Author: Tim Jarrett

A couple of quick reading notes, a la the old “Hit and Run” columns that the Suck editors used to do when they couldn’t get a full piece out of any of their websurfing fun:

• I’m not the #1 Jarrett on Google, more like the #2 (#3 if you count two links on Dale Jarrett’s official website). But I’m pretty far down the list on Google’s Microsoft vertical search. Apparently I’m less relevant in the Microsoft world than in the web at large. Which is ironic.
• Sorbet in a ziplock bag. We’ve been making our own gelato and granita in a Krups countertop ice cream maker, but if you don’t have the hardware this is a low cost way to go using just ice, rock salt, Ziplock bags, and juice. Illustrated by a monkey. [Boing Boing]
• The conquest of space, as it should have been. Growing up a NASA brat, I was unaware until my middle school years that all of the wonderful things in these issues of Colliers from the 50s wouldn’t ever happen. Fabulous illustrations and great scientific vision. [Boing Boing]
• Vintage beer trays. I want some. [Boing Boing]
• IMbots on the IM patent. About that whole “patenting IM bots” nonsense. I was going to write something about how I had documented IRC bots back in 1993 for a linguistics paper on the Internet, but asking prior art how it feels about being ignored is much funnier. [Boing Boing]
• Ken Bereskin is back, and he brought coupons. The Apple exec’s weblog went quiet for a while, but came back online this week. Today he confirmed a rumor that there would be special “family pricing” available for the Jaguar upgrade. Alas, it doesn’t help if the family’s five Macs are distributed across the country like mine. [Ken Bereskin’s Radio Weblog]
• Don’t worry about the broken SSL thing? The Register digs deeper behind the recently revealed hole in Windows client cryptography that surfaced as an SSL bug recently. Good article, points out some of the assumptions about security–and computer user intelligence–that have always been at play but that we’ve comfortably ignored, until now. [The Register]

Phew! Looking over this, I see it’s high time I blogrolled Boing Boing. (Is that sentence English?)

Doc Searls had his Airport Base Station stolen at the LinuxWorld convention. Cory Doctorow at Boing-Boing suggests we all flow Doc a buck (to borrow a Tony Pierce-ism) using PayPal so that he can buy a new station. I’ve contributed, won’t you? Let’s show that Blogistan’s generosity isn’t a one-time event.
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Eric Olsen and company have launched BlogCritics, an online communal blog about music, books, and popular culture with a traditional critics’ bent. This is the sort of site that Greg and I used to idly dream of starting one day, before we went on, him to get 1200 hits from InstaPundit and me to get continuous hits from Google wanting to know about Wil Wheaton naked.

Anyway, BlogCritics is still looking for authors, so sign up…
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Couldn’t figure out yesterday why I was getting referrals from www.imabigsexybeast.tk. Went to the page and it was my weblog plus a popup for dot.tk. Now Craig Pfeifer confesses he did it while playing around with dot.tk’s new free domain registration service. You don’t have to have a primary or secondary DNS server either, just a valid URL.

So now my site can be reached at www.imabigsexybeast.tk. Thanks, Craig. I’ll return the favor once their registration engine is working again.
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There’s a new Amazon blog out there tracking stuff going on with everyone’s favorite e-tailer. How do I know? They blogged my news item about the bug with my Amazon account.
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