Indifferent Thai for lunch at Garlic & Chili in lobby of Marshall Hotel — “200 Rooms, Transients Welcome” Creating interactive web pages using the Exhibit framework ‘Exhibit is “a very lightweight AJAX Framework that lets individuals who know only basic HTML create web pages containing rich, dynamic visualizations of structured data and supporting faceted browsing [...]
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"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
January 30th, 2009
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@enriqueramirez You just bought only the second bass you’ve ever owned? (1) Awesome. The world needs you playing; (2) WTF? PJNet – Blog – How to Save The New York Times, Let’s Buy the Newsroom “It would be like owning the Green Bay Packers, but it would be owning The New York Times’s newsroom. The [...]
January 29th, 2009
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Scumdog Million-Hairs – Geraldo Interview | The Daily Show | Comedy Central “Geraldo Rivera traps Rod Blagojevich in a parking lot for the first-ever ambush softball interview.” (tags: rod_blagojevich funny video geraldo_rivera) Loved the chemistry between Jon Stewart and Gwen Ifill on yesterday’s Daily Show. And WTF is up with Geraldo and Blago? http://is.gd/hD02 Black [...]
January 28th, 2009
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Today’s links marks the introduction of a “references” section; I’ve been “machine tagging” by Delicious bookmarks to highlight connections to books, films, and other things for which a clear unique identifier could be … identified. Starting today, bookmarks which are booktagged will have an explicit link to Amazon.com, and if you buy the book after [...]
January 27th, 2009
Conference of the Birds, 2009-01-27
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives. I thought this was a pretty good one… complete program (143 MB, 2 hrs 36 min) William Parker Raining on [...]
January 27th, 2009
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theexpiredmeter.com » Blog Archive » We Say Fight Back And ‘Dump The Junk’! “We, at The Expired Meter, have designed two small informational posters, that you can use to effectively communicate your feelings to your idiot neighbors, and encourage them to do the right thing.” (tags: chicago via:aruzin parking passive_aggressive) techPresident – The President’s Blackberry: [...]
January 26th, 2009
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Books By Chance: Amazon Sales Rank as an Indicator of Sales Potential for Used Books, CDs, and DVDs via @pzriddle’s tweet: “Fascinating: data-driven used book seller has data showing the Long Tail doesn’t work as well as one might hope” (tags: books long_tail via:riddle) Satchmo Project: The Webshop for Perfectionists with Deadlines “Have you been [...]
January 25th, 2009
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French and German remakes of the BBC’s Office. – By Liesl Schillinger – Slate Magazine “The French and Germans have remade the BBC series. Why?” (tags: television the_office translation) Share and Enjoy:
January 24th, 2009
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January 23rd, 2009
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@deezthugs Upon closer inspection, different python versions, I’m guessing. Missing command probably depends on > 2.3.5 (loving Django) For two apparently identical django installations (from SVN) why might django-admin.py return a different list of commands? Paul Kedrosky: Banks Are Just a Circle of Their Former Selves “Nice graphic of how the major banks are just [...]