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raccettura has dugg: New evidence of oceans on Mars!
- November 17th, 2008
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raccettura has dugg: The Bandwidth of Ejaculation
- November 16th, 2008
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raccettura has dugg: WTF?! Is It Just Me or Is That a Mac In A Vista Ad??
- November 15th, 2008
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raccettura has dugg: Toyota Claims Ownership of Fan Wallpapers
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
Baby Got Back
Many people have done covers of Baby got Back. Jonathan Coulton wins though for simply being the most amusing interpretation. Considering the competition, which includes Weird Al, that’s sayin…
- November 14th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Tana’s Baby
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) This is Tana, a Black & White Colobus monkey and her baby, which as we now know gets darker as it ages. Based on the coat it looks like…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Three Month Old Colobus Babies
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Here are the Colobus babies at 3 months old playing around. They are starting to look pretty dark at this point. Thanks Judy.
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Two Month Old Colobus Babies
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) The Colobus babies at two months of age. Compared to the previous videos you can see the fur color changing. Thanks Judy
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raccettura has dugg: Barack Obama Uses a Mac
- November 13th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Colobus Baby At 3 And 6 Weeks Old
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Here are two baby Black & White Colobus monkeys at 3 and 6 weeks old.
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Five Week Old Colobus
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Watch as the baby plays with his Mother’s fur. Thanks Judy.
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raccettura has dugg: 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
- November 12th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Military Monkey
The military monkey handler creed: This is my monkey. There are many like it but this one is mine. My monkey is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, m…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
spreadthunderbird.com
This is actually the second blog post of mine to have that title. The first was in 2004 when I said Thunderbird needs a similar effort. A little more than 4 years later, I’m really glad to see…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
Video Of New Yankee Stadium + Grass
Here’s a video of the New Yankee Stadium. This is the first I’ve seen of it actually having an infield, as opposed to a dirt pit with construction scraps all over. Looks like it’s…
- November 11th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Black And White Colobus Monkey
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Day two of baby week. Here’s what looks like the same baby B&W Colobus Monkey at the Central Park Zoo. Hat tip to Judy.
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
view-source: Now Supports Links
A very cool change landed in Firefox 3.1. View source will now create links where appropriate (a rather old bug I might add). I must have copy/pasted millions of URL’s over the years out of vi…
- November 10th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Baby Colobus monkey
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) A baby black and white colobus monkey seen at the central park zoo. Judy sent in several videos, so this week is essentially Baby Week @ Monk…
- November 9th, 2008
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raccettura has dugg: Tyson Injects Chicken Before Hatches, To Claim No Injections
- November 8th, 2008
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raccettura has dugg: Biggest Firefox logo ever!........and ever!!
- November 7th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
We May Look At That
The big story over the past 24 hours is Steve Ballmer’s statements regarding WebKit: “Open source is interesting,” he said. “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that,…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Quick Love
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) It wouldn’t be a complete week without a video of monkeys doing what they do best: having sex. Here are some speed daemons from Bali
- November 6th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Monkey Riding A Bike
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) It’s a monkey riding a bike. Strange trick from Japan.
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
WiFi WPA Encryption Partially Hacked
WPA Encryption, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) has been partially hacked. To do this, Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
“Single?” Lawn Signs Revealed
Some obsessed blogger figured out who is behind all those “Single?” signs you see when driving around. It ends up it’s a massive coordinated effort by a multi-million dollar company…
- November 5th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Burping Monkeys
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) This video is title burping monkeys… how could I not post it?
- November 4th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Young Orangutan At LA Zoo
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Here’s a 7 minute video of a what looks like a young orangutan at the LA Zoo. He or she seems extremely friendly.
- November 3rd, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Black And White Colobus
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Judy sent in another Black and White Colobus monkey video with them playing with a pumpkin at the Central Park Zoo
- November 1st, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
Microsoft Office 2008 Updater Hang
Had I known about this bug earlier I would have saved about 90 minutes of my afternoon setting up a new MacBook Pro for my mom. Apparently since the last security update, the installer script for SP…
- October 31st, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
No Opera For iPhone
I’m not to thrilled to read this: Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t let the company relea…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Pumpkin Enrichment
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Judy sent in a video of Japanese Macaques (snow monkeys) enjoying some “pumpkin enrichment” at Central Park.
- October 30th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Halloween Costume
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Is there any better Halloween costume? I think not.
- October 29th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Little Kid Feeds Monkey
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Look how tiny the monkey is in relation to the little kid.
- October 28th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Consul Peter Smoking
This 1909 pic of Consul Peter (an early showbiz chimp) smoking comes from Shorpy. Click on the picture for a higher resolution version as well as a little more detailed history behind it.
- October 27th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
Political Statement Via Add-on
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a Firefox Add-on used as a way to make a political statement. An Add-on called China Channel will replicate in Firefox what it’s like to be behind th…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Gorillas Seize Gorilla Sanctuary
Gorillas (as in militants not gigantic primates) have taken over the famed Virunga National Park. (which has been mentioned on this blog before). This is not good for the 200+ remaining wild Gorillas…
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raccettura has dugg: New Google Analytics (Public Beta)
- October 26th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
PHP Namespacing
The PHP folks have finally announced that PHP will get namespacing in the form of ‘\‘. The universal escape character. They really should have went with the standard ‘::‘ or…
- October 25th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
Google Fighter Jet
The movie Terminator is becoming more of a premonition as time goes on as I’ve suggested before. Google has taken another step closer to becoming Skynet. The company controlled by top Googlers…
- October 24th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Search For Monkey
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Here’s the latest in primate technology: a video of someone searching for “monkey”.
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
- October 23rd, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Gorilla Match
Zookeepers in India are desperately trying to find a mate for the only Gorilla in the country. Polo 6ft 35yo male seeking F for good times. Seriously, this gorilla’s got some blue balls. As…
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- October 22nd, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
Rackspace Acquisitions
Despite the bad economy, Rackspace is acquiring startup JungleDisk and SliceHost. This is a very interesting step on their behalf. Buying JungleDisk makes sense since Rackspace wants to get into the…
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Red Colobus Monkey
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Here’s a great video of a Red Colobus monkey. Suprisingly close up for amateur video.
- October 21st, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
Chimp On A Segway
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) Here’s a chimp riding a Segway in what appears to be Japan. I don’t know why this is, but it is. Enjoy.
- October 20th, 2008
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raccettura has posted a new entry on: Monkeyology
When Monkeys Attack 2
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) more from yesterdays attack video. This is why you should keep your distance when dealing with a wild animal. Monkeys can be very territori…
