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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Posted at June 25, 2008 12:43 pm | In Media | By: Ben Woodruff

I’ve been listening to Little Brother by Cory Doctorow in audio book form for the last couple days, and I have to say: it’s awesome. If you haven’t heard of this book you really should check it out. You can download the text format for free from Cory’s blog.

“Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.” - Cory Doctorow (more…)

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Favorite Commercial (currently)

Posted at May 21, 2008 12:29 am | In Media | By: Ben Woodruff

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Xbox Media Center Comes to Macs

Posted at February 7, 2008 4:11 pm | In Media | By: Ben Woodruff

Via Gizmodo:

Xbox Media Center, which was originally a media center for some console whose name we can’t remember, has finally come to Macs. Why would you need this when FrontRow or other media centers work just fine natively?

Adobe CS3: ExtendScript Toolkit 2 Error on OS X

Posted at January 7, 2008 8:24 pm | In Software | By: Ben Woodruff

I was reinstalling part of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 (Web Premium) last night, and after it had reinstalled the shared components it asked me to “Please Insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to Continue Installation.” There isn’t any CD labeled anything like that with CS3.

I found the fix here: elaine montoya » Blog Archive » Workaround: Please Insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to Continue Installation.
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Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Media, Research, Software

Minimal Perfection #15: Podcasting Setup

Posted at June 17, 2007 12:03 pm | In Media | By: Ben Woodruff

New episode is up.

Check it out here.

You can also find us for free in the iTunes store, just search for Minimal Perfection.

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Tags: Media, Minimal Perfection, Podcasting, Sidestream Media

Adobe CS3 Replacement Icon Set

Posted at May 20, 2007 2:48 pm | In Media | By: Ben Woodruff

Adam Betts does it again! Check out these amazing CS3 icon replacements.
There are both Windows and Mac versions.

Minimal Perfection - EP11

Posted at May 13, 2007 12:31 am | In Podcasting | By: Ben Woodruff

Episode 11 of Minimal Perfection is out. And now I seriously need to crash.
Check it out - we got Graham on as a guest. He’s leet.

Happy Mothers Day.

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Live podcast? + Time Warner problems

Posted at April 8, 2007 6:58 pm | In Podcasting | By: Ben Woodruff

Jordan and I may be getting together to record a podcast in the same room! woot.
Normally we are talking over Skype, which can be annoying due to bandwidth issues and such.

Also apparently TWC had some trouble with their cable lines and because they don’t want you using their dial-in service as a “backup” if your home cable goes out, they were nice enough to disable dial-in logins today. I was unaware of these problems because my cable at both home and work was working fine, so when I went to my grandparents and tried to dial in… I was not happy. So I drove over to work and tried to talk to them over their Live Chat support… they were rude and basically told me that even though there was no real reason I should not be able to login to the dial-in access, I couldn’t because of the cable outage. Thanks Time Warner! Stand up service.

It’s a pain in the butt to get their dialup to work even when they don’t close it off due to unrelated problems. I made a post a while ago on how to work around RoadRunner’s horrible dialer and connect under OS X. You can probably do something similar under Windows and Linux but unfortunately I don’t have specific instructions. The key thing is to use aolnet/ent.youremail as the user name.

It sucks that there are no good ISPs.

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Tags: Media, Minimal Perfection, Networking, Podcasting, RoadRunner, Sidestream Media, Time Warner

Happy Easter!

Posted at 6:50 pm | In Personal | By: Ben Woodruff

Minimal Perfection #9 will be up by the end of the day today.

Did anyone get me Magic cards for easter?

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Are the rumors true?!

Posted at March 18, 2007 10:46 pm | In Personal | By: Ben Woodruff

Streetlight Manifesto + Less than Jake + Reel Big Fish + Rochester, NY = OMG where can I buy tickets?
Please let the rumors be true. My 3 favorite bands, under one roof.

Also, Streetlight Manifesto is apparently looking for a web developer. I sent them an email asking if I could help out. X Fingers. Thanks to Bill for pointing this out to me.

And the last bit of good news for the night is that the new episode of Minimal Perfection is out. We were a bit more casual in this one. Let us know what you think. Do you like it better when we’re just shooting the breeze, or when we have actual topics and stick them? Rat holes?

Hope everyone had a good St. Patty’s Day, and a late Happy Birthday to Bill. I wish you’d been in town.

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