photo: life of a sink
The New York Times did a Netflix story. The Author, William Grimes, seemed to like it, but…
[My wife and I] each judge the other’s selections harshly. I scored a major victory with “Mon Oncle” by Jacques Tati, a director I once dismissed as tedious, annoying and far too French. He is now a god in [...]
Who would have figured old Dr. Seuss was so political? Rick Minear at UCSD has collected a number of the good doctor’s works as chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. “Because of the fame of his children’s books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained [...]
Turkeys aren’t small birds. Along the commute from home to work, they’re as common as pigeons in a city park, but it’s still odd to see a turkey in the parking lot (video link).
The source video was taken with a Sony Clie PEG-TH55 and edited — just a bit — in iMovie.
GPhone is a bust for me, at least for now, but other solutions are available. Ars Technica pointed out an 802.11b wireless VoIP phone from Zyxel. Then there’s the Vocera VoIP communicator badge that everybody at Dartmouth College uses. They were happy to show it off during the Unleashed Wireless Conference they hosted last [...]
I saw a link for a Palm-based GameBoy emulator, then was stunned to read about an Atari ST emulator for Palm. A quick Google search later, and I found an Apple //e emulator too!. It’s the old-timer in me, but I really enjoyed the games on those old systems.
More info on the Apple //e emulator [...]
I’ve given up on VLI’s tech support for GPhone, the VoIP software for Palm. The download page said it was compatible with Palm OS 5.x devices, but was only tested on the Palm Tungsten C. I contacted support after trying it on my Clie TH55, but fell into a loop where they kept recommending I [...]
The ClieSource Forums are an excellent source of info. It turns out that installing the movierecorder.prc (version 1.3) from a UX50 onto the TH55 allows it to record movies. The problem is getting that file….
Isn’t Google great? If that doesn’t work out for you, try searching at the Palm User Message Board, where you might [...]
Aside from all the other online dictionaries, Scrabble players may be interested in the following sites:
Hasbro’s word lists for tough times (including Q without U, two letter words, X words, and more). Wordplays.com’s tools for word games is a collection of web apps that would be handy to use (if it were legal to do [...]
The PublicIP ZoneCD is a bootable CD implementation of NoCat’s NoCatAuth. NoCatAuth configuration help is available from AmsterNet and Blyx.
The LEAF Project intends to create Linux-based firewall-in-a-box solution that has uses for wireless.
LinSpot is a commercial hotspot-in-a-box software solution.
NoCat, LESS Networks, Portland Community Wireless, and Newbury Open.net are active community wireless operations.
O’Reilly Wireless DevCenter has [...]
On the list of places to visit next time I go out west:
Murphys Surplus Warehouse:
Located at 401 N. Johnson Ave:
El Cajon, Ca. 92020 (Near San Diego)
619 444 7717
Fax 444 6750
8,000 sq. ft. of military and industrial electronics, communications, and MIS electronic equipment.
80s revivals may be played out and we’re not yet ready for 90s nostalgia. Nonetheless, there are a number of songs of the time period that we’re a little ashamed to admit we love. Without knowing why, and in no particular order, here they are:
The Humpty Dance
Funky Cold Medina
Can’t Touch This
Ice Ice Baby
Do Me and [...]
Eysenck’s Test Results
Extraversion (68%) moderately high which suggests you are talkative, optimistic, and sociable but possibly not very reflective. Neuroticism (39%) moderately low which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, unemotional but possibly too unobservant of your feelings. Psychoticism (53%) medium which suggests you are moderately offensive, uncooperative, and rebellious.
Take Eysenck’s EPQ-R based Personality [...]
The Lexar 256MB Memory Stick arrived. It sucks. It’s not really a 256 MB stick, it’s 2 x 128MB, and you have to flick a little switch to choose which 128MB you want to use at any moment. Let me be more clear: you can only use 128MB at a time, and you have to [...]
Just ran across 24-7media.de. It’s a cool site. Their Flash design is top notch and I really like the metaphor. Does it work? Yes, in the limited context they’re using, it works well.
Best of all — or most disturbing, who knows — is the soundtrack. Composed by Yuko Ohigashi, it’s haunting and mysterious.
Just learned of the Rayming TripNav TN-200 GPS receiver. It’s the type that has no display or UI and must connect to a computer (via USB) to be useful. It’s Mac compatible and it appears there’s a slight variation (the TN-204) that works with Sony Clie Palm compatible handhelds. The problem is, the company website [...]
