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This is such a gem that I had to re-post it just in case the original gets lost in the churn of the interwebs. Originally © Keith Martin 2005.
Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III
If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the [...]

Just found out about bless. It is a command that allows you to modify aspects of the filesystem. Like flag a volume as bootable. One nifty option is –openfolder. From the manpage:
–openfolder directory Specify a folder to be opened in the Finder when the volume is mounted by the system.
So I first tried changing the [...]

Eye-fi. Buy it. It is the best device ever. Not just because of what it can do, but because of how it gets it done.
So, what does Eye-fi do? Simply put, it’s an SD card with wifi. When you take a picture it can geo-tag it based on nearby wifi hotspots using Skyhook data. Additionally [...]

I bought the droid on day one, this is why I returned it 30 days later.
Edit: There were many aspects about the droid that were awesome (Google Navigation and Google Contact sync: superawesome), but in this post I’m focusing on the aspects that gave me trouble. To that end I also am trying to not [...]

I just finished politwit. A twitter app to generate politically important hash tags. Currently it only supports a single campaign. But it will be expanding shortly! The goal of the app is to allow anybody with a message to start a twitter campaign that will automatically hash tag their state and national representatives.
Check it out [...]

Windows and, well everybody else, treat en-lines differently. When editing a Windows file under an editor such as vim at the end of each line a ctrl+m character is visibly displayed at the as ^M.
To remove the ^M characters at the end of all lines in vi, do this:

:%s/^V^M//g

The ^v and ^m characters are entered [...]

Repost from Engadget
You know, we love fighting the good fight — especially if it means calling out corporations on their untoward business practices. Today we’re joining David Pogue of the New York Times in calling foul on cellphone carriers’ insistence that users be forced to listen to those maddening, pointless 15-second canned carrier messages. In case [...]

I miss the Muppets, not Pigs In Space, but the rest of the Muppets. Occasionally a movie would come out but it never captured the feel of the original Muppets Show.
Then I stumbled on this YouTube playlist that occasionally gets some new content from the master Muppeteers at Jim Henson Studios. The Muppets are back [...]

Why is it that people’s twitter feeds are shoved off to the side when it comes to their blog? If twitter is a form of microblogging then shouldn’t it be integrated to a higher degree than just a sidebar widget? To this end I have attempted to intertwine my blog posts and my tweets. Ill [...]