First and foremost: WHY AREN’T YOU WRITING, JOHN!? With that off my chest, I’d like to state how truly amazing and humbling it is sometimes when you know next to nothing about something that requires your attention. When I made my Sunday decision to return home after hearing A’s report that the bathroom was looking […]
Another solid Gruber read: “Small, Cheap, and Without a Display” hammers the point(s) home re: iPod Shuffle and Mac mini. And a gracious admission of defeat on one point in particular. Gruber’s of the mind that the mini will be a moderate success but won’t succeed at it’s mission: While offering adequate performance for its […]
Take one (1) bottle of Ketel One vodka. Open and insert one (1) Madagascar vanilla bean. Turn bottle end-over-end several times (after re-capping, of course) and place in the freezer for at least 60 days. Invite friends and enjoy. The beans, by the way, are the real deal. Purchased in a village in Madagascar by […]
Top 10 – The Sampo Method – (38:49)Monday, January 17, 2005 10:05:21 AM 5-4 (Five Four) – Gorillaz Dig For Fire – Pixies Hangwire – Pixies Tiny Vessels – Death Cab for Cutie A Lack of Color – Death Cab for Cutie The Happening – Pixies Garden Grove – Sublime We Laugh Indoors – Death […]
That’s what the rumors say, anyway: Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 has been cancelled. “…due to various licensing, political, and fundamental engineering difficulties…” 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Based on where it appears in the sequence of Safari tabs, I’m assuming I clicked through to this from Boing Boing… Anyway: Hanzi Smatter (???) is a site whose time is definitely due. Take my favorite entry, for example. CONTEXT PEOPLE! This is why I’ve never gotten one of these tagged on my body. We […]
A Tron remake…? That would just… be… so… wrong… currently playing: Tosca “Oscar”
As our bathroom is ripped to shreds and slowly rebuilt, piece by piece, from the sub-floor up, I’ve decided to retire to Maine for the duration. I get off the “PTO” hook by promising to work remotely, be available online during my usual hours, and finish a series of “big” projects since I won’t be […]
IBM announces it is more/less opening up approximately 500 patents to open source developers working in areas “such as image processing, human language processing, user interfaces and data handling.” An interesting part of this, I thought: Over 30 patents were generated from within IBM Canada, many from IBM’s Toronto Software Lab. Brings to mind the […]
Neat feature on Wired re: ethics for the robot age. Though its less ethics and more “what if” speculation with some ethical questions thrown in. My favorite: 3. Should robots excrete byproducts? When cars were invented, no one imagined that hundreds of millions of them would spew carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. But they do, […]