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Google Adsense seems to be very sensitive to certain content. I have only posted two entries about Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (this one and this one), and currently the main page displays these two posts among various others about topics such as iPod, podcasting, Ruby, Java, Cafepress, Spreadshirt, Xbox, etc. Still, as of the time of [...]

Awesome idea: Do-It-Yourself iPod Stand, based on a printable PDF template.

Gmail just keeps getting better. I’ve been using it for about half a year now, and I’ve been extremely satisfied with it. But a few days ago, they added another very useful feature: It is now possible to associate your Gmail account with one or more other email addresses (verification required) and specify those in [...]

I just noticed that one of my favorite Industrial bands, Project Pitchfork, is offering a downloadable version of their latest album “Kaskade” for sale, in addition to the usual CD edition. Apparently the downloaded version consists of high quality 192kbps MP3 files without DRM or anything. A PDF version of the cover is included as [...]

Sparkletone did a wonderfully quirky pastafarian parody of “What If God Was One Of Us”, called “What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce”. He provides both a regular version and a vocals only version for those who want to create their own mix.

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This has been lying on the kitchen table in the office since yesterday…

OK, I’m probably the last person to hear about this, but this is insanely funny. In response to the Kansas State Board of Education’s ridiculous and backwards decision to teach Intelligent Design (essentially Christian Creationism dressed up as science), somebody has created a parody religion called “Flying Spaghetti Monsterism”, which has gained a huge following [...]

Microsoft has announced details on the pricing and packaging for the Xbox 360 that is expected in time for the holiday season.

Unofrtunately, Microsoft has decided to offer two different bundles for $299 and $399 respectively. The $399 bundle includes many features that were previously expected to be standard Xbox 360 features (20GB hard drive, wireless [...]

Yesterday afternoon we drove back from San Diego to San Francisco. Overall, the trip was pretty smooth - except for one major annoyance. I had brought my laptop along, and the day before the trip back I had downloaded some podcasts for myself as well as my kids. However, when I synced those to my [...]

Someone on the Pragmatic Programmer mailing list recommended this website: Clientcopia

It’s a massive (3300+) collection of stupid client comments from all fields, many of which I’m sure you can relate to. Just hit “Random” a couple of times; it’s quite entertaining.

While looking for some quality examples of applications built using the Ruby on Rails framework, I came across Odeo.

This San Francisco based company organizes, synchronizes, and publishes podcasts (although it it still in beta and the publishing part isn’t live yet). I’ve only briefly looked at it so far, but it looks very promising. Individual [...]

We’re off to San Diego for a week, so don’t expect any updates (not that there have been a lot of those recently, anyway…). Although if I feel like it, I might post a photo from the beach or from SeaWorld via my mobile phone.

This will be our first long road trip with [...]

The name may sound a little dirty, but Greasemonkey is a superb Firefox extension that acts as a decorator and allows you to customize the look and feel as well as the behavior of any website you visit by means of custom Javascript files.

If you know Javascript, you can write your own scripts - or [...]

The final version 0.7 of the Eclipse WebTools Platform (WTP) was released a few days ago. I’ve been using the recent milestone releases for a few months now, and they’ve already been very stable and functional. If you’re using Eclipse 3.1 or planning on upgrading to 3.1, I highly recommend that you install WTP as [...]