May 2008
54 posts
Winnipeg: Love & Hate →
Extensive photography and commentary on Winnipeg architecture and places. It’s my home town, so you know I have to bookmark this.
D-Link Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit DXN-221... →
If this is for real and the transfer speeds are decent it could finally solve the “god, do I have to string ethernet between rooms *again*?” problem.
Facebook Gansta. No comment.
Dealing with home directory ACL issues on Mac OS X... →
We get support emails about this occasionally and this how-to by Ted Landau should be helpful.
Via boingboing comes this rather bootylicious Best Buy security cam dance-off.
I had a girl who had turned 18 the day before. She was with a high school group,...
– Pirate’s Booty - insights into playing Jack Sparrow at Disneyland.
Awesome documentary on The Smiths (via kungfugrippe)
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You... →
Wow - Zappos trains new employees for four weeks, pays their salary, and part way through tells them if they want to quit the company will *give* them $1000. Very cool way to find dedicated people.
Information Design Patterns →
For later perusal.
25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and "frilly... →
Cameron Moll collects a number of sources for ornaments and other frippery.
David Lynch’s wonderful contribution to Lumière et compagnie - modern filmmakers making 55 second films using the original Cinematographie created by the Lumière brothers.
How to get iTunes to import AVI files →
This was driving me nuts, but the SetFile metadata trick worked!
Asterisk MacOSX Support - voip-info.org →
Lots of detailed information on how to get Asterisk (oh god, what am I getting myself into?) running on a mac.
VoIP Tracker Lite →
Small bit of Mac OS X software to monitor the status of Linksys / Sipura VOIP adapaters
Recover/repair a corrupt aes-encrypted sparse... →
Somehow one of the Time Machine images got corrupted on our backup server at home, and this seems to have saved our bacon.
Google Doctype →
“Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library written by web developers, for web developers” - spearheaded by Mark Pilgrim.
Very lovely Chris Ware animation for This American Life (via drawn!)
A day with no news (via)
Argentinean street artist Blu’s absolutely insane animated wall-painting.
Well, at least he’s consistently been an asshole, I guess…
Super wild generative music apparatus (via gord)