del.icio.us/dossy links since June 5, 2006 at 09:00 AM

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since June 5, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• The Xapian Project
  “Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval library, released under the GPL. It’s written in C++ […] based upon the code of Open Muscat (also known as Omsee) […] by BrightStation PLC.”
  Tags: software, search, tools, opensource, free
• Windows Vista Beta 2 – English 32-Bit Edition
  Download Windows Vista Beta 2, free, while you can. It’s a 3.2 GB DVD ISO image for x86-32.
  Tags: software, microsoft, vista, beta, free
• Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Happiness: Is It In Your Genes or In Your Head?
  Tags: blog, happiness, seligman
• The Dilbert Blog: Win Win Win Win Scenario
  Apparently, Scott Adams’s birthday is June 8th.
  Tags: blog, fact, birthday
• CNW Group: Tall Tales about Problems When Shopping Turn-off Friends and Colleagues
  “New study finds just hearing about a problem is worse than experiencing it yourself” … are you hearing this, AOL?
  Tags: research, marketing, customer, satisfaction
• Flickr: Photos from morbidthoughts
  This photostream is probably NSFW, depending on where you work and what you do for a living. Lots of pics of porn stars and adult entertainment conferences, etc.
  Tags: flickr, photos, porn, nsfw
• MP3: You’re Pitiful by “Weird Al” Yankovic (Free!)
  Weird Al Yankovic releases a free MP3 from his upcoming new album of his parody of James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” … a song that is SO overplayed these days. The parody is as awful as the original, which is strangely fitting.
  Tags: music, mp3, free, weirdal, jamesblunt, parody
• SS-HD35-KSDFT $69.98 USB 2.0 + Firewire + SATA Output 3.5” Aluminum Native SATA or IDE HDD Enclosure
  $70 for an external enclosure that takes either IDE or SATA drives and has USB 2.0, FireWire or SATA connectors on the outside. Time to buy some more enclosures from SATAGear …
  Tags: product, hardware, disk, enclosure, ide, sata, firewire, usb, portable
• Database query tool – Aqua Data Studio is the query analyzer that works with Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL and more.
  “Aqua Data Studio is a database query tool and administration tool that allows developers to easily create, edit, and execute SQL scripts, as well as browse and visually modify database structures. […]”
  Tags: product, company, database, tools, dbms, sql
• Carson Workshops: How to Build a Web App by Ryan Carson
  Ryan Carson’s HOWTO on launching a web startup.
  Tags: business, howto, web, startup, ryancarson
• Top 10 Best Designed Blogs by Elliott Back
  Good selection of blogs, although beauty is clearly in the eye of the beholder …
  Tags: blog, blogging, webdesign
• US-NJ-Allendale-Web/Linux/HTML/PHP/perl/MySQL Developer
  “Guardian Digital, Inc. […] a Linux-only operation […] located in Allendale, NJ” … FTE gig with health benefits. Should check them out.
  Tags: job, employment, newjersey, guardiandigital
• Comments are off? Yep. Back soon? Yep. – Engadget
  Engadget hits the wall and turns off comments “temporarily” — it was bound to happen eventually. I am very interested in seeing how WIN is going to improve their software to handle this. Maybe they’ll find a novel approach, which would be cool.
  Tags: blogging, weblogsinc, engadget, spam
• The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO – Wal-Mart’s data center remains mystery
  Lots of details about Wal-Mart’s big datacenter in Jane, MO. If what’s in the article is true, I need to go work for Wal-Mart next.
  Tags: article, business, privacy, wal-mart
• Mobility Site: Take your movies to TomTom
  “Makayama Interactive today introduces Media Studio for TomTom(R) 1.0. With this innovative software, consumers can turn their TomTom GO navigation system into a media and movie playback device.” Now TomTom needs to make a model with a 7-inch LCD screen.
  Tags: blog, mobile, tomtom, gps, media, pvr
• The Monkey Chow Diaries
  “[…] can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do?”
  Tags: blog, research, food, economics, funny
• Jaleel White is NOT dead! – TV Squad
  TV Squad even picks up on the Jaleel-White-is-dead rumor floating around.
  Tags: blog, weblogsinc, tvsquad, jaleelwhite, steveurkel, death, rumor
• Urban Legends Reference Pages: Radio & TV (Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) Suicide)
  As of June 3, 2006 … Snopes.com doesn’t believe Jaleel White is dead.
  Tags: rumor, jaleelwhite, steveurkel, death