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Monthly Archives: January 2010

links for 2010-01-30

31-Jan-10

Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs
SJ: Apple was this incredible journey. I mean we did some amazing things there. The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important. We were all pretty young. The average age in the [...]

links for 2010-01-29

30-Jan-10

Lost, for the Last Time – The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast spoke with Lindelof and Cuse, known on the Internet as Team Darlton, about the final season of Lost, its influence on television programming, the show’s legacy, and why viewers shouldn’t expect to see every mystery answered this season. (This is Part 1 of a [...]

links for 2010-01-28

29-Jan-10

Brizzly / A simple way to experience the social web
# Twitter and Facebook. Simpler. Easier.
# See and share photos, videos and more.
# Keep up on trends and news.
(tags: @2search)

Think! Debian » Debian Lenny Postfix Howto
This guide will show you how to setup Postfix mail server running alongside Cyrus SASL, Courier-IMAP and SquirrelMail. Once everything is [...]

links for 2010-01-27

28-Jan-10

EEEguides.com: Install Windows XP on the Asus Eee PC
Please note this tutorial works on all computers not just the Asus EEE PC.
To complete this tutorial you need a 32bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC.
(tags: @2search)

Titanic The Artefact Exhibition. Real Objects, Real Stories.
Discover the unforgettable story of the most [...]

links for 2010-01-26

27-Jan-10

How to easily force lots files to be downloaded in Apache — Technomancy
I had a website, serving up many files. Sometimes you want to 'encourage' a user to download a file instead of their browser displaying a file. You can do this by setting the "Content-Disposition" header. However I had thousands of files that I [...]

links for 2010-01-25

26-Jan-10

Adrian Russell · On the road to Croker
Presumably she thought the ribbon of scruffy looking youngsters, she may or may not have noticed down the years, who dot the nation’s road network with their thumbs cocked, were just congratulating my father on his impressive driving.
(tags: @2read)

Gameboys From Hell | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: My regret only [...]

links for 2010-01-24

25-Jan-10

Pinball TOPcast TOP Cast talk show This Old Pinball podcast
TOPcast is an internet podcast with interviews of key pinball industry people, documenting the history of pinball. TOPcast also has a technical show (discontinued in 2008) that allows listeners to call in (or email) and ask tech questions about their (broken) games. On the tech show [...]

links for 2010-01-22

23-Jan-10

Google's Nexus One is no iPhone – and that's OK :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko
A brief aside: I was a little disappointed to see that the production Nexus, unlike the ones distributed to company employees and which showed up on tech blogs back in December, didn’t have the QC barcode on the back cover. [...]

links for 2010-01-21

22-Jan-10

Tickery – Explore Twitter with FluidDB
Explore Twitter with FluidDB
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Easy, Illustrated Instructions on How to Paint a Room
Painting a room is one of the easiest things you can do to enhance your surroundings. Its mostly fun, fairly inexpensive, and can be a very satisfying accomplishment if done well.
(tags: @2file)

Myths of the American Revolution | History [...]

links for 2010-01-20

21-Jan-10

Welcome to The Gutter Bookshop
Welcome to The Gutter Bookshop, a new independent bookshop based in the Old City part of Dublin's popular Temple Bar area. We sell all kinds of books, including some great children's books, as well as gifts and stationery. We aim to provide you with something just a little bit different than [...]

links for 2010-01-19

20-Jan-10

The Twit Cleaner – Clean the garbage from your Tweetstream
Sick of the noise on Twitter?
Here's what The Twit Cleaner will do for you:
Analyses all the people you follow
Finds time wasters, spammers, the boring, bots etc
Creates a detailed report of everyone you're following
Increases the integrity & authenticity of your brand or personal image
Clears up the 'background [...]

links for 2010-01-18

19-Jan-10

Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster
A candidate whose aides were prepared to block him from becoming president. A wife whose virtuous image was a mirage. A mistress with a video camera. In an excerpt from the new book Game Change – their sweeping account of the 2008 campaign – the authors reveal that, inside the [...]

links for 2010-01-17

18-Jan-10

Mark Kermode: It's only a movie | extract | Books | The Observer
Top marks: Kermode's favourite films
The Exorcist (1973) Greatest movie ever made – terrifying, uplifting, transcendent.
Local Hero (1983) 'Brigadoon meets Apocalypse Now' in Bill Forsyth's charmer.
Silent Running (1972) Doug Trumbull's lonely sci-fi gem – without which we wouldn't have Wall-E.
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) [...]

links for 2010-01-16

17-Jan-10

Snipt – d1s4st3r – Sed script to extract links from a HTML page
#! /bin/sed -nf # Join lines if we have tags that span multiple lines :join /<[^>]*$/ { N; s/[ *]\n[ *]/ /; b join; } # Do some selection to speed the thing up /<[ ]*\([aA]\|[iI][mM][gG]\)/!b # Remove extra spaces before/after the tag [...]

links for 2010-01-15

16-Jan-10

Browse Pipes: Pipes Search: rss links (599 results)
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Bottle Shock (2008) [dvdrip] (download torrent) – TPB
The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".
(tags: @2dl)

Anti-Self.* Reddits for Greasemonkey
Hides all instances of self.* Reddit submissions
(tags: [...]

links for 2010-01-14

15-Jan-10

The Dirtiest Player: Profiles: GQ
Say this for Marvin Harrison: He tried to be his own person. He succeeded on a level that most of us can only dream of reaching. But he either never realized or flat-out denied the destabilizing effect of his presence in a poor and desperate part of the city. Much as [...]

links for 2010-01-13

14-Jan-10

A Reporter at Large: The Lost City of Z : The New Yorker
The expedition expected to find little more than bones—yet even discovering those would have been a revelation. When he vanished, Fawcett and his party had been trying to uncover a lost civilization hidden in the Amazon, which Fawcett had named, simply, the City [...]

links for 2010-01-12

13-Jan-10

Magazines on Google | MetaFilter
The full text of several years of various magazines are available on google for your browsing pleasure. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1940-1998) Popular Mechanics (1900-2005), Weekly World News (1984-2007, Hitler's Secret UFO Plans), Life (1936-1972), Ebony (1960-2008) and many more.
(tags: @2search)

The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare [...]

links for 2010-01-11

12-Jan-10

La habitación de Fermat (2007)
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma…
(tags: @2dl)

Cube (1997)
7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
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How to set up a Google Voice account outside [...]

links for 2010-01-10

11-Jan-10

Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Working Out With Nothing but a Floor
When you're on-the-go, finding a gym can be hard and going for a run outside is always fraught with the risk of getting lost.
So I now pack two good exercise tools in my suitcase that allow me to do a workout anywhere, anytime:
1. Jump rope [...]