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I always do a little eye roll when I see crazy spec ads or package designs for cool products. Yeah, it’s great, you did a funny ad for condoms. I’m sure it made your friends laugh. I’ll throw it on the pile of funny ads for condoms. What else do you have? Quirky wine ( Read more... )

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Andrew Sullivan

One way to look at how the Bush administration redefined torture out of existence, so that it could, er, torture human beings, is to compare their criteria for “enhanced interrogation” with those for rape. Raping someone need not leave any long-term ( Read more... )

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So the moon book… I wrote a new chapter two this weekend, and it’s all about thrilling stuff like server virtualization, network design, and other deeply geeky stuff. It’s probably totally hilarious and awesome to everyone who’s worked tech support or at a deeply ( Read more... )

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My Mac Mini project is complete. I am soooo loving it. I’m already barely using my dying PC after only a few days, which is surprising. So here’s the scoop.

1: bought a Mini.
2: bought an ergonomic USB keyboard + mouse, hard drive, and the wrong RAM. What I should have ( Read more... )

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Writing business plans is like writing a strange, high-level spec that causes my stomach to flip over a lot with anxiety.

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A business plan for black hats with a modicum of patience
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1. Wait for one of the URL-shortening services that has no revenue model to go under.
2. Buy it for $1
3. Buy an exploit for which there’s no patch yet (or wait for a patch release, hire someone to compile it)
4. ( Read more... )

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to bike to work safely for a while now, and downtown Bellevue’s entirely resisted my efforts.

I’m relieved, then, to see that the Downtown Bellevue bike map could almost be replaced with “don’t”:

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From Caren’s excellent post “What I Have Learned Reading Slush” which I recommend in total. One of them, though, demands further commentary:

10. This line, while usually meant well, is almost always a bad idea: “I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing ( Read more... )

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I’ve been trying to figure out some PC issues for a while now and I’ll push this to the cloud so some future generation doesn’t have to face this.

Symptoms:
- lot of blue-screen errors
- lot of dead processes, many of them off on rundll32.exe
- weird connectivity issues ( ( Read more... )