"Attention Deficit Trait" caused by the technologies of constant interruption: Clive Thompson via Techdirt has a fascinating post on Attention Deficit Trait, a related sydrome to Attention Deficit Disorder, according to Dr. Edward Hallowell. "It has basically the symptoms as...
March 2005 Archives
Winzwhaas?
Jim: Do you know what the best RSS reader for Windows is? Me : ... Me : i haven't even SEEN Windows in... gees... YEARS... Jim: me either Me : hehehehe Jim: never used XP Me : what's that?...
Black tambourine
Two years ago Apple released a little snippet of code on its developer site called "Ascii Movie Player Sample". Basically you run it in the Terminal, feed it a Quicktime .mov and it plays it in ascii. Neat. I heard...
Employee of the month
Click opera - Employee of the month: "People are strange when you're a stranger," sang Jim Morrison. They're even stranger when you're scrolling around a 1051x1557 pixel employee photograph on a corporate website. Brilliantly, Momus deconstructs what otherwise would just...
Design today
If you cannot communicate at first (or at most second) glance how I am to use this and what value I may get from doing so, then ... Ooooo look cows!...
Let's expand on folksonomies
First of all, purely for background and some interesting ideas, the Wikipedia definition of "taxonomy". Taxonomy (from Greek ταξινομία (taxinomia) from the words taxis = order and nomos = law) may refer to either a hierarchical classification of things, or...
Fight
Artist: The Tragically Hip Album: Road Apples We wake up different, rifle through our dreams Another placid day, ripples at the seams Do you think I bow out cause I think you're right? Or cause I don't wanna fight? So...
On comments
I wasn't going to say anything but just to make it clear: I have switched the default setting on this weblog for "Allow comments" to "None". When I post something that I'd like feedback on, I'll turn comments on for...
Folk taxonomies
Fun with Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies Very cool, and could be very useful when everyone cools down from "OMG tags!" syndrome. Tags are great, and "folksonomies" are neat but I think, and surely others do too, we will not truly see...
Politically correct in Quebec
(or "baladi-balado") Ok some background. I live in Quebec, a predominantly francophone ("french speaking") province ("state") of Canada. The francophones here are ridiculously anxious about protecting "their culture" (while they love nothing more than buying american products and seeing their...
Firefox behavioral mystery solved
So, I had mentioned a while back that I was seemingly unable to get Firefox to run on my system. I had tried everything and basically given up. Then, "miraculously", one day, it worked. Now, I haven't switched from Saf...
Sumthin'Cast
Why not... Here's a 30 minute mix of some stuff in my playlists. Like Eating Glass - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom - Walnut Whales Destroy Rock 'N' Roll - Mylo - Destroy Rock...
Interesting concept...
Oh I really like this idea, alot, in terms of "something to do and a way of doing it". There must be a market for outsourced skunkworks developers. You have an idea, you want a working prototype, who do you...
Tagsurf
Just came across Tagsurf. Haven't wrapped my head around it yet but having registered and logged in (the registration process is made difficult by a barely legible capcha), it looks to be very powerful. I guess one way to describe...
Wallpaper advertising
I damn near just fell off my seat. I have never seen a website's background be used for advertising before... "Evil genius". I feel ill....
Now what?
So AOL has updated it's Terms Of Use for AIM: Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title...
The King of Yet-Also
Momus gives us this fantastic essay about Michael Jackson: Nota: This is not about your or my or anyone's morals. One of the reasons the Michael Jackson trial is so unfortunate is that the world of Either-Or will pass judgment...
Why "blogging" sucks
The National Debate: Why "Blogging" Sucks So-called "bloggers" are just "writers". I am a writer. You might think I am a bad writer, or even a terrible writer. My wife thinks I am a good writer but she may not...
Non-profit?
I need information about setting up a non-profit organization in Canada. What do I need to do, who do I need to talk to? Any and all info is much appreciated! :) (Too busy to STFW myself just now, asking...
The chinese are coming!
What will happen to Google Rank when 5 billion chinese go online and, god forbid, start blogging......
Just how blinding is greed?
It's incredible how every day, they seem to push the gap between the rich and the poor ever wider open... AlterNet: Open Fire On U.S. ConsumersSo what does the bill do? It makes it harder for average people to file...
No show
Some of you have asked, and just so everyone else knows: no, unfortunately I am not going to make it to Austin for SxSW this year. Just can't pull it off. No stimulating conversations, no good parties, no beef...
Forbes copy writer has odd sense of humor
From the Forbes 400 Richest in America 2004 writeup of Pierre Omidyar: Former computer programmer launched online auctioneer Ebay in 1995. Today the world's biggest dot-com ($62 billion market capitalization), which lets consumers bid on everything from arcane Americana to...
VoIP FUD advertising
Ed Bilodeau found this new ad campaign by Bell Canada: Bell has launched an ad campaign to make people believe that VoIP telephone services over cable are not reliable. "It's a food-chain ecosystem," says I, "introduce a new species and...
Music makers WANT to share
Creative Commons search index breakdown: It appears that people licensing audio have chosen to offer more liberal terms than average while those licensing still and moving images have chosen less liberal terms than average. And THAT, my friends, is VERY...
The Choice
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. When all that story's finished, what's the news? In...
Using AJAX and a small private key to thwart comment spam
Does this make sense? It assumes your weblog system allows you to define a small, say 5 character, private encryption key, or even generates one for you. You don't need to know it really cause only the system ever uses...
Mike Durcak Photographs
Quick plug for my good friend Mike Durcak's photography exhibit "vernissage" this evening at Blizz. Mike converted my apartment into a studio (and presumably a party central ;), while I was away last month, in preparation for this show. I...
Non-Disclosure Agreement
After not even hearing the words for well over 3 years, today I was faced with no less than two prospective NDA's to sign. I haven't yet. Reading over the one I did get sent to me, I am struck...
I think...
bopuc: I got a machine And I took over the world In one weekend I took over the world With my machine I did it because I was looking for a project And it was either Take over the world...
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