TMI
Does Asparagus make your urine stink? Ever wonder why? ;-)
Brian's Link Dump
USA National Gas Temperature Map » A color coded google-map-like map of gas prices in the US. Previous links
New Star Trek Movie
J. J. Abrams (Creator of Alias and Lost, Director of Mission Impossible III) will be producing a new Star Trek movie. No cast or story has been announced, so it’s not clear which series/timeframe this will be targeting although the fact that he mentions that he wants to return Star Trek to its former glory indicates to me that it would focus on the original series. With that crew now old or dead, a movie based on the original series would almost have to recast the crew.
Flock Now Universal!!
Firefox went universal binary with the 1.5.0.2 release and now Flock, in their continuous updates has started offering universals. I had drifted towards Firefox since it was working so much faster than Flock, but now I can return to what has become my favorite browser! WooHoo.
NDE Wrapup
This is a long time after-the-fact but here is a pdf of the presentation that I gave at NDE a couple of weeks ago for those that wish to have it.
Web Standards Project
The Web Standards Project has been redesigned.
Video Sharing Sites
There are starting to be a LOT of sites focused on sharing videos. Here is a guide to many of them from publish.com.
Google Calendar is Here
Google has launched their new calendar service. I haven’t had time to mess with it yet, but it has a nice look to it and appears to be an easy place to create a calendar and subscribe to other calendars. There is a tour available right on the front page.
Good Page - Email it to yourself!
Toread is a new service that will let you easily email pages to yourself for later reading and easy searching. Set up a mail filter looing for the address that the pages come from and you have a fantastic page archive!
AppZapper for Free -- Make It Happen!
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Brian's Link Dump
protagonist: dashLicious » Tiger dashboard widget gives you ability to post to your del.icio.us account from any browser Previous links
How Much of Apple is Jobs?
CNet reporters' roundtable ‘cast discusses Jobs’ role at Apple.
New York Times Goes Wide
The New York Times is sporting a new look–and it’s beautiful. They, like CNN last week, have gone wide (970pixels by my measurement) and have also centered (which I really can’t figure out why more big sites don’t do–everybody else does).
Even MS Hates IE
CSS Stylesheet on one of Microsoft’s sites contains styles such as “StupidIEWidthHack”, “StupidIEMarginHack” and “fix for the IE 1px-ooff margin error”.
Solar Eclipse from the Space Station
Here’s a photo an astronaut on the space station took of this morning’s total solar eclipse.
Ruby on Rails 1.1
Ruby on Rails 1.1 is out and getting great reviews with it's built in AJAX support and much-improved active record feature. Got to get back on track with learning it. Ruby on Rails 1.1: Web 2.0 on Rocket Fuel (web2.wsj2.com)
64 GB USB Drive
That's right! 64 GB!! Only $5,000. Consider an entire bootable drive that would fit in your pocket. Backup your drive to it. Put your tunes on it. 'Course you can get a couple times that amount memory for one to two hundred dollars. BUSlink's 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive PRO 2 Series - Engadget
Adobe's Chizen Discusses Macromedia Acquisition, Mactel
Adobe under construction | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
World of Warcraft down all day, Blizzard has no ETA
Optimus Prime - 3D
A beautifully rendered 3d movie of Optimus Prime transforming.