April 18, 2009

Remember Subservient Chicken? What we’ve got here is a million chickens: http://urlx.org/aplusk via @jayrosen_nyu

April 17, 2009

The Pirate Bay’s operators, including @brokep, to be jailed: http://urlx.org/piratebay

April 14, 2009

I’m by no means a gamer or even someone who follows gaming culture, but I love Jumpman. Download it for Win/Mac/Linux: http://runhello.com/

April 13, 2009

I found little raisin-shaped foil things in my sweatshirt pocket. And hmm … what’s that smell? Chocolatey!

April 11, 2009

wikileaks.de domain has apparently been seized. On The Media recently ran a segment about the project: http://urlx.org/3W

April 9, 2009

The Daily Show at its finest: “I think you’re confusing tyranny with losing” http://urlx.org/obey

March 30, 2009

I’m into this NYTimes Global thing, but a little sad to see iht.com go. I was always a sucker for the multiple columns: http://urlx.org/cols

March 29, 2009

Problem: “This video is not available in your country.” Solution: ssh -D 8888 (hostname), configure browser’s proxy to localhost port 8888

“Sabotage is shouting from the back of a room during a Senate testimony. All these people did was show up at the polls.” http://urlx.org/pot

March 25, 2009

I brought url(x) back to life! And look, the ID namespace is still one-digit long: http://urlx.org/O

March 20, 2009

I’m curious how much traffic “Die, newspaper, die?” is getting from Twitter? http://is.gd/o8Fp

March 18, 2009

Amazon MP3 is a Good Thing, but these US-only licensing arrangements are really dumb! http://is.gd/nR2G (BTW this is fixed w/ a web proxy)

My morning ritual: start VPN, svn up, pg_dump > dump, scp dump, psql < dump, rsync images, rsync staging, close VPN. (Also, coffee.)

March 14, 2009

Somehow I’d missed that @cshirky is blogging: http://shirky.com/weblog/

March 12, 2009

Hosting your own email server: bad idea or really bad idea? Either way I think it will be better than Dreamhost.