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December 31, 2004
Synergy
“Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.” Hmm, I hear there’s a
MiniMac coming...
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December 26, 2004
2 Soldiers’ Ill Fortune Turns Into Hope and Joy
“People Grateful for Men’s Iraq Service Replace a Stolen Car, Donate a Harley”
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December 23, 2004
Christmas Armaments
“Caleb and Eli have boots and hats, bandanas and sheriff’s badges. But they don’t have holsters and guns. Without those critical components, however, you’ve really just got yourself a Village People costume”
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The IX Olympic Gripes to the FCC; All nine of them
“It’s puzzling that we had 203 million viewers who watched over 17 days and more than 1,200 hours, and got no such complaints last summer during the Games”
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December 21, 2004
My Cat Hates You
... for giving him a bad toupee
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Blog and Forum automatic submission scripts
“If bloggers are powerful enough to take down a TV news anchor, I’d imagine that a concerted effort to choke off distribution sources would be successful as well.”
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Movable Type 3.14 released
“we strongly recommend that all Movable Type users install this update,” and from
Mena: “We’ve got a common goal, that is platform neutral - to get spammers out of our space”
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Blog Happy!
That’s all you need to know for now
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December 20, 2004
Why Artistic Freedom Matters
“Creativity flowers from the simmering embers of tyranny, book-bannings will not prevent the flow of ideas to his constituents, they will only fire the flames of rebellion and creation.”
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Scared of Santa
24 photos of kids facing their fears, in the name of toys
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Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own
And Jeremy adds to the call for some form of “no-index” marker to wrap around comments, eliminating the benefit of comment spam
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December 18, 2004
The man under the bridge (reg. req’d)
A wonderful story about what an 11 year old girl can do: “She reached out to a man she noticed from a bus, and that man doesn’t live under a bridge anymore”
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threshold state: Comment spam, and a disheartening realisation
Alex makes some excellent points, especially about the CAPTCHA method of verification
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People Seem to Hate “The Cubes”
But I see tremendous photo opportunities (
remember these?). Comedic publishing opportunies. Buy me
Set Three (it’s Les, not Ted) and the
Expansion pack for Christmas, and watch what I do with them...
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Floating Logos Project
Remove the simplest thing, and a photo takes on a new life
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And this bird shall sing...
“U.S. officials say Aziz already has implicated the French and others, claiming payoffs were made with the understanding that recipients would support Iraq on key matters before the U.N.”
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December 16, 2004
Macro Maximus
A series of photos about the preparations for some amazing macro photography of ... well, I won’t spoil it. Just scroll
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December 15, 2004
We Go To War With The Defense Secretary We Have
“Actually, we have a pretty terrific Army. It’s performed a lot better in this war than the secretary of defense has.”
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December 14, 2004
“We had no knowledge that this was a famous pair of birds”
How sad is it that our Fish and Wildlife Service was unaware they were approving the eviction of Pale Male and Lola?
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December 13, 2004
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December 12, 2004
MSNBC: The Alpha Bloggers
“No one hired them. No one appointed them”
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Google Suggest
“As you type, Google will offer suggestions” (here’s the
FAQ)
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December 09, 2004
Lefties Kick Ass
“Left-handed people may be better equipped for close range mortal combat than those who rely on their right hands”
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A Blogfather shouldn’t have to bury his Blogchildren
Of the ten blogs listed as my “children,” four of them are dead, and three appear to be in a coma for a month or longer. I must be a Bad Daddy.
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December 07, 2004
99.8% of FCC Complaints filed in 2003 came from one group
The Parents Television Council promised “a massive, coordinated and determined campaign,” and now they nearly control the process
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December 06, 2004
brushstroke.tv: She’s baaacckk!
After 8 months, Mel returns, with an opening line identical to the closing line in ‘Memento’
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December 05, 2004
If you can’t win a weblog award by the rules, write a voting ‘bot and cheat!
Better yet, what if we agree that all of these “weblog awards” have always been a sad chest-thumping joke, rather than make ourselves look infantile trying to win one?
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December 04, 2004
Cluster Balloons
The hopefully safer descendant of
Larry the Lawn Chair Pilot: “A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000 ft.”
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December 02, 2004
Why Do We Blog?
“Here are reflections from thirty-five bloggers...”
