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  • Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

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March 26, 2005

March 26, 2005
21:40 Pud from F***edcompany has his own VC-funded dot com: From his newsletter: "So a few months ago I moved to San Francisco – heart of the Internet biz – and just took a $4 million investment from Sequoia Capital (the same VC rockstars who invested early in Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco, Apple, and more). ... I know I know...I spent the last 4 years of my life making fun of dot-com companies... but all the while I'd secretly look at the successes and think, "crap, I coulda done that" or worse yet, "i came up with that idea 2 years ago. dang." Hehehe. Ironic.
21:37 iPods Make the World Go Away
16:44 Google Sets: Sweet.
16:42 Learn to Program: Using Ruby that is.
16:24 MaxiVista dual monitor software: "Your laptop as a second monitor!"
16:21 The Master Task List
16:13 Humans are generous if watched, even by photo of robot: "We can manipulate altruistic behaviour with a pair of fake eyeballs because ancient parts of our brain fail to recognise them as fake, he says."
16:12 Entropy - The Role of Digital Rights Management: "... we believe the best DRM strategy is to provide consumers with the content they want, in the form they want, at a price they believe is reasonable. I suspect this strategy does not conform to prevailing views in the media industry.
16:02 Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
15:57 Sleeptracker: If this works as explained here, I'd be it right away. The comments, however, make me suspicious whether this is just a Placebo effect with the watch using a random time.
15:50 How to really confuse your party guests: Really cool.
15:42 WikiWax: Like Google suggest, just for Wikipedia articles. This is going to be helpful.
15:33 Long Tail vs. Bottom of Pyramid
15:28 Adding line numbers to MS Word documents
15:23 13 things in science that do not make sense: Quite a humbling list.
10:18 McAfee Wi-Fi Scan