Jim Munro

I've had this Mad Magazine Anthology in my Amazon wish list for quite awhile now and some recent gift cards fueled the purchase. 50 years = 600+ issues from the usual gang of idiots.  These are on PDF so you can view them on any PC, and thus the iPad.  I'd better read them quick before Steve Jo ...

Verbot Voice Controlled Robot If you remember this toy, then you are as old as I am. One of the first voice-controlled robots I can recall was this beauty: Verbot. A robot who responded to voice commands and was designed, it seems, to deliver dog biscuits. The fact that this robot forgot all of ...

Okay, I must waste a lot of time on YouTube or something, but this seems to be the extended remix of one segment of Sesame Street I loved.  I lament the fact that some people think these old episodes of Sesame Street are now considered, by some, as adults-only content , not suitable for kids to ...

As I've posted before, it is a goal of mine to pay plugin authors for their contributions and to encourage more, especially if that plugin gets many updates, improvements and support.  This month's donation went to Joost De Valk, otherwise popularly known as Yoast . He has a bunch of different ...

Just heard Thesis theme framework version 1.8 is released. This is cool for a bunch of reasons . As always, Chris Pearson is devoted to improving typography on the web. By adding support for Google fonts you now have even more "web safe" fonts to use. This can help ensure a consistent user expe ...

http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/16/ipad-fonts-petition/#comment-56341 Saw a tweet on this this morning with a call to sign a petition on Font support for the iPad iWork suite. On Twitter, I usually just hit next on petitions unless they are: Submitted to a company that will listen. (Doesn't Desc ...

It may not be as egregious as BP's photoshopping fiasco , but it's just about as horrifying, especially if you are Giada De Laurentiis .  I was at Target yesterday and saw this photo plastered on some kitchen item.  From a few feet away I could tell something wasn't quite right, but up close th ...

In case you are a nerd or sci-fi geek and wanted to read the story behind the story. I guess it was too good to keep it to themselves, and a fair good bit of publicity too.  http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/robot-laws/all/1 Here's the actual robots.txt file: http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

Am I copying a file or moving it? I guess I'll find out when it's done. I love suspense.

Today's tech news is all over Google's lobbying with Verizon to end net neutrality. Lots of commentary and upset folks, and with potential good reason. Just to keep things in perspective in case anyone has forgotten: Google is a corporation and as such will end up like all other big disembodied ...

TED is something any nerd with a computer oogles over, and when they launched the TEDx program last year we wanted to bring it to Colorado. August 7th 2010 will be the first TEDxBoulder. We are excited and busy planning. What is TEDx? In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a progra...

I have made a bit of a goal to put my $ where my yapper is and pay some plugin developers for their work.  I know, it's shocking. Pay for something that I use and that makes me money or saves me time? New concept.   The latest donation went to Vladimir Prelovac.  Not only has he created a bunch ...

As if you didn't already spend enough time following your Twitter stream, here is a video of a beta version of Tweetdeck which updates in real time on every-single-friggin action of anyone you follow.  Why you would want to see this much information is beyond me, but I'm sure it'll please some ...

Well, I never.   My forbidden requests never get fulfilled and are usually refused...

Interesting item from the Bill Evans webpages site:  http://www.billevanswebpages.com/ Go buy it and make history. Sent from my iPad

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225701888&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

HTML5 Isn't Ready For Primetime, YouTube Says Flash offers video streaming capabilities that HTML5 just can't match yet. Via InformationWeek Apple's effort to leave the past behind, as CEO Steve Jobs has characterized his company's rejection of Adobe's Flash technology, may take longer than exp ...

YouTube won the case against viacom allowing them to "work with copyright holders" to help them manage their rights online.   So does this mean lots more Downfall Hitler parodies?  Let's hope so. I'm hitting refresh at YouTube for the latest...

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I'll be asking my wife for one of these for my birthday. I think they need to add a slew of iPhone shaped cupcakes, but that's me. Image credit (via CC License)

Have you tried to use your Thesis File Editor and seen this error message instead: Fatal error: Call to undefined function use_codepress() in

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Google ditching Windows on "security worries". This para is my fave: Employees wanting to stay on Windows required clearance from “quite senior levels”, one employee said. “Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval,” said another employee. I would love to be a fly on the wall duri ...