Awesome fake trailer for a Disney “hocky mom as VP” feel good hit of the year:
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First Presidential Debate 2008, Lehrer/McCain/Obama Live Chat/Blog
8:58 PM tbone pikkens: i am 8 tabling
gonna be hard to stay involved
RZA: dude
sit out
8:59 PM i have cnn on
they have a counter
37 seconds!
9:00 PM the crisis
what channel do you have on?
9:02 PM tbone pikkens: cnbc
RZA: jesus christ
they still have the ticker going on
at the bottom
9:03 PM i can’t stand that
switiching back
wonder if O feels like a dick there
for raising his arm so high
bam
right off to economy
(Ed: there’s a lot more)
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Information Management in Firefox: Stumbleupon, Delicious, Read it Later, and Zotero
Those are the four most important information management addons I use in Firefox.
Stumbleupon is for channel surfing and finding cool new stuff. It’s also great for sending links and comments around to a group of friends. Unless they don’t ever click stumble: “The person you are sending a page to has too many sites waiting in their stumble queue. ”
Delicious is for bookmarking, social or otherwise.
Read it Later is for storing one time sites (i.e. ones you might not want to necessarily bookmark) for later consumption.
and Zotero is the ultimate reference management tool and webpage snapshot addon.
my web search history for the past 365 days
the dip in november is when i fell on my wrist and didn’t use a computer for the rest of the month.
Why is the equation editor grayed out in Microsoft Word 2007?
Probably because you are editing a Word 2003 document and in Compatibility Mode. The 2007 equation editor is grayed out when in compatibility mode.
Solution: You either need to convert a 2003 equation (i.e. from Equation Editor 3.0)
or, open a new 2007 document and make the equation in that.
or, save your 2003 document in 2007 mode and lose some measure of compatibility
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke’s book, Childhood’s End, has recently been recommended to me. Anybody read it? It certainly looks interesting.
Ubuntu 7.10 vs. Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 6000
I did a clean install of Windows XP onto an Inspiron 6000 and then put Ubuntu 7.10 on it as well for a dual boot machine.
It’s kinda sad when the Windows install doesn’t even have a freaking driver for the Ethernet card (not to even mention the wireless card), and the Ubuntu install has drivers for both and WPA support to boot. I guess the selective pressures in the Windows ecosystem just aren’t there. But they’re getting there.
Ashley Youmans, Ashley DiPietro, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, or Nina Vanetta?
Ashley DiPietro goes by many names, Ashley Alexandra Dupré and Nina Venetta
Take a look at her myspace pics and tell me that it doesn’t look like two different girls?
And are these two Nina Venetta songs, which links back to her myspace page, by the same person?
Why would see give so much info to the New York Times for free? Could she have tricked the Old Grey Lady? Could this be a case of mistaken identity or a hoax or some sort?
No, I think this may be a brilliant marketing ploy by a very media savvy woman. Taking maximum advantage of a spotlight situation.
If so, kudos Ashley, big ups to yourself!
P.S. This comment on her blog post cracked me up:
I bet 9 dropped a 2 when the feds called. In his pants.
Posted by Nick on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 11:02 PM
UPDATE 3-13-2008 1AM: soon after posting this blog entry her Amie Street profile added another downloadable song.
UPDATE #2 2:30 AM: I now think Ashley and Nina are the same person given this interesting snippet:
Let’s ride. cAshley Youmans, 1985- (a.k.a. Ashley Nina Veneta) c2007
Which can be found on the following site: http://bulk.resource.org/copyright/hids/hid_10/hid_10854100-10854399.txt
Makes sense that Bottega Veneta (Venetian Boutique in Italiano) would lend it’s name to her pseudonym, which then later added a “t.”
Knighthood on facebook
Apparently that Knighthood app on facebook got deleted as a privacy violation , UPDATE: as ben points out in the 2nd comment below: temporarily turned off because facebook’s “dbs were getting crushed.”
REPORT THIS APPLICATION AS PRIVACY VIOLATION!!!
by Elena at 1:36am
Cromulent, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.
Webster’s New Millenium Dictionary of English has embiggened itself with this cromulent definition:
| Main Entry: | cromulent |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | fine, acceptable |
| Usage: | slang |
Webster’s New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)
Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cromulent
Here’s the reference for the pop culture impaired.