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"Where should I host my website? is a question I get a lot. Requested needs range from personal to small business to massive business plan estimations. So with no further ado here are my answers to where I would recommend you find hosting."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 1, 2006 08:03 PM

Thanks, AXT.

Four jobs I've had:

1. hostess at Sanitary Restaurant
2. barista
3. inbound call center sales, selling internet dial-up access
4. project manager

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Amelie
2. In the Mood for Love
3. Babe
4. Monsters, Inc

Four places I've lived:

1. Cary, NC
2. Atlanta, GA
3. Adelaide, Australia
4. New York, NY

Four TV shows I love:

1. The Office (UK)
2. Extras
3. Six Feet Under
4. Lost

Four places I've vacationed:

1. Cape Cod
2. Lake Tahoe
3. Barcelona, Spain
4. Taipei, Taiwan

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. dumplings, esp. soup dumplings
2. my roast chicken
3. N. Carolina barbecue and hush puppies
4. noodle soup

Four sites I visit daily:

1. Flickr
2. Livejournal
3. NYTimes.com
4. kottke.org

Four places I'd rather be right now:

1. New York, NY
2. New York, NY
3. New York, NY
4. somewhere with real weather

You're it!

Originally posted by Alaina from alaina browne lives here, on February 1, 2006 08:02 PM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 1, 2006 05:46 PM

Originally posted by finn from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 1, 2006 05:46 PM

The Huffington Post's Contagious Media Festival launched today, and my early favorite is Awwwwstrich. It's only thirty seconds and well worth your time. In fact, I claim that if you watch it twenty times it's a good use of ten minutes.

Ostrich! Ostrich!

Originally from hello, typepad, on February 1, 2006 04:31 PM

Another member of the World Federation of Great Towers is Blackpool Tower on the famous seaside Promenade. Obviously inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Blackpool’s version also features Britain’s highest post box and the ‘Walk of Faith’ glass floor, a two inch clear panel that looks straight down to the ground 158m below.

Just to the south is Coral Island, a pirate-themed amusement arcade with some Large Type on the roof to advertise to those visiting the Tower.

Thanks: Craig & Tom

Originally posted by James from Google Sightseeing, on February 1, 2006 03:42 PM

82games.com ranks those best at drawing offensive fouls (with certain caveats--they're missing some little chunks of data, but who cares?). The resulting list is a wonderfully gritty set of players, led by Raja Bell and Jarron Collins. Rounding out the top ten are Andres Nocioni, Mike Dunleavy, Nenad Krstic, Allen Iverson, Desmond Mason, Kurt Thomas, Shane Battier, and Andrew Bogut.

82games notes something interesting though: drawing these fouls may not be the best way to win, it seems.

...it's worth noticing that of the top ten teams in offensive fouls drawn, only one of the six powerhouse clubs at the moment (.600+ winning pct) are in the list, and the mighty Pistons are actually 4th from the bottom. Indeed, a bunch of the top ten are likely to miss the playoffs!

Originally from True Hoop, on February 1, 2006 03:41 PM

Rogers Cadenhead:

A new era begins today for the RSS Advisory Board, an independent organization formed in 2003 that publishes the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) specification, helps developers create RSS applications and broadens public understanding of the format.

The board is taking on eight new members: Meg Hourihan, Loïc Le Meur, Eric Lunt, Ross Mayfield, Jenny Levine, Randy Charles Morin, Greg Reinacker and Dave Sifry.

I’m glad to see this happen. I was on the first iteration of this board, along with Dave Winer and Jon Udell. A larger board is probably a good idea.

(Note that Greg Reinacker, one of the new board members, is the founder and CTO of NewsGator, where I work.)

(Fans of Mac Developer Extreme Trivia(tm) will recall that I did technical editing on Rogers’ book Radio UserLand Kick Start. (The only time I ever did technical editing on a book.))

Originally from inessential.com, on February 1, 2006 02:41 PM

Originally from Tuberaider Video, on February 1, 2006 02:40 PM

What happened to Weldon Kees?

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 1, 2006 02:17 PM

Last night's State of the Union address saw our President somewhat less ambitious and cocky than in earlier speeches. Alessandra Stanley thought he looked "defensive". And as AP found during interviews with viewers across the country, Bush has good...

Originally posted by Amy from Amy's Robot, on February 1, 2006 02:17 PM

Top Ten Sources takes posts from RSS feeds and aggregates them in full for the public to see. Some take offence; some say it goes beyond expected usage; some call it plagiarism - others say it's legal, that detractors should get a life or are even thinking about investing. Some people don't appear to want their RSS feeds to be aggregated at all. Will this discussion set blogging policy for the future? Or will it block the web 2.0 pipe?

Originally posted by bwerdmuller from MetaFilter posts tagged with copyright, on February 1, 2006 02:16 PM

Parasitic Subway Projector: High concept German art students cram a Mac mini and a projector into a suitcase and mount it to the side of a subway car with suction cups. The resulting images, projected onto the tunnel walls, make for a fascinating work of public art. [QuickTime] Link via: The Unofficial Mac Weblog

Originally posted by aladfar from MetaFilter posts tagged with apple, on February 1, 2006 02:16 PM

Laser-etched PowerBooks.

Originally posted by nthdegx from MetaFilter posts tagged with apple, on February 1, 2006 02:16 PM

[Quicktime video] In memoriam Nam June Paik 1932 – 2006:
»There is no rewind button on the Betamax of life.«

Originally posted by jo from networked_performance, on February 1, 2006 01:05 PM

"You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish, if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

Abraham Lincoln

I feel so inspired by this quote. Seriously, when you really think about it, it's so empowering. Take this morning for example. I set my alarm clock for 6.30am. I uttered the magical "I'll get up in ten minutes" sentiment to myself, ehm, three times. But I got up.

Why? Because I also repeated 'singleness of purpose' to myself, (more than three times). If I want to run, and run fast, I got to train. Simple.

p.s. it was a good run.

Originally from l-e-mental, on February 1, 2006 01:03 PM

Western Union has stopped sending telegrams after 145 years of offering the service. This makes me a little sad.

I think about the role of Western Union in the Back to the Future trilogy every week or so.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 1, 2006 01:03 PM

Without a doubt in my mind, I'd like to go on the record and say the best 21st century happening is the "invention" of really soft cotton t-shirts and tank tops! It used to be you had to wear your t-shirts forever and ever to get that super-soft and thin shirt. But now, through some technology I can only imagine was developed in collaboration with NASA (perhaps that's what the mission specialists do on the Space Shuttle?), you can just go to any store and buy a brand new super soft t-shirt. And it's not even expensive! You can get them at Forever 21 and H&M for like $5.99!! The future *is* here. I thought it wasn't, but I was wrong. Oh how I love you brand new super soft shirts!!!

Originally from megnut, on February 1, 2006 01:02 PM

LA Times writer Joel Stein has an opinion piece today on the GTA/Hot Coffee drama unfolding in the city courts. His opinions about the whole incident are as positive as we've seen come out of the media in a while.

"Because if these teen computer geniuses are given the opportunity to unlock a video-game sex scene, then they'll be just one step away from breaking the code that allows them to type dirty words into Google."

via Metafilter

Originally from Sex & Games, on February 1, 2006 01:02 PM

One thing we didn't get a chance to write about yesterday is a new initiative by computer industry vendors and Internet companies to try to build an open-source community around Ajax. BEA, IBM, Google, Mozilla Corporation and a host of other firms are part of the coalition. Here's a link to a a pdf of the news release....

Originally posted by Michael Bazeley from SiliconBeat, on February 1, 2006 01:02 PM

LastFMProxy is a proxy server for the last.fm radio streams. It allows you to use your regular old audio player to listen to the last.fm streams. It does this by acting as a player itself, connecting to the server on your behalf, but instead of playing the stream, it simply relays it to whichever other application connecting to it.

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 1, 2006 01:02 PM

Various ways to kill yourself using Legos. (thx, sharelle)

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 1, 2006 09:37 AM

I knew it wouldn't be long before the Tube Raiding honeymoon ended, and the cease and desist orders started pouring in. Sure enough, looks like Prince is the first to strike, as all files featuring the man seem to have disappeared over the last day or so. I'm not surprised he'd be the one, as Prince never been shy about...

Originally posted by jsmooth995 from hiphopmusic.com, on February 1, 2006 07:29 AM

Originally from Tuberaider Video, on February 1, 2006 07:28 AM

Once upon a time, WFMU promulgated its broadcast schedule by printing copies on the old chu-chunk mimeograph machine (a circa-1974 example is to the left, and you can see it in a larger version by clicking on the picture).   

OK, so the station used to share air-time with other colleges,  and broadcast the church service from the Upsala College Chapel on Sunday mornings.  Many things have changed.  But not all.

Originally from WFMU's Beware of the Blog, on February 1, 2006 07:26 AM

 [YAKAFOKON] I love citations ! It would be really nice that the team who manage 43places/43things/43people create a kind of www.43citations.com.

Originally posted by admin from Geotags.org, on February 1, 2006 01:08 AM

 [Google Earth Blog] The following is a list of my 10 favorite Google Earth Blog Stories for 2005 (out of nearly 200 entries) with a brief description why I picked each one (listed alphabetically).

Originally posted by admin from Geotags.org, on February 1, 2006 01:08 AM

Originally posted by anselm from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 1, 2006 12:36 AM

all i do is sew the seams. but man, these guys kick ass.

Originally from serenalarogers, on February 1, 2006 12:36 AM