Greg Palmer

• Performance Center Driving School - BMW North America
  SO doing on of these.
• Facebook admits privacy flaw - Times Online
  Um, this is an enormous flaw, not just a little blip.
  (tags: privacy)
• Taxonomy Theme | drupal.org
  This looks promising. I’d like a way to easily re-theme portions of Drupal sites without having to recode template.php
  (tags: drupal webdev)

I had no idea this existed. There’s a machine that changes the lane configuration of the Roosevelt Bridge based on the time of day and traffic flow. It literally moves the concrete barriers an entire lane width. Cool!

Washington Post’s Answer Man has a video of this behemoth at work. (via Carl)

(Oddly, the “Share” button is disabled, so I can’t snag the code to put the video here. What’s up with that Post?)

I was thinking the same thing, Jeff. With no one predicting any shortages in advance, why did people wait outside the stores?

In any case, I don’t plan on owning one. I may give the keyboard a spin to see how it feels, but anyone who’s seen me walking down the streets/hallways around the Capitol knows I’m a BlackBerry maniac. I don’t think I can give up the physical keyboard just yet.

• When “entirely new” means “old” and “exciting changes” are not… (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  “I’m often interested in things which are entirely new or the result of exciting changes. But that interest was quickly washed away as I realized that it was mostly a fluff piece aimed and dressing up a long missing feature from Google Docs: folders.”
  (tags: technology google)
• The Murdoch Factor - New York Times
  “Only 23 percent of those who got their information mainly from PBS or NPR believed any of these untrue things, but the number was 80 percent among those relying primarily on Fox News.” Incredible!
  (tags: politics media journalism)

Bravo! If Scarborough and the other dude didn’t ridicule her for what was a great act of defiance against the idiocy of cable news, I might actually watch MSNBC.

• Hopsicles - Featured on BuzzFeed
  Three blocks away!
  (tags: food dining)
• Interview with Helen Thomas - Glenn Greenwald - Salon
  Yes, I do link to Glenn Greenwald every day.
  (tags: politics media journalism)
• SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP.
  Check this out
  (tags: programming)
• Contempt of Congress
  Interesting blog post about Contempt of Congress. A bit better than my own writing on the topic…
  (tags: congress politics)

A few months ago, I bemoaned CNN’s usage of it’s proprietary Pipeline player. I couldn’t share interesting news videos on my blog, and in general Windows Media format is a bit of a hassle to view on a Mac.

Well, they’ve changed their tune. The paid Pipeline service is going away, and they’re ditching Windows Media format as well! They’ll be switching to a Flash-based player, which I hope means they’ll allow sharing and posting to blogs, etc.

…once we built our new flash video experience in the Integrated Story presentation on CNN.com, we realized that that was a better experience than even the Pipeline player for videos. There are no load times, no pop-up players, no changing software environment to worry about, and you can get more context for the story in an integrated way. In short, we could create a better news experience within CNN.com than on any other site, and once that includes free live Pipeline content, our new site will be a game changer.

• New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left - New York Times
  woohoo!
  (tags: politics)
• The Big Picture | What Does the iPhone Teach Us About Technology?
  Lessons to be learned from the iPhone. All true.
  (tags: technology)
• Edwards takes on Coulter - Political Punch
  Good for Elizabeth!
  (tags: politics)
• Truthdig - Reports - Time Is Right for New Pentagon Papers
  I’m glad someone finally highlighted Gravel’s involvement with the Pentagon Papers.
  (tags: politics)
• Press Gazette Blogs - Fleet Street 2.0 » A byline on the front pages of the NY Times and the Washington Post - on the same day
  Good for her.
  (tags: journalism media)
• evhead: One of these things is not like the other
  I just think it’s cool that ONDCP is trying something like this.
  (tags: government webdev)
• Blogs and the establishment media - Glenn Greenwald - Salon
  I see Glenn’s point - both of his books have no mainstream media attention at all, and yet they become bestsellers. Hmmm why is the MSM afraid of the blogosphere?
  (tags: blogs)

• In Case of Missing Trousers, Aggrieved Party Loses Again - New York Times
  “A District of Columbia administrative law judge who filed a $54 million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaner over a pair of missing pants will not get a penny, a court here ruled Monday.” Seriously, WTF is with people?!
  (tags: washingtondc)
• A Tragic Legacy released today - Glenn Greenwald - Salon
  “I wrote the book for the same reason I blog: because I believe that arguments can be advanced, evidence marshalled and facts revealed which can serve as an antidote to our deeply dysfunctional political discourse…”
  (tags: politics)
• Yahoo! Music Blog » Yahoo! Music Goes Radio Silent
  Good for you, Ian.
  (tags: music)

Dear New Yorker,
Why doesn’t George Packer’s new blog have its own RSS feed?

Thanks,
Greg