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links for 2008-09-26
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A Palin presidency as a bad Disney movie.
links for 2008-09-24
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MP3s of Sufi music from Senegal
links for 2008-09-23
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How to debug crashes in objc_msgSend() in Cocoa applications
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I Can Has Cheezburger meets Wall Street Journal.
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Hidden VMWare settings & tricks.
links for 2008-09-22
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Mr. McCain's selection of an inexperienced and relatively unknown figure was unsettling, and the campaign's decision to keep her sequestered from serious interchanges with reporters and voters serves only to deepen the unease.
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"people who are particularly sensitive to signals of visual or auditory threats also tend to adopt a more defensive stance on political issues, such as immigration, gun control, defense spending and patriotism. People who are less sensitive to potential threats, by contrast, seem predisposed to hold more liberal positions on those issues."
The thesis goes on to postulate that this instinct is the root of the politics of fear that supposedly works so well on conservatives. -
A workflow for creating WordPress themes.
Links for 2008-09-10 through 2008-09-19
Links for 2008-09-10 through 2008-09-19:
- Look the Part – How to Show off your Photos like the Professionals – Tutorial showing how to create a frame around your photo in photoshop.
- The Great iPhone Photo App Roundup –
- Op-Ed Columnist – The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com – A week ago the question was: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? The question today: What kind of president would Sarah Palin be?
- Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address (BSSID) – How to query SkyHook Wireless location API using a POST request
- Nuclear Winter in Chernobyl | Stuck In Customs – Fascinating account of a trip to the deserted area around Chernobyl.
- Frightened by McCain’s Post-Convention Bounce? Three Things You Can Do Personally To Affect the Outcome of the Election –
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Links for 2008-09-04 through 2008-09-10
Links for 2008-09-04 through 2008-09-10:
- Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek – The candidates’ platforms could not be more different: JohnMcCain(.com) relies on corporate backing for his web site, which runs on Microsoft Internet Information Server and uses ASP. Barack Obama, in contrast, relies on widespread contributions from the community, in the form of open-source web technologies (PHP and Apache).
- Sarah Palin may have more in common with community organizers than she realizes – Pointing out the Hypocrisy of Palin's attacks.
- DesktopCoreLocation – This is a clean-room implementation of Apple’s CoreLocation framework that is part of the iPhone SDK.
It uses Apple’s own headers, which are installed when you install the iPhone SDK, as the interface, and implements all the functionality of CoreLocation in an embeddable framework. - Talking Points Memo | Mystery Solved! – A lot of people were asking tonight: what the hell was that mansion up behind John McCain tonight during the first part of the speech? As I noted below, the TV close-ups only showed McCain's head against the grass in the picture, which made it look like he was reprising his famed green screen performance. And when they panned out, it looked like McCain was showing off one of his mansions.
- CocoaDev: Debugging Autorelease – Very useful tips for debugging memory allocation issues in Cocoa
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Links for 2008-09-02 through 2008-09-04
Links for 2008-09-02 through 2008-09-04:
- Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention – Fact-checking Palin's RNC speech
- Flickriver – A new way to view Flickr photos and more… – View flickr photos as a continuous stream
- Raw Replay – Revisiting History – The Daily Show’s “best news team on the planet” cover the Republican convention as if it were the New Orleans’ Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. Absolutely brilliant!
- First Look At WordPress 2.7 » Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive – Although tentatively scheduled for November, WordPress 2.7 looks to be as big of a release since WordPress 2.5, perhaps even bigger.
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Links for 2008-08-31 through 2008-09-02
Links for 2008-08-31 through 2008-09-02:
- Chromium Build Instructions (Mac OS X) – Instructions for building Google's Chrome browser on OS X
- Breaking Bad Habits in Photoshop – Tips for using Photoshop more efficiently.
- Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock – how to add a real separator to the dock
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Links for 2008-08-28 through 2008-08-30
Links for 2008-08-28 through 2008-08-30:
- The Case Against Sarah Palin – Normally VP picks don’t matter so much, but in this particular case, due to McCain’s age and health, the choice really matters. She is not ready to be vice president by her own statement. She’s not ready to be president.
- Worldwide Photo Walk – 2008 Winners –
- iDevKit – The Largest iPhone & iPod Touch Development Community –
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