Posts Tagged ‘ Media ’

Voting data!

Here are some voting metrics. I got the charts from the nice people over at Twitter Vote Report. Nationwide Twitter vote map Highest average wait times[ READ MORE ]

Funny Linux commercials

It’s been about three years since that famous Linux commerical aired during the Superbowl. It still gives me chills… Even so, found some more cute ones on YouTube. Three by Novell mimicking the Mac vs. PC ads from the television. Another by Novell that’s a little more cutesy… Great one by someone who I can’t [ READ MORE ]

My Hacker Key

It’s been far-past time to replace the Geek Code, so I’m very glad that I discovered the Hacker Key. My key: v4sw6/7ALRU$hw4ln5+7pr5FOP$ck0ma0u8Lw2m1l7Di6e4t5NTVb8ADHKMOPRen5a2Xs0r5$p-2.38/-2.31g5G hackerkey.com Make your own, at hackerkey.com![ READ MORE ]

Palm should go Android

Palm would benefit from adopting Android for so many reasons! Stop funneling profits to Microsoft Get enthusiastic Android developers from the community Support free software and change the business model enough to ensure future solidity. How long before someone does a *really* good clone of HotSync? Why not just move to an open standard like [ READ MORE ]

Switch to Linux, make it easier for admins

Great article about twenty reasons to switch to Linux. Ten tips to make Linux administration easier[ READ MORE ]

Are we nearing an actual Digital Bill of Rights?

Erick Schonfeld wrote a positively brilliant piece over at TechCrunch which took one of the best shots so far at detailing some of the major issues. I get This isn’t the first time that the idea of a Digital Bill of Rights has been discussed but it’s good to see another step forward. Also, see [ READ MORE ]

Inbox Zero: I was shooting for it all along!

With all of the beneftis bestowed upon us by modern email systems such as Gmail, I get really annoyed by people who have inboxes overflowing with email messages. So, in protest, I play this little game with myself where I try to keep my inbox as empty as possible by dealing with messages as soon [ READ MORE ]

Cool thing of the week: make photomosaics with Metapixel

While I have been aware of this particular program for some time, only recently have I had another use for it. Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics which produces spectacular results. Basically, it (the metapixel-prepare utility) recurses through a directory filled with photos and processes them into a special collection of prepared images with [ READ MORE ]

A $200 tablet?

A recent blog post on TechCrunch discusses their plans to try for the construction of a $200 tablet for light browsing with a modified Firefox 3 (in a special kiosk mode) and VOIP thanks to Skype. Now, we’ve heard rumblings of low-cost, touch-based computing devices before. Remember concept stuff from the XO-2 which was supposed [ READ MORE ]

Free bedtime stories from Project Gutenberg and LibriVox

My family loves to read and recently, my mother has discovered the joy of audiobooks while commuting to and from work. She currently subscribes to one of the many for-pay services (Simply Audiobooks, in her case) which Netflix style, mails her a set of CDs for her to play before sending them back. For awhile [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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