frontline: the way the music died | PBS
Darn, I only caught the end. I hope they replay it some time.
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Linus's original post. :)
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Cringely recently expounded on running the beloved WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware.

I just heard one of my sisters put wood in the oven. No, not a wood-burning oven mind you, an electric eat-your-food-from-it oven. She's not a blonde, but she definitely had a blonde moment. Apparently, she was having trouble breaking boards in her Tae-kwon-do class, and some lady made an off-hand remark about putting them in the oven (to make them brittle) and she took her seriously. Wood burns, silly! Luckily, the oven got shut off when the smell from the sap started to overtake the house. I've done some naive things in the past too. Live and learn, I guess. ;)

How many times a week do you need to see "your' vs. 'you're' improperly used before it's acceptable to go beserk!?!
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New aquintance Kevin Smith recently put up his own personal/family site. Nice and clean, and I like the play on words he used for the title.

Just found Rory, and his comics, via Joel on Software. I can't help but grin while reading. :)
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Perspective is everything. Ever wonder how CNN does those flyby images when reporting about sites in Iraq? Keyhole is one of the tools they use to do it. It's incredible, go sign up for a trial, and you'll see.
sidenote/question: Does DigitalGlobe partner with them somehow?
via Stuart Laughlin

Q, I think I now know why that one toenail grows faster than the others. It's got to be my body protecting itself from me stubbing that frellin' toe. %@$#*! futon!

WHO TV - Des Moines: Recruiting Graduates
They just don't get it. ....>edit later<......

On a good note; Des Moines made the Top 10 of Sperling's 50 Sweetest Spots, commisioned by Hersheys. :)

Linux News: Commentary: Microsoft, Open Source and National Security: "Any military officer now in a decision-making role who fails to react effectively to the threat posed by the combination of Microsoft's reliance on obscurity for its operating-system security and communist China's access to the code eventually could be charged with dereliction of duty. "

Found this down a rabbit hole. The Chef's Table I didn't know about it, did you?!
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Lessons In Lard Start Early In Scotland:
"Saoirse Holmes, daughter of a Glasgow mother and a Dublin father but very much the petite madamoiselle, attends the Ecole Marie Curie in Montpellier in the south of France. In le dinner hall on jeudi, Saoirse had an entree of haricot verts vinaigrette. The plat was a piece of cod, poached in a herb jus. The fromage was a poche de citron, a cheesy and fruity yoghurt dish. The meal was rounded off, as ever, with a piece of fruit, this time an apple.
The meal was accompanied by water and bread. Fizzy drinks do not feature in the French dinner schools. The lunch break at the Ecole Marie Curie lasts for two-and-a-quarter hours. The pupils have a leisurely lunch and do strange things like have conversations."
Image that.

Pointing out stories like Building for the future and Who's at fault for gas prices? Partly, it's us: , PLANETIZEN looks interesting.
As does Cyburbia - The Urban planning portal.
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In case you're not watching the blogging culture...
BBC NEWS | Film deal for 'Baghdad blogger'

CBS News | Diamonds: Made In The U.S.A.: "And, Correspondent Vicki Mabrey reports on real diamonds man-made in America at a fraction of the cost. "
Wasn't this in Wired 9 months ago? yep.
   Don't get me wrong, I like 60 minutes, but this is yet another example of how the mainstream news media is/can be so behind. This kind of thing happens so often I could spend half the day, everyday, typing and searching for links to prove it to you. Just trust me. Or look out for it yourself, you'll see it.
   I feel kind of let down, like when you go back to that favorite diner, only to find it replaced by a franchised fast food joint. There used to be a day when journalists went out and found stories. Now, only a fraction of what you see or read is original. Everything else is just copying the next guy.
   I get my 411 now from 1.RSS feeds 2.site alerts 3.sites, then traditional media. And the traditional media now seems to lag behind. (a good example of an exception is last weeks' 60 minutes, when they legitimized the iraqi abuse rumors with photos)
-I'll update the links after the report airs, and CBS updates their site.
   The good news (if it's not obvious) is, selling manufactured diamonds will drive down prices, and weaken the power of the DeBeers cartel. Simple supply & demand. In a decade or two, diamonds will be abbundant like bandwith is now. (not that they're really in short supply anyway)

Future Tech I know this is relatively old, and I've read about most of this before, but this is the kind of stuff that keeps me awake with excitement(!), so I thought I'd share.

Des Moines Gas Prices Maybe this site will be better...

How NOT to wire your server closet. or anything else, for that matter.
The PNG problem in Windows Internet Explorer a javascript hack for PNG not being supported in IE.
via .NET Guy
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Chris Pirillo's Geeks Gone Wild! The Gnomedex name has been changed to Geeks Gone Wild, and being broadcast on Comedy Central !?!
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Google's gone and bloged themselves.

Linux on iPod and Mesh networking-
Linux on iPod; self-explanitory
WifiBSD; a Wifi AP distro with good features that runs on inexpensive little Soekris boards.
This led my chat with Dan to Mesh networking and the LocustWorld Meshbox. To me it's really neat and I'd really like to run one of these, just see what it's like. Heck, I'd love it if someone would start something like CUWin or Cerritos!
via Dan H.

Blogger Reloaded Well past her 5yr. tune-up, Blogger was drug in for an overhaul!
While the new templates are good, now I need to figure out CSS so I can tweak them- at least to get the page where it was before.

Vivisimo Clustering Dan B. showed this to me a week or so ago; It's an interesting search engine that gives you back clustered results. That is to say, it tries to categorize results based on what you're looking for, and then gives them back to you clustered into those categories, in a tree-like format instead of the usual one dimensional list. It sort of reminds me of Copernic Agent. While not as quick or accurate (can be debated) as Goggle, it's still interesting and useful enough to slip into your proverbial bag of tricks.