Archives for: March 2006
Mar
25
[totally](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Danah_boyd) [fascinates](http://www.savethegame.org/wiki/Main_Page) me. more »
Mar
22
Quentin Hardy: "A Tour of the Humanities in 2050, or, The Problem of Everything"
berkeley, podcasts, iSchoolQuentin Hardy, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief of [Forbes magazine](http://www.forbes.com/), gave the second distinguished lecture of the Spring 2006 semester at the UC Berkeley SoI. The talk was titled, "A Tour of the Humanities in 2050, or, The Problem o… more »
Mar
21
VoterAction files suit in CA against Secretary of State
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standards, news, chilling effects, berkeley, problems, litigation, policy, legal, threatsA group of California voters[1] filed suit today against the California Secretary of State and all State election officials[2] that plan on using DESI's DRE and optical scan voting machines in upcoming elections. Here is the [complaint](http://www.votet… more »
Mar
21
So a few UC Berkeley ME students [have designed](http://coe.berkeley.edu/engnews/Spring06/EN09S/toilet.html) a toilet that automates the process of raising and lowering the toilet seat.
> Ladies, how many times have you gone to use the bathroom and t… more »
Mar
20
If you, like me, run a Linux box on a [UPS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply) and have to use the largely featureless `genericups` driver that ships with [NUT](http://eu1.networkupstools.org/), *have no fear... Python is here.*… more »
Mar
18
(Warning... this is maximally artsy... Like "Bjork and other artists on a whaling ship with a large vaseline sculpture" artsy) more »
Mar
17
So, my RSI is back in full effect. I took [Judd]'s advice and purchased some wrist braces that I can wear at night and during the day when it gets really bad.
[Judd]: http://www.technotaste.com/blog/
[Karl]: http://www.quarl.org/
[David Wagner]:… more »
Mar
16
Mar
16
Alas, poor Comments and Trackbacks, I knew thee well.
**UPDATE [2006-03-21T19:53:48]:** Well, I surprised by how many people have said they would like to comment on my blog (even if they never have). So, I'll selectively enable comments on some post… more »
Mar
13
I've found myself mentioning this to a number of people since I found out about it. There's a nifty little script that you can use that will rewrite IE's DOM so that you don't have to hack away making CSS compatible. From the [J-School](http://journal… more »
Mar
13
[Karl] and [Matthew] have me using [SVN] and it rocks... especially since it doesn't seem to suffer from many [lame-o properties] that [CVS] has. One thing, to get `$Id$` tags to update on commit, you have to update a file's SVN properties via:… more »
Mar
13
As [Schneier notes](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/huge_vulnerabil.html), there is a significant vulnerability in GnuPG versions before 1.4.2.2 that allows one to prepend or append arbitrary data to a signed message and not affect the sig… more »
Mar
11
For the third installment of Tails from the Long Tail, I concentrate on a single album recently released. [The Gossip](http://www.gossipyouth.com/), from Olympia, Washington, have put out a new album called "Standing the the Way of Control". It's their… more »
Mar
11
Well, I've always wondered how [disputes are resolved] on [Wikipedia]... looks like [I'm finding out in practice]. Among other things, A Wikipedian has recently threatened to send email to [Hal Varian], the former dean of [the SoI], about my conduct.… more »
Mar
10
Freakin' yum.
### Peach Cosmo
* 3 shots peach vodka (Peach Absolut, Peach Stoli, etc.)
* 1 shot triple sec (Curacao, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, etc.)
* 1 shot fresh lime juice
* 1 shot cranberry juice
Add all ingredients to a shaker with 7 cu… more »
Mar
09
As [Judd notes](http://www.technotaste.com/blog/chris-anderson-talk-at-uc-berkeley/), [Chris Anderson](http://www.thelongtail.com/) will be speaking at an event sponsored by [boalt.org](http://boalt.org/). I will be podcasting this talk in case you turn… more »
Mar
08
> The Dallas Morning News reported today that an [ES&S] iVotronic touchscreen machine was stolen from the home of a Dallas County elections judge this weekend. The machine will not function as-is, and the machine has already been blocked from access… more »
Mar
06
It's funny... seeing this NYT article, [*"Popular Web Site Falls Victim to a Content Filter"*](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/06/technology/06link.html), reminds me to announce to the world that I no longer read Boing Boing.
After [Ryan](http://sin… more »
Mar
06
Well, I'm not sure why but I'm now on MySpace... let the ridiculousness of ephemeral connections begin:
##### Feel free to add me as a friend if you'd like.
I'll leave you with a lengthy quote from [Matthew Haughey](http://a.wholelottanothing.… more »
Mar
05
I just read [TiVo's Privacy Policy](http://www.tivo.com/5.11.3.asp) and it's quite arcane. Further, trying to change your privacy preferences isn't easy. Begin bitchy rant now...
First, it makes a substantive distinction between TiVo Basic and… more »
Mar
03
Could someone out there do the world a favor and start an entry for "mix net" on Wikipedia? [It doesn't seem to exist now](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=mix net&fulltext=Search); perhaps there is a more techn… more »
Mar
03
Jesus...
> A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said. [fro… more »
Mar
02
Yale Braunstein on Bobsledding...
> "I think bobsledding is the greatest sport invented.
> It's: run, run, run, jump, scream." more »
Mar
01
"Cautious Cars, Cranky Kitchens, Demanding Devices"
privacy, berkeley, research, usability, podcasts, education, iSchool[Donald Norman](http://www.jnd.org/), Co-Founder of the [Nielsen Norman Group](http://www.nngroup.com/) and Professor at Northwestern University gave the first School of Information [Distinguished Lecture](http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/about/events) of t… more »
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