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"Alton Brown" 01/01/2004 11:08 AM

Best Alton Brown moment ever

Best Alton Brown moment ever 06/02/2004 03:17 PM

The fact that 'Dr' Phil has the number 1 cookbook on Amazon.com makes me want to end it all.
posted by Alton Brown, 7:38 PM

New Section: Rants and Raves

New Section: Rants and Raves 10/08/2002 07:10 AM

The Mac Observer: Dr. Mac: Rants &
Raves - First Look: Hands-On With
GarageBand

The Mac Observer: Dr. Mac: Rants &
Raves - First Look: Hands-On With
GarageBand 01/18/2004 12:22 AM
The Mac Observer: Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - First Look: Hands-On With GarageBand .. Bob LeVitus .. reviews

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Rants And Raves: iPod Promoters Feel The
Heat

Rants And Raves: iPod Promoters Feel The
Heat 09/24/2004 09:25 AM
Like many others, I was completely screwed by the FreeiPods.com scheme. By Mike Amburn, Tyler Derheim, and John Borell, Wired News (via MyAppleMenu)

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has
appointed James Brown Brown to be the
first US 'secretary of soul and foreign
minister of funk'

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has
appointed James Brown Brown to be the
first US 'secretary of soul and foreign
minister of funk' 12/11/2003 06:12 AM
Colin Powell reminds everyone he's black .. Yahoo!

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No Raves for Revlon

No Raves for Revlon 08/03/2004 01:07 PM
The cosmetic maker must work hard to be beautiful again.

tog raves about panther

tog raves about panther 01/19/2004 03:57 AM
his complaints about Import/Export seem extremely important to me: iLife apps should be views on the file system, not proprietary databases

roundup of raves for medulla

roundup of raves for medulla 09/03/2004 06:06 PM
and everyone correctly likes the first half of r. kelly's album

Road raves at the N.Y. Auto Show

Road raves at the N.Y. Auto Show 03/24/2005 01:51 PM
Hybrids share the driver's seat with computerized cars and future models at gathering of car enthusiasts.

Sun raves about US$99 developer tool
plan

Sun raves about US$99 developer tool
plan 06/25/2004 12:40 AM
CNET Asia Jun 25 2004 4:33AM GMT

Sun raves about $99 developer tool plan

Sun raves about $99 developer tool plan 06/24/2004 07:55 PM
Company hopes release of 'Rave' will help it more than double the number of Java programmers.

Forbes Raves About Mozilla Firebird

Forbes Raves About Mozilla Firebird 02/10/2004 04:33 AM

Sun?s Project Rave draws raves

Sun?s Project Rave draws raves 05/12/2004 06:51 PM
Java Studio Creator, the purported easy-to-use Java development tool due from Sun Microsystems this summer, drew raves from some early users Wednesday morning, albeit with reservations about the availability of components.

WSJ's Walt Mossberg raves about the new
iMac G5

WSJ's Walt Mossberg raves about the new
iMac G5 09/23/2004 06:58 AM
In his latest "Personal Technology" column for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg gives very high praise to Apple's new iMac G5...

Plone 2.0: eWEEK Reviews, Raves About OS
Software

Plone 2.0: eWEEK Reviews, Raves About OS
Software 04/11/2004 01:34 AM

Rizzo: Party Like It's 1999,
Philadelphia! And Chicago Raves

Rizzo: Party Like It's 1999,
Philadelphia! And Chicago Raves 03/14/2005 05:46 PM
Councilman Frank Rizzo suggests Philadelphia re-activate Ricochet network: I'd like to ridicule Rizzo here as I have elsewhere for making statements that have little technical merit and use dubious background research that comes from paid-for policy institute reports. But I can't. This is a very interesting idea, reactivating the former Metricom's ubiquitous low-broadband-speed network as an experiment. While a modern infrastructure is needed for Philadelphia's public-safety purposes and for their broadband proposal, reactivating Ricochet would allow the city to start immediately on bridging the digital divide at an extremely low cost. It's a way to test how the market and citizens respond to faster-than-dial-up. There's very little risk, and the company that owns Metricom's assets appears eager to be involved. But one comment in the story can't stand. Steven Schwendemann, "a vice president for Ricochet Networks Inc., a subsidiary of YDI Wireless," said, "WiFi cannot go through walls." That's a very interesting statement, and I imagine he said in more depth that Wi-Fi can't easily penetrate indoors from distant access points without additional equipment than built-in Wi-Fi adapters. In many mesh Wi-Fi installations, high-gain interior access point/bridges are used to solve that problem. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the city thinks about muni-Fi: the city's early estimates are under $20 million for a network somewhat similar to Philadelphia's upcoming proposal request. Unfortunately, the local alderman who wants to study the idea made this crazy statement: "If you looked at 500,000 Chicago households that presently are accessing the Internet and multiply that by $20 (a month), that could be a huge amount of money," the alderman said. Right, but you'll be offering speeds far below the wired broadband providers--and you probably should not be trumpeting the idea that your goal is to steal customers from existing providers, which is a pretty unlikely proposition. But the good news is that the Heartland Institute is based in Chicago on LaSalle and would thus be forced to leave the socialist city (and its socialist public roads, public lights, public electricity, and public police) into some bastion of democracy elsewhere. Maybe Texas?...

Yuri's Night "space raves" around the
world on April 12

Yuri's Night "space raves" around the
world on April 12 04/06/2005 02:48 PM
Xeni Jardin: Here's the math: 49 parties, 18 countries, 6 continents, one planet. The event known as "Yuri’s Night: The World Space Party" celebrates 45 years of human space exploration with tech ravers in concurrent parties all over the world. A trio of cool young astro-geeks (Loretta Hidalgo, George Whitesides, and Trish Garner) are behind it all, and I'll be covering the LA edition on April 12 for NPR's "Day to Day." Snip from the website:

A live web cast will join the various Yuri’s Night parties around the globe that are happening at concurrent times. First observed in 2000, Yuri’s Night occurs annually on April 12, marking the anniversaries of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight in 1961 and the first space shuttle mission 20 years later. Each year, a series of space-themed parties, dinners and educational events are held around the world to mark these historic achievements. Organized by the non-profit Space Generation Foundation, Yuri’s Night combines popular music, science, and art to introduce teens and young adults to the thrill of space.

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Previously on BB: $10 raffle for a trip to Zero G, James Cameron's new 3D film Aliens of the Deep, and Zero G -- Xeni's Wired News and NPR reports.

Random Rants

Random Rants 04/15/2005 04:40 AM
US Government Bans Books: According to the security guy that patted me down, it's not just lighters not allowed on flights, but our book capacity has been trimmed from 4 to 2. Tivo and Netflix Need Each Other: Why...

Joel Rants About Resumes

Joel Rants About Resumes 01/26/2004 01:51 PM

Early morning RSS rants

Early morning RSS rants 12/09/2003 10:57 AM

RSS clearly is about to go through another growth spurt. And as with each other time its eclipsed its former self there are people who seem to want to take control, redefine it in some bizarre and undignified way. If people would first study the history of RSS and see how much it has suffered from this kind of greed, perhaps they'd back off and just be grateful that there's new technology that makes the Internet much more useful, and leave it at that. (They usually say their ignorance is their strength, btw.)

The name RSS is every bit as good as any other name you can come up with, and it has the advantage that it's the name everyone uses. Read a marketing text book. It doesn't matter what it's called, rather that it means something in lots of brains. Trying to make a new name stick will only make the whole thing weaker.

For example, imagine falling in love with someone. "You're the perfect person for me," you say. "But your name doesn't communicate who you are. Let's have a contest to come up with a new name for you." Now, how clueless would that be?

One more thing. There's a myth going around that there is a way to do publish-subscribe without polling. Not true. At some level, every apparently non-polling technology is built on, you guessed it, polling. It's all just an illusion. Computers don't really do interrupts. At some level it's polling.

Now, should an aggregator be polling every 30 minutes? The convention early on was no more than once an hour. But newer aggregators either never heard of the convention or chose to ignore it. Some aggregators let the users scan whenever they want. Please don't do that. Once an hour is enough. Otherwise bandwidth bills won't scale. Further, there are good ways to optimize this stuff, but that would require cooperation among members of the community. And this community is well-known for not cooperating with each other. We let a small number of people fillibuster the mail lists, people who don't produce software on either end of the RSS equation, and thereby progress happens in very small steps if it ever happens at all.

Net-net, it's good that users are taking an interest in RSS. But it's bad that they're behaving just as the geeks did, selfishly, in a controlling way, fighting over things that were decided a long time ago. Human nature comes along for the ride with us on our journey to more effective communication tools. Can people see the big picture and let good stuff like RSS rise to the top without pulling it down? I've become a pessimist over the years, I think they can't help themselves. So it's a miracle something new happened. Enjoy it while you can.

"Early morning RSS rants"

"Early morning RSS rants" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

"stupid and unintentionally humorous
rants"

"stupid and unintentionally humorous
rants" 08/06/2004 02:56 PM

Winer's Early Morning RSS Rants

Winer's Early Morning RSS Rants 12/30/2003 12:07 AM

Dave Winer ra nts about RSS.

Random rants, thoughts and general all
around bs

Random rants, thoughts and general all
around bs 12/09/2003 04:54 PM
Remember the game Candyland? I dreamt I lived there and it's not as sticky as I thought it would be....

Rants System Quotes Bug Fixed

Rants System Quotes Bug Fixed 10/08/2002 07:10 AM

Perfectly Good Rants Gone To Waste

Perfectly Good Rants Gone To Waste 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:33PM GMT

Two rants on Geneva's crappy WiFi, one
fictional, one non-

Two rants on Geneva's crappy WiFi, one
fictional, one non- 12/13/2003 12:43 PM
Lessig's just got back form the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, where he ran into the Swiss version of WiFi, a craptacular extravaganza of telecom stupidity compounded by the irony of hosting a summit on the "Information Society" where it's easier to get a gift bag of conference schwag than an Internet connection. Lessig's rant on the subject is entertaining, and it put me in mind of a section I wrote for my novel-in-progress, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," which is about community wireless hackers (among other things) and this chunk was inspired by my trip to Geneva a couple months ago to attend the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. I've uploaded the relevant section.

"No problem -- outside every hotel and most of the cafes, I can find a signal for a network called 'SwissCom.' I log on to the network and I fire up a browser and I get a screen asking me for my password. Well, I don't have one, but after poking around, I find out that I can buy a card with a temporary password on it. So I wait until some of the little smoke-shops open and start asking them if they sell SwissCom Internet Cards, in my terrible, miserable French, and after chuckling at my accent, they look at me and say, 'I have no clue what you're talking about,' shrug, and go back to work.

"Then I get the idea to go and ask at the hotels. The first one, the guy tells me that they only sell cards to guests, since they're in short supply. The cards are in short supply! Three hotels later, they allow as how they'll sell me a 30-minute card. Oh, that's fine. 30 whole minutes of connectivity. Whoopee. And how much will that be? Only about a zillion Swiss pesos. Don't they sell cards of larger denominations? Oh sure, two hours, 24 hours, seven days -- and each one costs about double the last, so if you want, you can get a seven day card for about as much as you'd spend on a day's worth of connectivity in 30-minute increments -- about $300 Canadian for a week, just FYI.

"Well, paying 300 bucks for a week's Internet is ghastly, but very Swiss, where they charge you if you have more than two bits of cheese at breakfast, and hell, I could afford it. But Three hundred bucks for a day's worth of 30-minute cards? Fuck that. I was going to have to find a seven-day card or bust. So I ask at a couple more hotels and finally find someone who'll explain to me that SwissCom is the Swiss telco, and that they have a retail storefront a couple blocks away where they'd sell me all the cards I wanted, in whatever denominations I require.

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Drumwaster's Rants!: The 65th Carnival
of the Vanities!

Drumwaster's Rants!: The 65th Carnival
of the Vanities! 12/18/2003 06:57 AM
65th

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Game developers' amazing rants on the
state of the industry

Game developers' amazing rants on the
state of the industry 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Cory Doctorow: Alice continues to take fantastic, exhaustive notes at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco. She's just posted her notes from the closing panel in which eminent game developers were invited to rant about the state of the industry. What follows is lewd, hilarious, and very, very true:

Greg Costikyan: I don't know about you but I could have been a lawyer, or a carpenter. or a sous-chef. How many of you are here because you're after a paycheck? [One bloke raises his hand, audience laughs and crows]. Ahuh. And how many of you are here because you love games? [all hands go up]. Right. So we're being told that everything's going to get bigger. Paychecks. Budgets. Consoles. But is it going to get better? I've been researching old board games and I've spotted a pattern. A new genre: it's called One Hit Game And Its Imitators. One fishing game appears in mid-19C and dozens follow. Games grow through innovations. Creations of new game styles that spawn imitators and whole new markets. The story of the past few decades is not about graphics and processing power, but startling innovation and industry. That's why we love games. BUT IT'S OVER NOW!

As recently as 1992: games cost 200K. Next generation games will cost 20m. Publishers are becoming increasingly risk averse. Today you cannot get an innovative title published unless your last name is Wright or Miyamoto. Who was at the Microsoft keynote? I don't know about you but it made my flesh crawl. [laughter] The HD era? Bigger, louder? Big bucks to be made! Well not by you and me of course. Those budgets and teams ensure the death of innovation. Was your allegiance bought at the price of a television? Then there was the Nintendo keynote. This was the company who established the business model that has crucified the industry today.. Iwata-san has the heart of a gamer, and my question is what poor bastard's chest did he carve it from? [audience falls about]

How often DO they perform human sacrifices at Nintendo?? My friends, we are FUCKED [laughter]. We are well and truly fucked. The bar in terms of graphics and glitz has been raised and raised until we can't afford to do anything at all. 80 hour weeks until our jobs are all outsourced to Asia. but it's ok because the HD era is here right? I say, enough. The time has come for revolution! It may seem to you that what I describe is inevitable forces of history, but no, we have free will! EA could have chosen to focus on innovation, but they did not. Nintendo could make development kits cheaply available to small firms, but they prefer to rely on the creativity on one aging designer. You have choices too: work in a massive sweatshop publisher-run studio with thousands of others making the next racing game with the same gameplay as Pole Position. Or you can riot in the streets of redwood city! Choose another business model, development path, and you can choose to remember why you love games and make sure in a generation's time there are still games to love. You can start today. [standing ovation]

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Brad Oliver, long time Mac developer,
rants about ...

Brad Oliver, long time Mac developer,
rants about ... 10/31/2003 07:24 PM

Brad Oliver, long time Mac developer, rants about the sorry states of Mac installers and third-party Mac tools. I have to agree on the Mac installers front. If all you're doing is making a Cocoa app to distribute via a dmg file, you're fine. If you need to install kernel extensions, etc, you're going to have a miserable time of it.

12:45 AM | steve jenson

Bruner Blog: Rick Bruner's
self-indulgent rants, peeves, trivial
obsessions, etc.

Bruner Blog: Rick Bruner's
self-indulgent rants, peeves, trivial
obsessions, etc. 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
Rick Bruner has a brilliant essay as to why he supports the war with Iraq in spite of everything .. liberal voice for the war .. Let's have a war already .. head screwed on straight .. refuting

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Boing Boing: Game developers' amazing
rants on the state of the industry

Boing Boing: Game developers' amazing
rants on the state of the industry 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
boingboinged .. BoingBoing

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Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation. 02/19/2004 08:49 AM

Daily Kos Political Analysis and other
daily rants on the state of the nation

Daily Kos Political Analysis and other
daily rants on the state of the nation 08/17/2004 12:58 PM
these crowds .. yeah

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"Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation."

"Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation." 10/07/2004 04:14 PM

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation.

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation. 11/04/2003 06:26 AM
birth of Aristotle Alberto .. arrival of Baby Kos

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"Daily Kos || Political Analysis and
other daily rants on the state of the
nation."

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other daily rants on the state of the
nation." 08/10/2004 09:24 PM

Daily Kos: Political analysis and other
daily rants on the state of the nation

Daily Kos: Political analysis and other
daily rants on the state of the nation 02/16/2004 10:47 AM
Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation .. (via DailyKos) .. a

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