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Time Magazine news "You?" as the person of the year? What a cop-out! Check out this post from BAGnewsNotes: > You? TIME’s ’06 Person of the Year is You? I mean, Me? (from: TIME 2006 Person Of The Year: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (No?))
Everyone has a column or article these days of gift suggestions. Here’s mine for all of you who need to buy something for your favorite geek “who has everything.” I bet they would really like these sculptures. Check out the whole site, they start at about $80 for a pocket sized doohikee and go to like $300 for a larger one. Kind of pricey, I admit. Bathsheba Sculpture, via Kevin Kelley, Cool Tools
Check out this post from Schneier on Security: > How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is...
Read more →Check out this post from empire state blues.: > "[snip…]Everything else is blotted out by the deafening sound of my own consciousness, the ascendant primate mind, churning on all of its terrifying and unknown cylinders. And playing chess is in some ways a taking of communion with this austere machine-mind; this family tree of decisions; this full blooming of abstract thought.[snip…] (from: Chess and Violent Meditation)
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I was discussing with a friend yesterday, really, what’s the difference between a scripting language and a ‘real’ language? Is Java a ‘real’ language? After all it does run on top of an interpreter (the JVM.) But what’s an interpreter anyway? Is the only ‘real’ language C++? Even C# is quest...
Read more →Ok, this is definitely geeky, but I thought it was interesting: > “There’s a 4+ year old security hole in many XML parsers called XXE, the Xml eXternal Entity attack.” (from Some Bits: Nelson’s blog) Read the whole thing here.
Check out this post from Gizmodo: > Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, will soon become one of the coolest cities in the world. Why...
Read more →My buddies at wis.dm had a real scare today as our offices and the rest of the building was evacuated in a big rush due to a terrible and terrifying explosion in the basement. I was in California at the time and got word of this when Brian called my cell phone while I was in...
Read more →Check out this post from dzone.com: latest front page: > 
I just finished a fantastic book called "Algorithms", by Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou and Umesh Vazirani. Even better: this book is free and can be downloaded in PDF form from the authors’ web site. (from: Free book on "Algorithms" highly recommended)
I’ve been learning Ruby and Rails in my copious spare time. I found this post instructive on how to write idiomatic Ruby instread of Ruby as C: Idiomatic Ruby.
I am at the 2006 Fall Leadership Forum in Sonoma, CA. Wine is everywhere, even a free bottle in the hotel room. And all that wine and wine information is kind of squandered on me. So I won’t talk about wine, but here are some tidbits from the conferen...
Read more →Check out this post from ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed: 53% of People Prefer Pie Charts [The World’s Fair] Not sure if this is serious or not 🙂 Reminds me of the old joke "94% of all statistics cited are invented ON THE SPOT!
Check out this post from The Dilbert Blog: My Middle-Sized Problems Funny as usual! You should really follow this blog!
Check out this post from Lifehacker: Ask Lifehacker: The gift of a pre-loaded iPod This is a really good idea! I will use it this holiday season!
Check out this post from Schneier on Security: > "I’ll be the first to admit it: I know next to nothing about MySpace or Facebook. I do know that they’re social networking sites, and that — at lea...
Read more →Some clever scientists are trying to measure how fast meme’s travel on the web. My contribution to the experiment is to add a link to their article to my article. What’s a meme, anyway? Think of ideas as little organisms that l...
Read more →I wrote about this a little while back, but now it’s even easier! Do you want to embed a map of something or other on your site or your blog? Take a look at this site, fmatlas.com. It makes it sooooo easy! For exampe, here’s a map that I added here, in about 30 seconds, of my favorite lake: http://fmatlas.com/view/pitosalas/20061127_lakewinnepesaukee
Ok, assembled masses: I’ve rearranged my office and now my USB connected printers are farther away from the computer and closer to an ethernet connection. So, what I need is a USB hub which connects with an RJ45 rather than to a computer. I guess that would make it a Netwrok Enabled USB hub. Can’t find it on the web, but maybe it has a different name. Anyone know what I need? Technorati Tags: networking, USB
I’ve written about AllOfMp3.com before. I can’t say other than it’s a pirated music site. You can buy mp3’s of music of all kinds, from a nice catalog, at ridiculously low prices (like $3 or less for a complete album.) Some wags have suggested that [AllofMp3](http://www....
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