Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

George W. Bush’s lost e-mails

An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush’s lost e-mails: Page 1
A federal magistrate judge on Thursday chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White House emails.

April 30, 2008

Radio to MP3 Recorder

bookofjoe: Radio to MP3 Recorder
Long story short: You record AM, FM or short wave radio broadcasts off the air in real time onto the built-in, removable MP3 player, then listen to them at your convenience.

April 30, 2008

An Open Letter to Facebook.com

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook.com, From a New Yorker Magazine Fact Checker.
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
After checking many of the profiles on your website, I feel it is my duty to inform you that there are some serious errors present.

April 30, 2008

solar roof retrofit your hybrid vehicle

SEV Solar Roof Modules – solar roof retrofit your hybrid vehicle and drive on sunshine – The Red Ferret Journal
You’ve gotta love this SEV Solar Roof Module which fits right onto a stock Toyota Prius roofline to provide 215 watts of energy to keep you driving electric eco style for 20 miles a day.

April 30, 2008

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender Gets Release Date, Director Update, “Avatar” Dropped From Title | /Film
Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan will definitely be following up his June blockbuster contender, The Happening, with Paramount’s adaptation of the hit Nicktoons series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The ambitious live-action film is now due on July 2, 2010.

April 30, 2008

Grain Companies’ Profits Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts

Grain Companies’ Profits Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts – WSJ.com
At a time when parts of the world are facing food riots, Big Agriculture is dealing with a different sort of challenge: huge profits.

April 30, 2008

Microsoft to move on Yahoo today, use proxy?

Electronista | Microsoft to move on Yahoo today, use proxy?
Microsoft could be ready to take action on its ultimatum to Yahoo as early as today, say alleged sources in touch with the Wall Street Journal.

April 30, 2008

Woopra: Web Analytics

Woopra
Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application.
Self hosted??

April 29, 2008

dbscript

freshmeat.net: Project details for dbscript
MVC?

April 29, 2008

How to develop multilingual, Unicode applications with PHP

®¤©: randomchaos: documents: php and unicode
Some would say PHP has little or no Unicode support, and they’d be right. But I refer you back to the first item on our absolute minimum list. It’s all just integers, and PHP has plenty of support for integers, so we can work around this problem.