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Mike linked to the announcement of the new ISF logo. Here's what they unveiled: Here's my suggested fix: Basically, I lined things up, centered the text-mark, instilled some harmony by adjusting the kerning a bit better, got rid of the...

Not Finder, Binder. Simple app, basic UI on top of a database and a few APIs. Allow me to manage all my tags, local and remote. Remote tags could be stored locally for apps like ecto, 1001, Cocoalicious; local tags...

from "The Milk-Eyed Mender" by Joanna Newsom JoannaNewsom-PeachPlumPear.mp3 We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore you seem markedly more and I'm oozing surprise But it's late in the day and you're well on your way what was golden...

What you are looking at is a dream come true. It is not released yet but version 1.2 of Scott's "MailTags", whose Mail tagging feature set alone was worth a donation now ties Apple Mail to iCal as well....

(to no one in particular, and if nothing else, a reminder to myself) Are you really so rich, not necessarily in possessions, but in knowledge, wisdom and experience, that you truly believe that you can afford to be so cynical,...

(Everlasting peace year after year) 恭喜发财 Kung hei fat choy to my chinese friends celebrating the new year; may it not be a dog. :) Sadly ironic, my sister's puppy somehow managed to asphyxiate itself with a plastic bag yesterday...

ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiative) - Local Governments for Sustainability We provide technical consulting, training, and information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local government in the implementation of sustainable development at the local level. Our...

Long story but yesterday over lunch with my new good friends John and Colin, I committed to building this side-by-side comparison of Google China and Google in Chinese for the OpenNet Initiative. The reason for doing this is explained thusly:...

Sweeeet! Original by Yuki...

Well, no election for me... Canada's upcoming federal election is this coming monday. By the time the polls open I'll be sitting on the tarmac on my way to Cambridge for 3 days. "But you could have voted in advance!"...

It's not that I am going senile or any such thing... it's just that... "my memory space is being flattened, in places, especially recently, by prolonged use of asynchronous text-based tele communication" In other words, I am beginning to suspect...

Justin's made his backchannel experiments an official project at the USC IMD, where he is studying. Having experienced several types of backchannel setups myself, though never of the intensely focused and tweaked 14 screens of the ZML, I can say...

I imagine it may possibly be a placebo effect but... I started popping some pills about a week ago and holymoly do I feel better as of yesterday! More energy, able to concentrate, and the winter blaaahs don't seem so...

Dictionary definitions of these two terms, just to make something clear: FREEDOM noun the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint : we do have some freedom of choice | he...

"Have the courage to change what you cannot accept, the strength to accept what you cannot change, and the wisdom to know one from the other." I've long admired this proverb but it never quite sat well with me. I...

On a whim I poked around Flickr's obey, obeygiant and andrethegiant tag aggregators. Why I would do such a thing might be explained here. This evening it started with finding a Space Invader in the Flickr japan tag aggregator and...

"The year after the Last Century" Nobody expected not to wake up; so nobody didn't. No one thought it was strange and, even if one had thought of it, no one thought anything of it. The fact was, that nothing...

(CCA Bookstore, summer 2005) Aberrant presupposition & Aberrant decoding, Umberto Eco Eco reworks the standard communication model by expanding the message as a text subject on the side of the addresser to presuppositional influences (private biases, orienting circumstances, ambiguities relating...