Say-So: the free and easy way to speak your mind
Beta service from the folks at Twinsparc and Adair Systems
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Powerpoint by John Allspaw of Flickr on how they run their LAMP environments.
Standard stuff, but I like the stats: 75% squid cache hits on images, ~10 million images in cache, 1.5 million images in memory cache! One conclusion from the PPT: nicer (more expensive) stuff performs better!
(tags: halfass flickr tech)

USNews.com: The pipe dreamer: Shirley Franklin [...]

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Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges – New York Times
“Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., who is Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, have been advised that they are in serious legal jeopardy”
(tags: halfass bush administration politics crime)

CNN.com – Where’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ creator? – Oct 24, [...]

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Speakeasy – Speed Test
The nicest-looking and most tactile bandwidth speed test I’ve found (my results, 5Mbps down, 400Kbps up).
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Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO – Yahoo! News
Interesting! I wonder how this will play out and if this will literally kill the Baby Bells. In theory, calls over IP or no different than email, and you don’t pay for email.
(tags: halfass voip ebay skype)

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The Abstract Factory: The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject
Ha! (via, as usual, Kottke
(tags: halfass funny)

Silver Jews Video for “How Can I Love You”
(tags: halfass video dragcity silverjews “silver jews”)

Friends of Trees—Portland
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BuzzMachine » Fine job, Brownie
Jeff Jarvis points out the former FEMA boss’s concerns during Katrina disaster. As the president with the most teflon ever, this will probably roll off, but here’s to cronies.
(tags: halfass politics katrina youvegottobekiddingme)

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This is a test of Flock. Right now, one could say that Flock rocks. We’ll see. I still can’t configure the Flickr part.

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Food and class | Grist Magazine
“Pricey land limits supply of local food; limited supply keeps food prices up; high prices maintain the class problem of the sustainable-food movement.” (via Kottke
(tags: halfass food farming class gristmill)

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
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Cinema 21 Program Notes October 2005 – December 2005
Sarah Silverman’s “Jesus is Magic” at Cinema [...]

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Excellent “New Yorker” Profile of Sarah Silverman
Halfass was the home of the first-ever Sarah Silverman internet tribute page back in 1996 or so. (via Kottke))
(tags: sarahsilverman halfass newyorker)

Chitlin’ Fooks
Just hooked this up for myself and dig it. It’s Carol Van Dijk’s (of Bettie Serveert) American side project.
(tags: music halfass bettieserveert carolvandyke)

Welcome to 1280 West
I met [...]

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Opinion by PC Magazine: The New Music Download Battle
“Let me make it clear … the record companies do not have to do any manufacturing, distribution, or pay … ... And they still complain. Now I’m getting suspicious.”
(tags: halfass music piracy itunes mp3)

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Linksys.com – Skypephone!
See ya, Vonage! (via extra special
(tags: skype voip phone gadget geek halfass)

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Notes from the first week of work

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CNN.com – Confessions of a ‘Jeopardy!’ champion – Sep 27, 2005
Anderson Cooper on spanking his opponents at Jeopardy!
(tags: jeopardy anderson cooper celebrity halfass)

Katrina
My Mother-in-Law’s Katrina Experience in Natchez, MS
(tags: halfass hurricane katrina)

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