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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

1. Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs.

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Monday, July 26, 2010

1. youtuberepeat.com. Take a YouTube URL, change "youtube.com" to "youtuberepeat.com", and you too can play a song over and over until you get bored of it

   Yes this is related to the immediately preceding post.

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2. YouTube - Deadmau5 - Strobe [HD]. <3 Deadmau5.

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Macbook Pro has line-in, not mic-in

TIL that Macbooks don't have a microphone jack. I went through the same discovery process as this person trying to figure out why my mic sounded so bad with Ventrilo. It turns out my mic wasn't working at all because the Macbook doesn't have a microphone jack and it was using the built-in microphone.

My friend says he has a crappy Dell laptop that's smart enough to have one port that can be easily toggled between line-in and mic-in. It's pretty annoying to pay a huge premium for a system and then have to buy accessories just so you can do with it what should be built-in. I'm going to have to pay $40 for a USB->audio in/out adapter, just like I had to pay $30 to connect an external monitor to my Macbook. Oh and that's on top of the USB hub I needed because my Macbook's two USB ports are already full.

I have some cheap but perfectly fine Altec Lansing headphones that I think cost me $15 new. I'm going to have to either spend $40 so I can use my $15 headphones, or replace perfectly good headphones with a much more expensive USB or bluetooth version because Apple didn't see fit to include a port that probably every other laptop on the market provides. >:-(

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

1. Minimum Wage Increase Leads to Higher Teen Unemployment Rate - WSJ.com (via):

   Earlier this year, economist David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, wrote on these pages that the 70-cent-an-hour increase in the minimum wage would cost some 300,000 jobs. Sure enough, the mandated increase to $7.25 took effect in July, and right on cue the August and September jobless numbers confirm the rapid disappearance of jobs for teenagers.
   
   The September teen unemployment rate hit 25.9%, the highest rate since World War II and up from 23.8% in July. Some 330,000 teen jobs have vanished in two months. Hardest hit of all: black male teens, whose unemployment rate shot up to a catastrophic 50.4%. It was merely a terrible 39.2% in July.
   
   The biggest explanation is of course the bad economy. But it's precisely when the economy is down and businesses are slashing costs that raising the minimum wage is so destructive to job creation. Congress began raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour in July 2007, and there are now 691,000 fewer teens working.

   Good, short article, read the whole thing.

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2. Here's an adorable and ridiculously cheap keychain piggy flashlight (via). Everyone should carry a flashlight at all times, so if you don't have one on your keychain, go buy this

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Friday, July 23, 2010

VoodooPad

I purchased VoodooPad and it's excellent. I've always used my blog, to some extent, as a personal brain backup, but since I got VoodooPad I'm feeling less compelled to blog things than to just put them in VoodooPad.

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1. DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere (via). Very cool, I'll have to try this out.

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2. TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders - Dropbox Wiki (via).

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

1. Jeremiah Grossman: I know who your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5) (via). If you use Safari, you should disable form autofill.

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