TSG Backstage: Iggy Pop “As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained.” (tags: music iggy_pop) Worst album cover ever? Vote for your least favorite and add some comments — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com (tags: music [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
May 30th, 2008
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Brainstorm: The Wikipedia Style – Chronicle.com “Wikipedia has become such a popular tool that they think Wikipedia style is proper academic style. When writing for intellectual purposes, they assume they should drop the creativity, dash, and metaphor that appears in their personal profile pages.” (tags: wikipedia writing academia) Mindfulness Meditation, Based on Buddha’s Teachings, Gains [...]
May 29th, 2008
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Mobile Internet – O’Reilly Radar “roughly: (1) mobile is huge, (2) iPhone is worth developing for, (3) here’s why other platforms’ mobile experience sucks, and (4) what you can do to fix it.” (tags: mobile internet iphone tips optimization) “My Hashi” personal travel chopsticks | Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento “What would [...]
May 28th, 2008
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Internet to run out of addresses ‘within 3 years’ – tech – 24 May 2008 – New Scientist Tech “As of this month 85% of the 4.3 bil. available IP addresses are already in use. Within three years they will all be used up, according to a report by the OECD. “The situation is critical [...]
May 27th, 2008
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2008-05-27
Another week, another “improvised” playlist. I liked the flow particularly from the Orchestre National de Jazz (with guest Anouar Brahem on oud, and composing the track played on air) into some string-centric jazz (Szilárd Mezei is a violist and Fred Lonberg-Holm is a cellist) and then exploring duets (and more cello from David Eyges and Ernst [...]
May 27th, 2008
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Jon Udell | CUSEC 2008 | Hacking the Noosphere “Engelbart’s vision: we need to create a shared information space that works like a planetary associative memory. Fifteen years ago that sounded fantastic. Today, if we look sideways at the web and squint, we can see the picture coming into focus.” (tags: internet semanticweb jon_udell) Share [...]
May 25th, 2008
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City of New Orleans: A Mashup for Citizen Monitoring of the Recovery | NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org “The mashup under development at Think New Orleans will provide a citizen driven tool for the notification of demolitions. ¶ Not only that, it will provide an interactive map of the recovery.” (tags: neworleans mashup) Bet on [...]
May 24th, 2008
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Blues and The Spirit > Home “A Symposium on the Legacy of Blues and Gospel Music” (tags: chicago music blues gospel) ConsortiumInfo.org – South Africa Appeals OOXML Adoption “The Fast Track thus would appear to be a lose-lose all around: a huge imposition on all involved, a lower quality specification at the end than a [...]
May 23rd, 2008
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Netherlands says “nee” to electronic voting (tags: voting netherlands) The Quest For Every Beard Type – Jon Dyer’s Blog “Every spring, I try to see how many facial hair variations as I can check off from the chart of facial hair types. Listed below are descriptions of the 34 types from the chart, including examples [...]
May 23rd, 2008
Many Eyes
Joe in Uncategorized
I recently listened to Jon Udell interview Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, creators of Many Eyes, a site which allows users to upload data sets and graph them, as well as make graphs from each others data. It’s a super cool idea, especially if you are also excited about the idea of governments large and small [...]