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It's so hard these days to figure out which license to slap on the top of your latest wiz bang script that you publish to accomplish some simple task.  Here's a suggestion.

Only within the past few years has it been possible to randomly walk into a bar with your laptop, order a beer, and publish that fact onto the internet for all to see.  Joy of joys!

well ever have an iron skillet, and no matter how much bacon you cook in it, everything still sticks to it? welcome the power of the internet

Sweet.

For an example of technobabble, check out this promotional video from 1997.
, or this Chrysler video. Explanation here.

A while ago I went to the ol netflix queue and started putting on some movies of interest. and then i thought, why not put on some cheesy scifi? what could the cheesiest movie I could find?

This published slideshow (ack) details some inconsistencies across different applications in the Office 2007 suite of applications, significant enough that make rolling out Office 2007 not as straightforward as it should be.  Ideally you should be able to roll out the new version with something checke

I'm experimenting with Drupal and ANSWER Camp - it will hopefully be a fruitful exercise in creating a shortterm social networking site!  Check here for more details.

I was searching for help in upgrading a WSUS deployment, and I found this translation in chinese that was amusing:

Scraped this from the middle of a Slashdot thread, in 3 parts:

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1...
http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1...
http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1...

For those of you with a laptop(s) on your desk as well as a desktop - this is for you!

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Anyone here ever mess with clustering? I'm trying to come up with a good reason to do so.  It seems that there are a lot of technologies that come on LiveCD now and use Linux / FreeBSD to allow for distributed computing.  Things that come to mind:

- Rendering
- Music production
- Searching for aliens

Some links:

What I find fascinating is that technology doesn't stop accidents, it only seems to reduce the statistical prevalence of them.  Take for example the

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Things I like about the new community involvement of the web:

When you see movies set in the wild west, you always see the traveling salesman, the schister doctor, the small carnivals, and so on.  And one thing you might see as you get into more developed t