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Usually found by watching the feed of what's popular with other del.icio.us members, Oishii!
These fine folks keep me knee deep in aggregated news
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Weddings, Parties, Anything
Noggin & The N,Fri, Nov 4 (8:00 PM), 30 beers
What Not to Wear
Reunion: Annabel
The Learning Channel,Fri, Nov 4 (9:00 PM), 1 beer
Teen Titans
Kole
Cartoon Network,Sat, Nov 5 (12:00 PM), 30 beers
Full Metal Alchemist
Theory of Avarice
Cartoon Network,Sat, Nov 5 (11:30 PM), 30 beers
Teen Titans
Hide and Seek
Cartoon Network,Sun, Nov 6 (12:00 PM), 30 beers
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Tom Family
WABC,Sun, Nov 6 (7:00 PM), 1 beer
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Tom Family
WABC,Sun, Nov 6 (8:00 PM), 1 beer
Viva La Bam
MTV - Music Television,Sun, Nov 6 (9:00 PM), 30 beers
American Dad
Stan of Arabia
WNYW,Sun, Nov 6 (9:30 PM), 30 beers
Punk'd
MTV - Music Television,Sun, Nov 6 (10:00 PM), 30 beers
Robot Chicken
Badunkadunk
Cartoon Network,Sun, Nov 6 (11:30 PM), 15 beers
Rome
Triumph
Home Box Office 2,Mon, Nov 7 (1:00 AM), 1 beer
Arrested Development
Notap.../Mr. F
WNYW,Mon, Nov 7 (8:00 PM), 1 beer
Family Guy
Cartoon Network,Mon, Nov 7 (11:30 PM), 30 beers
Family Guy
Cartoon Network,Tue, Nov 8 (2:30 AM), 30 beers
What Not to Wear
Elizabeth
The Learning Channel,Tue, Nov 8 (12:00 PM), 1 beer
My Name Is Earl
Stole Beer From a Golfer
WNBC,Tue, Nov 8 (9:00 PM), 30 beers
The Office
The Client
WNBC,Tue, Nov 8 (9:30 PM), 31 beers
Family Guy
Cartoon Network,Tue, Nov 8 (11:30 PM), 30 beers
Family Guy
Cartoon Network,Wed, Nov 9 (2:30 AM), 30 beers
What Not to Wear
Kimberley P.
The Learning Channel,Wed, Nov 9 (12:00 PM), 1 beer
Lost
Abandoned
WABC,Wed, Nov 9 (9:00 PM), 1 beer 2 beers
Family Guy
Cartoon Network,Wed, Nov 9 (11:30 PM), 30 beers
Family Guy
Cartoon Network,Thu, Nov 10 (2:30 AM), 30 beers
Battlestar Galactica
Lost Planet of the Gods
Sci-Fi Channel,Thu, Nov 10 (8:00 AM), 1 beer
Battlestar Galactica
Lost Planet of the Gods
Sci-Fi Channel,Thu, Nov 10 (9:00 AM), 1 beer
Battlestar Galactica
The Gun on Ice Planet Zero
Sci-Fi Channel,Thu, Nov 10 (11:00 AM), 1 beer
Battlestar Galactica
The Gun on Ice Planet Zero
Sci-Fi Channel,Thu, Nov 10 (12:00 PM), 1 beer
Joey
Joey and the Sex Tape
WNBC,Thu, Nov 10 (8:00 PM), 30 beers
Will & Grace
Love Is in the Airplane
WNBC,Thu, Nov 10 (8:30 PM), 35 beers
ER
The Human Shield
WNBC,Thu, Nov 10 (9:59 PM), 1 beer 1 beer
Teen Titans
Cartoon Network,Fri, Nov 11 (6:30 PM), 30 beers
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Noggin & The N,Fri, Nov 11 (8:00 PM), 30 beers
What Not to Wear
Marcy
The Learning Channel,Fri, Nov 11 (9:00 PM), 1 beer
Best Week Ever
VH1 - Video Hits One,Fri, Nov 11 (11:00 PM), 30 beers
MXC
Real Mafia vs. Video Game Industry
SPIKE TV,Sat, Nov 12 (4:00 PM), 30 beers
Full Metal Alchemist
Reunion of the Fallen
Cartoon Network,Sat, Nov 12 (11:30 PM), 30 beers
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Goodale Family
WABC,Sun, Nov 13 (8:00 PM), 1 beer
Family Guy
Brian Goes Back to College
WNYW,Sun, Nov 13 (9:00 PM), 30 beers
American Dad
Stan of Arabia
WNYW,Sun, Nov 13 (9:30 PM), 30 beers
Punk'd
MTV - Music Television,Sun, Nov 13 (10:00 PM), 30 beers
Rome
The Spoils
Home Box Office 2,Mon, Nov 14 (1:00 AM), 1 beer
Arrested Development
The Ocean Walker
WNYW,Mon, Nov 14 (8:00 PM), 30 beers
My Name Is Earl
Joy's Wedding
WNBC,Tue, Nov 15 (9:00 PM), 30 beers
The Office
Performance Review
WNBC,Tue, Nov 15 (9:30 PM), 31 beers
What Not to Wear
Aysha
The Learning Channel,Wed, Nov 16 (12:00 PM), 1 beer
WebFront2005 A T Glitchnyc D 0 T com
The Creative Commons website has some fantastic introductoriy materials for its licenses, in comic book form! What a neat way to make these dry legal documents more palatable.
Licenses Explained
Last night, I was trying to get to sleep (why is that so freaking hard to do lately? I used to hit the pillow and then Zzzzzzzz) and I started thinking about various things my father claimed to have 'invented'. Although completely unverifiable because the ideas stayed in his head, the list is quite impressive. My mother has corroborated some of these claims, admitting that he did, in fact, think of it first.
I know there's more, but I can't think of them at the moment. Anyone else have crazy "My father invented..." stories?
For posterity, here's some of the things I myself claim to have "Invented," although the ideas will stay lodged in my brain until someone else patents them and bets the farm on the idea. I wonder, is there something like a GPL for patents?
While getting that link for Pebcak for the article below, I found this little "online chatroom abbreviations" page. Some of these are quite funny, and this is a handy little resource. Before the whole SCO case, I always forgot what IANAL meant, and YMMV keeps dropping out of my mental RAM for some reason, too.
Holy Crap! I've seen three, count'em, three live viruses in one day.
 | Saturday Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. |
Maybe this weekend I'll finally get off my duff and start that whole running thing.
In lieu of an actual post today, I give you some interesting links.
From MyBoot.com
From This Boy is Toast
Following up my post
from the 20th: The donation total has jumped to over
$8,000, and Wired
news is covering the flower-giving phenomenon. Wired news
often
seems to be a precursor to wider media coverage when it's not "too geeky,"
so this bodes well that the issue may be picked up in less niche-y
publications.
Keep your fingers crossed: if this becomes a hot enough issue, it may end up on the democratic political radar during the upcoming 2004 elections.
I'm in that weird place where my body is giving me mixed signals. On one hand, I tend to feel just fine for hours at a time, and on the other, I've got gunk coming out of my head that I've never seen before, and occasionally feel really miserable.
It's tough to know when to call it quits and see the doctor. It's been quite a while since I needed to go to one for just being sick, and I don't think I've had a traditional antibiotic for years. My immune systems is generally stellar, and I brag about getting little versions of colds, and then passing on the "real thing" to others.
After 2.5 weeks, I've figured a few things out. 1. I need to go to the doctor sooner next time, and 2. HIP is the worst insurance in the world.
So, I don't often pull headlines right off of BoingBoing, but I want to help get the word out about this one. Earlier today, someone posted with the idea of sending flowers to one of the random couples waiting to express their right to matrimony on the steps of city hall in San Francisco.
As anyone who has a significant other knows, it's a bit cost prohibitive to send flowers at all, let alone to be delivered to a specific place at a specific time.
With that in mind, Darren has orgainized a "bulk buying" of flowers, and is raising money through paypal to get us all the most flower buying bang for the buck that we can get. He's been vouched for and is well known in the blogosphere, so you can be pretty certain it's not a scam.
I threw in a bit of money, in part because I want one of these couples to know that some random person out there cares, but also in part because I want the media to know that lots of random people out there care.
So I issue this challenge. I've donated $25. If you don't have the funds, throw in $1, if you've got the cash, match my $25. If you've got lots of gusto, donate more and let me know and I'll match the difference*.
Donate what you can, or maybe up the ante?Read on for my matching fine print
Well, it's official, there's been a hacker on Glitchnyc.com. I'm not certain what their intentions were, but I was able to shut down the little "watcher" rootkit they were running at least temporarlily, and had fun dissecting the program to see what it did.
Continuing on my trend of highlighting Open Source games which I enjoy
here on the blog, I have a few new picks.
In keeping with the current run
of
tech-related news items - PATCH YOUR
SYSTEMS.
Click that Windows Update button and get your system up to date, because Microsoft just made public a deep, vulnerable hole in nearly every current version of Windows. Every malicious virus writer in the biz is hoping to beat you to the punch right now, and get their exploit out before you get your system patched.
Update Now!As Remy put it, "Not to harp on Linux, but I was just reminded of one of the reasons I quit Windows"
There's a lot of talk in "the business" right now about open source software. Slowly, it's becoming universally understood that shared software just makes sense when it's stuff that everyone needs, especially when we all need basically the same thing. Web servers - they're pretty much all the same, databases, yup, 98% of what you need is basic, even word processors and spreadsheets are pretty much standard fare. Everyone chips in to write it once, and after a while, it just gets so good you don't remember when it didn't exist.
The other 99% of programs that people use are going to be a bit more of a challenge because they're more about user choice and comfortability than just getting a job done, and that's a big part of the reason that the real guru's don't see Linux on the desktop in the mainstream in the next year, or two, or ten.
Mozilla's
standalone browser, formerly known as Phoenix, then FireBird, is
now known as Mozilla FireFox. The new name should end any confusion with
other open source projects, and signifies their 0.8 release. They're
coming close to 1.0 with it, and it's beginning to look really slick.
For ANYONE who is still using Internet Explorer I urge you to install this slim little browser. It's fast and uses tabbed browsing (middle click a link, and it loads quietly in the background, with a tab at the top of your browser.) Once you try it, you won't go back.
Add to the list perfect popup blocking without spyware, protection from the nefarious Internet Explorer exploits which allow hackers to trick you into installing malicious software, and faster, standards compliant page rendering, and this is the best browser out there bar none.
The Mozilla servers are a bit clogged with everyone downloading this today, so download it from me here.
I lay in the field of corn - not far from where I'd spent hours huddled just a few nights before, looking up at the stars.
It's amazing how the subtle value of silence escapes you when you never truly have a chance to appreciate it. Sure, Many places incity are technically silent - but it's a sterile silence, brought on by noise canceling transducers and sound-proofed materials.
There's a new movie out, and I'm determined to see it now.
Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" is a tale of two twincestual Parisian siblings who've never been apart, and their dangerous game of seducing a young American.
Put out by Fox Searchlight, the film is far from fringe media, yet it's being released with an NC-17 rating, usually reserved for softcore or straight to video flops. It's also being pushed hard with web ads on nytimes.com, and is being hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals.
The cost of war counter (which, strangely enough, can be found at CostOfWar.com) Is nearing 100,000,000,000. One hundred billion. Money enough to solve hunger, homelessness, and poverty throughout the US, fix our education system, and put one hell of a dent in world starvation, disease, unrest, and other terrorism inducing afflictions.
Cory Doctorow, the man who is unwittingly my mentor, has released his second novel. Like his first, "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," this book is released under the Creative Commons.
What that means for you is that you can download it and read it right now for free. If you like it, buy the book and support him, but in the mean time, tell your friends, pass it around, and in general create buzz about the book, because if it's anything like his first and his short stories, this is some of the best new SciFi work out there.
Read, Download, Copy, Pass Around, P2P, and otherwise Distribute
Eastern Standard
Tribe.
Well, it's February, and I've finally figured out how to get this little VIA box working for MythTV. It was a serious pain in the ass, and there was no way I could have gotten it done by Christmas - thank god I had my main PC up and running in time, or this would have been a very delayed Christmas present.
That said, I now have to decide whether or not I want to leave my Desktop PC as the main (always on) MythTV backend server, or switch out this little guy, which runs quieter and at lower power. I'll probably be mulling that one over for at least another month.
Read on for the technical stuff
"Lex"
My eyes snapped open to the pitch blackness in my room at the commune. My guide's voice was not something I was accustomed to hearing in my ear while I slept, and my heart was already racing.
"what is it?" I subbed, not daring to break the silence. If he was waking me now, something was very wrong.
"Troub - ble , le ex get out ge et ou u" his voice stuttered.
I was already moving by the time I heard the first stutter. I'd only ever heard his vocalization engine fail once before when he was facing off against another guide AI in newnet.
We had been playing hard, and he knew I wanted to win. At my request, he had given the game process almost real time priority. It was like watching someone have seizure, and there was no hiding that it hurt him to do so. I've never called on him to use that much mental capacity again, and here he was doing it for me of his own will.
