January 2010
191 posts
10 yrs ago the hype was y2k. this year? men burning their inflight balls and who’s to blame for it.
twenty-ten begins in t-6.5 hours… unless you’re elsewhere in the world. either way, happy new year to all.
December 2009
161 posts
Full text of Yochai Benkler’s brilliant book “The Wealth of Networks” here http://bit.ly/4C8hE6 CC licensed of course (via @thepublicdomain)
just turned 38. my head’s stuffed from bad alergies. i’ve got heartburn from i don’t know what. I pat my back. way to kick off a new year.
butt paste? georgia really is full of delights. http://yfrog.com/4izlayj
merry christmas to all. may you be joyful and triumphant in all that you choose to pursue.
quite lovely. the daily lives of plants. http://bit.ly/6ZF5w6
that sucks. liu xiaobo sentenced to 11 yrs in jail in china. co-author of charter 08 calling for political freedoms: http://bit.ly/6K8OeB
on this island there’s a place called German Village. leave it and go down the road a bit and you enter Jewtown. no joke.
on the coast in southern georgia about 2 hours south of savanah. I want to go for a drive inland & explore. any recomendations?
Green Transit 2010: how’s your hydrogen car doing and other predictions from the last decade? http://tinyurl.com/yefg32n
played 18 holes of golf on an island in georgia. best I can describe it: I’m “consistent” in a where you gonna shank it next type of way.
folk wisdom from Charlotte: the family that dumps together, stays together - http://yfrog.com/4epsgfj
house & garden I understand. seems to go together. garden & gun? not so much. http://yfrog.com/4a9iugj
no snowglobes allowed through airport security. what a buzz kill.
us airways charges for check in luggage so everyone brings their bags as carry-on. the clusterf*ck when overhead storage fills isn’t pretty.
19 mil people in China’s Xinjiang region have had no Internet or international telephone access since riots last July. http://bit.ly/50jIe5
first they banned twitter, flickr, facebook & youtube. now the chinese fight against porn. is there anything else left? http://bit.ly/50jIe5
what $500 mil gets you. latest verizon storm 2 blackberry update limits search options to bing. users cry foul: http://bit.ly/77QLtB
would be funny if the man wasn’t sentenced to death. saudi arabia convicts tv host of sorcery: http://bit.ly/6nBJMW
true, but the disease that inflicts one inflicts the other, RT @brianstelter: “Journalism” and “the media” are not synonymous.
yuck. proposition via email - “NO ONE outside of our company [will ever see] that your site is taking payment for reviews.”
glad twitter’s profitable. interested to see how they expand past two customers (goog &msft) http://bit.ly/7LIyhE (ht: @chrishogg)
RT @kathleenadele - PoliceScanner: Mom reports daughter is throwing hands in air. Editor: But is she waving em like she just don’t care?
~@marcambinder #3 makes no sense. dems create bi-partisan bill that no repubs votes for. the Q then would be why http://tinyurl.com/yhhu8bu
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I need some biz 101 education. eg: what prevents GM from taking whatever deal Spyker is making if the alternative is shutting Saab down?
as $2 billion in grants to expand broadband access across the country is released, I hope speeds are addressed too. we’re a slow nation.
some holiday love for firefox (and FOSS in general). version 3.5 is now the world’s most used browser. http://bit.ly/6EaDWJ
should the gov make AIG release its email archive to the public and “open source” an investigation? interesting idea. http://bit.ly/7kYYgl
today’s climate change wapo op-ed is really just a long retraction of their palin piece from 2 weeks ago: http://bit.ly/8qAZ1h
this one’s funny. mail is delivered during snowstorm. but then recipients need to dig out truck: http://bit.ly/4YkgQH (via @pcervieri)
driving through the snow. ho, ho, ho. actually, not so fun.
aspirational shopping: buying a half size too small because you’re finally going to lose those extra pounds around the middle.
piggy banks made perfect. http://yfrog.com/aut5hej
too fat to play? msft patent application controls access to gaming environments based on patient health records: http://bit.ly/5FlWgn
Dan O’Bannon died after 30-year battle with Crohn’s disease. Was the screenwriter for Aliens. http://bit.ly/6Jkzkq
~@davewiner both parties “own” it. for the interviewee, it’s simply courtesy to say, i’ve made a copy and will post it after you publish.
oops. scribemedia.org’s rss feed was down since we soft launched the new site. egg, meet face. fixed though.
nba player fined for tweeting after a game. broke rules for when players can communicate via social networks http://bit.ly/6FaavH
birthday: how many keith richards years do his 66 human years equal. gotta be old testament biblical, no? like 660 or so?
blog: french courts rule google books violates copyright - http://bit.ly/6XZCyu
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blog - designing the future magazine. video of an ereader prototype: http://bit.ly/5TJpME
Designing the Future Magazine →
It’s no secret that as the publishing world licks its wounds it casts about for anything — be it a business plan or a device — that can shake it from its economic funk.
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“USA think they controlling and managing internet by their access, but… we control and manage internet by our power” - iranian hackers
watching the robert crumb documentary. never saw it the first time
around.
it’s official. I’ll be in Georgia over the holidays. never been but looking forward to it.
morning, afternoon and evening wood for photo geeks: the 21.6 megapixel camera - http://bit.ly/6O8b9n
~@kathleenadele suggests I “just eat, drink, and be merry.” that’s about as sound advice as I could get.