Monthly Archives: July 2006

links for 2006-07-22

Surprise! – Yahoo! News Dear Margo takes a true Jerry Springer-esque letter from a reader. (tags: dearmargo advice column) RestrictedFormats – Community Ubuntu Documentation A complete list of the formats Ubuntu does not support out of the box. (tags: audio … Continue reading

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links for 2006-07-21

Population : One – One Person is One Pixel If people were pixels… (tags: population cool graphics visualization statistics science art pixel)

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links for 2006-07-20

Slice: Pizza Crust Made From Cheese Yes folks, a pizza crust made from cheese, discovered after a lawn mower incident. You can’t make this stuff up. (tags: pizza food restaurants cuisine italian strange) Download of the Day: RipIt4Me – Lifehacker … Continue reading

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Switchers Rejoice!

If you’re a Winders user (and really, who isn’t?) and you love the program Windirstat (again, who doesn’t?) but you’ve switched to the Mac and miss it terribly, have no fear… Disk Inventory X is here. In fact, not only … Continue reading

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PSA: YouTube owns your shit…

From YouTube’s TOS: [B]y submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the … Continue reading

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Mac Browser Blowout

If you’re fortunate enough to own a Mac (like me), then you’ve probably bumped up against the browser quandry. Safari is under-featured, but Firefox for the Mac just flat out sucks and isn’t actually written for Mac OS the way … Continue reading

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Another Case of Customer Service Not Listening

It’s becoming an epidemic these days. Customer calls customer service. Customer service doesn’t listen to customer. Customer gets enraged. Customer service still talks around the issue but never addresses it. Here the recording here. At least in this case, the … Continue reading

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Blackberry Bounty Up To $450

If you own a Blackberry and a Macbook / Macbook Pro, you owe it to yourself to get in on this. Who knows… Maybe money might motivate the geniuses out there to come up with a solution. You really do … Continue reading

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Swiftly Shovelling Crap On A Fire

“At AOL, we have zero-tolerance for customer care incidents like this – which is deeply regrettable and also absolutely inexcusable. The employee in question violated our customer service guidelines and practices, and everything that AOL believes to be important in … Continue reading

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WOW…

Stop-motion RULES… Project Page via Boing Boing [tags]space invaders, cool, video, viral[/tags]

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links for 2006-07-19

Where Are They Now? Search Engines We’ve Known & Loved (tags: tools searchengine history internet web) del.icio.us daily blog posting feature support? ¬´ WordPress Support A very good explanation (with an example) of how to get Del.icio.us to post to … Continue reading

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Mark Moves to MS

Mark Russinovich announced on his blog today that his company, Sysinternals, has been acquired by Microsoft. You may know Mark as the guy who exposed the Sony rootkit DRM scheme. That’s right; that Mark. I don’t know how I feel … Continue reading

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9 Big IT Blunders…

A classic list that I can imagine many of us who are in Corporate IT can relate to. Here’s the list in short form, but I highly recommend reading the whole article for details on each point. It really is … Continue reading

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Why The PSP Is Dying…

Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Sony’s PSP, I’m not going to pronounce it dead. I am, however, going to pronounce it dying, and add that that death is a slow and painful one but one that hasn’t happened yet. … Continue reading

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