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Links for 2006-01-21
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The Geek Gazette – Creating a Windows Backup System Overview of how to use robocopy for backup. (tags: backup howto scripts utilities windows) FileInfo.net – The File Extensions Resource A list of what variouis file extenions are used for. (tags: database directory reference search) Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive – Lifehacker [...]
Links for 2006-01-20
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World Religions Religion Statistics Geography Church Statistics Statistics about world religions. (tags: history reference religion statistics) CyberWyre » Data Mining using Google Google (and many other search engines) has the ability not only to search on keywords, but also using a more “database-ish” query language to really narrow down your search results. Below is a [...]
From the “Joke of the Day” Department
Might want to set the beverage down before reading this blonde joke or else you may spit it all over your monitor. Pretty risque, but still safe for work… Link
From the “How Low Thresholds for Divisive Issues Has Become” Department
Indiana decides to recognize the insanity that is daylight savings time: All but 15 of Indiana’s 92 counties had rejected daylight-saving time for more than three decades, largely because it has been a highly emotional and divisive issue among residents. Seriously though, as out-of-staters that have flown out of Indianapolis’ airport, this is a long [...]
Links for 2006-01-19
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Dual Exhaust : No Muffler Damon and Tanya’s podcast on Champaign’s WEFT radio station. (tags: friends podcast radio) Forums Rankings Rankings of most popular online forums. (tags: forums online reference social web) Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian’s blog Following is an alphabetically sorted list of popular Web 2.0 applications. The [...]
Links for 2006-01-18
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Streamload – MediaMax Online Media Center – Store, Organize, Access & Share Your Media Files 25GB of free online storage. (tags: free online storage tools) How to Do What You Love An essay by Paul Graham. (tags: advice article blog tips toread work) ScanTron Hacking Proposes some methods to hack ScanTron tests. (tags: article hacks [...]
Links for 2006-01-17
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Presentation Zen: Where can you find good images? Lists some sites to find good images for presentations. (tags: blog free images lists photo powerpoint reference web) Quick Reference Cards A list of various programming reference cards. (tags: code linux perl programming shell) Invisibilia Tutorial Photoshop tutorial on how to make people look like sketches in [...]
Links for 2006-01-16
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Browsershots Make screenshots of a URL on various browsers. (tags: browser design free layout tools web web2.0) Best of Google Video A list of some of the manually chosen funny videos on Google Video. (tags: bestof blog google humor video) SourceForge.net: Anonym.OS LiveCD A Live CD that uses a securely designed OS for more secure, [...]
Links for 2006-01-15
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Download Google Videos Converts Google videos to the AVI format. (tags: converter google video)
Dreamhost Promo Code
If you’re looking for web hosting, we use DreamHost, which gives you 20 GB of storage. Now they’re doing a referral program where you get $97 for every new person that you refer. However, you’re given the option of giving a portion of that $97 to the person being referred. So, I set up a [...]
Let the Google Bashing Begin!
Is Google bashing the new black for 2006? Signs point to yes after their underwhelming showing at CES. First, there was Google Video that took it on the chin: “This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media,” said Les Moonves, the head of CBS, about his network’s new video partnership with [...]
Links for 2006-01-12
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perlretut – perldoc.perl.org The regular expression tutorial from the Perl documentation. (tags: perl reference regex tutorial) I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Your College is Not a Technical School (tags: article blog entrepreneur jobs money toread work) Tutorials – Pixel2life.com Tutorial Search Engine A well-organized directory of online tutorials. (tags: advice database directory howto [...]
Thoughts on Podcasts
So, one of the things we’ve been trying out with the new iPod is podcasts. Here’s some thoughts on ones that I’ve come across. If you have any to recommend, please leave comments! Beastie Boys Podcast: Kind of boring, it was more like some dinky extra that throw in on a DVD for no apparent [...]
The Best and Worst Wedding Songs
My cousin has an entertaining thread open: What are some good and bad ideas for first dance songs at a wedding? You know you have some ideas…go to his blog and leave a comment. I only posted bad songs on his thread. They are: U2′s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Probably anything [...]
Links for 2006-01-10
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Download videos from Youtube, Google Video and iFilm Site to let you download videos from these three sources (I guess Google’s isn’t needed anymore since they opened up the Google Video store). (tags: google hacks utilities video web) Ninjas vs. Pirates A short film. (tags: humor movies ninja pirates video) CES analysis: Why I know [...]
Alberto Gonzalez Will Be At Your Doorstep If You Annoy Me With An Anonymous Comment
Further proof that Congress still has yet to understand the “Internets”. Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it’s OK to flame [...]
Links for 2006-01-09
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How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes A brief tutorial to get you started with Google Maps. (tags: api code google howto html maps reference tutorial web2.0) Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006 (by Jeremy Zawodny) Another Digg vs. Slashdot article claiming that 2006 will [...]
A List By Dave Barry
I saw this list when we were eating at Jimmy John’s today and found it rather amusing. It’s from Dave Barry’s book, Dave Barry Turns 50. 25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years By Dave Barry The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. You will never [...]
Your Phone Records Are Available For $110
A rather freaky revelation about just how easy it is to violate your phone privacy: The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone — for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts. Criminals [...]
Where’s Google Going With Their Advertising Next?
Robert X. Cringley speculates on where Google is going with their entry into video: So what are the data center trailers for? Well, right now, everyone in the country watching “American Idol” sees the identical commercials at the same time, except for two ads at every half-hour mark, which are inserted by the local station. [...]