Felipe Contreras

On version 0.0.17 there’s a new option called “independent status message” turned on by default which overrides Pidgin’s status message, and creates an account action “Set personal message” that works exactly like “Set friendly name”.

It’s a little controversial, and Devid doesn’t like the name, so here’s a poll to see what you guys think should be the name of the option. If you have another suggestion, please say so.

I completely agree with Daniel Stone’s comment on git and changelogs.

This is what I call a ChangeLog; it’s cool. I see the brief comments, and I can see the actual diff. I see the tags (version), date, author… what else do you need?

/me hugs gitweb.

Screencast of me coding a CLI for my Ruby twitter wrapper.

Ok, this is mostly a showoff, Istanbul finally works and I just couldn’t help to create my first screencast

Final code here.

Update: It looks better here. In windows you’ll need these.

Lifehacker guys always keep it comming.

Now they recommend the Creative Commons Search which now has a tabbed CC search interface.

Another one from Lifehacker.

The Foreign Service Institute developed the FSI Language Courses site which is dedicated to make language courses freely available in an electronic format.

These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

They are provided in MP3 audio and text PDFs.

The current curses are: Cantonese (Basic), Chinese (Standard), French (Basic), German (Basic), Greek (Basic), Portuguese, Spanish (Basic and Programmatic), Swedish (Basic), Turkish (Basic), Vietnamese (Basic)

For more goodness about langagues in Lifehacker.

Another great tip from Lifehacker.

Public Domain Torrents is a great site to download movies for free. You can even watch them right there via Google Video.

Here is the top ten.

Wired has this interesting article that basically recommends some free movies as the best.

It’s good to have a reference like this.

Amazing.

Lazyrussian Productions provides an interesting video about a new 3D modeling too called T.E.D.D.Y.

It looks very simple and fun, check it out.

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We already know closed software is insecure by nature. It’s good to have these kind of analysis.

Here a is a study on the US voting machines, and how the can be made fraudulent, all in an undetected way, and even spread a virus to other voting machines.

I think with OpenSource software it would have been a little more difficult.

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An 8-year-old kid making $25 an hour playing games?

That’s a smart lucky kid! I want his autograph too.

Link.

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