmail account with full access to all your Google services
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Movie... →
The official theatrical movie trailer for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is now online for your viewing pleasure. More racial profiling, escape footage, and NPH on a unicorn (just like in the teaser poster).
[GAMERS] Portal... in lego →
[BUSINESS] Joel Spolsky's Travel Survival Guide -... →
How to give good demo
[CODE] 8-year-olds should test my code →
[GMAIL] WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure... →
Hacker found a backdoor and used it to take over David Airey’s website.
Is there any way to wipe out all of the Google Reader “shared” items from other people that are clogging up my feeds?
blah, that didn’t make any sense
is there any way to wipe out the full list of Google Reader shared items you’ve already responded to?
[SPAM] Blacklists Don't Work →
It’s guerrilla warfare and the spammers have more troops
Windows XP - Disable dumpprep when programs crash →
Best of Feeds - 13 links - photography, business,... →
@haacked: moving sucks… just finished unpacking my house tonight from having everything stored while it was painted
[PHOTOS] NWYH Stock Image Library →
Royalty free business related stock photos…. with a twist
switching to scripting from perl to ruby is weird because object oriented and unit testing is so much easier. No more hashes of hashes
@codinghorror: I think the cm was an invention by brits to make their penis size seem bigger, because 15 cm sounds huge
[XMAS] Pagan Orgies to Human Sacrifice: The... →
It’s not the birth of Christ, it was to distract pagans from having orgies.
@lazycoder: we had 37cm of snow on sunday, and 148cm of snow so far this year. and there’s usually no snow this time of year…
@codinghorror: Brian Sack is always good for a funny ebay posting.. I should check out his book http://www.banterist.com/
600+ unread feeds.
[STARTUPS] Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New... →
from the guy who brought use blogger and twitter
aaah… cryptic “out of disk space” mysql error message FTW
ack… I’m getting ‘incorrect key file for table’ errors up the wazoo all of a sudden
[SOFTWARE] Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free... →
Huge list of free software
[COPYRIGHT] Why Lane Hartwell is wrong →
Photographer gets popular viral video taken down after her photo appears for 1 sec.
If your using PeerGuardian2, then you probably want to delete that history.db file that can be 10s and 10s of GB
holy !#$% how do you get routes.rb to let embedded java applets “do their thing”…
Anyone know of a good python ActiveResource client port? I know about RESTful Web Services ch3, but I’m hoping there’s something newer…
[FACEBOOK] Do Facebook Groups Mean Anything? →
Are facebook groups a valid way of measuring interest in… well.. anything?
@bordy: the last one I read was when he changed the protagonist to the girl, that was good… but stopped reading after that
@bordy: how far did you get? I gave up on Sword of Truth after a while because it seemed like every book followed same formula
[COMICS] Passive Depressive →
New web site for passive depressive
[XKCD] Authors@Google: Randall Munroe →
A video talk by the guy who does XKCD
[SOCIALNETWORKING] The Next Social Network:... →
Blogs as social network hubs
“I think Superman represents the federal government, while Batman represents the autonomous local governments.” — that’s hot.