This afternoon I set up a "logger bot" which monitors and logs the GlobalVoices IRC channel. About an hour ago, Karl showed me the log he tweaked for the Semantic Web Interest Group IRC channel and mentioned how he structured...
October 2006 Archives
Everything part II
continuation of previous post They say there is opportunity in chaos. The chaos they speak of exists generally outside, and on the fringes of, "The System". Humanity, for better or worse, seeks always to order, structure, the chaos and...
Everything
(rambling alert!!!) Everything is a node. And every node can be, at once, part of many contexts, and can also, just by being, create many contexts. Every node has many properties. And contexts can add and modify properties of nodes....
Cooler
Initial reports are in: the new "Core 2 Dual" MacBook Pros are significantly cooler (temperature wise, wiseguy), quieter and faster. Also interesting tidbit that makes sense to me: the lower RPM/higher density hard drives that ship in this batch...
Awww kick me in the lifestyle why dontcha
Crystal Method and LCD Soundsystem both produced 45 minute-ish tracks for Nike+; engineered specifically for jogging workouts, designed specifically for dumbasses like me. Ouan. Update Teh LCD Soundsystem track *sucks*. Oh and fuckyouverymuch, Apple "Fairplay". Update 2 Ok, ok,...
Well stated
Lucas Gonze puts into words what most iPod/iTunes users haven't quite become aware of yet: why you need more music from Wired -- The Day the Music Died: I thought at first I had misheard him. "... library of 90,000...
Create a culture of design
This is exactly what I hope to set up around me, for my eventual team, modulo all the emphasis on games/gaming: pasta and vinegar � Creating a culture of design research 1. Create a space that encourages design research: “the...
"No to Parc Avenue renaming" petition
If you haven't already, and you agree it's a ridiculous waste of money, not to mention cultural travesty, please do sign the petition at causes.ca....
Tumblelogs?
I'm sorry, I don't get it. Or rather, I'm sorta disappointed. As Kottke says in his quote in the Wikipedia definition of Tumblelog (jees never thought I'd quote Kottke!), this just seems to me like what Weblogs were originally anyways:...
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before? Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated....
Off we go
12DEC MONTREAL-TORONTO 12DEC TORONTO-NARITA 14DEC NARITA-DELHI 29DEC DELHI-NARITA 28MAR NARITA-TORONTO 28MAR TORONTO-MONTREAL To do: Shots Visas Figure out what the hell I am going to do in India for a week after the meetings and the Dalai Lama thing (suggestions...
So you wanna buy a computer eh?
From Revenue Canada: If you lease computers, cellular telephones, fax machines, and other equipment, you can deduct the percentage of the lease costs that reasonably relates to earning your fishing income. You can also deduct the percentage of air-time expenses...
Dream team
Can't really get into why, but I wish, I dream, one day, OMG would it be amazing... to be able to work on projects with Aaron Straup Cope, Michal Migurski and Maciej Ceglowski. There is nothing we couldn't do. (Though...
Moves.
Ho. Ly. Hell. This is just cool: My question is: why is Karl surfing breakdance videos on YouTube on a Monday morning? ;)...
Royducord
This afternoon, Boris zipped into downtown, to return a pair of heavenly soft flannel black wide-set chalkline pinstripe slacks because, frankly, he just can't get into slacks. Even though they were a size too small, the feeling of nakedness was...
Color work
.color { float: left; margin: 0 2px 0 0; font-weight:bold; } .colorblock { width:155px; margin: 1; padding: 0; } .one { height: 60px; } .two { height: 40px; } .three { height: 20px; } dd { font-size: 7pt; font-weight:nomral;...
"Getting to know each other" UI design ideas
Quick thought about complex applications, especially web-apps, which have many features and functionalities and which are, of course, always a challenge, not just for the user but for the designers who need to make them usable. First of all there...
$86.84
That's how much each YouTube user was worth to Google yesterday. $1,650,000,000 / 19,000,000 users = $86.84 Of course it is far far more complex than that. Youd on't plunk down that kind of coin just on a whim.. or...
Aligmatically challenged
I just cursed someone AND invented a word all at once! Aligmatically challenged: someone who is incapable of lining stuff up. Makes me crazy. It's gotta flow dammit! I don't care how "rough outline" or "general idea" it is! hehehehe...
Breaking out of the Document
An email from Julian sent me into a whirl. If I wanted to publish scrapbook-like, and I mean really willy-nilly ad-hoc layouts... is it doable in web-standards today? I can build a CMS that takes care of navigation, blog-style, across...
"Oh Lord, thank you..."
Not really following this Foley stuff but thankfully Glenn Greenwald is. What they are engaged in seems to be non sequitur after non sequitur, which they have been getting away with thanks to the artificially truncated memories of a media-breast-fed...
Ooohhh
Phoenix If I Ever Feel Better They say an end can be a start Feels like I've been buried yet I'm still alive It's like a bad day that never ends I feel the chaos around me A thing I...
When
life throws you off balance, dance. Someone, somewhere recently placed the notion in my mind that dance, amongst many things, is a voluntary throwing off balance, whose joy and pleasure is derived in playing with this state and the pursuit...
Sofas and the malaise they create
Had I known what kind of a monumentally feel bad day I would have just because I decided to get rid of this sofa today... I woulda carried it out to a beach somewhere myself and burnt it. In 1985,...
Dance with me
This makes me love humanity. (New album from Nouvelle Vague. Yay! Music video is a scene from Goodard movie "Bande à part") Merci Karl!...
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