October 2008
62 posts
Extending the debate: 10 commandments for the President Elect
10 Commandments for First 30 Days in Office
1. We have to save the dollar’s AAA rating which is in serious jeopardy.
2. We have to fundamentally and brutally restructure debt.
3. All entitlements are fair game. To begin with…
* If you are 60-65 you probably just lost a huge chunk of your nest egg so your...
Obama's First 100 Days
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BlueWeasel: man
BlueWeasel: first hurricane ike
BlueWeasel: now a report about Windows 7 Beta coming
BlueWeasel: the disasters just don't stop
Ted Talks: Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
MerbCamp 2008 Streaming Video Archive →
RackSpace buys SliceHost and JungleDisk →
I’ve had a couple of slices at SliceHost for a while now and love them.
Here is the JungleDisk announcement.
No hard feelings from Marky Mark apparently
Blame it on WEEI
I blame WEEI for jinxing the Red Sox last night. I already hate the station but this just added fuel to the fire.
I’m driving home around 7:30 to watch the game and I’m listening to the pre-game show on the radio. During the commercial break, a commercial plays with the following:
“The Red Sox are going back to the World Series. Congratulations to the 2008 American League...
Twalala →
Check out Twalala, a RailsRumble project by the Mashable City team based out of Providence, RI.
It’s a Twitter mashup (which it looks like quite a few Rumble apps were this year) that lets you choose who and want you want to see. It adds a sort of “silence” filter to block certain terms/users/etc from your updates while still keeping those users in your friends list.
The...
Yes, even you can use CPAN →
The new “My Day Yesterday” meme started by Garrett Murray. Thought I’d give it a shot myself.
Must have been like the tide at Omaha Beach
– Creed (from The Office) when Jan Levinson mentioned that her “after-birth” floated during Astrid’s birth in the tub
NowDoThis →
ideas:
incredibly simple to-do list
pretty slick
For those hurt by the financial crisis, a coin is no longer required.
– iFixit on removing the battery cover on the new MacBooks (via marco)
Daniel, I apologize for not implementing this support sooner. This particular...
– Red Sweater Blog - I’d Tumbl For You
Awesome, awesome response from the Tumblr guys to Daniel Jalkut’s recent post on why MarsEdit doesn’t officially support tumblr yet.
Red Sweater Blog - I’d Tumbl For You →
soxiam:
Introducing Vimeo Plus! on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
T-Mobile G1 Powered by Android Review | Android... →
The first G1 pre-orders are starting to be delivered. While I didn’t pre-order, I’ll be hopping over to T-Mobile on launch day to check them out.
Blackbird - Open Source JavaScript Logging Utility →
Say “goodbye” to alert()
Amazon.com: Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player →
Amazon.com currently has the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player
with the 10-disc Matrix Collection set for $214. Excellent deal that’s hard to beat if you haven’t gotten into Blu-Ray yet.
Personally, I chose the wrong sides early on and went with HD-DVD so I haven’t bought a Blu-Ray player yet, until I saw this deal
dalasverdugo:
The Not So Presidential Debate (via Vimeo)
Get psyched for tonight’s debate by watching this.
Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance... →
CelticsBlog | Scalabrine's iPod Playlist →
Nginx, PHP and a PHP FastCGI daemon init script |... →
Nice tutorial for getting fastcgi to play nice for serving PHP files via nginx. This will give you that much needed PID file so you can watch your processes via monit
The Merbist » Merb 1.0 RC1 →
Merb 1.0 is almost finally here
New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC »... →
Star Wars ABC - a set on Flickr →
Free Flickr Books! →
(via ryanselvy)
I’m a Wahlberg fan, but this impression was too good not to post
Gravatar, one year later « Gravatar Blog →
Coming home to Vim →
Funny, I’ve been thinking about doing the same thing myself.
Cheap oil: the stock selloff's silver lining -... →
$60 a barrel? Man that seems like a distant memory. A good memory though…