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December 2002 Archives
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and BAM... just what I wanted to hear... make sure to read through 'em all though....
The Night Before Christmas 2002
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, not a critic was stirring, for stirring was banned. A thousand brown prisoners, snug in their cells, all held without charges or tinsel or bells; and mamma was wrapped in...
Interfaces and data management
Karl, Francis; pour vous: Haystack Prototype The project started with an attempt to address the information overload problem seen too often on a computer user's local machine. With the amount of e-mail and documents increasing everyday, the personal information corpus...
Get my mind out of the gutter.
Google Search: gay japanese DTP job If my blog is a sort of extension of my mind, which it is, and it keeps coming up in really weird search results... what does that tell you?...
Artsy put-down.
Like all of Picasso's work, you are retarded and liked only by people who secretly hate themselves....
Technorati: Sidebar
Technorati: Sidebar When you find an interesting site or blog, simply cut-and-paste the URL into the Technorati sidebar, and get an up-to-date list of blogs that link to that URL. It's like getting instant reviews and commentary on what's going...
Babylon
They really know how to put a creepy spin on things these americans, no? I actually I saw something somewhere else about htis.. apparently it's a modified Palm device and works horribly. Wola... poking around this site a bit more......
"Total Information Awareness"
Oh my god this is scary. TIA is a great concept, here put to horrifying use....
"The right ones in the right order"
December 18, 2002 [dive into mark] Excerpt from a Stoppard play. Love it, live it....
iSpeak It
"Reads" text into soundfiles which you can then load onto your iPod, etc... Works incredibly fast. Just have to figure out if I can change the "voice" (should be prefs for this, but there aren't in the app itself). Nice...
Oh damn.. somebody stop me...
Somebody remind me how utterly financially irresponsible it would be of me to go and buy an iBook right now. or a T68i. Argh!!! Damn you hyperconsumerism!!!...
The power of voice
Phonetic searching. All we need is IO's to this and integrate it with OS's... and polish off voice recognition software and bingo: bye bye keyboard!...
High-pitched whine
I had a root canal done about 4 months ago. Now contrary to what I'd been told, it was a totally painless affair. Chalk it up to state-of-the-art dentistry I guess. Anyways, point is that ever since I've had discomfort...
In the epicenter
I truly don't know what got into me. Wait, that's not true; I do. It's not like I bought everybody drinks. Wait, that's not true either; I did. You know when everything just comes together? When everything you know and...
You won't find these videos at Blockbuster | csmonitor.com
"Video is taking over as the medium of choice for artists, reinventing the language of art." I always thought that if it weren't web, I'd be in video. It's just time-codes I can't handle so well... sequenciality is foreign to...
The art of war.
Mac Rumors: Apple considering Marklar? Sounds like a finely sharpened strategy. Time will tell....
Finding files by their contents
From The Mac OS X Help: The Finder can search the contents of files for specific text. To search for the content of items, choose Find from the File menu. Type the word or phrase you want to search for...
Chaos, cheating and cooperation: potential solutions to the Prisoner's Dilemma
The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) is widely regarded as a standard model for the evolution of cooperation....
LaunchBar
I tried LaunchBar for Mac OS X a couple of months ago and didn't "get it"... Now I "get it"... Oh wow. Type a few letter and it shows you just about everything on your hard drive that has those...
Stop Nonoxynol-9!
Stop Nonoxynol-9! I do pro bono webmaster work for the "Canadian Women's HIV Study". Every month they send me their "E-bulletin" to publish. This month's contains an article I think is important to spread around. Endorsed by 61 organisations and...
"Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge"
Bruce Sterling's 1992 speech to the Library Information Technology AssociationLadies and gentlemen, there's a problem with showing Mr Franklin the door. The problem is that Mr Franklin was right in 1731 and Mr Franklin is still right! Information is not...
More BlogMind tools!
Popdex : the website popularity index This is getting more and more interesting. PopDex is like BlogDex and DayPop, but they will "weigh" the links, like Google's "PageRank" algos. Essentially, the more a particular blog or blog entry is linked...
"Process Is More Important Than Results."
[...] to achieve results, you've got to do something.† If you do something, you'll make mistakes.† Mistakes are, by definition, a process violation. The context is public service (government mainly), but it's interesting to consider it outside of that....
Ok, here's the deal:
I am going to write... something... a book or an attempt of some such thing, entirely online. I've set up a Wiki system and anybody will be allowed to comment, annotate, spell-check (hehehe) the texts. I'm aiming mid-january to begin,...
Way to go!
The Biobus Project - Press Release I don't use public transport so forgive me for noticing this 9 months late. This rocks. I am very happy to see this. It is a step in a good direction, at very least."The...
NORMOS: Internet Engineering Standards Repository
At first I thought "this is a great idea"! I still think it's a great idea I just think they sadly did a poor job of it... (I won't get into keeping UI design out of engineer's hands.. sigh... the...
Inference
So Doc, calling it "[Cluetrain] [prehistory]" links us to a fun piece RageBoy blogged up, where he goes on about Zen Buddhism and pop song lyrics. (Didn't Bono also sing "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet; a thief"?) How...
The Poetry of Programming
The Poetry of Programming Looks fascinating. Will read later. Thank you Anders....
Cruelty
Just chatting with a friend at one of the major New York "Webdesign companies" (if you can call them that nowadays), which recently got bought by a mormon compnay (name changed to protect the innocent): Mustahfa says: The funny thing...
For absolutely no reason
Every now and then, I get this overwhelming feeling... for no reason really.. I am not particularily happy or joyful or anything.. just hyper... Perhaps these thousand words express what I want to do right now much better than I...
On crack and it's only wednesday...
pee! eye! zee zee eye! see ay tee oh 5! pee! eye! zee zee eye! see ay tee oh 5! pee! eye! zee zee eye! see ay tee oh 5! and while on the theme of japanese musical genius, check...
"It's the little guy who suffers"
Anti-Spam Legislation Opposed By Powerful Penis-Enlagement Lobby Some of you may have already read this but it's too damn funny. It appears that The Onion dropped it from it's database, oddly enough......
GUI design and dumplings
Here I am agonising over how to present the reeeeaaams of data the engineers want to display on the "wireless bridge stats" screen of our product's web-based GUI (which I am the Lord and Master of, thank you very much).....
Well put...
A comment to a blog posting about MBTI Thinking, but because I'm raised by a psychologist who emphasised the importance of being aware of other people's feelings I as a very rational thinking child added "emotions" as a datatype to...
XFML for information architects
dive into mark/December 03, 2002 This has the data structuralist in me drooling! It's like having that pile of Lego in front of me again!...
Over a quarter mill, eh?
727-200 Airplane home or bar for sale on ebay Only slightly larger than a Winnebago... and with that you can always up and outta there when the neighbors get ugly....
Just what I was waiting for
Ananova - Tattooing robot unveiled at hi-tech trade fair Brilliant! Unique, automated, moderne und Östereichisch! Z'is ja'r a Vahnzinn!...
PowerShot S45
Merry Christmas to mee! Merry Christmas to mee! Mery Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to meee!...
Favorites
I was asked this morning what my favorite {something} is. Thought about it for all of 10 seconds and realised that I don't have a favorite anything. 10 more seconds and I came up with these thoughts: - too much...
There is a big enough consumer market to offer such a device to retail?!?
Arctic Twister Ice Cream Mixer Horrific....
Oh Sony...
Beautiful! I am a mac person myself, but I LOVE the stuff they do. It is SO hard to resist buying into Sony. Damn this thing is purdy!...
Monday mooonday
Ok, I'm in a dastardly mood today. Has to do with going on a bender all weekend and basically wasting alot of time recovering from the hangovers. And then I have to read this. (By way of Doc who also...
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