Notable URLs on 2005-02-22

• Welcome to Freedom House: Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of
  ( Democracy Non-profit )
• NPR : Lobbying Groups Step Up Social Security Campaigns: Advocacy groups on either side of the Social Security debate are ramping up their lobbying campaigns. Voices on the issue seem to be proliferating, aided by the fact that to become a lobbying group, all one needs is a name, nonprofit status, funding and a
  ( Politics issue_SocialSecurity radio_NPR )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-19

• Munros Furniture: Craftsman Style furniture
  ( Furnishings Home )
• Life Source: Water Softener - Water Filter: A Whole-House Water Filter and Water Treatment System - helps reduce the problems associated with hard water with out using salts magnets. and is maintenance free.
  ( Health House Water )

HOA Newsletter Excerpt

Of the various interactions I've had with Home Owner Associations (in OC) about 75% suck. They always seem to cross the line from 'maintaining the common areas' to meddling in peoples lives. Since both Hol and I feel the same way we are forever looking for fun little tidbits of foolishness in the community newsletter. This month's was particularly amusing:

You can't make this stuff up! Only in Irvine.

Notable URLs on 2005-02-18

• The Mouse: The Mouse Apple Should Have Built
  ( Hardware Mouse co_Apple )
• Affrus 1.0: Affrus is an integrated Perl editing and debugging environment for Mac OS X. It wraps Perl in a standard, familiar, and intuitive user interface. Affrus is the perfect center for all your Perl development needs on Mac OS X.
  ( MacOSX PERL Programming Software )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-16

• rdiff-backup: Main: The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.
  ( Backup NetOps Scripts )
• Mustang Sallies - Can America's wild horses survive another four years of Bush? By Deanne?Stillman: according to the BLM, there are 36,000 on public lands. Wild horse advocates dispute that number and say there are no more than 20,000 still roaming the range. Everyone agrees that the numbers are dwindling
  ( Environment Wildlife people_Bush )
• The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager: View popular baby names by year/decade - type a name to track it's use
  ( Baby Names )
• Hula Server - Hula: Hula is a calendar and mail server. We are focused on building a calendar and mail server that people love to use, instead of broadly trying to build a "groupware server" that managers want to deploy.
  ( AppServers Calendaring WebMail )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-14

• 5 bay IDE to FireWire RAID
  ( FireWire Hardware RAID Storage )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-10

• Cooperative Linux: special driver software on the host operating system is used to execute the coLinux kernel in a privileged mode (known as ring 0 or supervisor mode).
  ( Emu Linux Software ms_Windows )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-09

• Wright This Way: iPod Shuffle RAID: So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course!
  ( Amusing Hack RAID Storage iPod )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-08

• External link icons the CSS way: details on how to automatically insert an image before off-site links, using Movable Type macros
  ( CSS Icons MoveableType WebDev )
• PodBrix . 1000 brix in your pocket: iPod + Legos
  ( Amusing Images co_Apple co_Legos iPod )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-07

• When Leaders Become Followers: The essence of leadership lies in the process of influencing. Let's say that influence means one person's actions designed to change another person's attitudes, beliefs, values or behavior. Without influence we can't exercise leadership.
  ( Leadership Management Vision mag_WildFire )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-06

• Button Maker :: Kalsey Consulting Group: blog marker button generator
  ( Blogs Graphics Scripts )
• Selectutorial: CSS selectors: Selectors are one of the most important aspects of CSS as they are used to "select" elements on an HTML page so that they can be styled.
  ( CSS Tutorials WebDev )
• Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial: Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
  ( CSS Tutorials WebDev )
• Meteor - The Hierarchical Memo Organizer
  ( GTD PalmOS Software )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-05

• Open WebMail Project: Open WebMail is a webmail system based on the Neomail version 1.14 from Ernie Miller. Open WebMail is designed to manage very large mail folder files in a memory ef
  ( Groupware Scripts WebMail )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-04

• HOWTO Backup Your Mac With rsync: This document describes how to setup a system for automatically backing up a Mac (OS X 10.2 or later) to an external drive using freely available software. This applies to any kind of external drive including FireWire, USB and network drives. It does not
  ( Backups MacOSX Storage Tutorials )
• ::guimp pacman:: world's smallest pacman game
  ( Amusing Flash Games )
• The Shiny Button: When I tried anything like positioning the text inside the button, or expecting a background image to stay in one spot across browsers, I nearly gave up on an all-purpose formatted button solution.
  ( CSS Tutorial WebDev )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-03

• Swedish Army Firesteel: Originally developed for the Swedish Department of Defence, this army model of the Swedish FireSteel is a flash of genius. It's 3,000?C spark makes fire building easy in any weather or altitude.
  ( *ToBuy Camping Gadgets )
• Apple's Mac mini's mini motherboard: Macnews.de got their hands on one incredibly quickly and in possibly the first Mac mini warranty-voiding exercise ripped it open to reveal the innards.
  ( Hardware co_Apple )
• Overclocking Apple Mac mini
  ( Hardware Overclocking co_Apple )
• ASP Aquarium 514.279.4352: The suspended Space Aquarium concept eliminates the awkward edges and angles associated with conventional aquariums. An equally original mounting system creates remarkable all-round visibility
  ( Aquarium Design EyeCandy )

Notable URLs on 2005-02-01

• The New York Times > Image: An Iraqi girl screamed Tuesday after her parents were killed when American soldiers fired on their car when it failed to stop, despite warning shots, in Tal Afar, Iraq.
  ( Iraq Military Photography Sad )
• 15 Seconds : The ASP.NET Page Life Cycle: When a page request is sent to the Web server, whether through a submission or location change, the page is run through a series of events during its creation and disposal. When we try to build ASP.NET pages and this execution cycle is not taken into acco
  ( Programming WebDev ms_NET )
• RadioButtonList Class: Represents a list control that encapsulates a group of radio button controls.
  ( C# Examples Programming WebDev ms_NET )
• DropDownList Web Control: The DropDownList Web Control is one of the many built-in controls in ASP.NET. This control allows a user to select an item from the drop-down list.
  ( C# Examples Programming WebDev ms_NET )