April 2007
39 posts
Pacific News Service > News > Homeland Security... →
LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US... →
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | Special... →
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all.
Get. Out of. The ROAD.
Am I the only one incredibly annoyed by people walking in the road who won’t yield to oncoming cars? Hello! The road is for cars. The sidewalk is for people. Use the sidewalk! I understand that not every road has a sidewalk. That’s a different situation. Even so, most of the time there exists a dirt shoulder to the road. Use that if a car’s coming at you. If you get a little mud...
The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers →
The Filter - Instant Playlist Generator Plugin for... →
The Filter is a free tool for Windows, Mac and Nokia that uses your music to create interesting playlists, automatically fill and refresh your iPod or MP3 player and discover new music.
How To Install Front Row using Enabler -... →
Enabler lets you enjoy Front Row on any Mac. It installs Front Row and unlocks the built-in support found in Mac OS X.
ReelViews →
Movie Reviews and Criticism by James Berardinelli
KeePassX - The Official KeePassX Homepage →
KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes →
Download free user-contributed AppleScripts for Apple’s iTunes that will make maintaining your digital music collection easier and more fun!
Söderhavet - Refresh your finder →
Refresh Finder is a simple Applescript for your Finder’s toolbar that does a manual refresh of the current Finder window.
Pew Survey Finds Most Knowledgeable Americans... →
Beyond the Red Line →
Beyond the Red Line is a stand-alone total conversion for the award-winning Freespace 2 released by Volition and Interplay for the PC. It is based on the popular new tv-show Battlestar Galactica. No, not the one from the 70s.
Deep Sleep →
Deep Sleep is a simple Dashboard widget which allows users to put their computer into hibernation mode, also sometimes called software suspend mode. This widget only works on a limited number of Apple computer models.
Bluetoggle @ axonic labs →
Ever wanted to toggle Bluetooth on your Mac with a hotkey? Bluetoggle is for you. Bluetoggle will allow you to toggle Bluetooth as well as save precious space on the menu bar.
How to Safe Sleep (Hibernate) Your Mac -... →
DeepSleep @ axonic labs →
Ever wanted to hibernate on your Mac? Put it to sleep without using any power? DeepSleep will do the job for you. DeepSleep will put your Mac to sleep without using any power and wake up just like you left it.
Hibernate on your non-brandnew Mac →
Mac OS X utility: blueutil →
blueutil is a command-line utility to control Bluetooth on Mac OS X. Its source is available and is public domain.
IndestructoTank @ Newgrounds →
A sidescroller with a difference. In IndestructoTank, your only weapon against the enemy is yourself - launch yourself at the enemy in this nice little physics based game.
You Grew Up Playing Shoot'em-Up Games. Why Can't... →
“Gamers like me have spent years railing against ill-informed parents and politicians who’ve blamed games for making kids violent, unimaginative, fat or worse. … So it turns out that, whoops, now we’ve got to make sober calls about what sort of entertainment is good or bad for our children. And what, precisely, are we deciding?”
Robert Heinlein at One Hundred @ Blogcritics.org →
The centennial of Robert Heinlein’s birth is coming up in July, and tempers are still worked up over this pulp fiction writer who turned into a consciousness-raising guru during the 1960s.
Why cell phones are still grounded →
It’s because phones interfere with airplane electronics, right? Wrong. The government’s reasoning for banning cell phones in airplanes is weak, lame and evasive. The truth is that the ban is cheaper and easier for airlines, carriers and the government than mustering the political will and leadership to make in-flight cell calls a reality.
Psychology Today: Education: Class Dismissed →
When students elsewhere were puzzling over, say, the periodic table, Ben, along with a handful of schoolmates, was mostly struggling up and racing down New England mountainsides, dodging rocks, mud and other obstacles. …The 38-year-old day facility in Framingham, Massachusetts, is founded on what comes down to a belief about human nature—that children have an innate curiosity to learn and a...
The Dilbert Blog: I Wish I Had a Government →
An Administration's Epic Collapse | TIME →
The first three months of the new Democratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid has dominated the public consciousness as Newt Gingrich did when the Republicans came to power in 1995. There is a reason for that. A much bigger story...
Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction... →
Battlestar Galactica open source project is... →
Incorrect Predictions from the Past →
Predictions from the past
The Bump Key: Break Into Nearly Any Lock →
This is worth watching, if only to be aware of this little burglar’s tool. Look for better door locks!
iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for pre-2005... →
iScroll2 is a modified trackpad driver that adds two-finger scrolling capabilities to supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks on OS X 10.3 and up. Supported models include most aluminum PowerBooks introduced from 2003 to 2004 as well as most G4 iBooks.
SideTrack →
SideTrack is a replacement driver for Apple MacBook, PowerBook and iBook trackpads. With SideTrack installed your standard trackpad becomes a powerful multi-button scrolling mouse.
Violent Acres » Archives » Social Norms are... →
And you thought your relatives were weird…
waiterrant.net » Just Desserts →
