Posted in Macintosh on Oct 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Process looks like an intresting outliner. I’ve tried it before but never stayed with it but it might be worth a try. It reminds me of the long defunct InControl which was one of my all-time fav Macintosh apps. I do like an outliner linked to a calendar and now I’m using Omni outliner and [...]
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Oct 28th, 2004 No Comments »
For more Andy Singer Cartoons as well as books, visit andysinger.com.
Posted in Politics on Oct 28th, 2004 No Comments »
Washington Monthly has a fascinating article on The Road to Abu Ghraib. It is worth reading no matter what you think you know about this scandal.
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Oct 28th, 2004 No Comments »
This does not surprise me but still, it’s amazing: Bush site restricted to foreigners. If you live outside the US or Canada, you will get an access denied screen on your browser if you go to http://www.georgewbush.com. What good does it possibly do to do this? What about Americans living abroad? Talk about an isolationist [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Oct 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Fundrace Neighbor Search helps you find neighbors who have donated to political parties or candidates who you can then contact and get together with (commiserate, evangelize, argue, discuss, drive to the polls).
Posted in Social Software on Oct 26th, 2004 No Comments »
Wow: Ten Cool Things You Can Do With Webfeeds.
Posted in Ideas on Oct 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
Alphachimp Studios comes to a conference and facilitates with whiteboard pictures. This looks fantastic. They do more but this looks like an incredibly useful service. Their tag line is: “You talk. We draw. The pictures tell the story.”
Posted in Ideas on Oct 20th, 2004 No Comments »
The New York Times has a story on Apples With Pedigrees Selling in Urban Edens which, of course, makes sense. Who would want to say “golden delicious” when one could say “Roxbury Russet” or “Ashmead’s Kernel”? If this wets your appetite for apple history the book to read is The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Oct 20th, 2004 No Comments »
A nice list of OS X keyboard shortcuts, categorized and sorted for ease of scanning.
Posted in Photography, Reflections on Oct 19th, 2004 2 Comments »
After seeing Polygraph Lounge at Joe’s Pub in New York the other night, my friend Sandrine and I popped into a Starbucks for coffee and to debrief after an amazing concert before we hit the subway (her to Brooklyn, me to Grand Central to get on a Metro North, which I missed and had to [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software on Oct 18th, 2004 1 Comment »
I’m relatively new to RSS although I’ve had NetNewsWire lite (an early RSS reader) on my machine for a while, I just never used it until I started reading too many weblogs, tracking too many news site, and keeping track of numerous threaded discussions (with feeds). Now I use its big brother, NetNewsWire and follow [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Oct 17th, 2004 4 Comments »
Macintosh OS X is great, I just love using it and have since day one. I now have a mix of amazing applications for doing lots of different things and I thought I’d list some of them here. Comment if you’ve got additions I need to try but note that my criteria (which all of [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Oct 15th, 2004 7 Comments »
My friend David Clark and I have been following a number of discussion threads that have resulted from provocative posts from popular bloggers. Some of these threads have over 50 replies from all over the world (all in English) and there are themes in them that we find interesting and worth discussing. One of them [...]
Posted in Cartoons on Oct 13th, 2004 2 Comments »
I’ve been reading Funny Times for years and one of my favorite cartoonists is Andy Singer. His illustrations are always right on the money, both politically and socially. His web site has numerous illustrations and compilations in book form. It’s important to support artists like Andy Singer by buying their work and encouraging local papers [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 12th, 2004 2 Comments »
WIRED News has a fascinating and depressing story: Diebold and the Disabled about disability groups being in bed with Diebold (the controversial voting machine company) initially to push their agenda of making voting more accessible (electronic voting is generally more accessible than paper or mechanical voting) but now it has come out that Diebold has [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Oct 11th, 2004 1 Comment »
The Indy Star, an Indiana newspaper has a short blurb about our web application Confusing Words in their Indiana Living, Cool dot com section. Wow, famous in the midwest… where will it stop?
Posted in Politics on Oct 10th, 2004 1 Comment »
Flip through the G.W. & Crew Flip-Flop Collection for a look at G.W. flip-flops for all seasons (and reasons). Don’t forget to download the PDF flip-flop catalog at the end. This is a fantastic piece of work.
Posted in Drumming, Music on Oct 9th, 2004 6 Comments »
Hilight Tribe is a French “trance” music group that is nothing like any group I’ve ever heard. Essentially they are a techno dance beat group that makes almost all of their sounds with non-electronic instruments: djembes, dumbeks, drum set, congas, djun djuns, tabla, didgeridoo, hand percussion, and more. They also fold in electric guitar and [...]
Posted in Ideas on Oct 9th, 2004 No Comments »
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has a fantastic Art History Timeline online, reminiscent of the Charles and Rae Eames mathematics timeline in the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry (well, was there in the Mathematica room when I was a kid… not sure anymore).
Posted in Social Software on Oct 8th, 2004 No Comments »
Geodog has posted a useful and well written description of how the web photo directory/service flikr, which allows users to add “tags” to images has made it easy to track the Iraq tag. Wow, this is amazing.
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