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Fuck you, Keanu. Fuck you right in the fucking eye. Here’s how I assume the pitch went when producing A Scanner Darkly:
“Hey, let’s take Ben’s favorite book ever and make it into a potentially awesome movie!”
“Great idea! Let’s get the awesome director of Slacker and Waking Life to direct it, because that’s […]

CNET is showing off HP Labs’ LCD touch-coffee-table prototype, which is cute but impractical. The idea is that you’ve got this giant LCD touch screen where you can load up a game of Monopoly with the tykes. Let’s say it’s a small coffee table, around the size of a 30-inch Cinema display. […]

Edgewall Software: Trac
Integrated Wiki/Subversion/Project Management tool. Also has a time tracking plugin. Very simple and light interface.
(tags: management subversion development wiki)

Adventures in Eco-Design
Dumpster diving for fun and profit. Because Whole Foods is way too fucking expensive through the front door.
(tags: food environment activism)

Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail / GPG [PTEG]
Portable encrypted email on a removable USB device
(tags: email encryption security)

Deer Park :: Portable Thunderbird :: Mozilla Stuff :: JohnHaller.com
A more up to date version of portable thunderbird with enigmail and gpg integration
(tags: email security encryption)

15 Seconds : N-Tier Web Applications using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 - Part 1
Okay article about setting up n-tier apps with 2.0. I disagree with the methods, but it’s useful as a reference.
(tags: .net programming architecture)

ONDotnet.com — ASP.NET 2.0 Databinding
Good explanation of data sources and strongly typed datasets in 2.0
(tags: .net programming […]

Feed Sifter: Get only the good stuff
Filter any RSS/RDF/Atom feed by a set of keywords, and subscribe to just the stuff you want to see.
(tags: feeds software)

Rob Carlson and I got into a discussion the other day about the practicality of having illuminated street signs at night. I said it’s something that we’ll see in the next 5-10 years because of the increasing practicality of solar power for low-energy applications. He disagreed.
Thanks to a recent breakthrough in Spray-On Solar-Power […]

WINAMP.COM | Plug-ins
A Winamp plugin for coordination with removable USB devices, like my iRiver iHP-120
(tags: mp3 software music usb)

ml_ipod: Because fair use is a right, not a privilage.
A winamp plugin to allow great iPod syncronization
(tags: iPod music mp3 software)

WINAMP.COM | Forums - Export/Import ratings data to id3v2
A WinAmp Media Library plugin that lets you write […]

After Apple’s awesome price cut announcements for low end iPods, I decided to order a 1GB nano for Caroline, and a shuffle for myself. Much to my surprise, they both arrived yesterday, way earlier than I expected.
When I cracked open the nano to load some music on it, I noticed that it was distinctly […]

howto: nonviolent ipod shuffle disassembly - hack a day - www.hackaday.com _
How to take apart your iPod shuffle to replace a battery or just jerk off to it.
(tags: iPod howto hardware)