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This is wrong, I know for a fact there is another Joshua...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:51:40 -0400

This is wrong, I know for a fact there is another Joshua Halickman in New York, so there must be more in the US.

rockuboff: Reggie And The Full Effect - “Congratulations Smack...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:04 -0400

Reggie And The Full Effect - “Congratulations Smack And Katie”

This video makes me emo and hopeful for a peanut butter of my own.

talby: tomorrowonlyknows: siristar13: HOORAY!!!!!!!!!! woooo T...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:44:11 -0400

talby:

tomorrowonlyknows:

siristar13:

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!

woooo

This is fuckin sweet.

This makes up for Strahan

Why I stopped reading Coding Horror

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:11:26 -0400

Why I stopped reading Coding Horror:

This is ridiculous, anyone who has used SQL Server for more then 5 minutes should know what (nolock) does. I knew the solution before even finishing reading his problem, and I am no SQL wizard.

It really upsets me that he is someone “respected” in the developer community and he can devote a whole blog post to this sounding like it was such a difficult problem to overcome.

How can a read be blocked by a write? What possible contention could there be from merely reading the data? It’s as if one of the dining philosophers happened to glance over at another philosoper’s plate, and the other philosopher, seeing this, screamed “meal viewing deadlock!” and quickly covered his plate with his hands. Yes, it’s ridiculous. I don’t want to eat your food — I just want to look at it.

The problem is he is basing his assumptions on an analogy which is wrong. The proper analogy is closer to one of the other Philosophers is trying to count how many grains of rice another philosopher has. If he wants accurate numbers the other Philosopher needs to stop eating so the number does not go down as he counts.

100 Reasons Why McCain Won’t Be President of the United States

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:28:37 -0400

100 Reasons Why McCain Won’t Be President of the United States:

talby:

peterwknox:kayfabe:aja:

When asked, he didn’t know what kind of car he drives.

83. Early polls show Bob Barr taking away enough votes from John McCain to give Democrats a chance to win states that should be safely Republican.

And people say that voting Libertarian does not help in elections.

Is there anyone out there...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:08:40 -0400

talby:

jhalickman:

blakeley:

who actually likes the new tumblr design?

I miss my posts being a different color.

Use this code in a stylish style to bring that back:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("tumblr.com") {
ol#posts li.is_mine {
  background-color:#C8D5E4 !important;
}
ol#posts li.new_post {
  background-color: #fff !important;
}
}
Just change the first color code to whatever you want.

Awesome, thanks

Is there anyone out there...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:42:57 -0400

blakeley:

who actually likes the new tumblr design?

I miss my posts being a different color.

Is anyone else as excited about this as I am.

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:34:13 -0400

Is anyone else as excited about this as I am.

I mean goodgreef, what kind of country do we live in which we...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:49:00 -0400

I mean goodgreef, what kind of country do we live in which we cant even, this once great democracy. We cant even assure voters that everyone going to the polls is properly registered and legal, we cant assure them that the voting machines are working, or that we can conduct an accurate reliable recount or in fact that this democracy can work. It’s amazing.

I think I am just as flabbergasted as Lou Dobbs.

HOW IS THIS NOT A BIGGER DEAL!! HOW ARE PEOPLE NOT GOING TO JAIL OVER THIS! HOW ARE THESE GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO BE USED IN THIS ELLECTION!?!

(via Brad Blog and Hilker)

Opentape

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:40:00 -0400

Opentape:

cubicle17:

For those of you lamenting the loss of Muxtape, have no fear; it’s Opentape to the rescue:

Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.

Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.

Surely the RIAA saw this coming…

Doesn’t the RIAA get it, they did the same thing with Napster 8 years ago. Instead of making a reasonable deal with one innovative company to make money, they shut it down and in turn spawn hundreds of other making there and everyone else’s life harder.

why does the music industry hate innovation in the music industry?

superdoofus-stratodrive: i generally don’t like to post stuff...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:51:48 -0400

superdoofus-stratodrive:

i generally don’t like to post stuff from digg, but i feel that this needs to be propagated all over the five internets.

Date yourself by finding the #1 song on the day you were born

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:16:00 -0400

Date yourself by finding the #1 song on the day you were born : Mine was “Jack and Diane” by John Cougar

Update:iTunes Question

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:24:00 -0400

I could not get a usable answer to this question. But I tried out Simplify Media and it seams to get the job done, I just hope I get signal the whole train ride.

Apparently Windows 2008 sometimes thinks that Excel 2007 is not...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:54:00 -0400

Apparently Windows 2008 sometimes thinks that Excel 2007 is not a valid win32 application. Kind of annoying when your job is to write an Office Add-in, and it requires a reboot.

talby: Another reason to jailbreak your iPhone. Intelliscreen...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:47:00 -0400

talby:

Another reason to jailbreak your iPhone.

Intelliscreen gives you information on your lock screen and allows you to go directly to that app by swiping that information.

Anyone know how jailbreaking a 2.0 phone effects using and developing apps for the app store?

ardenashley: muroo: Sonny Rhodes - “Ballad of...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:32:00 -0400

ardenashley:

muroo:

Sonny Rhodes - “Ballad of Serenity”/”Firefly Theme Song”

classy dorkitude. I love that they got Sonny Rhodes to sing it. I’m gonna go curl up and watch this show later.

!!!

Joss is a genius. I love that he learned a how to write music for “Once More With Feeling” just because he wanted to make a musical … and because of that we get this gem.

Awesome Theme song to one of the greatest shows ever to air on TV.

iTunes Question

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:43:00 -0400

Hopefully the Tumblrverse can help me with this. I normally sync my iPhone with my Mac at home, but I just bought an album on Amazon that I want to put on it for this weekend. Is there a way to do this with out erasing everything I already have on there?

Thanks.

I just noticed that the cord for my headphones comes out of the left earmuff, and the jack on my...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:37:53 -0400

I just noticed that the cord for my headphones comes out of the left earmuff, and the jack on my monitor is on the left side. Also the jack on my MacBook is also on the left side. I wonder if this is a standard, or just a happy coincidence?

talby: We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:56:26 -0400

talby:

We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named ‘linksys’.

xkcd

Oh so true

ben: Intel demos a wireless power broadcasting system,...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:11:19 -0400

ben:

Intel demos a wireless power broadcasting system, villagers terrified - Engadget

You know, Tesla did something like this, and all the fish in the surrounding area fled. I like new tech as much as the next nerd, but wireless power has never been on the top of my “want” list.

I think wireless power is the #1 thing on the top of my “want” list. Power is currently the one thing that requires all of our “wireless” to be wired at some point.