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Internet Definitions & A Place to Bury Strangers

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Basic Internet Definitions
Welcome to “Basic Internet Definitions”, an interactive on-line tutorial on Internet terminology. (tags: glossary dictionary tutorial internet reference)
Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority
The day after playing a gig set to become the performance they’ll use for an upcoming live album, vocalist/guitarist Oliver Ackermann sat down and discussed the band’s “loudness,” his effects pedal enterprise and what’s next on the band’s platter (tags: aptbs)

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FTP Clients & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-28

Monday, January 28th, 2008

FTP Clients

ftp clients (Linux Reviews)
The file transfer protocol is a very common standard. This is a look at the common GUI and CLI ftp clients for Linux.(tags: client ftp gui linux compare)
Linux.com :: Transfer files securely with SFTP
Secure Copy (SCP) and the more robust SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) address this security concern by providing data transfer over a fully encrypted channel. You can use these alternatives for transferring files securely over the Internet …(tags: sftp linux ftp)

A Place to Bury Strangers Links

avoid the world
In the case of APTBS i was still rather excited, its noise rock/shoegaze at its best. It reminds me of Joy Division with crappy equipment practicing new material in some shitty roach infested loft in the heart of some big city. (tags: aptbs)
Postmodern Accident: 9. A Place to Bury Strangers
Yet eventually APTBS became inescapable. The painful slabs of feedback on “Missing You” and the familiar churn-and-hurl guitar dynamics that separate the verses of “Don’t Think Lover” are pure Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, respectively (tags: aptbs)

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Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-27

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

A President Like My Father - New York Times
Senator Obama .. has built a movement that is changing the face of politics in this country, and he has demonstrated a special gift for inspiring young people — known for a willingness to volunteer, but an aversion to politics — to become engaged (tags: 2008 politics)

Bury Strangers/Holy F*ck Tour on JamBase
February 14th marks a Valentine’s Day Massacre as the total sonic annihilators in APTBS begin a North American tour which includes dates with “Toronto’s Evil Supergroup,” Holy Fuck. This will be the band’s first time visiting many of these markets (tags: aptbs)

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2008 Election Guide, A Place to Bury Strangers, NetBeans, Binary Numbers, Programming Languageslinks for 2008-01-26

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Election Guide 2008 - Presidential Election - Politics
To become the Democratic nominee for president, a candidate needs to capture a majority of the 4,049 delegate votes. State primaries and caucuses select 3,253 “pledged” delegates, who are obligated to vote for the candidate their state chose. (tags: politics primaries election 2008 primary democratic map)
Only A Northern Song: A Simple Plan
If you haven’t yet heard of this group, trust me, you will. They bring Joy Division, Cure, and Stone Roses to mind, but they are modern, hard and a bit glammy. (tags: aptbs)
NetBeans attempts to eclipse Eclipse | InfoWorld | Review | 2006-04-13 | By Andrew BinstockNetBeans
5.0 is a substantial upgrade to what was already a very solid IDE. This release reveals many new features, enhancements, and a slight repositioning, as Sun attempts to shine the spotlight on aspects that take NetBeans beyond the pure-play IDE. (tags: netbeans eclipse java ide)
Binary Numbers
The purpose of this little article is to better explain the binary number system, how to convert from the binary to decimal number systems, and how to convert from the decimal to binary number systems. (tags: binary number system)
O’Reilly — The History of Programming Languages
Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O’Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF: 701K), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. (tags: computer history languages programming)

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Media Converter

Friday, January 25th, 2008

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Video Publishing, Online Collaboration, DYI Hard Disk Enclosure, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-24

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Video Publishing

Internet Video Publishing: A Beginner’s Guide - Robin Good’s Latest News
Internet Video Publishing was one of the biggest trends of 2007, and it has never been easier to create, publish, share and promote video for the web. (tags: howto video internet)
Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jan20 08 - Robin Good’s Latest News
A great set of visual communications tools, to help you prepare impactful images for your next report or to edit and compose your best photo-montage are the key selected tools This week together with a trio of video recording and downloading tools (tags: tools visualization video graphics)

Online Collaboration

Online Collaboration Technologies - New Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Jan21 08 - Robin Good’s Latest News
Video conferencing, instant messaging and real-time file-sharing and collaboration. These the three online collaboration areas for which I have some new tools to have you test out. (tags: collaoration online)

Build an External Hard drive Enclosure

» How do I… Build and configure an external hard drive enclosure? | How Do I… | TechRepublic.com
Do you have an old hard drive, which still works, lying around … that you’d like to put to good use? …chances are good that you’ve thought about using your old drive as an external hard drive… building an external hard drive is an easy task. (tags: dyi hard drive enclosure)

A Place to Bury Strangers

Design That Kills » Blog Archive » new amazing music: a place to bury strangers
while standing on bart this rainy morning, sipping coffee, surrounded by the other gloomy thursday passengers, their beautiful song, “i know i’ll see you” was the perfect soundtrack.(tags: aptbs)
The Factual Opinion: The Music of 2007: The Secret 50 Part 3 “To Fix the Gash in Your Head” starts off impossible, like someone set a drum machine to speed up until infinity. From there it gets terrifying, as layers of noise and distortion coalesce into some kind of Joy Division-jacking lightning storm.(tags: aptbs)
stillsostrange: Any work but that the work we should be doing, music pimp version
It’s like Joy Division with a Catherine Wheel aftertaste, and a hint of Cure. … Either the ghost of Ian Curtis is banging on their window right now, or they’ve trapped him in a guitar pick using darkest necromancy. Either way, I like it.(tags: aptbs)

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SIMILIE links for 2008-01-23

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Appalachian - SIMILE
Appalachian is a Firefox add-on that adds the ability to manage and use several OpenIDs to ease the login parts of your browsing experience. Learn more about OpenID.(tags: add-ons openid firefox extension identity simile)
SIMILE Project
Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike EnvironmentsSIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets.(tags: semanticweb ajax web2.0 semantic metadata web rdf javascript)

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-22

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Sinarchive
First of all, I truly want to thank Oliver Ackermann for his kindness in sharing his music and lyrics with sinarchive.com, and I hope readers would enjoy what I consider to be one of the most interesting sonic surprises of last year (tags: aptbs)

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Networks & Sharing, Search Side-by-Side links for 2008-01-21

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Geek to Live: How to access a home server behind a router/firewall
Today we’ll cover how to open up specific ports on your router to allow access to a home server behind a firewall. (tags: firewall server network howto vnc lifehacker)

Featured Windows Download: Share Files Over the Internet from Your Computer with HFS
Windows only: Freeware application HFS (HTTP File Server) makes it dead simple to run a server to share files from your computer over the web. (tags: filesharing windows server software tools networking p2p ftp lifehacker)

SearchBoth.com - Search both Google & Yahoo at the same time!
SearchBoth.com cuts out the time and hassle involved in searching both Google and Yahoo at the same time. (tags: search google yahoo)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD:	3926
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation:	3
Total	3929

DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Jan 19, 2008

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Cool URIs, Green Guide, LOC Photos, Rip Netflix, Router Tips, and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-20

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.What makes a cool URI?A cool URI is one which does not change.
What sorts of URI change?
URIs don’t change: people change them.(tags: berners web w3c url uri standards usability)
The Green Guide
“Originated as a print newsletter in 1994, then expanded into a web site, thegreenguide.com, in 2002, Green Guide was acquired by Natl Geographic Society in Mar 2007, as part of NGS’ global commitment to inform and inspire people to care about the planet.”(tags: green guide)
Flickr: Photos from The Library of Congress
Thousands of photos from the LOC Archives (tags: archives photography photos libraryofcongress images free)
Rorta - View Single Post - How to Rip Netflix ‘Watch Now’ Movies
In other words, you don’t need Internet Explorer, you don’t need to View Source and find WNPLaylistMovies and notepad and all that business. This script does it all for you.(tags: extensions hacks movie netflix)
Feature: Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato
Tomato does almost everything DD-WRT does—from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation—in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs. Sound good? Let’s get started.(tags: router networking wifi wireless tomato hack howto firmware)

A Place to Bury Strangers Links

terrigenus: January 2008
A Place to Bury Strangers, the self-proclaimed loudest band in New York, played a show a few nights ago at Death by Audio, a janky, unmarked Williamsburg warehouse which is home to a practice space, audio pedal workshop, and small stage.(tags: aptbs)
a place to bury strangers live in brooklyn : Talking Hands
“the set, recorded for their upcoming live LP, was their album start to finish, and it did not turn me deaf for some reason. i liked it though, very fun.
(tags: aptbs)

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD:	3926
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation:	1
Total	3927

DoD Confirmation List Latest Coalition Fatality: Jan 18, 2008

Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count

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Archive for January, 2008

Internet Definitions & A Place to Bury Strangers

FTP Clients & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-28

Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-27

2008 Election Guide, A Place to Bury Strangers, NetBeans, Binary Numbers, Programming Languageslinks for 2008-01-26

Media Converter

Video Publishing, Online Collaboration, DYI Hard Disk Enclosure, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-24

SIMILIE links for 2008-01-23

A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-22

Networks & Sharing, Search Side-by-Side links for 2008-01-21

Cool URIs, Green Guide, LOC Photos, Rip Netflix, Router Tips, and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-20

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