So Damned Sick
Grok Headline matches for So Damned Sick
What are the damned things for, anyway?
What are the damned things for, anyway?
02/10/2004 02:56 AMDear Social Software mavens, I just posted a version of this as a
comment on the Many-to-many weblog, hoping that David Weinberger or
Liz Lawlor would respond, but maybe some random visitor can explain to
me what people get out of these artificially created social networks?
I've been reading the buzz about Orkut, and have received an
invitation to join, but I deleted the message. Maybe I am just thick,
or anti-social, or both, but I don’t get it. I joined
Friendster, Ryze, and Tribe because people suggested that I do so,
then .... nothing. I went to each a couple of times, and found a
wasteland. The primary activity I saw going on was self-promotion.
There must be something more to them than that. What are the damn
things for? Signed, Clueless in Berkeley...
File::Tail is damned useful
File::Tail is damned useful
01/18/2004 11:28 PMIn the last week or so, I've developed a renewed appreciation for the
File::Tail Perl module. If you haven't guessed from the name, this
module provides a native Perl implementation of something akin to tail
-f somefile and--better yet--it can do this on multiple files at the
same time. In case you're wondering, the reason I find it so helpful
is that I've been building various tools that need to perform
real-time scanning of log files. Specifically, I'm dealing with...
Australia's Iraq war case damned
Australia's Iraq war case damned
07/22/2004 02:57 AMAustralia relied on 'thin, ambiguous and incomplete' intelligence to
go to war in Iraq, an inquiry finds.
Four CDs I'm damned glad I bought this
weekend
Four CDs I'm damned glad I bought this
weekend
12/22/2003 11:20 AMI took a stack of used CDs to my corner record store this weekend and
traded them in for a bunch of new music. Here are the picks of the
litter:
-
Deep Note: Music of 1970s Adult Cinema: The title says it all,
doesn't it? This is a CD that was made for MP3 players. It's amusing
to listen to the "tone poems" of ecstatic chanting layered over
wah-wah pedals -- once. But the actual funk tracks on this are really
nice, the kind of thing you want to put in a high-rotation playlist
for urban walking; think of the fat-bass instrumentals from the Fat
Albert theme with a George Clinton's slitheriest, perviest licks.
-
Five Red Caps: 1943-1945. Steve Gibson and the Five Red Caps
were a comic, vocal-oriented boogie-woogie act that released a ton of
music in the 30s, 40s and 50s, almost none of which is available
today. This disc of wartime tracks contains some of my favorite music
of all time: Grand Central Station ("Got a yearning to be/down in
Tennessee/got a sweetheart that waits for me/got the biggest brown
eyes/that can hypnotize/makes you wanna leave New York"), Mama Put
Your Britches On ("Put away your fancy hose/and your dainty dese and
dose/what you need now is Victory Clothes/so Mama put your britches
on"), and Gabriel's Band ("Better be prepared if you want a part in
that heavenly show/or on judgement day they'll find a place for you
below/make your trumpet call ring out/hallelujah sing and shout/gotta
know what rhythm's 'bout, if you wanna play in Gabriel's Band")
-
The Beau Hunks Play the Original Little Rascals Music. Roy
Shield, the composer of the incidental and theme music for the Little
Rascals shorts, was a freaking genius, an unsung hero on the order of
Raymond Scott and Carl Stalling. His
orchestral music -- faithfully recreated by the Beau Hunks here --
manages to evoke the sepia-toned comedy of the Our Gang serials,
especially in some of the really short tracks, like the ten seconds of
the woodwind-section laughing; close your eyes when it plays and you
can see Spanky holding his gut and rocking back and forth.
-
Doob Doob O' Rama: Filmsongs of Bollywood: One of my
plane-trip books for tomorrow is the bound manuscript for Bruce
Sterling's new technothriller (Me: "What's a technothriller?" Bruce:
"It's like a science fiction novel, only it's got the President in
it"), The Zenith Angle, which apparently revolves around Bollywood
(I haven't cracked the cover yet, I'm just going off of the stuff he's
been blogging). I really enjoyed the Bollywood tracks on the Ghost World soundtrack and the occassional Bollywood licks in
Fat Boy Slim and at my local curry hut, but I had no idea of where to
begin. This disc turns out to be just the right place for me to have
started. I'm enjoying the hell out of it, and I suspect that Asha
Bosle has stolen away Tiny Weymouth's place in my heart as my
obligatory rock-star crush.
New Kleptones mashup album is so damned
fine
New Kleptones mashup album is so damned
fine
02/05/2005 09:25 PMCory Doctorow:
The Kleptones (who created the drop-dead, stunning, brilliant mashup
album "A Night at the HipHopera") have released another full disc's
worth of stupendous mashups, "created for broadcast on "The Rinse",
XFM, London, UK. 23rd January 2005." Click below for links to the
torrents and let the plunderphonics begin!
LinkChinese teenagers find Net just too
damned attractive
Chinese teenagers find Net just too
damned attractive
02/11/2004 10:56 AMParanoia and delirium
Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right€”again. By Fred Kaplan
Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right€”again. By Fred Kaplan
09/03/2004 07:55 PMLies, Damned Lies, and Convention Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right€”again. By Fred Kaplan
slate.msn.com/id/2106119
track this
site | 4 links
Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right—again. By Fred Kaplan
Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right—again. By Fred Kaplan
09/03/2004 09:29 PMmediabistro.com: Articles: Lies, Damned
Lies, and Google
mediabistro.com: Articles: Lies, Damned
Lies, and Google
02/19/2004 10:02 AMLazy reporters lean on Google for meaningless statistics ..
Journalists Using Google Page Estimates .. "Lies, Damned Lies and
Google .. Lionel Beehner ..
more
mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1217.asp
track this
site | 5 links
sick day
sick day
04/09/2004 03:56 PMI have a love/hate relationship. I love being home to nurture an
illness, but I hate being home all day....
Sick Car
Sick Car
06/22/2004 12:41 PMMy car is sick. However instead of waiting for it to explode and buy a
new one I actually took it to a shop to...
PCs are sick, sick, sick
PCs are sick, sick, sick
06/24/2004 06:18 PMInsanely Great Mac Jun 24 2004 9:52PM GMT
Sick!
Sick!
03/13/2003 10:22 AMI just wrote a long story here, it disappeared, I am sick, Marius is
sick (throwing up), and everything is...
I'm Sick
I'm Sick
08/27/2004 01:48 PMMy insides are becoming my outsides. I'll try to get something
going here in a bit.
What a sick thing to do...
What a sick thing to do...
07/25/2004 04:03 PM
Bush administration seeks to block consumer drug
suits. White House says injury claims undermine FDA.
Gee. I don't know
wh
y we might need some legal recourse against drug manufacturers?
Weasels!
sick graphics
sick graphics
08/29/2004 01:48 AMTechTree Aug 29 2004 5:47AM GMT
Are you sick of Google yet?
Are you sick of Google yet?
08/18/2004 04:57 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Are you sick of
Google yet?'
Are we sick of Google yet? Expect to get even sicker as the Google
IPO becomes an exercise in futility for the company and the investment
community at large. The reason why this has turned into a laughable
fiasco is because the investment bankers, the brokers, and the
middlemen have decided to queer this deal in any way they can. Nobody
who got rich during the dot-com era wants to see the model for
the…
PCs out sick more than users
PCs out sick more than users
06/25/2004 08:37 AMThe average UK PC is rendered unusable for the equivalent of around
nine working days every year because the owner is cleaning up spam or
fighting viruses. This is two days a year more than the average UK
worker takes off as sick leave, according to Yahoo. A survey of 2,500
UK e-mail users found that 70 percent of users had been infected by a
virus in the past year and 42 percent say they found it less stressful
fighting their way through rush-hour traffic than finding legitimate
e-mails among the spam in their inboxes. Spam is a problem for all
e-mail users but some companies are hit harder than others.
Sick and Sicker
Sick and Sicker
03/20/2003 05:31 PMI've been sick this past week, but that hasn't stopped me from testing
applications for Lockergnome. In between trips to the toilet, I
stumbled upon Huminity. I'd point you directly to its site, but I
don't want you to install it. In fact, I want you to tell everybody on
the PLANET not to install it. Why? Because it just raped my address
book. I guess I didn't take their privacy policy literally: 'Contacts
are notified by a one-time e-mail notification about their inclusion
in the Huminity network.' WTF?! Assume that when you install the
program, the people in your contacts list will be notified with no
further warning. Sick! Well, if you got a message from me telling you
to join this network, let me use this space to WARN YOU to avoid this
site / software at all cost....
sick leave?
sick leave?
03/13/2003 10:15 AMTell me, WTF is up with ER not being on for two weeks? This is the one
show that Kevin...
YSM ICQ - You Sick Me - ICQ Client
YSM ICQ - You Sick Me - ICQ Client
05/01/2004 06:54 PMysm 2.9.5 is ready!
Sycamore Sick No More?
Sycamore Sick No More?
05/11/2004 02:57 PMSetting expectations for this onetime high flier.
All kinds of Ick in my Sick
All kinds of Ick in my Sick
12/29/2003 04:20 PMNot to a whole lot of fun going on here I'm sick of being sick, the
rain looks more like...
Lies, damned lies and patches
Lies, damned lies and patches
04/13/2004 09:51 AMBlocking sick surfers
Blocking sick surfers
06/07/2004 07:05 PMUSA Today Jun 7 2004 10:13PM GMT
How Many Sick Days Does Your Computer
Have?
How Many Sick Days Does Your Computer
Have?
06/23/2004 11:06 AMA new study from Yahoo in the UK shows that the average British
computer
has nine
"sick days", where the owner has to waste time fixing problems
instead of being productive. Six of those nine days are due to
dealing with spam, and the other three are from viruses. Once again,
though, people are
looking
to their ISP to solve this problem, even if
ISPs
have been hesitant to do so. It's getting to the point, however,
where ISPs that don't aggressively police their networks for spam,
viruses and other malware may start losing customers to those that do.
PCs take more sick days than their users
PCs take more sick days than their users
06/23/2004 10:36 PMComputers Make You Sick
Computers Make You Sick
09/09/2004 12:33 PMNot feeling so good? Perhaps you should blame your computer. A new
study says that
three out of every four office workers have
health problems because they're not properly trained to use their
computer. The problems are pretty obvious: back problems, eyesight
problems or headaches. As this becomes a bigger and bigger problem,
the suggestion is that corporations need to be more proactive in
training people on good computing and good ergonomics. Of course,
none of this seems particularly new, and many companies already have
ergonomics groups that make sure people are well set up to use their
computer in a healthy manner. At some point, good computing practices
and good ergonomics are going to be issues that people are trained in
at an early age -- and not at the office. However, in the meantime,
companies who want to protect their employees' eyes, back and head
might want to do a better job ensuring good computing ergonomic
practices.
School made him sick
School made him sick
06/17/2005 03:35 PMDavid Pescovitz:
An Olathe, Kansas high school student was charged with battery against
a school official for vomiting on his Spanish teacher. The boy's
father said his son was just sickened by the stress of exams and
didn't purposefully throw up on the teacher. An assistant district
attorney said he has witnesses who say that's not the case. "I think a
message is being sent by both the school district and the district
attorney that this behavior will not be tolerated," the teacher told
the Associated Press.
LinkPCs take nine sick days a year
PCs take nine sick days a year
06/24/2004 07:31 PMInfomatics Jun 24 2004 11:14PM GMT
PCs Use More Sick Days Than People
PCs Use More Sick Days Than People
06/25/2004 02:10 PMOS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable?
OS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable?
08/10/2004 07:37 PMThe built-in calculator in OS 10.4 may be wildly unreliable. By
Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac (via MyAppleMenu)
Flick mosquitos or you could get sick
and die
Flick mosquitos or you could get sick
and die
07/19/2004 01:32 AMIf you catch a mosquito feeding on you, you should flick it away
rather than squashing it, lest you drive its infectious guts into your
body.
The issue is reviewed in an article published this month in the New
England Journal of Medicine that focuses on a 57-year-old Pennsylvania
woman who died in 2002 of a fungal infection in her muscles called
Brachiola algerae.
Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only
in mosquitoes and other insects. But it's not found in mosquito saliva
like West Nile virus and malaria, so a simple mosquito bite could not
have caused the infection.
The article's authors concluded that the woman must have smashed a
mosquito on her skin, smearing its body parts into the bite.
Link
(via Fark)
Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick?
Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick?
08/09/2004 08:23 PM"You don't make a disclosure every time someone gets a gallbladder
surgery. But cancer is a highly charged illness in our society." By
Benjamin Pimentel, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)
Contractors sick of computers
Contractors sick of computers
06/26/2004 08:29 PMProsperity4 Jun 27 2004 0:40AM GMT
Sick workers 'struggle on'
Sick workers 'struggle on'
01/23/2004 03:55 AMWest Midlands employees and white-collar workers are the most likely
to struggle into work when they are ill.
I'm sick of doing things the hard way
I'm sick of doing things the hard way
04/09/2004 04:00 PMThat's it. I've decided. I'm switching. In the very near future (after
taxes are computed, reported, and paid) I'm putting one of my
Thinkpads (the T21 running Linux) and my oldish G4 Apple Powerbook
(15" 550MHz) up for sale. Using the funds from those sales and a bit
of other cash, I'll be buying a new 15" Powerbook. This has been a
long time coming. In the nearly 2 years since I wrote that reivew,
I've upgraded it a bit....
Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug
as HP
Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug
as HP
01/22/2004 08:47 AMheal your sick house
heal your sick house
02/16/2004 09:24 PM Geopathic
Stress , otherwise known as negative earth energies, black streams
or earth rays, have become acknowledged as a hazard to health.
Grok Description matches for So Damned Sick
GrokA matches for So Damned Sick
CNN.com - Justice Souter assaulted
during jog - May 1, 2004
CNN.com - Justice Souter assaulted
during jog - May 1, 2004
05/01/2004 08:17 PMattacked last night .. ...story
link
cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/01/souter.assaulted/index.html
track this
site | 4 links
Supreme Court Justice Souter Assaulted
(AP)
Supreme Court Justice Souter Assaulted
(AP)
05/01/2004 01:20 PMAP - Supreme Court Justice David Souter suffered minor injuries when a
group of young men assaulted him as he jogged on a city street, a
court spokeswoman said Saturday.
Q&A: John Souter, chief executive,
London Internet Exchange
Q&A: John Souter, chief executive,
London Internet Exchange
05/05/2004 07:52 PMPC Magazine UK May 6 2004 0:39AM GMT
PRWeb Named WebAward Sponsor by Web
Marketing Association
PRWeb Named WebAward Sponsor by Web
Marketing Association
03/28/2005 03:26 AMThe online newswire will sponsor the 9th Annual WebAward Competition
for Internet excellence. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]
Agent Leaves U.S. Secret Service to join
PRWeb.com.
Agent Leaves U.S. Secret Service to join
PRWeb.com.
07/29/2004 02:57 AMSpecial Agent Mick Jolly resigned from the United States Secret
Service to accept a position as Director of Strategic Channels for
PRWeb, an online newswire company. [PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]
Strategic Ranking, LLC Partners with
PRWeb and SEO-PR to Offer Press Release
Optimization and Online News
Distribution Services to Clients
Strategic Ranking, LLC Partners with
PRWeb and SEO-PR to Offer Press Release
Optimization and Online News
Distribution Services to Clients
03/30/2005 03:29 AMStrategic Ranking, LLC partners with PRWeb and SEO-PR enabling the
Richmond Virginia area-based national search engine marketing
consulting company to provide premier cost-effective press release
optimization and online news distribution services to clients.
Introductory 10% discount offered to clients at
http://www.strategic-ranking.com/pressreleaseoptimization.htm [PRWEB
Mar 30, 2005]
"Night at the Ice Hotel - Ice Hotel"
"Night at the Ice Hotel - Ice Hotel"
06/20/2004 08:29 PMMENDON, Mass. (PRWEB) – Sept. 23, 2004 –
Geographic Software Launches a New
Bookstore and Software Portal For
Geographic Information Systems and
Mapping Professionals.
MENDON, Mass. (PRWEB) – Sept. 23, 2004 –
Geographic Software Launches a New
Bookstore and Software Portal For
Geographic Information Systems and
Mapping Professionals.
09/23/2004 11:45 PMGeographic Software is a Geographic Systems Applications consulting
firm. In affiliation with Amazon.com (http://www.Amazon.com) and eBay
(http://www.eBay.com) - two of the largest Internet online retailers,
Geographic Software has created an online store that specializes in
the sale of the latest geographic systems related books, software, and
hand held electronics. Available now at:
http://www.GeographicSoftware.com. [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]
New Look, New Version pdfMachine 9.6 Now
Available - Only US$49 per Licence, or
Free If You Have a Previous Version
New Look, New Version pdfMachine 9.6 Now
Available - Only US$49 per Licence, or
Free If You Have a Previous Version
06/01/2004 02:33 AMpdfMachine 9.6 NEW FEATURES• Now pdfMachine viewer can be started in
"stand alone" mode with no PDF loaded.• File open menu option - open
and assemble any PDF file, not just those created by pdfMachine.•
Opening of encrypted PDF's is supported; passwords are prompted for if
required.• "Sticky note" style comments/annotations. [PRWEB Jun 1,
2004]
Tucows 5 Stars Award Winner Software
4Diskclean Gold Updated to version
4.5!Freeware version of 4diskclean
released!
Tucows 5 Stars Award Winner Software
4Diskclean Gold Updated to version
4.5!Freeware version of 4diskclean
released!
07/10/2004 02:40 AMClean and optimize Your Windows System. Rss Systems
http://4diskclean.com 4Diskclean Gold
http://4diskclean.com/4df.htm FREEWARE [PRWEB Jul 10, 2004]
Ice Hotel
Ice Hotel
07/10/2004 05:10 PM
The Ice Hotel, a working
5,000 square metre hotel made entirely of 30,000 tons of snow and
4,000 tons of ice.
hotel arizona
hotel arizona
03/14/2005 05:43 PMJust A Geek has gotten a couple of nice reviews recently, and I wanted
to share them with WWdN readers,...
Web Zen: Hotel Motel Zen
Web Zen: Hotel Motel Zen
06/13/2004 12:56 AM
ice hotel
hotel
pelirocco
propeller island hotel
the gobbler motel
madonna
inn
wigwam village
hoogerbrugge hotel
web zen home,
web zen store,
(
Thanks, Frank).
Hacking the Hotel TV
Hacking the Hotel TV
09/24/2004 05:40 PMHow to get your video from their TV
"Little America Hotel"
"Little America Hotel"
05/19/2004 01:25 AMWhich Hotel Chains Have Wi-Fi?
Which Hotel Chains Have Wi-Fi?
04/08/2005 12:16 PM Travel columnist provides overview and links: A Washington Post
travel columnist answers a reader's question about using free Wi-Fi at
hotels with a long list with links and phone numbers of the chains
that have extensive free installations of Wi-Fi. Also noted is SBC's
statistic that 25 percent of travelers plan to use "wireless
electronics" (one assumes Wi-Fi) while on the road....
Hotel Magritte 1.0.5
Hotel Magritte 1.0.5
05/19/2004 08:53 PMA screen saver that shows surrealistic rooms.
MMS Hotel Alert!
MMS Hotel Alert!
02/17/2004 05:01 PMI know I'm naked, could you just tell me
how to get back to the hotel?
I know I'm naked, could you just tell me
how to get back to the hotel?
04/24/2004 06:24 AM
The Zompist
Phrasebook may well be the only phrasebook you'll ever need.
Unless, of course, you need to say something other than "The
bellboy won't score me any coke!" or "Don't
'imperialist pig'
me, my good man." (note:
zompist.com covered here
way back in the dark
ages.)
Web hotel bookers sued over tax
Web hotel bookers sued over tax
01/05/2005 11:08 AMCNN Jan 5 2005 2:16PM GMT
Tahoe Hotel Provides Computers
Tahoe Hotel Provides Computers
10/28/2003 11:09 PMThe Block, a hotel in Tahoe that apparently caters specifically to
snowboarders, is offering Wi-Fi to customers that don't have laptops.
Access Data Technologies is providing what it calls the iGenie, a
"compact, portable Web tablet," in the Block's cyber cafe so that
customers can use the Wi-Fi connection even if they don't have their
own laptop or PDA. It looks like users will see advertising on the
device in exchange for free Internet access. VisionWorks Interactive
is a marketing and distribution company that is putting this service
together. It also has deals with Wayport and Surf and Sip. It's a good
idea to place computers in hot spots, but I'm not sure why this
application requires a fancy user device. Seems that a regular laptop
or desktop would do the trick. I couldn't find the press release about
this announcement online but VisonWorks Interactive and Access Data
Technologies put the service together....
Hotel Maintenance System
Hotel Maintenance System
05/16/2004 07:59 AMProject Sponsors Needed...
Hotel Charges $1,000 for Omelet (AP)
Hotel Charges $1,000 for Omelet (AP)
05/17/2004 07:32 AMAP - It's not made of gold — just eggs, lobster, caviar and a few
trimmings. But an omelet on the menu of a swanky Manhattan hotel will
set you back $1,000, plus tip.
PDAs Help Hotel Guests
PDAs Help Hotel Guests
02/19/2004 03:25 PMCareDecision will install its ResidenceWare platform in as many as 65
hotels in the New York area: The deal will start with eight hotels in
New York City, including a Days Inn, Quality Inn, Comfort Inn, and
Super 8. The platform includes a PDA in each guest room that interacts
with the hotel manager over a Wi-Fi network. The PDA can be embedded
in the wall behind a screen to avoid damage. Guests can use it to
order food from local restaurants, arrange for laundry to be cleaned,
and buy tickets for tourist events. The first implementation will
include 600 PDAs and ultimately CareDecision thinks the deal will
include installation of 5,800 units....
Hotel security priorities
Hotel security priorities
09/08/2004 10:19 AM
I stayed
in New York
last night for a talk I gave this morning. The hotel's security
priorities were, um, interesting.
...My hotel in Sonoma... [Flickr]
My hotel in Sonoma... [Flickr]
04/11/2005 11:35 AMAt Least 20 Die in Paris Hotel Fire
At Least 20 Die in Paris Hotel Fire
04/15/2005 05:55 PMA fire devastated a hotel today in the most deadly blaze in the
capital in more than three decades.
The Cellphone That Doesn't Work at the
Hotel
The Cellphone That Doesn't Work at the
Hotel
09/08/2004 01:22 AMA theory is gaining traction among frequent travelers that hotels are
intentionally blocking their cellphone signals.
So Paris Hilton is not a hotel, then.
So Paris Hilton is not a hotel, then.
12/21/2003 11:50 PM That
Paris Hilton sex-tape in full. She's not really as pretty as I
thought. Probably NSFW.
Worst hotel wifi...ever
Worst hotel wifi...ever
04/15/2005 12:57 AMI'm at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort (trip #2 of my 3 trips to Phoenix
over the course of 8 days). The hotel is lovely but their broadband
offerings consist of two parts: You can get broadband via a wire in
your bedroom for $10 for 24 hours, or you can take advantage of the
wifi in the hotel lobby for $10 per use. Yes, per use. Cheaper hotels
offer wifi for free. More expensive hotels sometimes, in my
experience, make you pay for a wired hookup in your bedroom but
provide free wifi in the lobby. Leave it to the...
So Damned Sick
