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I'm somewhat frustrated in my search for a mobile phone that will satisfy me. I've narrowed it dow to the Nokia 6600, Sony Ercisson P900 and Handspring Treo 600. Whichever one I end up getting (if!), I will have to...

New York Post Online Edition: entertainment Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig. His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health....

Clay Johnson over at DFA just sent me these Alexa "traffic comparisons": Orkut vs. LinkedInOrkut vs. TribeOrkut vs. Friendster Truly amazing. In the space of 3-4 days, Orkut went from off the radar (ranked greater than 100,000 most visited site)...

I picked up a very large but seemingly very interesting book this afternoon at one of these liquidation bookstores. Five hundred plus pages about democracy; it's history and what "the trouble is" with it. I sat down and started reading...

iTunes Music Store RSS Generator So I grab the URL for the top 10 selling tracks. Guess what's number one currently (must have iTunes installed)?...

So, well, wow... the next big thing in "social networks" sites? These guys basically rolled up Friendster, LinkedIn, Upcoming and probably a few more, into one. So far so good. Still totally centralised and closed, but a step ahead no...

Dean Goes Nuts Amazing. "Media Remix". Thousands of people - the above being a small sample - have taken to sampling Dean's Iowa Caucus Concession Speech and making remixes. The power of public domain source materials and easy to use...

smack the pingu!!! but damn it's fun....

Canuck: U.S. on the lookout for 'potential problem' By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, officials say. "The U.S. lookout index contains...

For some strange reason, some people, who really should know better, are more concerned with some vague notion of "electabilty" rather than the cold hard economic facts of the trap known as "federal matching funds". Now I think I have...

Mike's "Harkness Table" classnotes wiki is taking off! Way to go! It'll be fun to watch this develop... and spread......

Reuters | Oddly Enough You'll Never Guess Who's Still Alive Tue January 20, 2004 08:55 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - British war leader Winston Churchill's foul-mouthed 104-year old parrot refused to surrender to newshounds Monday after a British newspaper...

Data Glass2とは? the Data Glass 2 from Shimadzu makes it seem as if you're you're looking at a 13-inch monitor floating in front of you. Stevey says: get 2 !!! one for each eye really fuck your head have a...

For no good reason, I visited the canadian apple online store today. I like to go in there sometime, poke around and drool. Go figure... Anyways, so I click through to the iPod section and - what da heck, eh?!...

Why tech firms are out of tune While the above article is tucked away in the BBC's technology section, it speaks directly of something very political: democracy in the digital age. Ugh, can't believe I just said that, but it's...

Submunition: heavy mojo Japanese businessmen hold a service aimed at fending off viruses and glitches for their computers in a purification ceremony conducted by a Shinto priest...

" href="http://www.planetaryexploration.net/patriot/abbey.html">Edward Abbey: One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am -- a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and...

Yeah. I'll be in and out of town, two to three days at a time, for at least the next two weeks. Balancing this with my other obligations will be tricky but doable. The drive to Burlington is not...

I had started to compose a really good entry in my head sometime today... or was it yesterday? Well actually, this happens about four or five times a day, everyday, SO, anyways, yeah... I forgot to actually type it up...

Very cool bit of code: // hicksdesign :: Live Comment Previews. Does what it says. Check it out. I think I may try this out if/when I get a minute again... like maybe some time next year... ;) Thank you...

Brandmarker An attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos (nine international, three typically European) from memory. Things to note in this: In most cases, if not all, some respondents...

I'm off roadtripping till maybe Sunday. Burlington tonight and tomorrow and perhaps swing back up to Stevey's cottage Saturday and hit Jay Peak on Sunday for some snowboarding. I need this bad. I am so looking forward to the conversations,...