January 2006 Archives

• Why Reboot? - Figure out why Windows installers feel it necessary to reboot...

• Dragon - Interesting licensing idea, and a neat toy to boot
• Super Bowl TFR - Gotta Love Canada - Remind me again why we have a 30nm no fly zone around the super bowl? Or any of these silly 30nm TFRs for that matter.
• MPAA Admits to Unauthorized Movie Copying - Reminds me of the South Park episode where the Sony exec is "above the law!"
• Saturn V Papercraft - Another scale model

• The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass - Some artists have some wild requests in their riders

• junklog - a site for logging and rating what you've read, watched, listened to and played

• Leaning tower of Pisa - Great work of art

For those of you that haven't looked at your gmail account lately (let me know if you don't have one and want one), I noticed this morning that they finally added a delete button to the top bar. Now to get rid of something, you no longer need to click the dropdown to delete. This is something a lot of people have been asking about for a long time--in fact there is (was?) a greasemonkey (firefox only) script that added this functionality.

Now all we need is a keyboard shortcut...

• 737 Becomes Reef - This would be fun to dive, although it would be a bit chilly

• Digital photography tips - A good collection of tips for both taking and manipulating digital photographs (some can be applied to file photography as well)
• Disaffected! - a videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store... "What!"

• Stats about all US cities - Fun tool agregating all sorts of census/demographic data

• Monopoly Home Rules - anyone up for a friendly game with some of these rules?
• Best blonde joke. Ever. - heh
• anti-telemarketing counterscript - Play their game with them

I think that I am going to close out my flying blog and aggregate it all here. I just don't have enough content (some might argue that I can stop there) for both.

So, on that note, What Airplane Are You?

Here's me... Pretty fitting since I would absolutely love one of these. I wonder if I could put it onto my Amazon wishlist.

You are a DEHAVILLAND BEAVER. You love
adventure. You are a person of the outdoors,
very in-tune with nature and your surroundings.
You enjoy communication between people, and
also your alone time. You are not afraid to
take risks. You aren't afraid of sucking up
some of the pleasures that life can offer. You
are a well-rounded individual, who puts your
passion in to almost all you do.

• retrievr - Interesting way to seach flickr. Works with some things.

• CES news on Engadget - For those interested in new technology updates

• Magic Dragon Aircar - Will this one succeed?
• The Original V8 snowblowers - Too bad xmas is over. I need a snowblower...

• Extratasty - You'll never be sober again! - recipes + tags
• Average Number of Vacation Days Around the World Per Year - I knew we were low, but I didn't realize that we had half of the next lowest country.