Archive: July, 2006
If I had a chance, I’d ask the world to dance. (YouTube)
Aptana - an open source web editor
PhotoSynth from Microsoft looks amazing (video)
Share your wifi…RIAA can’t get you
Hooping with the Enemy (via ESPN.com)
Why oh why??(.qt)
iPhoto for your docs…pretty slick (via TUAW.com)
Skype toolbar for Microsoft Office - “When you’ve got it installed, you can click on any phone number inside a Word, Excel or Powerpoint file and Skype Out will call that number! It recognizes fax numbers too, and won’t call those. Very cool.” (via Techcrunch.com)
2006 Election Guide from the New York Times
Good question, but somehow I doubt it.
Aren’t you glad you don’t have Sharia Law in this country?
The Pipettes get a little loving
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years of American Independence (via TheOnion.com)
Did George Lucas rip off Frank Herbert?
Running with Scissors trailer (.mov)
Pop-up Politicians - “Popup Politicians is an AJAX-based widget that adds mini-profiles with links of Members of Congress to your page that appear when you mouseover the link.”
Arrested Bush dissenters fight back in the courts
MenuTree.net - get menus for your locale, add menus, get maps, all sorts of good info here
BIGGIE and Gnarls mashup - “Smiley Faces Hypnotize”
Cops beat the living hell out of a suspect, I understand they have been suspended
a year of unnecessary censorship (YouTube - NSFW)
Awesome Old 97’s video - “In the Satellite Rides a Star”
creating a bootable restore DVD (via tuaw.com)
I’m realizing that in design, I’ll have to deal with the issue of “too many cooks in the kitchen.” I’d say it’s a very accurate summation, the more people involved with the design process, the worse the design.
Convict serving life in prison for murder, paints using M&M’s and his own hair
Tourist Remover compares several photos of the same area and removes what isn’t consistently in the photo
Congressman Wexler - “I enjoy cocaine because it’s a fun thing to do.”
ChipIn, a new way to collect money from your social network. From the site: “ChipIn empowers individuals to connect with people in their social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising. We make this social ecommerceSM process of connecting and collecting fun, easy and secure. We believe that positive change will result from enabling groups to harness the power of giving. That’s our mission.”
A Viceland DON’T - “What the f#ck do these disgusting pieces of sugar-filled white garbage need Bluetooths for? So the TV can call them? ‘HEY MOM—WE R STILL IN PARKING LOT—MARKS YAWNING—CAN WE GO—NEED TO GET BACK TO CONT. SH#TTY LIVES.’”
Bar Association urges Congress to sue Bush, of course that won’t happen any time soon
I never new that there was a Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy along with Count Chocula and the other two
Loose Change, the most popular film on the internet
new Gnarls Barkley clip - Smiley Faces
ooooh gross, Chancellor Merkel not to fond of Bush
Bush is in BIG trouble if this is true…erm, uh, should be in BIG trouble if this is true
I could see this bill sailing through congress, in, oh, say 2007 when the Dems take the House and Senate
Awesome idea, the Memory Spot by HP - “…it’s the inherent storage capacity that makes the microscopic technology stand out over today’s more familiar NFC technologies; HP seems to believe that Memory Spots can be used in storing medical records on patient’s wristbands, adding audio clips to paintings, security passes, etc…”
need a federal form? you can probably find it here
dealspl.us - deals on the web with a little Digg love
another slick looking site to help you sell your stuff - Big Cartel
I honestly don’t believe I’d be able to eat my dinner if I was sitting 50 meters up and I wasn’t in an airplane
I spent a large part of Sunday filtering the Zapruder clip through Photoshop and editing it in Quicktime, the 18 second clip turned out well for what I had intended - A Zupruder Darkley (YouTube)
the US government BILLING rescuees from Lebanon
get your Verizon/T-Mobile minutes used Firefox extension
big list of mis-pronounced domain names - funny stuff
The Prestige, a new film by Christopher Nolan
ohloh.net - “We’re mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source software. Search our site for the most current software metrics and project information on open source software projects.”
Katherine Harris spent her campaign money on her HOME, her candidacy continues to implode.
Richard Lamm details how multi-culturalism will destroy this America
Unthirsty - get your drink on
An interesting interview with Hugo Chavez
Kenneth Lay and all of his Martin Luther King Jr-esque deeds
find the cellphone deals in your area
awesome quote of the day - “Paris Hilton giving up sex for a year is like Lindsay Lohan giving up bikinis. Or Britney Spears giving up taping her baby to the trunk of her car.”
why do congressmen continue to go on The Colbert Report?
vote for Adopt A Peace Corps Volunteer
new favorite site - www.cambrianhouse.com - “Cambrian House’s mission is to discover and commercialize
software ideas through the wisdom and participation of crowds. Contributors earn royalties, sharing in the success of the products.”
Katherine Harris loses her campaign staff, over and over and over
Google gets behind the ODF, proprietary systems everywhere scream
I met John Dean tonight, cool guy…he said he’s left of center, must be par for the course for all the Goldwater conservatives
have you ever wanted to visualize the other six dimensions? now you can
Overplot is awesome - “Gangsta chick: I’m in love with you and you say you gonna shoot me in the face? What’s up with that?”
dead on prediction of the war in Iraq
(via ThinkProgress.org) - The federal antiterrorism database includes potential “targets” like Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street,” a new inspector general report shows. Indiana is listed as the most target-rich state in the U.S., with “50 percent more listed sites than New York.”
XHTMLized - cut down your production time
Google to change the way advertising works on radio
terrorist hunting as it is today DOESN’T WORK
the JFK assassination time line in SIMILE - this app could do for timelines what Google did for maps
the entire Ghostbusters movie in an animated GIF
Ungenius - a Mac Genius speaks out