Zach is being drawn.

Zach is being drawn.

Gap Opens Between Al Qaeda and Allies

Source: Los Angeles Times | Author: Josh Meyer | Date: 24 Apr 2008Amid growing dissent among its allies over the casual slaughter of innocent Muslims, Al Qaeda's chief strategist, Ayman Zawahiri, delivered an audio address this month, responding to criticisms on the Internet. Zawahiri attempts to justify ...

Farm Income Up, but Subsidies Stay

Source: The New York Times | Author: David M. Herszenhorn | Date: 24 Apr 2008Corn just hit a new record price of $6 a bushel, so why is there a $300 billion farm bill in Congress that includes $5.2 billion in direct payments to farmers? Because representatives lose votes if they don't appease their agricultural ...

Dugg Up: How to Woo Your Girl the Prince William Way

Source: Digg | Author: Tom Geoghegan | Date: 24 Apr 2008Is your lack of Chinook helicopter putting a crimp in your love life? Not to worry, the BBC is at the ready with this handy guide to wooing your girl like a prince, but on a pauper's budget. If you're looking to land a helicopter in your girlfriend's ...

vincentpeone: new CHTV: Showalter/ Cera. Cera is my favorite...

vincentpeone: new CHTV: Showalter/ Cera. Cera is my favorite guest thus far; charming, energetic, and immensely sharp.

MacBreak Weekly 85: Wombats, Pystar, NBC's Buggy Whips, Mitchell & Webb, and hacking Time Machine

MacBreak Weekly 85: You Look Mac Today Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, and Andy Ihnatko Wombats, Pystar clones, Back to My Mac, Aussie iPhones on Vodafone, and more. Here’s a direct MP3 download of MBW 85. This week my Audible pick is That Mitchell and Webb Sound, and my application ...

Links of favor for April 18

NEAT Receipts Scanner - Sharp-looking receipt scanner for the Mac, coming soon. I tend to avoid one-off gadgets that have any kind of permanent footprint on my desk, but this looks pretty handy if it works. Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine ...

Jobs on 43 Folders for April 21st

43 Folders Jobs You’ll see your company or organization on 43 Folders when you post to the 43f Job Board. Featured jobs will appear in periodic posts like this one. Many thanks to all our job posters. Our Featured Jobs Designer - Ignite HEALTH, Irvine, CA representative / bookkeeper ...

Clutter War II: Attack of the Giant Baby

As of next Sunday, our lovely daughter will have been with our houshold for six months (Happy Half-Birthday, Eleanor). It’s a good arrangement, and we’re all pretty happy about the whole thing so far. But, to look around our house, you’d think we were raising a small army of babies, ...

Admin: 43f caching blip fixed

This afternoon 43 Folders had a temporary caching problem that resulted in some posts being inaccessible to users who were not logged in. Sorry about that. I think this problem is fixed now. If it’s giving you any trouble, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

Digg Pictured in Amazing Spiderman #552

Digg Pictured in Amazing Spiderman #552

Lip Dub - Need You Tonight by INXS (Revision3)

Lip Dub - Need You Tonight by INXS (Revision3)

How to Blog Design Style Guide

How to Blog Design Style Guide

Add your dugg stories to facebook!: This is siiiiiiiick —...

Add your dugg stories to facebook!: This is siiiiiiiick — facebook just added a feature that allows you to import your Digg stories directly into your facebook mini-feed. Simply visit your facebook profile and click ‘import’ on the mini-feed. Now type in your Digg profile and you’re done! Enjoy! ...

Last post before blog redesign!

A new blog design is coming!  Until then, friend me up! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6162642477 Pownce: http://pownce.com/kevinTwitter: http://twitter.com/kevinroseMySpace: http://myspace.com/simplenation 

New Design and Google Links

Check out my new design and thanks to James McEwan for creating it for me. I really like that you can now see all my projects in the side bar. I’ll try to keep those updated. Another shout-out to MediaTemple, my new blog host. They seem to be doing some cool stuff with Django, so if you’re ...

Random (and Readable) String Generation

For web application, it’s useful to be able to generate different types of random strings. Default passwords, CAPTCHAs, and API keys are just some examples of website random strings. I finally revamped my string generating utility when I wanted to generate a human-readable string. I’d like ...

Cashing in the Bling

We just launched the public release of Pownce (no more invites!) with some new features. My favorite feature is the mobile event view but all the other Pownce team members seem to like the Friend Importer stuff. Basically, you can try to find your friends on Pownce via your email contacts or other social ...

Python FOAF Generator

Since I’m a fan of web data portability, there are a bazillion ways you can get digests of your Pownce data. For contact lists, there are 3 ways: via XFN on your friends page (http://pownce.com/leahculver/friends/), via the API (http://api.pownce.com/users/leahculver/friends.xml), and now via a ...

Searching for Users by Email

I’ve been asked to support searching by email address in the Pownce API. This means that you could search for another Pownce user if you know their email address. Currently this doesn’t exist anywhere on the Pownce website or API - search is by name or username only. I’m fine with allowing ...