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Apple Rumor: Multitouch Everywhere!

I’m pointing to SBJ’s post about multitouch Apple rumors because I really want this to be true.
Multitouch is amazing. When I got to see Jeff Han demo it at Etech last year, everyone was blown away, but it feels like it’s a couple years off, right? If Apple could release it in 2007, they’d get [...]

links for 2007-02-27

YouTube - Jonathan Coulton in Seattle
Dude records entire JoCo show from Saturday, puts it on youtube. I missed the Portland show, so I’m very happy to see the next night made it online.
(tags: joco youtube video music)

NPR : It’s Showtime for Ira Glass, ‘This American Life’
Glass vs. Gross, no-holds-barred, public radio throwdown.
(tags: nerds npr interviews [...]

What the hell, old school bloggers?

On some random blog, I found a link to this book “Founders at Work“, a book interviewing the founders of tech companies. The person mentioned Caterina talks about Flickr in it, among big famous 70s and 80s software geniuses so I ordered it thinking it’d be a history book about a bunch of classic Silicon [...]

Friends of CC score big at the Oscars

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Florian and Lara, originally uploaded by mathowie.
Lessig noted this last month, but there were two friends of Creative Commons at the Oscars tonight and I’m happy to see they both won (best documentary, best foreign [...]

links for 2007-02-24

The Merlin Show
Can’t. Wait.
(tags: merlinmann video ipod podcasts)

From the New Yorker: Blogger Without Borders on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
So true.
(tags: flickr comedy blogs)

QDN: The high school chains that bind
The fascinating results of a high school sex/sociology study.
(tags: sex networking visualization)

Diverse means a lot of things

In the course of two posts, Anil completely nails the problem of gender (and other) biases in the web industry. When I think back to the most interesting talks over the past 3-4 years, it was always from someone outside the norm, something that could bring a fresh perspective instead of the same tired “here’s [...]

links for 2007-02-22

Super Deluxe - Professor Brothers present History Lesson #1
The history of JFK. Wow.
(tags: comedy cartoons)

Super Deluxe - Professor Brothers - Bible History #1
Genesis 19: total insanity
(tags: comedy bible nsfw cartoons)

http://www.galactictimes.net
An Onionesque newspaper set in the Star Wars universe. Total nerdvana
(tags: starwars comedy)

JetBlue | About | Our Company | Our Customer Promise
JetBlue’s CEO apologizes for last [...]

links for 2007-02-20

Car seat/luggage thing
Nice hack that lets you use a car seat as a stroller within airports
(tags: baby wishlist travel)

Brad Sucks » Brad Sucks Digital Download Store
Nice: an amazon s3 powered paypal store for selling downloadable things (music, apps, etc)
(tags: amazon paypal ecommerce)

Heading East
An honest look at child rearing, the things everyone goes through.
(tags: baby life [...]

links for 2007-02-19

Amgen Tour of California 2007 - a photoset on Flickr
Leslie Veen follows the tour again this year, and Levi wins the first day.
(tags: cycling flickr photos)

Declutter Your Desk
holy crap that’s a sweet setup
(tags: computers diy lifehacks office)

Compression in GarageBand
Filed under “things I should learn before podcasting again”
(tags: garageband podcasting howto)

links for 2007-02-18

adaptive path » blog » blog archive » RIP Robert Adler
One guy came up with remote controls, DVDs, touch screens, and more. I probably use half a dozen things the guy invented every day.
(tags: . rip design)

librarian.net » scrotum!
jessamyn’s “electronic mailing list” about a controversial book
(tags: nyt blogs books children)