Free kitchen designer from Ikea
Ikea hands out a free 3d kitchen designer, which is cool. It's windows only, which is not cool.
Scott Adam’s blog: the boner theory of management
The Boner Theory of Economics also predicts that in the long run -- perhaps in a few hundred years -- the military will be 100% gay men. This is the best case scenario for taxpayers because it will keep down costs, and recruiting will be easy. Recruiter: "We can't afford to give you body armor, but you'll be surrounded by young, vital men who are a long way from home. Would you like a tour of the showers?" Recruit: "Yes, but I can't stand up right away." http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/the_boner_theor.html
Controlling DirecTV STB via USB
Might come in handy if I ever change pay TV provider in the US... DirecTV set top boxes are controllable via USB.
Big TVs are evil, Ok?
The NFL apparently nastygrammed a church for planning to host a Super Bowl party. The original complaint was first that the church was charging people, but also that they used the term "Super Bowl" (as if people would somehow believe that the church was associated with the NFL?). After the church agreed to let people in for free and not use the term, the NFL continued to complain, saying that showing the Super Bowl on a screen larger than 55 inches represents copyright infringement. http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/140812.shtml
Planes at 600 meters!
On Friday, an aircraft hired by Google will be doing a series of low-level swoops over parts of Sydney, photographing the ground and waters below. The three-seater plane, decked out in Google livery, will have special permission to fly at an altitude of 600m. Providing the photographs turn out to be good enough quality, the images will be integrated into Google Maps, the free online mapping service used by millions of people around the world. Via SMH, links to Google site about the flyover.
That’s one way of doing it…
Does anyone else think it's kind of creepy that you need a secret code to submit paper proposals for Microsoft's TechEd conference? Cause I sure do. I guess that explains why there aren't many community sessions at TechEd.
Screenshots of entire webpages using Firefox
ScreenGrab 0.8 looks useful for authors wanting to take screen shots of entire webpages, not just the bit that fits on their screen.
Large inodes = faster samba
Ted T'so just mentioned in his LCA 2007 talk that larger inode sizes improves the speed of Samba 4. This is because you can fit more file attributes in the inode. I can't find a reference to the benchmark results online quickly, but wanted to make a note of this.
For Christmas I would like…
One of these things in every room at every open source conference. Get on that please.