Red car with pigeon paint job
Originally uploaded by schickr.
If you could put one thing in the device hardware…
… what would it be.
I dream of a button that, when you press it, does something amazing. Not sure, though, what that amazing thing would be.
What about you?
links for 2007-10-09
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I saw this coming. For once, I saw this coming.
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[Thanks, Rudy] I knew he was really interested in video, so something like this was bound to happen. Way to go, Loïc!
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“For example, imagine using Movable Type to define your accounts elsewhere around the web, and then allowing your friends on those services to comment using OpenID and bypass your comment moderation queue.”
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“Anyone traveling through an airport in America with innocent electronic devices runs the risk of an arrest, because concerns of terror will always outweigh art,” Dwyer said.
Ramblings on noise: Our senses
Yeah, the whole noise thing is still bouncing in my head. I was dabbling with some visualization ideas this week and it brought back the whole noise thought.
I was thinking still about our first world senses. We have 5 plus a great brain that brings it all together and does some magic with it.
How can we use these 5 in the second world that courses through the internet? What adaptations would we need, either new senses or changing our current sensing of the noise, to better cope with the noise.
Our 5 senses and brain evolved to specifically keep us alive and proliferate. What’s the equivalent in the second world of the noisy internet?
Hm. I think a lot of this starts with some sort of interface.
Drive no more?
Drive no more?
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Gear box froze up. Too costly to repair. Sigh. 12 years of fun. Time to move on.
links for 2007-10-08
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‘[David] Harper and other developers don’t take issue with the technology that can translate sites designed for PCs but they say that Vodafone doesn’t need to block the user agent string for mobile sites in order to support that capability. “The bottom li
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[thank to mattmiz] “We don’t have quite the axe to grind as Ballmer, but from our assessment these are the top three potential causes of Facebook’s death.”
links for 2007-10-07
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Working with iTunes has become as pleasurable as working with a spreadsheet. It needs a complete overhaul. [hat tip to bbj]
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“I have been saying for a long time that I believed social networking (or, the “social graph” in today’s parlance) would become a core piece of infrastructure in all sorts of applications and the Facebook platform is the perfect extension …”
