February 2010 Neatlinks

Tue, Feb 2

This needs to be said again and again and again:

And again, it’s not the salt on the kitchen counter that’s the problem in the American diet. It’s the hidden sodium in all the canned, boxed, and fast food we can’t keep our hands off of.

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Thu, Feb 4

I often view photography as form of collecting: Vans and the places where they were. (0 comments)

Thu, Feb 11

The importance of following: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy (0 comments)

Sun, Feb 14

My Dad completed the Austin Marathon today! 26.2 miles is a long way to run (0 comments)

This is just too funny: Google is now allowing users to opt-out of its service by moving them to a remote mountain village (0 comments)

I’m not much of an early-adopter when it comes to such things, but I do respect Sam Ruby and Joe Gregorio’s opinions (1 comment)

Tue, Feb 16

Nice rap: Fear the Boom and Bust (0 comments)

Man, this pisses me off so much:

Among the sites it took down was I Rock Cleveland, whose author, Bill Lipold, painstakingly sought and received explicit permission to post every single track and excerpt he put up. By using the law to annihilate sites that obeyed all the rules and sought permission from the copyright holders at every turn, IFPI’s message is simple: “Don’t bother getting permission. Just take stuff. You’re wasting your time trying to obey the law. It all comes out the same in the end—we don’t care whether you obey our rules or not.”

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Wed, Feb 17

Love this: Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire (0 comments)

I enjoyed scrolling through this: The Quest For Every Beard Type (1 comment)

Thu, Feb 18

Check out the latest in Stephanie’s Crottin Experiments (0 comments)

Fri, Feb 19

Name-drop dinner: “A New Age of Wonder” (0 comments)

Great name: Goodluck Jonathan (0 comments)

Sat, Feb 20

ROUS! Giant Hamster: pictures of Caplin Rous the pet capybara (0 comments)

Term I did not know: Button copy (0 comments)

Sun, Feb 21

As a fan of the NPS, I found this eye-opening: In the West, ‘Monument’ Is a Fighting Word (0 comments)

Great title: The Breast Whisperer

“Once you go home from the hospital, you’re on your own with this little alien creature, and you have to figure out how to keep it alive, So you put it on your nipple and wait for it to eat, and hope all is right. But you really have no idea. Are they doing it right? Are they not doing it right? Are they eating enough? Are they starving?”

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Mon, Feb 22

Got a new computer at work, which gave me reason to update my Setting up Ubuntu from scratch and Setting up a nice LAMP development environment posts. Very very glad I had them, so I’m very happy to keep them updated. (0 comments)

Thu, Feb 25

Been thinkin’ about HTML5 lately: XTH – the XHTML to HTML converter for WordPress (0 comments)

Yikes, bad news for fair use today:

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided that the US Post Office’s use of an image, based on a copyrighted sculpture [, the Korean War Veteran’s Memorial], was not fair use.

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Wow, it was annoying that I had to do that:
Can’t Click in Flash using Ubuntu x64 9.10 (Karmic)? (0 comments)

Too good: tautology club (1 comment)

Fri, Feb 26

Self-hosting might not mean what you think it means (2 comments)