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Today on the tubes: A Cool Bike, SAN-on-a-card, $700 laptops, Cool Dad Stuff, Halo 3 for Dad/Kid Bonding, Home Made Kites, Preventing Creativity, and Paper Notebooks.

And in other news

So I live in the area and things like this make me wonder. If I can't call the police for help in a situation like this who can I call?

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Dev'ish

Squeak Stuff

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  • CNN.com readers show their love for 'Halo 3' - great game, but check out the quotes...
    • "Halo is not just a game, it's a lifestyle, a booming culture of millions of Xbox fans who eat, sleep and live Halo." -- and have real lives?
    • "The third installment gamers will wait in line for hours; even bleed to finally finish the fight..." -- well, um, no actually I won't
    • Any my personal favorite: "Halo can be compared to Harry Potter" -- with guns. smile
  • Judge rules part of Patriot Act unconstitutional - U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, "now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment."
  • Man finds human leg in smoker - 'A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction ... opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg..." but it gets better! Investigators tracked down where the Smoker came from and: 'The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.' - the church of taxidermy? - 'Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg' - and what, barbecue it?
  • Bill O'Reilly says he's being smeared - not sure how I should respond... 'So?' or 'Again?' how about 'Wolf!' smile
  • Court: New mom must get extra test time - "A Harvard student must be allowed extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk to feed her 4-month-old daughter, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled Wednesday." - facebook promptly banned her
  • Gaia guru urges ocean pipes to fix Earth's climate - "In a letter to the journal Nature, he proposes vertical pipes 100 to 200 meters long and 10 meters wide be placed in the sea, so that wave motion pumps up water and fertilizes algae on the surface. This algal bloom would push down carbon dioxide levels and also produce dimethyl sulphide, helping to seed sunlight-reflecting clouds." - we could attach a spigot and keep the world at a nice 72 degrees all year long!

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* famfamfam.com: Silk Icons - 700 free 16x16 pixel PNG icons

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* Public Domain Torrents -
  • GhostCycle.org - Places (in Seattle) where bikes fought the car, and the car won. Ghost Cycles are placed on the spot by Ghost Cyclests.
  • Cute Overload! - urp...

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* Bill Gibson's Weblog: Whitehorse Architecture TechNotes Published on MSDN -

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* A bunch of links for WinFX bits compatible from VS2k5 RTM - Good stuff from Chris Sells

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* Mike Mahon: Whacking the stupid out of his system | 43 Folders -

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* Free Backup Software, data recovery + backup info -

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* Gtalkr - Neat app - amazing page...

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* Blue Ball Machine (Classic GIF Returned) - ARGHH!!!!!!!

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From my buddy Dale - Things to check out: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_keep_up_to_date http://www.kiko.com/jsactiverecord/

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* The Laws of Identity... - as Popey would say "I am who I am". Similar to the laws of localization "No matter where you go, there you are." (BB)

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* Hold-It -- The Tubular Straw Holder - Never loose your WD40 straw again! (Thank's Dale!)

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  • nlite lets you build custom windows installs, even bootable CD installs with all your SPs, Hot Fixes, even customer drivers. Rock on!
  • If you haven't heard about or read about the new windows font consolas check it out. This is my new favorite coding font.

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* Creative Portable Media Players: Zen Vision - Now this is cool!

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* The Human Genome Project - DNA unraveled... 3 billion base pairs... wow...

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* DHTML Lemmingsâ„¢ by crisp - Menu - finally - it looks like it's back! Woo Hoo!

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* The enterprise architecture online user group - aims are to collaborate between enterprise architects around the world in order to help them do their work more professionally and easily.

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* O'Reilly CodeZoo - Welcome to CodeZoo! CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and the best of your projects. It’s a fast-forward button for your compiler. (From [[][Dale]])
  • MSN Search Spoof - MSN Search introduces Spoof, a tool to let you create funny search results about a friend, family member, or co-worker. When you're done, you can send the page to the target or anyone else you think might get a laugh out of it.
  • ThinkGeek :: Marshmallow Shooter - Go Ahead . . . Shoot S'more!
  • The Sells Spout - Wow! Chris Sells moves to the DSG... That group sure sounds fun...
  • MSN Search: Rhonda Petterson - Web Results - 1-8 of 20975 - containing Rhonda Petterson (0.15 seconds)

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* The Uniform Server - is a WAMP package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer.

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* D Programming Language - An very cool looking language, thanks Dale!

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* Peep Research - Basic Science: Our first studies focused on basic attributes and reactions of Peeps to simple conditions and stimuli. peep10.jpg

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* STAR WARS ASCIIMATION - Main Page - A Classic that's been updated!

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* Using Word's spellchecker in C# - C# Programming - From the code project

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* RSS in Visual Studio - I just don't get it. When I'm coding this is the last think I need!

LinkDump050319$nLinkdump by PaulPetterson - 20 Mar 2005

* Link Dump Application - A bookmark manager TWiki application, built using the CommentPlugin and URLPARAM variable!

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  • Absolutely Del.icio.us - A Complete Tool Collection for the del.icio.us social bookmarks manager.
  • Butler searches google, then "enhances ... search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes adds, changes the typography, and a few other useful things."
  • Moon Edit is a multi-platform collaborative text editor.
  • The way Gmail, Google Suggest, and Google maps works is what they're calling Ajax - here's and article about the Agax Approach - not really all that new... I've been using it in bits and pieces for years, mostly to fill in a succession of combo-boxes based upon previous selections. - still pretty cool.
  • The CSS Library a resource for CSS junkies
  • Nifty Corners: Rounded corners without using images!
  • New Scientist's 13 things that don't make sense.

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  • Intro to VS2k5 Application Designer Part 1 and Part 2.
  • If you haven't used it, the Enterprise Library rocks be sure to also get the new Application Updater Block v2 and the Rolling File Sync for the logging block.
  • I've been using a 30 day demo of Altova's XML Spy Enterprise Edition, I like it and love how it intergates with visual studio! - but it seems that it's default code generation is a bit heavy handed.
  • There is what looks like a good free XML editor XML Marker that is definately on my list to try.
  • Wow - MSF for Agile Software Development!
  • I always liked the notion that to make good web serivces you should start with the contract first - but the tools have been really thing - now from thinktecture comes WSCF (Web Services Contract-First) a walkthrough and tools to do just that! I guess you could try the simpler XSD Object Code Generator too... but it won't make WSDL.

For my reading list:

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LinkDump041130$nI guess this is OK since it is a 'Link' dump (as opposed to 'Links' Dump), but I only have 1 link today.

Bill Buxton gave a presentation the other day on 'Whereable Computing' where he talks about human computer interaction and computer design. Absolutely brilliant man. I hope to capture some of his insights in the days to come in the dev section of this site... But what I wanted to share now was his web site:

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  • TerraFly changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and our system will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth. (via Gadgetopia)
I got rather behind on reading Mefi so here's the big catch-up section!

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  • Smoking Kills (flash) an interesting store of how one man's attempts to quit smoking leads to the end of civilization as we know it. (via Mefi)
  • 'Dancer' in a 'thong' dancing to La-vita-loca (Spanish was never my strength) one that you'll never forget! (flash) (also via Mefi)

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