Posted in Cats on Jan 31st, 2005 2 Comments »
The Kitty, who is arthritic and losing her ability to walk wanted up. What can you say? So, up she came. Once she settled in she knocked everything loose on the desk, on the floor and then spread out over my taxes which I was in the middle of staring at (with nothing happening). I [...]
Posted in Drumming on Jan 31st, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve seen Stomp 4 times (this was my 4th), 3 in New York when it first came over from England and yesterday in New Haven, Connecticut. The three times I saw it before yesterday were pre-drumming but now I play drums and had a whole new appreciation for what they’re doing. I went armed for [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jan 31st, 2005 No Comments »
Salon has a very well written article on its front page today: Hallelujah, the Mac is back. It’s a great compilation of many of the same things John Gruber and others have been talking about for about a year now.
Posted in Macintosh on Jan 31st, 2005 2 Comments »
Today Apple announced upgrades to its linup of PowerBooks. Lower prices, faster processors, faster hard disks, faster SuperDrives and other more subtle upgrades to hardware. Nice. I will undoubtedly bite on one of these very soon. I think this is a very good move: it will get folks like me who are already PowerBook users [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jan 29th, 2005 No Comments »
Robert Cringlely has an interesting article on what iPod means to Apple in terms of margin, vs. say, the iTunes music store and the sale of music. Is iPod the Razor or the Blade? is quite well reasoned. Source: Justin Blanton
Posted in Social Software on Jan 29th, 2005 No Comments »
The Visual Thesaurus is both an online tool and a piece of software that you can buy on CD and install locally. It’s the Inspiration visual mapping program on steroids with live animation: click on a word in the map and it becomes the locus and all of it’s connected words spring forth. Do the [...]
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Jan 28th, 2005 No Comments »
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Posted in Social Software on Jan 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Vote for your fav in the Fifth Annual Weblog Awards. The competitive nature of voting for best of anything, especially weblogs, bugs me. However, if nothing else, this is a nice list of excellent sites to bookmark and get feeds from. And, you can vote for Sam up in Toronto while you’re at it.
Posted in Ideas on Jan 28th, 2005 3 Comments »
WIRED has a great article in this month’s issue on competitive lock picking: The Lock Busters. Talk about your interesting subculture. Mix hacker with puzzle solver with mechanic. Add a bit of “tude” and you have one of these guys (and gals although mostly guys, of course). Might as well leave the house opened, any [...]
Posted in Ideas on Jan 27th, 2005 2 Comments »
WIRED Mag has a great article in this month’s issue: Revenge of the Right Brain. It’s great news for us dyslexic artist types.
Posted in Art and Design on Jan 26th, 2005 No Comments »
I’m just opening a new Panasonic cordless phone system I’m putting in the house and noticed on the box a wonderful graphic: repacking instructions. Wow, what a great idea as sometimes, say, if I want to return this thing, I might have to figure out how it was packaged. To their credit, Apple has been [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jan 25th, 2005 24 Comments »
I have an interesting situation and since I’m writing a lot today and was just talking to a friend about it on the phone, I figure I’ll let it out and see if I can get a few comments. Background I currently have a 3 year old, 800mhz TiBook (titanium PowerBook) that has served me [...]
Posted in Ideas on Jan 25th, 2005 2 Comments »
Photographer Puts Focus on Privacy Debate. A photojournalist student takes picture in his dorm, of partying, of sex, and of a car theft, publishes them in print and on the web, all without permission or knowledge of subjects. Then he get in trouble and pulls the “I’m a journalist, it’s allowed” line. If a student [...]
Posted in Reading on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
David Brooks, who is an excellent writer and a bit too conservative politically for my taste has written an excellent review of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book for the New York Times Book Review: ‘Blink’: Hunch Power. If you want to trust my snap judgment, buy this book: you’ll be delighted. If you want to trust [...]
Posted in Social Software on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
The Blog Business Summit looks like it was a most interesting conference. I might have to get me to one of them there conferences some day. Of course, most of the speakers and audience will be half my age. Sheesh.
Posted in Politics on Jan 25th, 2005 22 Comments »
Intervention magazine has a number of excellent pieces but this one just caught my eye: Hey, Republicans! If you voted for this war, go fight in it. Source: Heidi Trefethen Warning: flame ahead… I am mad as hell at the moment. The fact that Barbara Boxer was a lone voice (even Kerry was less than [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Some Cool (Mostly Apple-Related) Movies is a nice collection of QuickTime movies, some ads and some parodies.
Posted in Macintosh on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
WIRED News has posted a great roundup article: Many Faces of the Mac Mini. Check out: BYODKM.NET (bring your own display, keyboard, and mouse).
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
The stone on the outside of much of the Getty is one of its most striking characteristics. Here’s the press release the museum put out describing the buildings: The Getty Center — Architectural Description“The 16,000 tons of travertine used in the project were quarried in Bagni di Tivoli, Italy, 15 miles east of Rome. Split [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 20th, 2005 No Comments »
The Center for American Progress has a piece on what it’s costing to do Bush’s inauguration (the most expensive in history): Inauguration: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartless. Source: Salon
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