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Too busy to post much lately. But if anyone’s still checking this site, here’s a teaser for you — a couple sketches for a work in progress. Click a thumbnail below for a poster-sized PDF. Feel free to use as you see fit.
Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on May 12, 2006, 6:31AM
A few details regarding Tim Bray’s criticism of iCal’s inability to recover data from a corrupt calendar file.
Originally from Daring Fireball by reBlogged on May 12, 2006, 3:40AM
Ballmer and me (Matt) Today Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer invited me (Matt) for a twenty-minute drive in his car to the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. I decided I could hang with Steve (Eric was busy with Google's shareholders meeting). So I hopped into his Escalade, whipped out the ol' audio recorder, and asked him questions as someone else drove and he knocked back Planters peanuts (you will hear his loud crunching), sipped at a Starbucks' iced tea and played with its accompanying green straw. Here is the audio file. His comments on Google and Yahoo are revealing. The audio clip begins after we start talking about some Google products, and you will see that he rips into Google's Desktop, calling it a "random hodgepodge of a bunch of incompatible things....I think it's more embarrassing than anything else." Later in the clip, he talks about all the areas of current and possible deeper cooperation with Yahoo. He talks warmly of Terry and Jerry. Here are links to the Mercury News stories about Ballmer's visit: --Coverage of his comments at the Churchill Club/Commonwealth Club (including praise of Facebook) --An edited text transcript of the Q&A I had with Ballmer in the car. --Related Merc story about how Microsoft is trying to shake up the PC gaming market. It is by Dean Takahashi who knows his stuff. He's authored a book on gaming, released just this week, called Xbox 360 Uncloaked....Originally from VentureBeat by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 11:13PM
Jason linked to an NPR interview with David Remnick, the Editor-in-Chief of The New Yorker. It's notable because it's the first time I've ever heard or read anyone take Remnick to task for his pro-war stance in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Remnick hems and haws and says "No one got the story quite right." This is one of the most enraging cop-outs that I hear reported over and over as an excuse for the press' total lack of spine and vision last year. I wish Remnick would simply apologize, which is clearly the right thing to do. There's more shame in not owning up to your mistakes than in admitting them. It seems like a minor point, but I naively hold the magazine to a higher standard.
I know Art Spiegelman left The New Yorker largely because of this issue, and now I see he's doing covers for Harper's, which seems silly and derivative. All in all it's just a minor footnote to this whole sad episode.
Originally from hello, typepad by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 11:02PM
From Sam's interview in URB: ...When I'd first met Ghostface nearly two months before at the Wu Tang reunion show, he'd seemed more upbeat and energetic, more optimistic not only about his own album but about the Wu's future and its past. "Yo, (being here with the Wu) is like fucking with your crimeys again," he'd exclaimed to me. "You...Originally from hiphopmusic.com by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 4:16PM
The Stev(ph)ens Dubner and Levitt report on some recent research suggesting that people who are good at things got good at them primarily through practice and not because of innate talent.
Their work, compiled in the "Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance," a 900-page academic book that will be published next month, makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers -- whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming -- are nearly always made, not born. And yes, practice does make perfect. These may be the sort of cliches that parents are fond of whispering to their children. But these particular cliches just happen to be true.
The talent myth described here seems to be distinct from that which Malcolm Gladwell talks about in relation to talented people and companies, but I'm sure parallels could be drawn. But back to the original article...I was particularly taken with the concept of "deliberate practice":
Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task -- playing a C-minor scale 100 times, for instance, or hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.
"Deliberate practice" reminds me of a video game a bunch of my friends are currently hooked on called Brain Age. Available for the handheld Nintendo DS, Brain Age is based on a Japanese brain training "game" developed by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima. The game measures the "age" of your brain based on your performance of simple tasks like memorizing a list of words or addition of small numbers. As you practice (deliberately), you get faster and more skilled at solving these mini-games and your brain age approaches that of a smarty-pants, twitchy-fingered teenager.
Speaking of talented teenagers, this week's New Yorker contains an article (not online) on Ivan Lendl's golfing daughters. In it, Lendl agrees that talent is created, not born:
"Can you create athletes, or do they just happen?" [Lendl] asked me not long ago. "I think you can create them, and I think that Tiger Woods's father proved that. People will sometimes ask me, 'How much talent did you have in tennis?' I say, 'Well, how do you measure talent?' Yeah, sure, McEnroe had more feel for the ball. But I knew how to work, and I worked harder than he did. Is that a talent in itself? I think it is."
Translation: there's more than one way to be good at something. There's something very encouraging and American about it, this idea that through hard work, you can become proficient and talented at pretty much anything.
(with comments)Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 3:29PM
Vi(m) is a versatile editor with great power built into it. There are a whole lot of commands which one can use to accomplish complex tasks which are next to impossible in other text editors barring say an Emacs. A couple of months back, in an article on Vim editor, I had covered some of the most commonly used commands. But what I had covered was only a tiny spec of the number of commandsOriginally from All about Linux by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 2:25PM
You know, once you realise (as I just did, in a comment on my last post) that this easytags idea is actually just about giving wordpress.com users the ability to edit themes without the ability to execute PHP directly — the proposed tags will only be used in the online editor, and are therefore pointless for anyone with FTP access — the knicker-twisting on wp-hackers gets exponentially more amusing.
None of the people involved in that discussion have even mentioned wordpress.com. I find that split interesting. It’s like every coder not on the Automattic payroll has forgotten it exists. This is probably because they can’t chuck any code in here so it is basically worthless to them.
Originally from wordpressâ„¢ wank by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 1:54PM
Today's happy fun news comes from
bruce_schneier,
so_very_doomed:
- Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines: Armed with a little basic knowledge of Diebold voting systems and a standard component available at any computer store, someone with a minute or two of access to a Diebold touch screen could load virtually any software into the machine and disable it, redistribute votes or alter its performance in myriad ways. "This one is worse than any of the others I've seen. It's more fundamental." (See also Voting Machines versus Slot Machines.)
- NSA Creating Massive Phone-Call Database: The NSA is collecting a massive traffic-analysis database on Americans' phone calls. This looks like yet another piece of Echelon technology turned against Americans. "The agency's goal is 'to create a database of every call ever made' within the nation's borders." Note that this database does not just contain phone calls that either originate or terminate outside the U.S. This database is mostly domestic calls: calls we all make everyday. AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth are all providing this information to the NSA. Only Quest has refused.
- Fun With Surveilance: It's important to link this up to the broader chain. One thing the Bush administration says it can do with this meta-data is to start tapping your calls and listening in, without getting a warrant from anyone. Having listened in on your calls, the administration asserts that if it doesn't like what it hears, it has the authority to detain you indefinitely without trial or charges, torture you until you confess or implicate others, extradite you to a Third World country to be tortured, ship you to a secret prison facility in Eastern Europe, or all of the above. If, having kidnapped and tortured you, the administration determines you were innocent after all, you'll be dumped without papers somewhere in Albania left to fend for yourself.
- Domestic spying inquiry killed: The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers security clearance. "Without these clearances, we cannot investigate this matter and therefore have closed our investigation."
- US energy research is declining: Given the decades-long warnings about a looming world energy crisis - punctuated by the recent spike in crude oil prices - you'd assume the U.S. has been ramping up its research and development spending on energy. Think again. Since 1980, energy research has fallen from 10 percent to 2 percent of total R&D spending. And while the Bush administration lists energy research as a "high priority national need" and points to its recent energy bill as evidence, the 2005 federal budget cuts another 11 percent from energy programs.
Originally from jwz by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 6:07PM
The 3D buildings OGLE'd from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) copying all of the roof polygons to floor polygons, we got the job done:
Ground Zero (in Google Earth):
Columbus Circle (in Google Earth):
At 'sunset' (two prints not on same scale):
Originally from OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D blogs reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 5:35PM
Inspired by Neal Stephenson's fictional Snow Crash, Google is now integrating user created environments into Google Earth. CNN See also Google 3D WarehouseOriginally from Archinect.com Feed reBlogged
The censors are too strict to allow any posts lately...I'll get 4 paragraphs typed out and close the window, writer's block-like. Rule #1: Start each blog post with some reference to sluggish posting.
It can't go beyond today.I must thank all the fine engineers over at Schectermatic for allowing us to showcase the pressure profiling piston pump, the muscular manifestation of geekdom we demo'd down in Charlotte. It hung next to that Synesso like industrial bling and we were happy to half-explain the theory behind the gadget all weekend. Thanks Andy.
I enjoyed QT with the 8 people comprising the Gimme entourage. We all enjoyed chatting with the trade folk. There is so much to learn.
Former Gimme baristas Chris and Gabe placed 9th and 10th respectively in the USBC. I guess we'd better start training for next year. It's a high-pressure performance situation. Congratulations to everyone who had the gumption to participate.
We've made some substantial equipment upgrades in the past few weeks. The Synesso went on the bar at State Street, but not before Tomas built and installed a modification kit for the paddle-group action. He wanted the paddle intervals to be more pronounced. His kit allows the Synesso owners to change the pressure that is required to move the paddle. Now he's happy.
We also purchased the "Matt Riddle Pro Model" the VERY GB5-3EE that the reigning USBC champ used to win in the finals. I thought to myself, "That's a machine with some clever provenance." I figure if Matt wins in Berne, I should be able to sell it to Doug Zell for a 100% mark-up. Anyway, we installed that machine down in the Brooklyn store and Team Gimme Metro was suddenly all smiles.
For a change of pace I sample roasted 7 different Brazils yesterday. We cupped them through the espresso machine this morning and found a few that were interesting. Happy to avoid desk work, I found myself in the roaster again this afternoon roasting 3 juicy Kenyans. Needless to say, this job keeps giving and giving.
We're still in the home-stretch for the twice mentioned roaster expansion. We're expecting to close on our new light industrial facility sometime by the middle of June. With some deep cleaning and probably 55 gallons of paint, the space will blossom as our new headquarters. Tomas is certainly ready to move out of his 150 square feet, and slip into something a bit more comfortable.
Originally from gimme! coffee by reBlogged
The Apple fan community (mob?) is whipped into a tizzy over this bootleg "G6" being sold with a pirated version of OS X for Intel. I don't get the animosity. This thing looks pretty cool to me. This is probably exactly what a low-end Mac would look like if Steve Jobs hadn't put the kibosh (kibbosh?) on clones when he came back to Apple.
I'm still waiting for the "Google OS" to to emerge in a similar manner, which could simply be a nice Ubuntu box with the Google bookmarks and APIs baked into Gnome.
Originally from hello, typepad by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 12:18PM
No, really, Wordpress Wank is a Wordpress tough love fan blog. Today he insults Six Apart's Style Contest and Wordpress.com's lack of search for security updates. But then Arvind (one-third of the team behind the Style Contest) and Matt (who puts the MATT in autoMATTic, the company behind Wordpress) show up to talk shop. Good times.
Our Wankette also takes some time to compare and contrast Wordpress and Movable Type's template methods:
The $ is moderately scary, but we need it because it distinguishes the tag from the surrounding HTML. The MT is only there because Blogger did it first, that could be scrapped if designing from scratch. The CamelCase sucks, but at least there’s no unnecessary underscores. The MT user has to get used to the $, and that really won’t take long. The Wordpress user has a whole bunch of unrelated characters to come to terms with. Every time you want to code a theme you need to cut and paste massive chunks of code because if you try typing out that shit stuff is going to go missing and break. There is basic stuff, like blog descriptions, which don’t even have tags of their own but live in parameters; what’s up with that? Why can’t I just bang in <? blogdescription ?> and be done?It's still mind boggling to me that wordpress folk tolerate needing to know PHP to create templates. It would be analogous to typepad or Movable Type requiring knowledge of HTML::Template or Template::Toolkit.
Originally from hello, typepad by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 10:32AM
Posted to music
Talking Heads perform Psycho Killer on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978. Worth watching for David Byrnes's clothes alone.Originally from Stunned reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 7:48AM
Caveat lector: This is a rant, and it contains no facts.
Seemingly forever, there have been persistent and vague rumors that Apple is going to build some sort of handheld device — based on the Palm operating system, based on the iPod, based on the Newton, based on smoke and mirrors, whatever — and I’m sick of them not being true. There’s even recent evidence that certain Apple patents strongly suggest a forthcoming announcement of some sort. The time for a truly user-friendly portable device is now and that device should be, at least in part, a mobile phone… mostly because all of the mobile phones now in the market are just terrible.
I have a Treo 650 that’s bulky and over-featured, but the only reason I hang onto it is that it’s truly the best of the worst. It has a reasonably good user interface for call management and text messaging, but the only crucial thing it does really right is integrate my contacts on the phone with my contacts from Apple’s Address Book, via iSync. For me, that’s the whole ball of wax.
Not on Speaking Terms
But since reinstalling Mac OS X 10.4 after a hard drive failure earlier in the year, I can no longer get the two devices to sync. Notwithstanding the fact that synching in general just stinks, I fault the Treo. PDAs are obscurely designed and uncooperative in all but the simplest use cases, and trying to get a Treo that had previously been synchronized with the exact same computer to sync again is too much to ask, apparently.
Every time I think about spending the time to resolve this, to get the Treo to somehow get back on speaking terms with my Mac, I groan and I procrastinate. This is a familiar feeling; in spite of the Palm’s much ballyhooed elegance, I’ve always had this experience, since owning my first Palm OS device in 1998. There’s a veneer of elegance to a Palm device, but it doesn’t take much digging to unearth the aging, uncooperative infrastructure beneath the superficial user interface.
The Moribund Mobile Phone Market
As I said, the sad thing is that all mobile phones stink, not just the ones sporting Palm OS user interfaces. Few enough of them work with iSync, and when I go down the list of such phones, none of them seem to promise a particularly pleasant user experience. Which is to say, none of them capture the right combination of hardware compactness and software elegance that, well, only Apple can produce.
It might have been reasonable and even canny for the company to eschew the PDA market while it slowly entered entropy, but the mobile phone market seems like an inevitability; it’s not just their existing customers who would rush to any cellular device that bears that trademark Apple ease of use, it would be legions of new customers, too, who are constantly looking for an improved mobile phone experience, and who regularly and enthusiastically chuck out their current handsets in favor of cool new ones. How can the company resist? I’m hoping they can’t.
Originally from Subtraction by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 1:03AM
david posted a photo:
I tried to speak.
Originally from david's Photos by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 11:13AM
No, not the usual dangers about liver, there's more to worry about now. According to this article, Is it OK ... to drink wine? in The Guardian:
The debate about the social and health impact of alcohol consumption, including wine, is well rehearsed elsewhere, but the production of wine also throws up a number of concerns, with the reality often far from the bucolic idyll of lore.
Many of the world's vineyards are now highly industrialised. Of most concern, perhaps, is the increasing reliance on pesticides. Several recent studies have discovered pesticide residues in wines, including some labelled as organic. This suggests that vines could be particularly vulnerable to contamination from airbound pollutants. One study of Bulgarian wine found that wine from a vineyard in a heavily polluted region contained more than double the legal limit of lead.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised to discover that we've poisoned our food supply as we poisoned our planet, but still, it's a bummer. The article also raises the issue of the sustainability of shipping bottles of wine around the world. Some times the more I think about food production and sustainability, the more depressed I get.
Originally from megnut.com blog reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 10:54AM
So I meant to post last week to say that the paperback of Everything Bad is Good for You was released on May 2. It's a nice new edition -- I wrote a little afterword reflecting on the intensity of the book's reception, and it has an amazing four page spread of quotes from the reviews. It's funny with Everything Bad -- I assumed given the controversial thesis that it would attract more critical reviews than my other books. But in the end, I think it turns out to be the most positively reviewed of all four of them.
I'm doing a little publicity for the paperback, but nothing like last May/June, which was truly unlike anything I've ever experienced before. (For those of you who missed it, here's the May archive for this blog.) I've said this a number of times in public talks about the book but I'm not sure I've ever said it here: I wanted to start a conversation -- and perhaps even change people's minds a little -- about the state of pop culture with this book, and certainly the conversation part succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. (It's harder to judge the mind-changing bit.) But for all the book's emphasis on games and new media television, I needed to write an old-fashioned book to start that kind of debate. I needed 200 pages of sustained, linear argument for people to take it seriously, particularly given how preposterous the idea sounded to many people at first hearing.
So yes, books are not the dominant cultural form they were in the 19th-century, and yes, some of these new forms have amazing complexity to them that we'd do well to understand and appreciate. But books still matter in this culture, and if you're trying to change the way people think about a complicated issue, the advice is the same as it was two hundred years ago: write a book.
Originally from stevenberlinjohnson.com by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 10:36AM
Steven Johnson responds to (blasts? slams?) the endangered joy of serendipity piece I just linked to, arguing that the web is a much better serendipity engine than the library. (BTW, I think Steven is part machine himself...after posting that link, I took out the trash and ducked out to get something at the bodega around the corner and when I got back, there's a message from him in my inbox with a link to his rant. Jesus.)Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 1:30PM
nuts, they should've added the gloating dogOriginally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 1:21PM
Originally from Modern Art Notes reBlogged
The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Arts are getting together to correct the alleged “dramatic decline in literary reading” with a program called The Big Read. I’m sure librarians won’t mind getting some grant money, but can we admit that the decline in literary reading isn’t the same as a decline in reading, or book buying, or library attendance?
bigread, imls, nea, readingOriginally from librarian.net by reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 7:30PM
What do you think game designers can be thinking?
Let’s design our games assuming no women will play. Let’s market games by using booth babes at conventions or employing girl gamers as “totty with trigger” (you’d think it was a parody but it ain’t) and oh, we’ll run ads showing dead, naked women even when the games themselves have no naked women in them. A focus group? Oh great, but remember to ban women from the focus group, because they’re women and therefore not interesting. (Fortunately, several of the men in that particular focus group spoke on behalf of their girlfriends who are also gamers.) And how about the media? When Wired does a special issue on gaming, they leave out the women - oh, except for that risqué sex game with the dildos. We’ll include that. (I hadn’t realised Wired was a men’s magazine. It’s my favourite to buy on flights and so on - far more interesting than Cosmopolitan or something, and more, um, relaxing than the more intellectual alternatives.)
Let’s look at the facts. Apparently 24-35 year olds are the heaviest gamers. According to a recent survey, 65% of women in this age bracket play games. Only 35% of men in the age bracket do. The survey found that women play “slightly less” console games than men and that many more women play casual games, like flash games in web browsers, solitaire or online Scrabble. They didn’t think to ask the women why they liked casual games, but assume that it’s because they’re non-violent and non-cometitive (they can’t have played many games at games.com). Great. Let’s just assume gender stereotypes instead of asking.
Interestingly, Nick Yee’s statistics from MMOGs show the same trend: while boys are clearly dominant among teenaged players, women players outnumber men for players above 23 years of age:
[edit 22/5: see Torill’s comment below, this stat doesn’t quite prove that]So let’s see: despite the game industry marketing games almost exclusively for young men, almost twice as many women as men play games in the biggest market segment, based on age. Many of these games are casual, but even for console games, only “slightly less” women than men play. More women than men over 23 play MMOGs.
And yet the game industry continues to market and design games almost exclusively to that slim market of teenaged horny boys.
And I continue to get stupid comments from male players in WoW - “wow, I didn’t think women played games!” (Doubly idiotic since they can only see my female character and not me.)
Originally from jill/txt by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 3:33AM
A Swarm of Angels is a project to create a fan-funded sci-fi thriller with funders participating in every step of the movie making process. The project is unsing the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Some interesting talent has already signed on with the project, including most recently The Kleptones as soundtrack producers.
You can be one of the first 1000 angels.
"A new way to create cult media."
"Active entertainment."
"Be part of a giant media experiment."
Originally from Creative Commons Blog by reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 3:35PM
IT Vibe is reporting that the ICANN rejected the .xxx domain. Whie it may seem that this domain would be one of the few points that the adult entertainment industry and its opponents would agree upon, it's actually not the case.
According to the article, "Opponents of the plan felt it would endorse pornography, while porn industry opponents expressed concern over the level of state control."
Originally from Sex & Games by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 9:23AM
According to M&C Tech, a ring tone offered for sale online that makes fun of illegal Hispanic immigrants has been pulled from the Cingular Wireless Web site."In the ring tone entitled La Migra, a siren is heard, followed by a male voice that says in a southern accent: \'Calmate, calmate, this is la migra. Por favor, put the oranges down and step away from the cell phone. I repeat-o, put the oranges down and step away from the telephone-o. I`m deporting you back home-o.\'."
Hours after Cingular received complaints of the "la Migra" ringtone, it was pulled from the company website , reports WROC TV News. "Eight people had purchased the ring tone since it was available in March".
"Cingular agreed the ring tone should have never been a part of its collection and called it "blatantly offensive." The tone was made by Barrio Mobile, a brand owned by a French media company. Cingular says the company will monitor its ring tones more closely in the future".
Related: - Response to "offensive" ringtone's removal mixed
Originally from ringtonia.com by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 2:38AM
I’ve been traveling a bit this week, which means I’ve also been accessing the net on untrusted networks. For general web surfing this doesn’t both me, but when it comes to editing my blogs or accessing any web service that doesn’t authenticate over SSL, I’d feel better if I knew my passwords weren’t floating past some coffee shop’s network admin in clear text. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution: SSH tunneling.
There’s plenty of information online that describes how SSH tunneling works and how to set it up, but not surprisingly, you have to do a bit of Googling to actually find concise, step-by-step instructions that actually work. So here we go: Erik’s Three-Step Plan for
Looking Like You Know What You’re DoingSSH Tunneling. (For the record, I’m using a PowerBook running OS X, tunneling to a server running Ubuntu Linux.)[STEP 1] On the remote server I’m running Privoxy (an HTTP proxy.) On a Debian/Ubuntu box, getting Prixovy running is as complicated as typing:
sudo apt-get install privoxy[STEP 2] Assuming you can SSH into your remote server (ie., no firewall blockage), launch Terminal.app and issue something like this:
ssh -N -L 8118:127.0.0.1:8118 remoteuser@serveraddress(changing “remoteuser” and “serveraddress” appropriately.) Using the-Nflag you’ll still need to authenticate with the server, but you won’t actually get a command prompt — the window will just look like nothing’s happening.[STEP 3] Tell your browser to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS running at 127.0.0.1 on port 8118.
You’re done! You can now hit WhatIsMyIP to see it working.
Of course, just like other three-step programs, there’s a little fine print and few extra details that might help to know:
- Privoxy is an HTTP proxy, which translated means that instead of your browser asking a server for a web page, you’ll be asking Privoxy and Prixovy will relay the request and pass the resulting content back your way. Using a proxy is handy when: (1) You want to tunnel your browsing activity, and/or (2) When you’d like to have the proxy do some content manipulation for you (which is what Privoxy was written to do.) This content manipulation can be anything you want, but most of the time it means stripping out advertisements and possibly cleaning up bad HTML before the browser sees it.
- If you haven’t used Privoxy before, you might want to read the docs and poke around in the config files to tweak as needed.
- By default Privoxy runs on port 8118, hence the 8118 mapping the ssh statement.
- Save yourself some time by storing your proxy settings for future toggling. To cover most OS X apps you’ll be creating a new Network Location for this. Go to the Apple Menu / Location / Network Preferences to create a new location profile. Toggling can be done using the Location menu under the Apple menu. For Firefox (which ignores the system-wide proxy settings), you’ll need to enter the settings directly into the Firefox’s Preferences or install the SwitchProxy Firefox plugin to enable a pop-up menu for proxy switching from the Firefox status bar.
Happy Surfing!
Originally from [eriksmartt.com/blog] by reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 2:56PM
Tomorrow night Gus is giving a presentation on SQLite at the Seattle Xcoders meeting. I’ll be there. You too?
(Plus a bonus sneak peek at VoodooPad 3.0!)Originally from inessential.com reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 6:28PM
In Ringtonia.com today:-- Cingular pulls racist ring tone A ring tone that makes fun of illegal Hispanic immigrants has been pulled from the Cingular Wireless Web site.
-- Shia ringtone sparks scuffle in Iraqi parliament A fight broke out in parliament after a mobile phone ringtone played a Shia Muslim chant.
Originally from textually.org by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 4:24AM
"I said if you ain't up on thaaangs / tuberaider's the name youtube's the game..." If y'all were staying up on tuberaider you would have been seen that Sly Stone clip. Here's some other stuff you've been missing: Lauryn Hill live in New Orleans last week Frank Zappa live with John Belushi on saxophone Meshell, Frank Zappa, and NWA on...Originally from hiphopmusic.com by reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 7:00PM
Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 4:52AM
The new title is Super Smash Bros. Brawl! The game was revealed by Nintendo to select press behind closed doors. Lots of new characters.Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on May 11, 2006, 4:43AM
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Here's the original 13-minute version of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket. (thx, janelle)Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 11:31AM
I know you've already heard about the red paperclip guy. He's all the way up to an afternoon with Alice Cooper. (thanks, kelly!)Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 11:09AM
Originally from Happy Famous Artists by reBlogged on May 10, 2006, 10:34AM
Video-sharing service YouTube rolls out mobile upload, which lets you post a video via email from your video cameraphone.
Similar to Flickr's upload by email, set up your YouTube upload by email profile and get a secret email address. Then, take a short video on your phone and send it via MMS to that email address. You can set the default privacy level and category in your profile; and create two separate profiles (and get two separate email addresses) for different types of movies (like for public cute cat videos and private cute baby videos). YouTube currently supports uploads from Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. I just gave it a try with my Cingular service and the video showed up immediately. Neat.
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