January 2009
32 posts
Amazon’s Loss-Leading MP3s →
Shared by Greg it’s working in my case. But also partly because all Amazon downloads are 256Kbps MP3, and not 128kbps DRM-crap, as well as the fact that for some reason the amazon website is a…
Jan 1st
December 2008
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Dec 29th
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Listen Ghostly voices from a family celebrating...
Dec 19th
dailymile | Share your training with friends →
haven’t signed up yet but looks interesting
Dec 19th
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how to slice a groovy map
def sm= m.subMap( [2,3,4] ) Just a note for the google bot: the groovy equivalent of Perl’s map slice is the GDK method “subMap(Collection)” (see: Maps)
Dec 18th
Dec 18th
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"Flight of the Conchords" Premieres a Month Early... →
Shared by Greg love these dudes. *and* i liked Eagle vs. Shark. hey, naiveté sells The screwball comedy about a couple of Kiwi folkies kicks off Season 2 on Funny or Die.
Dec 18th
“Greg Pak:  Can we actually relax a little bit now? David Rees:  We were...”
–  Get Your Interview On with David Rees
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Dec 8th
“They fact that they call it “credit card” is quite a tell when it is...”
– Koranteng’s Toli: A Debt Foretold
Dec 8th
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Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod... →
If you are considering buying a mac, the Macrumors.com buyer’s guide is the go-to. They also have info for iPods and iPhones. I send everyone here who asks me what mac they should get because it helps determine whether you should wait for a new product release or not. For example, the iMac, iPhone, Mac Mini and Mac Pro all have recommendations of “Don’t Buy!” because...
Dec 4th
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Mac OS X Finder "File Name" search doesn't
This may not be news to you or even interesting, but it is one thing that has frustrated me in the past about Mac OS X’s Finder’s search and I finally realized what the problem was. If you do a Finder search and click on the “File Name” button to try searching for a particular file name rather than the file content, the Finder actually searches the “Title”...
Dec 4th
Dec 3rd
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WatchWatch
Eating fried Cicadas in Beijing on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Finally got around to uplading this video! They actually tasted not too bad, but the texture and chewiness was not pleasant. If they had been crispy-fried that would have been fine. It was kind of weird to gnaw down on a bug that I grew up hunting and toying with as a kid. We used to use a hose to fill their burrow holes with water and...
Dec 2nd