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30 June 2007

Kinoki: Detox Foot Pads
Of all the things, "Naturally Remove Toxins from your Body while you Sleep! Kinoki Detox Foot pads?. Saw a commercial in for this onFitTV (while watching NamasteYogaByKatePorter), and had to look it up. No credible evidence the pads do anything. What a racket. If it catches on, excellent cash machine for the creators/owners.
Tom Brown
The Interactive Way To Go
How to Work the Room - Found+READ
Google Linux Software Repositories
Stallman Urges Users to Upgrade to GPLv3

29 June 2007

Long Now: Views: Essays
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker
Place to get Michael Moore's Sicko as download (with Moore's blessing).
Why computers can't surpass Go and collect $1 million -Times Online
"Yet there is one game in which the computer is still no match for Man, a game in which a competent teenager can beat the world's most sophisticated computer program with ease: and that is the ancient Chinese board game Go, the oldest game in the world, and the only one at which man remains the undisputed champion."
Nine Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Wikipedia
Wizzard Software Corp. - Speech Recognition Software Licenses > Text to Speech Engines (TTS) > Voice Recognition
City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography - New York Times
"New rules being considered by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting would require any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a single public location for more than a half hour to get a city permit and insurance."
Potential cure for HIV discovered - Yahoo! News
"In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said." Wouldn't this be amazing? WOW! Here's a caviat: "There are significant barriers to overcome before the enzyme could be used to help cure patients....The most important, and likely most difficult, is that the enzyme would need efficient and safe means of delivery and would have to be able to function without adverse side effects."

29 June 2007

YouTube - Match Under A Glass In A Microwave
DON'T try this at home.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm fascinated by this guy. His two book Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable have been soooo thought provoking AND entertaining.
Monte Carlo Simulation code
Software programs code (uncompiled?) for simple but elegant Monte Carlo simulations.
Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation
Though old (1997), this looks to be a very good introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations.
Supreme Court OKs retail price fixing by manufacturers - Los Angeles Times
"Manufacturers may set a fixed price for their products and forbid retailers from offering discounts, the Supreme Court said today, overturning a nearly century-old rule of antitrust law that prohibited retail price fixing."
Eureka! Ranch
Doug Hall's consulting business.
Jump Start Your Business Brain - by Doug Hall
Entertaining and provides a great model for evaluating a business idea. Hall participated in the first season of American Inventor.
The Missionary Position (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work. From the controversial title (using a double entendre to refer to the actions of a celibate nun towards the people with whom she works), the book criticizes Teresa as a political opportunist who has adopted the guise of a saint in order to raise money to spread an extreme and aggressive version of Catholicism." Ouch!! Can't say I agree with Hitchens. I'm an admirer of Mother Teresa.
The Christopher Hitchens Web
Hitchens recent book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, is stirring up interesting debate on religion. Extreme. Argumentative. I'm watching Hardball as he debates Rev. Al Sharpton. Interesting. They both bring up some good points.

28 June 2007

YouTube - Equal Communication Access!
My wife, a deaf woman, and I ask for your support. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people deserve equal communication access.

Photos taken at just the right angle - weird, cool and downright strange photo effects | Through Web
YouTube - Gummy Bear in molten potassium chlorate
Violently shocking what one gummy bear can do.

How Your Brain Makes Political Decisions - Newsweek Sharon Begley - MSNBC.com
Westen's thesis is simple. "A dispassionate mind that makes decisions by weighing the evidence and reasoning to the most valid conclusions bears no relation to how the mind and brain actually work."
Zend Technologies - Code Gallery Spotlight - Creating PDF Files in PHP
Use PHP to Create Dynamic pdf Files
Wisdom Publications Online: Non-profit publishers of Buddhist books from all traditions.

27 June 2007

What the Buddha did NOT teach
Loved this perspective on the Buddha. Much simpler (and more realistic) than other interpretations of Buddha's teachings.
USPS - California News
Real People Real Stuff | Star in your own commercial.
Rejection lines - what they really mean
Make Your Own Firefox Extensions - Expert Help by PC Magazine
"Fortunately, it's not hard. A typical Firefox extension is nothing more than an XUL (XML User-interface Language) file you can edit with Notepad. In contrast, IE extensions must be compiled into DLLs and then installed into the operating system."
meditation Zen Buddhism Surrey Hampshire Buddha
Buddhism the modern way. Stuff looks really good.
The G-Shot - The latest panacea to improve women's love life?
Men take a pill, women get a $1,850 shot.
What the Buddha did NOT Teach
Brilliant! The first few paragraphs layed out the common problem with representations of Buddha's teaching. Superb piece.
BIS warns of Great Depression dangers from credit spree
"Behind each set of concerns lurks the common factor of highly accommodating financial conditions. Tail events affecting the global economy might at some point have much higher costs than is commonly supposed," Tail events...more black swans...Is this a case of trying to predict a random event? What would Taleb think?
Cursed, Yet Blessed - TIME
"Munyiva is one of a remarkable group of 25 Nairobi prostitutes who are the subjects of intensive scientific study. The fact that they have no symptoms of AIDS is not so amazing, since HIV can lie dormant in the body for many years before it begins its deadly work. What is surprising is that the virus cannot be found in these women at all; it apparently cannot establish itself in their cells." A black swan event--Nairobi prostitutes without AIDS.
Vegetables and fruits can't play together
The horror...
Giant microwave turns plastic back to oil - earth - 26 June 2007 - New Scientist Environment
"A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas...All that is needed, claims Global Resource Corporation (GRC), is a finely tuned microwave and hey presto! a mix of materials that were made from oil can be reduced back to oil and combustible gas (and a few leftovers)."
Spinning Sihouette Optical Illusion - Mighty Optical Illusions
Digital Photography - recovering "deleted" files
Advice on how to recover deleted files from Flash or SD card. Deleting removes pointers to files, not files themselves--at least until they are overwritten. Software can recreate pointer or recover files.

26 June 2007

"The finance idiots" - Empirica Capital LLC
Couple pics from Empirica Capital, Nassim Taleb's company. Spartan. And I was complaining the guy needs to get a better content management system for his website.
How to Bypass BIOS Passwords
"BIOS passwords can add an extra layer of security for desktop and laptop computers. They are used to either prevent a user from changing the BIOS settings or to prevent the PC from booting without a password. Unfortunately, BIOS passwords can also be a liability if a user forgets their password, or changes the password to intentionally lock out the corporate IT department....Never fear, all is not lost. There are a few known backdoors and other tricks of the trade that can be used to bypass or reset the BIOS password on most systems."
BBC NEWS | High bleach levels in tooth kits are dangerous
"Tooth whitening kits have been found to contain illegally high levels of the bleaching agent hydrogen peroxide...Hydrogen peroxide, commonly used as a hair dye, can aggravate gum disease and cause...chemical burns to the mouth"....Duhhhh.
First Aid Myths - Useless or Dangerous?
"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free. Excellent resource.
The Raw Story | 'Daily Show' lambastes 'Highlander' Cheney's 'secret secrets'
"How do you shoot an old man in the face and get him to apologize?" says 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart, referring to the infamous hunting accident involving Vice President Cheney. "Ooh Cheney, he must be evil, ooh, what's he hiding, what are his secrets? "Well as it turns out," Stewart continues, referring to the new Washington Post series focusing on Cheney, "what he was hiding, was everything."
Central Desktop - Project collaboration, Team collaboration, Intranets, Wiki Software - Central Desktop
Business Wiki Collaboration. A Wiki Built For Business. Secure and Affordable. Looks nice. Need to use demo.
Five resources to create a Wii media center

25 June 2007

Olympic sprinter Marion Jones is broke - Other Sports - MSNBC.com
"Seven years after winning a women's record five Olympic track and field medals and snagging multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, Marion Jones is broke. The sprinter is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments and down to a bank balance of about $2,000, according to recent court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times."
PmWiki | Cookbook / SkinsGallery
PmWiki Skins Gallery. Contains scaled screenshots of the available skins for PmWiki. Clicking on a screenshot will take you to the page for that particular skin allowing you to see it in action. Be neat if this is maintained.
Buying the War - by Bill Moyers
"How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported?"
Blogthings - Cool Things to Put In Your Blog
My wife thinks this is cool.
alphaWorks : IBM Assured Execution Environment (AxE)
"A simple PC security tool that provides a transparent protection layer for a Windows PC or server and that requires no configuration." Think this may be a good PC security tool.
Historical Graph of Bush Approval Ratings
AlterNet: The Great Biofuel Hoax
Myths of abundance divert attention from powerful economic interests that benefit from this biofuels transition, avoiding discussion of the growing price that citizens of the global South are beginning to pay to maintain the consumptive oil-based lifestyle of the North. Biofuel mania obscures the profound consequences of the industrial transformation of our food and fuel systems -- the agro-fuels transition.
Leading Cause of Death in US ... Medical Treatment!
This is shocking if true.
Death By Medicine
A definitive review of medical peer-reviewed journals and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good.
Most severely wounded soldier endures: blind, quadriplegic, struggling to breathe
He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him....I'm so sorry...
Pics if water replaced fire
Cool images. Excellent detail.
The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg
Famous NASA Big Blue Marble view of the earth. Continues to inspire.
Sleeping your way to the top
While channel surfing, I heard this line on CW sitcom called Girlfriends. I think the censors overlooked the writer's intended meaning in this female character's line: "Sleeping my way to top was suppose to be a last resort, my ace in the hole"... Am I wrong? My wife says I just have a dirty mind. She's one to talk.
Missing Playboy Belly Button
This brazilian model "lost" her belly button as the Playboy magazine editors were retouching her body curves. The mistake went unnoticed, and the magazine sold 605,000 copies that month.
How to Access Your Ubuntu Remotely
Now that I have truly upgraded to Ubuntu, I want to be able to access my machine remotely. This blog post describes two methods.

24 June 2007

America's Surprising Six-Figure Jobs - Forbes.com
What Spices To Use
Spices are the basis for flavoring your barbecue. They are many and are everywhere in the world. In days of old they were a sign of wealth. They were traded, and the quest for them has spawned new nations and caused wars. Once you learn how to work with spices, you can make your own spice mixtures, to season your barbecue, and even serve at the table instead of or in addition to, salt and pepper.
Death By Medicine
Total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5).
Quintura
Uses search clouds to suggest refinements to your search. Very cool.
Photosynth Technology Preview
Couldn't get it to work in firefox. Saw an awesome demo on TED. Need to find link.
U.S. State Dept. - Travel Accommodation Announced June 8, 2007
U.S. citizens traveling to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda or countries in the Caribbean region who have applied for, but not yet received passports, can re-enter the United States by air by presentation of a government issued photo identification and Department of State official proof of application for a passport through September 30, 2007. The federal government is making this accommodation for air travel due to longer than expected processing times for passport applications in the face of record-breaking demand.
Travel news - Wikitravel
US passport reprieve - 8 June 2007 - Due to massive backlogs, Homeland Security has announced that Americans who have applied for passports may travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean with only photo ID and proof of their application until September 30, 2007. Minors must also have a certified birth certificate

23 June 2007

Piotr Szczepaski: Welcome to My Homepage
In German, I'm like a dog, which means I understand everything but I can't answer you.
rdiff-backup: Main
A remote incremental backup of all your files could be as easy as rdiff-backup / host.net::/target-dir
JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime: Using JavaScript to Detect QuickTime
How do I implement Adsense for search results on my own page? Google AdSense Help Center
What's wrong with this picture?
Took me a sec...gave me a laugh.
Wilderness Survival: Survival use of Plants - Edibility of Plants
At times you may find yourself in a situation for which you could not plan. In this instance you may not have had the chance to learn the plant life of the region in which you must survive. In this case you can use the Universal Edibility Test to determine which plants you can eat and those to avoid.
How to avoid speeding ticket
Sensible advice for reducing your chances of getting ticketed for speeding...Nevermind it's from AOL &(
Don't Veto, Don't Obey - New York Times
President Bush is notorious for issuing statements taking exception to hundreds of bills as he signs them. This week, we learned that in a shocking number of cases, the Bush administration has refused to enact those laws. Congress should use its powers to insist that its laws are obeyed.
Beyonce "Bidet" CD
What the hell where her marketing people thinking?
MythBusters Results - Outcomes from all MythBusters Episodes
Nice resource for us MythBusters fans.
13gb.com Pictures : Perfect Poster Placement, Look Carefully
What's that spell?
A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Dan Everett believes that Pirah undermines Noam Chomsky's idea of a universal grammar.

22 June 2007

Harrison Ford as Indy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Flickr photo from Spielberg of Harrison Ford in Indie costume.
Indiana Jones
The man in the hat is back. Principle photography started June 18, 2007. Expected release in May 2008.
Sortable Lists Demo
Ajax and manually sorting lists on a page. Interesting...but why? For data input, Web 2.0 interactivity, "My Web" stuff, that's why.
Truth About Apple's 1984 Commercial

21 June 2007

Open Source Native XML Database
How to Maximize Your Test Scores - by an X Secret Service Agent
Very interesting...Found the first one most interesting: reverse blinking. Give you brain less to process by keeping your eyes closed and "blinking" open for milliseconds. Interesting idea.
bayimg - free uncensored image hosting
Claims to be flickr without censorship...hmm...
Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
SQLite is single file, small relational database. Creator claims no copyright to the nifty piece of code. Being used by Google and other giants. I'm curious about this. Small is beautiful, right? Bigger isn't always better.

The more I work in a megacorporation, the more obvious the disconnect between executive management and where the real work gets done. In fact, a growing part of our job is planning how to accommodate the seemingly whimsical changes that could be demanded by execs. It's ridiculous. The amount of effort we expend for that accommodation is significant. What a waste. Here's to the little guy.

10 Water Park Survival Tips - Raging Waters
Our traditional Father's day trip is even better than before because of these tips.

Code for neat checkmark ✓

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Embedded Media HTML Generator
Generates code for embedding various video file formats.
How-To: Get `QuickTime Pro Free
Out of date procedure to obtain QuickTime capabilities from QuickTime Alternative software.
Images That Changed The World ? (PinGUY's Website)
AT&T offers $10 DSL, but tells no one about it - Tech
Vatican Has Ten Commandments for Drivers
I thought this was a joke and off the Onion when I first looked at it. But it's from the SF Chronicle. Glad to see the Catholic Church is attentive to some practical matters of life...Now, if only they would create some rational doctrine about birth control.
Study Guides and Strategies
Painting of Tica by Dru Blair
This can't really be a painting...can it?
South Pacific island - Weird discovery made on the high seas - on Bore Me
The Civilized Workplace: No Jerks Allowed : Industrial Market Trends

19 June 2007

best of craigslist : DO NOT EAT PRINGLES FAT FREE POTATO CHIPS. THEY WILL GREASE YOUR ASS.
As a public service...perhaps too public.
Amazing Filtered Things: Amazing pictures, view from the top
XSLT Tutorial
True close-up of bird on Nikon
Networking
VnTutor: Free Online Ubuntu Linux Books
Magic Uproar - Magic Tricks: Top 20 Magic Trick Tutorials
How to Write a Book in 60 Days or Less
Beautiful vacation spot
Tropical paradise on stilts.
How I built an electricity producing wind turbine
Technophilia: Edit your digital photos with Picasa - Lifehacker
YouTube - Ode To Zach Braff
Google Webmaster Tools - Google Sitemap Protocol
How to Make Use of Google SiteMaps
39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely Exist - Dumb Little Man
Daily Kos: The Permanent Protest: to reject what America has become.
scottberkun.com - Blog Archive - Asshole driven development
PmWiki | Cookbook / Rye Voting
Claire Dodin - page de garde
33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online
KeywordSpy
Meditation Alters Brain Structure, Functioning
That opens up the tantalizing possibility that the brain, like the rest of the body, can be altered intentionally. Just as aerobics sculpt the muscles, so mental training sculpts the gray matter in ways scientists are only beginning to fathom.
This is really the most incredible weight lost story I’ve ever heard Nobody is perfect, I am Nobody
XSLT Tutorial
XML Schema Tutorial
Sphinx - Treddi.com
Computer generated yoga posture, looks almost as unnatural as the real thing :)
Mother Bluffer
Blind man wins Texas hold-em tournament.
XML DTD
XML Tutorial
Scientific American: Wronger Than Wrong
ScienceDaily: Genes In Human Inner Ear Cells Restored
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered a way to transfer genes, which they hope will restore hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear. This important step brings scientists closer to curing genetic or acquired hearing loss.
Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney: Southern historical art, portraits, and figure drawings. Drawings, oil paintings, and sculpture. Figurative, realistic, representational.
APOD: 2006 August 22 - A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares
Political Affairs Magazine - Maize of Deception: How Corn-Based Ethanol Can Lead To Starvation and Environmental Disaster
Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming — Typical Programmer
PmWiki | Cookbook / RedirectSilent
Raging Waters San Jose :: Pricing & Online Tickets
Damn Interesting » Dead Trees and G-Strings
Great site DamnInteresting.com is going cellulose.
Searchable - simple file search engine, not only mp3
Camels, yes, but what else?
National Geo pic that must be looked at to understand.
Beautiful pictures of world scenery
Google Analytics
Portable Audio Devices Tip: Convert video for your iPod - Portable Audio Devices Tips, Tricks, and How-tos at CNET.
phpCMS - Startpage
Flat-file CMS. I've tried using this before, and found it very powerful, flexible, but with a significant learning curve.
Family Massage Therapy-Fremont, California
Fremont Professional Massage and Bodyworks ::: Fremont, CA
A Perfect Day SPA
NPR : A Marriage That's Good Enough
"My husband is not my best friend. He doesn't complete me. In fact, he can be a self-absorbed jerk. We're nearly polar opposites: He's a lifetime member of the NRA who doesn't care for journalists, and I'm a lifelong liberal with a journalism degree. On the other hand, he doesn't beat or emotionally abuse me. He doesn't drink or chase other women. He's a good provider. So I'm sticking with him."
html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup
Steven Hargrove : How to redirect a web page, the smart way
Unlimited Bandwidth Video Hosting
Jefklaks Codex | Headlines
Excellent use of abitmodern for PmWiki.
Thanks for using MediaCoder
MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder
Open Source Windows - Free, Open-Source software for Windows XP and Vista
Jahshaka - Downloads | Jahshaka | 2.0 RC4 Binaries
A Shocking Idea: Nerves Might Run on Sound, Not Electricity
According to their controversial theory, electricity is just a side effect of how nerves really operate: by conducting high-density waves of pressure that resemble sound reverberating through a pipe.
MAKE: Blog: Tent camping for the city dweller
I always wondered...
GMAN: FlickrDown
Recently a friend started using Flickr which is a great service. I personally like to save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle so I whipped up this program so I could download them more easily.
sunkencity.org: flickrbackup
Flickr backup utility.
Active Virus Shield - A New Service Courtesy of AOL
St. Joseph's Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
A website project I worked on for a non-profit agency, SJCD.
Amazon Associates Introduces Random Product Links
One City's Home Sellers Do Better on Their Own - New York Times
The conclusion, in a study to be released today based on home-sales data from 1998 to 2004 in Madison, Wis., is that people in that city who sold their homes through real estate agents typically did not get a higher sale price than people who sold their homes themselves. When the agent’s commission is factored in, the for-sale-by-owner people came out ahead financially.
YouTube - Male Restroom Etiquette
i711.com - Relay & Beyond
Very Bored - World's Tallest Bridge
THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on today
The end of the plug? Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your home | the Daily Mail
Switching to Ubuntu Linux: Download Squad Switcher Podcast #1 - Download Squad
Wubi - The Easiest Way to Linux
Ubuntu and windows installer.
PmWiki | Cookbook / HorizontalVerticalMenu
: : : material raum form : : : | Tischplatten aus Terrazzo, Beton und Pearlnera browse
Mast Images: Friendship should be like this
Help Desk Lines
Why man should not babysit
How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security [Cigital]
StumbleUpon » 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Buy Dia...
One of my posts got "stumbled upon."
The Golden House Sparrow: Site Of The Day
SITE OF THE DAY - Wanderings.net (Perpetual Draft) got "SITE OF THE DAY" on June 5th, 2007 -- Ha!
Amazon.com: ALL-ETT Billfold -- Thinnest Wallet Ever Made: Everything Else
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo (video)
Mind blowing demo. Essentially, this software takes images and creates releationships between them to enable you to further create visual models of, say, Notre Dame based on all the images from flickr. In fact, you can take a poster of Notre Dame and dive into the image represented by the poster, so that the poster image is only a starting point. It's Alice diving into the rabbit hole. Absolutely fascinating.
Hooters.com
"breastaurant" definition from Double-Tongued Dictionary
breastaurant - n. a restaurant that features scantily clad or sexually appealing waitresses.
Chalk art illusions
yahooza | razorfish
Wubi - The Easiest Way to Linux
Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park -- Home of the Circus Trees!
DeafVIDEO.TV - Deaf Videos
Deaf Blogger Profile - LaRonda Zupp
Index of /music
URL Rewriting | redirecting URLs with Apache's mod_rewrite || HTMLSource
Excellent description of mod_rewrite redirect code.
Flickr: Photos from jovative
Flickr: jovative
Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)
Guillermo del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth | Official Movie Site | Picturehouse
Guillermo del Toro
Del Toro Films - Guillermo Del Toro Fansite
Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers | bulk unsolicited unwanted junk email
I wonder if this spam poison service is real...or just a way to target sites.
Rmail
RSS feeds sent by email. Doesn't feedburner do this, too?
Matrioszka: About this site in English
Excellent pmwiki site. Dual right navs, near nav is contextual, outer nav more global. Near nav optional, outer nav perm. Colors make them stand out, red and blue. Too bad it's in Polish :)

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