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Taleban to mark Afghan Hindus. Okay, I got chills up my spine reading this article. Sounds eerily like something done at one point in Germany. On the heels of blowing up the Buddhas too. Very disturbing. (via rc3.org)

Go monkeyman Go.

Brent: “the average Brent and Sheila will feel less in control of their environment, as technology designed to make life easier makes life more and more annoying.”

OS X Links. This is easily the most stuff about Mac OS X linked in one place so far.

I found a link to The Art of the Mix at metafilter, which was interesting because I have a long and interesting history with making mix tapes. The I noticed this XML interface they have built that allows you to access their information with xml based http requests. Even more interesting.

AT&T Broadband came out and installed my new cable based Internet access this morning. It went surprisingly well(so far), and they came out only three days after I called to place the order. For the time being, that means I have two active high speed connections in my home. Later this week, I expect that the other connection will just disappear, that company won it’s case in court last week to shut down.

Frontier for OS X. I hadn’t linked to this yet, but I have this up and running on my home server now. There is some really really interesting stuff going on here. The integration with the shell that they have built into this first UNIX version of Frontier opens things up on the interoperability front quite a bit. I’ve been able to do some interesting things already just calling the shell from some Frontier scripts.

‘Hitchhiker’ author Adams dies. He was a really nice guy (even to a nobody like me), and he brought some amazing, humorous and inventive books into existence. I wish his family the best in what must be a trying time.

I’m working on a Cold Fusion/ MySQL project right now. Just a little server migration from one hosting provider to another. It was made much much easier by the existence phpMyAdmin, which is a web based administrator for MySQL databases.

Plua is a scripting language that runs on the Palm OS.

Bush Orders Agencies to Save Power in California. According to this article, Bush has ordered agencies to conserve power by “cutting back on email.” I’d love for someone to explain to me how cutting back on email, versus other computer activity, is going to save additional power. I’m constantly confused by our nation’s leadership’s lack of savvy with basic computer ideas, and the logic behind technology. I don’t just mean Mr. Bush, but also our judges, legislators, and local governments.

When did Webmonkey redesign their front page and incorporate one of those new “huge” ads? While I’m sure that a lot of work went into the redesign, I have to say that I’m not a fan.