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Fundraiser for ill bl0gger
Fundraiser for ill bl0gger
03/29/2005 11:57 AMCory Doctorow:
Alameida sez, "I am running a fundraiser for Gary Farber, of
amygdala.com. He is a great blogger, one of the first on the scene,
and he is also gravely ill and without health insurance or a job. I am
making personalized mix CD's for whoever donates $15 or more to him
through the paypal link at our site (people have to fill in the
"message to sender" portion with their shipping address and specific
music requests.)"
Li
nk
(
Thanks, Alameida!)
"Gary Farber Fundraiser"
"Gary Farber Fundraiser"
03/29/2005 11:22 AMThe Stakeholder :: Joe Trippi: Blog
Fundraiser
The Stakeholder :: Joe Trippi: Blog
Fundraiser
09/22/2004 04:53 PMJoe Trippi provides a concrete example .. what Trippi suggests: .. a
post at the DCCC
blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/001144.html
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Fundraiser bikes back to cheers
Fundraiser bikes back to cheers
06/07/2004 03:41 PMCancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson completes her bike ride from Rome to
Leeds with a promise this will be her last epic test.
Hollywood Turns Out for Kerry Fundraiser
Hollywood Turns Out for Kerry Fundraiser
06/25/2004 06:32 PMAn A list of Hollywood celebrities raised a record $5 million for
Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee.
"The Stakeholder :: Joe Trippi: Blog
Fundraiser"
"The Stakeholder :: Joe Trippi: Blog
Fundraiser"
09/23/2004 09:50 PMKatamari Damacy glass beads fundraiser
Katamari Damacy glass beads fundraiser
03/23/2005 08:36 PMCory Doctorow:
A LiveJournaller's crafty mom is making these $3
Katamari Damacy (amazing, surreal Japanese video-game that
will haunt your dreams with tetrisvision-like hallucinations of
rolling everything around you into a giant ball) glass beads "so that
we can afford to go to Anime Central!"
Link
(
via Wonderland)
Bon Jovi hosts $1 million fundraiser for
Kerry
Bon Jovi hosts $1 million fundraiser for
Kerry
06/15/2004 02:53 PMFundraiser for Governor of New Jersey
Charged With Blackmail
Fundraiser for Governor of New Jersey
Charged With Blackmail
07/13/2004 05:09 PMCharles Kushner was charged with hiring prostitutes to blackmail
witnesses in a federal inquiry of campaign contributions.
Microsoft Auction/Fundraiser Donation
Application
Microsoft Auction/Fundraiser Donation
Application
07/01/2004 03:53 AMMicrosoft makes software donations to Washington nonprofit
organizations for use in auctions or other fundraising events. To
apply for a donation, download the application and follow the
instructions.
Che/Michael Moore mashup schwag MoveOn
fundraiser
Che/Michael Moore mashup schwag MoveOn
fundraiser
09/19/2004 07:47 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Kevin sez, "This is the t-shirt site with the Che Guevara/Michael
Moore shirt. We're announcing a fundraiser for MoveOn.org where we
donate funds from shirts and buttons to the MoveOn PAC from now until
election day. For the first hundred shirts we donate a dollar, the
second hundred two dollars, and after that, we'll donate five dollars
for every shirt sold.
"We're excited about this - we're a company of roughly three people so
this feels like a way that we can actually help. I don't know what
kind of response we're going to get to it yet, but who can predict?
We're preparing for anything!"
Link
(Thanks, Kevin!)
Fundraiser Denies Link Between Money,
Access (washingtonpost.com)
Fundraiser Denies Link Between Money,
Access (washingtonpost.com)
05/17/2004 12:08 AMwashingtonpost.com - Second of two articles
Bush campaign slams Kerry over
fundraiser (USATODAY.com)
Bush campaign slams Kerry over
fundraiser (USATODAY.com)
07/14/2004 06:45 AMUSATODAY.com - Using the sort of biting rhetoric that candidates
usually save for October, the Bush and Kerry presidential campaigns
engaged in testy exchanges Tuesday over a star-studded Kerry
fundraiser.
Armageddon fundraiser porn, five bodies,
and a Mormon assassination plot
Armageddon fundraiser porn, five bodies,
and a Mormon assassination plot
06/16/2004 11:58 AMFleshbot
points
to a court case that's, like, weirder than Michael Jackson and
the Scott Peterson trial combined. Murder, dismemberment, lapsed
Mormons, the death penalty, and Playboy model Kerissa Fare.
This week, a jury in Martinez, a small town outside San Francisco,
will retire to consider the bizarre, brutally violent cult surrounding
one Glenn Taylor Helzer, a lapsed Mormon accused of bludgeoning and
dismembering five people in an elaborate extortion racket intended to
hasten the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Helzer, a former stockbroker who has already pleaded guilty and faces
the death penalty, exerted a charismatic hold over an eclectic group
of followers including his younger brother, a former girlfriend turned
Playboy centrefold model, and a self-described "good witch" who once
offered to raise money for Armageddon by appearing in porn
films.
Link to story in UK's
IndependentBaxa Sponsors Team In Courage Classic
Fundraiser For The Childrens Hospital
Baxa Sponsors Team In Courage Classic
Fundraiser For The Childrens Hospital
06/05/2005 11:58 PMBaxa Corporation is sponsoring a bicycle racing team for the 16th
annual Courage Classic ride to raise money for The Childrens Hospital
of Denver. Baxa will provide financial support for the team, along
with jerseys and riders. Team captain Jerrod Milton, Director of
Campus Transition and Occupancy for the hospitals new Fitzsimons
facility, will lead 35 riders for Team Road Rage, including Baxa
executives and associates. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]
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Maker's Executive Holds Political
Fundraiser
NewsNet5.com - News - Voting Machine
Maker's Executive Holds Political
Fundraiser
06/08/2004 08:24 PMDiebold Chairman Holds Republican Fundraiser ..
Diebold
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Geeks and the Sun
Geeks and the Sun
07/20/2004 03:05 AMHeard today at work, as I arrived to a meeting late: "Hey, you got
some sun this weekend." "I get sun every weekend." It was only later
that I realized how un-computer-geeky I've been this summer. I've
spent every weekend I can outside and away from the computer. And, if
the day is going well, I'm often 3,000 - 9,000 feet in the air.
Sometimes more. It's good to have a hobby that gets me out of the
house. As...
We're All Geeks Now
We're All Geeks Now
07/22/2004 03:13 PMWe've complained before about how the tech industry is way too focused
on "jargon," but it appears that now that tech is going so mainstream,
lots of people are picking up the jargon, even if they don't realize
it. New Media Zero has an amusing anecdote about a focus group on a
new digital video recorder advertising effort where there was a woman
in the "over 70" age group who admitted she wasn't technically
literate at all. However, when the ad system was being described to
her, she apparently stated: "So it's a bit like the difference between
streaming and downloading content over a broadband connection."
Apparently, the woman who claimed she wasn't technically literate at
all had picked up more than she realized -- she just assumed that
everyone else knew more about tech than she did, because they always
seemed to before. In other words, perhaps
technolog
y is making us all into geeks these days. The writer also points
to the number of people (in the UK, where this is more common than the
US) who use more advanced features on their mobile phones (and know
all the terminology associated with it), saying that ten years ago,
most of those people would insist they would never use such features.
This doesn't mean that tech lingo is still good for marketing
purposes, but it does suggest learning the lingo isn't as big a hurdle
as some make it out to be.
Six Geeks
Six Geeks
02/17/2004 11:45 PMLast week at the ETCON, James Duncan Davidson
posted this picture which captures so many different themes to
me.
...Where do geeks go to die?
Where do geeks go to die?
02/13/2004 01:13 PMAnswer: The
Apple Store. A
bunch of us decided to do a pilgrimage to the nearest Apple sales
point, and unfortunately nobody got out unharmed. I survived with
only some scratches (a couple of games and a TV adapter), but one of
the guys who came "just to browse" ended up buying a
15"
Powerbook, and a French guy
could not resist buying a 23" Cinema Display.
The question is not whether we are still sane, but whether the French
guy can fit the display in his carry-on baggage...
ETech is NOT a good
place to be if you have ever wondered about buying a Mac, because
everyone there is such an Mac überuser. You just cannot help but be
sucked in after seeing how cool it is to edit documents with SubEthaEdit and
chat with everyone in the same Rendezvous circle.
Using a Mac is not about speed or the latest 3D games. It is about
the aesthetic experience of completeness and satisfaction.
PCs for non-geeks
PCs for non-geeks
10/29/2003 01:14 AMA couple of interesting links about the security problems faced by
the vast majority of the home PC using public, who don't know how to install
security updates (or even what they are) and don't have a corporate IT
department to bail them out when they run in to problems. Joe Average
User Is In Trouble is a column by a security expert bemoaning the
scale of the problem. Do we all need a personal system administrator? is a call for
advice from Steve Garrity for tips on minimising the support calls he
gets from his parents, and includes an excellent response from Matt
Haughey in the comments.
I've been called to a less-geeky friend's PC before to find it so infested with malware that
it had slowed to a crawl. Most security breaches seem to come from
Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, so Matt's advice to replace them with Firebird and Thunderbird seems like
a particularly good idea. Placing PCs behind a hardware router is a great idea as
well as it at least prevents nasty traffic from the internet from
probing the computer - although as Adam Kalsey points out such a set up won't prevent malicious
software that has already snuck its way on to a PC from calling home.
Firefox: Only for the Geeks?
Firefox: Only for the Geeks?
09/06/2004 06:24 PMWhy I
don't recommend Firefox: Adam doesn't think that Firefox is ready
to be unleashed on all users just yet. He makes some good points.
Firefox right now is very good for an experienced net user, but is
not at all ready for the average person. If you plan on targeting the
general public, you need to understand the general public.
Most Web users don't know what a browser is. That blue E they click
on the desktop isn't a browser, it's "The Internet." Or maybe it's
"Yahoo" if that's what their home page is set to.
Now my story —
I installed Firefox on my parents' computer because IE bugs were making me nervous. My folks are 61 and 72. I just removed
the IE link from the desktop, configured the Firefox shortcut to look
use blue "E" icon, and named it "Internet." I never even told them.
They haven't yet noticed, and I don't expect them to. The only
problem we've had is that Firefox doesn't do Flash natively, and I had
to go get a plugin for that. Otherwise, it's been smooth as anything.
(And believe, if Mom were to have a problem, she'd tell me —
I'm on speed-dial...)
My home machine uses Firefox exclusively. I just told me wife to
use the new icon with the bird instead of one with the blue "E".
She's never had Problem One.
Annie (my wife) is a bright girl, but I don't think she knows what
a "browser" is either. She just knows about "The Internet," and
Firefox works as good as IE does. She's a "power browser" too: eBay,
online banking, shopping, etc. She doesn't just go to Yahoo once a
week — she's on this thing more than me.
So, I don't agree with Adam, but it's a point worthy of debate.
Does anyone else have some "Firefox for the non-geek" stories they can
share?
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Showtime for geeks
Showtime for geeks
02/10/2004 05:03 AMWe could do "My Big Fat Obnoxious Finance Officer" - but that would
mostly be geeks talking to nerds and making fun of bean counters. Then
there's "FUD Factor" - trapped in a room with marketing guys for new
networking start-ups. Last one to run screaming into the street is the
winner.
Geeks and Goblins
Geeks and Goblins
04/23/2004 10:42 AMTwenty years too late to warn my parents, Cyber Moon Studios presents
Dungeons & Dragons: an Eight Bit Re-Enactment, "a frightening
look at America's most frightening pastime." (04-23)
Flight of the Geeks
Flight of the Geeks
09/09/2004 06:30 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Flight of the
Geeks'
The second Gnomedex promotional video has been posted. If someone
wants to seed ‘em on BitTorrent, be my guest. Geek Hunter and
Flight of the Geeks are here for you to enjoy. Gnomedex is designed
for those who want to learn how technology can be used to improve
their businesses, their careers, and their lives. Attendees will
include a wide range of backgrounds including IT professionals,
business owners / managers, and tech enthusiasts from all…
CSS is for geeks not designers
CSS is for geeks not designers
02/01/2005 10:00 PMTables may suck, but CSS is no improvement. Yet web designers who have
never used page layout tools for offline...
Geeks for Dinner
Geeks for Dinner
12/29/2003 01:17 AMA Silicon Valley Geek Dinner hosted by Robert Scoble is on tomorrow
night at the Cheesecake Factory in Palo Alto....
When Geeks Go Camping
When Geeks Go Camping
01/09/2004 09:57 PMGeeks Aren't Just Guys
Geeks Aren't Just Guys
03/06/2004 02:05 AMFor those who still think tech hounds and gadget fiends are limited to
the male half of the population, think again. A new study shows that,
at least in the US, young men and women
adopt new
technologies equally. They even spend the same amount of time
playing online games - though, they're probably different types of
games for the most part. Men
are more likely to own a game
console and an MP3 player, but women are more likely to own a mobile
phone - which probably does fit with the traditional stereotypes.
Just Another Geeks Blog V.2.3: Still
going
Just Another Geeks Blog V.2.3: Still
going
01/16/2004 10:59 AMhttp://eo.dyndns.info/mt-meblog/archives/000885.php#000885
Lesson Learned:
So, what did I learn from getting exploited?
1. Keep up to date with Kernel hacks.
2. Do more cross referencing with new applications
3. Segment the server like the ones at work
4. Build a low demand server to handle new apps
5. Move logging off of the production box
6. Deviate more from the norm
Seems Just Another Geek Blog found a root kit in his box. Read the
Whole...
Evil geeks
Evil geeks
09/14/2004 02:49 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Danny "Evil" O'Brien has written an hilarious column in (mock)
celebration of the world's most evil geeks:
How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free
software hacking world? For most of them, there's no income to be
appraised, there's no stock market valuation to watch. What value can
you give to these contributors, who work without care of reward,
except maybe all those groupies hanging out at the stage door of the
Sourceforge ftp servers?
Well, I guess you could review their software or something. Sadly, I
suffer from a debilitating illness (which I shall not mention here)
that tragically precludes me from doing actual research. So, instead,
I have decided to evaluate those involved in our so-called industry in
terms of what we all, I think, see it as.
Link
Flaming geeks
Flaming geeks
02/10/2004 02:38 PM
While I was going through and scanning the photos from Barcelona I
ran across this picture of a Unix fire extinguisher. :) I giggled when
I noticed it and tried to explain the joke to Jessica. The geeks
likely think it's funny and the rest of you, well, you'll have to just
take my word for it. I should be able to get through the thumbnails
and captions tonight so the Barcelona photos will likely be available
tomorrow.
"Suits and Geeks"
"Suits and Geeks"
03/14/2003 02:44 AMWhen good geeks go bad
When good geeks go bad
10/28/2003 11:06 PMSo, you're reading Scoble's blog entries about PDC and you're
wondering, why does this Hillel Cooperman guy sound familiar?
Here's...
Geeks are not as outnumbered as they
believe
Geeks are not as outnumbered as they
believe
12/02/2003 01:49 AMA Pew Research study shows that 31% of Americans are "tech savvy,"
with significant differences in how people of different ages use the
Internet
Geeks Just Wanna Have Fun
Geeks Just Wanna Have Fun
05/25/2004 11:31 PMBuild It: Trying to build a tasteful yet eye-catching PC with
as many glowing parts as possible, Loyd gets a little loopy with cold
cathode UV tubes, luminous fans, and an iridescent acrylic case. Is it
gaudy or great? You be the judge.
Geeks Gone Bald
Geeks Gone Bald
03/20/2003 05:31 PMMy illness appears to be passing, although I can still hear some
amount of stuffiness when I speak. All should be well by tomorrow
morning. I'll return to work, head held high - reflecting the lights
above. Yep. I killed the fro. Didn't have much of a choice, mind you.
I'm starting from scratch, and sneezing all the way there. *cough
cough* I should probably go back to bed now. *sniffle* Thanks for
noticing me....
Geeks and Poker?
Geeks and Poker?
05/26/2004 04:39 PMHey you LA freaky geeks!!!
Hey you LA freaky geeks!!!
03/14/2003 03:47 PMMy friends Griddle are coming your way! March 22nd at the Troubadour
in Hollywood. They are the grooviest band I...
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