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December 2004 Posts

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  1. Dec 4: new pitcher (2)
  2. Dec 6: oh, the carnage! vegetarians look away! (3)
  3. Dec 8: on programming (1)
  4. Dec 14: developmental stages of a computer programmer (4)
  5. Dec 17: searching for strong’s (12)
  6. Dec 20: hanging rock state park (2)
  7. Dec 23: happy holidays from the texas hill country
  8. Dec 25: my all time favorite christmas movies (8)
  9. Dec 31: the year in blog posts

December 2004 Neatlinks

Wed, Dec 1

factoid of the day: Honey is made from sucrose-rich flower nectar that is collected by honeybees and then regurgitated back and forth among them until it is partially digested. After the final regurgitation, the bees fan the substance with their wings until it is cool and thick. This mixture, which we call honey, is essentially bee vomit. (1 comment)

congratulations, blog: you are the word of the year (0 comments)

video: Firefox and Xeni on ABC World News Tonight (0 comments)

useful firefox extension: undoclosetab (0 comments)

new thing: Chrismukkah (0 comments)

Thu, Dec 2

love the name: Cereality (0 comments)

british slang: slag (meaning: slut…) (0 comments)

these are not your parents’ venn diagrams (0 comments)

a little geekcultural nugget i stumbled upon: zeldman (4 comments)

new word: chromatism (meaning: 1: hallucinatory perception of colored lights 2: abnormal pigmentation) (0 comments)

Fri, Dec 3

weirdest “under construction” image EVAR! (0 comments)

Sat, Dec 4

as seen on… amazon: Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator (2 comments)

Sun, Dec 5

carl’s already posted some excellent photos from our birthday pig pickin’ (they’re in reverse order, so scroll to the bottom and go through them backwards) (0 comments)

Mon, Dec 6

oh my god, disgusting: Fox Will Become Main News Source For Clear Channel (radio has to change) (0 comments)

dude, todd has like a hip hop blog: Right and Exact (0 comments)

Tue, Dec 7

weird php syntax: Functions within functions (0 comments)

jealous of anton’s new design over at mistersugar (0 comments)

beautiful: Skeletal Systems of cartoon characters (0 comments)

Wed, Dec 8

tuba city gets the picture of the day, posing with his man grandmaster flash (1 comment)

ah, the youth in ukraine (0 comments)

these are cute: Shhh (0 comments)

new tech word: dirify (meaning: to make usable as a URL, by converting spaces to underscores, etc.) (0 comments)

new weird thing: Grapple (0 comments)

hehe: A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking’s Greatest Hits contains 16 dope, booty-shaking, digitally-remastered tracks from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics (0 comments)

Thu, Dec 9

strange bedfellows: nmap and porn (0 comments)

not a good thing: Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters (0 comments)

you might need to uncomment skip-networking in my.cnf in order to connect to a mysql database outside of localhost (0 comments)

not “not alaska” (0 comments)

Fri, Dec 10

scary quote of the day: We have to prevent liberal libarians [sic] and trendy teachers from “re-engineering society’s fabric in the minds of our children” (0 comments)

i wonder if this is going to hit the radio: Hanukkah Hey Yeah! (mp3) (1 comment)

great trailer: spanglish (possibly a good adam sandler movie?) (0 comments)

good idea: Paintingblog (link fixed) (0 comments)

Mon, Dec 13

supanerdy: computer error tshirts (0 comments)

Tue, Dec 14

holy cow: this is the javascript mojo that makes the new google suggest work (and this is a dissection of google suggest (0 comments)

oh microsoft, what torments thee? (0 comments)

seeking: a common sense explanation of what openurl means for me (0 comments)

this just blows my mind: pierce-nez eyeglasses (0 comments)

Wed, Dec 15

has anyone heard of this? Meekmok.com — Printing the Web, One Page at a Time (0 comments)

quite possibly the coolest thing EVER! LEGO Logic Gates (3 comments)

phrase of the day: nomenclature of ramenculture (0 comments)

Thu, Dec 16

someone with a penchant for building churches with legos (2 comments)

i’m in the new york times! (my name is 4 lines down from the bottom of the word “Firefox,” between the “i” and the “r”) (1 comment)

stumbled upon: picture of sept 11 attacks on nyc from princeton, nj (0 comments)

Fri, Dec 17

anton in the news: What Vanuatu taught us about surviving (0 comments)

omg, this is the coolest mug EVER! Dunk Mug (0 comments)

a gingerbread motherboard! how cool! (2 comments)

Mon, Dec 20

new word? exegesis (meaning explanation or critical interpretation of a text) (0 comments)

i want one: Flybar (or at least i want to try one) (1 comment)

Fri, Dec 24

cuteness! One point twenty-one gigawatts (0 comments)

i feel dirty even linking to this: Gingerbread Kama Sutra (nsfw) (1 comment)

anton is getting together a Triangle Bloggers Conference (0 comments)

Sun, Dec 26

i’ve updated my family’s melt-in-the-mouth cookies recipe with a picture (and a cooking for engineers version of the recipe) (0 comments)

to listen to later: IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott – Six Apart (1 comment)

Tue, Dec 28

hmm, interesting proposition: 200,000 hits/month generates $5000/month of google ad revenue (0 comments)

Thu, Dec 30

paying attention: casey saw his exhibition, kristina has him on her wishlist: Andy Goldsworthy (2 comments)

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