randomwalks/dj

Neat "center of gravity" calculator for Google Earth. Inspired by Cory's map of the center of gravity of Manhattan's Starbucks.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on February 3, 2006 03:24 PM

Here is another view of what it looked like when Amanda showed up on CSI last night from 2 of our servers:

Originally from Dembot, on February 3, 2006 03:24 PM

Take me to your leader.

Monday night I heard the most esteemed and funny neurologist Oliver Sacks speak at Columbia (he is a super naturalist: into ferns, squids, cuttlefish and stereopsis). It was a fascinating lecture, but his Welcome Squid Overlords shirt transfixed me. It was so strange, I had to find its meaning. Was it from an episode of Star Wars that I had missed? I need to sport one at all times.

With a little help from the internet, I found Mike Monteiro, the Creative Director of Mule Design and the creator of the overlord shirt. He is just trying to make squids a little more user-friendly.

He said that he and his son Henry were watching a Discovery Channel program about what animals might look like in the future and it theorized that cephalopods are best poised to be the next dominant species on the planet. Wow! Move over Cockroaches! Then he read that the squid biomass had surpassed the human biomass on Earth. That means that there are more squids than people. We have to make them feel comfortable. The only way to do that is to stop eating calamari and by wearing “Welcome Squid Overlords” clothing.

Get it for $20 from Mule Design.

Originally from Cool Hunting, on February 3, 2006 03:23 PM

Wow. How long have I wanted this? Also from the diagrams it looks like it is much moch human-centred than tablets that require a stylus and perfect pointing... it looks gestural, casual...

And we shall call it "maclet" -dj

Originally posted by blackbeltjones from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 3, 2006 11:50 AM

This video clip is famous for the "East Bay Funk Dunk." But the main attraction to me is Rider following it up by telling TNT "I gotta love myself for that."

Originally from True Hoop, on February 3, 2006 10:52 AM

The Quiet Revolution, a vibration-free silent wind turbine developed by XCO2, slated for its first installation this March (2006), could produce 10,000 kWh per year at an average wind speed of 5.8 m/s.

Originally from Protein Feed, on February 3, 2006 10:50 AM

great unhinged craig's list rant on popsicles

Originally posted by maciej from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 3, 2006 10:50 AM

You will thank me for this being one of your first forays into the world this morning. Volume turned up please.

Originally posted by andrea from Andrea Harner, on February 3, 2006 10:49 AM

Something caught my eye on Amazon UK that made me smile and wince at the same time.

Originally posted by tima from tima thinking outloud., on February 3, 2006 10:48 AM

Scott Merrill writes in to say:

I noticed recently that ssh connections from my Ubuntu laptop to my
Debian server would time out and disconnect if I left the connection
idle for a long-ish period of time. This really annoyed me, because my
Debian desktop does not exhibit this behavior when connecting to the server.

I added the following line to /etc/ssh/ssh_config :
ServerAliveInterval 5

That seems to have fixed the problem, and my laptop can now remain
connected, though idle, to my server. Maybe this will help someone
else, too.

What this does, essentially is every 5 seconds, the client sends a small keep-alive packet to the server to make it look like the ssh connection is being actively used. The reason for Scott’s timeout could be a NAT firewall that seeks to minimize the nember of active connections to reduce its memory footprint, or to improve performance for other clients. Most firewalls and networks let you keep your connections alive for as long as you wish, but some may act up, and that’s when you can use Scott’s trick.

Tip: Change 5 to 240 or 300, so that instead of every 5 seconds, the keep-alive signal is sent only once in 4 or 5 minutes

Sorry it took me so long to post this useful tip, Scott.

Originally from Ubuntu Blog, on February 3, 2006 10:48 AM

N.Y.P.D. officers are charging that the police procedures at their demonstrations violated their First Amendment rights.

Originally from NYT > Home Page, on February 3, 2006 12:07 AM

Following my recent post of geeky Waka, Dav made this addition to one of the pictures.

Originally posted by Mie from Kokochi, on February 3, 2006 12:06 AM

Originally posted by inkdroid from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 3, 2006 12:05 AM

Artist: "LET"

Originally from Wooster Collective, on February 3, 2006 12:05 AM