August 30, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-30
 Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 29, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-29
- contractor tries to help friend, gets slammed by regulators: Anthony Howell flew to Florida last week to help out a friend whose home was badly damaged by Hurricane Charley. Now, he may face a $5,000 fine and a felony charge.
( Fl. Hero Weather )
- Bush states Kerry "more heroic"...: But its case was hurt this past week when a top lawyer for the Bush campaign, Benjamin Ginsberg, resigned after disclosing he was providing legal advice to the veteran's group.
( Campaign04 people_Bush people_Kerry people_McCain Politics )
- NOW with Bill Moyers | Quote of the Week: "I think it's clear now that the actual convention proceedings are the sideshow. The real main events are the corporations and the politicians coming together in these excessive lavish parties."
( Campaign04 Politics tv_Now )
- Society & Community. Salim Muwakkil: [The number of black men in prison] is actually a social catastrophe right now. And no one seems to be paying attention to it. Many of the politicians turn away from it. Because to give it any attention gives the impression that they're soft on crime.
( Blacks Poverty tv_Now )
- GmailFS: GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.
( co_Google GMail Hack Linux Software )
- Mercury Rising: the Environmental Protection Agency released new data showing that pollution in one out of every three lakes and nearly one out of every four rivers in the U.S. is so severe that people should avoid eating fish caught there. The figures also showed that t
( dept_EPA Environment people_Bush tv_Now )
- Letting Camera Phone Users Off The Hook: There are lots of lessons to be learned along these lines from markets outside the United States.
( Gadgets Op-Ed Photography Telephone )
- misprinted type 3.0_ art, design and type: freeware fonts that look like printer error
( Typography )
- America's Wild Places: the "Roadless Rule," a policy implement by President Bill Clinton right before he left office, ending virtually all logging; roadbuilding; and coal, gas, oil, and other mineral leasing in 58 million acres of the wildest remaining national forests lands, i
( Environment people_Bush people_Clinton tv_Now )
- So You’ve Been Taken Prisoner by a Billionaire Colombian Drug Lord: Step One: Get Your Head Straight
( Amusing Military Stories )
- Campaign Finance. Overview 2004: The ECONOMIST estimates that in the national election cycle of 2000, over $3 billion was spent on presidential and congressional races. Totals for the 2004 cycle are expected to rise significantly.
( Campaign04 Corruption Economics Politics tv_Now )
- PodWorks: Alternative iPod management software
( co_Apple MacOSX Music Software )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 28, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-28
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 27, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-27
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 26, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-26
- Inventor Makes Car Engine that Runs Off Air: commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air
( Autos Enviroment Inventive Science )
- The Work of Edward Tufte: writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on information design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design
( Design people_Tufte )
- Scientists fav Sci-fi: Scientists vote "Blade Runner" best ever sci-fi film
( Cinema Science SciFi )
- Getting Your Boss To Buy Lava Lamps: Monitoring automatic build environments
( Amusing Inventive Programming )
- The History of Programming Languages: For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages!
( History Programming )
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: Preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse
( Books Reference )
- Ranks of Poor, Uninsured Rose in 2003: Approximately 35.8 million people lived below the poverty line in 2003, or about 12.5 percent of the population, according to the bureau. That was up from 34.5 million, or 12.1 percent in 2002
( Campaign04 Economics Politics Poverty )
- A little Tufte recap (Signal vs. Noise): A design that follows corporate structure “just because” is just as bad as an interface that mimicks a book or a work desk or a television set. But, since the org chart or corporate structure is hidden in the design, we often don’t think of this typ
( Design people_Tufte )
- 1.3 million more Americans in poverty: Although the economy completed a second full year of expansion in 2003, median household income just barely kept up with inflation and was statistically unchanged at about $43,300, the bureau said
( Campaign04 Economics Politics Poverty )
- The Caltech Cannon Heist: At engineering schools pranks or hacks are a form of intercollegiate sport.
( Amusing edu_Caltech edu_Claremont Hack )
- gapingvoid: how to be creative: So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips
( Ideas Innovative )
- Archos Gmini400 review: a PVP that's about the size of the latest Apple iPod, w/ video
( Gadgets PVP )
- Logitech > Harmony Remote Products: Simplifies Any Home Theater
( Gadgets Home Television )
- Hiring "Great Hackers": If the great hacker gets distracted by some new shiny thing, some more interesting problem to solve, they’ll pour their energy into that instead.
( Amusing Jobs Management )
- KnowBrainer: Tool to assist in developing ideas...
( Ideas Innovative Inventive )
- Knowledge management, data mining and information mapping with Grokker.: "Grokker2 lets you build cool visual maps of semantically organized search results from various search engines and data sources."
( DataMining KM Search )
- The Patent Clerk's Legacy: With little more to show than a rejected doctoral thesis from a few years before, declared brashly that the physicists of his day were "out of [their] depth"
( people_Einstein Science )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 25, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-25
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 24, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-24
- Proprietary to Open: Middleware Evolves: Integration technology has helped industries from manufacturing to telecommunications cut masses of employees. Those jobs are not coming back any time soon—bittersweet testimony to the success of what was born as middleware two decades ago.
( mag_CIO Middleware )
- Cenqua FishEye Source Perspective: Your source code repository contains an abundance of valuable information. This is not always easy to extract, comprehend and keep up to date. FishEye painlessly opens up your repository and helps you get the perspective you need to better understand the
( CVS Software SourceMgmt Tools )
- SCT Luminis Data Integration for e-Learning: fewer than half have invested in creating the full functionality available through real-time data integration. Their limited integration can create problems when student information and learning management systems overlap functionally
( co_SCT co_Sun mag_Syllabus Middleware )
- extisp.icio.us - charting the tags of del.icio.us users
( Del.icio.us Tools )
- MIT OpenCourseWare: free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century.
( eLearning MIT OCW )
- Gantthead.com: Online community for IT PMs
( Community PM )
- Expanding Services, Reducing IT Op Expenses with Integrated IT Infrastructure: Entering the new millennium, Lansing Community College faced a trio of issues that threatened to stall growth and hinder our ability to deliver innovative programs and student services.
( Collaboration co_Oracle mag_Syllabus Telephone )
- Sakai Project: The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software
( eLearning.Collaboration eLearning.infrastructure LMS Sakai Software )
- Real-Time Screen and Audio Recording in a Flash: BB Flashback is a real-time screen and audio recording program that I found on the Web a few months ago when I was searching for distance learning tools to bridge the distance
( co_BBSoftware eLearning.Content Flash mag_Syllabus )
- Supporting enterprise KM with blogs: A weblog services roadmap: a roadmap for providing weblog-related information services and suggested approaches for dealing with the problem of making weblog output of use to the organization.
( Blogs KM )
- HP Color LaserJet 2550L Review
( Printers Review )
- www.freeantennas.com
( Hack WiFi )
- Redline Networks WebApp Accelerator: WebApp performance is an issue. IT managers trying to improve the situation by adding more Web servers, caching devices, server load balancers and the like are finding that these point solutions do not help enough
( mag_Syllabus NetOps NetTech )
- The Open Source Portfolio Initiative: OSPI is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available.
( eLearning.ePortfolio OSP Software )
- Walls and Quads, Campus and Community: Colleges and universities will not necessarily lead the civic efforts to convert 20th century manufacturing centers into 21st century digital cities. But they have an important role to play
( Education Jobs mag_Syllabus Op-Ed )
- When Everyone Writes for the Web: How do you include non-technical staff in the ongoing development of 2,500 Web pages?
( CMS co_Ingeniux mag_Syllabus org_NACUBO Software )
- Typewriter -> Email: inspired by my mother’s own fruitless attempts to imbibe the practices and conventions of the ‘connected’ world, and her growing sense of despair and exclusion from all social exchanges that take place exclusively over email
( Amusing eMail Gadgets Hack Inventive )
- SCORM: aims to foster creation of reusable learning content as "instructional objects" within a common technical framework for computer and Web-based learning. SCORM describes that technical framework by providing a harmonized set of guidelines, specification an
( eLearning.Content SCORM Specification )
- What’s Next: Course Creation Systems: learning management systems only manage courses that have already been developed. It’s time to consider a course creation system (CCS); software that will assist in the creation of courses that could be dropped into a learning management system
( LMS mag_Syllabus Op-Ed )
- In Your Pocket City Guides: In Your Pocket is your one-stop travel and information portal for Central and Eastern Europe.
( EU Travel )
- ebrary: Libraries: our growing databases enable simultaneous, multi-user access, feature advanced research tools, and integrate with existing ILS systems and digital resources, with MARC records provided
( co_ebrary eLibrary mag_Syllabus Software )
- Online Course Caps: A Survey: As online courses continue to permeate the curricula of many higher education institutions, administrators often raise the issue of a maximum number of students in a course
( eLearning.Distance mag_Syllabus )
- The Anatomy of an Icon: I can’t tell you how to create an icon — but I can tell you the steps I take to create an icon.
( Icons Tutorial )
- Online Course Development: What Does It Cost?: Syllabus: Does it cost less to design and develop online teaching and learning today than it did a few years ago? Are the categories of cost different today from the past and from what the costs might be in the future?
( Costing eLearning.Distance LMS mag_Syllabus )
- Dell Laser Printer 1700n Review
( Printers Review )
- ebrary: eXtend APIs: FAQ
( co_ebrary eLibrary Specifications WebDev )
- PKI: working to develop use of Public Key Infrastructure in Academic Computing
( Cryptography Dartmouth eLearning.infrastructure PKI )
- 100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Fiction: This list has been put together by the editors of Random House's Modern Library, and represents the best 100 novels of the 20th century.
( Books Reference )
- Dialing for the Web: "All the user interfaces that we have now in mobile phones, their backgrounds are in the late '60s and early '70s. Originally those user interfaces were designed for static workstations."
( mag_CIO Telephone UI )
- Infectious Adoption: From the browser of your choice you might be able to find articles, research reports, images of paintings from the Renaissance, or sound files of Woody Guthrie’s original performances collected from the federated digital repositories of libraries around
( Apache mag_Syllabus Metadata OAI )
- IMS Global Learning Consortium: The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops and promotes the adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning technology. Several IMS specifications have become worldwide de facto standards for delivering learning products and services
( eLearning mag_Syllabus Specifications Standards )
- BB FlashBack, the next generation in screen recording.: Press a record button on your PC, and carry on working. Press stop, and the software produces an editable movie of exactly what you saw on your screen
( co_BBSoftware eLearning.Content Flash mag_Syllabus Software )
- Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?: Syllabus: LMS has reached maturity but is racing to keep up with changing requirements on campus and to meet the need for integration with other enterprise systems and a more collaborative working environment
( eLearning LMS mag_Syllabus OCW OKI Sakai )
- OKI - Open Knowledge Initiative: provides architectural and technical leadership for software initiatives in higher education, among industry affiliates, and through national and international organizations
( eLearning LMS MIT OKI )
- Advanced Distributed Learning: a collaborative effort between government, industry and academia to establish a new distributed learning environment that permits the interoperability of learning tools and course content on a global scale.
( eLearning.Distributed mag_Syllabus SCORM )
- Politics & Economy. Kathleen Hall Jamieson: most recent negative campaign ads and how the media and both presidential candidates are framing the issues
( Campaign04 Politics tv_Now )
- E-Mail -- The Killer App!: I don't want to get bogged down in unnecessary or garbage e-mail. I don't want to continue to have to add mail server capacity because of junk mail. I suggest that it is time, as a community, that we accept, as a best practice, aggressive anti-spam action
( eMail mag_Syllabus Op-Ed SPAM )
- Transforming Your Web site Into a 24/7 Service Center: because they’ve been reviewed and approved by assigned content managers, the answers on our site are always consistent and accurate.
( co_RightNow edu_UH KM mag_Syllabus Software )
- Powerful Content Integration and Research Capabilities: With ebrary’s new APIs, students can now access valuable book content from leading publishers and take advantage of powerful research tools from any computer
( co_ebrary eLibrary mag_Syllabus Software )
- Managing Storage on Your LMS: Learning Objects: Syllabus: Disk space is a relatively cheap commodity today. While it is true that storage technology continues to evolve and improve, simply adding increasing amounts of storage is not a long-term, scalable solution for very large systems
( mag_Syllabus SAN SCORM Storage )
- JavaScript Auto-complete Control: After seeing how Gmail made its autocomplete, I took the idea and implemented my own version of the autocomplete control.
( JS Scripts WebDev )
- Macromedia - Breeze: Quickly and easily share online meetings, presentations and training courses over the Internet—using the familiar PowerPoint application and the Macromedia Flash format.
( co_Macromedia eLearning.Content SCORM Software )
- Open Text Summarizer: tool for summarizing texts. The program reads a text and decides which sentences are important and which are not.
( Scripts Text Tools )
- Tinderbox: If you get more than 10 developers together without tools, there is going to be an explosion. Tinderbox keeps this potentially explosive situation under control.
( Programming Software Tools )
- LionShare: Home Page: LionShare P2P project is an innovative effort to facilitate legitimate file-sharing among individuals and educational institutions around the world.
( eLearning.Distributed Software )
- UC Irvine Extends Climate Research With IBM Supercomputer: It’s important to predict future climate well enough in advance to understand now how best to mitigate environmental changes that may have potentially adverse, even disastrous, effects on the planet and its living organisms.
( co_IBM mag_Syllabus SuperComputers UCI )
- Nuventive - iWebfolio: web based tool that gives individuals a personalized, flexible online portfolio to store and present a lifetime's worth of educational and professional experience. iWebfolio also helps faculty members, departments, and schools meet institutional and accre
( co_Nuventive Education eLearning.ePortfolio mag_Syllabus )
- DSpace Federation: DSpace is a groundbreaking digital library system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves and redistributes the intellectual output of a university’s research faculty in digital formats.
( eLearning eLibrary Software )
- ePortfolios: Assessing Student Learning and Program Outcomes: This assessment is becoming increasingly important in response to a combination of forces including accreditation guidelines, demands from prospective employers and alumni, and competition for recruitment.
( co_Nuventive edu_Clayton eLearning.ePortfolio mag_Syllabus )
- Lectora: Lectora Publisher provides users with a comprehensive authoring environment for creating and delivering custom interactive multimedia content so you can communicate faster and more effectively.
( eLearning.Content LMS MacOSX mag_Syllabus SCORM Software )
- The Other Kids on the Block: Commercial Providers Grow Up in the eLearning Space: Syllabus: Syllabus interviewed key executives at two companies—Unicon and Desire 2 Learn—about how they plan to continue to be successful in this difficult and evolving market.
( LMS mag_Syllabus Software )
- Optimizing Mozilla Firebird
( Mozilla )
- Automation Technology at Boston University: advanced automation technology is enabling universities such as Boston University (BU) to achieve tight control over the performance of their technology infrastructures, with greater consistency and fewer resources.
( co_IBM edu_BU mag_Syllabus NetOps )
- Happy Employees, Happy Customers: simply installing a new customer-facing system won't improve the customer experience if employees aren't adequately trained to use the new system—remember, make them happy. And if you don't show your employees you care, then they probably won't care abo
( mag_CIO Management Op-Ed Training )
- ConceptNet: commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents
( Software Taxonomy Text )
- Lou Dobbs on Outsourcing: Lou Dobbs on outsourcing and his just published book, EXPORTING AMERICA: WHY CORPORATE GREED IS SHIPPING AMERICAN JOBS OVERSEAS.
( Economics Outsourcing tv_Now )
- Oracle Collaboration Suite: Oracle Collaboration Suite offers customers a suite of enterprise-class messaging and collaboration applications that enables organizations to increase user productivity and service levels while reducing TCO
( Collaboration co_Oracle mag_Syllabus Telephone )
- City of Irvine : Soccer: Community Services Department is pleased to announce its latest addition to the adult sports leagues, the Irvine Adult Soccer Leagues
( Football Irvine )
- JavaScript File Browser Lib: A library, or widget, for creating explorer styled file browsers. Complete with callbacks for events and drag'n drop within the file browser.
( JS Scripts WebDev )
- CSS HOW TO'S
( CSS Tutorial WebDev )
- Everything Old Is Old Again: ultimately, much of the modern hype about always-on utility or on-demand computing amounts to a yearning for those predictable days when guys in white coats roamed air-conditioned rooms.
( mag_CIO Mainframe NetOps Op-Ed )
- OSAF - Chandler: Chandler is intended to be an open source personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and general information management, as well as a platform for developing information management applications. It is currently under development a
( Linux MacOSX PIM Software Win32 )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 23, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-23
- YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY HATE US?: YOU'RE THE REASON THEY HATE US
( Op-Ed [ToRead] )
- The Political Brain: It's pretty to think that we all decide our political affiliations by methodically studying each party's positions on the issues. But a recent study by Paul Goren at Arizona State found that voters typically formed their party affiliations before developi
( Cognative Politics )
- Four Concept Computers: New PC designs may not reach a mass audience, but some features point to the future of computing.
( Computers mag_CIO )
- IT has helped take customer service on Queen Mary 2 to next level; Cunard is using IT to maximize efficiency and raise revenue: The $800 million QM2, built by Cunard Line, a unit of Carnival, weighs in at 151,400 tons and, at 1,132 feet, is a mere 116 feet shorter than the structural height of the Empire State Building.
( co_Cunard ITM mag_CIO Smartcards )
- Unfriendly Fire - Liar vs. coward in the Vietnam ad war.: Play-by-play criticism of Bush/Kerry 'SwiftVet' ad fiasco.
( Campain04 Military Op-Ed people_Bush people_Kerry Politics )
- Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know: Perl's extremely flexible syntax makes it easy to write clumsy code, simply because you don't know it any better. This document describes some very basic practices I consider necessary to write serious Perl.
( PERL Programming Tutorial )
- Nike Rebounds - Supply Chain Management - limitations of demand-planning software; Single-instance ERP strategies in global environment: The difficulty of integrating information across a distributed company has brought down many ERP projects, such as drugstore chain FoxMeyer's SAP ERP system in the late '90s and Tri-Valley Growers' 1997 choice of Oracle's ill-fated ERP package for the con
( co_Nike ERP mag_CIO SCM )
- NOVA | The Elegant Universe: Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory.
( Science tv_PBS )
- Fixing the Corporation-IT Disconnect: HBS Working Knowledge: Technology: Making IT work demands the same things that other parts of the business do: inspired leadership, superb execution, motivated people, and the thoughtful attention and high expectations of senior management.
( ITM Management Strategy )
- SEO Optimization Checklist
( SEO WebDev )
- Regulations: What to Worry About - Offshore Regulation: offshoring in general, and the Mankiw quote specifically, will more than likely be central to most every campaign this fall—including the presidential
( Campaign04 mag_CIO Outsourcing Political Regulations )
- The Case Against George W. Bush, by Ron Reagan: But the Bush administration has always worn strangely tinted shades, and you wonder to what extent Mr. Bush himself lives in a world of his own imagining.
( Op-Ed people_Bush people_Reagan Politics )
- Gmail Notifier: Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages
( co_Google Gmail Software )
- Business Intelligence Products: Query, Reporting and Analysis Tools: Turn Your Information into Insight with Query and Analysis Products
( Software )
- California Motorcycle Roads: 200 Best Rides & Maps, 1200 Pics
( Autos Reference Travel )
- A Print CSS Primer: They require no extra "Print this page" link, don't affect page download times, require no scripting, will work on password-protected files, and eliminate the need for duplicate print-only pages.
( CSS WebDev )
- URLinfo beta: URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc.
( Tools WebDev )
- Dole calls on Kerry to apologize: Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat for "superficial w
( Campain04 Military people_Bush people_Dole people_Kerry people_McCain Politics )
- Max Design - Presentations and articles: Tutortials on lists, floats, etc.
( CSS Tutorial WebDev )
- New Balance: Shoe Fits: New Balance had nearly faded into irrelevance six years ago. Then, accurately forecasting demand for its shoes became a sport for the entire company and its retailing partners. Now it's making up ground quickly, in its footrace with Nike.
( ITM mag_Baseline SCM )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 15, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-15
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 14, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-14
- rentzsch.com: Backing up del.icio.us: It struck me it would be bad news if del.icio.us went non-accessible (or totally Went Away). So I started digging for a way to backup my submitted bookmarks.
( Del.icio.us Scripts )
- A webstandards checklist: it should not be seen as a list of items that must be addressed on every site that you develop. It is simply a guide that can be used:
( WaSP WebDev )
- Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 tracks the electoral vote (EV) state by state. In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote by over half a million votes but George Bush won the electoral vote by 5 votes and became president. Thus watching the electoral vote is mor
( Campaign04 Politics )
- Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser: This tool performs various operations to optimize the style sheet entered
( CSS Scripts WebDev )
- Fleet Central: Analyze automobile fleet costs
( Autos Reference )
- PurpleSlurple: PurpleSlurple is a transcoding service that reformats Web pages on-the-fly to create granular addressability in document elements on EXISTING Web pages.
( Scripts WebDev )
- Webnote - an online tool for taking notes: Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available
( Inventive Script WebDev )
- The Paper Napkin: Give them anyname@papernapkin.net, tell them it's your address, and when they write you, they'll automatically get a response telling them how badly they've been rejected.
( Amusing Services Social )
- CSS tabs with Submenus: There’s lots of talk recently about creating tabbed menus with CSS, but very little about associating submenus to the tabs
( CSS Tutorial WebDev )
- migraineheartache.: SuprNovaXP: SuprNovaXP is a utility to provide an efficient interface to view, browse, and download .torrent files from the popular SuprNova.org
( Software Torrents Win32 )
- Google Cache Hacking: Now, when you stumble upon a page that's been deleted, suddenly changed for the worse, or temporally inaccessible, you can invoke this bookmarkle
( Bookmarklet co_Google Hack )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 13, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-13
- 114th.net
( Blogs Photography )
- Iconkits.com: Welcome to Iconkits.com. Here you can browse and buy high quality royalty free icons
( Icons )
- itunes versus jazz preservation: The digital music era should offer listeners more information about jazz, not less. The stakes are high. If jazz fragments into millions of digital files, future generations could be left with a maddening cultural jigsaw puzzle
( Jazz Music Op-Ed )
- Stop Motion Studies - Series 2: It is said that 90% of human communication is non-verbal. In these photographs, the body language of the subjects becomes the basic syntax for a series of Web-based animations exploring movement, gesture, and algorithmic montage
( Eyecandy Photography )
- the allure of gorey: sixosix magazine chicago -- 606mag.com -- chicago magazine
( Art Photography )
- Noodle Heaven: To be honest, we're not totally sure what it is either but we know it's going to be amazing. We all react physically to music, and we want to capture that feeling, we want to make music that you can play with.
( Inventive Music )
- Kittens!
( Amusing Cats Photography )
- Krang: Krang is an open-source content-management system designed to publish magazine websites. It is a Perl application which uses Apache/mod_perl and MySQL, as well as numerous CPAN modules
( CMS PERL Scripts )
- School to put electronic tags on students to monitor safety: The readers will log the times students pass through the gate and alert the school when they approach designated "dangerous" premises
( JP Privacy RFID )
- Wiki.cc: wiki.cc is a collection of wikis for the development community, a place to learn and get information on various programming languages and general information on development
( PHP Programming Reference )
- The Tivo LCD Project
( co_TiVo Hack Inventive PVR )
- InterfaceLIFT: InterfaceLIFT, your source for graphical user interface enhancements for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. We specialize in desktop wallpaper, icons, themes, and news
( Icons MacOSX MS_WinXP )
- folderblog: folderblog is a ~20kb PHP script that automatically displays the images placed in a given subdirectory. It can be used as either a blog or as a gallery — and just about anything in between
( Blogs Photography PHP Scripts )
- OshKosh fly-in: Nearly 14k planes...
( Aerospace Image Photography )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
Back in the... saddle?
So the Burbank Leader did a little one-on-one with the new chief. 60 Minutes called, but dad only wanted to work with a hard-hitting, local rag. 
Seriously though, you can check out the piece online. Keep up the good work dad!
Posted by ben at 10:00 PM
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August 12, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-12
- Harvard Tackles Storage Issues: We chose the BlueArc Titan SiliconServer, a modular network storage system that can fetch and retrieve data from disk arrays at extremely high speed and manage the data loads under a single file system. Titan can handle 256 trillion bytes of information.
( mag_Syllabus NetOps Storage )
- The Newest Media and a Principled Approach for Integrating Technology Into Instruction: When and how should new media be incorporated into instruction? Two leaders in instructional technology and cognitive science from Carnegie Mellon University offer concrete suggestions from their experience
( eLearning mag_Syllabus Software )
- Distributed Collaboration in Higher Education: The focus of the Digital Worlds institute’s mission is on education and research in digital media. DW combines expertise from the arts, sciences, humanities, and engineering in order to help solve real-world problems in a digital world environment.
( eLearning.Collaboration mag_Syllabus )
- UW Classroom Presenter Downloads: A basic goal of Classroom Presenter is to provide an integration of computer generated slides and ink in a manner that allows instructors flexibility in delivery and interaction with the audience.
( eLearning.Distributed Software )
- Audiopad: Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music
( Design Inventive Music )
- Laying fiber now, without laying fiber: The concept of a blown optical fiber system involves installing a network of empty tubes, called Microduct. Fiber optic cable is then easily blown into the tubes as required by immediate or future network demands.
( mag_Syllabus NetTech )
- SysTrack: SysTrack combines comprehensive system monitoring capabilities with inventory tracking and sophisticated statistical analysis for applications and users
( NetOps Software Win32 )
- Managing Classroom Technology Using AMX MeetingManager: MeetingManager is a valuable tool for an educational environment. It is a true enterprise-grade solution, supplying real-time, empirical data to evaluate return on investment, and easy-to-use tools to help manage your campus technology investment.
( eClassrooms mag_Syllabus Software )
- Beyond PowerPoint: Building a New Classroom Presenter: The basic issue is that electronic slides tend to script a lecture and do not provide mechanisms to adapt the presentation to the audience. An important part of lecturing is adjusting material in response to audience reactions and developing spontaneous e
( eLearning mag_Syllabus Software )
- Concept Maps Discover Digital Repositories: A Look at Tufts VUE: Critical thinking and creative knowledge building requires flexibility and responsiveness that tends to differ by discipline and pedagogy. One approach that involves the graphical representation of ideas uses concept mapping to lay out ideas, processes, a
( eLearning IA mag_Syllabus )
- Bush on Native American Issues: "Tribal Sovereignty Means That. It's Sovereign": "Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a ... you're a ... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity." Jesse Jackson makes light of Bush's remarks at the conference
( Amusing Bush NativeAmericans Politics )
- Streaming Courses and Lectures: Many of York’s professors and administrators believed that providing a multimedia online learning venue would address the university’s growing pains and even improve the quality of students’ education. However, they wanted an online system that did
( eLearning mag_Syllabus Streaming )
- Sonic Foundry: Higher Education Solution Center: With recorded lectures available on-demand, you free your students and lecturers from fixed schedules so they can focus on student interaction and research.
( eLearning Software Streaming )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 10, 2004
Notable URLs on 2004-08-10
- MLA Style Guide: From the MLA Handbook for Writers. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003
( English Grammer Reference )
- Apple History
( co_Apple Reference )
- Tabbing thru fields: tabbing order in HTML forms, and related issues
( WebDev XHTML )
- From WBEZ in Chicago | This American Life: NPR's This American Life
( Interesting NPR Radio_ThisAmericanLife )
- Public Lettering: This walk concentrates on larger examples of public lettering and doesn’t mention incidentals -- stop-cocks, manholes, dates on buildings, builders marks, &c -- of which there is much en route.
( London Tourism Travel )
- Rooney: The Smart Car: If you want to buy one of these from your friendly local Daimler/Chrysler dealer, tell them Andy Rooney sent you
( Amusing Autos tv_60Minutes )
- ColorMatch Remix: This colorpicker is based heavily upon the code from ColorMatch 5k. I've made it more compatible - it now works in Mozilla
( Color WebDev )
- CSS layout: CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit
( CSS Tutorial WebDev )
- Containing Floats: As powerful and useful as they are, floats can make for tricky layout tools.
( CSS Tutorial WebDev )
- RAC Route Planner: Plan routes for the UK and Europe
( Reference Travel )
- The Polyphonic Spree gives TiVo the triple thumbs up: "I told them we had just used it when we were on Craig Kilborn's show," he said. "I still had it on my TiVo, so I was like, `Come watch it with me.'"
( Amusing co_TiVo PVR )
- OpenSSH for Windows: OpenSSH for Windows is a free package that installs a minimal OpenSSH server and client utilities in the Cygwin package without needing the full Cygwin installation
( NetOps Win32 )
- A better CSS2 reference
( CSS Reference WebDev )
- California's SUV Ban: The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it. Here's a surprising piece of news. It may not be. Cities throughout California—the nation's largest car market—prohibit the heaviest SUVs on many of their reside
( Autos Ca. Legal )
- Freddy Adu: Just Going Out To Play: but you know what? I mean, I don't have to prove myself to any of those guys that I'm better than them. I'm just gonna go out there and play, man." Pele says , "I told him, 'Listen. God give you, you know, the gift to play football.'"
( Football people_Adu tv_60Minutes )
- Lost In Translation: They also didn't know she'd had a relationship with a Turkish intelligence officer stationed in Washington who was the target of that investigation. According to Edmonds, Dickerson tried to recruit her into that organization, and insisted that Dickerson b
( dept_FBI Terrorism tv_60Minutes )
- Brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem
( PERL Programming )
- Software That Lasts 200 Years: The structure and culture of a typical prepackaged software company is not attuned to the long-term needs of society for software that is part of its infrastructure.
( Op-Ed SwDev )
- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) is an advocacy organization formed in 2004 by opponents of John Kerry's U.S. presidential campaign
( Campaign04 people_Kerry Politics )
- XSLT Tutorial
( Programming XSLT )
- Blogging for Business: "to try to get beyond the traditional world where lobbyists filter the techies. I'm looking forward to an open, transparent, and meritocracy-based communication." Powell, FCC Chairman, is keeping the dialogue going. He not only reads his audience's commen
( Blogs Business ITM KM )
- The World's Greatest Fakes: Since this report last January, dozens of children from one eastern Chinese city died after being fed counterfeit baby formula. Thousands of boxes of counterfeit formula have been discovered.
( Crime tv_60Minutes )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 09, 2004
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- Greyston Bakery: Let 'Em Eat Cake: He was making $5 an hour when he first started working at the bakery - a small sum compared to the $2,000-3,000 on a good week that he was making in the streets.
( Charity Hero Innovative TV_60Minutes )
- User:Mark/Wix - Wikitravel: Wix is a cvs-like command line interface for Mediawiki driven wiki websites. It allows you to work offline with the editor of your choice, and to check for conflicting changes, and commit your local version of the wiki pages in separate steps.
( Software Wiki )
- Allies Not in Formation on Kerry's Troops Plan: Many allied countries may welcome a new team in Washington after years of friction with the Bush administration. But foreign leaders are making it clear they don't want to add enough of their own troops to allow U.S. forces to scale back to a minority sha
( Bush Iraq Kerry Politics )
- Clint Eastwood: Improving With Age: "A lot of people maybe do their best work when they're 40 and then tail off. But I think that's a mental attitude. I’ve done my best work, I think, now."
( Eastwood TV_60Minutes )
- cin-o-matic: cin-o-matic is a tool to help people decide what movies to go see or rent.
( Cinema )
- Chalabi a Strategist Amid Frequent Setbacks: "Chalabi has become a nuisance, and they want to sideline him," said Henri J. Barkey, a Mideast expert and former State Department official. "I think this is designed to undermine his credibility … and ultimately I think it's going to have an impact."
( Chalabi Iraq Politics )
- The Alabama Vibrator Case: Update And In-Depth Analysis: (NSFW Banners) “In reality, my attorney said I only have approximately anywhere from 30 to 90 days, if they don’t hear the en banc, or even if they do hear it, to sell toys legally,” Williams summarized. “Then the law will be enforced.
( Legal Privacy Sex )
- PERL - Special Variables
( PERL Reference )
- Three Soldiers, Many Mourners: You've probably noticed those lists in the newspaper -- the lists of the dead. Some days, they just have a couple of names. Other days, more. They note the age, unit and hometown. But of course, there is so much more that's unsaid.
( Hero Iraq Military Sad TV_60Minutes )
- Where'd Ya Get That Color Scheme?: Design inspiration can come from anywhere, anything, and at anytime. One of my personal favorites is photographs. They're perfect for scoping out fresh color schemes.
( Color WebDev )
- The People's Chef: A short time before Loiseau committed suicide, GaultMillau -- a French restaurant guide less influential than Michelin -- lowered La Cote d'Or's rating from 19 to 17. That hurt Bernard. If you're a chef in France, your ambition is to get your third star.
( Cuisine Sad TV_60Minutes )
- A Very Special Brain: "My other kids had piano lessons. He didn’t, we didn’t think he could do it. After they went out to play, he would sit down – for hours on end, for days on end. And all of a sudden, one day he played a song," says Frank Williams, who admits he was d
( Cognative Hero Interesting TV_60Minutes )
- Dr. Rice on MTP - Transcript for August 8: DR. RICE: "The primary reason for going to war against Iraq was that Saddam Hussein was a threat. Now, it is true that stockpiles have not been found in Iraq, but I think we've gone all the way over to the other side in assuming somehow that Saddam Husse
( Iraq Politics Rice TV_MeetThePress )
- Calif. Eyes Homeowner Association Changes: Homeowners' association attorneys vigorously defend their practices and cast late-paying homeowners as the bigger threat to association life. Some say lawmakers are responding to a disgruntled 3 percent of homeowners.
( Ca. HOA Legal )
- Has cell phone blogging found its place?: However, the location-based mobile social networks--or "LoMoSos"--are expensive to use so far, and wireless carriers have been slow to adopt them
( Blogs Gadgets Telephone )
- Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe: The technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining access to a secure network by using Wi-Fi networks casually set up by workers at the office
( NetOps Security WiFi )
- How To Renounce Your Citizenship - Tips from Bobby Fischer: this must take place in a foreign country, and the State Department reserves the right to reject the citizen's attempt to ditch their citizenship
( Fischer Legal Reference )
- MT Tag Quick Reference: MT Tabs are a quick easy refrence to MT Tags. The bookmark will pop open a sidebar in your browser with links to all MT Tags.
( MT Reference )
- The Ultimate Reality TV Show: With cameras literally everywhere, I created the first-ever reality TV program. Hartman's mother, reading: To keep your glassware gleaming, add a quarter of a cup of vinegar to the dishwater.
( Amusing Op-Ed TV TV_60Minutes )
- The John "FlipFlop" Kerry Stamp Collection consists of 10 different Stamps.: While the stamps are mildly amusing, what's better is most of them depict 'facts' about Kerry that have already been slammed as fallacy over and over again.
( Amusing Kerry Politics )
- Full House: Meet The Silcocks: “My biggest concern was that all we’re doing is warehousing kids. You know, we’ve taken them out of the state hospital, and she’s just kind of stacking kids like cord wood.” -- They aren't, all you have to do is look at the clean home. These ki
( Hero Interesting TV_60Minutes )
- Will Ferrell - A message from White House West: Join ACT and our friend Will Ferrell for a behind-the-scenes look at “White House West.” We promise it’s the best commerical you’ll see this election.
( Amusing Bush Politics Video )
- How to write a masterpiece of a resume: guide to resume writing will teach you to write a resume equal to one done by a top-notch professional writer. It offers examples, format choices, help writing the objective, the summary and other sections, as well as samples of excellent resume writing
( Jobs Reference )
Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
August 08, 2004
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Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
David's B-day
Although his real birthday was on Wednesday, David organized his first party on Sunday afternoon. A BBQ at the park. Well, ok, his Mom did much of the work (the majority of it in our Process Improvement course, actually... 
)... Here's the pics we grabbed from the highly successful event. I sure hope David brings some of that booty he got as gifts into the office... we're bored with our own toys.
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August 07, 2004
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August 06, 2004
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- CNN.com - Scientist says Ireland is lost island of Atlantis - Aug 6, 2004
( Interesting )
- New 'Bushism' Born at Bill Signing: "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people"
( Amusing Bush )
- Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do): The "ize" words are no better - finalize, conceptualize, fantasize, categorize. The "ize" hooks itself onto words as a short-cut but stays there like a parasite.
( English Grammer Writing )
- Network SW Design: collection of articles defines some basic networking concepts, describes how to solve common networking problems, and examines several important design issues
( NetOps Programming SwDev )
- FreeTechBooks - Free online computer books, tutorials, lecture notes, documentations and references: online computer books listed in this site are available for free
( Books Programming Reference )
- Millions in U.S. property lost in Iraq, report says: lost $18.6 million of government property in Iraq, about a third of the items it was given to manage, government auditors claim
( Halliburton Iraq )
- Optimize XP: Optimize Windows XP to improve both work and gaming performance safely. Windows XP's default configuration is far from optimized.
( MS_WinXP Reference )
- Web Design Apps You Can't Live Without!: 5 powerful tools that will smooth your development without costing you a single penny (unless you choose otherwise).
( Reviews Software WebDev )
- CIA Asks Bush To Discontinue Blog: The Onion - A July 24 posting read, "...This Moussa guy sure wears a lot of jewelry. A golden chain, a golden ring with his initials or something, and some other sparkling stuff—kinda effeminate. Anyway, best of luck in Iraq, Iyad."
( Amusing Bush )
- SprintUsers.com: free uploader tool allows you to send ringers, images, and applications to your Sprint PCS Vision handset
( Gadgets Telephone )
- PPT: (Perl Power Tool): Unix Reconstruction Project
( PERL Reference Software )
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August 05, 2004
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August 04, 2004
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August 02, 2004
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August 01, 2004
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Posted by ben at 11:59 PM
Operation Backyard: Day 4
Spent another several hours in the yard this evening. Almost cleared all the ground cover and other junk. It's a damn good thing our yard is so tiny. All that remains is the larger trees in the back. We're thinking of getting quotes on removing those rather than trying to do it ourselves. I'm not so concerned about the labor involved, but it's actually harder for us to dispose of the stuff afterwards... especially 7-8 good sized trees.
Got a few quotes back for a block wall installation... We only have two choices thanks to our HOA: wood fence, one design OR 'slump stone' wall. Slump stone? It even sounds lame. That and it looks like it's in the $5k range. OUCH. Apparently I should have considered a career in fence construction.
At least there was some reward at the end. Yummy orange peel tofu and egg-fried rice. Thanks Hol. ;-)
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