Monthly Archives: July 2005

Death Toll From India Monsoon Almost 700

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Karl

My thoughts and prayers: Yahoo! News: Death Toll From India Monsoon Almost 700: Rescuers scouring flood-ravaged neighborhoods and outlying villages found dozens of new bodies on Friday, pushing the death toll from record monsoon rains in western India to almost … Continue reading →

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Two Javascript UI Libraries

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Karl

Mochikit and script.aculo.us. Also: CSS Transparency.

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Prinze Says Gellar Doing ‘Buffy’ Movie Is Unlikely

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Karl

Local10.com – Entertainment: Prinze Says Gellar Doing ‘Buffy’ Movie Is Unlikely: Freddie Prinze Jr. is plunging a spike into hopes by some fans that his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, might do a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” movie — for either … Continue reading →

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“You should only see an RSS item once.”

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Karl

Scripting News: 7/28/2005: Russell Beattie gets aggregators. “You should only see an RSS item once.” Bingo. Every would-be aggregator designer should tatoo that on their forehead in reverse so they see it in the mirror when they’re brushing their teeth … Continue reading →

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Free Windows Macro Recorder

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Karl

And what appears to be much more: AutoIt.

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Asteroid headed our way

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Karl

Old news, but worth posting about: CSMonitor: Asteroid headed our way: >NASA researchers have begun considering whether the US needs to tag the asteroid, known as 99942 Apophis, with a radio beacon before 2013. Timing is everything, astronomers say. If … Continue reading →

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Help find Latoyia Figueroa

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Karl

Latoyia Figueroa is 5’2″, pregnant, and has been missing from her Philadelphia home since 7/18/2005. If you know any details of her whereabouts, please call the Citizens Crime Commission at 215-546-8477, or you can contribute to the reward fund. A … Continue reading →

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The War Against Terror is over!

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Karl

When all else fails, change the slogan! No seriously, the new slogan reflects thinking what right-wingers decried was unnecessary after 9-11, and what many on the left have always stressed – defeating terrorism requires social, economic, and political tracks along … Continue reading →

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Two at Ask Metafilter

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Karl

Ask Metafitler: Desktop video capture: What’s the best program to use for capturing video from the desktop? Say, if I wanted to provide a visual tutorial in Photoshop that I could save as a video. Wink sounds cool. Ask Metafilter: … Continue reading →

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AOL gets RSS religion with My AOL…and Feedster’s help

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Karl

SiliconBeat: AOL gets RSS religion with My AOL…and Feedster’s help: It’s slightly ironic that AOL is just now introducing an RSS feed aggregator service, since it was Netscape that led development of RSS waaaay back in the day, and AOL … Continue reading →

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