March 2008
35 posts
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Why doesn’t tumblr have a search function?
I have many things that I’ve posted that I’d like to link others too, but there is no easy way to find things.
Google isn’t much help.
Report: Complaints trigger rewrite of Photoshop... →
“Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,...
Signing bug - WiiBrew →
Note to self: Don’t use C’s string functions on no-string arrays of characters.
'Anonymous' Posts Animated Images on Epilepsy... →
“So it turns out ‘DP’ can also stand for ‘Data Portability.’ Awkward.”
– Simon Crowley (via ragdoll)
“No, staying in business is job #1. Getting the work done is job #2 or #3....”
– Stillgettingitdone on Schneier on Security: Ten Security Land Mines
Anti-landmine campaigners turn sights on war... →
I wonder if those people have seen terminator.
Out of the browser →
The real reason I don’t really like this Web 2.0 is that instead of being about moving the web out of the browser on in to applications, it has been about moving applications in to the browser. The…
“Humor is everywhere, in that there s irony in just about anything a human does.”
– - Bill Nye
This is why I’m always laughing at jokes that nobody else seems to get.
Well to Hell hoax - Wikipedia, the free... →
I had a random guy who was sleeping on my couch telling my about this. He was totally convinced it was true.
David Deutsch - TEDGlobal Transcript →
“All it takes is a supernova a few light years away, and we’ll all be dead. Martin Rees has written a book about our vulnerability to various dangers ranging from astrophysics to scientific accidents to terrorism using weapons of mass destruction. He thinks that civilisation has only a 50% chance of surviving this century.”
L.A. Times scores interview with Rick Astley... →
dawnowar:
From aatw: Who got it from Daring Fireball
Tales from the WTF company →
lol, small business always seem to be like this.
Thank You Microsoft for Prematurely Killing... →
Wow,
April 8, 2014 All support for XP ends.
That will mean that XP will have been supported for 13 years. That’s almost forever.
DonkeyFire →
“DonkeyFire is a Mozilla Firefox extension that communicates to MLDonkey via the HTTP backend. Its purpose is to integrate MLDonkey and Firefox. After configuring it, you will see a new element in the Firefox status bar, showing your download’s progress.”
Ambiguous: Youth →
Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality →
Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At... →
Web Applications still bother me, integrating them with the desktop is just plain silly.
Logical Fallacies →
“False Dichotomy: Arbitrarily reducing a set of many possibilities to only two. For example, evolution is not possible, therefore we must have been created (assumes these are the only two possibilities). This fallacy can also be used to oversimplify a continuum of variation to two black and white choices. For example, science and...
Schneier on Security: The Continuing Slide Towards... →
“If you don’t like prostitution, don’t be a prostitute or the...”
– Richard M. Stallman
Killer wheat fungus threatens starvation for... →
yeah, that happens when you don’t have a wide gene pool in a species
Teachers' Union Debating Ending Homework For... →
This is a really good idea. I hope it gets more wide spread.
Scientists create tiny computer that mimics the... →
macuyiko: The most powerful computer known is the brain, and now scientists have designed a machine just a few molecules large that mimics how the brain works.
Actual Performance, Perceived Performance →
Perhaps the biggest drawback of the [new Vista file copy algorithm], and the one that has caused many Vista users to complain, is that for copies involving a large group of files between 256KB and tens of MB in size, the perceived performance of the copy can be significantly worse than on Windows XP.
