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Acme Novelty Archive v2.0
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08/02/2004 01:58 PMThe Acme Novelty Archive v2.0
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FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives
FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives
07/23/2004 03:08 PMWith all of the security problems in Los Alamos these days, apparently
secrecy is no joking matter. The Black Hole Surplus Store and Museum
apparently had some hard drives behind the counter with "secret"
labels on them. They're not for sale, but are really just there to
generate conversation with tourists. The FBI apparently
wasn't particularly thrilled with this explanation and have
confiscated the hard drive which the owner of the surplus store
insists was a joke. Who knows what goes through some
people's minds, but does it really seem likely that someone
walking out of Los Alamos with classified info is going to
hand it over to the local surplus store?
Novelty mice chase after kids
Novelty mice chase after kids
08/27/2004 01:35 PMZDNet Aug 27 2004 5:26PM GMT
More Thurl Ravenscroft novelty tunes
More Thurl Ravenscroft novelty tunes
07/09/2004 06:44 AMHere's another great novelty track from Thurl Ravenscroft, the lead
baritone in the Haunted Mansion's themesong, and the voice of Tony the
Tiger: it's Thurl and Roberta Lee performing a medley of "Wing Ding
Ding" and "You Wanna Talk About Texas."
Link (scroll to
page-bottom)
(
Thanks, LondonFilter!)
Logitech's novelty mice chasing kids
Logitech's novelty mice chasing kids
08/28/2004 02:31 AMglobetechnology.com Aug 28 2004 6:09AM GMT
Novelty cake gnawed by sculpted brownie
rats HOWTO
Novelty cake gnawed by sculpted brownie
rats HOWTO
02/07/2005 02:08 AMCory Doctorow:
This cake includes edible rats made from brownies in order to perfect
the illusion that it's been partially eaten by vermin.
First, I made a regular box cake. Then I ripped chunks of it out to
look like it had been partially eaten.
Then, I covered the remainder of the cake in icing and decorated it
all boring-like. I pinched the icing at the edges to look bitten.
I made the rats out of brownies sculpted in the shape of rats. Then I
covered them with rolled fondant (a kind of icing) and painted them
with icing color paste.
Link
(
Thanks, storygirl!)
The 3 Stages of Cell Phones —
International Phones Now at Stage 2: The
“Safety Device”
The 3 Stages of Cell Phones —
International Phones Now at Stage 2: The
“Safety Device”
03/31/2005 08:57 AMThe ability to make an emergency call has been given as the top reason
for taking a cell phone when traveling, according to a survey by
Mobal, the international phone company. Mobal conducted the survey of
its customers after reporting an 80% increase in international cell
phone purchase during 2004, and believe the results show that US
citizens, although still concerned with global instabilities, are
increasingly confident to travel internationally. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]
Massive Price Cuts on Much Anticipate
New Ligo Site: BT Phones, Panasonic
Cordless Phones and Many other Dect
Telephones
Massive Price Cuts on Much Anticipate
New Ligo Site: BT Phones, Panasonic
Cordless Phones and Many other Dect
Telephones
02/01/2005 08:46 PMThe much talked about new liGo Electonics site,
www.cordless-phones.uk.com, featuring an array of fantastic new
products such as dect cordless phones, business phones, headsets, fax
machines and much more, has been launched. With massive price cuts,
the site is expected to be very popular with consumers. [PRWEB Feb 1,
2005]
Howdy Corporation - Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy's Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones
Howdy Corporation - Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy's Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones
08/05/2004 03:56 AM [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]
Move Items X 1.2.9
Move Items X 1.2.9
11/11/2003 09:11 PMMove files & folders using hierarchical CM.
My New Wishlist Items
My New Wishlist Items
10/28/2003 11:08 PMcanadia
represent!
"Since ALA, we all have known that the Canadian library schools are
really putting out some top librarian talent. But who knew they had a
fashion sense as well. The students from the SLIS at Dalhousie
University in Halifax, Nova Scotia are hawking some mighty fine
librarian t-shirts, possibly ones even too racy to wear to work.
And, 'action figure' aside, my favorite one has to be the NLA shirt." [librarian.net]
6 Billion Items
6 Billion Items
02/17/2004 11:50 AMPress Release: Google Achieves Search Milestone With Immediate Access
To More Than 6 Billion Items 6B items = 4.28B web pages + 680M images
+ 845M Usenet messages + a bunch (200M?) of book pages...
Launch Items X 1.7
Launch Items X 1.7
07/02/2004 09:39 PMOpen files with customized applications from contextual menus.
Most shoplifted items
Most shoplifted items
06/22/2005 01:49 AMDavid Pescovitz:
The Food Marketing Institute has ranked the fifty most frequently
shoplifted products snatched by organized retail thieves. Organized
retail theft (ORT) is "separate and distinct from petty shoplifting in
that it involves professional theft rings that move quickly from
community to community and across state lines to steal large amounts
of merchandise that is then repackaged and sold back into the
marketplace." The Top 10 shoplifted items:
#1 Advil tablet 50 ct
#2 Advil tablet 100 ct
#3 Aleve caplet 100 ct
#4 EPT Pregnancy Test single
#5 Gillette Sensor 10 ct
#6 Kodak 200 24 exp
#7 Similac w/iron powder - case
#8 Similac w/iron powder - single can
#9 Preparation H 12 ct
#10 Primatene tablet 24 ct
Link (via
Fark and Mahalanobis)
Multimedia Solutions in Camera Phones &
3G Phones
Multimedia Solutions in Camera Phones &
3G Phones
08/03/2004 05:48 AM
3G Aug 3 2004 8:55AM GMT
The use of mobile phones in Latin
America continues to rise with
approximately 123 million mobile phones
in Latin America compared with 89
million fixed line phones
The use of mobile phones in Latin
America continues to rise with
approximately 123 million mobile phones
in Latin America compared with 89
million fixed line phones
07/21/2004 02:32 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004
Latin America - Mobile Communications Market to their offering [PRWEB
Jul 21, 2004]
Multiple-enclosures on RSS items?
Multiple-enclosures on RSS items?
12/22/2004 01:10 AM
Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, not spec
text.
This question comes up from time to time, and I've resisted
answering it directly, thinking that anyone who really read the spec
would come to the conclusion that RSS allows zero or one enclosures
per item, and no more. The same is true for all other sub-
elements of item, except category, where multiple elements are explicitly allowed.
The spec refers to "the enclosure" in the singular. Regardless, some
people persist in thinking that you may have more than one enclosure
per item.
Okay, let's play it out. So if I have more than one enclosure
per item, how do I specify the publication date for each enclosure?
How do I specify the title, author, a link to comments, a description
perhaps, or a guid? The people who want multiple enclosures suggest
schemes that are so complicated that they're reduced to hand-waving
before they get to the spec, which I would love to read, if it could
be written. Some times some things are just too hard to do. This is
one of them.
And there's a reason why it's too hard. Because you're throwing
out the value of RSS and then trying to figure out how to bring it
back. There's no need for items any more, so you might as well get rid
of them. At the top level of channel would be a series of enclosures,
and then underneath each enclosure, all the meta-data. Voila, problem
solved. Only what have you actually solved? You've just re-created
RSS, but instead of calling the main elements "item" we now call them
"enclosure".
Sometimes linear thinking leads you to a dead-end, and this is
one of those times, imho. You end up in a torus, there's no wall that
says "you may go no further" but somehow you keep going in circles,
chasing your tail, re-inventing RSS, when there's absolutely no need
to.
So people ask how will we fit show notes into RSS? Maybe we
won't. When you get into show notes, think outlines, and think about
linking MP3s into outline structures. I think this has more potential.
I could be wrong of course (not joking).
Comment here
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School items online
School items online
04/06/2005 09:22 AM
Kansascity.com - Wed Apr 6, 10:18 am GMT
Japanese Sith Items
Japanese Sith Items
04/01/2005 02:08 AM
Magnets, Towels, Keychains, Mugs, Fans, Clocks, and more are coming
exclusively to Japan. Here's a mini-gallery to peruse.
RSS, updated items, and links
RSS, updated items, and links
12/29/2004 08:29 PM
One of the big differences between RSS and email is that RSS items can
change.
So the question for any newsreader developer is this: what changes
should trigger an item being marked as unread?
Specifically, today I’m thinking about a subset of that
question: changes to <link> elements.
Take this hypothetical case:
1. An item looks like this:
<title>A title</title>
<description>A description</description>
<link>http://example.org/1</link>
<guid>123</guid>
2. Then the feed updates, and the <link> element changes:
<title>A title</title>
<description>A description</description>
<link>http://example.org/2</link>
<guid>123</guid>
The question: should it be marked as unread or not?
Right now, NetNewsWire marks it as unread. My policy has always been
to err on the side of marking things unread—on the assumption
that, otherwise, you might miss something important.
(Actually, NetNewsWire marks it as updated, and you have a pref that
says whether or not to mark updated items as unread. Which most people
leave turned on.)
The RSS 2.0 spec
doesn’t address the issue of when to consider an item
significantly changed—and I’m not sure the spec
should say anything about that.
Of course, I don’t want new prefs or special cases, I want the
best policy.
Perhaps changes to <link>s should not cause an item to be
marked unread. What do you think?
On a related topic...
People have often asked me why we can’t use the <link>
element as a unique identifier and permalink for news items.
It can’t be a unique identifier because it may change. The New
York Times feeds, for instance, change their <link>s frequently:
they include a query string that allows you to get past the
registration system, and that query string changes. (It’s the
New York Times feeds that prompted the discussion above about ignoring
<link> changes.)
<link>s can’t be permalinks because there is nothing that
says that a <link> has to be a permalink—it could point to
another site entirely.
Which is why I always ask people to use <guid>s in their feeds,
so we can identify items, so we can know when an item is an updated
version of a previous item.
(About Atom there is one thing I adore: that guids—called
<id>s there—are mandatory. I wish they could be
mandatory in RSS too.)
Items matching ( gmail )
Items matching ( gmail )
04/30/2004 11:29 PM
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all! ..
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Jackson Items Given to Investigators
(AP)
Jackson Items Given to Investigators
(AP)
05/03/2004 01:38 PM
AP - Underwear worn by Michael Jackson and handwritten notes were
among Jackson items belonging to a businessman that were turned over
to prosecutors in his child-sex case.
Export iCal To Do items to OmniOutliner
Export iCal To Do items to OmniOutliner
12/14/2003 02:18 AM
iCal's doesn't allow me to print a simple list of all my To Dos as an
outline (with no calendar info), so I wrote this Applescript to export
all my To Dos into a new outline in OmniOutliner. Each calendar has
any associated T...
Kitschy religious items for Xmas
Kitschy religious items for Xmas
12/07/2003 06:05 AM
The 12 Days of Kitschmas is a gallery of twelve utterly tasteless (and
apparently sincere and unironic) items of religious paraphenalia.
Don't miss the five-inch-nail-Xmas-ornament, a $8.99 remembrance of
the crucifiction for your tree.
Link
(via Making
Light)
Google Indexes 6 Billion Items
Google Indexes 6 Billion Items
02/17/2004 03:51 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Feb 17 2004 8:10PM GMT
Add login items via the command line
Add login items via the command line
03/22/2005 03:39 PM
This is simple but handy command to add LoginItems (items that are
executed after the user logs in) via the command line using the
default tool. To add a normal startup item, use this syntax:
defaults write loginwindow AutoL...
"Export iCal To Do items to
OmniOutliner"
"Export iCal To Do items to
OmniOutliner"
12/15/2003 10:29 PM
Several cool, news-making items from CES
Several cool, news-making items from CES
01/10/2004 09:05 PM
LAS VEGAS -- Now that we take such futuristic things as
high-definition video, broadband Internet, streaming audio, wireless
networking, and dozens of other IT victories for granted in today's
connected world, the next step is how companies are now using
combinations of these in new products. This year's International
Consumer Electronics Show, which first showed the VCR in 1970, the CD
player in 1981, and the DVD in 1996, is all about how current
technologies are teaming up to create new items. And we found some
good examples of how these are going to play out in the next few
years.
Man Tosses All Apartment Items From
Window (AP)
Man Tosses All Apartment Items From
Window (AP)
03/28/2005 08:31 AM
AP - A Hong Kong man was arrested and checked for mental illness after
he emptied his 35th-floor apartment by dropping its contents from the
window, police and media said Sunday.
30% Off Selected Master Replicas Items
30% Off Selected Master Replicas Items
01/16/2004 12:59 PM
You can save some pretty big bucks during the three-day sale starting
today at Masterreplicas.com. Almost all the
Star Wars items they have in stock are on sale, including the
Jango Fett
blasters for $314.30. And I believe that set still has free
shipping to U.S. addresses and $19.95 off orders outside the U.S.
Add Dock items from the command line
Add Dock items from the command line
08/20/2004 10:00 AM
The file /System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Dock.app -> Contents ->
Resources -> English.lproj -> default.plist
appears to contain the default dock items that appear for a new user.
Compared to what appears in a typical co...
Use speakable items to control Exposé
Use speakable items to control Exposé
08/17/2004 10:58 AM
Did you know that you can use speech to activate Exposé in Windows,
Apps, and Desktop modes? You can even use speech to switch to
Applications in Exposé for "all windows" and "Application windows"
mode.
Disable the Exposé ac...
Man Who Dropped Items From Window
Arrested (AP)
Man Who Dropped Items From Window
Arrested (AP)
03/27/2005 01:12 PM
AP - A Hong Kong man was arrested and checked for mental illness after
he emptied his 35th-floor apartment by dropping its contents from the
window, police and media said Sunday.
Cheapskates Who Spend Big For Items That
Hit Them Emotionally
Cheapskates Who Spend Big For Items That
Hit Them Emotionally
11/14/2003 07:29 PM
I think I've always been this way, so it's a bit of a surprise that
this is considered a "new" phenomenon. Some researchers are pointing
out that many of today's shoppers are comple
te cheapskates in many areas, but are willing to spend extra on
certain quality items, where there's an emotional attachment.
Thus, you may have a desk made out of an old piece of plywood, but buy
a nice Aeron chair to go with it. It just depends on what the person
values, and in that particular category, price becomes much less of an
issue than quality. They also tend to do a ton of research and are
quite well informed about what they're buying. This increasing
dichotomy is important for anyone selling products that might fall
into those categories. In fact, the article suggests we're actually
reaching a split world, with absolute discounters on one side and high
quality specialty sellers on the other. The folks in the middle are
getting squeezed from both sides - because they're seen as being too
expensive for not so great quality.
Burglar Takes Items, but Then Cleans Up
(AP)
Burglar Takes Items, but Then Cleans Up
(AP)
04/01/2005 10:41 PM
AP - A woman's apartment was cleaned out, and cleaned up by a burglar,
police said. According to police, the woman returned home Thursday
after being away for a week and discovered her television, computer
and other items missing. The burglar had also helped himself to food
and booze.
Open unread items in OmniWeb
Open unread items in OmniWeb
04/03/2005 07:27 PM
waf
fle: Here’s a “simple AppleScript to open all the
unread items in the current subscription as tabs in a new window in
OmniWeb.”
Removing Today Items Through the
Registry
Removing Today Items Through the
Registry
09/04/2004 10:38 AM
Google Hits 6 Billion Items
Google Hits 6 Billion Items
02/18/2004 07:52 AM
Google Hits 6 Billion Items
http://www.g
oogle.com/press/pressrel/6billion.html
Google Inc.
yesterday announced it expanded the breadth of its web index to more
than 6 billion items. This innovation represents a milestone for
Internet users, enabling quick and easy access to the world's largest
collection of online information. "People worldwide can find more
information with Google than with any other search engine," said Larry
Page, Google co-founder and president of Products. Google's collection
of 6 billion items comprises 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million
images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of
book-related information pages.
U.S. flies radioactive items out of Iraq
U.S. flies radioactive items out of Iraq
07/06/2004 07:57 PM
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