October 2008
28 posts
The Kids Halloween Candy Code →
Kids helping each other out on Halloween can put a chalk mark at the bottom of the driveway to let later trick-or-treaters know what to expect. The pictured symbols mean “Dentist”, “Werther’s…
Oct 31st
Live Chat With John Hodgman on Washington Post →
Our guest blogger John Hodgman is too modest to pimp this, but there’s a live chat session going on right now with him over at the Washington Post: John Hodgman Discusses ‘More Information Than…
Oct 30th
Benjamin Mako Hill: An Invisible Handful of... →
The following list is merely a small selection of scholarly articles listed in the ISI Web of Knowledge with “invisible hand” in their title: Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand The…
Oct 30th
Fear of economy, job loss has LinkedIn buzzing... →
Professional social networking sites like LinkedIn are seeing major growth during the latest economic downturn. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, since people are more likely than ever to…
Oct 28th
John Goerzen: A Tale of Three Monitors →
For quite a few years now, I’ve been using a Dell 2001FP 20” LCD. Aside from the fact that this is the monitor that has apparently placed me on Dell’s “permanently harass with paper catalogs” list…
Oct 26th
TSA responds to The Atlantic's article on airport... →
Bruce Schneier writes: Kip Hawley, head of the TSA, has responded to my airport security penetration testing, published in The Atlantic. Unfortunately, there’s not really anything to his…
Oct 24th
Blog of funny newspaper clippings →
Criggo is a delightful blog that posts scans of funny things from newspapers. Criggo
Oct 15th
Going West →
Oct 15th
Duct tape bandages →
Nothing butches up your wounds like an official duct tape band-aid. Nexcare Duct Tape Bandage One Size (via Red Ferret)
Oct 14th
Why smart Republicans are PISSED at their party →
Oct 14th
The yarn shop in Medford is closed on Sundays.... →
The yarn shop in Medford is closed on Sundays. Medford seems like that type of town.
Oct 13th
Steal This Comic →
Oct 13th
Unicode Snowman →
http:// 52A9.net/
Oct 12th
Grandma Wills' Pickled Wiener Recipe
Note on back of card: “Given to mom by a cowboy stunt man in Seligman. Do not give out!!” Years ago, when my mom died of cancer, one of her few final requests was that Grandma make up a jar of Pickled Wieners. Yes, they’re really that good. I went through the family cookbook and found the recipe card, and decided that this was too good to just sit on forever, so I typed...
Oct 12th
Thoughts on the Financial Crisis - O'Reilly Radar →
Oct 12th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQSoMakoIU
Oct 11th
The Brokers Hands On Their Faces Blog →
I don’t know about you, but whenever there is some sort of financial crisis I’ve always been fascinated by those news photos of brokers with hands on their faces. Who are these people? Why are…
Oct 11th
Kids need to agree to 120+ pages of EULAs in order... →
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John notes that watching Sleeping Beauty on Blu-Ray requires that you accede to over 120 pages of legal garbage in various EULAs before you can start the movie. …
Oct 10th
Punks need socks in Indiana →
D. T. Friedman of the nonprofit OxenFree in Indiana writes: I???m the Resource Coordinator for a non-profit organization that works with homeless and indigent teenagers, as well as teens who…
Oct 10th
Punks need socks in Indiana →
D. T. Friedman of the nonprofit OxenFree in Indiana writes: I’m the Resource Coordinator for a non-profit organization that works with homeless and indigent teenagers, as well as teens who are…
Oct 10th
Kids need to agree to 120+ pages of EULAs in order... →
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John notes that watching Sleeping Beauty on Blu-Ray requires that you accede to over 120 pages of legal garbage in various EULAs before you can start the movie. …
Oct 10th
Note to McCain: Overhead projector is not a... →
My friends, during last night’s presidential debate, McCain took That One to task for approving funding for an “overhead projector.” Howard Covitz, who used to work at Chicago’s Adler…
Oct 9th
10 American Financial Meltdowns in the Past... →
Shared by Sam Powers Wow, thanks for wasting an hour of my time! Banks failed, stock prices collapsed, and panic descended on Wall Street. Americans were holding their collective breath as a…
Oct 9th
Amazon.com: The Manga Guide to Databases: Mana... →
Oct 8th
Why HTML →
Oct 5th
Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers →
ruphus13 writes “Google’s Android is starting to see more industry support. Motorola recently announced plans, despite hardships within the company, to hire 300 Android developers. Quoting: ‘A quick…
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
DS Web: Blimp Go Nineties →
I think I’m nostalgic for 1996 or 97, but that’s about it. Unless having a dot-com boom counts.
Oct 2nd