Demo time
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What is she feeling different about
What is she feeling different about
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Gosh. The shaver is so phallic.
links for 2007-11-28
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“What I do know is this. As long as Facebook keeps expanding the power of my profile, there is no reason for me or anyone else to create another profile anywhere else, including any of the Google OpenSocial alliance members. If all the value of my Faceboo
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“Nokia used to be just a cellphone maker. Google used to be just an Internet company. Skip to next paragraph Reuters/Nokia Nokia’s new music and gaming phone. Nokia is taking aim at Google, Apple and others. Now Nokia wants to be an Internet company and
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“The smart folks use failures to learn and improve. Failing quickly and cheaply means you’ll get to really good ideas faster. The path to success is intentionally strewn with failure. Embracing failure is a fundamental lesson of good design and one that i
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[Met the guy when he joined Google] “Mr. Rubin is one of the primary architects behind another product that also smacks of potential über-coolness — the Google Phone. As Google’s “director of mobile platforms,” Mr. Rubin oversees dozens of engine
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Awesome article. I need to meet this guy.
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Another awesome article by Mark Pesce.
links for 2007-11-26
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[Snagging sound clips] “The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.”
links for 2007-11-23
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“But the basic idea is that users see an ad in the newspaper and bring it to life via an application on their mobile. In this case, the ad is for a Zoo and you can use your mobile to see images in 3D of some of the animals.”
A new mobile site creator
Got a note from David Berube about his new MoFuse. He’s based in Rhode Island, of all places, not known to be a hot-bed of mobile dev work. That it’s Northeast, and New england to boot, is good enough for me.
A quick scan of the marketing page suggests something quite cool. And his comment below suggests a pent up demand for both creating sites and using them (it’s a theme that’s been at the front of my mind this past few weeks).
I’ll give it a look see over the weekend. I am sure another David I know will give it a good detailed look and review.
Link: David Berube Blog:
MoFuse has been open to the public for 20 days now. We’re currently serving up more than 60,000 mobile pageviews a week and we’re on our way towards 3,000 registered users.
Heh, MoFuse stands for Mobile Fusion. Isn’t that my line: ‘The fusion of Mobile and Web’?
links for 2007-11-22
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[via @alexdc, via @ipanemic – Ipanema was my home town beach. Heh. Consider me a sufferer of ipanemia.] “Ipanemia (IpE) or ipanæmia (IrE), from the Greek (PἈναιμία) meaning “without ipanema”, is a deficiency of Ipanema in one’s lifestyle as well
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“To help writers and artists earn a living online, software engineers and Internet evangelists need to exercise the power they hold as designers. Information is free on the Internet because we created the system to be that way.”
links for 2007-11-19
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23 steps to learning about the living web of today.
links for 2007-11-18
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Public access to relevant medical research is not the only benefit of open access publishing, but it is a significant one. For other examples of recent articles that have attracted a wide readership, see BioMed Central ‘Most viewed’ page.
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“a meraki can be used to create a public or private wireless access point from an ethernet connection (from a cable/dsl modem) or from another wireless network. merakis are designed to create mesh networks, meaning that meraki devices can look for routes
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For a good laugh, flip through these.
Ty Burr says ‘Blade Runner’ is better than ever, in The Boston Globe
So far, Ty Burr has never disappointed me. What he likes, I do. What he doesn’t, same here.
Now he mentions the latest Blade Runner release (see link below). He likes it, so I’m gonna check it out.
Blade Runner is one of my all time favourites. Interestingly, in the past month, I’ve ‘discovered’ Philip K Dick, after having watch so many films based on his stories – Blade Runner, Total Recall, Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Minority Report, Next, and Through a Scanner Darkly.
After watching Next, I vowed to find any any any Dick book and picked up a collection from a used bookstore in Melbourne.
Now, I so love Philip K Dick. Why did it take me so long to _read_ his amazing work. He’s got an edge, the heros invariably lose when they win, it’s not la-di-da clever sci-fi, but real people in real dilemmas with tech to add a twist that propels the story.
He makes Herbert and Asimov and Heinlein look like pansies (heh, how many movies do those guys have?*).
Link: ‘Blade Runner’ is better than ever – The Boston Globe:
Still, it’s nice to see Ford looking so young again and LA so old; the clockwork-toy sequences shot in the city’s Bradbury Building, with Daryl Hannah’s Pris cartwheeling through the wreckage like a homicidal wind-up doll; Rutger Hauer’s gleaming, tragic Roy Batty, an automaton so much better than the humans he serves – these are all welcome attendees at a 25th reunion. “Blade Runner” has become a chilly eulogy for a future that hasn’t quite happened.
*I mention these three because the forward in my book mentions how few these guys made (3 among them).