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The Guts of a New Machine the publication of a pessimistic installment of The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column pointing out that Apple's famous online music store generates little profit. The more interesting point, noted in the...

Joi's Moblog: No Tattoos Allowed! They actually have signage for that. Amazing....

Kate over at Montreal City Weblog points to some film footage Thomas Edison took in Montreal in 1901. Watching it I thought to myself: "Could this genius, in his wildest dreams, for one second, conceive that here I would be,...

Finally. craigslist: montreal online community Note the RSS feeds for everything... Thanks Stevey....

US Attorney General John Ashcroft was visiting an elementary school. After 15 minutes speaking he says, "I will now answer any questions you have." Bobby stands up and says: "I have four questions: 1. How did Bush win the election...

www.smh.com.au - Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care....

For as long as I can remember, I've had my MUA (Mail User Agent... or email client) check my mail every two minutes. Yes, every two minutes. In hindsight, I realise that was insane. So every two minutes I'd go...

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards: A List Apart Seems Mr.Frommelt already did the really hard part. Now somebody just has to implement. Another worthy job would be to do the same for some of the more popular Wiki distributions. I've...

One of the things Mike keeps trying to hammer into my head is location-based community communication tools... yeah something like that... Or, something like this? locative media lab blog Link from Smartmobs...

What a seriously odd series of moments the last 72 hours have been. Not five minutes ago I thought to myself "I'd like to see some visual representations of U.S. campaign stats. Like, where's the candidates money coming from, where...

I created a new set of default MT templates which I will use whenever I set up new blogs for folks (which seems to be taking up much of my time these days...). Last night I decided to bite the...

Gore Vidal was on Charlie Rose last night. I had heard the name before but never clued in as to who he is. Turns out he is one of the preeminent American historians and social critics of our day. (Which...

Newfound friend Mike Lenczner has started up another project. (He already heads "Ile Sans Fil", a Montreal-based community Wi-Fi service, as well as running around tirelessly meeting with people to get all kinds of stuff going.) Mike told me about...

Wired News: Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster? Wallop is Microsoft's venture into the red-hot social-networking arena, using the common Microsoft tack of piecing together existing technologies and packaging them for the novice user. Those technologies include Friendster-style social-networking capabilities, super-simplistic blogging...

Joi posted something the other day which took two full days to get a mildly negative comment. It's not even all that negative really. The commenter very lightly and respectfully nudged Joi to censor himself. The post quotes a protestant...

Apple - Support - iPod Service If your iPod fails to hold a charge and it's more than a year old, you may need a new battery. Click Continue to order iPod battery service for $99 USD. This program is...

I find myself here. Thanks Aaron....

I don't understand. I must be missing something. All the advertising, all the hype, all the talk... How convenient and money saving, etc... For example, online, I cannot find a flight to Tokyo for under $4000CND. $4000CND!! Who in their...

I have been waiting too long......

The importance of web architecture, permalinks, etc. In the entry immediatly preceeding this one (RowBoat: The Destroyer of Worlds) I link to a very heavy and striking Flash based presentation of a "multimedia" piece by Ryuichi Sakamoto (and others). It...

Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Oppenheimer's Aria" from -LIFE- "We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it was extremely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a...

That is where I seem to be right now. I wake up no earlier than noon. I do odd jobs, chores, tasks throughout the day. I cook; soups, roasts.. stuff. Not until around 9pm EST do I feel the clarity...

This weblog is experiencing a mild idenity crisis. Please stay tuned. We are on top of the situation (and I am well)... Just, bare with us. ;) (Hint: the decision is made: A second blog will be spawned to contain...

Newstrove.com: News Search Engine A news search engine which offers custom RSS feeds for topic searches (so you can track topics of interest to you)....

Ensembl Downloads Ensembl presents up-to-date sequence data and the best possible annotation for metazoan genomes. Available now arehuman, mouse, rat, fugu, zebrafish, mosquito, Drosophila, C. elegans, and C. briggsae, Others will be added soon. I am nowhere near capable of...

Guardian Unlimited | Online | At home with the Führer The story in the Guardian is as strange as the article it's about....

Trojan Games Quite something... watch the video coverage......

CSS House (3D Border Demo 2) by Chris Hester You may not be able to see this (depends on browsers) but here is a red brick house drwan entirely with CSS. Link via Tantek...

Not much to report really. I just rebuilt Joi Ito's Web with the new templates I have been working on. I'll be doing the same to Joi's japanese blog soon... maybe even later tonight. At this point, not only does...

Why? Why do such a stupid thing? Mac OS X 10.3 a.k.a. Panther allows you to FTP via the Finder. It makes it look like your are "mounting" the remote file system. Here's how: Apple Key + K, ftp://yourhost.com, username...

Film Review:Tarantino Interview This interview was conducted in Los Angeles on August 28, 2003 during a press junket for KILL BILL: VOLUME ONE held exclusively for the Japanese media. In this one-on-one chat, Quentin Tarantino goes deep into the many...