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Reservoir Dogs/Star Wars mashup

Via Boing Boing comes word of a Reservoir Dogs/Star Wars mashup by the same fine folks who did Trooper Clerks, and while you're waiting here always Stuck in a Room with R2

Republican Survivor

Via MetaFilter comes Republican Survivor. Hint : you dn't have to fill the "email" field, just click on the button or link.

Don't forget to checkout the Cast of Characters

Something to do till we find out who gets 'voted off the island', in the Great White North

Rules for Successful Consultants

I've discovered a very nice piece by Richard S. Tallent : Rules for Successful Consultants, to Summarize

Take care of business first.

Never EVER lower your hourly rate.

Never bid lump-sum on creative work.

Always have face time in competitive bids.

Don't be the proverbial barefoot cobbler's kids.

Differentiate.

Never send Office documents by email.

Consider not charging for client meetings.

Success = Version 2.0.

Your employees are your clients, not just your consultants.

Several of his points are not "accepted wisdom" , but well eough explained that I will have to consider them as worth trying. Read the whole piece to explore his ideas.

Handy Thematic Checklist

Via Hack the Planet:

[ ] The Singularity
[ ] Inscrutable artifacts abandoned by post-humans
[ ] Humanity oppressed by condescending post-humans
[ ] Humans vs. post-humans
[ ] Longing to return to the abandoned/destroyed Earth
[ ] Uploads/Downloads/Backups
[ ] Culture clash between people who back up and people who don't
[ ] Blowing your head off with a plasma blaster
[ ] Direct neural interfaces
[ ] >3-dimensional GUIs while jacked in
[ ] Humans getting computer viruses
[ ] A galaxy-spanning web of teleportation gates/portals
[ ] Getting irradiated while retrieving a priceless artifact


course for tv or moives it would be a much shorter list....

Confusion surrounds hole

Yet another update on Cisco's Linksys WRT54G: Threat overstated, finder of vulnerability says, apparently NOT the end of the world, just western civilisation....go back to sleep

TheyWorkForYou: Is your MP working for you in Parliament

posted by Cory Doctorow, via Boing Boing comes word of TheyWorkForYou a project from the FaxYourMP team. It web-ifies the British Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable.

Stuff like Voting record, Performance data, how many times Spoke, Attendance, how many times they votes against their party.

Brilliant! We need this is Canada, before the NEXT election. Boy would I love to have a printout of the voting record and notable quotes from Hansard of my MP when she rings the front door!

The Hero's of Juno Beach

Thank you for your Sacrifices of 60 years ago. And not to forget The Dieppe Raid.

Linksys WRT54G with SNMP and VPN

Vowe upgrades to the Wrt54G