August 2009
128 posts
grand finale →
Shared by felix oh.yeah. The movie finished shooting this week! Now they will work on post-production (editing, special effects, etc) forever, and I will draw the…
Aug 30th
Glenn Beck uses big word but can't spell it --... →
Shared by felix Crap! I can’t believe we’re turning into an Oligarh..y! Seriously, this is beyond belief. I almost wonder sometimes if Obama and his team created Glenn Beck, just to make…
Aug 29th
Fine, I’ll Say It: Snow Leopard Is Ultimately a... →
Shared by felix Clearly she hasn’t been looking at the window’s world. But to me, anything to which there are noticeable compatibility issues needs to be an upgrade. Merlin Mann’s…
Aug 29th
Stealing 130 Million Credit Card Numbers →
Shared by felix “Years ago, when giving advice on how to avoid identity theft, I would tell people to shred their trash. Today, that advice is completely obsolete. No one steals credit card…
Aug 28th
British Beer Drinkers Boo Glass Ban →
Shared by felix WTH is wrong with that country? British pub owners are warning of a beer drinker’s backlash over plans to replace the traditional pint glass with plastic. The British Home…
Aug 28th
Empower Your Ruby With Haskell And Hubris →
Shared by felix Embedding Haskell in Ruby? Man. Really? Embedding C in Ruby or Rails applications is a way to fix performance bottle necks. RubyInline made this easy for C. Mark Wotton recently…
Aug 28th
LendingTree Suit Claims Google Is Getting Into... →
Shared by felix whoa A suit filed on Tuesday by online mortgage company LendingTree relies on a provocative premise: Google is getting into the loan aggregation business. The suit, filed in a…
Aug 28th
the wikipedia page on pedigree collapse writes... →
Shared by felix “…Huh!” So the fact that there weren’t ten quadrillion people 1500 years ago SCIENTIFICALLY PROVES that some of my ancestors liked sexit it up with their cousins!!” — gross.
Aug 28th
Nokia’s New Maemo Site →
Shared by felix Remember when they made all that noise about freeing Symbian? hahaha. yeah. They’re billing it as a full computer in a handheld. It’s hard not to see Symbian as implicitly…
Aug 28th
Before Apple introduced the iPhone… →
Shared by felix it’s a good post, but also just because the iphone was revolutionary doesn’t mean apple isn’t evil. Despite all that’s stored, it appears the Internet has little memory….
Aug 27th
Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) →
Shared by felix Very interesting. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network…
Aug 27th
Archos' Android-based A5S and A5H Internet... →
Shared by felix I don’t even know what this is… but A5S?? Really? They couldn’t figure out a diff’t sequence of alphanums that wouldn’t make their product out to be ass? …
Aug 27th
The Future Of Tourism Is Sex With Robots, Says... →
Shared by felix This is about the stupidest vision of the future I’ve ever heard of. In 4 decades we’re going to have … artificial golf courses? If sex with robots is going to be so awesome……
Aug 27th
Nokia bets on Linux in iPhone battle: sources... →
Shared by felix Why Maemo and not the other linux flavor … Android? Tarmo Virki / Reuters: Nokia bets on Linux in iPhone battle: sources  — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia…
Aug 27th
Velvet Worm vs. Beetle →
Shared by felix That’s like a syfy channel movie waiting to happen! Watch this video of a velvet worm (great band name!) and be thankful that you aren’t a diminutive arthropod. Thanks for the…
Aug 27th
iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult →
Shared by felix Yeah, I oh so hate it when something copies the look of another thing without actually retaining what was actually good about said other thing. At a recent Ignite show,…
Aug 27th
Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3... →
Shared by felix Wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that folks were so pre-aware of upgrade ramifications! Barence writes “Mozilla’s Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which…
Aug 27th
German Judge: If Sex While Driving Is Legal, Why... →
Six years ago, we noted in passing that a court ruling found that driving while having sex is perfectly legal in Germany (separately, it’s apparently a popular practice in Russia). Part of the…
Aug 25th
Fine, Let Newspapers Collude →
Shared by felix I wish they would just put up their paywalls already. We’ve heard from more than a few journalists over the last few months, thinking that the best way to save the newspaper…
Aug 25th
Judith Supine Gets High On Williamsburg Bridg →
Shared by felix Seriously? That is amazingly cool. After submerging a baby-faced flasher in Central Park and dumping a disembodied head in the sewer, street artist …
Aug 25th
Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright... →
Shared by felix Whaaaat? This is still happening? Noooooo….. snydeq writes “A federal appeals court has overturned a 2007 decision that Novell owns the Unix code, clearing the way for SCO to…
Aug 25th
Reader Rant: Williamsburg's Got a Great Big... →
Shared by felix Obviously traffic will switch to Wythe (one block over) and not Roebling (5 blocks!). Sigh. If Kent Avenue didn’t exist, it would have to be invented, if only to give…
Aug 25th
Texas Wisdom #38 →
Shared by felix Insightful words. :) “What an amazing thing is the mind!  It begins to work the moment you are born, and goes right on working until you meet a pretty girl.” – Billy-Bob Gautama
Aug 25th
Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? →
Shared by felix Avatar seems like Robots v ElfQuest to me. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad. brumgrunt writes “Den Of Geek wonders if James Cameron’s Avatar is heading for a fall, and if it will…
Aug 25th
CCTV helps to solve one in 1000 crimes →
Shared by felix and they’ll keep right on installing them. Just one crime is solved a year by every 1,000 CCTV cameras in Britain’s largest force area, it was claimed yesterday. A senior Scotland…
Aug 25th
Apple admits iPhone apps not suitable for business... →
Shared by felix w. t. h?? apple is imploding a little with these app store shenanigans. Bill Ray / The Register: Apple admits iPhone apps not suitable for business  — Commercial…
Aug 25th
80 Met Receives TCO →
Shared by felix Wow! I wouldn’t have guessed it still looks like it’s got a lot to go. We received a tip that Williamsburg’s 80 Metropolitan has received its temporary certificate of…
Aug 25th
Lines forming for Snow Leopard →
Shared by felix Is this true? They’re lining up for an OS update? 3 days in advance?? The most amazing thing is that most of these people are not even paid actors. They’re actual…
Aug 25th
Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits →
Shared by felix it seems to me that Nielsen’s methods were archaic even before “modern times.” It’s just that back then everyone agreed to believe the same lies - now there’s metrics that are…
Aug 25th
Kent Avenue: An Inauspicious Start →
Shared by felix Somehow this just doesn’t surprise me about the DOT. This is their solution when all they really needed was maybe a couple more lights or probably even just stop signs along kent….
Aug 25th
Original Snow Leopard Was Too Blood Thirsty for... →
Shared by felix kinda awesome. Yes, I’m obsessed with the new Mac OS X box. But I treated the poor snow leopard badly. This is not a clipart pussy cat. This is one serious blood…
Aug 25th
Introducing Yogi Oki-Doki →
Shared by felix um. wtf? I found this somewhat disturbing.
Aug 24th
Virtual Gaming Marketplace Live Gamer Acquires... →
Shared by felix Isn’t twofish already a block cypher? hmph. Live Gamer, a online marketplace for players to trade and buy video game virtual goods, has acquired microtransaction platform …
Aug 24th
"Smart" Parking Meters... →
Shared by felix NYC had this, that’s a very whiny description of how it works. theodp writes “The jury’s still out on whether Chicago taxpayers were taken to the cleaners by a rushed 75-year lease…
Aug 24th
Perl coming to Android phones →
Shared by felix cool! By François Charette Android is an operating system for mobile phones that runs a modified Linux kernel and the Java environment. The Android Scripting Environment (ASE)…
Aug 24th
12 most annoying types of Facebook users →
Shared by felix I wanted to hate this, but I don’t. CNN Technology has composed a list of the 12 most annoying types of Facebook users. I’m not saying that I can find any of these types on…
Aug 24th
RIM Gobbles Up Torch Mobile (Translation:... →
Shared by felix Wow, honestly, I didn’t see RIM making a move like this so soon. Good for them (and the web development world!) Another mobile software maker has fallen for the seductive…
Aug 24th
Apple's Q2 Lobbying Bill: $390,000 →
Shared by felix I wish there was some context around that amount, is it a lot, a little or avg? Like how much did Google, Microsoft, Intel or Cisco spend over the same time period? During…
Aug 24th
And Another One: CNN Found 'Ripping Off' Others'... →
Remember a few weeks back when a Washington Post reporter claimed that Gawker was “ripping off” his reporting, despite the fact that the Gawker piece linked back to the original article three…
Aug 24th
Open Science And Closed Science: Aren't... →
It’s no secret that we’ve got some serious problems with the way the old school scientific journals work — basically locking up scientific research rather than really living up to their mandate to…
Aug 23rd
Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions →
Shared by felix I had hoped. Did you expect Apple to publish their full response to the FCC’s inquiry regarding the Google Voice iPhone app? I did not.  ★ 
Aug 23rd
Seven Essential Fantasy Reads... →
Shared by felix Interesting list, although I mostly disagree. Still good to see such things in a mag like the New Yorker. Check out the New Yorker article “Seven Essential Fantasy Reads.”  It…
Aug 22nd
Microsoft Stores Will Only Hire You If You Can... →
Shared by felix wtf? every employee needs to be able to lift 75lbs?? Oh, Microsoft. Either Microsoft (MSFT) plans to sell rocks at its retail stores or it expects customers to buy a few…
Aug 22nd
Indeed →
Shared by felix so true! “The dawn of the netbook” is the new “the year of desktop linux”. - Cameron Hunt (one of the makers of Birdhouse)
Aug 22nd
Apple reconsiders rejected iPhone apps, C64... →
Shared by felix Change. Hope. We’re always a little hesitant to get too optimistic about changes to the App Store approval process, but it looks like there’s been a few hopeful…
Aug 22nd
Kent Avenue Make-Over Begins →
Shared by felix These changes don’t seem to make a lot of sense. Sigh. As promised, work has begun on the new and debatably improved Kent Avenue. Workers have stripped the section between…
Aug 21st
Tech Columnist Calls Model 'A Hero' For Exposing... →
Last we checked in on David Coursey, a long-time tech columnist, he was claiming that The Pirate Bay made money selling subscriptions to users and didn’t seem to understand the difference between…
Aug 21st
"Putpockets" give Londoners a little... →
Shared by felix This is still freaking creepy. Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there’s another, more positive phenomenon on the loose - putpockets. …
Aug 21st
Storm-Ravaged Central Park Upsets Many →
Shared by felix That storm was freaking nuts. Photograph of one downed tree in Central Park by Bebeto Matthews/AP Tuesday’s night sudden storm damaged numerous trees, from the…
Aug 21st
Brutal military dictatorship that backs Fiji Water →
Shared by felix Wow, didn’t know any of this. I guess no more Fiji Water. Fiji Water isn’t just devastating to the environment of Fiji, the planet that endures the cost of shipping it, and the…
Aug 21st