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Del.icio.us creator hands out pointers on building a successful Web app
Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us, has some advice for building a better Web app. Things that stuck out to meÂ… "Understand the user's motivation: 'You have to understand the selfish...
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 10, 2006, 10:55 AM PST
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Finished 'Accelerando' yesterday
I'm well ahead on at least one New Year's resolution (Read 20 books in 2006? Yes. Work out three times per week? Sort of. Publish at least three short stories in 2006? Not a chance.) thanks to...
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 8, 2006, 12:20 PM PST
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Wacky Linux Part 9: Sidestepping permissions
In our last episode, I had just finished installing Ubuntu 5.10 on my Compaq Armada M300, and had backed myself into a boot parameter catch-22, and sought help from Tech Q&A. Well, with some...
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 7, 2006, 10:16 AM PST
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Choose! Choose the form of the destructor!
If you get the movie reference in the title of this post, you're my kind of pop-culture geek. That said, it occurs to me that "Trivial Pursuits" is a rather obvious title for my blog--since, you...
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 7, 2006, 6:53 AM PST
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All hail the used book store!
Most Friday nights, I end up doing a nice dinner out with friends, and this week was no different, except that the restaurant we chose was right next to the local used book and CD store. I had...
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 6, 2006, 8:37 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Part 8: The almost-install
In our last episode, I promised to rush foolishly into a full install of Ubuntu for which I was totally unprepared. Well, I did it, and I've backed myself into a usability corner. Technically, the...
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 1, 2006, 6:29 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Part 7: Small victories
In in our last episode, I confessed to overly complicating the Ubuntu 5.1 Live boot process. Well, I've learned my lesson, and this blog entry is living proof, as I'm writing it from an Ubuntu...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 31, 2006, 12:55 PM PST
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Law & Order: Special Valentines Unit
From BoingBoing: Law & Order Valentines Brandon Bird has created an hilarious set of 10 Law & Order-themed Valentines, and he'll sell 'em to you.
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 31, 2006, 12:28 PM PST
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Wacky Linux Part 6: Taking a step back
In our last episode, I was jammed up because I couldn't get Ubuntu 5.1 Live to load on my Compaq M300, and I suspected that a faulty battery was holding up the boot process. A little help from my...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 31, 2006, 12:10 PM PST
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My masters' bidding: Read these books
There is a book out there that has involuntarily ascended to the top of my reading list (once I finish Accelerando). Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge has been recommended by both John Scalzi (my...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 30, 2006, 8:35 AM PST
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Humanity's future, brought to you by the RAND Corporation
From BoingBoing: RAND's list of 50 books about the future The RAND Corporation's Pardee Center published their list of "50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition." (They admit...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 27, 2006, 10:49 AM PST
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Firefly Season Two?!?!
Continuing the consumer empowerment trend that has Hollywood terrified, a group of Firefly/Serenity fans set up the Firefly Season 2 project. Basically, if enough fans express an explicit...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 26, 2006, 8:10 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Part 5: Ubuntu must die!
In our last episode, I began toying with Ubuntu Linux 5.1 Live on my Compaq Armada M300 laptop. Today, I'm ready to hurl the entire infernal contraption through the nearest window (conveniently...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 24, 2006, 1:45 PM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures Part 4: Ubuntu begins!
In our last episode, I explained how a savvy combination of The Wisdom of Crowds (AKA a cheesy popularity contest) and sheer laziness led me to Ubuntu as my first choice distro during my inaugural...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 23, 2006, 12:42 PM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures Part 4: Ubuntu Begins!
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Posted by Jay Garmon | January 23, 2006, 12:00 PM PST
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Wacky Linux Tangent: The Linux Switch Commercial
"Linux give us the power we need to crush those who oppose us." - Anonymous supervillain You can't ask for a better testimonial than that. Check out this Flash-based commercial that rips Linux,...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 20, 2006, 1:09 PM PST
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Web 2.0 means what, exactly?
From A List Apart comes this great take on Web 2.0: "What, if anything, does 'Web 2.0” mean?' What is the good thing that the hype risks obscuring? "Well, there are several good things, it...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 18, 2006, 10:54 AM PST
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Why we all need to kick a spammer in the nuts
From Techdirt: "Kicking A Spammer In The Nuts Daily Turns Out To Be Effective"While some people are big fans of the idea of vigilante justice against spammers, it seems only likely to lead to...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 18, 2006, 10:20 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Interlude: The Linux Distro Chooser
In my last post, I mentioned that the Linux Distro Chooser had pegged me as either an Ubuntu/Kubuntu or Mandrake/Mandriva user, based on my stated preferences. For the curious, I'll run down the...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 18, 2006, 8:56 AM PST
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Wacky Linux Adventures Part 3: Ubuntu triumphant
In our last episode, I lazily demanded that somebody tell me which Linux distro I should embrace, so I wouldn't actually have to think about it and make the hard decision myself. Unfortunately,...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 18, 2006, 8:31 AM PST
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The 11 Star Trek movies ranked worst to first
We've assembled a roll call of the worst episodes of every single Star Trek series. Now it's time to measure the worst and the best of Trek's silver screen adventures.
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 19, 2012, 1:17 PM PST | Latest comment by cmiller5400
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The five best Star Trek: Voyager episodes of all time!
Even Voyager haters have to concede the show flirted with greatness at times, as these five episodes ably demonstrate.
Posted by Jay Garmon | June 14, 2012, 11:23 AM PDT | Latest comment by Nytrydr
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The five best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes of all time
Jay Garmon ranks the top five episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. See if your favorite TNG episode is on his list.
Posted by Jay Garmon | March 15, 2012, 9:05 AM PDT | Latest comment by swjslj@...
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The five best Deep Space Nine episodes of all time!
The five Deep Space Nine episodes that defied typical Star Trek boundaries and defined the franchise's most daring and unorthodox spinoff series.
Posted by Jay Garmon | May 17, 2012, 7:40 AM PDT | Latest comment by sniperlt@...
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The five worst Star Trek episodes of all time
More than a few of Kirk and Spock's original voyages were (ahem) less than stellar. We round out the bottom five for your reading...pleasure?
Posted by Jay Garmon | August 26, 2011, 5:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by P.F. Bruns
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75 words every sci-fi fan should know
Textbook barons Houghton Mifflin have of late proclaimed 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know. But if you're going to learn obscure words and concepts, it may as well be terms you're...
Posted by Jay Garmon | January 14, 2008, 6:24 AM PST | Latest comment by ankits3a
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The five worst Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes EVER!
Star Trek: The Next Generation is perhaps the pinnacle of the Trek franchise, which makes these five bottom-feeder episodes even more embarrassing.
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 23, 2011, 3:54 AM PDT | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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The five worst Star Trek: Voyager episodes EVER!
Voyager is rarely held up as the high point of the Trek franchise, but these five Delta Quadrant dumpster-fires are indisputably the lowest episodes of the low.
Posted by Jay Garmon | November 18, 2011, 6:23 AM PST | Latest comment by Rbrehm5912
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The five best Star Trek episodes EVER!
Behold the five greatest Star Trek episodes ranked fifth to first.
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 17, 2012, 7:03 AM PST | Latest comment by NickNielsen
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20 things that make Dr. Sheldon Cooper TV's biggest geek
What makes The Big Bang Theory's Dr. Sheldon Cooper so geeky? TechRepublic contributor Edmond Woychowsky shares his list of top 20 reasons.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | July 6, 2010, 4:05 PM PDT | Latest comment by wildcat375
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The top 25 best-selling video games...EVER!
Some folks are hyping Halo 3 as potentially the most successful video game ever, but a quick look at sales figures past shows that to be extremely unlikely--especially considering how low Halo 2...
Posted by Jay Garmon | September 25, 2007, 12:28 PM PDT | Latest comment by Paul.Witting@...
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The five best Star Trek: Enterprise episodes of all time!
Say what you will about Enterprise, but these five episodes are worthy of the name "Star Trek."
Posted by Jay Garmon | July 12, 2012, 3:53 PM PDT | Latest comment by ffulton
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20 gift ideas for Star Wars fans
The LEGO Star Wars Death Star, the Jedi training manual, and a Yoda nutcracker are just three of the items featured in our Star Wars themed gift guide.
Posted by Wally Bahny | November 28, 2011, 12:42 PM PST | Latest comment by zizzleshizzle
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The five worst Star Trek: Enterprise episodes EVER!
Enterprise is indisputably the least popular of the Star Trek TV series, but there's bad, and then there are these five continuity-confounding franchise-killers.
Posted by Jay Garmon | December 16, 2011, 8:12 AM PST | Latest comment by ydontugivemelotsofkiss
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The five worst Deep Space Nine episodes EVER!
The five most wormhole-sucking episodes in the history of Deep Space Nine, complete with unforgiving breakdowns.
Posted by Jay Garmon | October 21, 2011, 7:25 AM PDT | Latest comment by revelated
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Kurzweil: Your brain will connect directly to the cloud within 30 years
By the 2030s or 2040s, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a "cloud" of storage and processing power.
Posted by Ken Hardin | November 27, 2012, 8:50 AM PST | Latest comment by Kostaghus
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The humorous side of IT
Some geek humor is only appreciated by IT pros. Alan Norton discusses clueless user stories, silly names, and more, as well as when humor and IT don't mix.
Posted by Alan Norton | July 8, 2011, 6:08 AM PDT | Latest comment by dskyner1111@...
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Sci-fi rant: Why giant mecha robots are stupid
The next person who says "I can't wait until the Army develops real mecha" gets a boot to the head, because in real life, giant robots are actually really stupid. Here's why.
Posted by Jay Garmon | February 6, 2008, 8:42 AM PST | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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George R.R. Martin, please commit to a release date for book six
Fans of the "great bearded glacier's" A Song of Ice and Fire series and/or HBO's Game of Thrones will appreciate the Paul & Storm song "Write Like the Wind (George R.R. Martin)."
Posted by Nicole Bremer Nash | November 16, 2012, 8:10 AM PST | Latest comment by Dutchman61
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The Geekend's fall 2012 sci-fi and fantasy TV preview
Which fall 2012 sci-fi/fantasy TV shows should earn time on your DVR hard drive, and which are unworthy of even Internet forum scorn?
Posted by Jay Garmon | August 9, 2012, 9:31 AM PDT | Latest comment by pgit
