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FOXNews.com  -
5 minutes ago
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants
from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory.
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FOXNews.com -
11 minutes ago
A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday
while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities said.
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Said the Gramophone -
14 minutes ago
 [ source] The Walkmen - "On the Water" On the
water, written in invisible lines, invisible for now, are secret water countries. Ocean, river, and
nation lakes that are far older than our mere land states. Immense wars, vast campaigns of
espionage and intrigue, gruesome battles, even interminable grudges and millennial stalemates. The
countries are not stratified along lines of species, that's a classic human mistake, most ocean
states (like Br'fellia, Nochvaleee Kingdom, and The Huv) will have many whales in their fleet, but
also hundreds of thousands of jellyfish, a few dozen sting rays, and carp carp carp. We're talking
about tens of thousands of years of rivalry, trading, invasion, occupation, devastation,
deliberation, slavery, loss, love, hope. A young couple, dolphin lovers, separated like a million
others, her to fight and him to light the porch light every night. But soon, the war will come home
to him, come crashing and squeezing in from the Roof, rushing up from the Bottom, and he'll either
escape or he won't. It's really none of your concern; it never was. [ Pre-order] Phil and the Osophers - "High Art" Biggest
hurdle to me even posting this at all: the band name. Biggest reason it jumped that hurdle:
"for braggin' rights, awoo-oo." [ site]  |
Boing Boing -
21 minutes ago
Here's some (way shakycam) video of Danny O'Brien's OpenTech presentation, "Living on the Edge," an
extremely provocative and interesting talk about how we might restructure the Internet so that our
personal and important moments aren't hosted by YouTube, Flickr, and Blogger, but rather on our own
machines. Link, Link to slides...
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Ajaxian -
24 minutes ago
I do NOT work for Adobe. I do NOT work for Microsoft. I do not work for Borland. I do not work
for Oracle. I do not work for any competing manufacturer of any kind. I am Joe Developer. In the
end, it’s folks like ME that will decide which technology survives and which dies - simply
by our choices.
That was said by Joe Nismet on the Serge Jespers
thread that discussed the good, the bad, and the ugly of Silverlight. Serge went on a
Silverlight training course and compared his experience.
Moxie Zhang summarizes
the post starting with the good:
- “The first thing I really like is the concept of threading. Being able to spawn off
complex tasks without choking the main thread is pretty cool. You could, for example, show a
really smooth animation when you are loading a bunch of data in a separate thread.”
- “A Silverlight application can directly communicate with the HTML document it is hosted
on by simply setting a parameter.”
- “Being able to code in either C# or VB.NET is also a great feature. Especially since
these two languages are pretty familiar to people developing for the Windows platform. I’m
not one of them, but I found that C# is similar to ActionScript. Next to those languages you also
have XAML, which does more or less the same things as MXML.”
and then the rest:
- Code in XAML and C# is really verbose.”
- “Styling controls is an absolute nightmare! I honestly think that this is going to be
Silverlight’s Achilles’ heel!”
- “Another thing that I really couldn’t grasp is the lack of HTML tag support in
text fields.”
- “I know the Expression tools are still in beta, but it has to be said that all the
tools (including Visual Studio, which is no longer in beta) felt extremely buggy and
incomplete.”
- “Over these three days, I got a strong feeling that Silverlight was created by people
who don’t know anything about designers.”
It was bound to cause a bit of a fuzz as people read into things. Interesting to ready from the
side lines.
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Boing Boing -
28 minutes ago
Matt sez, "When I was in fifth grade, Mississippi Public Broadcasting decided to introduce a series
of short films to educate children on how to use the library. For some godforsaken reason, the
people at MPB decided that the best way to do this would be through a post-apocalyptic science
fiction serial with children roaming the blasted earth in a... bookmobile... like a cross between
'Reading Rainbow' and 'Damnation Alley.' Confused? So was I. I loved the library and
post-apocalyptic movies and television programs, and even I was completely nonplussed. Apparently
someone has uploaded the entire run onto YouTube. The music still gives me the creeps!" Link
(Thanks, Matt...
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fourre-tout.com -
28 minutes ago
Genèse 5:25
Metuschélah, âgé de cent quatre-vingt-sept ans, engendra Lémec.
Quand Lemec est né, les 8 générations précédentes
étaient toujours en vie (cf. graphique de la
Bible - Aberration n°24) : Adam, Seth, Emesch, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
Hénoc, Metuschelah
En conséquence, Adam a connu son
arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière-petit-fils.
Joli, non ? Si les rédacteurs de la bible avaient fait un petit effort, Adam aurait
pu croiser Noé et se faire noyer par lui.
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Boing Boing -
38 minutes ago
Yahoo Music just announced that it's pulling the plug on its DRM server -- that means that as of
September 30, everyone who bought Yahoo Music will lose the ability to recover it from backup or
transfer it to a new PC. Like I said when MSN Music proposed to do the same thing: "All those years
the music industry spent insisting that the only way they'd sell music is with crippling DRM
attached managed to totally discredit the idea of buying music at all." Once the Yahoo store goes
down and the key servers go offline, existing tracks cannot be authorized to play on new computers.
Instead, Yahoo recommends the old, lame, and lossy workaround of burning the files to CD, then
reripping them onto the computer. Sure, you'll lose a bunch of blank CDs, sound quality, and all
the metadata, but that's a small price to pay for the privilege of being able to listen to that
music you lawfully acquired. Good thing you didn't download it illegally or just buy it on CD! No,
you were one of the digital pioneers, and in this brave new frontier world, a few people are just
going to get malaria. Fact of life. And someone will step in a bear trap, and then it's time for
the bite rag, the alcohol, and the saw. Just the price of progress. And yes, some poor group will
get trapped in snowfall when crossing the pass, and cannibalism may or may not be involved by the
time they stumble barefoot from the mountains next spring. No one can prevent such tragedies. DRM
still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it (Thanks, Denver Jewelry Guy!)...
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Boing Boing -
46 minutes ago
Modofly -- who laser-etch designs into moleskine covers -- are hosting a contest for new designs
for the next batch -- one of the themes is steampunk: Get your steampens and steambrushes (maybe
steampunked computer?) ready artists! We are looking for steampunk art in a BAD way. We are really
excited about this. We already have some of the hottest steampunk artists working with us, but
maybe we don’t know about you, we have been trying to get you, or maybe this will be your
first steampunk attempt. We are looking for artwork with airships, gears, steam engines, steampunk
fashion, anything fun and retro-futuristic (we aren’t going to get too picky as long as its
super cool). We can’t wait to unveil these books and showcase the artists, so make sure you
have a shot at the action and send your stuff in today! Link See also: Dan Hillier's tentacle
horrors -- now on moleskine notebooks!...
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MobileWhack -
47 minutes ago
A GPS that does it all? Well the new Garmin
Nuvi 500 is a decent candidate. No matter if you are traveling or just enjoying a relaxing
walk in the park, the Nuvi 500 will deliver what's expected of a GPS device. It has routing
capabilities, improved mapping and water proof hardware to brag about.
Dan Bartel, Garmin's vice president of worldwide sales says:
This multi-mode
nüvi is the ultimate device for those seeking portable navigation in the car and in the
great outdoors. This
product allows us to combine features from several of our most popular automotive and outdoor
navigators into one compact unit. From weekend trips to the lake, to a hike around the trail,
nüvi 500 is ideal for people seeking automotive and recreational navigation in one dynamic
device.
Whenever you exit your vehicle, change your mode to anything else. You will still be able to
monitor accurate location details.
The Nuvi 500 will offer you a 3.5 inch water proof screen, a compass page, a track log and a
removable, rechargeable battery for longer out doors activities. The "Where Am I?" feature will
always show you the current location while the Garmin Connect Photos will let you choose between
millions of geo located photos from Google's Panoramio.
BlueChart® g2 Vision, and Inland Lake Vision will help you a lot if you are traveling
by sea. You will get specific details about pot soundings, intertidal zones, wrecks, port plans,
restricted areas and more.
For more driving fun, the historic Route 66 map guide will show you specific sites and memorable
places to stop in. Preloaded with topographic maps of the 48 US states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
the 500 version is quite a catch. There's also a 550 version which has enhanced street coverage
in the USA or Canada. The European market will receive a scooter GPS for now which will be
available as an extra accessory in other markets too.
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