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Various web goodies I come across and wish to share

*today
Peak Oil - if you don't know, now's the time to learn. Wise up folks, it's really coming and it's beyond scary!

*2007.01.15
M$'s Vista sounds like a massive boondoggle.

Here's a whole web site devoted to BadVista - looks like a nightmare to me!

Apparently, Hollywood controls M$'s Vista's amazing security 'features', read this M$ white paper.

aagh, I accidentally deleted most of this blog! Thank goodness for BDub's BUs, which he most graciously sent me. Thanks!

*2006.11.14
Erm, $200 for a limited edition 1984 EvilBlockCompany set . . . Maybe I'll just make my own, dammit!

*2006.07.11
A very nice PowerBook timeline on wikipedia.

*2006.07.02
whaaa . . . ? (movie title) in 30 Seconds, with bunnies

And speaking of sharing, isn't it time you taught your children about File Sharing? Here's a suitable primer to help with those awkward moments.

*2006.07.01
Uhhhhhh, OK . . . metrovoyeur - odd, but interesting, you'll have to visit to find out. All right, it's downright creepy. Sexy(?), but creepy.

*2006.06.05
Ever wonder how drive makers estimate [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/MTBF]MTBF[/url] (or AFR as as Seagate calls it nowadays?) Here's a Seagate-authored explanation.

And hey, how about the ol' SCSI vs. ATA question? Wrong question,
according to this Seagate white paper - link to a PDF. A nice explanation of why Enterprise Storage drives cost so much more than Personal Storage drives.

*2006.05.01
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem or KISS! (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) May Day brought me this treatise on Occam's razor, a very useful philisophical and scientific tool. As a counter-point, also read about Crabtree's bludgeon.

*2006.04.14
Daring Fireball - John Gruber's take on Apple's Boot Camp.

*2006.04.12
Vanity Fair article about Sir Jobs

*2006.04.11
The CIA - America's Premier International Terrorist Organization Truth? or lies? Or something in between? If only half of what is alleged is true I think I'll vomit.

*2006.04.10
Sick 'n' tired of registering at a website just so's you can read a !)*&%&$ article? bugmenot.com to the rescue!

Which I picked up on a visit to the good ol' webpagesthatsuck site. (thanks to astro_rob for pointing it out)

Wow! The great links just keep on comin'!! How many of y'all recollect M$'s Bob?!?

And this one makes me feel sick - a customer of mine recently dumpstered an early Xerox Star system before I could call dibs. snif, snif . . .

*2006.04.01
Grrrrr, I can't believe I got outbid on [url=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9703943876]this![/url] (for future reference, it was an eBay auction for a bunch of Mac CPU accelerators, one of which was a Daystar unit with adapter for IIsi, I sniped @ $170 and got beat.)

*2006.03.30
Apple rumor sites are a dime-a-dozen, but how many Crazy Apple Rumors sites are there? Hmm??!?!? Thought so!

*2006.01.22
VirtualPPC anyone? sheepshaver

*2006.01.19
Figures, someone already has an iNteliMac apart!

*1998.05.11
From faraway 1998, Mark Anthony Collins had some interesting observations on possible Intel-based Macs.

*2006.01.12
The new Apple probooks use ExpressCard slots, here's some details.

*2006.01.04
Where're the eBay deals? Why in misspelled auction listings, that's where! FatFingers can help find those deals others will probably miss.

*2006.01.02
iSquint makes ripping video to your new videoPod ezy-peezy.

*2005.12.19
interesting assortment of adhesives at micro-tools, which outfit also has (unsurprisingly) a nice selection of interesting tools, with a particular concentration on camera repair.

*2005.12.06
Derived from "The Music Genome Project", Pandora tries to answer the question "Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?"

Gack! I hate the Flash-based ads though! Answer? FlashBlock for FireFox!

*2005.12.04
Just watched again one my favorite movies of all time, Mike Judge's Office Space. Man I love this flick - cleaning the fish on the TPS reports . . . just effin' brilliant!

*2005.12.03
Apple's list of trademarks

*2005.11.21
Military Surplus and Government Surplus Auctions - Oh yeah!. I like the $2.25 mil helo sim for $6,500, or howsabout a 'repairable' BAC/Dassault-Breguet Jaguar GR1 fighter aircraft?

Mutts, my favorite 'strip! (eg: my avatar)

*2005.11.19
Jesus - a Bible in Modern English

*2005.11.16
Mac Driver Museum LCD/laptop repair shop, lots of interesting infos and links

*2005.11.14
Introducing the Revolutionary SLEEPTRACKER®

*2005.11.12
some of my PowerBook hacks pages mentioned on O'Grady's PowerPage. {Gollum-voice} flattered we are, yesssss {/Gollum-voice}

*2005.11.08
Cool hitech at US DoD

*2005.11.05
Jesus of the Week
Ruby on Rails
On Becoming a Woman - A tale of many unspeakable dangers.

Maureen Dowd's column - What's a Modern Girl to Do? (might need to sign up w/NYT to read)
engrish.com

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