Here’s a good tutorial on how to convert your iPod into a pirate radio station.
Technology
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Oct 04
Pirate Radio
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Sep 04
Minor change
I’ve made a minor change to the website as I am wont to do. This only affects people who use RSS/Atom/XML feeds to view the site. Instead of publishing small excerpts from the entries in the XML feeds, I’m publishing the entire entries (minus the comments) as feeds. This way, if you’re like me and you do most of your regular surfing via RSS reader you never need to visit the actual website. You can just pull the feeds down into your reader and check regularly for changes. Using feeds is good idea for a number of reasons. It’s quicker, lower profile, more efficient, and you’re getting the essential data of the blog rather than everything else that comes with it.
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Sep 04
Some tools I use
- Daemon Tools is the perfect application for CD/DVD emulation. Basically, when you download anything in bin/cue disc image formats you can use Daemon Tools to mount these images as virtual drives. Let’s say you want to download a demo on CD. Most such things are packaged in bin/cue. With Daemon Tools you use the bin/cue files as if you had actually burned them to a CD.
- Azureus, a java-based client for bittorrent.
- DU Meter Measure how much data you transfer. This is good if your ISP has upload/download limits.
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Sep 04
Office supplies
I love these Tops Stinger legal pads almost as much as I love Super Sticky Post-It notes.
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Sep 04
Belle nuit
It’s a beautiful night tonight, Open your windows!
- China will send troops to Haiti: “”It’s been a big year for China,” says one official opposed to the deployment. “They put a man in space, won gold medals at the Olympics, and now they are going to put troops in the Western Hemisphere for the first time.”
The official says China’s first military presence near U.S. shores would boost Beijing’s long-term strategy to “supplant U.S. influence” in the region. “China is pursuing a maritime strategy in the Caribbean to gain access and control over port facilities, free trade zone infrastructure, fisheries, oil and minerals, and off-shore banking platforms,”
For example, a Chinese company whose leader is close to Beijing’s communist rulers operates major port facilities at both ends of the Panama Canal.
“They will assert political influence [through Chinese companies],” the official says. “That is where this is headed.”
Administration officials say the decision to permit the Chinese to join the U.N. force in Haiti was made quietly, without a full debate among defense, foreign policy and national security agencies. “ - Report: Civil war most likely outcome in Iraq
- Violence May Force Iraq to Bypass Hotspots in Election
- A Guide To Firefox Extensions Awesome list
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Aug 04
Gmail invites!
I finally managed to get five Gmail invites! Yay! I’ve been waiting forever.
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Aug 04
Average is beautiful
- The Face of Tomorrow. Via Take one hundred people and create a composite face from their faces. The result makes me think that the ideal of human beauty is not particular but average. The composites are all good looking, so take one hundred people strip the unique characteristics or oddities and you have a good-looking person. Strange.
- Boring game? Outsource it. A sure sign of cultural decadence
- The democratization of advertising revenue. Google lets Blogger users in on a piece of the ad game.
- Analog meets digital. A typewriter (yes!) that collects the input you use while typing into a buffer then sends as an email. Via.
- NYT on Team America.
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Aug 04
In blogging news: Six Apart hires Brad Choate
Six Apart, the blogging software business founded by the creators of Movable Type, has hired one of their most productive and talented volunteers, Brad Choate. It will be interesting to see what they come up with in the upcoming releases of Movable Type. The more people they hire the more important it will be to keep growing the business and begin selling a lot more MovableType and TypePad subscriptions. The addition of Choate may increase their capabilities in the direction of supporting more dynamic content in MT and that in turn could lead to the development of additional products. We will be watching with interest.
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Aug 04
RSS Feeds
I’m the king of missing important details, so I noticed a while back that the RSS feeds for LNS were not working then I promptly forgot this. Today I noticed it again and it took me all of two seconds to fix. The point is, the feeds are working now, which means you can just view the feeds without coming to the main page of the site.
To that end here are some cool RSS/XML tools that might help you.:
- Convert eBay searches into feeds with RSSAuction.com
- Create a calendar and share with friends in RSS
- Sage News Aggregator extension (plugin) for Firefox