Be a parent
A nice counter-point to the link I just posted a couple hours ago. Eric Meyer doesn't like how the some of the mommy bloggers
claim they're doing it because of the things they had to give up to be a parent. He also wonders what the subjects of these blogs (the kids) will think in fifteen years about their whole lives being permanently chronicled for the world to see.
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Leta in the NY Times
Damn that kid is famous, luckily she's cute enough to deserve it.
The New York Times does an article on Mommy Blogs
, so of course has to feature Dooce.com and Leta. She talks about it here, mentioning the perils of freaking logging in to read an article on their site. She should have told her dad about BugMeNot.
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Six Apart Redesign Coming
It seems Six Apart is about to release a redesign on us. Looks pretty cool from the tiny preview Mena let us see. Looks much nicer and less like the weblog that it is. The interesting part to me is that the whole thing is MT powered and they're going to write up case studies on how they did it. I really need to get down and so some PHP work on this site, could really make some stuff work much more smoothly.
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TiVo's Home Media Engine launched
TiVo has officially launched the Home Media Engine SDK. The kit will allow developers to write their own software to be run on TiVo boxes, things like RSS news feeds and weather updates won't be far behind.
Should be some exciting stuff coming out soon for TiVo owners.
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Canadian town wants its tsunami donation back
Tell me why all the liberals want to move to Canada again?
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Listamatic
I found this before but lost it, now Cameron has reminded me again.
Great set of sample menus using unordered lists, includes the needed HTML and CSS.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Peerflix
A really cool idea for those of us that tend to buy too mand DVD's. Peerflix allows you to trade the movies you don't want anymore to someone else in exchange for new movies you do want.
There's no monthly fee so you can use as often or as little as you like, just pay a dollar per trade. Right now when you sign up you get two DVD's completely free. I'll be sure to post my thoughts on the service once I've used it for a while.
(via Hacking Netflix)
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Firefox Bookmarks Synchronizer
Really cool Firefox extension if you've got a web host somewhere. It allows you to keep your bookmarks synchronized by uploading an XML data file of your bookmarks everytime you make a change. Then everytime you open Firefox it quickly downloads that file and syncs up your favorites. Exceedingly useful.
(via Matt)
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Penny Arcade on Video Game exclusivity
Penny Arcade's got a pretty funny comic on the whole EA with the NFL and ESPN contracts, and Take Two with Major League Baseball signing.
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Longhorns get a commit from Metroplex lineman
Irving Nimitz offensive lineman Chris Hall committed to the Horns today. The Texas coaches are supposed to have rated him pretty high.
Hall decommitted from Oklahoma State when Les Miles ditched them for LSU.
Update: Want more info on Texas Longhorn recruiting? Check out BevoSports.com!
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Aggie Goat Camp
No seriously. Aggieland Goat Camp. Goat. Camp. It's just too easy.
GOATS WILL NOT BE PROVIDED, YOU MUST FURNISH YOUR OWN GOAT
For all my parents have given me, the thing I'm most thankful for is that I wasn't raised an Aggie.
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CubeDoor
I don't get it. It's completely see-thru. It's kind of like a bigger, more obnoxious, Do Not Disturb
sign for your cubicle. Might be pretty useful if it was more opaque.
Or you could just be a bad ass like me and have a big wooden door to your office.
(via Woot)
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Google Video Search
I just found out about Google Video Search, I'm not sure how long it's been around but this is the first I'd heard about it.
Pretty dang cool upon first glance. They're only grabbing a few Bay Area and national channels, but it looks like they have plans to expand to other markets. Check out the help page to find out a lot more.
Definitely something I'll be following as it grows.
Update: Want more Texas Longhorn videos? Check out BevoSports.com!
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Scrivs sold the CSSVault
Scrivs sold the CSSVault for $XX,XXX
, I hope things over there stay as it's a hell of a CSS-based design resource. I imagine he got out a good time though, as Stylegala, CSS Beauty, and unmatched <style> are all good sites with the exact same concept.
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I Stole Brad
Damn people move fast. Although I think this shirt is better than any of these, and it's unisex!
I would buy anything she told me to.
(via Preshrunk)
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ECMAScript Menu System
Definitely something I'll be looking at for Phase 2
of the site I'm working on now. It accomplishes the same effect, but I have to add id's to every main menu item. Even worse, I have to put some Javascript at the top of every page, which means any changes have to be made 21,324,325 times.
(via 456)
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Blockbuster ditching VHS?
Rumor has it the Blockbuster is about to stop selling or renting VHS tapes in stores. About damn time. I'm sure you'll hear complaints, but they'll all be moronic. You can easily find a DVD player for less than $40 these days, if you can't afford that you shouldn't be paying four bucks to rent movies at Blockbuster either.
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Good thing we didn't want seafood last night
Seriously, someone needs to give me the job of deciding who gets to drive and who doesn't. I'd make a maximum drive age of 60 and also have the power to just pick out individual morons I see on the streets. The world would be a safer place.
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Zach Braff's Garden State Blog
Garden State was awesome, Scrubs is the best show on television, and Zach Braff has his own weblog on TypePad. No wonder I have a man crush on the dude. His weblog is pretty damn funny, too bad he doesn't update very often lately. Hopefully he's busy writing more movies and episodes of Scrubs.
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Untold Mysteries of CSS
Saw this when it was originally posted, but never got around to reading it or linking to it. Some basic, but not widely known, info on universal selectors, !important, and multiple classes on one element.
(via CSS Beauty)
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This thing could use a few more inputs
This is the coolest thing I've ever freaking seen. It's got a Video 7
button for Pete's sake. SEVEN! Six digital audio ins. Mmmmmmmm... inputs.
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456 Berea Street
456 Berea Street is Roger Johansson's personal site. It's one of the better sites out there for tips and actual code on how to do cool things with web standards and CSS. His article on inverted tabs is the source of inspiration for my tabbed menu in V3 of this site.
Just a great source of information and discussion.
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You suck at the Internet
I'm not sure why, but I found this incredibly hilarious. I was talking to my boss when I saw it in someone's post at a message board, I had a hard time not busting out laughing.
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Basecamp Project Management
An amazing piece of software. I have heard people (including the creators) talking about Basecamp for a long time now, but I had never noticed there was a free version before. The free version only lets you manage one project at a time, but otherwise it's the full blown app.
Basecamp lets you track a project's major milestons, create to-do lists, send messages, share files, and pretty much everything else you could think of. You even get a unique URL where everyone related to the project can interact and work together.
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Ta-da Lists
Really, really handy little web app here. It's like a million times better version of an idea I was wanting to do with PHP, which kinda pisses me off because that's how I wanted to work on my PHP skills. Oh well.
Ta-da List makes it really easy to create, manage, and share a bunch of lists. A really simple, yet powerful task management system. The only thing missing that I'd like is due dates.
I'm going to do a full weblog post on this and Basecamp soon.
Posted in Tech
Scrap lying on his back
Damn these are some tiny mutts.
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StealItBack - Police Auctions Online
It's like eBay, but with stolen crap. Once stolen property is not needed as evidence and if the rightful owners can't be found, former police officers Property Bureau purchase it and auction it off. One pretty cool feature:
Private citizens are invited to register on StealitBack.com any items with serial numbers they have lost or reported stolen to their local police department. StealitBack.com will search its database, and if an item has been received from a participating department, will return the item to the police department where the theft or loss was originally reported so that it may be returned to its rightful owner free of charge.
You can even find something for that special someone in your life.
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Pepsi and iTunes Join Forces Again
I've got to start looking for Pepsi bottles with the Drink. Win. Play.
promo. One in three caps gets a free iTunes download.
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Movable Type 'nofollow' plugin
Movable Type has officially added support for the rel="nofollow" attribute for anchor tags through a plugin. I don't plan on implementing it here on this site, I don't mind sharing a little PageRank with others. I'm sure many of the sites I frequent will implement it though, meaning my PageRank is probably going to plummet.
Hopefully, enough of the most popular weblogs put in to place and put an end to all this damn comment spam.
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Asthma bong for kids
It's actually a decent idea, make asthma inhalers more cool for kids to use. I'm not really sure that the Funhaler does that though. Which would be more embarassing, using a normal inhaler or puffing on this thing?
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Stop Design photo galleries
Pretty damn cool way to do photo galleries. The technical info on how he used iPhoto, Photon, and Movable Type to create them is in this post.
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EA, ESPN announce 15-year gaming partnership
This should piss off just about all of the gaming community. It's cool to hate the mainstream favorite even if it's a hell of a game. Last month they signed an exclusive deal with the NFL and the NFLPA, and now they've grabbed the ESPN brand name and personalities too.
ESPN NCAA 2006 or whatever they call is going to freaking rule.
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Chizik officially joins UT staff
Gene Chizik, the defensive coordinator for an Auburn squad that was one of the nation's premier defenses a year ago, has been named co-defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Texas. Chizik was recently named the 2004 Broyles Award winner, honoring the nation's top assistant coach.
HUGE hire for the Texas program.
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Getting Unstuck
Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam.
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I don't remember what life was like before I could pause live television
A woman who can't live without TiVo, we should all be so lucky.
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Major to the Cuse
Former Texas defensive coordinator Greg Robinson took the head coaching job at Syracuse last week and after some speculation officially named Major Applewhite his quarterbacks coach on Saturday. Congrats to Major, that's a pretty big promotion for him.
Update: Want to know more about Major Applewhite? Check out BevoSports.com!
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Does sIFR suck?
I think it's pretty damn cool personally, but obviously I don't know a damn thing. He's actually saying that Flash sucks and text on the Web still sucks, despite the issue or two sIFR solves.
Good discussion follows in the comments.
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UT student sued over spam
Wow, I should spam people. These people have made hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars through this scheme.
How many morons are there actually out there that fall for spam?
The dumbest part is that the article says you should look for a Web page to submit contact information.
Ummm, all that would do is confirm you're a real sucker and they have your real email address.
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TJ Ford still recovering from spinal injury
Sounds like the injury is healing but not very quickly, he's out for the rest of the season and is aiming to return next year.
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Chizik to interview for UT def. coordinator spot
Texas is interviewing current Auburn defensive coordinator for the same position here. I don't know much about him, but Auburn's had some great D's the last couple of years. Plus, Geoff Ketchum and Jason Suchomel seem really excited about it.
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Weather Patterns
Great looking shot of some strange weather in Toronto.
Posted in Photos
Longhorn May Blend Tablet PC, Media Center
Hopefully this is true, but it sounds like Microsoft is thinking about adding the Media Center and Tablet PC features into Longhorn. That would make having a Windows-based laptop very cool.
(via Engadget)
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Get Fuzzy is on the juice
Bucky is pumping iron and on the juice.
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Tsunami man's two-week sea ordeal
I can't figure out where he got the coconuts he says he survived on. Were they floating in the sea?
(via Kottke)
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Create your own iPod Shuffle
A real quick hack to turn your iPod into an iPod Shuffle.
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Getting the most out of MT-Blacklist
I don't know how I didn't notice this post about MT-Blacklist sooner, I've subscribed to the RSS feed now so I won't miss new stuff again.
Great write up by Jay combining a ton of information about Blacklist that used to be scattered all over.
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Mark Cuban on Randy Moss
Mark Cuban thinks the media is looking really stupid with this whole Randy Moss Controversy
. My sentiments exactly.
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I beat anorexia
He beat anorexia. Good thing he sought help before it was too late.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Sony PSP TV is coming
Holy crap this is cool. Sony already released LocationFree TV, and now they're bringing the technology to laptops and the PSP. So you'll be able to stream television across your network to your PSP. That's incredible.
(via Joystiq)
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Turning a list into a navigation bar
Nice write up of how to take an unordered list and turn it into a navigation bar. Pretty simple but there is some stuff in there that's also pretty easy to forget.
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TiVo at CES
PVRblog has a great write up on all the announcements TiVo has made at this week's CES.
Some more details on TiVoToGo but not nothing too new, what really interests me is the news on the standalone HDTivo. It'll have dual tuners and dual cable-cards (which means no need for a cable box), but isn't scheduled for release until 2006. Hopefully I'll have either moved by then or Grande will have burned to the ground.
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iHome?
Most people are assuming it's fake, but the idea kind of makes sense. Instead of just a headless iMac
, why not release more of a home theater Mac for use in the living room?
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Fugitive lived at Circuit City
My parents complain I spend too much time and money at Best Buy, well at least I didn't live there!
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The Gallery of Misused Quotation Marks
One of my big pet peeves is people
who use quotation marks
incorrectly.
It's really freaking annoying.
The Gallery of Misused
Quotation Marks is pretty damn funny.
Some favorites:
- Road
Work
Ahead Milk
1.99Real
bacon bitsFresh
fruit
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Mangum's game winning kick
Wow, look how close Dusty Mangum's game winning kick came to being blocked. I guess it was just meant to be.
There's a ton more fantastic images here.
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Good news, bad news for local HD with DirecTV
They're going to start offering local HD channels by the second half of this year, but it's using a different technology that will require a different receiver. Good thing I've put it off this long.
Posted in Entertainment & Tech | 1 Comments
Six Apart guide to combatting comment spam
Excellent overview to the many efforts to combat freaking comment spam. Using a ton of them in conjunction seems to be pretty successful.
Posted in Development | 0 Comments
W calls to congratulate Mack
Pretty cool to have the President of the United States give your football coach a ring when you win a big game.
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Pat Forde's Top 25 for 2005
We're number two!!
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Comic Sans Anti F***ing Piracy
Michael Heilemann discusses his opinion of the anti-piracy propaganda that you have to sit through at the beginning of a movie you just paid to see.
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Tsunami photos aren't legit
Turns out these photos aren't actually of the tsunami but the Qian Tang Jiang River, in Hangzhou, China.
(via Airbag)
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PSP will probably launch in March
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutargi announced that they would probably
release the PSP here in March. I've already preordered mine, hopefully they release a grand total of seven of them so I can sell it for a tidy profit.
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BBC talks about being Dooced
Wow, talk about big time. The BBC talks about some of the pitfalls of workplace blogging and uses the term dooced.
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SixApart buying LiveJournal
Six Apart has purhcased LiveJournal, but what are they going to do with it? They have a ton of free users and some that pay a small fee, but nowhere near what TypePad charges.
(via Photo Matt)
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Dilbert on secretaries
Haha.
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Windy City
Great looking shot of Chicago at night. Really nice color, it makes the street lights and from the buildings look particularly cool.
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Fantasy Football Addiction
Mike and Keith both had posts about their fantasy football league, and I have to agree it's one of the most fun things I've done in years. I ended up finishing third in my league, partly because the Eagles clinched so early and gave McNabb time off.
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Be a UT football assistant coach
I guess it's state law that all University job openings must be openly posted. If you want to be the next running backs coach at Texas all you have to is apply and be able to deal with exposure to large crowds.
Maybe I should apply, but I only have one year of coaching experience.
Maybe I can fib a little like George O'Leary did.
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43 Things
Pretty cool site. The main idea behind it is that we can all improve ourselves if we focus on a set of small goals, forty-three to be exact. It's easy to browse through other people's goals, add your own, and make posts about them. You can even have it post all your entries to your MT, Blogger, LiveJournal, or TypePad weblog.
I'm using the site to power the new Goals section of my Doing weblog. It's brand new so it's still a little buggy, but hopefully it'll keep getting better.
(via Signal vs. Noise)
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BlogAid
I don't make a ton of money from Google AdSense on this site, but I just pledged whatever I do make during the month of January to the relief efforts in Asia.
Great idea from Andy Budd.
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Jessica Simpson's dad likes her boobs
This dude is starting to creep me out more and more. Check out this quote:
She just is sexy. If you put her in a T-shirt or you put her in a bustier, she's sexy in both. She's got double D's! You can't cover those suckers up!
Um... that's not normal.
Update: Here's what he had to say about Ashlee's acting career:
She's going to be a huge movie star. She's like Meg Ryan or Cameron Diaz, with probably more depth. When we're done, she'll play it all.
So not only is he a pervert, but he must be on drugs too!
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Globe Aware
With everything going on in the world right now, I know a lot of people are looking for ways to give back. GlobeAware is a great way to give more than money, but to actually give your time to help others. There are currently programs in Peru, Costa Rica, Thailand, Cuba, Nepal, Brazil and India.
They've even got a reality series coming up on Voom featuring the program in April. For more information about the series here is the press release. Hopefully Voom is still around by then.
Plus Christina works for them part time as a web developer, and one of my next projects will be helping with a redesign of thier site. It'll easily be my biggest task yet, because they've got a doozy of a site over there. Tons of pages and tons of content. I'll keep you updated on any progress with that.
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TiVoToGo launches!!!
TiVoToGo is officially available. You can now send recorded shows to your PC, but DVD burning is still not available. Unfortunately the Sonic MyDVD software that's going to be required is going to cost additional money, hopefully not too much.
It's perfect timing, I can send my newly recorded copy of The Rose Bowl and keep it forever.
Update: Looks like your actual TiVo box actually has to have a certain software update for it to work. You need version 7.1.x and I have something like 4.2 or so. Pretty dissappointing if you ask me. I signed up to be on the priority updates
list, but it could still be a week or two before I'm ready to go.
(via PVRblog)
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26 steps to 15k a day
Some great tips on building traffic. As always, content is king.
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Beware of Opening Links in a New Window
I've gotten away from the practice lately, for one target ="blank" takes time to type and for another it's not valid in XHTML Strict.
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