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Wired News: Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark: “Altman’s key-chain fob was a TV-B-Gone, a new universal remote that turns off almost any television. The device, which looks like an automobile remote, has just one button. When activated, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off televisions, the most popular brands first.”

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR PHONE BANKS
The MCDP is looking for volunteers to help with phone banks. If you have
a cell phone with free weekend minutes, or extra minutes, it would be very
helpful. We’re also using the phones at Attorney Bob Miller’s office from
6:00-8:30 on weekdays starting this Thursday, from 10:00-4:00 on Saturday
and from 4:00-8:30 on Sunday. We’ll be doing the cell phone calls from
Headquarters at the same times. The calls will continue through Election
Day. Please call 336-5875 or e-mail headquarters@monroedems.org if you
are able to help.

Monroe County Voter Registration has thousands of registrations to enter
and people are being turned away from Absentee Voting because they have
not been registered yet. They need volunteers to enter data weekdays from
4 to 8 pm and weekends from 10 to 6 pm. It would help our cause to assist
them in getting everyone registered. Voter Registration is in the Justice
Building at 7th and College and it might be a good idea to call first at
349-2690, but they need help right away, as in today.

Urgent Message from Headquarters Coordinator Linda Stafford:
Help!!!!! We are soooo busy that we can’t even call people to help. If you
can volunteer some time now until the election, please call or drop by
Headquarters. We are open Mondays through Thursdays 10 to 7 pm; Fridays
10 am to 5 pm; Saturdays from 8 am to 4 pm. We especially need help this
week stuffing brochures to go out on Friday. Please help. Thank you!

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/blps_batch.htm

http://listen.to/misfits

from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-February/143162.html:

>>> import py_compile
>>> py_compile.compile("t.py")
 File "t.py", line 1
     print "asdf" +
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

i’ve been interested in getting this working for a long time

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html

also,

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6481

Ethernet : Any Ethernet -> Wireless Bridge or D-Link DWL-122
DVD->DivX: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdibbler/

Are traditional web URLs becoming obsolete? With increasingly dynamic content (that if not making content impossible to relocate, at least makes it difficult to remember the address), disappearing content from small servers or being moved within a site, would it not make more sense to index pages by how you found them. I’ve already seen this take hold in some company’s internal documentation, e.g.:

http://www.companywebsite.com -> Human Resources -> Payroll -> Direct Deposit

to describe a series of links to click.

Often, instead of bookmarking a page or sending a link to a friend, I’ll try to tell them how I got there, e.g:

“Google for ‘belkin wireless solder’ and look on the first page of results to find that article about attaching an external antenna to a Belkin device with a non-removable antenna.

Maybe there should be some kind of standard nomenclature for these sort of descriptions. Would it be possible for a browser to interpret these instructions?

Watching the presidential debate last night, I thought of something that might be interesting as performance or political spectacle. The basic principle is to meld electoral/mainstream politics with the politics of real people. The idea is to make a fake debate between a real person and video footage of a political figure. The footage coud be from a real debate or pieced from past press footage of the politician. A human moderator would offer the question. The video footage of the politician would play and then the human debater would give a response. One humerous piece that comes to mind would be a real person debating issues of anti-terrorism or problems with the US’ criminal justice system against John Ashcroft singing the creepy Let the Eagles Soar.

What I think I’ll need:

• Pringles Can Antenna (x 2)

  http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

• Linksys WAP11 (x 2)

  http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=563.

  59.99 @ bestbuy.com, maybe $30.00 @ eBay

  * Might only need one of these if I can solder the antenna directly to the Belkin Router (see http://www.yobbo.co.nz/belkin.htm)

• Pigtail for AP (x 2)

  http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/PigTail for info

  $20 @ http://www.antennasystems.com/jumpercables.html

  * Might only need one of these if I can solder the antenna directly to the Belkin Router (see http://www.yobbo.co.nz/belkin.htm)