This post should post on both my Insignificant Thoughts blog and Vox.

• Anger at YouTube videos that show how to break into houses | News | This is London
  Sure! Don’t make your home more secure! Ban the videos that show how to break in! People are stupid.
  (tags: crime video youtube)
• WPDOS - Printing from Windows
  How to use a USB printer in a DOS box.
  (tags: printer usb)
• RSS/RDF Converter: Convert a Feed (Stylized) - RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS/RDF to JavaScript Conversion Tool for Webmasters
  Turn a feed into Javascript. VERY handy.
  (tags: generator javascript tools publishing rss)

• Wired News: Rhapsody’s a Raspberry
  In a nutshell, Rhapsody sucks. No kidding. It’s made by Real.
  (tags: real realnetworks rhapsody garbage)
• Playlist: How not to be an iPod killer
  Dan Frakes takes Michael Elgan to task for completely missing what makes the iPod so successful.
  (tags: ipod zune)
• Women talk three times as much as men, says study | the Daily Mail
  Women talk more than men. This article could’ve run with the title DUH.
  (tags: women men sexes)
• intel iphoto/canon movie crash - Mac - Apple
  If you’re using a Canon SD / Ixus and iPhoto crashes on Import if you shot a movie OR if you can’t import your movies into iMovie, this is your solution. I removed AVI importer, but apparently installing the Canon software (GASP) helps
  (tags: canon apple mac osx sd ixus video import fix workaround)
• Listening Post
  Creative Commons flips off the Zune, which I’m happy about because my podcasts are MP3 and I don’t appreciate DRM being put on them. Screw you, M$.
  (tags: microsoft zune drm creativecommons)
• OS X “Open With” menu screwed up. | Ask MetaFilter
  How to clean up your Launch Services Database!!!!! Finally! I’ve been looking for this forever!
  (tags: mac osx Apple cli computer fix hack productivity reference tips web openwith launchservicesdatabase)
• Tenacious D - Devil May Fry - The Game!
  MAD fun. Just like Guitar Hero almost kind of.
  (tags: cool game flash fun tenaciousd guitarhero)

• Windows Vista Wallpaper Pack - a photoset on Flickr
  Get the gorgeous Vista wallpapers without installing the virus, er, Vista.
  (tags: desktop flickr photography photos vista wallpaper wallpapers)
• Adobe Photoshop CS 2 Tutorial - Clean Sketches With Adobe Photoshop - PhotoshopTalent.com
  How to make a photo into a sketch in a few very simple steps. Thanks Slobo!
  (tags: art howto images photography photos photoshop tricks tips tutorials tutorial sketch Design)
• » Rebuilding thumbnails cache in iPhoto 06 » Silver Mac
  Finally… Someone explains something Apple neglected to.
  (tags: osx iPhoto mac photography tips)

• What Does The Latest Podcasting Research Tell Us? - PodcastingTricks.com
  Scott Bourne dissects some recent studies about podcasting.
  (tags: podcasting scottbourne)
• The Sun Online - News: Cringe! Worst emails ever
  I don’t know if “worst” is accurate, but they are pretty bad…
  (tags: e-mail worst funny)

• digg - Kevin Rose Admitting Digg Has Moderators
  Wait… Digg has moderators? Oh well… So much for all that laissez faire BS we’ve been hearing for all these years. I don’t have a problem with it, but considering the amount of denials, it’s quite ironic.
  (tags: digg kevinrose moderators)

• BREITBART.COM - PM to recognize francophone Quebec as ‘a nation’
  Whoa… That’s odd…
  (tags: Canada harper politics quebec quebecois)
• Octave: 11 Drive DVD/CD Duplicator
  Boss is buying me one for work. That frigging rocks.
  (tags: equipment computers computer tech dvd duplication tools)

This kid is amazing…

via haha.nu

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• Funny Cat Pictures
  HYSTERICAL!!
  (tags: animals cat cats cute fun funny humor images kitten links photo pictures)

Hi everyone…

Quick Nanowrimo update… I’m ahead by a few hundred words, which is amazing because as of last Wednesday, I had almost given up and was down by a few thousand. A plowing weekend put me ahead. In fact, my weekend word count was just shy of 12,000 words.

I’m right back into it, and the book will be done soon. 9 more days to get this puppy wrapped!

Anyway, thanks for hanging around. I promise blogging will return after Nano. Got lots of cool stuff going on and I can’t wait to tell all of you about it!

• Picture: The unlucky star in a new Jaws movie | the Daily Mail
  Poor little thing. I feel horrible just seeing it…
  (tags: death shark)
• If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop?
  (tags: amazing cool earth education flash funny fun geeky geek google googlemaps interesting map maps odd silly strange mashup humor)

• Wired News: Think Before Pinging Your Ex
  Wise advice from someone who’s been there…
  (tags: relationships dating)

• Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language
  (tags: app ajax maps opensource application programming apps blog code reference computer scripting scripts computers service css design software development tool tools download tutorial ui extension utilities web free web2.0 geek gmail webdesign google widgets howto windows html interesting xml internet IT java linux mac Javascript)

• Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Use screen-saver images as desktop pictures
  How to use the awesome images embedded in Screensavers on OSX for your own purposes.
  (tags: mac os macintosh apple osx tip trick how-to howto)
• The Blotter
  Democrats? 6 to 8 of them? Those pesky Republican scandals, boy… I’ve said it all along. There’s plenty of corruption to go around. Maybe people are gonna start listening.
  (tags: corruption jackabramoff abramoff democrats)
• Zune Swoon
  John Dvorak talks about Microsoft’s draconian reviewer kit for the Zune.
  (tags: Microsoft zune dvorak)

Just poppin’ in to say hi. The novel is coming along well. I just broke 20,900 words yesterday putting me slightly behind schedule but still plenty close enough to be right there at the end. The story is good, and unscripted, meaning I’m making it up as I go along. The only thing in my head is the last chapter. How I end up there is open to the situation changing.

Insignificant Thoughts should be back soon. Thanks for hanging in there. Once the book is published, I’m gonna run a contest and give away Blogosfear and the yet-unnamed book (I may make the contest coming up with the name… Hmmm…)

See ya soon!

• Like Clockwork: Hour of Delay, Hour of Flight - washingtonpost.com
  On-time arrival percentage? 0%.
  (tags: delta shuttle dc newyork)

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This week we’re coming off our high from the “International Election Craptacular”. We discovered there are far more stupid people in the world than we thought. This one moves fast, so hold on.

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• Mac Geekery - The Myth of Security
  Adam Knight smashes a stupid reader.
  (tags: mac apple osx security)
• Boing Boing: Daniel C. Dennett: “Thank Goodness!”
  How a scumbag thanks people who prayed for him.
  (tags: religion atheism scumbag philosophy)
• Opie & Anthony in FHM - Orbitcast.com
  The boys make a splash in FHM
  (tags: opieandanthony o&a fhm)
• Gizmodo Reviews the Sirius Stiletto (and it ain’t pretty) - Orbitcast.com
  The new Sirius Stiletto sucks balls. Oddly enough, CNET gave it an 8. Of course, it helps that Gizmodo actually used the device to play satellite radio and CNET just liked how purdy it was.
  (tags: stiletto sirius flop failure garbage)
• MAKE: Blog: Homemade USB cable for the new iPod shuffle
  (tags: apple DIY hack Hacks hardware shopping iPod howto shuffle make)
• Toffa unveils GooSync: Google Calendar on your mobile - Engadget Mobile
  Google calendar for your supported mobile phone.
  (tags: engadget mobile synchronization calendar Google sync)
• We got fake-DMCA’d! I’ma frame this and mount it over my bed. - Valleywag
  Scumbag tries to pressure Valleywag into dropping his picture using a fake DMCA notice.
  (tags: dmca michaelcrook crook michael scumbag)
• Boing Boing: NPR “Xeni Tech” - Emotion detection spots upset customers
  Yay. Xeni mentioned me in a post.
  (tags: xeni audio software technology boingboing aol)
• PodcastGearGuy.com » Shure SM-58 - PodcastGearGuy.com
  I’d be willing to try one of these. Honestly, I get a ton of background noise with the condenser I use.
  (tags: microphone shuresm-58 sm-58 shure podcast podcasting)
• SoundTech Lightsnake
  Turn your XLR Mic into a USB mic.
  (tags: audio USB microphone podcast podcasting XLR laptops adapter)
• BlackBerryCool » New Gmail app gets the thumbs down
  Paul Kedrosky misses the point of the new mobile Gmail app spectacularly.
  (tags: blackberry gmail app portable mobile java)
• Infinite Loop: The new generation of 3rd party Mac software: hypeware
  What happens when an old school developer gets tired of the pretty new kids? This post.
  (tags: apple software blog article mac apps design macintosh osx programming)
• Whoops! | Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff
  Doppleganger? Hot damn!
  (tags: doppleganger strange odd crime)
• Easy avatar creation with Mypictr - Lifehacker
  (tags: avatar blogging images lifehacker network photography service tools tool social)
• Dissing Disco - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Laurie Duncan is pissed because Disco isn’t what she had hoped for. Particularly because it didn’t recognize a proprietary disc image created in another app and didn’t warn her of such. Yawn.
  (tags: apple cd dvd osx software utilities disco)
• RAmos joins the party with its V100 all-in-one PMP - Engadget
  Just what a PMP should be. It plays every file format under the sun. I’m so there!
  (tags: pmp portable mobile technology)
• Move from .Mac to Google - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  (tags: google howto mac tools network tutorial)
• Slashdot | Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund
  As all Windows customers should.
  (tags: technology)
• New Sony PR guy compares DS and PSP - DS Fanboy
  PR flak notes that Nintendo is focused on gaming and Sony is trying to be the kitchen sink. Problem is, the DS is successful, and the PSP is in the kitchen sink.
  (tags: sony nintendo ds psp)
• Boing Boing: E-voting glitch roundup: 5 states with biggest probs
  Electronic voting glitches hit states that gained Democrat Senators or House Reps. Odd that the story has suddenly become unimportant, huh?
  (tags: elections voting 2006)
• It is the WORLD Wide Web - not the US Wide Web at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views
  Watch Tom lose his mind over absolutely nothing.
  (tags: tom raftery web)
• Brando’s WorkShop 55-in-1 reader, now with SDHC - Engadget
  Now THAT’s a card reader.
  (tags: usb gadget cardreader)
• Sound Tech Lightsnake XLR to USB
  The only store I’ve found that actually has it
  (tags: lightsnake xlr mic podcasting)

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That’s some scary shit right there.

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