Just a reminder: tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be pulling the plug on the DF t-shirt store until the next time I do a membership/swag promotion, so if you want a DF t-shirt any time soon, today’s the day.
It’s also your last chance to score one of these Kevin Cornell-designed “Daredevil Helmet” shirts.
My thanks to everyone who’s already renewed or started new memberships. Every time I say so it feels a bit corny, but it really is thanks to readers like you that I can write DF full-time.
Lovely-to-behold screensaver clock featuring Helvetica Bold numbers dropping into water in super-slow-motion. $15 and 137 MB to download. (Just the idea of a 100+ MB screensaver makes me laugh.)
Moneydance can manage all aspects of your financial life from downloading transactions from your bank to submitting online bill payments. It also takes care of the basics: banking, budgeting, graphs and reports, tracking investments and credit cards. All in an easy-to-use interface.
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Jamie Zawinski:
In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com,
the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.
It took some doing. There is comedy.
Awesome retro web goodness. Read the whole thing, it’s a great story. (Via Kottke.)
Filed under “Aggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week”, here’s Sports Illustrated NFL beat writer Peter King on the MacBook Air:
“Can I hold that for a second?”
I’ve heard that question, or some derivative of it, a dozen times in
the past month, when I’ve traveled with my feather-light MacBook
Air. The other day, on my flight to Fort Lauderdale, a women holding
a 5-month-old baby in her left arm, gently bouncing her up and down,
admired the little laptop and I said, “Here — you can even hold it
while holding the baby.” The woman took it with her right hand and
held it like it was the new Grisham book, shaking her head in
amazement. It’s almost that light.
Some people, I’m sure, look at a new $95 email client and think, “$95 for an email client? Are they nuts?” Me, on the other hand, I thought, “Wow, cool, I hope it’s good.”
Warning signs were evident right from the start, though: no screenshots — let alone screencasts — on the web site. So, I downloaded it, installed it, launched it. Crash on launch. Launched again, saw splash screen (a splash screen? really?), crashed during launch again. And so in the trash it went.
Adam Engst had more luck than I did, so I’m linking to his brief review of Outspring (which includes a screenshot) at TidBITS.
Seth Dillingham talks about how he came to contract for Bare Bones Software: “When I’m telling this story in person, especially if Rich is nearby, I like to say that they tried to call my bluff but found I wasn’t bluffing.”
New research has found that chest compressions without mouth to mouth resuscitation can be equally or more effective than with them. The American Heart Association is recommending that everyone learn this two step"Hands-Only CPR." (video)
[Previously]
Learn full CPR
I just hope a lot of deep sleepers don’t end up with broken ribs.
AprilFoolsDayOnTheWeb brings you the most complete listing of April Fools’ Day Jokes that Web Sites have run each year from 2004 all the way up to today. Also, the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. Meanwhile, Google seems to be up to its old tricks…
Public concern over ecological damage inflicted by human activity has led to growing recognition of the general importance of issues relating to biological science. Unfortunately, the dispute between creationists and upholders of the theory of evolution tends to overshadow public discussion of other more pertinent matters. Specifically, there are significant but relatively unpublicized initiatives underway to promote holistic approaches to biology. The Nature Institute in New York is one such initiative…
…providing instruction in holistic approaches to natural science based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, who based his approach on that of Goethe, who in turn was inspired by Spinoza. The centrality of Spinoza for biology is an issue of increasing interest, with Robert J. Richards arguing that Darwin was inspired by the Spinozist doctrines of Goethe and his contemporaries. Spinoza’s holistic, naturalistic approach effectively bypasses the creationist-evolutionist controversy, and provides an ecologically sound basis for human activity.
For background, see the work of Robert J. Richards:
▪The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe.
▪The meaning of evolution : the morphological construction and ideological reconstruction of Darwin’s theory.
▪Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behaviour.
▪Darwinian heresies.
The Ripster phenomenon was identified back in 2006, and apparently, the movement has started to build momentum. I, for one, welcome our new rock-hard nerd overlords.
Spock (nsfw) — titled "Planet New Hampshire," part of Superhero Lonely, a 2005 exhibition of paintings by John Jacobsmeyer.
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On-demand Battle of the Bulge
Amazon has told print-on-demand book publishers that they better start using the retailer’s print-on-demand service if they want their books sold on its website.…
Words are cheap, until the lawyers get to work
“The Product is licensed, not sold.”…
Per server pricing outpaces punctuality?
After what would appear to be months of dragging its feet with the XenSource code, Citrix Systems today marched out the final version of XenServer 4.1.…
Everyone except the Neutralists?
Analysis So Comcast will stop shaping peer-to-peer seeding sessions with spoofed TCP RST commands. I caught up with the cable giant’s CTO Tony Werner on Thursday for more details.…
We’re in the money. Not really
The SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) calls it “whistleblowing.” And we call it “disgruntled peons ratting on their bosses.” But whatever label you use, dobbing on your own company for cutting corners on software licenses can be a lucrative sport.…
