Google Checkout
(in General on 2006/12/31)It’s wonderful to find a few items on a big manufacturers site and find that they use google checkout. I hope this company never goes evil!
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{ Monthly Archives }
December 2006
Fundies vs. Grand Canyon
(in General on 2006/12/29)Washington, DC — Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
“In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is ‘no comment.’”
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TWC/Scientific Atlanta customers not the only ones suffering
(in General on 2006/12/29)The HDTV Dilemma:
Pay for TiVo’s Recorder
Or Settle for Cable’s?
Complaints about Comcat/Motorola offering for HD DVR
Also, the user interface on the Comcast box is crude and confusing — nothing like the elegant interfaces people have become used to on their personal computers and devices like iPods. The TiVo interface, by contrast, is effective and attractive.
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Synesthesia
(in General on 2006/12/28)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
… a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In the most common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space. (For example, 1980 may be “farther away” than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).
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Unix NZB downloaders
(in General on 2006/12/28)Web searches don’t turn up any very good software for NZB downloaders, lots of clunky or half-implemented tools. One really great tool that I’ve used for real newsreading is pan, and not only does it have NZB support but you get to piggyback on all your existing newsreader configuration (i.e backup server for articles you can’t find)
It’s even suited for being run from a browser if you download your NZB that way:
#!/bin/bash
NZB=$1
if [ -z ${NZB} ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/file.nzb"
exit 1
fi
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
# Called directly, re-exec in a terminal
exec xterm -e $0 $NZB "DUMMY ARG"
fi
echo "Enter path to save NZB files"
read WHERE
pan --nzb ${NZB} -o $WHERE
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Holy crap, when did TWCNC nntp server become usable?
(in Computing on 2006/12/26)Looks like my newsreader was able to transfer about 9GB without skipping a beat, 4.3 of which was a 5-day old post. Coolness.
I had checked out their completion when I first moved here, and again maybe 18 months ago, and it was abysmal.
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Start redirecting stdout/stderr for the rest of a bash script
(in Computing on 2006/12/26)Call the internal command exec without the usual filename parameter and do your redirection there.
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Cost analysis of vista DRM
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