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August 31, 2005
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Posted by 03:10 PM
August 30, 2005
links for 2005-08-30
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riding the Lewis and Clark trail
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how to hone your adsense targeting by filtering out unrelated sidebar, header, and footer text.
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that is one gorgeous looking crib.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 29, 2005
links for 2005-08-29
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Microwave TV. Why didn't someone think of this ages ago?
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Fan-created guitar tabs done with Creative Commons music. Pretty cool unintended resuse.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 28, 2005
links for 2005-08-28
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Slick & simple.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 26, 2005
links for 2005-08-26
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Wow. All that is left out is an anarchy symbol on a duvet for $150.
Posted by 01:18 AM
August 25, 2005
links for 2005-08-25
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RISD's new stuff looks like classic case study pieces.
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Alan Ball explains how the final SFU montage wasn't all roses (I missed the subtleties)
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opensource, openoffice app that replicates Homesite
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The flying spagetti monster icon -- finally our exhaulted creator is immortalized in graphic form.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 24, 2005
woot
A few weeks ago, an editor at the NYT contacted me asking if I wanted to write gadget reviews for the thursday tech section. I was floored by the opportunity and jumped at the chance. After pitching a few ideas, I got one greenlighted and spent a couple days testing the product out. My first NYT piece is up, and I can't describe how crazy this is. I won't believe it actually happened until I get a paper copy of the NYT in my hands tomorrow.
Years ago, I never thought I was the type of person that could ever be mentioned in the Times, and even after a few of those, I never in a million years thought I would write for it. I'm looking forward to testing out more cool gadgets and writing them up for the Old Gray Lady.
Posted by 11:09 PM
Google IM
I have to say I really like the plain, functional simplicity of the Google IM client on Windows. It's easy to manage multiple windows, you can easily see where a conversation left off, and there aren't any ads anywhere.
One thing struck me as odd though -- this is a IM client by Google, and yet, I don't see any way of searching through old conversations. There's a way to search for other users, but I'm surprised that a search engine pioneer didn't ship an app with text search built-in.
(Yeah, I know Google Desktop probably indexes Google IM conversations, but still there should be a direct search from within the app)
Posted by 11:12 AM | Comments (4)
links for 2005-08-24
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"The top 361 Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians" awesome
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"Demographics: Students Ignore God On A Regular Basis" this reads like a college wishlist for me
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Gmail lets you now put your own from: address in, so there's no excuse not to switch to gmail from your current domain email provider.
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buy the dell 24" monitor at retail price, get a free 3Ghz pentium pc
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 23, 2005
I'm on Google Talk right now
So I guess the cat got out of the bag a little early. I tried it out with iChat (hit command-3 to bring up jabber and configure) and got right in with the details at that link.
I just realized something. I use Google for searching with my personal history turned on, and I view it through my personal portal, and I get all my personal mail through Gmail, and everything I've said online for the past ten years is available within Google's index, and now all my daily chitter-chatter could be on a Google server as well.
They don't do evil, but still, it's something to think about.
Technorati Tags: google, googletalk, im, privacy
Posted by 05:16 PM | Comments (5)
links for 2005-08-23
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Wow, my old friend Peter Maass, a journalist with a knack for getting into sticky situations, was on fresh air today.
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egads
Posted by 01:17 AM
Testing post
This is a test post, testing some stuff.
Testing some more stuff.
Posted by 12:42 AM
August 22, 2005
Hacking Movable Type
Hacking Movable Type is a book I contributed a couple chapters to that has just been released. If you've been using MT for a while and wonder how you could tweak it out just a bit more, or completely write your own MT plugins from scratch, this is the book for you. Chris over at Wiley was behind the idea from the start, figuring that every weblog book to date has been an introductory manual that often rehashes the basic blog tool documentation or merely introduces the topic of weblogs.
With Hacking Movable Type we set out to write up all the possibilities within the MT universe that no one has ever written about. The entire database scheme is explained in detail, the plugin API is exhaustively covered, but my favorite part is the last 1/3 of the book that features all sorts of ways to tweak MT and build things with MT that few have ever done before (stuff like using it as a calendar app, creating a multi-author blog similar to metafilter, etc).
The biggest chunk of my contribution was writing up how to use MTEmbedImage. I go step-by-step on how I produced my Ten Years of My Life visual archives, which could easily be reproduced with the code in the book coupled with basic MT calendar tags.
Brad, David, Ben, and Jay did an amazing job on the book, and it would never have seen the light of day without them.
Posted by 03:19 PM | Comments (1)
links for 2005-08-22
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This photo should totally be the new cover of our book "We Blog" if we ever do a second printing.
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Three big ones coming down on Monday
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 21, 2005
links for 2005-08-21
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O'Reilly whores out their ONlamp site, adding a linkfarm to make help make Google's search worse (in exchange for a few bucks). ORA should really know better than to do this.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 20, 2005
links for 2005-08-20
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50 sad chairs project
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"...will make Oregon the first state to require prescriptions for cold and allergy medications that can be converted into methamphetamine"
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 19, 2005
links for 2005-08-19
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all hail our lord, the spagetti monster
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heh. Good luck with that.
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on-wall/in-wall hybrid speakers coming out. Great sound similar to real speakers, but slim like in-wall units.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 18, 2005
flickr + cameraphone + wine label = archived wine reviews
Rafe posted a great idea for keeping track of wines you've bought, to note which ones you liked and didn't like.
Personally, I try more new wines when I'm out at a restaurant or a party and I think the idea is more useful when out and about. If I'm trying new wine while traveling, I could take a cameraphone shot of the label and give a quick mash of the keys to leave my rating or thoughts on it. If you tagged all your wine label shots with the same tag in flickr, you could see all reviews at a glance, and maybe it would help me remember that one wine I had at a wedding six months ago that I loved.
Posted by 09:41 AM | Comments (0)
links for 2005-08-18
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Amazon sales tracking for the Hacking MT book
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 17, 2005
links for 2005-08-17
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omg, cutest silly baby hat ever
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Holy cow, this is something we talked about building back when the blogger api was brand new. I believe Anil wrote a working prototype in spring of 2001. Hopefully journalists and serious writers take it up for blogging.
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New Citizens video for "you drive and we'll listen to music" featuring stunts! car crashes! rock!
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ajax books?! already?
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awesome
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 16, 2005
links for 2005-08-16
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tons of awesome underground tunnel photos
Posted by 01:20 AM
August 15, 2005
links for 2005-08-15
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wikipedia, while great, does have its faults
Posted by 01:20 AM
August 13, 2005
links for 2005-08-13
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I have a feeling factcheck.org is like snopes.com. The impartialness is slipping away as the humans behind the site let their opinions trickle in.
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"Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who'd nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science."
Posted by 01:20 AM
August 12, 2005
I don't get pro photographers
I'm a big fan of Ben Saunders, mostly because I get to vicariously live through him (and I do plan on donating to his next big adventure), but in this entry he says:
I've taken the photos down again for now - I'm slightly concerned about people nicking expedition photos that I've nearly lost digits trying to take...
It goes on, and I know Ben's not a pro photo guy so I don't mean to pick on him specifically, but I've seen the same message from a lot of other people that used flickr and happen to make their living taking photos. "I don't like people nicking my photos" and "Is there any way to prevent others from making blog posts about my photos, using my photos?" are the things you often hear from them in the flickr forums.
Photos are jpeg files on the internet. Everyone that looks at a photo online makes a copy of the file at flickr.com just to view it in their browser. Sometimes people like photos and save them and maybe even make them their desktop background. Sometimes those same people add you as a contact and become fans of your photography. These are all good things for people that like looking at photos and photographers.
Posted by 10:36 PM | Comments (7)
links for 2005-08-12
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That's one hell of a nice looking bag for laptops
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freakonomics t-shirts: possibly the nerdiest thing you could wear
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"This is the true story of how Go Daddy and Domains by Proxy revealed my confidential information to the world." Glad I'm no longer a customer of godaddy or domainsbyproxy
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"Lead Singer of Creed Gets Punk'd"
Posted by 01:18 AM
August 11, 2005
links for 2005-08-11
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vonage sponsoring a phone modding contest. awesome.
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MSN launched "sportsfilter" even though there's been a blog (I helped set up) 3+ years ago by the same name and domain. Jerks.
Posted by 01:18 AM
August 10, 2005
links for 2005-08-10
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The best zoo in the world has weblogs now. The comments are kind of amusing, all gushing over panda cuteness
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tagzania does memory maps
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looks great
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new songs!
Posted by 01:22 AM
August 09, 2005
She's flying
(She's flying, originally uploaded by mathowie)
So cute.
Posted by 07:47 PM
links for 2005-08-09
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80s wrestling stars try on a scene from Entourage
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 07, 2005
links for 2005-08-07
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how to shoot b&w with a digital camera
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"Four Bachelorette Parties and a Friend in the Hospital"
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 06, 2005
links for 2005-08-06
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modern home tour
Posted by 01:18 AM
August 05, 2005
links for 2005-08-05
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humorous shirt designs
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the sonyr bouncy ball video! (as seen on flickr)
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bill's life mirrored my own. I looked a lot like he did in these photos from 1988-1990.
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 04, 2005
Modern living
I can't begin to describe how happy I am to see that the next This Old House project is a rennovation of a modern house. I'm a longtime fan of the show, and even though lately it's become a show with too many field trips and high-dollar makeovers and not enough actual tips and how-tos, I'm a sucker for their amazing work.
The problem is, they usually stick to traditional east coast style homes and my dream home has long been a sleek boxy modern one. This fall it looks like they'll take a crack at that, and this looks like it's going to be great:
Posted by 03:12 PM | Comments (6)
links for 2005-08-04
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Kill flash pop-ups dead in Firefox (like from the Drudge Report)
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activate! Form of...macintosh specialist. Form of... pail of water!
Posted by 01:17 AM
August 02, 2005
links for 2005-08-02
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paper maze
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Incredible, useful way to look at flickr images.
Posted by 01:17 AM