The lighter side of Labnotes, micro-chunked and served over rice.Tumblr (3.0; @assaf)http://bytesized.labnotes.org/“SYNOPSIS: identi.ca, which almost topped Techmeme, should have topped Techmeme, because it’s open source and therefore not just another buggy Twitter clone. This illustrates the problem with Techmeme, which TechJunk will help fix, and site owner Dave Winer should know because he knew 10 years ago what would be true and important today in tech. “Regular people” don’t care about what’s on Techmeme, but do, and should. (That last point was argued by the same person.) Techmeme may or may not be analogous to the Third Reich. Mike Godwin may or may not be Seth Godin”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://friendfeed.com/e/aa013580-5563-4d1b-231c-febecc832cc5/Maybe-not-Gabe-s-fault-but-the-biggest-story-for/">Maybe not Gabe’s fault, but the biggest story for me today was by a wide margin Identi.ca. It never hit the top of Techmeme - FriendFeed</a></em>http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40896920http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40896920Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:07:17 -0700<a href="http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9_is_out!.html">Adobe Reader 9 is out!</a>: 189MB installed, recomposed (?), and all I got was this lousy “internal error occurred”.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40891416http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40891416Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:01:16 -0700<a href="http://camendesign.com/?200806291241">A List Of People Who Need To Stop Writing Software</a>: “A Printer driver is a folder with one “.ini” file, and a couple of “.dll”s and that’s it. It is not a 50 MB download. It is not an IE Toolbar, and Side Pane. It is not half-baked photo software. It is not a splash screen when your computer starts. It is not a tray icon.”http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40891127http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40891127Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:57:56 -0700“6. Open the book flat in the middle and use for a blotter for crafts projects. Just rip off the upper pages to refresh.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=1117">Where does the tome go?</a> 13 uses for dead-tree phone books.</em>http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40887680http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40887680Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:16:58 -0700<a href="http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#130">Flowgram | What is a Flowgram?</a>: Innovative mix of web pages and screencasting.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40849777http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40849777Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:12:57 -0700<a href="http://www.trailing-edge.com/">Trailing-Edge</a>: <blockquote>Trailing-Edge’s staff maintains several public-domain archives of vintage software, spanning five decades.</blockquote>http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40793967http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40793967Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:16:50 -0700“You know how Bruce Schneier uses the term Security Theatre to describe measures designed to make us feel safer but not actually safer? I am going to start using the term Process Theatre. I trust you can grasp the meaning immediately.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/07/process-theatre.html">Process Theatre</a></em>http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40768727http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40768727Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:31:10 -0700<a href="http://www.pixelbeat.org/settings/.inputrc">Cool trick of the day</a>: Use up/down arrows to go through bash history and search through history.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40496123http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40496123Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:14:01 -0700We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40471093http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40471093Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:23:30 -0700<a href="http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html">Web 2.1 Technology Demonstrator</a>: server-side blink tag FTWhttp://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40462258http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40462258Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:00:52 -0700<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i24_fallacy.html">ACM Ubiquity - The Fallacy of Premature Optimization</a>: Especially useful for people who are fuzzy on the words “premature” and “optimization”.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40382345http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40382345Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:17:32 -0700<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/lp1QwL5cYatoa0euFMeHwJR3_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Is that what it takes to produce an Ubuntu release?</p><p>(via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/altairudea">ALTAIR Crea & Comparte</a>)</p>http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40329592http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40329592Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:57:05 -0700<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/lp1QwL5cYatlqcpnXD1HCFsv_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/a_statement_followed_by_a">The Onion - America’s Finest News Source</a> (via <a href="http://laughingsquid.com/the-onion-makes-it-easier-not-to-vote/">laughingsquid</a>)http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40323870http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40323870Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:45:49 -0700<a href="http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/06/28/epic-fail-or-why-the-users-hate-us/">Epic Fail, or, why the users hate us.</a>: “Western Union, after doing a costly internal audit to discover where their inefficiencies lay, discovered that 99% of their problems with online transactions stemmed from those annoying <i>customers</i>.”http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40319438http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40319438Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:51:05 -0700<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/proctools/">SourceForge.net: proctools</a>: pgrep, pkill and pfind for OS X. you can install with sudo port install proctoolshttp://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40319247http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40319247Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:48:55 -0700<a href="http://www.davidalison.com/2008/06/apple-does-it-right-when-it-comes-to.html">David Alison's Blog: Apple does it right when it comes to surveys</a>: “You can tell a lot about the values of a company by the questions they ask in their surveys and Apple appears to be genuinely concerned about how satisfied customers are with the service they provide.”http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40248626http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40248626Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:14:07 -0700<a href="http://realm3.com/articles/hall_of_shame_-_youtube_and_ebay_for_3500">realm3: Hall Of Shame - YouTube and eBay for 3500</a>: “i have all the design done and its only for database and slice my PSD design and make the functions work.”http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40236188http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40236188Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:20:05 -0700<a href="http://anthonyshort.com.au/blog/comments/how-to-get-cross-browser-compatibility-everytime/">How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time</a>: Nice tricks.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40231442http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40231442Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:13:25 -0700<a href="http://www.instant-origami.com/">Instant Origami</a>: A whole website dedicated to teaching Origami skills that are worse than mine.http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40204535http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40204535Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:48:59 -0700<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/lp1QwL5cYas41jfbFnnRklfY_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/elastico-booksh.html">swissmiss: Elastico Bookshelf by Arianna Vivenzio</a>http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40203971http://bytesized.labnotes.org/post/40203971Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:42:45 -0700