Archive for October, 2004

bitter pill: alt alt text

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

bitter pill: alt alt text
bitterpill has a very cool “alt alt text” popup to use for hint text.

I have been working on an idea that gina and nick were discussing at lunch one day. Basically, its a more sophisticated alt text/title popup. It’s born out of a frustration with title text in Mozilla that won’t [...]

Netcraft: New URL Spoofing Flaw Found in Internet Explorer

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

Netcraft: New URL Spoofing Flaw Found in Internet Explorer
More buggy goodness for IE. When’s the next MS browser due out?
Myabe I should plug: Switch 2 Firefox.

A new spoofing flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser allows an improperly coded web link to send users to a diffferent URL than the one displayed in the status [...]

Cider warnings are out, and some farmers aren’t happy

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

Cider warnings are out, and some farmers aren’t happy
Yay, the FDA is reminding us about the dangers of fresh fruit juice.

The agency is reminding people of the dangers associated with unpasteurized fruit and vegetable juices — the kinds sold at farmers markets, stands and some juice bars — after an outbreak in upstate New York [...]

Music Thing: The Triple Neck Guitar – Engadget – www.engadget.com

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

Music Thing: The Triple Neck Guitar – Engadget – www.engadget.com
Nuts.

As a protest against the boring black boxes on display at the AES (Audio Engineering Society) Convention in San Francisco this weekend, I’m looking at the ultimate example of dumb-ass rock gear excess this week: The Triple Neck Guitar.

V-O-T-E

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

V-O-T-E
VOTE!
http://www.mypollingplace.com/find.php

Walter Sobchak did not watch his buddies die face down in the muck so you could play xbox all day and not vote.

Gothamist: Chinatown Car Crash Chaos

Friday, October 29th, 2004

Gothamist: Chinatown Car Crash Chaos
Yikes, sounds like a horribly bad day.

A Toyota RAV4 SUV apparently hit a curb, blew a tire, and hurtled into a crowd hitting mourners at a funeral and a pregnant woman;

Main Page – Unofficial TransGaming wiki

Friday, October 29th, 2004

Main Page – Unofficial TransGaming wiki
Handy resource for anyone trying to get Win games running on Linux.

Welcome to the Unofficial TransGaming Wiki.
This wiki is mainly meant as a games database to see what runs with what version of WineX or Cedega. It also features an FAQ that will hopefully answer a lot of the game-related [...]

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Friday, October 29th, 2004

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
Easy way to keep track of the latest polls.

Another bumper crop of polls, 36 of them in 17 states to be exact. And as usual, the bottom line is that it is still a statistical tie. In the Zogby tracking polls, Bush has taken a 2% lead in Michigan, although in [...]

7-11 worker’s baby tips the scales at…7-11

Friday, October 29th, 2004

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5054331.html
7-11 worker’s baby tips the scales at…7-11

Saginaw-based Garb-Ko pays the $711 bonus to any employee giving birth to a 7-pound, 11-ounce baby. It operates 90 stores in Michigan, nine in Indiana and eight in Ohio.

PhotographyBLOG -:- Home

Friday, October 29th, 2004

PhotographyBLOG -:- Home
At £399 for 20GB it’s a bit pricey, but still cool. How long until someone hacks a full linux distro on here?

The iriver PMP series offers a striking design, 3.5″ colour screen, a Linux-based operating system and support for all standard video and audio formats.
The recommended retail price is £399 the 20 [...]