The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for 2009
Why is iTunes so awfully slow? If I weren’t locked into iTunes to sync my iPhone, it would be in the trash right now.
And for what it does, iTunes sucks 9 different ways. I could go into it but why bother? The tasks it is required to do are really very simple. Why did they make it so hard?
Oh, forget it… Calgon, take me away.
from teh internets
“If your nose starts bleeding, it’s because this picture just kicked you in the face.”
(if you know the source of this image, please comment! I found this on motivatedphotos.com)
Keywords: kickassery, tommy gun, cigar, bear, shark
Come play! Feel free to write something in the space below!
No, that’s not an image below, it’s a real, realtime editor!
Call a friend and have them type in their window on their computer and it’ll show up instantly in your window!
Or you can open up the editor in a full window.
Update: Here is an image of the Etherpad as of 12-6-09. They were bought by Google for $10 million. Etherpad is to be released as open source and incorporated into Google Wave.
Want to know where to buyavoid crack in San Francisco? Want to see where the bad people are? Crimespotting.org is the tool!
Want to know where your car is most likely to get stolen? Where you’re likely to get robbed? Crimespotting is the tool!
This is a map of narcotics arrests from October 11-21, 2009. Do you see a pattern? You can click on the dots to see what the crimes are. The vast majority in the tenderloin and that blip in Mission between 16th and 17th are for crack cocaine and drug paraphenalia. Now you know!
This is a phenomenal way to visualize crime data. Schuyler is planning an evening field trip in Oakland and is trying to find a place where he won’t get killed for just walking down the street. We found the spot… yes, we found a spot in Oakland with virtually no crime! And we can feel comfortable going there because we know there’s no crime in the area.
Check it out for yourself:
Want to find out what gun was used in a movie? Check the Internet Movie Firearms Database!
My handgun is apparently quite popular in the movies.
Tuesday evening the International Space Station will be flying by San Francisco. Join a contingent on Bernal Hill or just look up at the right time. I caught it once before and was cooler than you’d initially imagine.
Tuesday evening starting at 5:29pm sharp for just 3 minutes. Starting in the southwest, going high in the sky and ending in the northeast.
Join us on Bernal Hill! Call me or comment on the blog or just show up
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Find out when the International Space Station will be in San Francisco.
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I shoved together all the video footage I took at Maker Faire 2009 and… well, here you go. Enjoy!
local version:
My friend Karen asked me about free wiki software. Here is my response
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Well, PBWiki (http://pbworks.com/) offers advertiser supported wiki services but I really really really (really!) recommend using Mediawiki instead. Mediawiki is the software that runs the FLG wiki. It’s really good software and it’s what users are familiar with. I run it on Dreamhost.com. If your friend has an ounce of geek in them, they should sign up and run their own wiki. And if they don’t have an ounce, they probably shouldn’t be running a wiki, really.
Dreamhost service is like $8/month. I have a coupon-thing where they’ll get $48.50 off a $96 1 year membership or $25 off a monthly. My promocode: SPLITITWITHLEE
Oh and I see that they have a free trial thing on their homepage: http://dreamhost.com/
If your friend can find a friend that already has a hosting plan at Dreamhost or another provider, they might let them mooch off them for free since it probably won’t cost any money extra. That’s what I do for SWARM and FLG and some personal wikis I run.
I just saw The Departed. Good cop. Bad cop. Entertainment!
I’ve been listening to The Four Hour Work Week. I just made it to disc 3 and all of a sudden I’m getting disappointed. When the author says he checks email once a week for an hour and checks his voicemail once a week without any adverse effects, I begin to doubt. But I won’t stop listening. He is saying a lot of good stuff.
And I still love listening to Doctor Karl on Australian radio. Catch the RSS audio feed of his shows here