Crazy, but it looks strangely fun to ride: Ultimate Hybrid
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Month: January 2007 (Page 1 of 3)
To the comment spammers hitting my haiku site: There is something buggy with one of your scripts. I keep getting these comments that contain nothing but a bogus email address and a single word:
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Now, come on. You call this comment spam?… Read the rest
Generally, Apple does software reasonably well. The company understands that the user experience doesn’t end with the plastic and the circuits, but also encompasses the on-screen interface, the dialog boxes, and even the fonts used in its applications.
So what happened to iTunes?… Read the rest
Somebody has spent a lot of time putting hex codes and swatches for every imaginable color into wikipedia, along with links to related color entries. This is actually useful. Some examples: safety orange – chartreuse – ecru – but not, alas, Pantone 292… Read the rest
Carl Malamud explains 10 tricks for making government work for you. Mostly practical, a few idealistic: Internet Archive: Details: Hack 1: Be Media (Internet Governance in a Nutshell)… Read the rest
Shocking — an IP lawyer with a sense of humor: Blogger gets ‘don’t cease-and-desist’ letter for his Second Life satire… Read the rest
Best headline of the month: The purloined sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine (thanks Scot)
Also, 25 million of us have stolen movies.… Read the rest
Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck together on NPR. For banjo fans, this is like the harmonic convergence: NPR : Tony Trischka Has More Than One Banjo on His Knee… Read the rest
Thank god for telecom deregulation, eh? YouTube – Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!… Read the rest
Pogue pens new words to the Village People tune “YMCA”: Ode to the R.I.A.A.… Read the rest