I LEGO N.Y.

I LEGO N.Y.

A bit of lego nostalgia for my fellow ex-New Yorkers. From the Times.

Tsukumo Bankrupt

This won't mean much if you don't live here, but Tsukumo is a terrific PC nuts-n-bolts kind of shop in Akihabara. I loved it for upgrading my hard drives, external storage, replacement fans and just about anything you could imagine requiring tools or soder and the occasional silver paste.

Anyway, out of business now, sad to see them go.

Free Codeweavers

via Ars Technica

I had no idea this was happening, but apparently the folks at Codeweavers offered up free copies of their Codeweavers software for 24 hrs if gas prices fell below a certain level. Well, congratulations to us, it has.

This software is for running Windows applications and games on Mac or Linux boxes. It is lighter than running VMWare in that it emulates the Windows infrastructure directly rather than running a full blown copy of Windows. Get yours here.

Trickle-Down Economics

So, apparently, Wall Street execs are pulling in ~10% of the massive bailout in compensation. I'm sure Paulson will tell us all that it's totally justified, somehow. They'll probably say these guys are just sooo amazing that they deserve it - probably on their way out the door.

Not entirely related, but this is how to really go out in style.

Stock Market Returns by Presidential Party

Stock Market Returns by Presidential Party

Pretty interesting read, via Daring Fireball 

I’ve been very side-tracked lately, but I just threw up some more galleries under Japan.

Anki

OK, so 95% won’t care, but I can’t resist. One of my coworkers was telling me about “spacing” for memorization. He’s picking up Japanese very quickly, so I took a look at it (wikipedia) and at some software he was using called Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne says it’s cross-platform, but I just couldn’t get past the install instructions for OSX. I’m quite used to the one-step drag install in OSX and just won’t do the download-these-5-dependencies and recompile-each-one-from-scratch and maybe-this-will-work or maybe-you’ll-just-have-a-big-mess-to-clean-up and nothing-to-show-for-it install. Pretty much my least favorite thing about the average Linux app, too.
Anyway, I quickly found an alternative called Anki and it’s great. If you’re studying Japanese, check it out.