The Fang Monster Sees All

Blogging is so 2005

2006-01-30T10:36:00.000-05:00

Lately I have been using ~~Newsvine to keep track of the news, and~~ del.icio.us to keep track of links. Obviates the need for a blog, so I doubt I'll be posting here again.

Join me in The Future here:

del.icio.us/TheFangMonster

~~sussman.newsvine.com (Email me for an invite if you're not already registered.)~~

I'm still using Bloglines religiously as well (Bloglines is so 2005). My blogroll is in the "links" section of right-hand navigation bar :)

Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span? - Yahoo! News

2006-01-12T00:00:00.000-05:00

This an ugly thought. Gerecke says burned CDs have a lifespan of up to 5 years.

I'm sure this guy is a consultant trying to sell a service. But it's not the first time I've heard that burned CDs aren't for the ages...

Buzz: the fantasy tech market game

2006-01-06T17:50:00.000-05:00

Heh. It's the game of virtual virtual commerce. Or maybe just E-e-commerce? I don't know, I prefer REAL virtual reality

retrievr - search by sketch

2006-01-06T15:30:00.000-05:00

Draw something in the sketch area, and the software retreives Flickr images that are similar to your drawing in shape and color. It doesn't work all that well but the concept is neat!

the NXT: LEGO's new line of MINDSTORMS

2006-01-06T15:26:00.000-05:00

This is what I want for Christmas next year: the next generation of Lego Robots!

Fear as a political tool

2006-01-06T13:27:00.000-05:00

A strong essay on the administration's use of fear as a political tactic.

"The Administration has managed to get away with the Orwellian depiction of fear as being the hallmark of courage, and conversely, depicting a rational and calm approach as being a mark of cowardice."

Catch -- catch.com -- Blogging Hardcore from New York City

2006-01-06T12:46:00.000-05:00

Kevin has some things to say about Catch.com being in the top Google results for "superman+penis"

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox

2006-01-06T12:43:00.000-05:00

This Firefox extension lets you browse blog posts about the page you're currently browsing. If you have a blogspot blog, you can blog about the page you're on right from the browser!

stop the hatred

2005-12-15T20:00:00.000-05:00

Graf seen on the LES. Then I got on the train. There were a couple with a
tiny little girl and they were reading her Madeline.

It is raining ice in the city right now.

Sony BMG's Costly Silence

2005-12-03T11:05:00.000-05:00

Business Week has an article that sums up the Sony Rootkit story so far.

Seems that they knew way ahead of the story breaking that the CDs could open up your PC to hackers.

What will happen to Deborah Davis?

2005-12-02T16:05:00.000-05:00

http://www.papersplease.org/davis/

This may be the test case that determines whether or not you can be arbitrarily asked to show ID by the police. They do this kind of thing all the time anyway, so it will certainly be much worse if Davis loses her case.

This is a case of someone who was not under suspicion of a crime, she was simply riding public transportation to work. She spent several hours in jail and was issued two tickets.

On the ridge

2005-11-26T13:54:00.000-05:00

The stone

2005-11-26T13:11:00.000-05:00

I went for a walk in Vermont

2005-11-25T22:58:00.000-05:00

Party at Live Fast

2005-11-19T21:53:00.000-05:00

I went to a party at Live Fast with Tommy and Leslie. This roller-girl (someone please tell me her name as I forgot), from the rollerderby, is painted (on) by Joe Simko.

PSP Graffiti on the LES

2005-11-13T12:10:00.000-05:00

These are painted with a brush. Sony paid someone with talent to put them
on walls around the lower east side.

Carl Sagan graffiti on 23d Street

2005-11-10T09:55:00.000-05:00

Firefox is now part of Windows XP

2005-11-09T15:28:00.000-05:00

Most days the OS groups windows in the task bar normally, but apparently Firefox is sometimes part of Windows Explorer, too. Who Knew?

2005-11-09T09:49:00.000-05:00

Stanks was hunting some pigeons this morning!

KEEP OUT

2005-11-08T14:25:00.000-05:00

This is what you see when you get off the elevator at my office

Vic Sussman died about a year ago

2005-11-08T08:30:00.000-05:00

I found this nice blog post this morning while Googling "Vic Sussman" Internet newspaper.

In one of the sequels to Neuromancer, a character named The Finn is transformed after death into something resembling an Information Hydrant: a squat silver cylinder set in the corner of a dark alley of the Sprawl. Inside the hydrant is all of The Finn's vast knowledge. That is the feeling I get when I type "Vic Sussman" into Google.

Fang Lives

2005-11-06T15:04:00.000-05:00

My del.icio.us Page

2005-11-02T12:04:00.000-05:00

Eventually I'll make it so the latest links from here show up in the sidebar like my Bloglines blogs do.

But right now you have to click on the title of this post to see my new links. I'm not sure what I'll be doing with this blog now, del.icio.us just makes it so easy.

Also check out my new links blog at Bloglines.

Mysterious NYC speech balloon stickers explained

2005-10-31T17:48:00.000-05:00

Coincidentally, a colleague of mine had the initiator of this project as her teacher in design school!

Helloween!

2005-10-31T15:47:00.000-05:00

MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

What's under the pavement?

2005-10-28T16:11:00.000-04:00

Gothamist has a link to a National Geographic site that explains all about what goes on under the street in NYC.

iPods are now officially REAL medical devices...

2005-10-27T09:58:00.000-04:00

...no more pretend medical device for the white-headphone set.

source: slashdot

The Broadcast Flag in 3 minutes

2005-10-25T17:54:00.000-04:00

I was trying to explain why the Broadcast Flag mattered the other night. I wish I had read this first.

How to rock the command line with Perl

2005-10-21T13:35:00.000-04:00

More prestidigation at Perl.com.

Article in the LA Times about Nigerian email scammers

2005-10-21T12:29:00.000-04:00

The 10,000 year clock

2005-10-19T10:26:00.000-04:00

The Clock of the long now.

To forestall looting ... it cannot contain parts made of jewels and expensive metals. In case of societal collapse, it must be maintainable with Bronze Age technology. It must be understandable while intact, so that no one will want to take it apart.

What kind of machine can, for 10 millennia, accurately reconcile hours, days, weeks, months, leap years, leap centuries, the precession (wobbling around an axis) of planetary orbits, and, grandest cycle of all, the 25,784-year precession of the equinox? Answer: a digital one... Bits and bytes are typically rendered electronically, but Hillis says he "rejected electronics from the start. It would not be technologically transparent..." So Hillis invented ... a mechanical binary computer... Still, no mechanical clock, however cleverly crafted, can keep perfect time for 10,000 years. So Hillis added solar synchronization: A sunbeam striking a precisely angled lens at noon triggers a reset by heating, expanding, and buckling a captive band of metal...

"So when you visit the clock, it shows the last time someone was there," says Hillis. "When you wind it, it catches up to now and stops, set for the next person. It rewards attention."

Sleep like Edison

2005-10-18T16:59:00.000-04:00

By sleeping only twenty to thirty minutes every four hours you can stay awake longer. The short time you do spend sleeping the body is in REM sleep, which is the most restful phase. This technique has been used by many famous inventors.

Also at Hack-A-Day

I used to pretty much be on this schedule in the early 90's, and it ruled. Except, as he says, if I stayed up more than about 6 hours without a nap, I went straight to gently hallucinating, logic-free sleep deprivation mode.

Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You

2005-10-18T12:47:00.000-04:00

"...the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made..."

A Ruby On Rails tutorial

2005-10-14T14:00:00.000-04:00

This stuff looks bitchin'

Will wrote a comparison of R.O.R. vs J2EE

The web-browsing handkercheif is on its way

2005-10-14T13:58:00.000-04:00

Fuckin' A. Prototype smart paper by 2007 FTW!

cotoure fashion made of deliciously smash-able spun sugar!

2005-10-12T15:37:00.000-04:00

High-fashion clothes made of spun sugar, just like they use to make
fake glass bottles in the movies. For the smashing.

The best part is that the models have hammers and they smash each
other's clothes.

Series of stills, starting with this one:

http://www.firstview.com/WRTWspring2001/HUSSEIN_CHALAYAN/P096.html

This photographer is kind of cool

2005-10-12T12:11:00.000-04:00

http://www.artcoup.com/movie.html

NY Historical Society's Slavery in New York

2005-10-12T11:48:00.000-04:00

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/gothamist05?m=47">NY Historical
Society's Slavery in New York</a>

WorldOfWhoWatchesTheWarcraft... Men

2005-10-12T09:00:00.000-04:00

"Dead Worg Pup in the alley this morning. Tauren track on burst stomach. Orgrimmar is afraid of me, I have seen its true face..."

How To manipulate Palm data with Perl

2005-10-11T09:10:00.000-04:00

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=perl+palm&qt_s=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=perl+palm+%22datebook%22&btnG=Search

http://search.cpan.org/~arensb/p5-Palm-1.3.0/Palm/Datebook.pm

Read Slashot's source code! Read Gmail's source code too!

the Flu Wiki

2005-10-07T15:10:00.000-04:00

http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Main.TourLevelI

JSTL conditional logic

2005-10-06T14:17:00.000-04:00

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JSTL4.html

w00t JSP

2005-10-05T15:04:00.000-04:00

Practical JSTL

All about the Request Object

Michigan and Illinois pass laws banning violent videogame use by children

2005-10-03T10:56:00.000-04:00

http://www.gamergod.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=323

Assassination dolphins missing after Katrina

2005-09-29T11:49:00.000-04:00

Yep.

Articles

2005-09-28T12:09:00.000-04:00

5 reasons why the new Treo doesn't run Palm OS :(
Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon
SAFE: Design takes on the risks, at MOMA

Emergency Flashlight

2005-09-27T11:13:00.000-04:00

I need an iron hook

2005-09-26T22:46:00.000-04:00

Fang monster needs an iron hook to hang a cutting board.

Preferably an iron hook shaped like an animal.

Articles

2005-09-26T11:12:00.000-04:00

An interview with the founder of Wikipedia
Rolling Stone tours NOLA with Sean Penn