How to make a million dollars

How to make a million dollars:

Far easier to make a thousand dollars from each of a thousand people, or even $10,000 from a hundred organizations. You can focus on a small hive of people, a group that talks to itself. You can push through a smaller dip and reach a level of recommendation and dominance that makes incremental sales far easier.

This is why I read Seth's blog. Not the only reason, but this is the core. He talks sense.

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Lead in paint prompts Thomas the Tank toy recall

CTV.ca | Lead in paint prompts Thomas the Tank toy recall:

A recall has been issued for Thomas the Tank Engine wooden railway toys in Canada and the United States. About 1.5 million of the toys are present in homes across the U.S. and an addition 325 thousand in homes worldwide, including Canada.

...

"Surface paints on the recalled products contain lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects," the CPSC said in a press release.

Please take a look and make sure your kids aren't playing with any of these, they're everywhere.

Technorati Tags: kids, safety, toys

livehttpheaders

This is a wicked cool debugging tool for Mozilla. If you're a sysadmin and you want to see what's going on under the hood while you make requests, you'll want to install this extention.

mozdev.org - livehttpheaders: index:

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Technorati Tags: developer, firefox, mozilla, sysadmin

YouTube - Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam

This video is an experiment to see how rapidly the theremin can be injected into the world's collective consciousness. It's amazing that not everyone knows what a theremin is. It was the first electronic musical instrument and it was invented in 1919. Are Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse from Gnarls Barkley really theremin players? There's only one way to find out!

Check it out.

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A speedy and unfair comparison of OS X web browsers

Process			CPU%	Thread	Real Mem	Virt Mem	Messages

OmniWeb			0.00	14	26.17 MB	216.63 MB	5,947
Safari			0.70	6	16.85 MB	172.31 MB	4,128
Opera			0.80	7	31.90 MB	272.32 MB	6,078
firefox-bin		0.20	8	54.95 MB	220.68 MB	11,156

This is what the footprint of my various web browsers looks like when each is opened with one window rendering Google.

I'm using Safari and Opera as a team almost exclusively now. Opera for speed searches and reference, and Safari for pages with persistence and that have funky rendering. It's working out great, as I can drag links from one to the other effortlessly.

What I Do and Why Opera has such a large RAM footpront

I've turned off most scripting, cookies and other fluff like Flash in Opera, and it caches pages only to a 20MB chunk of RAM (no disk cache).

Since my Powerbook's 4200RPM disk is always chugging, this does seem to make a difference in responsiveness so I am glad to sacrifice the additional Real Memory for this speed boost.

Opera feels really responsive and has a lot of handy features (auto-reload, speed dial), so keeping a dozen windows open with forums and stuff doesn't chunk down my Powerbook like Firefox does, even with the RAM hit. Doing the same thing in Firefox not only eats up the RAM but the disk as well with Virtual Memory and Lord knows what else.

I have Opera's speed dial set up for discussion sites that I frequent. Most render pretty much flawlessly even with many standard browser features disabled.

Safari is my "Default browser" and it is configured to accept all cookies. I use this for all secure pages and Google Mail for example.

Interaction between Opera and Safari is as easy as dragging one link from Opera to Safari if I need to render something properly or if I have something to add to a forum conversation.


I am such a resource hog that Firefox was taking up too much of a RAM footprint (also mostly my fault because of extensions and just general fluff). Firefox is still a browser I open up to render the really finicky pages and I still actually prefer it over all, but it's too much of a hog on the PPC Mac platform.

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SCUD Vblog

Indy-comic booky-hit Scud the Disposable Assassin returns in an omnibus of all 20 issues plus the long-awaited finale.

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.:wayfar:.

.:wayfar:.

Midines is a hardware / cartridge interface (game) that enables MIDI control of the 8bit NES sound chip. Midines allows the 8bit NES to join the ranks along side other retro gear in the professional MIDI recording studio. NesFX is a retro graphic visualization that is seeded by the incoming MIDI sound data, and is included with Midines.

Version 1.1.0 features 256 samples (accessible in two keyboard banks) featuring TR707,TR808,TR909,LINN,Amen+other breaks, stabs, and essential chip battlz.

Technorati Tags: NES, Nintendo

SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc

ISC posted a story about a possible new hole in PHP. Quick summary below, check out their site (and subscribe to their RSS because it's handy!) for links etc. SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc:

More PHP Phun
Published: 2007-06-06,
Last Updated: 2007-06-06 03:20:41 UTC
by Chris Carboni (Version: 1)
Jack wrote in to tell us that US-CERT posted the following advisory:

US-CERT is aware of a publicly reported vulnerability in PHP. PHP version 5.2.3 may be vulnerable to an integer overflow within the chunk_split() function.

More information can be found in the following PHP Security Blog.

US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available.

Technorati Tags: hacking, php, security

Holy NOCs Batman!

Check out this link from The F-Secure anti-virus blog - On the road:

Today I've spent the day in business meetings at a large company headquartered in New Jersey. And these guys have the coolest NOC (network operations center) I've seen anywhere in the world.

Cool Business card Design (via Digg)

AMAZING Business card Design:

"Check out this lovely design for a business card that sprouts a miniature garden when you dip it in water. The result was a business card that worked like a miniature house-plant, growing alfalfa or cress when dipped in water."


Interesting.