After months of work, we finally launched the Global Voices Online redesign. This is just the beginning of many many more awesome things to come. Many thanks to all who helped! and congrats to the whole GV community....
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fluokids
fluokids, kinda interesting DJ crew in france, seems to be made up of some funloving kids. However, what I find the most interesting, is their awesome logo: Made by Arthur Röing, a swedish teenager. He says: Submission for graphic design...
Indymedia is a spam host
I've been receiving tons of spam blog comments across the networks I maintain all pointing to spam comments hosted on various Indymedia websites. I have tried to contact them directly but I recently heard that their technical resources are ......
What's that movie?!
Help me out here... Mid 80's, I think the main actor was a WWF wrestler (first guess was Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, but IMDB doesn't list any movies for him). Something about aliens already here, controlling society on earth via...
"I should blog that"
I think it was sometime in 2002... I hadn't even started this weblog yet, in fact that stuff to me was still just personal websites. (that's all it still is to me, really) On a lark one Sunday afternoon I...
Otaku?
Amazon taps into otaku culture. Or what's left of it anyways. from Metropolis (no permanent URI--"permalink". get a clue people!) Now that otaku are the new trendsetters, you’ll be sure to find what’s hot in Japanese subculture wherever they congregate....
White Day
Dah White Day is a festival that was created by a concentrated marketing effort in Japan. White Day is celebrated in Japan and Korea on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day, women give gifts to men;...
Jonathan Livingston Frilled Shark
This story about the rare deep water shark found south of Tokyo brings to mind so many things. - I'm going to soar higher and further than anyone ever has! - We *must* try to communicate with the outside world!...
That'll teach me...
... to hide in the back in group photos. :p Quinn's article about the Global Voices meeting in Delhi. But for the most part, attendees passed around a mike and trotted one suggestion after another in front of the...
Pics are up
Over on flickr, the context remixer for photos.. As a set. On a map. (or rather, the actual set/map cross-context mix view ;) In a calendar....
Twits
twit (twÄt) tr.v., twit·ted, twit·ting, twits. To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See synonyms at ridicule. n. The act or an instance of twitting. A reproach, gibe, or taunt.Slang. A foolishly annoying person. twitter twit'ter...
Updated string 2 color
I needed to update my string to hexcolor function to also check the luminosity before returning a color cause I was often getting colors too bright to be legible when applied to text on a white background. It now takes...
Coincidence
Just came across this: What are the odds that two commenters leave the exact same comment (barring the capitalization of one word) at the same moment on the same photoblog post? "Selena" and "Mojo â„¢" both said "LOL home!!!" at...
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...
Moves.
Ho. Ly. Hell. This is just cool: My question is: why is Karl surfing breakdance videos on YouTube on a Monday morning? ;)...
Aaron on his situation at Conflux
(catching up) Excellent article by Aaron about his visit to the Conflux thingy in NYC 2 weeks ago. If you're into internets OR arts OR locations stuffs... it's something good to chew on. (A couple of "Mike"s I know 'specially)...
GVO has won the 2006 Knight-Batten award for innovations in journalism
Big congrats to the team. This is a pretty big deal. The Knight-Batten awards were created by combining the existing "Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism" and a new endeavor by the Knight Foundation, of James Knight Batten, founder...
Un Rendez-Vous, en contexte localisé géographiquement
Claude Lelouche's "c'était un rendez-vous", traced on a google map while the film plays. I love it. (found on Scott Gillies' USC IMD weblog)...
Couldn't help but noticing
Jan Chipchase draws a parallel between checking out of a Tokyo hospital and checking out of the U.S. Amazing coincidence, the two photos share many many similarities as well: - shades of green near center of image - large...
Glaciers
While eating my dinner (yes at my desk), I decided to spark up my old RSS aggregator and read some feeds I hadn't checked up on in a while. It seems some months ago Maciej escaped the binds of Manhattan...
Vhat ze heck ist zis?
I'm not sure what to make of this series of new Volkswagen GTI commercials: "de-pimping your auto." Part of me is laughing pretty hard, but another is cringing, especially at the racial/cultural stereotyping: ugly rigid "weirdo eccentric" german guy pulling...
Touché
Damn... I'm on the verge of popping a reblog feed of Andrew's blog in my sidebar...The Karl Rove situation is a litmus test for just how far the Bush administration is willing to go to cling to power and lie...
You don't need $ to make a hot video as long as you have the right moves
A few reasons why this is one hell of a music video:Decent tune. It's in the current not-totally-mainstreamed-to-death-yet bracket. Barely.DIY. Cheap home camera, on a tripod or picnic table. Looks like iMovie for post prod, what post prod there was...Real....
Del.icio.us hash
A month ago, joshua mentioned an easy breezy little addition one can do to one's site to allow users to easily del.icio.us bookmark entries on one's weblog. In some cases though, you might like an easy way to see how...
Shall wonders never cease?
Two words, people: transparent duct tape. Ok, ok, that's three words......
Bang on
MJ on the "Lifecycle of Bloggers". While I don't for one second believe there is any such thing as "one type of blog/blogger", this sums up very nicely what many many go through. I'm at step 12 myself. Again. Not...
Atmospheric stabilization in folksonomic tag clouds
Visual display of how choice of tags on a URL stabilizes over time on Del.icio.us. I blame "suggested tags" ;)...
Free Murakami short story
The New Yorker published a new short story by HARUKI MURAKAMI, and graciously posted it, in print friendly format, on their weblog...er... I mean website... (Whaaat... they appear in "reverse chronological order" and have permalinks... ;) (Oh and please do...
Disturbing meme
"I find your lack of" disturbing -faith I Find Your Lack of Star Wars Tattoos... Disturbing I find your lack of wires disturbing I Find Your Lack Of Banjo Disturbing I Find Your Lack Of Cream... Disturbing I Find Your...
VW Mashup
This is sick, sick as in incredibly-insanely-cool-oh-man-I-want-it-so-bad. Volkswagen Jetta // R32 - Daily progress reports This project as you can see from these first pics is going to be a complete ground up build, I'm starting with a 100% straight...
"Meet the world" flags
We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the...
I'm flying!
Whenever I imagine I can fly, I immediately think "Ok, so, where do i go? How do I get there?" I imagine myself bopping up and down, "zooming in" and "zooming out" until I find where I wanna be. A...
Google Maps application contextualizes real estate
This is stunning. By combining Google Maps and craigslist housing listings you get a very quick visual contextualization of the economic distribution of population for a city; which the affluent neighborhoods, which are less so. Not that that is necessarily...
Funner
Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...
I'm not gullible
It's just that when you don't believe anything, everything becomes plausible/possible. ;) Water on Mars I hate Japan...
Sound familiar?
"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...
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...
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...
Google map this
Ok so we've all seen Google Maps in action right? Just for kicks (like I have time) I asked for directions from my place here in Montreal, to Aaron's in Vancouver. Nevermind that it seems to be totally oblivious to...
Area bagel
or "What do Amazon, A9 Search, Yellow Pages, 90210, and the Mile End of Montreal have in common?" Trying to see if I had a connection, I hit my A9 bookmark. It worked. Once there I noticed a prominent link...
Culturalists
In broad terms, hyperbole generator you love to hate)--> culture is where the social - groups of individuals interacting - meets media & technology.There are plenty of technologists with weblogs, the social sciences people jumped on board about 6 to 9 months ago (in force anyways, and from where I am sitting). Journalists got invited to a fight, and the marketing world has been flexing it's muscle lately as well.What a joy it is to find the culture wonks getting in on the game!
No... frikkin.. way...
WilliamShatner.com :: The Official Shatner Website - Bill's Space That's right. The Shat has a weblog folks. Comments and all......
Showtime: no limits?
If you try to access the Showtime US site from outside the U.S.A. it gives you this lockout message: We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States (Thanks...
Morbid...
FlickrBlog - The Underbunny There was an IM/email buzz around our offices when a Flickr member with the handle 'Underbunny' posted this image, the hands of a 102 year old woman at an open casket funeral Some, er, *nice* pictures...
Weblogging behind bars
Not sure if ClearlyCalm is real, but it sure is creepy.One minute an average, middle-management accountant working for a bank. The next, sent down for 9 years for embezzlement, fraud and another 5 charges. I'm in Wormwood Scrubs. I'm in...
Light through concrete
optics.org - News - Concrete casts new light in dull rooms (March 2004) The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world's most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott...
Watch your fingers
SawStop Videos In our video demonstrations, we are cutting a sheet of plywood or particle board and place a hot dog in the path of the blade to simulate a user's finger. The SawStop system detects contact between the hot...
Emergent Volvoism
The Mystery of Dalarö Thirty-two people in a small town in Sweden all went and bought the same car on the same day. A "documentary" about the "phenomenon". It'd be interesting if they also provided information about how much Volvo...
Appreciate the technique
I am not a big fan of dogs, or of stupid pet tricks, but this is really quite impressive. (WindowsMedia... of course... It's a dog's world.)...
Historic Online Protest
Grey Tuesday It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel. Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site...
Orkut versus
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)...
Classnotes Wiki
Mike's "Harkness Table" classnotes wiki is taking off! Way to go! It'll be fun to watch this develop... and spread......
Son of a gun
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...
Why... I don't wear... the bow-tie
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...
Anti Virus
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...
Brand memory
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...
Death by vodka
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....
At least Martha won't be alone...
Guardian Unlimited | Online | At home with the Führer The story in the Guardian is as strange as the article it's about....
Dyslexia for cure found
Read Regular, a typeface designed to ease reading for dyslexics. Persoanlly, I think most of us have some form of dyslexia or another, albeit most probably a cultural form, stemming from "too much too fast". In any event, the explanation...
Seeing double
Design Media: Are U drunk This not only scews with my eyes and brain, but it also hurts to look at. (Work safe - one of those vision/brain phenomenon thingies.. except using the face recognition part of the brain.. or...
The things people do...
Charleston.Net: News: World/Nation 'Marathon monk' finishes ancient ritual of 24,800-mile journey 09/20/03 Respect. But c'mon......
Velcome Vee
I'd like to welcome my old friend "Nika Vee" to weblogging. Check out her Typepad-hosted blog, AD HOC. She writes goo eh!? Fuuuunnay! :D...
Speechless...
BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo's football officials 'go deaf'" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3201913.stm"> BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo's football officials 'go deaf' Congo's football authorities have come up with a new idea to end mounting corruption at the turnstiles of...
It's just words...
Disgruntled Asian Tattoo Artist Inks His Revenge Reads like an Onion article which makes me think it's an archived copy maybe, but definitly a joke. Update: Joi tells me the tattoo on the girl's back reads "Yellow Cab"....
Sign
This petition. Amnesty International Australia: newsletter August September 2003 Update: Amina Lawal...
Stats - beautiful, scaleable - stats
history flowvisualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors Aside from being quite beautiful, I find these rather fascinating. Context derived from patterns are central to how I think. Perhaps how we think? Hmm. More food...
BBC Creative Archive
Taped at the BBCCan the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?By Paul BoutinFor those of us still debating whether to shell out the 40-odd bucks for Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection on DVD, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke may...
In the style of
Don Hong-OaiWorking with the style and themes of traditional Chinese painting and photography, Don Hong-Oai blends multiple negatives to create these timeless, poetic images of the landscape. Hong-Oai's calligraphy accentuates each image in the manner of Chinese painting....
Brand communities
brandchannel.com | Brand Management | Brand Communities "... brand communities exhibit three traditional markers of community: shared consciousness, rituals and traditions, and a sense of moral responsibility..." So where does that leave a company that longs for its own brand...
IKEA is swedish for...
brandchannel.com | IKEA Brand | Furniture Retailers Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in Sweden in 1943. He named his fledgling business by using his initials and tacking on the first letters in Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where...
Beauty
D'une beauté absolument émerveilante. Merci Mme.Keiko, pour un site splendide. Merci Karl, pour le lien. Allez! Allez voir le site!...
joi.ito.com
Well, cat's out of the bag. A bit early and a tad under the gun, but joi.ito.com 2.0beta1 is launched. Joi Ito honored me with a request to help him clean up his weblog's look and feel and get it...
Musical space invaders
This videogame, and it's player are almost as impressive as the japanese Tetris championship footage I have lying around somewhere. (nota bene: 15meg MPEG)...
Zoinks.
Wirefarm : Rain rain rain and Things I find in my bed Looks like I'll be getting more out of this trip to Japan than I bargained for... ;)...
Media protest power
From "The Prandial Post" weblog:So the media fought back by precisely not doing what they do best. As Ansar arrived in Parliament, everyone put down their cameras and notepads and just watched him, arms folded, not reporting on the events....
Mou-turd?
THE ONLY THING FRENCH ABOUT FRENCH'S MUSTARD IS THE NAME! Thank god! Let them keep their toxic shlock....
Shhhh
Been quiet lately. Spent the weekend in Toronto. Will write later. For now, consider this: explodingdog 2003....
Mouahahahaha
Roly-poly fish balls! please.. make.. it.. stop... must... stop... laughing... (see them all)...
Like I said...
kuro5hin.org || New Zealand's Mixed Member Proportional electoral system Mooooving right along......
F*%k this, I'm moving to New Zealand...
Fifteen Times Scarier than Saddam and Top 11 signs you are either George W. Bush or Kim Jong Il. (Thank you Lia)...
WarBlogging in Iraq
Kevin Sites Blog CNN reporter in Iraq sets up blog. Can you say "career move"? Let's see if he's any good. Wish he'd picked Movable Type tho......
Do you want some freedom fires with that sir?
CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast - Mar. 12, 2003 Are americans "idiot semants"? Has western culture really become so engrossed with "the word" that it supercedes not only sanity (the clear apprehension of...
Dumplings!
Boiled Pork Dumplings to be precise Oh I love these. I could live on only these. Interesting to note: in Northern China they are called "Jiaozi", whereas in Japan they are known as "Gyoza"....
Thick water film in space
Saturday Morning Science: Elastic Water on the ISS I wish I could play with this!...
"Computer, play me some Bob, please!"
macosxhints - A script to use voice recognition with iTunes Oh joy! If only this was possible with the iPod....
Speaking of Nobel...
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Ignoble peace prize Given the fact that previous nominees include Adolf Hitler and Henry Kissinger, can anyone take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously, asks Paul HamilosWhich word connects Bono, the European Union, Jacques Chirac...
Massey Lectures
CBC Radio | Ideas | Massey Lectures Chronology of the Massey Lecture Series, started in 1961. Features such names as Northrop Frye, Martin Luther King, George Steiner, Carlos Fuentes, Noam Chomsky, John Ralston Saul and Robert Fulford....
Stigmergy
By Joe Gregono at "BitWorking.org": The World-Wide Web is the first stimeric communication medium for humans./.../In order for an environment to support stigmeric communciation the messages must be readable by everyone./.../In order for an environment to support sitgmery everyone has...
Emergent Democracy (repost)
Round one, first pitch lobbed by Joichi Ito (repost) Ok I just read the whole thing. I strongly urge all of you, no matter what your interests are, to read this. It not only discusses the possible effects of "weblogging"...
Peace ralley photos
From around the world. Of all of them, the Antarctica one I find is particularily touching....
Oh Zoë!
v.0.4 This gets better with every release! Now incorporates an RSS aggregator, supports the Blogger and MetWeblog APIs, AND SpamAssassin!!! Where are you taking us Mr. Szwarc?! :D...
When you start seeking patterns...
Artistic Sign Language Yes, sometimes, just sometimes, patterns arise that DO have meaning. Consider another "cultural" pattern: How many recent Hollywood films have you seen in the past 2 years that had the phrase "the war has begun" pronounced (solemnly)...
Comment to mikel
After watching the news shows Hello Michael! 100% agreed. Here's what I am wondering as well: Since most of the political world agrees that Saddam must go (for whatever reasons), then why dear God do they need to bomb the...
Signs of dissent...
Some excellent protest slogans spotted in front of the UN last Saturday (Feb 15th). To whit: "Somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot." "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease!" Rage on!...
Braaaaiiiins
Brainwave Receivers, Multimodal Information management.In Switzerland, scientists at the Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence (IDIAP) have developed a new technology which can roughly tell what a person is thinking about....
Vannevar
The record of the race [dive into mark] Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex...
Eery views
"Look Paintings" Been following Steven Mann's doings for a while. Awesome stuff. Are you ready to be a cyborg? You most likely already are....
one man, one year, one world
V A G A B O N D I N G >Vagabonding.com Something to add to my list of things I must do....
Telepathy: the ultimate social disease.
It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google results are? (Google Weblog) Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another - and raising questions about whether we should. Among many other VERY interesting parts...
Sad but funny.
The Axis of Weasels - France, Belgium, and Germany This poor sod is a shining example of how it can be sad that "survival of the fittest" doesn't seem to apply to humans all that much anymore. However there is...
Apple's Keynote XML File Format (APXL Schema)
About the Keynote XML File Format (APXL Schema) This Technical Note contains the schema describing the XML file format used by Keynote documents (refered to here and in later documents simply as "APXL" -- Apple Presentation XmL). It is intended...
Patiently awaiting summer
Advent of fall Photo Gallery by Christopher DeWolf It is a strange feeling to go though someone's photogallery and see one's neighborhood....
Did you know?
Lorem Ipsum - All the facts & Lipsum generator"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply...
Dell Dude In Pot Bust
Dude, you're getting locked up. Isn't this sort of like busting Capone on tax evasion charges? This kid should be locked up for life for perpetuating the miserly of millions of people by inciting them to buy Wintel computers!...
PowerPoint of view
Colin Powell used PowerPoint in his presentation at the United Nations security council on Wednesday. Was it the ubiquitous business tool's finest, or most ignominious hour, asks Ben Rooney...
Oh dammit all to...
"the sound of bells... halted by sunlight" tomato preview (Quicktime 6 required) These guys blow me away. Dammit. To hell with web... I wanna do video. Argh. Tomato is one of the UK's top design firms. They rock. They rule....
Patron saint of the Intermanet
CNN.com - Bishops seek saint for Internet - Feb. 1, 2003 Hehehe, I especially like how Mark Federman nominates McLuhan......
Tell it like it is, yeah!
Embrace file-sharing, or die "A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong."...
Oh wow!!!
Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator This is a dream come true! I can't wait until this is super clean and perfected... but as it is, it is already a load of fun!...
What ails America?
perfectly feasible possibilityDissociation is a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. During the period of time when a person is dissociating, certain information is not associated with...
Wakey wakey!
The Globe and Mail: Privacy under 'unprecedented assault' Somehow I get the feeling that Washington is pressuring Ottawa. At least we HAVE a "Privacy Commissioner" who can table such reports!...
DNA-ROM
Data stored in multiplying bacteria11:02†08†January†03 The scientists took the words of the song It's a Small World and translated it into a code based on the four "letters" of DNA. They then created artificial DNA strands recording different parts of...
Free books
University of California Press eScholarship Editions 350 volumes made publicly available. Some interesting stuff in there....
I guess it's time...
Learning to program One more thing to add to my to-do list. Yes, sniffles, I am faux-geek. ;)...
Touchscreen...
Troll Touch Touchscreens If this allows to write on the screen and have Inkwell do handwriting recognition, I am in love......
Oh Sony!
The Civil War Inside Sony This is a brilliant article covering not only the turmoil of Sony, in it's unique position, but also of the entire IT and Entertainment industries....
The Cheeky Girls
'The worst act ever'? Their mother scribbled the simple but catchy lyrics to "Touch My Bum" in half an hour: "I never ever ask where do you go. I never ever ask what do you do. I never ever ask...
Forgive them Father,
for they know not what they do... The Guilt-Free Soldier GM: "On s'améliore pas..." RB: Je veux pleurer....
"I am weak... and materialistic."
State of the Union... Not Good Video cut-up of Dubya's State of the Union....
Any takers?
Long Bets Related to The Long Now Foundation It seems to me that many Californians have too much time and too much money. It also seems to me that so should I... ;)...
matrix
Sony's New Day Wild, beautiful... frightening as all hell. Of special interest/concern, everything after "IN THE SONY ZONE". Why the mixed feelings? Because it sounds absolutely wonderful.. until you realise that it is not meant to further humanity as much...
Société des alcools du Québec
Musique to my liver The great thing about living in a place where booze is regulated and sold by a governmental body is that I can go to their website and know that the outlet down the street from me...
What is this world coming to?
Feline dance classes... Somebody please tell these ladies those are STUFFED cats... sigh......
Nevermind monkeys and typewriters...
Drunken monkeys hold a clue! Biochemical studies from the St. Kitts colony also indicate that the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin in steady and binge drinkers have altered functions, which may be exaggerated by chronic alcohol abuse. "We tend to think...
Bowie
Ashes To Ashes They got a message from the Action Man I'm happy, hope you're happy too I've loved all I've needed love Sordid details following The shrieking of nothing is killing me Just pictures of Jap girls in...
Did someone say "Library of Babel"?
William Gibson Will comment later. Later is now: Broges' "Library of Babel" is "The Universe". ("The Library, which some call the Universe,...") Think of it this way: every particle in the universe is one of 25 characters and is recorded...
Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahah
Jesus 'healed using cannabis' This "discovery" is not surprising in the least. Sadly though it will be derrided by well meaning brain-washees. Aw well. "Yo Jee, don't bogart that joint!" Hehehe.. sorry couldn't resist... ;) (p.s.: I don't smoke pot...
54 slides into it...
and BAM... just what I wanted to hear... make sure to read through 'em all though....
Interfaces and data management
Karl, Francis; pour vous: Haystack Prototype The project started with an attempt to address the information overload problem seen too often on a computer user's local machine. With the amount of e-mail and documents increasing everyday, the personal information corpus...
Get my mind out of the gutter.
Google Search: gay japanese DTP job If my blog is a sort of extension of my mind, which it is, and it keeps coming up in really weird search results... what does that tell you?...
Babylon
They really know how to put a creepy spin on things these americans, no? I actually I saw something somewhere else about htis.. apparently it's a modified Palm device and works horribly. Wola... poking around this site a bit more......
"Total Information Awareness"
Oh my god this is scary. TIA is a great concept, here put to horrifying use....
"The right ones in the right order"
December 18, 2002 [dive into mark] Excerpt from a Stoppard play. Love it, live it....
iSpeak It
"Reads" text into soundfiles which you can then load onto your iPod, etc... Works incredibly fast. Just have to figure out if I can change the "voice" (should be prefs for this, but there aren't in the app itself). Nice...
You won't find these videos at Blockbuster | csmonitor.com
"Video is taking over as the medium of choice for artists, reinventing the language of art." I always thought that if it weren't web, I'd be in video. It's just time-codes I can't handle so well... sequenciality is foreign to...
Chaos, cheating and cooperation: potential solutions to the Prisoner's Dilemma
The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) is widely regarded as a standard model for the evolution of cooperation....
LaunchBar
I tried LaunchBar for Mac OS X a couple of months ago and didn't "get it"... Now I "get it"... Oh wow. Type a few letter and it shows you just about everything on your hard drive that has those...
Stop Nonoxynol-9!
Stop Nonoxynol-9! I do pro bono webmaster work for the "Canadian Women's HIV Study". Every month they send me their "E-bulletin" to publish. This month's contains an article I think is important to spread around. Endorsed by 61 organisations and...
"Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge"
Bruce Sterling's 1992 speech to the Library Information Technology AssociationLadies and gentlemen, there's a problem with showing Mr Franklin the door. The problem is that Mr Franklin was right in 1731 and Mr Franklin is still right! Information is not...
Way to go!
The Biobus Project - Press Release I don't use public transport so forgive me for noticing this 9 months late. This rocks. I am very happy to see this. It is a step in a good direction, at very least."The...
NORMOS: Internet Engineering Standards Repository
At first I thought "this is a great idea"! I still think it's a great idea I just think they sadly did a poor job of it... (I won't get into keeping UI design out of engineer's hands.. sigh... the...
The Poetry of Programming
The Poetry of Programming Looks fascinating. Will read later. Thank you Anders....
For absolutely no reason
Every now and then, I get this overwhelming feeling... for no reason really.. I am not particularily happy or joyful or anything.. just hyper... Perhaps these thousand words express what I want to do right now much better than I...
"It's the little guy who suffers"
Anti-Spam Legislation Opposed By Powerful Penis-Enlagement Lobby Some of you may have already read this but it's too damn funny. It appears that The Onion dropped it from it's database, oddly enough......
XFML for information architects
dive into mark/December 03, 2002 This has the data structuralist in me drooling! It's like having that pile of Lego in front of me again!...
Over a quarter mill, eh?
727-200 Airplane home or bar for sale on ebay Only slightly larger than a Winnebago... and with that you can always up and outta there when the neighbors get ugly....
PowerShot S45
Merry Christmas to mee! Merry Christmas to mee! Mery Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to meee!...
There is a big enough consumer market to offer such a device to retail?!?
Arctic Twister Ice Cream Mixer Horrific....
Oh Sony...
Beautiful! I am a mac person myself, but I LOVE the stuff they do. It is SO hard to resist buying into Sony. Damn this thing is purdy!...
Erm.. excuse me for a second...
Mobile High Speed solutions for Mac OS I think I may just have made a mess of meself... ;)...
Number one in germany for rez trans vibrator pics!
Google-Suche: rez trans vibrator pic Ißt das das "Google-effect"? Oder eine "Google -bombe"?...
Full body scanner
This is way cool... A full-sized scanner on which you lie down... for about $20 you get a 4' X 6' printout... (link by way of Justin)...
Copyright shmopyright
Apple and the Pirate Everyman Read it, and posted the following comment: 1- I have at this moment a 20Gig library of MP3s, 99% of which come from the 'net or friend's CDs. My computer is plugged directly into my...
And awaaaay we gooo!
Segway Human Transporter on sale now at Amazon... Must ... resist... urge......
Strings attached
lordofthemarionette.com Ok this kid has attitude, but scroll down and click on "See the lord in Action".. It's a 20Meg Quicktime .mov that is well worth the download... dancing marionettes! Wikkidly done....
Radio
Oh wow. I played with Userland Radio yesterday. Userland Frontier as well. Very powerful stuff, and very complex, but it essentially represents half of my Perfect Memory concept. I'd go into details but I'm not here to document these softwares......
Now we're talking
O'Reilly Network: Speakable Web Services [Nov. 08, 2002] Mr.Udell has the right idea, which is nothing new of course. What I want is dictation though... way more than mere voice control....
trans-duction
Google's translation service does a half decent job. Ok ok, half half decent... Half half half decent. I especially like what it does with my haikus......
Google Search: Rebel Flag Vibrator
I'm number one! I'm number one! I am still waiting for someone to explain this to me......
Zed "haiku"
Hehe So that CBC show/website/multimedia hipster circus/zoo put out a call to submit haikus. Here are my entries. solid state circuit board feeds quickly on names, numbers. electronic you. electromagnetic attraction binds....
Google, a strange beast are you...
As a "web specialist" I have often been burdened by clients' requestes to get their websites high rankings on search engines, etc... Futsing with meta tags, massaging content to be spider-friendly, submitting and submitting and submitting.. always to medium if...
Oh... my... god...
game girl advance: Sex in Games: Rez Vibrator I am ... speechless.. dumbfounded... no words can I find......
Shopping with conviction
Farha Foundation - ::Au Coeur de la Mode:: - Montrealplus.ca Great clothes, great prices, for a great cause....
Blog Spam...
Oh-oh here we go So Wired does an article about Blog Spamming. The article links to the above URL... a bit of poking around reveals that one of the culprits is located in Montreal. François Lane, who blogs himself of...
Freedom of press
Reporters sans frontiËres - International This is good. Interesting stats. I'd LOVE ot see the actual reports that generated these "grades" though......
Doonesbury Blogger
Hehe. This seems to be getting alot attention. Which makes sense considering the nature of blogging and news syndication. A media content provider (Doonesbury/Garry Trudeau) makes a social commentary (today's strip) about a popular and rapidly growing medium (blogging). The...
What da?
Somebody care to explain this to me: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Halloween%20Flashers%20In%20Quebec #2 !?!?! hahahahaha...
Halloween Flashers
THIS is utterly ridiculous. But SO funny. And so Quebec. I wonder what these folks do for X-mas decorations......
Life is tough sometimes...
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Father's surprise: call-girl daughter Holy mackerel. Poor guy... poor girl... poor wife... all around crazyness....
Labels X
Labels X Nice. A much missed fetaure from Mac OS of old... Finder labels... you know, color-coded files and folders?...
It's All About The Mobile Internet
TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet great site. well... interesting to me anyways.. what with my web/wireless situation....
Eric the LEGO man.
Eric Harshbarger's LEGO pages Not only must this be the single coolest "job" ever, but I am ever so so so tempted to try my luck... Is the world big enough though? ;) Eric, you rock. Plain and simple....
zoe
zoe This is waaay cool: ZoÎ The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox) what Google did for the web... The Google principle: It doesn't matter where information is because I can get to it...
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