What are the damned things for, anyway?
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So Damned Sick
So Damned Sick
12/02/2002 01:17 PMI've been mentally and physically off-line for a couple days. A ton of
people at work all seem to have gotten very sick as of Tuesday night.
I'll spare the details, but suffice it to say that I've not been...
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...
When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
01/03/2004 12:11 AMIf you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any
or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox,
a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac
Observer via MyAppleMenu)
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.
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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")
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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.
Chinese teenagers find Net just too
damned attractive
Chinese teenagers find Net just too
damned attractive
02/11/2004 10:56 AMParanoia and delirium
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!
Link""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
07/13/2004 03:21 AMLies, 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
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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
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Good things, bad things
Good things, bad things
03/06/2004 02:03 AMGood thing: to have surge protection on your computer array.
Bad thing: kick accidentally the surge protection thingy so that the
wall socket becomes loose, and have a big, catastrophic power failure.
Good thing: to be able to read your blogs while eating breakfast
Bad thing: to drop a bun in your cereal, and have milk splashed all
across your laptop
Good thing: iTunes for Windows
Bad thing: Windows
Good thing: actually having sunlight in the mornings.
Bad thing: the mornings.
Good thing: upcoming go
-tournament (http://takapotku.suomigo.net -
feel free to come by and say hi!) next weekend.
Bad thing: not sleeping enough before the weekend.
43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things
43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things
04/17/2005 10:05 PM43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things .. 43things adds web services
API
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Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
08/03/2004 07:46 PMTim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti
said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's
infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American
film industry") look like a walk in the park.
On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and
fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners
of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong
and unfair."
On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to
wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice
in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There
will never be more than three national networks."
On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its
life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it
becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does
the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"
Link
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Thanks, Patricio!)
Lies, damned lies and patches
Lies, damned lies and patches
04/13/2004 09:51 AMlies, damned lies
lies, damned lies
06/09/2004 08:52 PM
Terrorist incidents actually ROSE in 2003, but the State
Department's
"Patt
erns of Global Terrorism" report, issued April 29 (see
Appendix G for an easy chart), said the exact opposite.
Senior Bush administration officials immediately hailed it as
objective proof that they were winning the war on terrorism. The
report is considered the authoritative yardstick of the prevalence of
terrorist activity around the world.
Reports like
this one were all over the news in April--will the fact that it
was a lie be reported as widely? And can we trust anything this
administration says anymore?
all the things you can get it to do
all the things you can get it to do
04/09/2004 04:08 PMlist of the thousands of commands .. Subservient Chicken
exposed!
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All things come to an end.........
All things come to an end.........
11/13/2003 05:20 PMThe journey of my jacket is quickly coming to an end. Can you guess
who the last person in the...
things aren't going so well
things aren't going so well
09/14/2004 07:17 AMThe American Spectator .. make this stuff ..
SCAMMED:"
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Two Things
Two Things
04/09/2004 03:55 PM Thing #1: The past month was one of the busiest, most beautiful, most
exciting months of my life. Everything... (175 words)
The little things
The little things
11/12/2003 08:00 PMWe put together a bookmarklet today that allows our editing staff
to jump instantly from looking at a story on one of our web sites to the
interface for editing it within our current content management system.
It took about 5 minutes development time, plus an extra 15 minutes
spent showing it to people, setting it up on machines and
demonstrating how it works. It's hard to over state how well this new
shortcut was received by the people who spend hours every day using
the system. For end users, a little feature can sometimes go a very
long way.
Getting Things Done with Your Mac
Getting Things Done with Your Mac
03/14/2005 05:33 PMMacDevCenter.com: “Being a smug Mac user is one thing,
but even the smuggest of us (including me) have problems staying
organized.”
43 things
43 things
01/02/2005 06:34 AM43things
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"these things"
"these things"
09/27/2004 11:18 AMThree things
Three things
12/28/2004 11:31 AM
Actually it turns out I do have a few things on my mind.
First, the scale of the human tragedy of the tsunami. An
interview on CNN with a young rock climber from Hawaii, vacationing in
Thailand, talks about how only a few of her colleagues died. In normal
times, the few that died would be the story. Many of the people they
interview are shaking and crying, many hours after the tragedy. It's
the rare thing, a real story involving human beings.
Second, think about the
billions we're spending on Iraq, and for what? The Republicans who
defend the war say Iraqis were suffering under Saddam, okay, this is a
lot of suffering and unlike the Iraqi suffering, this has a solution,
money spent here will rebuild and there won't be "insurgents" to tear
down the repairs and kill our people as they try to help.
Third, and I know there's no chance of this making a
difference, maybe the Iraqis could put down their guns, stop beheading
people, stop blowing things up, elect a damned government, and let us
leave so we can have a future and so we can help when other tragedies
happen. I'm sorry we invaded, and I'm sorry we re-elected the monster
that invaded you. Now we have to go. It's just a feeling I have. The
problems of the Iraqis seem so small when compared ot the problems of
Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia. The problem in Iraq is in their
minds. Can't they solve it? We sure can't.
Things to do...
Things to do...
02/10/2004 02:46 AM
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Things that shouldn't need to be said
Things that shouldn't need to be said
02/10/2004 02:49 AM
But sometimes arguments cross a line beyond which everybody gets hurt,
including the Net. I see that happening here. Even though I'm no
technologist, it's clear to me that the Net has been improved,
radically and fundamentally, by RSS and other standards like it (even
if they come, as Mark claims RSS does, in 9 incompatible versions).
[Doc Searls]
Must we
still, at this late date, reiterate and underscore
Doc's point? Apparently, we must. Sigh.
..."The Two Things"
"The Two Things"
06/15/2004 12:12 AMGetting Things Done
Getting Things Done
02/01/2005 09:12 PM40 things
40 things
12/22/2004 01:09 AM1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done
before?
- Suck up to clients and not say what I believed in - 'cause I
needed the money.
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you
make more for next year?
N/A - I don't do resolutions - but I tried to lose weight and
failed.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
- Yes my wife. Her name is Lucy - she was born the day before my
biorthday on Jan. 12th.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
- Yes my father - Davis S. Canter - union leader, politician (the
good kind), my inspiration.
5. What countries did you visit?
- Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Ireland, Canada - and I
live in a very strange, foriegn place - but at least we're in a blue
state (though CA voted 46% for evil.)
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in
2004?
- Digital Lifestyle Aggregation -the PeopleAggregator, a finished
WebOutliner and lots of happy employees.
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your
memory?
- Jan. 12th - Lucy's birth, Aug. 30th my father's death, July 31st
my eldest son's and wife's birthday and Nov. 3rd my twin son's Bar
Mitzvah.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finally figuring out what business Broadband Mechanics is in.
We're buulding 'digital lifestyle aggregators'.
9. What was your biggest failure?
1UP.com - it could have been great - but we fucked up.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
- Baruch Ha'Shem - no. But my friend BigDave had his kidney
transplant!
11. What was the best thing you bought?
- BigDave's mom's used car. Great deal, great friend.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
- Twin son's Bar Mitzvah
- Mimi's learning how to sing and dance - on her own
- Lots of happy cleints, growing business
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and
depressed?
- Lack of imagination when it comes to new kinds of micro-content
and micro-contnet publishing in general. Sad and pathetic. And
podcasting. Even sadder.
14. Where did most of your money go?
- Babylon
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- Open Source Infrastructure - and how ever effort I put into it -
not only helps me and our company, but also the world. Talk about
killing trhee birds with one stone!
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2004?
- "Ambush in the night" - Bob Marley (all guns pointed at me
now....)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? happier
thinner or fatter? always going up
richer or poorer? richer in money. richer in happiness
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
- Hung with my sons more.....
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
- Blog
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
- eating Chinese food and watching a movie. What all good Jews do
on X-Mas day.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
- my wife - Lisa.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
- yes - over and over again with Lisa.
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
- yah, right
24. What was your favourite TV program?
- Alias
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time
last year?
- more than anyone else - I hate the entire concept of fascist,
imperialist, Amerika - and all it stands for. Fuck you - red
states.
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
- N/A - my 250+ feedskeep me busy.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Blind Guys from Alabama
28. What did you want and get?
- progress in DLAs, healthy children, bank account.
29. What did you want and not get?
- PeopleAggregator, WebOutliner
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
- um, gee, what films came out this year. I can't remember any.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 47 and I went to the hospital with my eldest daughter to
see her new baby sister who was born the day before. You don't have
birthdays like that very often! BTW my eldest son was at Lucy's
birth.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably
more satisfying?
- Having money to build what I wanna build.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in
2004?
N/A
34. What kept you sane?
- family, blogosphere and knowing that I'm consistently about 10
years ahead.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the
most?
- Heather Graham
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
- Legalized Marijuana
37. Who did you miss?
- my friend Dave Winer
38. Who was the best new person you met?
- oh god, too many to mention. Simon Grice, Lucas Gonze, Carl
Wescott, Monette, Rich Seidner, the Marqui folk, Leonard Brody, Dick
Hardt, the Bryght dudes (Boris and Roland), the Tucows dudes (who I
haven't even met yet!), Alf Eaton, Kjetil Larsen, JD Lasica, the
Laszlo folks, Dave Toole, Seb Paquet, the list goes on and on - it's
been a hell of a year!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
- slow down, it'll all come to you, just stockpile those ideas,
they'll be usful - later.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
"Rasta Man virbration - yah, positive!"
"Got to have a good vibe"
"43 things"
"43 things"
01/03/2005 05:15 PMFC Now: It's the Little Things
FC Now: It's the Little Things
12/19/2004 03:36 PMFor lunch today, I went to Chipotle for a burrito. The server was
friendly, my order prepared quickly, and the burrito delish. But the
neat little touch -- the clue -- that helped make the experience worth
repeating? At the...
Three Things to Know About Your ETF
Three Things to Know About Your ETF
04/07/2005 03:03 PMETFs can be great, but sector plays can also be the biggest sucker bet
since the lottery. Here's how to check under the hood.
"Things to Come"
"Things to Come"
03/19/2003 10:44 PMthings you can't say
things you can't say
01/05/2004 04:58 AMruminations
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"66 Things To Think About"
"66 Things To Think About"
06/16/2004 11:01 PMFive Things I Know About Me
Five Things I Know About Me
07/13/2004 02:12 PMCollect them all!
"wish you hadn't said certain things"
"wish you hadn't said certain things"
06/15/2004 12:12 AM39 things I should do
39 things I should do
06/05/2005 11:56 PMIf you're into food, and wondering, "what the heck should I do
next?" check out the [UK] Observer's list, The top 50
things every foodie should do.
To celebrate OFM's fiftieth edition, we asked some of
our favourite bon viveurs what they considered most essential to do
before they died.
Amazingly, I've already done ten of the items they've listed! Is
that because I'm a "bon viveur"? Maybe a little, but also I've liked
cooking and food for a very long time. Of what they've recommended,
I've already completed the following:
3) Dismember a chicken
I learned this last summer when I was working at a restaurant. Our
chef said everyone needed to know how to break down a chicken. Now I
do. I haven't done it since.
6) Dine at the French Laundry
May 2002. I can't imagine you're reading my site and haven't read my
review, but if that's the case get thee to It's All About Finesse immediately! Now start saving your
dollar a day!
18) Shuck an oyster
I first learned this in 1994 on Cape Cod, where indeed just as they
recommend, I enjoyed 'wild native oysters, from a forgotten oyster
bed'. I last shucked two dozen for my family at Christmas.
20) Wolf down a hotdog on Coney Island
July 4, 2003. I ate one. Japanese super-eating legend Takeru Kobayashi
ate 44 1/2 in twelve minutes. A photo of Kobayashi in action!
24) Be cooked for by a legend
(See #6)
32) Shop till you drop [at La Boqueria in
Barcelona]
When I visited Barcelona in October, 2003 I spent many hours exploring
this amazing market, though I never bought anything because I was
staying in a hotel and had nowhere to cook.
33) Catch your own dinner
They recommend deep-sea fishing for tuna in Barbados. I went fishing
for bluefish off Nantucket in August, 2003 and cooked up the riches
for dinner with my family. Bluefish is my favorite, and I think one of
the best meals you can eat (but only if you're in the northeast of the
United States in July or August) is bluefish baked with breadcrumbs,
butter, and lemon; steamed sweet corn, with butter and salt; and
boiled red potatoes. If you don't have strawberry shortcake for
dessert, with real whipped cream and homemade shortcake, you haven't
gone all out.
39) Visit Pierre Gagnaire in Paris
I did this in June 2003. For some reason, I never wrote about it.
Drat, I wish I had.
40) Bake a loaf of bread
I can't even remember the first time I baked a loaf of bread, but it
must have been around 1986. I started my culinary adventures in the
baking arena (cakes and sweets) before moving into the savory world of
cooking. Of course, the Guardian says, "If your loaf is a true San
Francisco-style sourdough then all the better." And I say, "No!" Yuck.
I don't like sourdough. I had enough "San Francisco-style sourdough"
when I lived in San Francisco to last my whole life.
47) Kill a pig
The last on the list, I did this over the 4th of July weekend, 1994.
Some folks I knew in college had a little tradition of doing this. At
a farm in New Hampshire, we (by which I mean a friend named Danny)
killed the pig and bled it. Then we all took part in gutting and
skinning it (writing now, it sounds more "Lord of the Flies" than it
was). We roasted it in a pit for a very long time, and the result was
the best thing I'd ever tasted. I had never liked pork before that,
and I didn't for a very long time after. But everything we ate that
day was incredible.
They also recommend that you:
9) Pick your own [mushrooms]
But I've never done this. I had a class in college called Plants and Humanity and we
learned from our biology professor never to pick mushrooms in the
wild. He said it was too dangerous, even with books and training,
because the possibility of making a mistake was too great. I learned a
lot from Prof. Ellmore, and to this day I
still recall much of what he taught, so I'm going to trust my gut and
skip the picking of wild mushrooms. The 39 remaining items could
easily take the rest of my life as it is, I don't want to end it
prematurely by eating a Death Cap!
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