Don't run red lights!

They're installing "rat boxes" to help catch offenders:

• MV: El Camino at Grant, Castro, Shoreline, El Monte
  
• MV: Central at Rengstorff
• PA: Middlefield at San Antonio, University

The fine starts at $336. Think how many Twinkies you could buy with that.

Mummy, where do mashups come from?

Well, Timmy dear, perhaps it's time you found out how to Get Your Bootleg On.

Your next camera... you wish

I suspect the EOS 1Ds Mark II may be too pricey for most :) Nice pictures, though.

Only in Japan

The wonderful folks at Toto (makers of the washlet) now have fluffy animals in their marketing materials, as well as fawning men in white coats.

PHP/SWF Charts

PHP that takes your data and turns it into SWF files with charts. Cute!

Breast-enlarging ringtone

I won't listen to it, because mine are big enough already.

If all stories were written like science fiction stories

If you appreciate puerile humour, don't miss this Lord Of The Rings spoof.

MSDN Universal for $375

1. Join the Msft Partner program.
2. Ship some software.
3. ...
4. Profit!

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In A.D. 2001, Microsoft was copying memes.

Kids for Free!

I have plenty, thanks, but you might want one.

OMG here's what I had for breakfast today LOL!

A fine example of what my blog isn't.

Ah, the perils of poorly tagged MP3s... Only now there's MusicBrainz to fix them up for you.

New from the Kleptones

The Kleptones invite you to a Night at the Hip-Hopera (download size: freakin' huge)
Meanwhile, Waxy has been gathering a list of all the samples.

FYI, the highly controversial Home Computers in 2004 picture turns out to have come from a Fark entry to mash up the innards of a submarine.

I don't often link to Flash animations, but this one about the dangers of Scrabble must not be missed.

The DirectX SDK has a rather handy utility called GraphEdit that lets you do handy things such as download WM[AV] streams to a file. Awfully handy if you need such a thing.

Fluffy bunnies in a toy car, looking somewhat concerned.
(Thanks, B3ta!)

On my quest for something I can hack to use at home to bounce ssh, /. reports that the Linksys NSLU2 can be hacked.

You don't have to use Ghost. Try Partimage, it's free!

GRUB for Dummies

Need a bootable linux CD? Check the List of Linux Live CDs.

I found an interesting wireless project with lots of descriptions of hardware options!

The thing that intercepts audio playback to files on Linux is Vsound. For Windows, try VAC (or StepVoice, but it's just a normal sound recorder with MP3 out). On a Mac, it's WireTap.

With some editing, the "nice bash prompt" from this Script Showcase can be both handy and instructive.

Pesky government officials or homeowners associations or apartment managers telling you to take down your antennas? Check the FCC Fact Sheet on Placement of Antennas to see what they have to say.

Public Service Announcement: Don't post passwords to mailing lists.