Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
My Life Is Now Complete. This site has been hit up on Digg thanks to the morons who keep posting comments on this really old AOL story. So I’ve now been mentioned on Digg and the New York Times because of AOL morons because of this.
So welcome Digg readers! Feel free to post a comment here. And you’ll be happy to know that despite all this traffic, my server’s barely been pushed at all (thank goodness for MovableType’s static page creation).
Now these are the kinds of investigative projects I like to see. This is the project given to students and faculty from five major universities in a multi-year effort.
The American military is in the midst of a profound shift in strategy that is reshaping the military’s presence, and in many cases, its mission, around the world. Older, permanent bases are downsizing or being restructured; newer, smaller and more flexible bases, in places new to American troops, are being created. We are looking for ways to tell stories—cultural, economic, political and environmental—about the nearly half million men and women serving the security interests of the United States overseas.
I can’t wait to see how this project comes out.
Thanks BB for the link.
Fiona Apple and Damien Rice are playing this weekend here in Bend at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. And if you hurry (this deal lasts until Friday, June 30th, at 6:00PM), you can get free tickets if you pay the $1 Ticketmaster processing fee (considering the tickets go for $55, that’s a pretty damn good deal). Enjoy!
Don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when any of my software calls home. Now you can officially disable Microsoft’s Geniune Advantage from checking in with Microsoft — and they’re giving you directions on how to do it (wonder who forced them to do this?).
Why is Geniune Advantage a bad thing? Read on.
I think I remember Jen saying that she might have some punch cards (or at least she worked with them at some point). I think you should decorate your house with them. Link via Make Blog.
OK, maybe not ever, but BedBooks are still pretty cool for folks who like to read in bed. Why? The text is printed sideways so you can lay down and read properly.
This is mostly for my bookmarks, but anybody out there who uses Photoshop will probably enjoy some of these plugins.
I only wish I had the talen to pull of impressive modifications like this guy who managed to modify his Xbox 360 to run more than 50-degrees cooler with the help of a fully internal water cooling setup. The paint job and the flashy LEDs are pretty slick, too. If you don’t want to read through the whole thread, the final product pictures are on this page