If you, like me, sometimes need to mount a non-standard file system on a Mac, you’ve probably used MacFuse. If you’ve tried to do so in the past three years, you’ve probably been disappointed that MacFuse is no longer maintained. Well struggle no more! Make the switch to OSXFUSE, the MacFuse successor. OSXFUSE has a compatibility layer with MacFuse, so you can use your existing...

The Mini Cooper is a fun car to drive: it has a tight turning radius, decent acceleration, and responsive handling.  It is not, however, a fun car to operate.  Take the turn signals. If you were the driver behind me on the freeway, you might be forgiven for thinking that the primary function of these blinking lights was to alternate incessantly between left and right, indicating nothing so much...

Ed Felten has been named the Chief Technologist for the FTC. This is great news for the FTC and the U.S. Felten has done amazing work with electronic voting, DMCA exceptions, and blogs at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ Congratulations to Dr. Felten and the FTC.

I use a lot of sync service (SugarSync, Backblaze, Dropbox, MobileMe, Spanning Sync, and a few others). Of these, Dropbox requires the least mental maintenance. It’s closest neighbors in my pantheon of sync services are SugarSync and Mobile Me’s I Drive are the closest equivalents. All three allow you to keep files synchronized across multiple computers, as well as access them on the...

I just spent several hours on a Friday night decluttering my computer. And not fun decluttering like moving pictures around and deleting old downloads. No, this was fixing permissions, removing MacPorts, installing Homebrew, tidying my dotfiles. Hard core nerding. And I feel great. After the hundredth permissions issue in the middle of mundane tasks, it’s tempting to flatten a machine just...

Jekyll, the static site generator written in ruby, is awesome. I just converted a site from plain html to generated html in about 30 minutes (ok, small site), and look forward to a lot less hassle when making updates.

Katherine’s making a basketball bag for a friend, and it turns out we have no ball. Does anybody out there have one they’d be willing to share? In fact, does anyone want to shoot some hoops this weekend, period?

Apparently boing boing has undergone another redesign. A few quick thoughts: The header. The content boxes alternate red and black, which is nice for consistency, but look at the bottom right corner of each thumbnail. Four categories, two colors. Not terrible, but not intuitive. A post Individual posts are attractively presented. Note the emphasis on spreading content via twitter, facebook...

I am stupid. But that’s a good thing. Being stupid means being selective. I encounter more information every day than I could possibly remember or process if I tried to deal with it all serially, so I don’t try. Some things I think about as I encounter them, and the rest get filed for later consideration. I used to use del.icio.us for my filing, but bookmarking is heavy — it...