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Monthly Archives: December 2005

dimvision’s musicmap

dimvision provides clicky-clicky directed graphs of music albums. A really lovely interface, like what Last.FM wants to be when it grows up.

My Head Just Exploded

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (??????? ????????) was captured last year, and then released. The Iraqi “security forces” responsible for this are fucking fired. You know who should be most pissed about this? Jordan. I’d like to see everyone involved got a visit from the Dairat al Mukhabarat.

[CNN]

When RDC for OS X isn’t working

Q: Why does Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection for OS X tell me that I’ve reached the user limit or that I’m having a network error when neither of these things is true?

A: There’s a license file. It’s on your Mac, in /Users/Shared/Microsoft. Delete this directory and try again. That should take care of the problem.

Favell Lee Mortimer

Travellers are afraid of passing through Arabia, lest the Arabs should rob and murder them; and no one has ever been able to conquer the Arabs. The Arabs are very proud, and will not bear the least affront. Sometimes one man says to another, “The wrong side of your turban is out.” This speech is considered an affront never to be forgotten. The Arabs are so unforgiving and revengeful that they will seek to kill a man year after year. One man was observed to carry about a small dagger. He said his reason was, he was hoping some day to meet his enemy and kill him.

Of what religion are this revengeful people? The Mahomedan.

From “Far Off; or, Asia and Australia Described.” by F. Lee Mortimer, A.K.A. “The Author of ‘The Peep Of Day’”.

[via the Little Gray Book Lectures]

Genius Parlays One Red Paperclip into Snowmobile

My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things up to my goal of a house.

I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005.

You can read stories about each trade.

He’s up to a snowmobile.

[One Red Paperclip via digg]

Shower as Billboard

MIT Advertising Lab’s developed a kind of water-droplet printer that produces images in mid-air.

[Adverlab via digg]

HOW TO: Make Ballistics Gel

Now you can make your own ballistics gel. Roll your own penetration tests, practice your nunchuck skills, make a Real Doll™, &c.

[Fifth Rule via digg]

How Dogs Laugh

…the long, loud pant is the sound of a dog laughing, and it has a direct impact on the behavior of other dogs.

[ABC]

Cthulhu Plush Slippers

In the words of Boing Boing: “these will keep your feet warm, even as they damn them to a thousand nameless hells”.

[Entertainment Earth via Boing Boing]

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DocuTicker

A wonkalicious collection of government, think-tank and NGO reports.