January 2009
The Great Best of 2008 Roundup [Best Of 2008] →
All of us here at Lifehacker wish you a safe and happy New Year. Just in case you missed any of our best-of posts this month, have a recap. Photo by Joe Shlabotnik.
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just placed exam into mailman’s hand!!! yay me, did it this morning while working…if i get another 80% w/o preparing i’m so easing up!
looking at owl manual for immigrant policy center document mgt project…gotta get out of here! does it authenticate via imap? SIMAP?
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back to “exam”
what, land of the lost and where the wild things are come out as movies in 2009?!? old school nostalgia…or is it irony.
not only do i need personal business cards, i need 2 replace rm -rf /dev/injustice from my signature. maybe cat joy.txt? fdisk -d /dev/ken?
Saved by walter wong of saabtech.net thought I was stuck @ post office
time to go home, install fix stepson’s b&w g3; swap the kids beds (loft for regular); and then watch a movie w/ mr johnnie walker. HNYfolks!
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December 2008
Financial Crisis Sends Tuition Costs Sky-High as... →
Not everyone is suffering equally: low and middle income students are particularly vulnerable in the current economic environment.
My Dangerous Encounter With a Supermarket Security... →
‘For the first time in my life, I experienced overwhelming, palpable fear.’ Was it a Brink’s guard or a Blackwater mercenary pointing his gun at her?
Eleven Gadgets That Will Make New Year's Eve Fun →
From cocktail fountains to fireworks, LED Throwies and a mobile DJ rig, with a breathalyzer on hand for safety, here’s all you need to add more bang to this New Year’s Eve.
A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World →
Ask America’s foremost molecular gastronomist about the Willy Wonka comparisons, and Homaro Cantu will insist that he’s just an average guy who likes cheeseburgers. But it’s not cheeseburgers that…
The Great Best of 2008 Roundup [Best Of 2008] →
All of us here at Lifehacker wish you a safe and happy New Year. Just in case you missed any of our best-of posts this month, have a recap. Photo by Joe Shlabotnik.
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Clickfree Backup external hard drive →
A driver’s airbag for your data Review Anything that can make backing up your files a simpler task has got to be good. Spending time recreating important information after accidents is no fun,…
30GB Zunes Killing Themselves In Droves →
The internet is awash with reports that the 30GB Zune is committing suicide across the planet. Not just one of them, either. It seems that some weird bug is simultaneously killing the music players,…
The Apocalyse is Coming: What You Need to Pack →
Crisis schmisis. It’s nothing more than a crisis of consumer confidence. But what happens in a real crisis, the kind where the world stops working, the electricity stops working and (gasp) the…
RIM sues Motorola →
Staff, not patents, this time Research in Motion is suing Motorola for not allowing laid-off employees to seek work with the owner of the Blackberry brand, who is hoping to scoop up some cheap…
UK gov to issue child boozing guidelines →
Happy New Year kids, have a large scotch The government is to tackle the potential menace posed to society by kids boozing at home - legal from the age of five under “parental supervision” - by…
Mike Ferner, "Camp Hope Holds Obama to 'Change'... →
Determined to keep President-elect Barack Obama true to his promise of change, peace and economic justice activists kick off an 18-day outdoor vigil January 1, four blocks from the Illinois Senator’s…
It's New Year's Eve, You're Drunk and Damnit, You... →
Photo by DavidDennisPhotos.com via Flickr Well, if you happen to drive within seven miles of home, then you might be in luck. The Auto Club of Southern California is offering their…
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so y’all, since all the progressives are saying how great Cynthia Mckinney is, how many of them do you think voted for her? Yeah, few.
wonder how a legal aid/svc org could use getsatisfaction.com or uservoice.com as part of web strategy…we don’t have “customers” per se.
interesting tech take on multi-issue…side question, what’s in the o’reilly water w/ the great end of year posts? http://is.gd/dS22
2009, note to self: cut down mockery and clubbing of baby seals.
wonder what it would be like to move from 1,700 sq feet to http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com
have i mentioned that APALC has an awesome (personally & professionally) litigation team? i still <3 the “old team” but the new team is g8!
Rilke: “Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” frm a tech blog.
want new business cards for non-business purposes…title: inquiry factotum; movement comedian; problem identifier; sadness barrista?
why o why no public transit wh works in L.A.???
Gotta get outta bed to go to work and write civil rights final during break. Why 1/2 day?
ugh, had a tweet stuck for 10 minutes! time to go to class. car ignition switch faulty…what a drag. 2 ppl i know just bought new cars
can’t believe class went beyond 10pm tonight. now off to sleep and then a 1/2 day of work.
“But “peace” cannot exist outside of political arrangements — not for masses of people” dennis perrin
delayed start of class…7pm and hopefully school is open…otherise, it’s at my office (in a conf room not my cube!)
i have class tonight but no one knows if the school building is open! oh pcl!
Michoacan Joint Operation: Human Rights Disaster →
Activist Organizations Accuse the Government of Using the Anti-Drug Operation to Repress Indigenous Communities, Poor Neighborhoods, and Social Justice Organizations
By Kristin Bricker
Via the…
Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the... →
Time-management books command huge swaths of bookstore shelf space and sell tens of thousands of copies a year, but I always figured they applied more to stapler-stealing cubicle jockeys than…
With Flickr Layoffs, Whither 'The Commons'? →
Over the past year, museums and libraries have uploaded thousands of copyright-free historical photos, so that Yahoo’s Flickr users could add tags and historical information. But then Yahoo laid off…
E-mail Data Records in PCI Privacy Law | How to... →
NSA Patent on Network Tampering Detection →
The NSA has patented a technique to detect network tampering: The NSA’s software does this by measuring the amount of time the network takes to send different types of data from one computer to…
Must-Have Free Windows Programs [Downloads] →
One of our favorite sources of free downloads, the Freewaregenius blog, posts their top 10 list of lesser-known, “must have” free programs and we’re on board with most of the list, which includes…
The Last Griffith Park Sunset Hike of 2008 →
Photo: savemejebus via Flickr
Councilmember Tom LaBonge, who represents Griffith Park, loves loves loves to hike and be in what he calls the greatest park in the world. Often, he holds…
Israel Deploys YouTube, Twitter in Info War... →
Days after sending aircraft to strike Hamas militants in Gaza, the Israeli government is launching a campaign to dominate the blogosphere.
Bank robber leaves pay stub at scene of blag →
How not to write a threatening note Criminal mastermind Thomas Infante’s bank-robbing days look to be over after he wrote a threatening note on the back of a pay stub and then left it at the scene…
Apple media server rumored for Macworld Expo →
In yo’ face, HP The pre-Macworld Expo rumor machine has been in low gear this year - perhaps due to Apple’s SVP Phil Schiller taking over keynote duties from His Steveness - but thanks to…
Matthew Alexander on Torture →
Alexander is a former Special Operations interrogator who worked in Iraq in 2006. His op-ed is worth reading: I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were…
Chilean anti-piracy law drafted on pirated... →
.doc shocker in the houze! Chilean lawyer Guillermo Frêne is having a bit of a bad hair day after it was revealed that draft legislation aimed at cutting the internet connections of illegal…