September 25, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-25

• NPR : Where Referees Can Be Sex Symbols: Italian soccer umpire Pierluigi Collina is so beloved, the players ask for his autograph and some female fans call him a major sex symbol.
  ( Amusing Opinion people_Collina radio_NPR sport_Football )
• Alex Bernasconi's Photo Galleries at pbase.com
  ( Nature Photography )
• macosxhints - Convert Real Audio files to MP3s: By using a few freely available UNIX command line tools, and codecs from the OS X version of Real Player, one can easily and quickly convert Real Audio to MP3.
  ( MP3 MacOSX Music Software Tutorials sw_RealAudio )
• How to record Real Audio (.ra) stream to mp3 file
  ( MP3 Music Software Tutorials )
• NPR : Hunt for Civil War-Era Sub Continues: During the Civil War, when soldiers were shooting primitive muskets, the United States Navy was building its very first submarine: The USS Alligator.
  ( CivilWar Submarine radio_NPR )
• Totally Bamboo: bamboo cutting boards are hand crafted using hundreds of tiny laminated bamboo strips. Unlike most other hardwoods, bamboo absorbs very little moisture and consequently does not shrink or swell as much, making it a superior choice of material for cutting
  ( *ToBuy Food House )
• NPR : Learning Life's Lessons from Alan Alda: His new memoir traces how Alphonso D'Abruzzo, who traveled with a burlesque troupe as a child, became Alan Alda, Emmy winner and Oscar nominee.
  ( Books Interviews people_AlanAlda radio_NPR tv_MASH )

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September 20, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-20

• Calculating System Parameters for UNIX and Linux: Cache Intersystems Red Hat Linux Platform Notes
  ( *MSC Cache co_InterSystems )
• Joomla! (Formerly Mambo or a fork?): one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
  ( CMS PHP WebApps )

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September 17, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-17

• KCRW Arts & Culture: Good Food - In-N-Out: Charlotte Makoff knows the down-low menu at In-N-Out and she spills it.
  ( *ToEat Amusing co_In-N-Out )
• South Coast Repertory presents 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Grusha is a maid caught holding a baby in the middle of a revolution. Her mistress has fled, taking the fancy dresses but forgetting the child, and Grusha is off to the mountains with the soldiers of the insurgent Fat Prince hot on her heels.
  ( *ToSee Theatre )

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September 15, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-15

• meebo.com: Web-based multi-IM account messenger
  ( AJAX IM Scripts WebApp )
• SpeckProducts: Announcing 9 new cases for your iPod Nano.
  ( *ToBuy iPod )

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September 13, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-13

• Frog Design Mind - Why the iPod is "clean": the iPod materials reference a convention of 'cleanliness' that everybody interacts with everyday - a bathroom. We're talking about human perception, and the system of conventions that shape our perceptions. Perception is essential to the process of desig
  ( Design co_Apple iPod )

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September 10, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-10

• Zimbra: Zimbra Collaboration Suite 2005 Beta open source software is now available. Download our AJAX web client and server and migrate your existing accounts.
  ( AJAX Software eMail )
• VHA eHealth University: an annual training conference that provides education on the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) and related clinical software (VistA) developed by the Veterans Health Administration. All sessions from 2003 and 2004 are available on this site via we
  ( *MSC Training Vista dept_VA )
• Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Quick Review: news about Yahoo’s next service, My Web 2.0, a “social search product”
  ( Blogs Del.icio.us Search Social co_Yahoo )

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September 09, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-09

• Woot : One Day, One Deal: For this, you built a better nerdbox? To send inane little fragments of pidginized teenagerspeak? You should be burning DVDs and fragging your fellow man! A preadolescent pretender sits on the Aeron throne that is rightfully yours!
  ( Amusing IM Toys )

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September 06, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-06

• WiebeTech Micro Storage Solutions - RT5™: RT5 gives you huge volumes up to 2 Terabytes in a RAID available over FireWire or USB. These large volumes are ideal for multimedia editors, server backups, workstation backups, and more. And when bigger drives become available, RT5 is ready for them maki
  ( Hardware RAID Storage )

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September 04, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-04

• CD / DVD Spindle Search (A Plugin for Google Desktop Search) @ Manas Tungare .com: Spindle Search lets you catalog your disks and then sends the information to Google's search tool. Now you can simply issue a search request as you would for a regular file, and your archived files will show up as well. When you click on the result, Spind
  ( Google Organization Search Software )
• Wiki: MouseHole: a personal web proxy written in Ruby (and currently based on WEBrick) designed to be simple to script. Scripts can rewrite the web as you view it, altering content and behavior as you browse. Basically, it's an alternative to Greasemonkey, which does th
  ( Plugins Proxy Ruby Scripts Software )
• Sin in Linen: Try something new in bed!: Novelty patterns on sheets
  ( Amusing Bedclothes Home Shopping )
• PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer: The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDA's are to expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now.
  ( GTD Organization Productivity )
• NPR : Understanding Health Savings Accounts: A relatively new concept, the health savings account was created as a way to help consumers save and pay for family health care. The tax-free accounts require users to do their own research on medications and procedures
  ( HSA Healthcare radio_NPR )
• Macosx, Realplayer And Sound: you have to start up Garage Band once and then quit (something to do with the new op system's sound prefs being reset by this).
  ( MacOSX Support sw_RealPlayer )
• nondeterministic . net : hack : fiwt: This little hack adds find-as-you-type to Safari, Apple's OS X web browser. Also calledtype-ahead find, this feature is a very useful combination of searchingand navigation.
  ( MacOSX Software Utilities sw_Safari )
• About Desktop Manager: Desktop Manager is my own pet project to implement a (hopefully) easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X. I've put it up here in the hope that it will be useful to others.
  ( MacOSX Software Utilities )
• delicious2safari: Import your del.icio.us bookmarks into Safari.
  ( Del.icio.us MacOSX Software Utilities sw_Safari )
• SIMBL: SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader) - pronounced like "symbol" or "cymbal" allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an application's unique identifier. It's not really all that smart, or even clever, bu
  ( Cocoa MacOSX Plugins )

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September 02, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-09-02

• Watch Me Sleep My Way To The Top Of The Glendale Homeowner's Association | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: For nearly five years, I've been wasting away as co-chair of the Glendale Community Events Committee, organizing Easter egg hunts, visits from Santa and crap like that, while that ho-bag Judith Meyers gets promoted to chair of the Budget & Finance Committ
  ( Amusing HOA Home mag_Onion )

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