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Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like… swell? (trouble!) And… ‘so’s your old man?

TV news is a joke.
UPDATE! I really am dangerous geeky, check out my last Subversion commit tonight:

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We’ve been so busy that I haven’t followed the Internet Explorer 7 betas; from what I was seeing, there were enough changes between each even after they said that all of the layout/rendering development was frozen that it wasn’t worth chasing. Now that it’s out, and being pushed to a good share of Windows users, I spent the morning setting up our testing boat anchor laptop (WinXP/SP2) with IE7, the ability to handle multiple versions of Internet Explorer, and older versions of said devil.

While I first thought that running a virtual machine would be the only solution, it’s pretty crazy to have to do that (and pay for a whole other XP license and whatever extra RAM you need) just to test your web sites in crappy old browsers. I have to say HOOOORAY to Yousif Al Saif for putting together Multiple_IE: a bundle of standalone versions of IE that don’t interfere with each other. Installation was fast and it works great.

People who have heard me on my soapbox may think that I think that Macs and Firefox are perfect. I never said that! (Even though they’re totally better.) I’ve just spent the afternoon chasing down tab order wierdness in Firefox on the Mac, and dang! that was annoying.

I usually don’t bother with goofy internet “what blah-blah are you?” quizzes, but couldn’t resist this one. I suppose blogging that increases my dork quotient.

Modern, Cool Nerd
82 % Nerd, 65% Geek, 39% Dork
How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 99% on geekosity
You scored higher than 99% on dork points

I’ve never been able to actually find the aforementioned Hubzilla. This TARDIS hub is way cooler, and available. And on its way to me! Stupid amazon.co.uk shops no US shipping… HOOORAY EBAY.

USBcell batteries – recharge them on your USB port. Especially if you’re using a hubzilla.

Whatever: Clearly You People Thought I Was Kidding

(Free !) pattern to, um, knit a Princess Leia Cinnabun hat/wig. The designer used alpaca; a good call, since that shit will keep your ears warm in the absolute zero of space. HEY! Make one in in green and gold and be the Belle of Lambeau.

Test your sites on a PSP Web Browser Simulator. (Windows only.)

Next I went to the belt, where I emptied my pockets, emptied my bag, took off my watch, and took off my shoes. The only thing they didn’t ask me to empty was my intestines, but that’s next year. Just before I went through the gate, the portly young woman on the other side, who I thought might find the stunt funny, was replaced by a surly old guy who looked like an ex-Marine. “Oh no,” I said to the vibrator.

FORWARD Governor Mark Warner is going to hold a virtual Town Hall meeting in Second Life. “When we all quit laughing, we kind of looked around and said, ‘Hey, that’s not a bad idea.”
Wow.
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Mod your own Pez Drive.
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Bill Murray Soundboard

Wikipedia blocklog: Block log – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
04:59, 1 August 2006 Tawker (Talk | contribs) blocked “Stephencolbert (contribs)” with an expiry time of indefinite (please confirm ownership of this account per the email I sent before I unblock. That, and mention me on the show… (put me on notice!!!))

Tawker’s post
YouTube video of the August 1 Colbert Report that got him blocked
screen capture of the page Colbert changed

Did you know that the number of elephants in Africa has tripled in the last six months? I didn’t either!

I need to find a cool-looking warning sticker with the old classic,

Alles touristen und non-technishen looken peepers! Das machine is nicht fur der fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und popencorken mit spitzen sparken. Das machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpiken hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.

to put on all computers, and, possibly even the whole entire internets.

A question over on Soopermomz, which I hope gets discussed further.

I just got my PowerBook hooked up to a IBM Model M keyboard and it’s rockingly clickyclacky and so great to use. It’s super responsive and the clacky keys actually encourage me to type faster and better because I sound like the Coding Rockstar that I am. Himself just ordered two of the legendary OmniKey 102s and I’m looking forward to checking that out.

As soon as I get a Wacom on this machine, I’m going to be so set. Man, using a mouse is teh sux. How the hell do people use these friggin’ things? Ouch.

I can set the measurement units in CICEROS.
I can set the measurement units in DIDOTS.
hours, minutes, seconds, too.
miles!
feet!
kilometers!
BUT NOT FUCKING PIXELS! ! ! ! !

Zoidberg soundset for Adium. Wooobobooboooboooboo!

With a review like this, it’s gotta be good: We’re just about the happiest we’ve ever been with this book, and it’s mostly because of all the vomit stories and references to Arby’s.

Mmm. Arby’s.

My friend Pete just moved to Hawaii and he swears up and down that EVERYONE has one of these in their house. I think he’s lying, but wouldn’t that be rad? If you don’t live in Hawaii where these apparently come FREE with your rent, you can make a home-made Tiki Fireplace with smoking nose, like this dude did.

Follow the Tour de France 2006 in Google Earth. “It’s a network link, so any refinements will get updated automatically, so save it in your “My Places” if you plan to follow the race.” Nifty!

GET AWAY FROM ME, CARL MONDAY!!!!

10 Things I Hate About Commandments: Trailer mashup, at Pharoh High School. Principal Firebush is a nice touch.

Just what I was looking for! Having been forced to work on a Win box the last year in MegaGigantoCorp, and use Outlook, the one nice feature I found was the little notice as new mail came in: it would unobtrusively fade in and out, and tell you who was writing about what. This notice basically lets you know whether it’s a ignorable message or not, without disrupting your workflow. I’m working on a lot of stuff right now with people in various places, and it’s all pretty e-mail heavy. On the Mac, when there’s a little red dot, I’ve had to stop what I’m doing and go check if it’s something important — which is totally a drag. Mail.appetizer adds that little function to Mail — and, unlike Outlook’s, it’s configurable, and NOT UGLY. Yay!

For rhyming “modem” and “scrotum” (check the music video), and for coining the phrase “optical inch” (great band name, btw), I love this new bodyshave viral. Optical inch! I’m not going to be able to stop saying that today.
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Want a less lame looking mySpace profile? Mike Davidson (he of sIFR fame and many fine web sites) shows you how. He also has 57 billion friends.

Last week, during the after-podcast chitchat, we were talking about old video games, and I brought up that I’ve always wondered what the heck it was that my friend Katie and I played all the time in high school. I knew it was an old game even then (1986?), since it was on her family’s TI-99/4A (beige) that had been consigned to the basement for homework use. I also remembered was that it involved a dungeon, and a quest, and maybe wights or orcs… but the main thing, the thing that all this time I haven’t been able to get out of my head, was the MUSIC. I can’t really sing, but I managed to beep out the “doo-do-doo-doo-doo, DOO DOO DOO DOO,” and Chris Spruck the Awesome was able to identify it RIGHT AWAY as TUNNELS OF DOOM. The internet bows before Chris’ knowledge! Bonus: that last link points you to an emulator, so you can run the dungeon from your windows box. Schweet!

Besides the fact that the stereotypical stock images are teh g3y, this quiz is for amateurs. Viz…

1: How many functioning computers are in your house?

Available answers stop at four, and don’t include, “I can’t remember, hang on while I go down to the server room and count them.”

2: What kind of computer do you use?

The answers reference operating systems, not computers. Also, there is no option for “OSX, Windows (but only for testing and himself’s work), at least 2 flavors of Linux and THERE IS NO MENTION OF BSD.

4: Do you text-message or e-mail from your cell phone or BlackBerry?

Hello?! Treos are much more awesome, I am in IRC right this minute on mine, and himself got into his AS/400 box on his on the way to work this morning. Blackberries are for corporate hacks.

8: Which of these do you have attached to your television?

OK, props for mentioning Slingbox, which we don’t have but really want. (Mentioned in our podcast a couple weeks back. And no, there were no bonus points awarded for podcasting.)

9: Which game system are you playing most often today?

Hacked Xbox with MAMEs not an available option. (Not that I hacked it, but still.)

17: When you need driving directions you…

No option for “use internet in car, either wardriving or on Treo.”

My score was 79, Seriously Nerdy (out of a possible 102); however, the quiz didn’t give me an extra ten bonus dork points for blogging a complaint about it. Meh.

Holy crap, I just looked at the other results. Out of 16948 people taking the quiz, nearly 60% were under 30, or “stuck in the last century.” Only four percent are as geektastic as I am, which is is scary, considering that of the tech people I know, I would consider myself on the low end of the totem pole (being a web designer, not a programmer). No wonder we have to translate ourselves so much.

Web 2.0 or Star Wars? I got an embarrasingly high 35, which is suprising since I really could only identify the characters from the good trilogy. Then again, I surf all day, so I know more about the 2.0 crap.
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