Make Your Own Backdrop

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Use Stickies as clean backdrop

Use Stickies as clean backdrop 06/08/2004 12:04 PM
This is so simple it probably doesn't count as a hint, especially now that we've got Expose, FUS and apps that create multiple desktops. But I'm currently working away from home on an old iBook (OS 10.2.8) without much memory...

With 9/11 as G.O.P. Backdrop, Families
Express Raw Emotions

With 9/11 as G.O.P. Backdrop, Families
Express Raw Emotions 08/28/2004 05:15 PM
A survey by The New York Times shows that those who lost a loved one in the 9/11 attacks differ from the public at large on some political and national issues.

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!"

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!" 04/19/2005 08:36 AM

Trying to make Web services make sense

Trying to make Web services make sense 06/22/2004 07:29 AM
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.

"Make your own"

"Make your own" 04/27/2004 03:55 PM

Make Your PC Run Like New

Make Your PC Run Like New 07/17/2004 07:29 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 17 2004 11:10PM GMT

Can we make it?

Can we make it? 12/19/2004 02:52 PM
Kerry conceded so I guess we're in for 4 more years of Bush. I'm not sure what will happen. I'm...

But, I won't make you

But, I won't make you 12/18/2003 07:23 PM
"We tune, because we care" - Mr. Chan Uncle and Aunt from England came in today. I have to go...

Pre Make Kit 0.8

Pre Make Kit 0.8 02/15/2004 03:44 PM
A portability checker for use in the pre-build stage of software installation.

ll-make 0.11.6

ll-make 0.11.6 12/08/2003 04:42 PM
An object oriented make replacement.

Make the Most of Your New PC

Make the Most of Your New PC 12/28/2004 12:50 PM
PC Magazine Dec 28 2004 4:01PM GMT

Make

Make 03/08/2004 11:07 PM
Being part of Generation X is a condition of being caught between booming generations. But lately it feels like being caught between revolutions. Sure, we play a larger role than our size in the creation and adoption of the information...

Pre-Make Kit

Pre-Make Kit 12/03/2003 09:45 AM
PMK has a new website

Does the hat make the man

Does the hat make the man 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
FAIR COP:

men.shoeblogs.com/2005/02/hats.html
track this site | 3 links

How Much We Make

How Much We Make 03/17/2005 03:12 AM

Google's new ToS: Now you can say how much you make: Gadgetopia made $460 from Google in its best month. We probably average a little less than that. I like to see about $14 a day.

Glenn sez, "Google updated its AdSense TOS and now lets its affiliates discuss what they make.

It spikes quite a bit. The best we ever did was $76 one day. I'm willing to bet most of it was off one click, but which ad? That's the $76 question, as it were.

Thanks to everyone that enables us to make this money. It's not huge, but it at least partially makes up for the time.

OK, Mac, Make A Wish

OK, Mac, Make A Wish 01/26/2004 10:20 AM
Apple's 'computer for the rest of us' is, insanely, 20. By Steven Levy (Newsweek via MyAppleMenu)

PPM-Make-0.74

PPM-Make-0.74 08/29/2004 12:23 AM

Make them pay

Make them pay 05/05/2004 11:19 AM
USA Today May 5 2004 3:23PM GMT

Does this car make my ass look big?

Does this car make my ass look big? 12/29/2003 12:24 PM
BoingBoing reader Clive says:

Patent #6,649,848 is for "Vehicle with on-board dieters' weight progress indentifying and control system and method". In plain english, that means it's a car that weighs you when you sit in it -- and yells at you if you're getting fat. There's also a story in the New York Times about it today.

Link

PPM-Make-0.68

PPM-Make-0.68 01/11/2004 07:53 AM

You make it fun; we'll make it run

You make it fun; we'll make it run 09/07/2004 01:26 AM
Coral: The NYU Distribution Network "Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, Coral might be your free solution for these problems!"

PPM-Make-0.75

PPM-Make-0.75 09/05/2004 06:11 AM

Don't make me lie to you

Don't make me lie to you 05/06/2004 09:52 PM

So what's the deal with this?

I'm sure you've seen it. I get it from QuickTime on Windows, and I get it from QuickTime on my Mac as well. If this was attached to some lousy spyware infested privacy flaunting piece of junk I wouldn't be so surprised, but it's not: it's from Apple, a company who are meant to pride themselves on the usability of their software; software that normally just gets out of the way. So why bug me with this junk? More importantly, why force me to lie about my intentions? I have absolutely no intention of ever upgrading to QuickTime Pro - but every time that blasted window comes up I have to promise to put off my purchasing decision until "Later" in order to proceed.

It annoys me even more because out of all the lousy streaming media formats out there, QuickTime sucks the least. Why spoil the experience with an advert for a product that seems to be made obsolete by Apple's own iMovie anyway?

Use SFX to make your own Dr Who theme
mix

Use SFX to make your own Dr Who theme
mix 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: The BBC has posted a mixer that lets you make your own version of the Dr Who theme, adding from a long list of SFX with names like "Scottish Hamster" and "Party Popper." Link (Thanks, Gene!)

PSP May Not Make March

PSP May Not Make March 01/06/2005 02:56 PM

A day after Sony said that they would probably launch the Playstation Portable in March, an analyst tells Kotaku that he still thinks it is 50/50. PJ McNealy says that a lack of stock and problems getting the necessary semiconductor parts could push the handheld back to a June launch. I'm sure Nintendo's sad.

PSP Might Not Make March [Kotaku]

Does this tutu make me look fat?

Does this tutu make me look fat? 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Ev er worn a very sparkly, floppy table?* Just one requires enough fabric to cover a tennis court from baseline to net, at least 20 different measurements and the finished product can end up cost ing more than 10 iPods. [bonus links inside]

"make their way onto the internet"

"make their way onto the internet" 07/14/2004 03:21 PM

MAKE IT RED, DAMMIT

MAKE IT RED, DAMMIT 01/18/2004 03:52 PM
It looks like NASA may be altering the colors of the Mars Spirit rover photos.

Pre Make Kit 0.8.1-s5 (Snapshot)

Pre Make Kit 0.8.1-s5 (Snapshot) 08/27/2004 05:42 PM
A portability checker for use in the pre-build stage of software installation.

Make Symlink 1.0.2

Make Symlink 1.0.2 12/03/2003 09:49 PM
Make unix-styled symbolic links using hierarchical CM.

"make a donation"

"make a donation" 01/01/2005 10:39 AM

Reviews for Make

Reviews for Make 02/01/2005 08:38 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: There's still time to contribute a review to the second issue of MAKE, a technology project magazine I'm editing.

Is there some gadget, tool, web site, newsletter, instructional video, book, magazine, CD-ROM, or instrument you already own and love? Then write about it for MAKE. We'll pay you if we run it.

Reviews should be approximately 100-300 words, and be written in the first person. Think more "recommendation" and "experience" when you write these than "review." We want to hear about your involvement with it.

The old Wired guidelines for reviews went like this: “Write your review. Then write us a letter explaining why we should devote space to your item. Throw away your review and send us the letter.” That's the way to do it.

Send your reviews to markf@oreilly.com

Want to make PDFs?

Want to make PDFs? 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
This question just came up on a mailing list I'm on: you're on Windows and you want to make PDFs. You have two options: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, list price: $449. The Mac mini, list price: $499. For $50 more,...

How to make your PC shut up

How to make your PC shut up 04/15/2004 09:09 PM
ZDNet Apr 16 2004 1:23AM GMT

Would you make a living will?

Would you make a living will? 06/18/2004 06:17 AM
The government wants to introduce a law to allow people to make advance decisions on their health and welfare should they become incapacitated. Would you make a living will?

QR codes: make your own here

QR codes: make your own here 04/15/2004 01:02 PM
Interested in QR codes? Make your own here.
This article, in Hypulp, describing how text and data can be coded into noiselike pixel patterns, was fascinating. It made me look for a way to generate these codes myself. Thanks gen for yesterday’s link to Hypulp.

Make a USB turd

Make a USB turd 04/15/2004 11:37 AM
Instructions on how to make your very own USB-powered hunk of faux feces. Why anyone would want to, I cannot fathom. Link (Thanks,JL). And when you're done, you can print out this uttery non-worksafe coprophilia coloring book, and frolic away merrily in the land of poo. Link (Thanks, Manuel Wanskasmith, via Susa nnah)

Make IT . . . SEXY again

Make IT . . . SEXY again 06/29/2004 08:10 PM
Computer Times Asia Jun 30 2004 0:24AM GMT

Google's new ToS: Now you can say how
much you make

Google's new ToS: Now you can say how
much you make 03/17/2005 03:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: Glenn sez, "Google updated its AdSense TOS and now lets its affiliates discuss what they make:

You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google's prior written consent. 'Google Confidential Information' includes without limitation: (a) all Google software, technology, programming, specifications, materials, guidelines and documentation relating to the Program; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance in the Program provided to You by Google; and (c) any other information designated in writing by Google as 'Confidential' or an equivalent designation. However, You may accurately disclose the amount of Googleâ's gross payments to You pursuant to the Program.

(Thanks, Glenn!)

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Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a
drop to drink!

Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a
drop to drink! 04/07/2005 12:53 PM
The Garbage House is a bizarre but all-too -common phenomenon. Garbage houses often seem to be a product of a particular type of obsessive-compulsive disorder called compulsive hoarding. The hoarding [wmv, direct] may be of g arbage, animals, (the neighborhood "cat lady") or perhaps even "collectibles" from eBay. The most compulsive hoarders seem to be the Collyer Brothers[*], even prompting a book.

Taking out the garbage

Taking out the garbage 09/01/2004 06:14 AM

Scoble was fascinated how news of the Longhorn recalc propogated, but he missed the most fascinating aspect of the announcement. Microsoft shipped the story on a Friday night, I even got a detailed email from a Waggenerette, but the blogosphere waited until Monday to carry the story.

It wasn't that we were on vacation or weren't checking email over the weekend, it's just that by announcing it on Friday, Microsoft was clearly "taking out the garbage" (a term I learned from The West Wing). The blogosphere didn't play along. Blog flow over weekends, esp a late summer weekend, is miniscule compared to the flow on a Monday morning.

Garbage day in the village

Garbage day in the village 05/29/2004 08:51 PM

May 30, or 530. 5 3 can be read "gomi" in Japanese which means garbage. So what does May 30 mean in our village? Garbage 0 day. This morning, I participated with most of the village in picking up trash and junk around the village. Along one of the roads, there was an area that was clearly being used as an illegal garbage dump by many people. There were mufflers, car batteries, toilets, beds, bicycles and even a car dumped there. We spent the morning hoisting this junk out of the mud and carrying it in trucks to a location where the local government would come and collect it for us.

There were many children helping out as well. Hopefully this annual garage day will help educate them not to dump trash by the road.

I got a chance to meet more of my neighbors so it was nice. I still have a hard time remembering everyone's name but sharing this massive chore with the whole village was quite a bonding experience.

Auto garbage collection

Auto garbage collection 10/02/2002 11:17 PM
CNET Oct 2 2002 10:02PM ET

Smieciuch Garbage Collector

Smieciuch Garbage Collector 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Smieicuh 0.3.2 is out now

Reforming a garbage house

Reforming a garbage house 12/04/2003 08:21 PM
This is an inspiring story about an obsessive "hoarder" whose home had become a garbage house, so full of crap that he was in danger of going to jail for criminal violations of local ordinances. Then the county counsel cut a deal with the president of the local chapter of the National Assn. of Professional Organizers to help the craphound clean up his life -- and he allowed a news-crew to document the process.

Drum, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat tied under his chin, will supervise from a chair near the garage. Breininger is jazzed. Drum has kept his promise not to bring anything back into the two rooms the crew cleared out a week ago.

Drum is nervous. He frets about the broken windows and rotting flooring, things that must be fixed to put him back on the right side of the law. And he wants shelves so he can have his books, now boxed, around him.

"First, we get you organized, then we'll figure out how to take care of the repairs and the beautification," Breininger reminds him.

Link (via Making Light)

Adventures in Garbage Collecting

Adventures in Garbage Collecting 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
One of the nice things about being within driving distance of people who're phenomenally smarter than you are is that you sometimes get the benefits of their research. (Though Citeseer's darned nice too) For the interested, there's a seminar on garbage collection at MIT on Monday April 5th 2004. The announcement follows: "A (Grand?) Unified Theory of Storage Reclamation"Speaker: David F. BaconHost: Professor Martin RinardHost Affiliation: Computer Architecture Group Date: 4-5-2004Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMRefreshments: 3:15 PMLocation: Gates 7th Floor Lounge The two basic forms of automatic storage reclamation, tracing and reference counting, were invented at the dawn of...

Garbage man damage update

Garbage man damage update 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: (Click thumbnail image for enlargement) Here's an update from yesterday's garbage man damage report. The cable guy spliced the TV cable yesterday afternoon. He did a nice job. I gave him an orange from the orange tree.

The phone company won't come until Saturday. I was getting tired of having no internet or landline phone, so late yesterday afternoon I grabbed the phone cable that was lying across the road and ran with it quickly to the ladder and got up on the roof with it. (I had to run fast because there were a lot of cars on the street and I didn't want one to drive into the cable when it was only a couple of feet off the ground.) Then I took a bunch of wire nuts and some wire strippers and spliced the severed wires. Doesn't it look pretty? This ought to do until the phone repairman comes and yells at me for fixing it myself.
Also, here are a couple of emails I've gotten about yesterday's incident:

Jay says: I feel your pain about having the lines cut--I work from home and the loss of my cable line would be a disaster. And your garbage man sounds like a jerk. But don't castigate them all. There are deadlines--the crap has to be picked up in one day whether every house leaves one bag or a small mountain. I think there is plenty of stress too. Garbage stinks--and plenty of it is heavy and awkward to lift. I have left hot water tanks, washers, dryers, mounds of wet drywall, paneling, chunks of concrete--and plenty of good ol' household waste. It gets cleared away without fanfare, and I am very grateful. I live in a pretty affluent community and the garbage men make about 13 bucks an hour. Maybe trying to make ends meet on that paltry sum engenders some anger; for sure, it is hard to derive much joy and fun from life on such a cruddy wage. Or maybe it is the people who get impatient and roar around a stopped truck and nearly run them down all the time. Whatever. I don't call that well-paid, and I am ashamed it isn't higher. You had a bad day for sure, but I thought I'd point out how you came across and offer the other side. Boingboing is one the few things that lives up to its billing "a directory of wonderful things." Just this once, not so wonderful. -- Jay

Levi says: If you're looking for an answer [to the question "Why are garbage men so angry?], re-read what you said. When times get tough, you can fall back on your social status, education, or whatever else you inherently feel the world owes you. He, on the other hand, gets the shit end of that world payment structure. He implicitly takes the shit from people like you for being lesser than you. Feed that cycle back for years and years, and you get your incident today.

Greg says: Here are some answers:
1) He was as high as he thought he could be and still do his job.  It's a boring job.  
2) Realistically, it's not all that well-paid, and there's no room for advancement, especially without a bit of education.  
3) They can be fired, but they have to work at it.  Maybe this is his chance?  One of our guys rolled his oversize truck on a residential street in front of a visiting dignitary.  That works, but you need to be on a hill.  
4) It's a boring job, and you only get to listen to junk radio. 

Joshua says: Our garbagemen knocked over our mailbox and just kept going. Which meant the post office wouldn't deliver our mail until the mailbox was fixed (because they post office won't deliver to our door, only to our streetside mailbox--I don't know why). My wife called our landlady, who called the city about the mailbox. The mailbox was fixed (by our handyman), but as far as we know, nothing ever happened to the garbagemen who knocked over the mailbox.  

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers 08/20/2004 10:49 AM

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has disassociated himself from a much milder MoveOn.org ad that talks about Bush's Vietnam-era military "service," a questionable period for the president at best. Josh Marshall notes the tight connections, politically and financially, between the anti-Kerry "Swift boat veterans for truth" and Bush and his associates, and wonders why Bush isn't man enough to disclaim the sleaze. Marshall notes:

"In any real world sense, this is a front for the president. And for the saps who are willing to give the president the most improbable benefits of the doubt -- that this is something he has nothing to do with and is utterly beyond his control -- well, he won't even toss them a bone by making even the most innocuous statement of disassociation."

Meanwhile, the Washington Post uncovers information about the co-author of the Swift boaters' accompanying book that pretty much shreds his claim that Kerry wasn't under fire during the operation that resulted in the Democratic candidate's Bronze Star:

"But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to "enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire" directed at "all units" of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that day, and the citation praises him for providing assistance to a damaged Swift boat "despite enemy bullets flying about him."

Cleaner Tosses Art Out with the Garbage
(Reuters)

Cleaner Tosses Art Out with the Garbage
(Reuters) 08/29/2004 10:54 AM
Reuters - A cleaner at London's Tate Britain modern art gallery threw out a bag of garbage that was part of an artwork because it was thought to be trash, British newspapers reported Friday.

180 Gigs of Garbage - No Backups in
Sight

180 Gigs of Garbage - No Backups in
Sight 08/20/2002 02:34 PM
The only thing left to say is, "let that be a lesson to you kids".

Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out

Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out 05/25/2004 11:46 PM
This pilot fish's company installs in-room Internet access in hotels, which is a lot easier when the place is already wired with Cat 5 network cable. When it's not, fish has to work around the problem.

Free Real-Time Garbage

Free Real-Time Garbage 05/10/2004 04:19 PM
A teenage mutual fund manager lends his name to some penny stock hype. A feel-good story this ain't.

Reverse Trace Garbage Collector for C++
0.1

Reverse Trace Garbage Collector for C++
0.1 12/20/2003 04:59 PM
A garbage collector for C++.

Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying
(AP)

Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying
(AP) 04/15/2005 08:26 PM
AP - A garbage man with a long rap sheet was charged Friday with murder and rape in the stabbing death of a fashion writer whose mysterious slaying turned a spotlight on a small Cape Cod town and inspired a best-selling book.

Homeless Man Compacted in Garbage Truck
(AP)

Homeless Man Compacted in Garbage Truck
(AP) 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
AP - A homeless man who fell asleep in a commercial trash bin was dumped into the back of a garbage truck Friday and compacted — but escaped serious injury, officials said.

Garbage disposal installation made
simple

Garbage disposal installation made
simple 12/27/2004 09:28 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: My parents are staying with us for the holidays, and today my father and I installed a garbage disposal in the guesthouse kitchen sink. My father did 90% of the work, since he's a lot better at this kind of stuff than I am, but I had to pitch in for certain parts, because one of his hands is out of commission. He has a rare condition called Dupuytren's contracture -- thickening of skin tissue in the hands that makes it impossible to open them. It's a genetic condition that seems to affect people with Viking ancestry. He had a "palmar fasciotomy," a surgical procedure to cut the bands of thickened tissue. So his right hand is all bandaged up. (Click thumbnails for enlargement).

We saved a few hours installing the garbage disposal by using this great wireless switch purchased at Home Depot. It cost $18 and has a range of 100 feet (we mounted it just a few feet from the disposal, of course). I'm wondering what else I use these things for. What a terrific idea!

Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage
(Reuters)

Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - A cleaner at London's Tate Britain modern art gallery threw out a bag of garbage which formed part of an artwork because it was thought to be trash, British newspapers reported Friday.

Garbage Collection Library for C++ 1.0
(Default branch)

Garbage Collection Library for C++ 1.0
(Default branch) 06/22/2005 02:28 AM
LibGC is a small, fast, portable, multi-threaded garbage collection library for C++. It is highly customizable, as it can be multithreaded or single threaded, and the memory size to use for the collector may be changed at compile time. It is precise, as it only scans pointers that exist as members on the stack or as global variables. It's very easy to use, since it has only two classes, Object (the base class for garbage-collected objects) and Pointer (for garbage-collected pointers).

Crafty crackhead Powerbook made from
garbage bags

Crafty crackhead Powerbook made from
garbage bags 12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Cory Doctorow: There's a big-city hustle that goes like this: a hustler comes up to offering to fence you some stolen big-ticket electronics item, still sealed in its box -- say, a video camera. You can heft that box all you like, but no opening the shrink-wrap, as that would lower the resale value. Once you give the crackhead $20 for this boss $1000 camera and tear off the shrinkwrap, you discover that you've just bought a brick in a camcorder box. Basically, it's what happens when you combine crackheads, a supply of fresh consumer electronics boxes, and a shrinkwrapping machine.

Here's a modern twist on an old favorite: buy a Powerbook for a double-sawbuck. What's in the black, sleek Powerbook box?

"A fake laptop made of gray garbage bag and cardboard, spray-painted platinum silver and finished with A HAND-PAINTED APPLE LOGO DONE IN WITE-OUT."

Oh, man, that's some Martha Stewartoid crackhead creativity. Link (via Making Light)

Garbage man severs my phone, TV cable,
internet, drives away

Garbage man severs my phone, TV cable,
internet, drives away 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: I don't understand why garbage men always seem angry? What's to be angry about? They are well paid, have no deadlines or stress, never have to get their butt out of their seat, get excellent health benefits, paid vacation, and so on.

Garbage men never have to worry about getting fired, no matter how badly they screw up. That's probably why the Los Angeles garbage man who snapped my phone, TV cable, and internet lines, damaging my roof in the process, drove away without so much as a note with a number we could call. A neighbor saw the whole thing happen this morning. The driver shrugged and kept on going. "Not my problem," he probably thought to himself, assuming he had enough empathy to realize he had inconvenienced another person.

Now there are cables stretched across the road. I called the city, and they told me they'll send me a paper form in the mail to fill out. That's the city's way of dealing with the problem quickly.

The cable guy is here now, but he said he couldn't fix it until the pole on the roof was fixed. I climbed up on the roof and unbent the pole enough for him to pull the cable through.

The phone company won't come until Saturday. Meanwhile, the garbage man is probably downloading internet porn, yelling at his ex-wife's child support lawyer on the phone, and watching Die Hard VIII on cable, because nobody snapped his wires. I don't like you, garbage man.

Airport snoop system thrown in $102m
garbage can

Airport snoop system thrown in $102m
garbage can 07/16/2004 05:18 PM
CAPPS II snafu

Sun critics hear the sound of two
garbage trucks colliding

Sun critics hear the sound of two
garbage trucks colliding 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
Analysis Is StorageTek buy a waste?

Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage
Collector 6.3alpha2 (Alpha)

Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage
Collector 6.3alpha2 (Alpha) 12/11/2003 06:14 AM
A garbage collector as a replacement for C malloc or C++ new.

Make Your Own Backdrop

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: pa "oil from garbage"