The magical book
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"Magical Trevor"
"Magical Trevor"
07/21/2004 09:32 PMThe magical Venus razor
The magical Venus razor
06/22/2005 03:01 AMI am not a fan of disposable razors, they always seemed wasteful to
me, and never very good. So a long time ago -- before they made fancy
razors for women -- I started using Gillette men's razors. Over the
years, I slowly upgraded until I was using the Gillette Mach 3. And I
was happy. Until I left it in the shower on Nantucket last week. So I
headed to Duane Reade for a new razor and for some reason decided now
was the time to try a ladies' razor. The Gillette Venus looked nice and the handle appeared
ergonomic and easy to manoveur, so without much thought I bought it.
Then I shaved my legs with it.
OH MY GOD!!
What was I thinking using that crappy old Mach 3 for all those
years? The Venus is AMAZING! Easy to control, nimble around the
ankles, slick and fast up the calf, and above all, smooth! My legs
haven't ever felt so smooth after a shave ever! I'm counting the
minutes until I can shave again, that's how much I love this razor.
It's a triple-mint, double-plus-good, two-thumbs up, five stars and
diamonds razor. For sure.
Magical Web service tour
Magical Web service tour
06/15/2002 12:22 AMCNET Jun 14 2002 11:13PM ET
More on the Magical Hollywood DVD
Players
More on the Magical Hollywood DVD
Players
09/07/2004 03:56 PM
Some days I wish I lived in LA, where everything is
sunshiney and every confusing bit of gadgetry can be shrugged away as
"magical," like the new DVD players being issue to Academy members
that are supposed to help prevent the Oscar screener discs from being
copied. Brother blogger Defamer attacks the issue in typical sidelong
Gawker fashion, explaining how the destitute movie industry elite who
make up the voting members of the Academy often are forced to trade in
their screener copies for tiny nuggets of crack and Efferdent.
Is it really that big of a deal? I've downloaded screener copies
before, but they were all compressed to hell. If the analog hole still
exists on these magical units - likely - then it's not going to stop
that lone jonesing VP from pushing out lossy analog copies to the
net.
Read - Academy Issues Magical DVD
Players To Members [Defamer]
The magical mystery tour is waiting to
take you away...
The magical mystery tour is waiting to
take you away...
10/29/2003 12:11 AMDay 2 of my jacket . (Naked boy alert!) On today's fun factor tour
we'll be cleaning, painting, working and...
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector 1.0
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector 1.0
04/24/2004 02:04 AMA useful tool for filling CDs/DVDs or MP3 players with what IMMS knows
you like.
Valenti's magical DRM thinking debunked
Valenti's magical DRM thinking debunked
08/31/2004 10:08 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Ed Felten picks apart Jack Valenti's
Engadget
interview (in which Valenti compares himself to JFK: "I was in
Dallas in the motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and I saw that day a brave
young president murdered, and a new president take over. The president
is dead, long live the president, the nation goes on. No one is
indispensable, I learned that day in Dallas. My successor will come
into this job and he won't be me, but he might do a hell of a lot
better job than I'm doing.")
It may be possible to so infect a movie with some kind of circuitry
that allows people to copy to their heart's content, but the copied
result would come out with decayed fidelity with respect to sound and
color. Another would be to have some kind of design in a movie that
would say, 'copy never,' 'copy once.'
Even ignoring the technical non sequiturs ("stuff ... algorithms into
a movie"; "infect a movie with ... circuitry"), this is wildly
implausible. Nothing has happened to make the technical prospects for
DRM (anti-copying) technology any less bleak.
We can only hope Valenti's successor stops believing in "technological
magic" and instead teaches the industry to accept technical reality.
File sharing cannot be wished away. The industry needs to figure out
how to deal with it.
Link
Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s
- Magical Gadget
Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s
- Magical Gadget
01/22/2004 03:23 PMForgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s .. Magical Gadgets Sightings
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Broadband offers magical journey
Broadband offers magical journey
08/17/2004 09:50 AMA 'magic carpet' to take children around the world is one of the
projects that has won a community net award.
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector
IMMS Magical Favorites Collector
04/17/2004 11:12 PMIMFavorites 0.4 (1.0 RC1) released!
Visiting Libertopia: The Magical Power
of Property
Visiting Libertopia: The Magical Power
of Property
02/10/2004 02:35 AMThis is part of my series on the problems with libertarianism. This
piece only applies to those libertarians who believe?
Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour
Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour
06/11/2004 05:51 PMVisiting Libertopia: The Magical Power
of Property
Visiting Libertopia: The Magical Power
of Property
01/22/2004 03:23 PMThis is part of my series on the problems with libertarianism. I
visited Libertopia one day to see how they?
"Wikipedia reaches one million articles.
Something magical is happening"
"Wikipedia reaches one million articles.
Something magical is happening"
09/20/2004 02:58 PMA Tale of Might & Magical Teamwork: A
Mac OS X Weather Application Review
A Tale of Might & Magical Teamwork: A
Mac OS X Weather Application Review
08/27/2004 09:28 PMWebDevInfo Aug 28 2004 0:04AM GMT
Magical History Tour - Bush can't learn
from the past if he can't see it. By
William Saletan
Magical History Tour - Bush can't learn
from the past if he can't see it. By
William Saletan
05/26/2004 04:36 AMMagical History Tour - Bush can't learn from the past if he can't see
it .. smart deconstruction .. whole piece ..
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Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
10/31/2003 06:21 PMInternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
06/12/2004 12:32 PMBook Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute
Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute
03/19/2005 02:43 AMIn MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily
believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band
together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however
radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
02/13/2004 05:52 AMOne of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales
mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell
became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq
started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out -
and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book
publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized
that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site,
it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's
pissing off retailers, who don't
want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers
say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to
the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it
becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's
also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer
experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online
sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy
am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
12/15/2003 08:15 AMvnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book
Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book
07/13/2004 03:49 PMThis
NY
Times piece compares Amazon.com with Napster. Huh?
The odd logic is that used books sold online are cutting into sales of
new books, which may or may not be true. But the Napster comparison is
ludicrous for some obvious reasons, including the fact that an actual
book is not a digitized song, and that if I'm holding a specific book
you are not holding the same copy.
The Times piece is about the "doctrine of first sale," which basically
says that once a work is sold, it's gone from the creator's control.
The purchaser of the item can resell it, give it away or throw it in
the garbage, if that's what he wants to do.
Copyright holders have never liked this very much, and I can
sympathize. Visual artists who see escalating prices for works they
sold at bargain when they were starting out tend to really not like
this situation. But the doctrine of first sale is vastly better than
the alternative.
The idea that the copyright owner should get a cut every time a book
changes hands is a Pandora's box. It's also just what copyright
industry would like to see happen, and that's what the entertainment
industry is trying to create with its various digital restrictions
technologies.
The industry wants a pay-per-use world of arts and letters. Resist.
And let's please not equate selling a used book with copyright
infringement.
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
11/18/2002 09:56 AMA Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg
A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg
02/05/2005 09:55 PMmash-ups are the future .. The Cuddly Menace ..
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The Book of SAX
The Book of SAX
06/15/2002 03:23 AMThe Book of SAX published by No Starch Press.
My Book as a PDF
My Book as a PDF
12/05/2003 12:36 PMThe Wireless Networking Starter Kit, 2nd Edition, is now available as
a downloadable electronic book (in PDF): We've launched our new Web
site for the second edition of our book (co-written by Adam Engst and
myself), and we now also have available an electronic edition, which
can be purchased and downloaded worldwide from our Web site. The
second edition covers all the issues associated with buying,
configuring, and running Wi-Fi networks at home and in small offices,
thoroughly revised for 802.11g and WPA, with new chapters on cellular
data, Bluetooth, wireless ISP software, and many other wireless
topics....
You Do Know that You Don't Always Have
to Buy the Book, Right?
You Do Know that You Don't Always Have
to Buy the Book, Right?
02/08/2003 09:24 AMYou Do Know that You Don't Always Have to Buy the Book, Right?
As a book author, and also an O'Reilly author, I probably shouldn't
post this. Oh well. Yesterday I needed a quick little php code
snippet to display a calendar. While I could have done this by
searching phpclasses, google, any number of books I already have,
ripping it out of another application (I've done it before), I decided
instead to do it by NOT BUYING the book. In specific I wanted to see
that if a book had the source code online, could I use it without the
book. I decided to use the O'Reilly PHP Cookbook as my test case. So
I found its home page. Then I downloaded and unzipped the code.
(Note that I did NOT look at the table of contents). Then I went into
an editor which can search across directories and told it to look for
"calendar") and I got this (source). Here is a working version.
Side Note: An interesting thing to me is that in the default version
included in the book, the navigation arrows DON'T work. I had to add
the if empty tests at the top to make the code work. Otherwise the
code just generates the same calendar regardless of clicking on the
arrows.
So the bottom line here was I spent about 5 minutes to find pretty
much exactly the routine I was looking for and then fix it so it
worked. That's probably just about what I would have spent with
Google or another site. And I didn't even buy the book. That's not
to say that I'm opposed to buying books. Or that I think you
shouldn't. It is more just food for thought than anything else.
New Book -
New Book -
10/28/2003 11:06 PMThe man behind the book
The man behind the book
06/22/2005 02:04 AMWhat drove an accomplished New York editor to write a salacious new
Hillary Clinton bio that has critics calling him a smear artist?
New book from HST.
New book from HST.
10/28/2003 11:08 PMOk, so I finally got around to reading the new HST book, Kingdom of
Fear ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713997141/ ) I
found...
Wizard Book
Wizard Book
09/06/2004 01:57 AMTechTree Sep 6 2004 5:40AM GMT
Book Notes
Book Notes
09/10/2004 12:33 PMStaci Kramer of Online Journalism
Review did a long Q&A with
me about the book.
John Ness of Newsweek International has a short but
kind mention.
book skip pl
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02/05/2005 09:55 PM
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The Not-So-Good Book
The Not-So-Good Book
12/02/2003 01:59 AM
God has a good case for a libel suit based on the Bible, according to
ventriloquist and long-time Tigger voice Paul Winchell: "The Old
Testament maligns the meaning of God and deprives us of a loving
image. There is no doubt in my mind that Scripture defames the essence
of God." (11-29)
Google Book
Google Book
06/16/2002 11:50 AM
via Rael Dornfest we learn that Tara Calishan is writing a book on
Google: As most of you know, I write stuff. And soon I'll be helping
put together a book on search engines. Now that the Google API has
been released, books on search engines are much more than "use this
search technique" (though those are important too.) Now people can put
programs together that do Cool Search Things. If you know of a cool
Google technique -- an interesting use of the API, a search trick you
think is nifty -- send it in. (I already know about Googlewhacks,
Googlematic, Google Smackdown, and Google results by e-mail!) ALSO, if
you have a GOOGLE WISH -- the thought, "Wow, I wish I could do X with
Google," send that in too. I might be able to help make your Google
Wish come true!Aww, I wanted to write that book. Anyway, keep sending
in your cool Google tools, techniques and wishes. Thanks!
Online! The Book
Online! The Book
12/03/2003 01:25 PM
The book of SAX (xmlhack)
The book of SAX (xmlhack)
06/17/2002 10:58 AM
New: QXP Images Book 1.0
New: QXP Images Book 1.0
01/05/2005 02:00 PM
QXP Images Book creates image catalog files using QuarkXPress.
"book.kylos.pl"
"book.kylos.pl"
02/05/2005 09:45 PM
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