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Tracking the Trackers

2008 Jun 10, 4:52"...we were able to generate hundreds of real DMCA takedown notices for ... nonsense devices including several printers and a (non-NAT) wireless access point."PermalinkCommentssecurity bittorrent copyright dmca legal mpaa piracy printer research riaa washington

isnoop.net universal package tracking

2008 May 6, 12:12Get Google Map display of and RSS feed of your package progress via UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc package tracking. I was looking for an RSS feed to do this but I didn't think of Google Map integration. Neat idea. He should do georss in the RSS feed too.PermalinkCommentsgeo google map rss package UPS visualization mashup

Make your own vehicle surveillance system - DIY Life

2008 Apr 22, 4:14DIY car lo-jack system using a cellphone and cellphone charger. "Now, if your vehicle is stolen, you can give the authorities the IMEI number from that in-car 'hidden' handset, which can then be tracked using cell tower triangulation or GPS, and hopefullPermalinkCommentsdiy howto video cellphone car

ImpossibleFunky Productions: "I Will Kill George Lucas With A Shovel"

2008 Apr 10, 6:32"[Patton Oswalt's] comedy album, Werewolves and Lollipops is pretty friggin' brilliant, especially the track here -- "At Midnight I Will Kill George Lucas With A Shovel""PermalinkCommentspatton-oswalt humor starwars audio mp3

Regular expression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008 Mar 28, 10:38Running time of regular expression matching. Most modern regex APIs do backtracking and can have exponential running time depending on the regex string.PermalinkCommentsregex programming reference wikipedia big-oh running-time

IE8 Beta1 Feedback

2008 Mar 5, 1:33Bug tracking database for IE8 Beta1.PermalinkCommentsie ie8 microsoft bug

Giant White Glove

2008 Feb 11, 7:39FTA: "This is an experiment for the White Glove Tracking project, made with Java and processing. Source: Engine.java, DataFrame.java all: giantglove.zip."PermalinkCommentsvideo java humor white-glove-tracking micheal-jackson via:kris.kowal

LibraryThing Developers are Responsive

2008 Jan 31, 10:47

[Many books in large bookcase. Photo creator http://flickr.com/people/babblingdweeb/]I use my recently added books feed from LibraryThing, a site I've mentioned before where you track, review, recommend, and share your books, and I put the recently added books on my page. I thought it might be nice to include the book covers so I suggested adding book covers to RSS feeds in LibraryThings 'Recommend Site Improvements' group. The next day I had a response from the founder and lead developer Tim Spalding who had started implementing the feature. I noticed a few bugs, reported them on the same thread, and he fixed them soon after. Fantastic! It makes me want to upgrade to a paying account.

Incidentally, if you notice the Ghost in the Shell book appear multiple times in my RSS feed its due to the previously mentioned iterative bug fixes. The same item appeared multiple times slightly differently with each bug fix and your RSS aggregator may have picked them up as distinct items.

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Last.fm - the Blog - Free the Music

2008 Jan 24, 9:49Last.fm now lets you play entire tracks and albums on their site.PermalinkCommentsvia:molly last-fm blog article free music

StumbleUpon - sequelguy's web site reviews and blog

2007 Dec 20, 7:15Another profile on another site that I keep track of with wonderful del.icio.us.PermalinkCommentsme proldfile web

Zune.net's User Card Service

2007 Nov 19, 4:15Replace the zunetag parameter in the URI with the desired Zune username to find the user's Zune social data such as Favorites, Recent Tracks, etc.PermalinkCommentszune microsoft xml

Zune Software Update

2007 Nov 19, 3:47I really appreciate that the first gen Zune's get the new Zune's firmware and software. I like the updated Zune software personally because its faster and simpler, has better podcast support, and the whole social thing has is on their website now. So, I guess I like the software because it has new features that should have been there in the first place.

The social thing is like a Zune social network. It uses your Xbox Live friends to seed your Zune friends list, lets you do the expected social network stuff, lets you preview songs, and unlike first gen Zunes which required face to face time with other Zune owners, allows you to send songs to people. It also lets you display your recently played tracks and your favorite tracks, similar to what Last.FM has, via a Zune Card. I like the Zune Card from a technical perspective because it separates the Zune Card view, written in flash from the User Card data which is in XML. I hope they intend to keep the XML available via this UserCard Service because I think there's potential to easily do cool things.PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft technical music zune social

SequelGuy - Microsoft Popfly

2007 Nov 9, 4:29Another website's profile to keep track of. Associated Live ID: sequelguy@hotmail.comPermalinkCommentsproldfile microsoft popfly mashup web internet webservices

Many Eyes : sequelguy's page

2007 Nov 7, 5:19My Many Eyes account page. Adding this to delicious so that I don't lose track of it. Associated IBMID: dave@deletethis.netPermalinkCommentsproldfile many-eyes statistics visualization me

Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Finale Sountrack (Bear McCreary's Blog)

2007 Apr 2, 12:04Bear McCreary creates the soundtrack for Battlestar Galactica. In this blog entry he talks about creating the cool piece for the season 3 finale. (Spoilers in the article)PermalinkCommentsbear-mccreary blog article bsg music scifi battlestargalactica battlestar

Flickr patents "Interestingness ranking of media objects" (United States Patent Application: 0060242139)

2006 Nov 8, 12:57Abstract Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the nuPermalinkCommentsflickr interestingness patent patents law legal attention humor

FlightStats

2006 Jul 24, 2:38Track flights in real time. Live info on airports and flights. Handles flights with layovers in an intuitive manner.PermalinkCommentsairplane travel flight plan search tool tools free

Tracker Location View - tracker-loc.metrokc.gov:156 AV NE & NE 40 ST

2006 Mar 9, 6:33PermalinkCommentsbus king-county real-time
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