Mick

Anyone know where I can get some 3D photos taken? Google isn't helping.

Suppose I have a bunch of a particular kind of file with scrambled names (ABCD.jpg CDBA.jpg BBCA.jpg, etc) all from www.website.com/foo/

Suppose then I would like to wget replacements for all of the files.
Who knows why? Maybe they're growing mold. Not the important part of the scenario.

Is it possible to make a bash script using grep to get the file names and insert them into a wget command? I am not very familiar with bash or grep, so assuming this scenario is possible how might one do it?

Thanks.
-bmach

( Mostly food with a side of zombie. )

howdy all,

so the nice people @ funfunfun fest let me in with my "professional" camera after all :-) i think what they were really trying to prevent is telephoto lenses, because my dinky little 17-55mm didn't seem threatening to them. i saw others near the stage with similarly-sized lenses, but everyone w/a telephoto had a 'media' wristband.

anyway i took some pics and some of them turned out really nice. check them out here. previews behind the cut.

check my flickr page later or add me as a contact if you want to see day 2 pics.

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3y9ZMyUGrKU/ebook-license-agreem.html

In today's Observer Business column, John Naughton discusses what a ripoff it is for ebook vendors to "sell" you books with abusive, multi-thousand word "license agreements," pretending that because you bought your book over the network, it wasn't a sale, and so you don't get to own it. These "licenses" aren't about upholding copyright (if they were, you could replace thousands of words of lawyerese with four simple words: "Don't violate copyright law"). They're about overriding copyright -- which has all kinds of guarantees for the rights of book-owners -- with a private law that gives every advantage to the publisher or retailer, converting you from a noble reader to a wormy, contemptible licensor who doesn't deserve to own books.

The Kindle EULA is a good example. Section 3, which deals with "Digital Content" (such as downloaded books), says that "Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content." In other words, you are forbidden to lend or sell the book you've just "bought". In real-world terms, you can't lend your copy of 1984 to a friend or donate it to the school jumble sale.

Under the subsection on "Use of Digital Content', the Kindle EULA says: "Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use."

Translation: you can't back up your electronic books on to any other device - which means that if your Kindle packs up, or if Amazon moves on to another technical standard, you're screwed: your entire digital library has effectively been vaporised. Then you look round your house and note the number of electronic devices that no longer work.

Kindle readers beware - big Amazon is watching you read 1984

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Qd75eKLsTNU/carrier-bags-made-fr.html

These newspaper carrier bags are made in India by an NGO that provides education and shelter to street kids. The bags themselves are very sweet and good for several uses before they're ready for the recycling box, and make good use of the striking designs from the newspapers they're folded from (I like the Bollywood poster ones, too!).

Newspaper Bags (Thanks, Alice!)

A Weekend at Southdown Abbey

Come visit Austin, Texas, December 4th-6th, 2009 as it is transformed
into Southdown Abbey on Persephone from the Firefly and Serenity
‘Verse.

Join us as we celebrate Shepherd Book’s journey before becoming a crew
member on Serenity. We’ll start with an Abbey Fashion Show, showcasing
Asian-inspired designs, while offering Sereniteas’ blended teas, as
well as homemade hors d’oeuvres. We’ll have a costume picnic on the
Abbey grounds and then a dance in the Fellowship Hall with music by
The Bedlam Bards and food made primarily from produce grown at the
Abbey! We’ll end this shiny shindig with Serenity on the Big Screen at
our local Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.

The best part – all proceeds from this event will go to support The Al
Wooten Jr. Heritage Center of which Ron Glass, our Shepherd Book, is a
Board Member.

Want to spend a weekend at Southdown Abbey? Tickets are $25, get them now. Space is extremely limited for this event, so don’t miss out!

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit
www.lonestarshindig.com

I like to have sex with dogs, check me out.

( Spinach is good. Valium is better. Most safe for work. )

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2009-11-08&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. )

http://feeds.reference.com/click.phdo?i=651a68f235b3ba9c4ec23db090257e78

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/11/08.html

billet: to quarter, or place in lodgings.

http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=651a68f235b3ba9c4ec23db090257e78&p=4

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0Sd3xE1jGO0/car-thief-steals-car.html

A stolen car in Vallejo, CA, was located at a courthouse. The thief had stolen the car to drive to his arraignment on an earlier car-theft charge.

Police said that Botchvaroff's own car had been impounded after a prior arrest (for something other than car theft that time), so he apparently stole another one to make sure he didn't miss his arraignment in Vallejo. He didn't, but now he's got another arraignment to worry about.

Car-Stealer Charged With Stealing Car to Get to Hearing on Car-Stealing Charges

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uKo1nx-VGgc/toronto-star-copyedi.html

A copyeditor at the Toronto Star greeted the news that union copyeditor jobs were being eliminated in favor of freelancers by heavily editing the publisher's memo announcing same, pointing out all the ways in which the publisher could benefit from editorial aid.

This is very funny stuff, but having looked at the markup, I have to say that I would ask for a different copyeditor in future. A lot of these edits ("avoid simplistic qualifiers" for "very") fall under the heading of "creative disagreement" not "helpful suggestion" or "correction." I've generally benefitted from copyeditors who know the difference, but on the rare occasion where I've had to deal with a couple hundred pages of redlines by a copyeditor who thought that he was my co-author, it's been quite a struggle.

Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

A man performs a Voodoo ritual during Day of the Dead celebrations at the national cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

( All SFW )

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp

Video clip purportedly shows a music-playing "farm machine" built at the University of Iowa.