Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Threadless Threadless Tees - User created t-shirts with cutting edge design. Threadless.com offers edgy graphic print tees designed by users. Anyone can submit a design, and if accepted the designs will be printed up and sold on the site. The result? Talented and upcoming designers have shirts on here that would cost 10x as much if you bought them at stores like Diesel. Some of these shirts are edgy, fashion forward designs, some are quirky pop culture spins (I especially like this play on Star Wars), and there's also plenty of geek-chic internet culture designs on there as well. And here's the best part - right now shirts are only $10 with their annual holiday sale. That's the same price you'd pay for some cheesy tee from Walmart! Threadless offers both men's and women's tees. [Grooveeffect - An Urban Style, Music, and Events Guide] 10:09:48 PM

Tech Notes: Dave Winer on Apple RSS - Photocasting The wonderful world of Apple RSS. Here’s an example feed. You can’t read it in Firefox, and I haven’t been able to get NewsRiver to read it. They must look at the User-Agent header and only return if it’s their browser. Apparently it works with NetNewsWire. What are they doing at Apple? Well, it’s not a User-Agent thing, it’s looking for a plugin, and it’s only present in Safari. The feed displays in Safari, but I haven’t been able to get a look at the XML source. To say this is somehow RSS is pretty wacky. Did Jobs really say it’s “industry standard,” as Engaget quotes him? I’d love to see some evidence of that. Wait Phil Ringnalda spotted the url to the “real” feed. http://web.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/index.rss I couldn’t read that in my browser, so here’s a copy. http://static2.podcatch.com/blogs/gems/snedit/rss.xml It’s pretty bad. There are lots of errors, the date formats are wrong, there are elements that are not in RSS that aren’t in a namespace. Engadget quoted Jobs as saying they were using “industry standard” RSS. Even if we used terminology like that (we don’t, there’s no standards body for RSS) one company can’t on its own say it’s standard, esp when it has so many mistakes in it. It’s a fairly damaging lie. Yeah, companies lie, I know — but then sometimes bloggers have to say they’re lying. Assuming their intentions are good and they’re not trying to kill RSS, why don’t they put some of us under NDA and let us help them get the bugs out before they ship. See Brent Simmons’s blog for more comments. [Dave's Wordpress Blog] 8:48:46 PM

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ANDERSON, S.C. Suspect took time to cook meal in apparent burglary. ANDERSON, S.C. - Apparently, you can build up quite an appetite breaking-and-entering. James Michael Fowler, 26, was arrested for burglary last week after a neighbor watching the house found a pan of cocktail franks cooking on the stove and some freshly made orange juice nearby. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 9:54:29 AM

E-mail From Natural Resources Defense Council Dear NRDC BioGems Defender, There is an emerging threat to whales that demands your immediate action. The U.S. Navy wants to put a testing ground for lethal mid-frequency sonar along the migratory path of highly endangered northern right whales, off the coast of North Carolina. Please act today to protect the whales and other marine life of this offshore refuge from a year-round barrage of deadly, ear-splitting noise. Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53246 and urge the Navy to consider less sensitive locations for its sonar training range. As the site of more than 160 exercises annually, the Navy's proposed testing range would create a 500-square-mile hub of year-round sonar activity and other intense underwater noise. The range would lie along the migratory route of endangered right whales, fewer than 400 ofwhich are believed to exist today. Just one year ago, 37 whales of three different species beached themselves on the shores of the Outer Banks, near the proposed testing range, following Navy sonar exercises in the area. Scientists have linked the use of high-intensity sonar to numerous other mass strandings of whales around the globe, from the Bahamas to the Canary Islands to Japan. Yet, incredibly, the Navy's analysis of its proposed testing range does not even mention, much less thoroughly examine, this stranding. Beached whales have been found bleeding around their brains and ears after encounters with this lethal technology. Military sonar may also be interfering with the ability of these majestic creatures to locate food, avoid predators and mate. Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=53246 and tell the Navy to carefully consider all the alternatives before proceeding with sonar exercises in this spectacular whale habitat. Or, to make an even bigger impact, compose your own letter -- using the points in our standard letter -- and mail or fax it no later than January 30 to: Keith Jenkins Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic Mail Code EV21KJ 6506 Hampton Boulevard Norfolk, VA 23508 Fax: 757-322-4894 Thank you for helping to protect endangered whales from the lethal effects of military sonar. Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council 7:20:11 AM

AZ - John Shadegg May Seek House Majority Leader Job Shadegg may seek DeLay post. WASHINGTON - Arizona's GOP Rep. John Shadegg is positioning himself to be a compromise, reform candidate in a battle over the U.S. House majority leader's job. [azcentral.com | Arizona Republic Front Page] 7:08:16 AM