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kriskowal: ♫ I made this half-monkey, half-pony monster to please you. What's with all the screaming? ♫

November 21, 2008 05:38 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: They put up a good fight… http://tr.im/1c45

November 21, 2008 02:27 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Wallace & Gromit - Forum - Latest News - A Matter of Loaf and Death Comes to BBC One This Christmas

New 30 minute Wallace and Gromit short joining the ranks of A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave, and The Wrong Trousers in the UK for Christmas. Will Americans have to resort to YouTube to get their W+G fix?

November 20, 2008 06:22 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Changeset [376]: Fixed a bug in the doc system. Moved James Coglan's sylvester and bluff ...

Fixed a bug in the doc system. Moved James Coglan's sylvester and bluff into a domain directory for his work. Ran the boilerplate.

November 20, 2008 06:27 AM | Javascript Trac

Changeset [375]: Migrated to using 'exports' instead of 'this'.

Migrated to using 'exports' instead of 'this'.

November 20, 2008 06:18 AM | Javascript Trac

Full support for monitoring tags is now implemented in Gwibber. I just committed it in revision 135.

By segphault 57 minutes ago.

November 20, 2008 05:17 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Changeset [374]: Migrated from the terms this and this.getSuper to self and supr ...

Migrated from the terms this and this.getSuper to self and supr respectively and factored unnecessary layer memory out of the type function.

November 20, 2008 03:26 AM | Javascript Trac

Testing Identi.ca's new tag RSS feeds for #Gwibber.

By segphault 3 hours, 14 minutes ago.

November 20, 2008 02:59 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Changeset [373]: s/that/self/g

s/that/self/g

November 20, 2008 02:38 AM | Javascript Trac

Pinax

A Django project that contains a collection of coupled apps for common CMS stuff like tags, comments, and such.

November 20, 2008 01:53 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

django-syncr - Google Code

Handy project that monitors several sites with public API's and slurps data into Django. Good for a tumblog-like site.

November 20, 2008 01:50 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

kriskowal: I've gotten far enough into Anathem that I will always chuckle to myself when I see the word "liaison". I trust you all will read it soon.

November 20, 2008 12:59 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Wow. HTC MAX 4G can do video chat over WiMAX. That is awesome: http://is.gd/8cNM

By segphault 6 hours, 28 minutes ago.

November 19, 2008 11:46 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Looks like NetBeans is getting Python support. I wonder how its code completion compares with Komodo. http://is.gd/8aKJ (via @timbray)

By segphault 10 hours, 10 minutes ago.

November 19, 2008 08:04 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Margaret and Helen

This blog will be replacing the ExtJS blog in my roll. Retired cussing curmudgeons make me smile.

November 19, 2008 09:49 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent

Mozilla has published its financial statements for 2007, which reveal that the organization brought in $75 million. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker says that Firefox's broader user base and expanded geographical reach are signs of success.

November 19, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

EU launches public consultation on Internet security

The European Union has launched a public consultation on Internet security and is requesting feedback from the public about how to address network infrastructure security challenges.

November 19, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Amazon CloudFront turns S3 into content distribution network

Amazon has announced the launch of CloudFront, a new content delivery network service built on top of the company's cloud storage platform.

November 19, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Google's Android mobile platform ported to BeagleBoard

Google Linux-based Android mobile platform has been ported to TI's ARM-based hackable BeagleBoard. The port demonstrates the viability of Android on alternative hardware.

November 19, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Journal Posts

Google polishes Chrome with new features

Google has added a new bookmark manager to its open source Chrome web browser. This feature isn't yet included in an official release, but it is available through the developer update channel.

November 19, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Journal Posts

There are a lot of little things in Firefox that have become really indispensable. I've been using Firefox's live bookmarks a lot lately.

By segphault 1 day, 1 hour ago.

November 19, 2008 04:20 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Checking out the Chrome developer channel. The new bookmark manager is an improvement. It's still not usable as a day-to-day browser for me.

By segphault 1 day, 1 hour ago.

November 19, 2008 04:17 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: @paulschreiber Behold his Jolly Boots of Doom! http://tr.im/18bp

November 19, 2008 03:16 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: change.gov's RSS feed is broken. It republishes all entries on update.

November 19, 2008 01:12 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Main Page - IMSLP

Public domain full orchestral scores.

November 18, 2008 11:38 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Boo! Apple sent a DMCA takedown notice to a wiki which documented the iPod database hashing algorithm. This is why I will never own an iPod.

By segphault 1 day, 6 hours ago.

November 18, 2008 11:35 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Chickens stop rabbits from fighting - Boing Boing

I've feared the Chicken Police since the Zelda on Gameboy *shivers*. Keep the peace!

November 18, 2008 11:11 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Dan Lyons pulled down his Kara Swisher blog entry from yesterday and now the Google cache page for it has mysteriously vanished.

By segphault 1 day, 8 hours ago.

November 18, 2008 10:01 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

I just watched the Star Trek trailer. I had a lot of doubts before, but I think they really might be able to make it work. Very cool!

By segphault 1 day, 23 hours ago.

November 18, 2008 07:04 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: @wynk did you know she was in Dances with Wolves? I didn't remember her from that until I re-watched the trailer recently.

November 18, 2008 06:15 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: So, it was Pete Drake who invented this http://tr.im/16uq. Josh, was it you who dug up the Snoop Dog video with this instrument?

November 18, 2008 06:13 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Insane car video

I…uh…don't really care about cars at all. This did get my attention though.

November 18, 2008 03:47 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

The Coherence UPnP/DLNA framework seems pretty cool. Unfortunately, I don't have many DLNA-certified devices yet.

By segphault 2 days, 7 hours ago.

November 17, 2008 10:38 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: @ryannielsen w00t. Star Trek trailer: http://tr.im/167l -- May 8

November 17, 2008 08:14 PM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Tired of seeing an endless stream of poorly executed studies from Gartner and IDC. If you want clueful insight, try Redmonk or 451 Group.

By segphault 2 days, 11 hours ago.

November 17, 2008 06:21 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Testing 64-bit Flash for Linux with the latest Firefox 3.1 nightly build.

By segphault 2 days, 19 hours ago.

November 17, 2008 10:23 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

My sister showed me a cool Facebook trick. Select the language tab on the settings and set the default language to "Pirate". AWESOME

By segphault 2 days, 21 hours ago.

November 17, 2008 08:47 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

ThinkGeek :: Star Trek TNG Plate Covers

want

November 17, 2008 08:37 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Lux Aurumque - Appalachian Brass Orchestra

A choral piece set for brass by Eric Whitacre. I took my parents to see the Gold Coast Wind Ensemble (a semi-pro group I subbed for one season before going to Cal Poly) for their anniversary. This was the high-point of the concert. At Poly, I played "Sleep" by the same composer with the Wind Ensemble and sang it with Polyphonics. Both are amazing, harmonic chorales.

November 17, 2008 08:30 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

kriskowal: s/Erik/Eric/

November 17, 2008 08:19 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: The wind ensemble played "Lux Aurumque" by Erik Whitacre. It won. It was a lot like "Sleep".

November 17, 2008 08:17 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: took the parents to see the Gold Coast Wind Ensemble in T.O. and Quantum Solace afterward for their 30th anniversary.

November 17, 2008 08:15 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Adobe to close desktop-mobile Flash Player gap with ARM port

Adobe has announced plans to bring Flash Player 10 and the AIR web runtime to the ARM architecture. This port is the beginning of an effort by Adobe to close the gap between Flash in desktop and mobile contexts.

November 17, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Adobe starts 64-bit Flash testing with Linux alpha

Adobe has released an alpha version of Flash Player for 64-bit Linux, the first for any OS. This marks a big step forward for Adobe's commitment to treating Linux as a first-class citizen. First impressions inside.

November 17, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Banshee 1.4 media player offers improved device support, G1 compatibility

The Banshee development team has released version 1.4. The new version of the popular open source media player includes improved support for audio player devices, including the Android-based T-Mobile G1.

November 17, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Coherence brings UPnP to GNOME

The Coherence framework is a Python-based implementation of the UPnP protocol and the Digital Living Network Alliance standard. The framework is being used to integrate UPnP support into GNOME applications like Nautilus and Totem.

November 17, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Journal Posts

Firefox 3.1 nightly finally gets linking in source viewer

The HTML source viewer in the latest Firefox nightlies now supports links on URLs and relative paths. This addition finally closes a feature request that was submitted in 1999.

November 17, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Journal Posts

I had pumpkin ale with dinner tonight. I also picked up some pumpkin ice cream at the supermarket. Delicious!

By segphault 3 days, 1 hour ago.

November 17, 2008 05:11 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Gwibber can now display Jaiku threads in new tabs. I also added support for keyboard tab navigation.

By segphault 3 days, 5 hours ago.

November 17, 2008 12:22 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Changeset [372]: boilerplate update

boilerplate update

November 16, 2008 08:07 AM | Javascript Trac

Changeset [371]: Factored base.js into component modules that are all published by base.js

Factored base.js into component modules that are all published by base.js

November 16, 2008 08:05 AM | Javascript Trac

Ubuntu aims at mobile computing, netbooks with ARM port

Canonical has announced an official port of the Ubuntu Linux distribution for the ARM architecture. This move positions Ubuntu to be the Linux platform of choice for upcoming ARM-based netbook devices.

November 16, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Changeset [370]: Renamed all occurences of 'functor' to more specific terms like ...

Renamed all occurences of 'functor' to more specific terms like 'continuation', 'observer', and 'relation'

November 16, 2008 06:24 AM | Javascript Trac

Generic Laconi.ca server support is now working in Gwibber. I have committed the fix to version control, but it hasn't been packaged yet.

By segphault 4 days ago.

November 16, 2008 05:43 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Changeset [369]: Added some preliminary package manifests

Added some preliminary package manifests

November 16, 2008 05:38 AM | Javascript Trac

Changeset [368]: Added reglib from Greg Reimer at Sun.

Added reglib from Greg Reimer at Sun.

November 16, 2008 05:38 AM | Javascript Trac

kriskowal: @voodookid are you getting sirius? zing!

November 16, 2008 04:29 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: anyone in Pasadena want to see Quantum Solace? 8:30, 9:45, 10:15, 10:50, 11:05

November 16, 2008 04:02 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: @estherbester that museum is just a block north of our office. We walk by there to and from dinner frequently, but have never ventured in.

November 16, 2008 04:00 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? |

Also worth a scan. Synopsis: experience is often a determining factor in genius. I'd also argue that social exile leads to more diverse childhood experience. This comes from Matt Swann too. Matt, are you pregnant?

November 16, 2008 03:48 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

The Child Trap: Books: The New Yorker

Worth a scan. Synopsis: the baby Mozart movement might be overkill, and we should issue sharp knives and empty fields filled with dangerous objects to children and make them roll around in sewage once in a while to build up their immune systems.

November 16, 2008 03:45 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent.com - Datacent

Audio samples of failing hard drives. There's a symphony in this, or at least a piece. Kudos to the first person who sends me a link to their composition, if I don't make one first. Oh, don't forget to ask for a CC license.

November 16, 2008 03:26 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

kriskowal: #officehours at Panda on Lake from 5 to 6 or so if you want to talk about web development, philosophy, or Elvish.

November 16, 2008 12:46 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: @estherbester there was a red sunset and a tinge of smoke here in Pasadena. I hope you're not too close to the fire.

November 16, 2008 12:44 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Thanks to everyone sent me suggestions. I already have a global keybinding that launches the ~/Desktop folder. It's still not optimal, imo.

By segphault 4 days, 6 hours ago.

November 15, 2008 11:49 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

I don't like minimizing all my windows to find a file that got saved to the desktop. GNOME needs something like the Folder View plasmoid.

By segphault 4 days, 6 hours ago.

November 15, 2008 11:26 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

This week in open source: G1, Songbird, Parrot

This week in open source, Ars looked at hacks that bring Debian to the G1 and Creative's open source X-Fi driver.

November 15, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Sonja Eddings Brown is Rather Unpleasant « The Rehabilitated Student

A former Techer reflects on her high school encounter with the face behind Prop. 8

November 14, 2008 10:43 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Having to upload 15 images to the CMS really makes me wish we had a system that supported bulk uploads. This is just ridiculous.

By segphault 5 days, 22 hours ago.

November 14, 2008 07:57 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

The new mass storage support in Banshee is a pretty awesome: http://is.gd/7pg9

By segphault 6 days, 6 hours ago.

November 13, 2008 11:33 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: @jresig amen -P

November 13, 2008 10:16 PM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Proving the immense power of the personal dinosaur as a survival tool for children: http://velociraptorz.org The slow ones get eaten.

By segphault 6 days, 21 hours ago.

November 13, 2008 08:54 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: @hodgman and welcome to LA, Mr. Hodg. @31$/seat, alas, I might miss your show.

November 13, 2008 05:23 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: @joshlewis really!? My runner dude is on the ground twitching. I think I broke him.

November 13, 2008 03:59 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: Respighi's "Pines of Rome" is too awesome for a mere five star rating. iTunes, I need more stars.

November 13, 2008 03:49 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: via @estherbester let your productivity be ended http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

November 13, 2008 12:47 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: Word upgrade: cyclical -> cyclic

November 12, 2008 11:37 PM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Kefka Quote

And in related news, there's apparently going to be a Wheel of Time movie and MMO.

November 12, 2008 11:35 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Gwibber really needs a good clean regexp for URLs. Does anybody have any suggestions?

By segphault 1 week ago.

November 12, 2008 11:02 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Colombia tests OLPC laptops... running Windows XP

The government of Colombia has announced a deal with Microsoft to test thousands of One Laptop Per Child XO laptops running Windows XP. A prominent Red Hat developer who works full time on OLPC's Linux platform denies that OLPC is leaving Linux behind.

November 12, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

Parrot Foundation advisory board joined by BBC, ActiveState

The BBC and ActiveState have become the first two members of the Parrot advisory board. They are each providing $5,000 per year to help fund ongoing development of the multi-language virtual machine.

November 12, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Journal Posts

Country-fried bacon: http://is.gd/6QPN That has to be the greatest culinary invention since bacon salt! http://www.baconsalt.com/

By segphault 1 week ago.

November 12, 2008 06:20 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Thanks for all of the gift guide recommendations! I've decided on a few things that I'm going to include.

By segphault 1 week, 1 day ago.

November 12, 2008 12:15 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: Word upgrade: subtleness - subtlty

November 11, 2008 10:21 PM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

I'm surprised by how many people recommend the G1. You guys all know it's a totally closed device, right? No root and no custom firmware.

By segphault 1 week, 1 day ago.

November 11, 2008 10:10 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

I'm working on the Ars Holiday Gift Guide. Does anybody have any good ideas for holiday gifts that relate to Linux or open source?

By segphault 1 week, 1 day ago.

November 11, 2008 09:36 PM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

kriskowal: Also, BSG in hi-def FTL. I mean FTW. win. WIN!

November 11, 2008 08:13 PM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

kriskowal: Attending a music/audio Creative Commons event at the FOUND gallery in LA this evening.

November 11, 2008 07:43 PM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Apple - Trailers - UP

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG…*gasp*…OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG…

November 11, 2008 09:13 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

How to: coding a Drop.io uploader for GNOME with Python

This tutorial walks you through the steps of building a Drop.io uploader in Python that integrates with GNOME's Nautilus file manager. Complete source code is included and made available under the GPL.

November 11, 2008 08:00 AM | Ryan Paul's Articles

I score 95.1 out of 100 on Twitter Grader, which gives me a rank of 8,281 out of 295,503. Does that mean I'm awesome? http://is.gd/6ZJ0

By segphault 1 week, 1 day ago.

November 11, 2008 06:30 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

New Gwibber packages with the reply tab are available from Jorge's PPA. Please help test! They will be in the main Gwibber PPA soon.

By segphault 1 week, 2 days ago.

November 11, 2008 04:10 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

Make Cake in a Mug - Wired How-To Wiki

I _might_ have time to bake.

November 11, 2008 02:52 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

kriskowal: @bryanlanders is trying TwitterFon. Twitterific's splash screen is annoying.

November 11, 2008 02:47 AM | Kris Kowal's Twitter Status

Karoshi Suicide Salaryman - Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames

It does have an end…it isn't that cruel. But I am. You know you want to play this. Say goodbye to an hour.

November 11, 2008 01:00 AM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

Coders are needed to help improve Mango Lassi! I'll write nice things about you on Ars if you take over maintainership: http://is.gd/6Y3H

By segphault 1 week, 2 days ago.

November 11, 2008 12:12 AM | Ryan Paul's Jaiku Status

onecreativenerd: I think I've discovered Apple's evil plan. They're trying to make people like using computers so that they buy more of them. Devious.

November 10, 2008 09:40 PM | Ryan Witt's Twitter Status

JSLitmus

A JavaScript performance test framework with Google Chart API integration.

November 10, 2008 07:14 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

John Resig - Element Traversal API

Perhaps it's time to reevaluate whether ".children" is available in all of the browsers that we support. If it is, it might be time to go simplify our libraries.

November 10, 2008 07:11 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks

John Resig - Deadly Expandos

John Resig raises awareness of a huge namespace collision problem with HTML forms that can break in very subtle ways, and as usual, differently in every browser.

November 10, 2008 07:09 PM | Kris Kowal's Del.icio.us Bookmarks