Sapere Aude
Month: January 2008
sit on your coupons for 1 month, then spend them. Coupons are often the leading edge of product promotion, which features progressively deeper savings. By waiting 1 month, you can apply your coupons to an already discounted price.
beating marketers at their own game. love it
Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data for processes which don’t permit tracing. This is antithetical to the notion of systemic tracing, antithetical to the goals of DTrace, and antithetical to the spirit of open source. I’m sure this was inserted under pressure from ISVs, but that makes the pill no easier to swallow. To say that Apple has crippled DTrace on Mac OS X would be a bit alarmist, but they’ve certainly undermined its efficacy and, in doing do, unintentionally damaged some of its most basic functionality. To users of Mac OS X and of DTrace: Apple has done a service by porting DTrace, but let’s convince them to go one step further and port it properly.
another way apple sucks
“Coffee has never been a noble beverage because the means to perfectly produce it haven’t existed” But with recent advances in coffee-making technology, “now you can get perfect extraction. A Clover gives you greater control over the variables. It’s a clean, crisp cup, and it tends to play better to coffees that are higher toned, brighter. Like the coffees of East Africa, or the more intricate coffees of the Americas.”
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
time to finally learn hdr
Vishing operates like phishing by persuading consumers to divulge their Personally Identifiable Information (PII), claiming their account was suspended, deactivated, or terminated. Recipients are directed to contact their bank via telephone number provided in the e-mail or by an automated recording.
vishing? you gotta be kidding me. also, you gotta be kidding me if you do business with your bank over the phone. you have it coming.
as usual nyc is depicted. if someone edits this show and cuts out all the breaks and the moronic repetitions i’ll watch it
The Personal Genome Project is a vision and coalition of projects across the world dedicated to creating public genome, health, and trait data. Sharing data is critical to scientific progress, but has been hampered by traditional research practices. The PGP approach is to invite willing participants to publicly share their personal data for the greater good.
i just volunteered.
the Bush adminstration admitted that it did not properly archive emails. But, that’s not all — they also admit to taping over the back-up tapes containing the email records.
in an environmental breakthrough, the bush administration recycles emails / evidence.
The Zillow data team has created a database of 7000 neighborhood boundaries in the largest cities in the US And we’d like to share them with you! We’re sharing these neighborhoods under a Creative Commons license to allow people to use and contribute to our growing database.
nice. i wonder how accurate?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 