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Italy's Interior Ministry announced that there were not enough contested ballots to overturn the thin victory of Romano Prodi.

Originally from NYT > Home Page, on April 14, 2006 11:55 PM

Originally posted by anselm from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:55 PM

A life lesson.

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:52 PM

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:51 PM

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:51 PM

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:51 PM

Bacon cookies--yum.

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:51 PM

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 11:50 PM

Trailer for The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky's (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) new film. Official site, interview with Aronofsky on the film, which was originally supposed to star Brad Pitt.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 6:31 PM

online news consumer behavior: eye tracking study results

Originally posted by sudama from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 5:47 PM

He says it will be a Detroit/San Antonio final, with Tim Duncan's fascitis and the Pistons' balance the crucial factors.

I hate to agree with him, but I have a feeling Barkley might be right. To me the shakiest part of the prediction is the San Antonio part. But I can't name a Western team that's better.

What do you think? Predictions anyone?

Originally from True Hoop, on April 14, 2006 5:47 PM

There is a great series of photos on Flickr that'll explain and show you how to roast your own coffee.

The roaster in this case is an old hot air popcorn popper that I've appropriated for my coffee.

There are specialty small roasting machines available for purchase, and I'm strongly considering going that route. The hot air popper is a cheap and effective introduction to home roasting, but I find it's a little too hot, and therefore done a little too quickly. A slower, more controlled roast would undoubtedly result in better coffee. I might have to take that plunge soon.

Coffee Roasting [Mezzoblue's Flickr Stream]

 
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Originally from Lifehacker, on April 14, 2006 5:46 PM

We're back from our honeymoon in Mexico and it was totally excellent. Though this photo is a bit weird, I kind of like it so it's the first one I've posted from the trip. I took a bunch of long exposure night shots, just for fun. This is a portrait I took of us on the deck of our cabaña. Those specks of white are stars. More details about the picture at Flickr, just click on it to see. Now that I'm back, there's lots to do. Mostly though I just feel like looking through my photos and remembering the great time we had.

Originally from megnut, on April 14, 2006 5:46 PM

Five suggested Flickr tags. Merlin brings the funny. "Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences".

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 5:32 PM

Blog about the small village of Nata in Botswana that's documenting the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS there.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 4:32 PM

Slideshow of graphics submitted for New York magazine's High Priority feature, the production of which Michael Bierut says "is as close as the graphic design world gets to an Olympic event".

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 4:32 PM

Bruce Perens is to open source what RMS is to GNU. Bruce was the person who gave us the definition of Open Source. He is a remarkable person with deep roots and faith in the community. Recently, LinuxFormat magazine quizzed him on his pet project UserLinux and also his views on the direction taken by Ubuntu and a few other significant topics.

UserLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution project publicly launched by Bruce Perens in November 2003. The mission of UserLinux - as stated on their website - is to provide businesses with freely available, high quality Linux operating systems accompanied by certifications, service, and support options designed to encourage productivity and security while reducing overall costs. It seems he has eventually made time to concentrate on this project and bring it to a fruitful completion. He has written a rather lengthy paper titled - "The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source" - where he delves into analysing how open source works and how one can make it economically sustainable.

The whole interview at LinuxFormat (though a short one) brings to light some of the ideas and opinion of one of the foremost open source community leader on topics of significance.

Originally from All about Linux, on April 14, 2006 3:37 PM

Seven tenths of a percent of America is behind bars. That doesnÂ’t sound like much, right? Well, that is actually more than 2 million people. And get this: prisoners in China are only .118 percent of the total population, while Brazil locks up only .183 percent of its citizens.

Originally posted by Chris from Cynical-C Blog, on April 14, 2006 3:37 PM

The language of the Simpsons (beyond embiggens and cromulent). "You pressed YOU, meaning me. This is incorrect. You should have pressed ME, meaning you."

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 3:32 PM

A list of the world's 50 best restaurants for 2006, compiled by Restaurant magazine. Here are the winners from previous years.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 3:32 PM

John Gruber on Apple's Boot Camp, which lets you install Windows XP on your Mac (in beta). "You now get to choose between a computer that can only run Windows or a computer that can run both Windows and Mac OS X."

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 3:32 PM

this is apple homepage

Originally posted by cory_arcangel from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 2:38 PM

A Little Weekend Reading: Working Girls, Broken Society is a terrible title for a really smart article . "While the benefits of career equality are axiomatic, its negative repercussions are wilfully ignored. In a contentious essay that is sparking fierce debate in Britain, a King's College professor argues that we must confront the losses to society when women choose work over family."

Politicians, journalists and businessmen often emphasize the negative economic consequences of any barriers to female participation in the workforce, and of losing half the country's best brains to the kitchen sink. Of course they are right, and I am in no hurry to go back there myself.

But it is striking how little anyone mentions, let alone tries to quantify, the offsetting losses when women choose work over family. This is stupid.

(via dm)

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on April 14, 2006 2:38 PM

Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma is now out. Here's a NY Times piece about Pollan hunting for wild boar that uses material from the book. I loved The Botany of Desire.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 2:31 PM

by Steven De La O, Google Base Operations

A common request we receive is to improve error messaging so that it's easier to troubleshoot bulk upload formatting issues. We're working to increase the variety of errors we display, and we're also creating additional documentation to help you resolve these issues more quickly. Next week we'll release a couple of updates:

- Error messages for invalid locations found in bulk upload files will be visible.
- The maximum number of errors we display will increase from 25 to 100.

We'll address error reporting for XML files too, by providing more details and improved instructions for resolving common problems with these types of files.

Submitting large amounts of data using well-formatted and error-free bulk upload files makes updating your items an easy process. We're confident the changes coming soon will make submitting data less of a headache.

Originally from Official Google Base Blog, on April 14, 2006 1:38 PM

Greasemonkey script adds reminder links for any hCal formatted page, like all of Upcoming  

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on April 14, 2006 1:37 PM

for when I get around to buying a bike

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 12:58 PM

I think David Heinemeier Hansson’s graphic is worth a link; the title kind of puzzled me, but the comments have a pointer to an explanation.

Originally from ongoing, on April 14, 2006 12:53 PM

If you've ever spent more than five minutes searching for some good freeware, than have I got a site for you. eConsultant has a giant list of more freeware programs than you can shake a stick at, and did I mention they're all free? Freeware? Yep - and they're all "extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money." Excellent. — Wendy Boswell

I want a Freeware Utility to ... 300+ common problems solved. [via popurls]

 
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Related: 10 lesser-known Mac apps

Originally from Lifehacker, on April 14, 2006 12:53 PM

Mapping religion in America. Geography of God, by county.

Originally from Social Design Notes, on April 14, 2006 12:53 PM

If that headline means anything to you, then rejoice. It's long been known that Akismet, WordPress's remarkable anti-comment spam technology, was the best out there. Moveable Type users (like me) salivated at the thought of having Akismet-like functionality on our sites. The technology works in an AI like fashion, learning from the edges - bloggers like us - what is spam, and what is not. It's elegant, and it scales.

Well, thanks to the folks at Automattic (and a big assist from Scot Hacker, Searchblog's native web jockey), it's now possible to run Akismet as a Moveable Type plugin. Searchblog was among the first to test the Akismet plugin, and it is working beautifully. Sure, you'll see spam on this site from time to time. But as soon as I label it "junk" in my MT backend, it'll never show up again. Yeeehaw!

PS - Akismet tracks spams blocked on its home page. According to those figures, 84 percent of all comments left in the blogosphere are spam. Holy crap.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on April 14, 2006 12:52 PM

According to Wikipedia (which in turn references the Oxford English Dictionary on the matter), the etymology of the word honeymoon is unclear. The American Heritage Dictionary (via answers.com) suggests it's "perhaps from a comparison of the moon, which wanes as soon as it is full, to the affections of a newly married couple, which are most tender right after marriage", which doesn't sound all that positive. Returning to the Wikipedia entry, honeymoon may have been used in Babylonian times to describe the bride and groom consuming honey (in the form of mead, a beverage) before the next moon.

At any rate, I've just returned from mine, the most relaxing vacation I've ever had. For two weeks, we did without electricity, running fresh water, newpapers, showers (we substituted ocean swimming + saltwater baths), television, magazines, movies, computers, internet, email, mobile phones (except for two unavoidable calls out and periodic checking of voicemail to see if the cat was ok), and music (for the most part). It was so relaxing that we didn't even know that Daylight Saving Time was in effect until 2 full days after the fact and may not have found out until we got to the airport if Meg hadn't shown up a full hour late to her yoga class and everyone was, somewhat confusingly, just finishing up.

I read three books: one fascinating, one great, and one good. Ate lots of great Mexican food with zero instances of microbial confrontation. Found really good pizza in an odd place.

We made up names for the people we saw repeatedly on the beach at the small place we were staying. There were the Naked Hat People, Naked Yoga Guy -- you may be noticing a trend...the beach was clothing optional -- and Naked Paddleball Players, who we renamed Ketchup and Mustard because of their signature matching red and yellow ball caps (they exercised their option to wear nothing besides). Civilization kept threatening to creep into our media deprivation tank, as when we saw Ketchup and Mustard at dinner near the end of our stay, surfing the web on the wireless connection we had no idea that our hotel/resort had. They checked out the New Yorker site and then caught up on the Huffington Post. Meg turned to me and said, "if he brings up kottke.org, I'm going over there and introducing you."

"The hell you are. Are you trying to kill Vacation Jason?"

So yeah, I'm back and am eager to get back to kottke.org, even though getting my &%#$^#*%& email this morning completely killed Vacation Jason much sooner than I would have liked.

And not least, thanks to Greg Knauss, David Jacobs, and Anil Dash for keeping up with the remaindered links while I was gone. Good stuff, guys.

ps. For the curious, wedding pics here (taken by Eliot). Some pics of Mexico coming (somewhat) soon.

Originally from kottke.org, on April 14, 2006 12:52 PM

I'm off on my honeymoon for a couple weeks, so posting will be limited to a small number of items I've scheduled in advance. Nothing major, though honestly this site hasn't seen major amounts of posting in some time! Hopefully that will change after the honeymoon. In the meantime, enjoy yourselves and I'll see you in a few with some travel tales and pictures. Hopefully.

Originally from megnut, on April 14, 2006 12:52 PM

With the May 8th Assembly polls approaching, politicians in India are hitting up SMS and mobile technology for their latest barrage of new media political canvassing. [Justin Oberman's Personal Democracy Forum, commenting on an article which appeared in The Hindu] "Going beyond the fact that the mobile phone has become such an integral part of Indian society, party functionaries also point out how highly cost effective SMS canvassing can be". "As a party functionary in the city reasons, sending SMS for canvassing votes is "easy, convenient, and cheaper. "Expenditure is very important with the Election Commission keeping a strict watch on how much a candidate is spending to gain votes. The mobile phone has become an integral part of society today. It helps us reach out to a potential voter. With several cellular operators giving free SMS facility, it is cost-effective," the functionary adds."

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on April 14, 2006 12:52 PM

brian_d_foy writes "For what it's worth, the 2006 OSCON Perl track schedule is available. I think the theme is "Time Travel" because I swear that looks a collection of talks from a conference that could have happened five years ago. :)"

Originally posted by brian_d_foy from use Perl, on April 14, 2006 12:52 PM

YouTube has added a new Director feature that lets users sign up as YouTube Directors, adding the following features to your YouTube:

• Your own logo, company/organization URL, and description on all of your video pages
• Ability to upload videos longer than 10 minutes
• Customizable name & value fields for each of your videos (ex: "Price: $4.25" or "Show Time: 9 pm PST")
• Ability to attach a per-video URL to each of your videos

YouTube decided to place a 10 minute limit on videos in an attempt to prevent copyright infringement, a lot of users were upset; YouTube Director is YouTube's response. YouTube Director is totally free, so if you're an aspiring videographer, there's no reason not to sign up. Thanks CarLBanks!

Introducing YouTube Director [YouTube]

 
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Originally from Lifehacker, on April 14, 2006 12:52 PM

Launch party tonight (4/14) at Eyebeam for Yochai Benkler's new book, The Wealth of Networks. "His book shows why labor done outside the constraints of free markets and giant corporations can still have a huge impact on the economy and social relations. He argues that a 'third mode of production' offers the promise of a more free society, but only if we make the right collective decisions."

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 11:33 AM

Stewart posted a photo:

Originally from Sylloge, on April 14, 2006 10:11 AM

So it’s been noted elsewhere that the latest ajaxy application out of google labs (Google Calendar) lacks support for the hCalendar microformat.

Perhaps it’s an oversight–but with all the high profile exposure microformats have been getting lately it’s kind of hard to imagine. But people have deadlines and some things just can’t make it into the first release–even at Google. The main thing, as Mark Pilgrim says is:

Sniping from the sidelines makes us look petty and insular. Instead
of making assumptions about big bad evil Google ignoring open
standards and locking users in, have we tried opening a dialogue?

I don’t know anyone at google so I feel like I’m doing my part by just blogging about how *awesome* it would be if they marked up their calendar data using hCalendar. As a full featured calendaring application on the web, Google Calendar could really enable downstream applications like the LiveClipboard if they simply added some class attributes and spans to the data they are already displaying.

In the long run I imagine it’s in Google’s best interests to promote microformats since their infrastructure would allow them to take best advantage of a system of distributed metadata. Here’s to hoping that it’ll be layered in sometime soon. In the meantime Scott and Mark have the right idea!

By the way, being able to enter a quick event in free text and have the time/location/description parsed as opposed to tabbing around in a complicated form is very nice.

Originally posted by ed from inkdroid, on April 14, 2006 8:40 AM

Originally posted by finn from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 8:39 AM

correct

Originally posted by maciej from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 8:39 AM

There's a nice review of Flickr Hacks over at MyMac.com: Hack Your Way Into Flickr, and the reviewer mentioned that the code for all of the hacks wasn't available online. O'Reilly has remedied the situation, and you can grab all of the code from the book in one zip file: Flickr Hacks Code. Carpal tunnels everywhere are rejoicing. (And don't forget about the color figures gallery at Flickr—another way to view parts of the book.)

Originally from onfocus.com, on April 14, 2006 8:39 AM

NYU Weed Hookup @ Corner Deli
Originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

13th and 5th

you would think that nyu students would be smart enough to not make a marajuna pickup deal at the corner deli where a stranger like me can hear the exact details. nope. I already know that this girl has 'contact eyes' and dry mouthm and she needs another eighth tonight to get her through the paper that's due tomorrow.

Originally from Hi Tricia!, on April 14, 2006 8:38 AM

New Yorker: Here's Why. A sociologist offers an anatomy of explanations, Malcolm Gladwell.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on April 14, 2006 8:35 AM

Periphrastic regexen.

Originally posted by ezrakilty from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 14, 2006 8:35 AM

Matt MullenwegMatt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company that manages the popular WordPress blog software, announced yesterday on his blog that he has taken some funding. This comes just a few months after his December launch, when he announced he wasn't seeking funding for the San Francisco company. Funny how that works. We believed him, and think he was being genuine at the time, because we've followed him for some time now, and he talks rarely about money, always about vision. And nothing drives VCs wilder than a confident 22-year-old who says he doesn't need any cash. So then they go dangle it in front of him, and he realizes that maybe its easier to take a little dough than spend his time "robbing Peter to pay Paul" each month, as he puts it. The amount wasn't announced, but it comes from Polaris Ventures (Mike Hirshland), Blacksmith Capital (Phil Black, now at True Ventures), Radar Partners (Doug Mackenzie), and CNET (Shelby Bonnie)....

Originally posted by Matt Marshall from SiliconBeat, on April 14, 2006 8:30 AM

Over the past two weeks, David Jacobs, Anil Dash and I have attempted to reproduce (in some halting way) Jason Kottke, while the actual Jason Kottke was in rehab on his honeymoon. The attempt, on my part at least, has been an abject failure. Or haven't you noticed all the crappy links with "GK" at the end of them? Go-kart magazines? What the hell?

Like most of the disasters I've had a hand in, I've got a theory that both explains what happened and exonerates me. Ducking responsibility sounds better if you put on academic airs about it.

The theory: There are two kinds of bloggers, referential and experiential. Kottke is one. I, now two weeks too late in realizing this, am another.

The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere: Look at this. Referential bloggers are reporters, delivering pointers to and snippets of information, insight or entertainment happening out there, on the Intraweb. They can, and do, add their own information, insight and entertainment to the links they unearth -- extrapolations, juxtapositions, even lengthy and personal anecdotes -- but the outward direction of their focus remains their distinguishing feature.

The experiential blogger is inwardly directed, drawing entries from personal experience and opinion: How about this. They are storytellers (and/or bores), drawing whatever they have to offer from their own perspective. They can, and do, add links to supporting or explanatory information, even unique and undercited external sources. But their motivation, their impetus, comes from a desire to supply narrative, not reference it.

There's nothing here to imply that one type of blogger is better than the other. There are literally thousands -- OK, hundreds... OK, at least a dozen -- of both kinds that are valuable additions to the on-going conversation/food-fight/furry-cuddle that is the Internet. My point is that Jason Kottke is a very, very good referential blogger and I am a very, very bad one. And I'm sure I wouldn't have trouble finding a link that expresses this sentiment (many, many times over, with varying degrees of vehemence), but I'd rather say it from my own experience:

Welcome back, Jason. You've been missed. -- GK

Originally posted by gknauss from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 2:32 AM

Over the past two weeks, David Jacobs, Anil Dash and I have attempted to reproduce (in some halting way) Jason Kottke, while the actual Jason Kottke was in rehab on his honeymoon. The attempt, on my part at least, has been an abject failure. Or haven't you noticed all the crappy links with "GK" at the end of them?

Like most of the disasters I've had a hand in, I've got a theory that both explains what happened and exonerates me. Ducking responsibility sounds better if you put on academic airs about it.

The theory: There are two kinds of bloggers, referential and experiential. Kottke is one. I, now two weeks too late in realizing this, am another.

The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere: Look at this. Referential bloggers are reporters, delivering pointers to and snippets of information, insight or entertainment happening out there, on the Intraweb. They can, and do, add their own information, insight and entertainment to the links they unearth -- extrapolations, juxtapositions, even lengthy and personal anecdotes -- but the outward direction of their focus remains their distinguishing feature.

The experiential blogger is inwardly directed, drawing entries from personal experience and opinion: How about this. They are storytellers (and/or bores), drawing whatever they have to offer from their own perspective. They can, and do, add links to supporting or explanatory information, even unique and undercited external sources. But their motivation, their impetus, comes from a desire to supply narrative, not reference it.

There's nothing here to imply that one type of blogger is better than the other. There are literally thousands -- OK, hundreds... OK, at least a dozen -- of both kinds that are valuable additions to the on-going conversation/food-fight/furry-cuddle that is the Internet. My point is that Jason Kottke is a very, very good referential blogger and I am a very, very bad one. And I'm sure I wouldn't have trouble finding a link that expresses this sentiment (many, many times over, with varying degrees of vehemence), but I'd rather say it from my own experience:

Welcome back, Jason. You've been missed. -- GK

Originally posted by gknauss from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 14, 2006 1:32 AM

CMP decided to stop publishing The Perl Journal, which they has recently moved to a completely HTML form. I'll certainly miss TPJ. Jon published my first two Perl articles, and the magazine certainly did a lot for the community.

Originally posted by brian_d_foy (posted by brian_d_foy) from use Perl, on April 13, 2006 10:41 PM

A follow-up on Argentine beef from A Full Belly reader: Besides the free-pampa pasturing of animals in Argentina, the slaughter method is also different. The animals are killed and bled (not kosher, but the bleeding is similar) and the meat...

Originally from A Full Belly, on April 13, 2006 10:40 PM

Today is the 45th anniversary of manned space flight (at least using vehicles that humans built). It's also the 25th anniversary of the first Shuttle launch. -- GK

Originally posted by gknauss from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 13, 2006 4:32 PM

What happened to the San Francisco mint during the earthquake of 1906? -- GK

Originally posted by gknauss from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 13, 2006 12:31 PM

National Karting News, American's leading karting magazine since 1986. -- GK

Originally posted by gknauss from kottke.org remaindered links, on April 13, 2006 12:31 PM

The experiment I'll be mentioning in this post is called Break In Case Of Boredom. (music-ish happenings)

I like playing with discovery mechanisms. Yesterday I had a nice time watching new calendars emerge in Google Calendar and I'd like to pass along some fun to others who are just getting started and may find this useful.

To search for new public calendars, do the following:

Click on Settings
Click on Calendars
Click on the Add Calendar button
Enter some keywords and click Search

I quickly spotted Brett's Flavorpill Select calendar and added it. Then I added another SF events calendar and alongside my own music calendar this seemed pretty useful.

So now I had a (mostly) musical events calendar. I'm happy with that but I also wanted to share that on my own site. So, I subscribed to the calendars in Google Reader and shared them which meant I could just copy any of the Calendar clips to any page on my site. Ok, I'm satisfied.

Except... I wasn't just yet done with customization so I made a spliced feed of all three calendars.

Fun. Of course, I'm a bit of a Javascript hacker and decided to mess around further by getting the feeds as Javascript (Reader can do this with any feed) and styled the clips differently using CSS which resulted in a personal upcoming events page; a Break In Case Of Boredom portal. A quick cobble - only tested it in Firefox and Safari. Now I can easily point friends to this - I mean if I thought it'd be their cup o' tea.

(I really should remove my own bands from the list even though it's nice for me to see which events conflict with our shows. Besides, I can create another calendar easily enough.)

Ok, definitely done for today. Of course, there are likely to be even better splicing opportunities very soon. As excellent sites like upcoming.org have made clear, there are plenty of people that are better at relevant event suggestions than I will ever be so I'm just going to keep refreshing the search I mentioned earlier as new (and better) editors get their cal on.

Originally from massless, on April 13, 2006 11:27 AM

My favorite Google calendar feature: Daily Agenda, a daily email overview of the days events. Though when you're in there looking at the nofitications tab you'll notice no notifications via IM support. (even for those of us using Jabber/GTalk)

Least favorite: Search public calendars is wrong wrong wrong, not the least because it shows me calendars for 2005.

Feels more done then recent Google releases, but what will make it is the GMail integration. (or break it if we all migrate away from GMail at some point)

Bonus: a new Google syndication namespace with event elements: http://schemas.google.com/g/2005

<gd:transparency value="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.opaque"/>
<gd:comments>
     <gd:feedLink href="http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/kellan%40gmail.com/public/full/nqjhksjic4h8nchfdq5i1i3l0o/comments/"/>
 </gd:comments>
 <gd:eventStatus value="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.confirmed"/>
 <gd:when startTime="2006-04-14T15:00:00.000Z" endTime="2006-04-14T16:00:00.000Z"/>
 <gd:where valueString="100 Somestreet St., Jamaica Plain, MA"/>

Documentation?

Originally from Laughing Meme, on April 13, 2006 11:23 AM

Previously I wrote that we didn’t have a good process for deploying boxes to deserving recipients; but we’re really making progress. Item: Last month I noted the server for Nexenta. Item: They’re getting the kinks out of the T2000 try-&-buy; now we ship a serial cable so you can bootstrap the sucker, and I hear they’ve weeded out the silly “Do you have a Solaris application?” qualifier; I mean, it’s exactly the people who don’t that we want to talk to. Item: We sent Ultra 20s to Thomas Enebo (get a blog, Thomas) and Charles Nutter (good blog, Charles), AKA the JRuby Posse. Item: I wanted to do something nice for another well-known PHP-based open-source project, and found out that PHP5 runs slower than PHP4 on the T2000, which makes no damn sense at all, a key advantage of PHP is that it’s shared-nothing, as in horizontal scaling, as in, that chip should eat it for breakfast. So I had a talk with Andi Gutmans over at Zend (PHP world headquarters), and he couldn’t see a good reason either. So we’re shipping a T2000 to the Zendians and the problem may become instantly obvious, or it may require some work, but we’ll crack that nut one way or another. [Update: Thomas Enebo has a blog.]

Originally from ongoing, on April 13, 2006 11:23 AM

Chag sameach

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 13, 2006 8:06 AM

The title was deliberately provocative. :-) Research from Tufts University says that white people are more intelligent when surrounded by a racially diverse group, on juries.

Surprisingly, this difference was primarily due to significant changes in white behavior. Whites on diverse juries cited more case facts, made fewer mistakes in recalling facts and evidence, and pointed out missing evidence more frequently than did those on all-white juries. They were also more amenable to discussing racism when in diverse groups.

(via Kottke.)

Originally from Caterina.net, on April 13, 2006 8:04 AM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on April 13, 2006 8:04 AM