links for 2007-09-22 September 22, 2007
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Slightly amusing music advertisements.
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Some beautiful billboards
links for 2007-09-15 September 15, 2007
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“It’s now possible for users worldwide to wake up to the latest episode of The Daily Show, without paying a penny, or being locked into a restrictive DRM scheme.” - Interesting CNET article, tutorial included.
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Some signs & beaches from a new URL and new NY home of Bryan ‘Metal’ Winters.
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They’ve gone offline.
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If only there was a “CLICK HERE” kite this thing could chase around!
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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh - TEDTalks
SuprGlu September 14, 2007 2 comments
There seems to be a hot topic afloat regarding a leaked Google video showing their plans to offer “activity streams“. Basically, RSS that shows what your friends are doing, ala Facebook news feeds (which I must say, I haven’t used for myself). It sounds very similar to shared Google items, a Google Reader feature I absolutely love, but I assume it will be more of a central location for all shared Google activity.
This brings to mind SuprGlu - a site I started using awhile back, where you create an account & paste in the RSS feeds of whatever you’d like. I gave it the RSS feeds of my sites (including comments), my Flickr account, Delicious, Last.fm & google reader shared items - resulting in a single site of (most of) my online activity:
http://soupenvy.suprglu.com/
links for 2007-09-09 September 9, 2007
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Where there are people, there are marketers.
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I haven’t tried this out, but any help at all when it comes to pulling estimates out of your ass is useful.
Blockbuster September 8, 2007
Usually, if I physically rent a movie from my local blockbuster I need to remember to remove it from my Blockbuster.com rental queue. To my suprise, when I went to do just that I was welcomed with this little screen that says “Hey, you just rented this, maybe you’d like to remove it from your queue.” Why yes Blockbuster, I would - and please do this for me in the future!
By the way, as you might expect, I think I love My Wife isn’t very good, even if you are a Chris Rock fan.
Google Answers my Questions September 6, 2007
Danny Devito was on last nights Letterman. I always knew he was short, but my god is he short. So much so, that I needed an exact measurement.
As we all would do in this situation, I posed the question to google. To my amazement not only did I find what I was looking for, but my question was answered right in the first search result:
“Danny Devito — Height 5′, according to http://imdb.com/”
Naturally, there’s a ton of useful things google does; but it’s so very rewarding when it does the unexpected, right at the perfect moment.
Google Reader Gets Search September 5, 2007 1 comment
It makes sense to have search functionality in Google Reader, which they added today, seeing as how it’s a Goolge product. That’s not the point of this post though, the point is to mention that after the addition of search, Google Reader no longer works in Opera.
With the recently released Opera 9.2.3 came improvements to some of the sites I use frequently, in particular the Google products - Reader, Gmail and Calendar (Google Docs hasn’t worked in Opera since as long as I’ve been using it). Those improvements alone have allowed me to begin using Opera more frequently, so much so that I’m a recent convert (the rendering speed & interface response is blazing compared to that clunker called Firefox).
The latest update to Google Reader may pose some problems however, as nothing other than the logo displays correctly:
Update: Although Google Reader doesn’t officially support Opera, they had it working again 24 hours later.
links for 2007-09-02 September 2, 2007
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Viacom hits content creator with copyright infringement for posting a video that Viacom made by infringing on his own copyright!
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If I watched football, I’d be quite interested in something like this.
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Wall Street Journal analyzes the hell out of lolcats.
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A Pulitzer Prize winning 5 part series on all the garbage in the seas.
Drafting for Days August 30, 2007 2 comments
A new addition to my sweaterbox.net workspace is this wooden drafting table and very adjustable lamp. Amazingly sturdy & smooth, respectively, for the years they have behind them.
links for 2007-08-30
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A chicane is a sequence of tight serpentine curves.
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In surgically replacing the iPod’s Pixo-influenced OS with a modern-day variant of its homebred software, the company will have effectively scaled the Mac OS across its entire product matrix.
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Rove’s Jaguar was covered with plastic wrap, two stuffed eagles mounted on the trunk, and signs that read “King Karl” and “I love Obama.”