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A previously unheard live bootleg recording is available for download here (via Metafilter).
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Hindu Wisdom - Vimanas
In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called Vimanas.
(tags: religion)

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Apple hasn’t made any official announcements about the iPhone SDK, yet the hand-wringing has already started. One rumor site says: “Apple will be severely restricting access on software for the iPhone and iPod touch, only allowing apps to be downloaded through iTunes, hand-picking which applications will make it to the store, and cutting off developer’s [...]

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Yet another reason I want Obama to win.
Arianna Huffington (Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire):
“Should Barack Obama end up winning his party’s nomination, he will give his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 28 — 45 years to the day Martin Luther King delivered his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech on [...]

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David Watanabe came up with a great idea to make money on the new free version of NewsFire: include three paid-for feeds that the user cannot unsubscribe from. Site owners can bid for a spot as one of these feeds, bringing Watanabe revenue while offering a great product for free.
Recently there was an uproar when [...]

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I’ve implemented Donncha O Caoimh’s steps to fight comment spam here. Two of the plugins, Comment Referrers and Delink Comment Author add links to the comment moderation email I receive that show the referrer, which helps identify spammers, and remove links from the comment.
Lucia’s Linky Love makes this blog less attractive to spammers [...]

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Story Photograpy: History of Photoshop
An interesting history of how Photoshop was developed.
(tags: photoshop)

How to successfully spam blogs (and how to fight back) - Holy Shmoly!
How to fight back against comment spammers and make your blog less attractive to them.
(tags: spam)

Running a Quartz composition in your application
Using Quartz Composer in a Carbon or Cocoa application.
(tags: development [...]

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Tartley.com, which I’ve never heard of until now, has posted this chart (originally by Susanna Hertrich) illustrating our disconnect between actual dangers and what we fear.
Note the actual danger of a terrorist attack vs. what the media is trying to make us fear. We have a much greater chance of being injured or killed in [...]

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William F. Buckley, Jr. died today. Dylan Matthews says:
He was an important figure, no doubt, but he wasn’t a good man, he wasn’t a sensible or fair opponent, and it’d be a shame if he’s remembered as such.
Despite his charming image, Buckley was a nasty racist who supported segregation & apartheid and defended Joseph McCarthy’s [...]

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I’ve joined FriendFeed. You can read or subscribe to my feed here.
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UML Reference Card
(tags: uml reference)

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I’ve changed the tagline for MacMegasite to “Mac Community News”, which reflects the focus as a community driven site better than the old one, “News for mac geeks”.
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My neighborhood wasn’t affected at all by the power outage that affected much of south Florida. My power blinked for less than a second, just enough to trip my UPS and knock my DSL modem offline.
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This is why I like Obama:
“I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel, then you’re anti-Israel, and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel,” leading Democratic presidential contender Illinois Senator Barack Obama said Sunday.
“If we cannot have an honest [...]

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Since Scoble praised VMware, I decide to take another look at the latest version. I own both VMware and Parallels, but I currently use Parallels.
The new VMware converter made it easy to move my Parallels VM to VMware, so I was able to run my most recent Windows VM with it. Although there’s very [...]

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Apple TV Hacks
Adding Safari and other applications to the Apple TV.
(tags: appletv hacks)

Demystifying “Above the Fold�
Why putting ads at the top of the page doesn’t work.
(tags: web)

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Guy Kawasaki writes: Most people believe the top of the page is the best place for ads. This article, called “Demystifying ‘Above the Fold’” is important to read for its contrarian approach to this belief. It states that people are often so intent on reading content may not notice any ads above the fold. Better [...]

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Rainer Brockerhoff explains how the snowball effect resulted in some of the often-criticized design features of the MacBook Air.

From what I can tell, the Air was designed from the outset to be extremely thin and rugged, while maintaining adequate battery life and performance. These considerations snowball to the extent that the battery uses up 2/3 [...]

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I got a replacement for the orchid that was stolen a few days ago, along with a few new ones.

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This morning I got a comment moderation notice, which turned out to be from a spam blog hosted at wordpress.com. I reported them to wordpress.com and here’s the result.
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
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