del.icio.us links for 2006-04-27

• Sploid: Brave new world for U.S. spooks: If the current House version of the 2007 intelligence authorization bill passes, CIA & NSA goons can arrest anybody, anywhere; spies who leak will pay, journalists too (cia evil news nsa politics sploid terrorism us)
• Sploid: Russian Goatsucker: As if life in Russia wasn't already bad enough, villagers are now reporting a hideous blood-sucking predator is feasting on their livestock. The creature appears to be similar to the one known in the Americas as El Chupacabra. (animal chupacabra news russia sploid weird)
• Sploid: The horrifying truth about hyena lovin': Among mammals the spotted hyena is one of the few species where the female is more muscular and aggressive. It's a good thing, too, because there may be nothing harder than giving birth to another hyena. (animal biology hyena science sex sploid weird)
• Wired 14.04: The Culture War: Past and present corruptors of the youth (according to various shitheads throughout the ages): Novels, the indecent Waltz, moving pictures, the home-wrecking telephone, comic books, Rock and/or Roll, video games. What, no Internet? (boingboing censorship comic culture gaming history media music news politics rock tv violence writing)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-26

• eG Forums -> Knife Maintenance and Sharpening: Everything you could possibly want to know about sharpening knives. (boingboing food howto knife reference)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-25

• Tempest in a D-cup as bust sizes grow | Reuters.com: Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup-sizes in China because improved nutrition is busting all previous chest measurement records. (boobs china funny news weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-24

• BBC NEWS | Europe | Wildlife defies Chernobyl radiation: As humans were evacuated from the area 20 years ago, animals moved in. Existing populations multiplied and species not seen for decades, such as the lynx and eagle owl, began to return. (animal bear biology disaster environment health news nuke science ukraine wolf)
• Congress readies new digital copyright bill | CNET News.com: For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. (bush congress copyright declan dmca drm law politics riaa us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-23

• Ferrari 275 GTB driven by Formula 1 driver through Paris at 140MPH (video) - Automotoportal.com: On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. (car cool ferrari france history paris video)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-22

• FindLaw's Writ - Dean: If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President: Currently, President Bush is busy reshuffling his staff to reinvigorate his presidency. But if Dr. Barber's work holds true for this president -- as it has for others - the hiring and firing of subordinates will not touch the core problems that have plagu (bush congress disaster evil iran iraq politics terrorism us)

Synchronize Google Calendar to iPod with wget

It's ridiculously simple to download your Google Calendar to your iPod, at least if you have wget.

#!/bin/bash
dest='/media/ipod/Calendars'
name='my-google-calendar'
url='http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/.../.../basic'
[ -d "${dest}" ] && wget -q -r -P "${dest}" -O "${name}" "${dest}" "${url}"

Set dest to the location of your iPod's Calendars directory (when it is mounted as a USB disk) and url to the location of your Google Calendar iCal calendar. To get this URL, click the Manage calendars link, then Share this calendar, Calendar details, and then the ICAL link (either public or private, depending on your settings).

Then run the script periodically, like with cron. If the iPod is not mounted, it'll bail out and not try to syncronize.

If you don't have wgtet, you can substitute curl or lynx or some other command-line web tool.

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-19

• Sploid: Rape of Babylon: For three long years, U.S. troops have wrecked what little remained of the ancient city of Babylon. (evil history iraq news religion sploid us war)
• Area Islamic Militant All Talk: (audio humor mp3 news religion terrorism theonion)
• Beaver Overthinking Dam | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Local beaver Dennis Messner is spending an inordinate amount of time and effort in the planning and construction phases of building his dam, according to neighbors close to the project. (architecture beaver canada design humor news theonion)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-13

• Sploid: Death from above: A monstrous dog-eating owl has escaped its Scottish captors and is now terrorizing suburbs of Edinburgh, the Scotsman reports today. (monster news owl scotland sploid uk weirds)
• Condoleezza + Watermelon = Trouble - April 13, 2006: Outrage over conjuctural abuse of a watermelon in a physics/algebra problem on an exam. But seriously, lots of people eat watermelon, including people with big gaps between their front teeth. So maybe a seed gets stuck there sometimes, so what? (college food news racism us washington watermelon weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-12

• Sploid: ATF goons take down campus ninja: The University of Georgia was lucky Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents were on hand Tuesday. Who knows what sort of havoc the runaway ninja might have cause if the ninja hadn't been apprehended by the overzealous goons. (atf athenga georgia news ninja pirate security uga us weird)
• MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Several members of the MIT chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains missing and two others are in critical condition with extensive circuitry and servo-motor injur (humor law mit news robot theonion us)
• Texas Oil Buffoon Pumping 8,000 Barrels Of Oil Into Ground Every Day | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Known far and wide as "the biggest oil buffoon in Texas," T. Ludlow Banks, in his most unorthodox move to date, has imported custom-built Italian machinery to pump more than 8,000 barrels of high-grade oil right back into the ground each day. (humor news oil texas theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-09

• THE IRAN PLANS: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? Report on the uncoming nuclear war with Iran. (bush energy evil history iran iraq news nuke oil politics religion security us war)
• Sploid: Rabbit thug on the loose: A savage bunny with feet the size of deer hooves is rampaging through the gardens of Northumberland, and now locals are taking action. They've hired two armed guards to look after their public vegetable patch. Instructions: shoot to kill. (news rabbit sploid uk weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-08

• Sploid: DHS goons cuff guy for directing school bus: "If this is Homeland Security, I think we ought to be a little afraid." (dhs evil florida liberty news security sploid terrorism us)

Revenge of the Atomic Vomit

About a week ago (maybe longer) the del.icio.us API broke for getting a list of dates with number of posts by date, which broke AtomicVomit completely. Since it was so ugly to begin with (I wrote it in one hacking session), I essentially rewrote the entire thing. Not only does it have functions now, it has classes, and even a generator. The latest version is 0.1.0.

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-07

• LASIK@Home: Affordable In-Home LASIK Surgery You Can Do Yourself! 1) Find a quiet place with no distractions. 2) Unpack your LASIK@Home Kit. 3) Perform the painless procedure*. Don't blink! 4) Enjoy a life of clear-sightedness! (* statement not evaulated by the FDA) (funny health howto humor science)
• KittenAuth Test: KittenAuth is a new system for human-checking that forgoes all the useless random string crap that people cannot read, and replaces the whole lot with pictures of cute animals. "OMG PONIES!!! YOU CLICKED 3 KITTENS!!!!!!" (cool funny javascript security spam usability web)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-06

• Attorney General won't rule out domestic warrantless taps [Politech]: Rep. Schiff (D-CA): No one in Congress would deny the need to tap certain calls under court order -- but if the Administration believes it can tap purely domestic phone calls between Americans without court approval, there is no limit to executive power. (bush declan evil fisa law news nsa politics surveillance terrorism us)
• 357 Maharishis Missing, Feared Dead In Astral Plane Crash: (audio humor mp3 news religion theonion weird)
• Duke University Equestrian Team Hoping To Avoid Investigation Into Their Sex Scandal | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Ranking Duke polo and equestrian team members are downplaying rumors that they repeatedly engaged in acts of exotic sexual misconduct during the infamously out-of-control parties held at the team's off-campus barn. (duke horse humor law news northcarolina sports theonion us)
• Duke Rape Case E-mail Shocker - April 5, 2006: Shortly after an exotic dancer claimed she was raped at a Duke University lacrosse team party, a member of the squad sent an e-mail announcing that the following night he planned "to have some strippers over" and would be "killing the bitches" as soon as (crime duke email evil northcarolina sports us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-05

• Post- und Eisenbahn- Reisekarte: Deutschland, Holland, Belgien, die Schweiz, Italien, Frankreich, Ungarn, Polen etc.. 1852: Post roads and railroads map of Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy to Naples, the largest part of France, Hungary, Poland etc. with a special attention drawn to railways and sea routes. Printed in Nuremberg in 1852. (boingboing culture design europe germany history maps reference)
• Girls Gone Wild Released Back Into Civilization | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Rescue volunteers identified the Girls Gone Wild by their torn tank tops, threadbare Daisy Duke-style cutoff shorts, hair extension plumage, and bright orange skin with patterned lower-back markings. (culture humor news theonion)
• Tom DeLay To Pursue Corruption In Private Sector | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is facing several ethics violations and felony charges, announced Tuesday that he will resign from Congress in order to concentrate on corruption in the private sector. (congress evil funny news politics theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-04

• "Loyal" donkeys better than wives, says textbook: A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their "masters". (culture donkey education evil india news weird)
• Sploid: Evil prosecutor hates blind people: A non-profit radio station that reads news to the blind was forced to close after Ohio's attorney general shut down the station's fund-raising bingo operation. (evil law liberty news ohio politics radio sploid us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-02

• Greasemonkey compiler: This site converts Greasemonkey user scripts into full-fledged Mozilla Firefox extensions. Fill out the form below, and it'll give you an XPI file, suitable for installation into Firefox. (cool extension firefox generator greasemonkey javascript python tool web)

del.icio.us links for 2006-04-01

• Judge Orders God To Break Up Into Smaller Deities: (audio law mp3 news religion theonion us weird)