Coral is a web-based server-load-distribution app that can help mitigate bandwidth spike for lightweight content providers.
The instructions are simple:
“Just append .nyud.net:8090 to the hostname of any URL, and your request for that URL is handled by Coral!”
[via MeFi.]
This rings a bell on a blog-chat b/t Tom Harpel and myself about a year ago, but i couldn’t dig up the linkies.
I spent yesterday evening in Tacoma eating the best fried oysters ever in the world, along with southern-style fish-fry food the likes of hush puppies, catfish, and corn.
I had promised Bart I was going to shoot for the next episode of Rox at the fry; alas, my nerve failed me and I shot not a thing. I still intend to shoot in the manner I’d intended, though. We have about a gig of flash ram, and in theory, I should be able to get enough material at 320 x 240 using the Dimage to provide editor B with what his jones is for.
It strikes me that certain scalawags hereabouts may be prepared to provide an appropriate venue for a shoot.
In other news, I’ve been heads down pushing and poking at the Yahoo! Store, in an attempt to get a multi-thousand item store up and live by the end of next week. Alas, the good people at Yahoo have adopted a ‘simplified’ approach to deployment and setup within their commerce environment. While significant help docs are available, and a 384-page Merchant Solutions Getting Started Guide is available as a PDF, no straightforward sample templates for large-inventory sites are readily available.
Of course, there are many folks ready to take your money to provide the solution to the conundrum. The triumph of commerce, providing that open and even playing field, yet again.
I’m a day late with this.
A few days ago, I received a note in my email. It read, in large part, “In case you haven’t located a recorded version of the ‘Wreck of the Shenandoah’ I have attached a copy.”
Attached to the email was an mp3.
The very first year I was blogging, I wrote a long piece about the loss of the USS Shenandoah, the first US-built rigid airship. The airborne giant was torn apart in a violent storm above Ohio in the very early morning hours of September 3, 1925.
Subsequent to the original piece, I posted the lyrics to a song by Vernon Dalhart, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, which I had mentioned in the original essay.
The mp3 I received via email is that song, as recorded by Dalhart and withdrawn from commercial circulation within a month of the accident.
The original post is also worth checking out for the various comments it’s drawn.
Powell’s prowling Seattle for used books [via BrainLog]
I can feel the gravitational force from here, and while my sell-bags are usually destined for Jamie, I might venture to the center… of… used-book gravity… in… the… UNIVERSE!!!
Reported presence of long-range acoustic device (LRAD) at protests – is Xeni’s BB entry passing on indymedia linkage of an experimental crowd control acoustic weapon at the RNC protests in The City. Much to Xeni’s (and presumably the blogosphere’s) credit, the post then pulls all the available web-published coverage of the LARD (sic fucking hoc, okay?) together, including a publicity pic of the device, and concludes with an indymedia shot of a police truck (gone downtown, probably not to pick up drunks) which appears to show the device ready to go.
Hot damn, now that’s a blog post.
I asked MetaFilter about Project Gutenberg selections. Stavros points out ReadPrint. I hope the thread hangs around long enough to keep growing!
Saw this at BB, and can’t let it pass: Tactics by Police Mute the Protesters, and Their Messages [NYT]:
“The demonstrations, too, have thus far been more restrained than many recent protests elsewhere; five years ago in Seattle, for example, there was widespread arson and window-smashing, none of which has occurred here. Lacking bloody scenes of billy-club-wielding police or billowing clouds of tear gas, the cameras – and the public’s attention – have focused elsewhere.”
(Bold mine.)
Widespread arson?
Well, I suppose so, if ONE DUMPSTER constitutes “widespread.” Here’s an HTML version of the SPD wrap-up report (PDF), in which the word arson occurs once, in conjunction with an arson incident on November 1 at the main GAP store in downtown Seattle, a month before the WTO protests got rolling. I did note anecdotal reporting of “trashcan arsons” as I Googled, but no primary sources, and I sure don’t recall any media coverage of it. I very stongly suspect that the burning dumpster at Pike and Third was the only verifiable incident.
But hey, what to I know? It’s not like I’m being paid to avoid groundless assertions in my writing here (or typos, for that matter).
RadioLovers.com, ” Old Time Radio Shows,” free, online. Dig in.
Via J-Walk Blog.
Which reminds me:
WFMU’s The Hound, linked before, also as a secondary item. Seriously, these shows (and the archival work on the site) are amazing.