del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since June 12, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• Dilbert 2006-06-16: Management discourages employees from voicing opinions
  Tags: dilbert, comic
• Interview with Markus Frind – AdSense Millionaire (Reviewed at WorkHappy.net)
  Markus starts dating site PlentyOfFish.com, gets AdSense check for nearly $1M CAD (for two months of earnings, apparently).
  Tags: business, advertising, google, adsense, dating, personals, markusfrind
• PDF: Intermatic Model T101 24 Hour Dial Time Switch (SPST)
  This is the switch we have for our pool equipment.
  Tags: product, pdf, intermatic, timer, switch
• Ted’s Take – Measuring AOL’s Move to the Web
  AOL’s Ted Leonsis shares some facts and figures on AOL and its various properties.
  Tags: blog, aol, tedleonsis
• Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog: Sunlight is the Best Informant
  Jonathan is going to bring transparency to Sun’s marketing strategy by putting its customers opinions front and center. It’s a gamble but if you’re not in it to win, why play? Sun’s gotta start winning again …
  Tags: blog, business, marketing, sun, transparency
• The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns: The Perfect Parents
  “A 6-year-old Florida boy who was accidentally left behind by his family after they celebrated his birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant […] and didn’t notice he was missing until the next day […].” (via Samantha Burns)
  Tags: blog, news, article, florida, chuckecheese, parenting, oops
• The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns: Orgasm Victim?
  Poor Ellie Allen experiences orgasm extremely easy: apparently up to 250 times a day, due to a medical condition labeled “Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome.” Yikes. I wonder what medications contain “trazadon” … (via Samantha Burns)
  Tags: blog, science, medicine, sex, orgasm
• Bravissimo | Lingerie, Swimwear and Clothing for big boobed women
  UK based company selling women’s clothes with tagline: “Lingerie, swimwear & clothing for big boobed women.” Of course, all their models on the website have modestly sized breasts … duh?! Almost seems like bait-and-switch. (via Suw Charman)
  Tags: female, clothing, lingerie, swimsuits, large, breasts
• OpenACS: robust web development framework
  Paper presented by Rocael Hernandez and Andrew Grumet at the Tcl/Tk Conference 2005 in Portland, OR. (17 pages)
  Tags: paper, presentation, web, aolserver, openacs, tcl, conference, 2005, rocaelhernandez, andrewgrumet
• NPR : Teens Turn ‘Repeller’ into Adult-Proof Ringtone
  A high pitched tone that less sensitive (presumably older) ears cannot hear. Reminds me of the old 7Hz chicken skull thing.
  Tags: article, audio, hack, ringtone
• Big Spanish Castle
  Very cool optical illusion. (via Tom Kyte)
  Tags: photo, illusion
• Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger – Correcting the Record about Microsoft
  Robert Scoble leaves Microsoft for startup PodTech.net and clarifies a lot of noise circulating around the blogosphere about his departure.
  Tags: blog, microsoft, robertscoble
• Dilbert: “The only effective way to communicate is person to person.” (2006-06-12)
  Tags: dilbert, comic, humor, funny
• javadave4: announcement – Rocky Horror Puppet Show
  Tags: livejournal, rhps, rockyhorror, puppets

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

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since May 29, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• Local Search
  AOL Digital Cities had “Local Experts” … proof that it was a good idea: today, “Judy’s Book” has copied the concept and is growing in popularity. It’s a pity AOL CityGuide dropped the feature …
  Tags: aol, local, search, digitalcities, cityguide
• MSN Search’s WebLog : Going Places: Accelerating Search in Academic Research
  “[…] 12 winners of the Microsoft Live Labs “Accelerating Search in Academic Research” Awards.” Each researcher gets a grant of $30-50K and >15M sanitized query log entries. I hope something interesting comes out of this!
  Tags: blog, search, microsoft, research, money
• NBA.com: Blog — Jaleel White
  Jaleel White (of Steve Urkel fame) has a blog at NBA Blog Squad. Just bookmarking this in case I ever need to find it again, for trivia or whatnot.
  Tags: blog, jaleelwhite, nba
• PCWorld.com – The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
  AOL is #1 on this list, too!
  Tags: article, pcworld, tech, reviews, history
• MSN Messenger Protocol – Home Page
  Very thorough reference to the MSN Messenger protocol.
  Tags: reference, programming, im, microsoft, msn, protocol
• UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC – ZDNet UK News
  “[…] the Jack PC, […] will fit into a standard size wall socket […] only uses 5 Watts […] can be used with power-over-Ethernet […] costs GBP209 […] runs Windows CE […] Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP clients built in.”
  Tags: article, zdnet, uk, product, jackpc, diskless, thinclient, cheap

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since May 22, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• gilgerard{dot}com : Sidekicks
  Tags: tv, sidekicks

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since May 15, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• Play Ball: Introducing Fungoes | Linux Journal
  Mat Kovach writes an article for Linux Journal … good mention of AOLserver, OpenACS, PostgreSQL and Tcl. Awesome.
  Tags: article, linuxjournal, matkovach, linux, opensource, aolserver, openacs, postgresql, tcl
• Motivator: Inspire! Motivate! Mock!
  Create your own “motivational posters” like Successories or Despair.com. Let the games begin!
  Tags: tools, webapp, funny, free, images, photos, satire, successories, despair
• Futility: Because no one actually cares if you can do it.
  John Scalzi with the help of a picture of his daughter, Athena, and a puzzle cube, created a faux “motivational poster”-like image, ala Successories but more like Despair.com. This one is worth printing and hanging on a wall, though!
  Tags: blog, johnscalzi, athenascalzi, successories, despair, futility
• UltraNormal > AIM Pages
  Kevin Lawver pimps AIM Pages, something he’s been working really hard on. Congrats … but weary as you might be, there’s still many miles to go before you sleep. Miles to go before you sleep. :-)
  Tags: blog, aol, aim, socialnetworking
• Milinkito :: El que tuvo, YouTube : ‘Los Ochenta’
  Eleventy billion YouTube videos from the 1980’s. These videos should be kept available as a historical landmark!
  Tags: 1980s, youtube, video, nostalgia, retro, free
• The Dilbert Blog: Foreign Aid
  Scott Adams asks, “So why do we give foreign aid to Israel?” Isn’t the fact that enough people keep asking this question proof enough that the answer should be “we shouldn’t be.”
  Tags: blog, scottadams, government, politics, us, israel
• SimpleBits | Introducing Cork’d
  Dan Benjamin and Dan Cederholm launch Cork’d, a social network around wine — very clean design, very simple, and the feature set is just perfect. I think I’m going to love this site!
  Tags: blog, socialnetworking, wine, corkd
• Amazon.com: Sony Cybershot DSCN1 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom: Camera & Photo
  Price was $439.99 as of May 18, 2006. Uses Memory Stick Duo and PRO Duo for storage (damn Sony). Does MPEG-VX at 640×480 30 fps. Just under 4″x2.5″x1″ — tiny! 3″ touch LCD on back.
  Tags: product, amazon, camera, sony, cybershot
• MC Hammer Blog: May 12: Chapter 11
  20 years of MC Hammer as told by the man himself.
  Tags: blog, history, music, mchammer
• ASP.NET Forums – showstopper: Error running DNN3.2.1 on ASP.net 2.0 medium trust
  Running DotNetNuke 3.2 on ASP.NET 2.0 with Medium Trust: add {requirePermission=”false”} to each

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  Tags: forum, howto, win32, iis, dotnetnuke, asp.net
• IIS Password Protection Software by Troxo – IISPassword
  ISAPI filter for IIS to implement HTTP Basic Auth. without all the hassle of creating system user accounts (yuck!). Sad that this is a third-party add-on for IIS, in this day and age.
  Tags: software, win32, web, iis, troxo
• SimplytheBest Free Sounds
  Free sounds! Great for playing while on conference call meetings …
  Tags: resource, audio, free, sounds
• AOL News – Pentagon Releases 9/11 Crash Video
  That sure doesn’t look like a plane hitting the Pentagon, does it? Oh man …
  Tags: aol, news, 9/11, conspiracy, pentagon, video
• Vyew.com – Free Web-Based Collaboration
  WebEx and MeetingPlace — you’d better watch your backs. The space is going to heat up very quickly, I bet.
  Tags: business, online, collaboration, free, conferencing, whiteboard, slideshow, chat
• A Barrel Roll while Pouring Iced Tea (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  Tags: blog, youtube, video, plane, acrobatics, physics
• Judicial Watch
  “Finally, we hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77.” Or, absolutely confirm them. Guess it took several years to doctor up the video to the point where it’d pass authenticity tests. Heh, heh
  Tags: blog, 9/11, conspiracy, pentagon, video, foia
• Tom – New generation of porn stars
  The Hasbro Oozinator … desensitizing today’s children to, what the advertisement appears to be, a gay porn flick?
  Tags: blog, livejournal, product, hasbro, oozinator, porn
• brad’s life – My new JID, or how to run DJabberd on Debian
  How to run Brad’s DJabberd on Debian in a few easy steps.
  Tags: blog, livejournal, jabber, perl, djabberd, debian, linux, free, opensource, software

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since May 8, 2006 at 12:08 PM:

• InformationWeek | Online Music | AOL Launches Developer Tools For Music Feeds | May 11, 2006
  “AOL on Thursday [May 11, 2006] launched a set of software tools for Web developers and bloggers to add custom feeds from the portal’s Music Now site.”
  Tags: article, aol, music, api, rss, feed
• AOL Music Now Developer Site – Home
  “AOL Music Now Web Services” … right now it’s just a collection of RSS feeds. Still, something is better than nothing! Keep it coming, guys!
  Tags: aol, api, music, webservice, rss, feed
• Joystiq Video: Wired Spore Event, featuring Will Wright and Robin Williams [update 3] – Joystiq
  Tags: blog, gaming, article, E3, maxis, spore, video
• ZoomInfo.com
  Interesting search engine that targets people and companies and tries to infer related pages on the web that provide information about them. In other words: auto-stalking.
  Tags: search, directory, network, privacy
• NorthJersey.com: Residents shocked landscaper survived
  Landscaper Joseph Schwarz amazingly survives two 7,200 volt exposures while working across the street from the Riverdale Elementary School.
  Tags: news, local, newjersey

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since May 1, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• stereogum: MySpace: The Music Video
  Tags: blog, myspace, video, ifilm
• RealEstateJournal | Discount Real-Estate Brokers Spark a War Over Commissions
  A story about Sharon Jebavy and the Ohio real estate cartel pushing around discount flat-fee MLS services.
  Tags: news, business, realestate, mls, fsbo
• Imago – A New Way To Love
  “Harville Hendrix, PhD and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD developed Imago Relationship Therapy based on their experience […] including their own marriage. [… Authored] best-selling books including “Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples” […]”
  Tags: resource, relationship, therapy, love
• Guy Kawasaki: The World’s Shortest Marketing Plan, Version 2.0
  Tags: blog, business, marketing
• Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages by Henry G. Baker (July 1993)
  ACM OOPS Messenger 4, 3 (July 1993), 18-25. Basically: Lisp is good, C/C++ is bad. What Baker omits is the whole “passing variables by reference” (i.e., pointers to variables) to push locally scoped variables to the callee. Good explanation of the powe
  Tags: article, programming, acm, lisp, iterators, oop
• Style-Force Semplice(tm) Pixelfonts
  Great free pixel fonts.
  Tags: resource, typography, fonts, free
• A Question of Resilience – New York Times
  by EMILY BAZELON (April 2006) — an excellent article on the HTT-5 gene’s role in resiliency and depression in abuse survivors.
  Tags: nytimes, science, psychology, research, genetics, abuse
• Blue Marble: Steve Case Keynote At LOHAS
  Tags: blog, aol, revolution, health
• HipCal – it’s about time
  Free calendaring web app. by some RPI students started in 2005, acquired by Plaxo in May 2006.
  Tags: company, startup, calendar, webapps, free, plaxo, rpi

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since April 24, 2006 at 02:01 PM:

• Amazon.com: Authentic Happiness : Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment: Books: Martin Seligman
  “[…] Seligman shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession’s paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental illness to positive emotion and mental health. […]” (via Jason Calacanis)
  Tags: product, book, amazon, psychology, health, happiness, seligman
• :: Authentic Happiness :: Using the new Positive Psychology
  “Dr. Martin Seligman is Director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center and founder of Positive Psychology, a new branch of psychology […]” (via Jason Calacanis)
  Tags: school, reference, health, psychology, happiness, seligman
• DELL UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor
  Does 1920×1200 resolution. $850 direct from Dell as of April 2006.
  Tags: product, dell, lcd, monitor
• A Language-Based Approach to Unifying Events and Threads
  Relevant subject matter for AOLserver/Tcl folks, who need to “[…] unify two seemingly opposite programming models for building massively concurrent network services: the event driven model and the multithreaded model.”
  Tags: research, paper, aolserver, tcl, events, threads
• Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work
  Officially on the fourth Thursday in April.
  Tags: us, holiday, april, thursday, children, work
• TechCrunch – Fotolia’s P2P Photo Sales
  Fotolia launched November 9, 2005 — a little over 5 months later, they’re up to 600K in inventory and 60K members.
  Tags: blog, techcrunch, fotolia, stock, photos, web2.0
• Royalty Free Stock Photos at Fotolia.com
  Over 600K of stock photos as of April 2006. Nice clean site design — could be promising. Looks to be NY-based with a (718) area code support number.
  Tags: business, stock, photos, images, fotolia
• Feelings and Questions That Lead to Freedom by Sallie Culbreth
  A good summary of the effects and results of abuse.
  Tags: essay, abuse
• The Dilbert Blog: Occam’s Stupid Razor
  Adams’ Razor: “The explanation that you believe is correct will always seem simplest to you. / Or to put it another way, the simplest explanation is usually the one provided by the person with the least understanding of the situation.”
  Tags: blog, philosophy, humor, dilbert
• BetaNews | Sun CEO Scott McNealy Steps Down
  Out: Scott McNealy (CEO). In: Jonathan Schwartz (COO). Effective: immediately. Is it finally time to go long on SUNW?
  Tags: news, business, SUNW, sun, management

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since April 17, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• Teagames.com – Orangutwang Game
  Flash-based game: collect the bananas, don’t touch the spiders, strech your Orangutwang.
  Tags: flash, games, fun, free
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1 Commands
  Tags: reference, programming, sql, sybase
• Transact-SQL Reference
  Tags: reference, programming, sql, sybase, sqlserver
• Being Copied (Paul Graham)
  “Startups should worry more about making something worth copying and less about whether someone will.” (via Seth Godin)
  Tags: blog, startup, stealth, wisdom
• Local blogs–it’s about what’s on the plate. – The Jason Calacanis Weblog
  Technology is perpetually trying to bring cyberspace and meatspace together. It’s a hard, but valuable, nut to crack.
  Tags: blog, local, blogging
• How can I help you have an even better AOL experience?
  AOL had better hope that the family-oriented Christians don’t start spreading the message that “AOL isn’t family-friendly” — undermine their whole schtick.
  Tags: blog, aol, member
• Selenium: Selenium
  “Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platfor
  Tags: software, web, free, opensource, testing
• Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Apologists for Islam
  I know many folks aren’t big fans of ESR, but man — does he nail it with this one. Actions always speak louder than words, and Muslim inaction just screams “hypocrisy.”
  Tags: blog, religion, islam
• YouTube – C For Cookie
  V is for Vendetta, but C is for Cookie. (via Tom Limoncelli)
  Tags: youtube, video, cookie, sesamestreet, muppets
• 4/12/2006: Ellsworth AFB foam test – The Cellar
  This must have been amazing to witness. Foam, foam, everywhere!
  Tags: forum, foam, overflow
• British Rethinking Rules After Ill-Fated Drug Trial – New York Times
  Scary: “[…] TGN1412, a novel type of immune stimulant [… tests] in monkeys showed no significant trouble, all six human subjects nearly died. One is still hospitalized and the others, though discharged, still have impaired immune systems, their future
  Tags: nytimes, medicine, drugs
• The Dilbert Blog: Respecting the Beliefs of Others
  Genius: “Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. At least that’s what I tell people after I mock them. Or to put it another way, I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument […]”
  Tags: blog, dilbert, mockery
• YouTube – Official Clerks II Trailer
  Looks pretty official to me. Audio level is a bit low but it’s generally watchable if you crank your volume way up. (via Andrew Grumet)
  Tags: youtube, video, clerks, viewaskew

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since April 10, 2006 at 09:00 AM:

• Cover Story: Interview with Linda Dozier
  Issue 7 (August, 1996) of WWWiz magazine’s cover story is an interview with Linda Dozier, founder (?) of former NaviSoft, which was acquired by AOL in late 1994.
  Tags: article, wwwiz, aol, navisoft, lindadozier, interview
• Carl Hutzler’s Blog > Blog Archive > Ouch, that hurts. Stop doing that.
  Carl points out that the blocking of DearAOL.com was a mistake, not a malicious act on AOL’s part, and has been corrected.
  Tags: blog, aol, mail
• Best ringtone ever.
  Foamy says, “Hey, follow the sound of my voice and kill whoever’s holding the phone.” (via Tom Limoncelli)
  Tags: audio, mp3, ringtone
• Network Marketing for Women: A blind man’s new words get new results
  Kim Klaver tells a story about the importance of good marketing copy.
  Tags: blog, marketing, copywriting, story, begging
• Simple Fix for Plugging Firefox Memory Leaks :: Street Tech :: hardware beyond the hype
  Steps: (1) about:config, (2) config.trim_on_minimize = true, (3) restart
  Tags: mozilla, hacks, howto, memory, leak
• PubMed: Physiological correlates of imagery-induced orgasm in women.
  What a great job: “[…] On this basis we state that physical genital stimulation is evidently not necessary to produce a state that is reported to be an orgasm and that a reassessment of the nature of orgasm is warranted.”
  Tags: research, paper, science, sex, orgasm
• No more “free Linux CD” mails! (hopefully)
  Richard Atterer finally posts a “the Debian project does not send out free CDs” page on debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd — nice! I bet people still won’t read it.
  Tags: list, archive, debian, linux, free, cd
• Hack Attack: Build your own DVR – Lifehacker
  Good article on building your own PVR using a Hauppauge PVR-150 PCI encoder card and SageTV. Doesn’t look like it’ll work well for DirecTV satellite customers, though.
  Tags: blog, lifehack, diy, dvr, pvr